First update: Chapter 1118! Unreleased chapters: 9!
"Judging by your expression, I suppose it didn't go smoothly!"
The moment Daji left the Lingering Painting Scroll, Zhu Jiu's voice reached her.
Her pretty face frosted over as Daji snorted. "It was merely an attempt. A person like him won't bow his head without suffering a little."
Zhu Jiu smiled. "In that case, there's no need to keep Taotie alive."
Daji froze. "You mean..."
"If he cannot be used by me, then destroy him!"
Daji's pupils contracted. "That is a mutated bloodline comparable to the Dragon Ancestor's nine sons!"
Zhu Jiu sneered. "So what?"
Daji paused. Yes, so what? Forget a mutated bloodline comparable to the Dragon Ancestor's nine sons—even if it were a second Dragon Ancestor, if it did not belong to the Dragon Race, how could it be allowed to remain outside and become a future threat?
As Zhu Jiu headed toward the shadow that had contracted into a ball, leaving behind only He Jin's massive skeleton, Daji hesitated before sighing and looking toward the Lingering Painting Scroll.
Yet that single glance made her beautiful eyes widen.
"Zhu Jiu, wait!"
Hm?
A sudden change occurred. A point of red light ignited on the half-unfurled Lingering Painting Scroll, then burned through the entire scroll. Starting from that spark, the flames spread and gradually consumed the whole painting!
Daji's face paled in terror as she tried every possible way to extinguish the fire. Yet no matter what method she used, the power she unleashed not only failed to put out the blood-red flames that had already consumed half the scroll, but instead accelerated their spread!
Meanwhile, Zhu Jiu had no time to concern himself with Daji's predicament!
The sphere of shadow above He Jin's pale white skeleton had completely contracted!
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