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"What the hell?" I muttered. Dragon Yue also looked in the direction I was staring. At that moment, the pitch-black thing slowly began to move. Dragon Yue's expression shifted slightly. "A dragon becomes a Cornered Dragon after five hundred years, and a Ying Dragon after a thousand. Dragon descendants are excluded. This should be a Cornered Dragon."
I froze for a moment, then immediately asked, "Is it powerful? This one's already at the Eighth Transformation Realm!"
"Extremely powerful!" Dragon Yue frowned, then pulled me and flew to the side. But the Cornered Dragon seemed to have noticed us. It twisted its enormous body, then immediately swam toward us. Taking a look, I saw that it was about the same as the one from last night, so I asked, "Did we run into it last night?"
"I don't know. There's a whole nest of Cornered Dragons here. Those unable to assume human form are guardian flood dragons protecting the bottom of the lake. They possess the power to overturn rivers and seas!" Dragon Yue said urgently. But before she could finish, the Cornered Dragon had already locked onto us and lunged over to bite us!
Its enormous body was practically half a house, and, crucially, it was incredibly long. As it thrashed, the surrounding silt billowed without end, and we could barely see the way ahead!
The dragon's body swiftly circled around Dragon Yue and me, apparently intending to crush us inside its black-rock-like frame. I immediately summoned the Tai'e Sword and hacked at that rocky hide!
Crack, crack! Crack, crack!
The rock covering its hard body was cleaved in two on the spot. Yet after the blade sank inside, it unexpectedly made a clattering sound. Clearly, the hide had become so rigid that the sword's movement was impeded. This