Rio lay on the ground, snoring soundly.
Liszt, however, was somewhat reluctant to move his backside off Dragon Tooth Platform. Through the connection of Dragon Tooth Platform, the sensation of destinies intertwining, blood flowing together, and thoughts synchronizing was simply too wonderful.
This was a Dragon Knight.
It was not merely a person riding a dragon, but man and dragon sharing the same breath and the same fate.
It was as though he had opened his entire heart to Rio, while Rio had entrusted everything to him as well—without reservation, without suspicion, with only the harmonious unity of their minds. Though they were said to be one man and one dragon, they had truly fused into a single whole, with dragon battle qi as the cement and their souls as the steel reinforcement.
A bridge flew across north and south; a natural chasm became a thoroughfare.
The immense divide between man and dragon had completely vanished while riding the dragon.
"Dragon Knight!"
"The greatest goal of my life has finally been achieved today!"
He suddenly recalled the verse Lu Zhishen had recited upon attaining nirvana in Water Margin, and could not help chanting, "All my life I cultivated no good fruit, only loved killing and setting fires. Suddenly the golden rope snaps; here the jade lock is torn apart. Ah! The tide rises upon the Qiantang River—only today do I know who I am."
Of course.
He had not, like Lu Zhishen, attained enlightenment and passed into nirvana, returning to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
He was merely moved to speak. Only now, after riding a dragon, did he understand the exhilaration of dragon-riding. Unfortunately, under the effects of the Dragon-Bewildering Heart Fruit, Rio had already fallen unconscious and could not immediately carry him soaring through the skies. He