As that fierce beast shook its head and whipped its tail, the brush and trees in the mountain forest snapped in half, instantly clearing a wide patch. Xiao Jiu gave a startled cry, patted her head, and said with some annoyance, "I still didn't control it properly."
Hu Dan, along with You Gongquan who had only just regained his wits, was entirely too stunned to process what she was saying, both of them drawing in a sharp breath of cold air at the exact same time.
The fierce beast before his eyes was a full forty feet in length. Its head and face were narrow and elongated, its ferocious eyes half-opened, its single horn like white jade, and its scales as pitch-black as ink. Its four thick, stubby legs firmly gripped the earth, and its giant tail swayed like a blade or a halberd—the snapped and uprooted brushwood had mostly been caused by the sweeping of this massive tail.
"A dragon..."
Before them was indeed a true vicious flood dragon. Although it was crouched on the ground without making many movements and looked as though it had been tamed, the innate, fierce might it radiated still caused both Hu and You to feel a deep sense of dread.
Any adult flood-dragon, no matter how unexceptional, possessed combat prowess no lower than that of upper-tier Golden Core cultivators. If its bloodline were even slightly closer to the "true dragon lineage," its combat strength would be all the more immeasurable. Moreover, upon closer inspection of the scales on its body, the dense and sparse patterns were intermittent as if broken, resembling talismanic shapes. It was impossible to tell whether they were born with it or artificially crafted later on, clearly endowing the creature with some kind of unique ability.
As for what