How Despicable

Its scales looked as if they had been forged from divine metal, gleaming beneath the sunlight. Zhu Jin held his head high, his golden dragon eyes shining like a soul-reaping envoy from the underworld passing judgment on all living beings.

At that moment, Zhu Jin, who had shattered a mountain with one punch and displayed the might of a true dragon, descended like a king. Even Xie Dong, the Tier Four deputy chief of the tribe, could not help but shudder at the aura radiating from him.

The enemy they had planned to encircle had come to encircle them instead!

"It's a dragon!" Some Purple Cloud Scorpion Serpents jumped in fright, while the weaker young scorpion serpents were so terrified that they collapsed onto the ground.

Only Xie Dong, the deputy chief, showed a subtle change in his expression when he saw Zhu Jin descend from the sky. Only he knew what the dragon before him truly was.

"This dragon beast... no, this dragon... could it be the legendary..."

"Roar—" Zhu Jin leapt into the sky once more, soaring across the heavens in an instant. His dragon claw reached down from above, grabbing toward the dozen or so Purple Cloud Scorpion Serpents beside Xie Dong, the strongest among them.

"Defend!"

"Mystic Tier Dou Technique—Purple Cloud Shell!"

The dozen or so Purple Cloud Scorpion Serpent warriors before Xie Dong roared wildly. Several of the larger scorpion serpent warriors in the front had purple energy surge across their bodies, their enormous pincers transforming into shields before them. The others attacked in succession. Some sprayed venom, some lashed out with their serpent tails, and some wielded pincers like razor-sharp divine shears, seeking to cut down this "dragon beast."

But even if these scorpion serpent warriors possessed Dou Ling cultivation, they were nothing worth mentioning. Besides, they were merely Tier Three magical beasts, their strength comparable to Da Dou Shi; even peak Da Dou Shi were rare among them.

"Don't! Run!" Xie Dong roared heartbrokenly, trying to stop the warriors from throwing themselves against an insurmountable foe, because he knew this was no ordinary dragon beast!

With a single claw, the several Tier Three scorpion serpent warriors forming the front line of defense were instantly caught. Zhu Jin exerted only a little force, and those scorpion serpent warriors were crushed like tomatoes. Scalding red liquid splattered from his palm, and they did not even have the chance to scream.

Clang, clang, clang, clang! The Mystic Tier Dou Techniques unleashed by the Tier Three scorpion serpent warriors struck his body, yet they could not even break through the dragon-scale armor formed from Dou Qi. Only the brilliant sparks proved that their attacks had truly landed.

"Roar!" As Zhu Jin crushed them, he spewed a mouthful of dragon flame. It poured forth from within him, burning everything in its path. Cracking sounds rang out as even the earth was scorched open by the dragon flame!

The dragon flame flowed downward, rendering every defense meaningless. Scorching heat spread through the area; even from far away, they felt as though they themselves were burning.

The moment this dragon flame appeared, the outcome was decided. The remaining dozen or so Tier Three scorpion serpent warriors could not withstand it at all. Contact meant death, their flesh and blood melting away in the blaze. Even though Zhu Jin's dragon flame was only at the beginner level and had not improved much, against such weak low-tier magical beasts, it was already as terrifying as heavenly fire.

Only Xie Dong, the strongest among them and one who had never intended to fight, escaped the disaster by evading the dragon flame.

Just as Zhu Jin was turning the entire Purple Cloud Scorpion Snake Tribe upside down, a thunderous boom suddenly erupted from the collapsed mountain. A Purple Cloud Scorpion Serpent nearly as large as Zhu Jin, reaching seventeen meters in length, burst out from the ground.

However, this largest Purple Cloud Scorpion Serpent was covered in blood, and much of its scorpion shell had cracked. It had clearly been successfully ambushed and seriously injured.

"You wretch, how dare you!"

Xie Yun, the chief of the Purple Cloud Scorpion Snake Tribe, was practically consumed by fury, wishing he could skin Zhu Jin alive and swallow him whole. He had never imagined that someone could be so despicable as to descend directly from the sky and launch a sneak attack, smashing apart the cave where he lived.

By the time he came to his senses and burst out of the ground, it was already too late. The entire tribe was ablaze, blood covered the ground, and the Tier Three warriors he had painstakingly raised were nearly slaughtered! This sudden upheaval made Xie Yun's expression change drastically. He shouted sharply, stepped into the air, and immediately moved to kill the gray dragon beast.

Though Xie Yun was a Tier Four magical beast, his cultivation was formidable. He had already reached the peak of eight-star Dou Ling and was not far from Dou Wang. He could fly briefly and remain suspended in the air for a certain amount of time.

"Kill!" Xie Yun roared. In an instant, his blood and vitality surged, and the pattern of a giant purple serpent emerged across his hard shell. His aura erupted to its peak as he unleashed a Mystic Tier enhancement Dou Technique, sending his enormous pincers sweeping out.

Facing Xie Yun as he charged in for the kill, Zhu Jin felt no fear. He roared and met him head-on, baring his claws and fangs. For a time, Xie Yun and Zhu Jin—a scorpion serpent and a giant dragon—clashed fiercely in midair.

Xie Yun held nothing back. His powerful attacks seemed capable of sweeping across heaven and earth, scattering the clouds. His massive scorpion pincers were incomparably vicious, yet no matter how fiercely he fought or how sharp his attacks became, he was still no match for Zhu Jin. Within only a few exchanges, Xie Yun, already heavily injured by the ambush, fell into a disadvantage and was forced back step by step.

Zhu Jin kept pretending to be an expert throughout, never saying a word. Eleven years of reincarnated life had taught him one thing: real combat was not like playing a game. Once injured, one's combat strength dropped sharply. Turning the tables while at critical health against someone at full health simply did not exist.

Once seriously injured, the body became heavy, stamina declined, and even the circulation of Dou Qi slowed. Xie Yun was not weak; he was, after all, an eight-star Dou Ling. But now that he was badly injured, less than one-tenth of his true strength remained. Defeating Zhu Jin was even more impossible.

"Is this an ancient dragon that once truly ruled the Beast Domain... a real dragon?!" Seeing the giant dragon force the chief back step by step within only a few moves, Xie Dong's expression changed drastically as he recognized it. Xie Yun possessed the strength of an eight-star Dou Ling, and there was even a trace of Nine Netherworld Python bloodline within him. Though he was injured, being suppressed so thoroughly by someone with lower cultivation meant that his opponent could not possibly be an ordinary dragon beast.

If it were not one of the ancient dragons that had mysteriously vanished thousands of years ago in legend, he could find no other explanation!

With a thunderous boom, Zhu Jin performed a Dragon Tail Sweep, violently lashing Xie Yun and smashing him heavily into the ground. Rubble flew everywhere, and a small crater was formed.

Xie Yun clutched his caved-in chest. He could feel his life slipping away. Xie Yun, who had once been full of ambition to unite the entire region, had never imagined that one day he would be ambushed and die in such a humiliating manner.

"Dammit! Dammit! You forced me to do this!" Xie Yun wiped his storage device, and a round object emitting a faint glow appeared in his hand.

Seeing the object, about the size of a dragon's eye, Zhu Jin's pupils contracted. He had never seen one in his eleven years since reincarnation, but he recognized it at a glance, because he had read far too many descriptions of such things.

A medicinal pill!

The most important item in Battle Through the Heavens!

"How despicable! You actually used a medicinal pill!" Zhu Jin could not help gritting his teeth as he cursed. This was too shameless—he actually used a medicinal pill! I'm so jealous!