Battling the Thunder Dragon (Heading out this afternoon, posting one chapter first; back this evening to keep writing)

As the human and the demon stepped into the gray mist.

The dense fog suddenly churned.

In mere moments.

Flashes of silver-purple lightning flickered deep within the mist.

The Thunder Dragon, comparable to a Half-Step Tower-Climbing existence, appeared once more.

Earlier, when the Red Sun Demon Venerable had pledged his loyalty to Jiang Yuechu, his words had been so extravagant they could have sent flowers raining from the heavens.

Taking blows for her, scouting the way, plunging through boiling water and fire.

But when this terrifying Half-Step Tower-Climbing existence truly appeared before him.

Only then did he feel its suffocating pressure firsthand.

He... was merely an Old Flood Dragon in the Mountain-Viewing Realm.

He had not even reached Lamp-Lighting.

How could he block it?

What could he use to scout the way?

His life?!

Fortunately, Jiang Yuechu had never expected this old thing to be of any help.

Boom-!!!

Billowing black mist erupted wildly from around the girl.

Amid the churning mist, the roars of countless demons faintly resounded.

The blood-red crescent blade was already in her grasp.

The next instant.

The girl was upon it.

Her blade arrived first.

Roar-!!!

The Thunder Dragon writhed, seemingly enraged by the provocation of a tiny creature.

Its jaws gaped wide.

Countless bolts of lightning poured down like a waterfall.

The blinding lightning swallowed the girl's figure.

Yet in the blink of an eye.

Ssshh-

A blood-red blade gleam forcibly cleaved a passage through the lightning cascade.

Long blade in hand, the girl surged upstream, black mist swirling around her as she went straight for the Thunder Dragon's head.

Watching from behind, the Red Sun Demon Venerable's heart pounded with terror, yet he dared not step forward.

Just as the blade was about to touch the Thunder Dragon.

Its enormous body suddenly dissolved