Only One Choice

The mansion of worldly affairs, the room where Xiao Hongchen affairs.

Xiao Hongchen lay on the soft bed, his brows furrowed, his fingers twitching unconsciously.

He didn't know how much time had passed before he finally woke up from his drowsiness.

"Ugh... my head hurts so much..."

He covered his forehead and slowly sat up.

At first, everything was blurry, but then the familiar bed curtains, tables, chairs, and Soul Guidance Lamp gradually became clear.

Xiao Hongchen was stunned.

"Wait... what am I doing...?"

He clearly remembered that he was in the Star Dou Great Forest helping Bao Liang hunt for his Fifth Soul Ring.

Meng Hongchen was in charge of controlling the Time Rift Dragon, while he used the Soul Cannon to block the opponent's retreat, Bao Liang, that violent guy, was in charge of the frontal pursuit and attack.

Then...

And then what happened?

Xiao Hongchen tried hard to recall, but all that remained in his mind was a chilling darkness.

It was as if the sky had suddenly collapsed.

It was as if something beyond the limits of cognition swept over them all.

In that instant, his mind went completely blank, and he even forgot who he was.

After that, my memory is completely blank.

"Hiss--Why can't I remember?"

Xiao Hongchen rubbed his throbbing temples, a strange unease rising in his heart.

He looked down at himself.

There were no injuries on his body, but his clothes had been changed, and there were several bottles of medicine to restore his energy beside the bed.

This is his room.

In other words, they have returned to Mingdu.

But what about Bao Liang and Meng Hongchen?

What happened to that 76,000-year- Time Rift Dragon?

Xiao Hongchen threw back the covers and was about to get out of bed when a strange noise suddenly came from outside.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The dull thuds continued one after another, shaking the windows slightly.

Immediately afterwards, a mournful roar of a beast echoed from afar.

"Awoo--!"

Xiao Hongchen paused.

This sound doesn't quite resemble a dragon.

He leaned against the edge of the bed for a while, waiting for the stabbing pain in his head to subside before getting up and pushing open the door.

The moment the door opened, Xiao Hongchen froze.

In the training ground behind the mansion, a ferocious dragon with a silver-gray body and two wings on its back was lying on the ground.

Its two once majestic dragon horns on its head were now twisted and bent to the sides.

Bao Liang was riding on its neck.

He gripped the dragon's horn tightly with his left hand, and clenched his right fist, the size of a sandbag, and slammed it solidly into the Time Rift Dragon's head, one blow after another.

"He's my darling!"

Bang!

"You just woke up and you're already yelling for me to eat something!"

Bang!

"Are you tired of living?"

Bang!

"You still want to Time Erasure and run away?"

Bang!

"I'll let you run!"

Bang!

"Run!"

Bang!

"Run!"

Bang!

"Run!"

The Time Rift Dragon was so badly beaten that it saw stars and let out a series of miserable screams.

"Awoo! Awoo! Awoo--woo--!"

The voice was melodious and pitiful, sounding nothing like the legendary dragon's roar.

Xiao Hongchen clutched his head in disbelief.

"This isn't right, is it?"

Isn't it a dragon?

Why are you barking like a dog?

He rushed down the steps and shouted at Bao Liang, "No, Bao Liang, why are you hitting it?"

Why don't you just kill it and take the Soul Ring?

Upon hearing this, Bao Liang paused in his work.

He turned his head and looked at Xiao Hongchen with a gaze even more aggrieved than that of the Time Rift Dragon.

"Kill it to get the ring? That's too easy on a piece of trash like that!"

Bao Liang grew angrier the more he thought about it, and grabbed the dragon's horns, punching it twice more.

"That bastard bit me right away, almost ruining my happiness for the rest of my life!"

After biting us, it even tried to self-destruct, dragging us all down with it!

How could I let this go?

Xiao Hongchen's lips twitched.

He had originally intended to offer some advice, but upon hearing the last sentence, he immediately lost his temper.

"It only bit you once, right? You're thick-skinned, it can't bite you back..."

"It bit my penis!"

Bao Liang roared in anger.

Xiao Hongchen: "..."

The training ground suddenly fell silent.

Even the Time Rift Dragon lying on the ground stopped roaring.

It struggled to turn its eyes to look at Xiao Hongchen, its silver-gray dragon eyes filled with accusation.

You were the one who chased after me and hit me first.

I only turned back and took a bite while I was running away.

Who knew it would almost bite that spot?

Besides, the fact that it was even prepared to self-destruct shows that it was also very panicked!

Xiao Hongchen remained silent for a few seconds, then finally raised his hand and patted Bao Liang on the shoulder.

"Never mind."

"Whatever makes you happy."

"But take it easy, don't actually kill him."

"We're all in Mingdu right now. If it manages to escape during the chaos, our whole family might end up in jail."

Bao Liang replied nonchalantly, "Okay, no problem."

The next moment, he raised his fist again.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The dull thud echoed once again across the training ground.

The Time Rift Dragon lay on the ground, its heart filled with the greatest grievance of its life.

It was originally a dragon that lived a life of peace and tranquility.

My biggest hobby is to take advantage of my free time and have fun wherever I want.

It once escaped from the clutches of several Titled Douluo, and it also once turned back the time of a forest to when the Soul Beast had just hatched, thereby erasing its own traces.

In the eyes of the Time Rift Dragon, there are very few Soul Master on the entire continent who can truly threaten it.

But it never imagined that one day it would be defeated by a human cub.

What it found even more unacceptable was that its Time Reversal and Time Erasure were useful to everyone else, but completely useless to this cub.

It retraces its steps, and the opponent continues to attack.

Even if it deletes the time, the opponent's fist will still appear precisely on time.

Now that it had finally escaped back to its lair, before it could even catch its breath, it was cornered in its den and beaten all the way to Mingdu.

The Time Rift Dragon longed to roar to the heavens.

I really want to escape--

But there's no escaping it--

It's from the Titan Giant Ape!

So what if it almost bit off your manhood?

Was it really necessary to beat them so badly?!

The Time Rift Dragon attempted to activate Time Reversal.

The hourglass pattern on his head had just lit up when Bao Liang's fist struck again.

Bang!

The pattern is broken.

It then tried to erase the moment the two people came into contact.

But the next punch still landed precisely on its nose.

Time Rift Dragon finally realized that continuing to resist would only result in a worse beating.

There's no way to escape now.

Living and enduring beatings doesn't seem like a solution.

Therefore, there is only one choice left!

A resolute glint suddenly flashed in Time Rift Dragon.

It exerted its strength suddenly, its upper body covered with dark gold scales arched backward, and its wings spread out with a roar.

Bao Liang completely off guard, Bao Liang was flung away.

He rolled twice on the ground and fell face-first into the mud.

"Ouch--"

Bao Liang covered his nose and got up, his eyes flashing with a fierce light.

"You still want to resist?"

Xiao Hongchen also sensed that something was wrong and immediately took out several Soul Cannon, aiming them at the Time Rift Dragon.

However, the Time Rift Dragon did not launch an attack.

It turned around and gave Bao Liang a deep look with its silver-gray eyes.

The next instant, an extremely dense crimson light erupted from its body.

Boom!

Blood shot into the sky.

A profound and domineering Sacrifice power instantly enveloped the entire training ground.

The anger on Bao Liang's face froze instantly.

"Ah?"

Xiao Hongchen was equally stunned.

"Huh? You can do that?"

They initially thought the Time Rift Dragon was about to self-destruct, and had even prepared to forcibly interrupt it.

But this aura clearly wasn't from a self-destruction.

This is Soul Beast Sacrifice!

Bao Liang wanted to say something more, but the power of Sacrifice had already surged into his body forcefully.

His Soul Power began to circulate involuntarily, and his consciousness was forcibly pulled into an absorption state.

Bao Liang could only immediately sit cross-legged and concentrate on drawing in that enormous energy.

Within the crimson beam of light, the Time Rift Dragon's body began to turn transparent.

Strands of silvery-gray light detached from its limbs, torso, and wings, rapidly converging towards its head.

A moment later, a complete Soul Bone solidified in the void.

It was a strangely shaped head -External Soul Bone.

In the center of the Soul Bone, a silver-gray left eye was prominently embedded.

His eyes were closed, surrounded by silver patterns resembling an hourglass.

Xiao Hongchen's eyes widened.

"Not again?!"

"Is Bao Liang some kind of wholesaler of External Soul Bone?"

"How many pieces is this now?"

Before his shock could subside, the Time Rift Dragon Head External Soul Bone transformed into a streak of silver light and struck Bao Liang's forehead directly.

At the same time, the Soul Ring belonging to the 76,000-year-old Soul Beast also rose from the gradually dissipating body of the Time Rift Dragon.

It was a deep, dark black, yet its edges Entanglement strands of silver-gray time-like patterns.

The Soul Ring and the Soul Bone entered Bao Liang's body simultaneously, one after the other.

The Sacrifice officially begins.