Dragon Tamer - Chapter 116
Chapter 116: Chapter 117: Cunning Villains
Translator: 549690339
“Mercy… mercy.”
The brother struggled immensely to spit out these few words, his eyeballs already rolling back in their sockets. If they weren’t released soon, they really would have been done for.
Finally, the noose from the gallows vanished.
The two men fell to the ground, first starting to dry heave, then frantically gasping for air. Having walked through the ‘Ghost Gate,’ they no longer had the sleazy look of old ruffians. Instead, they crawled pitifully on the ground.
“Hmph, as thanks, I’ll give you this much money. I’m keeping these star crystal fragments,” Fang Niannian snorted coldly, tossing the money before them.
When the brothers looked, it was actually just one gold bead!
But now, how could they dare refuse? They quickly handed over all the star crystal fragments, then continuously kowtowed and apologized to Nan Lingsha.
This is the City of Sin after all. If Nan Lingsha had killed them, no one would have said a word. The two brothers probably never imagined that the seemingly gentle and beautiful woman would actually be such a powerful Divine and Mortal.
Why was their speech so incredibly filthy!
“Sister, there’s Dragon Blood up ahead, I’ll go take a look for you,” Fang Niannian’s mood suddenly improved greatly.
Proper bargaining didn’t work, and they ended up giving it away for free.
The reason Nan Lingsha’s painted dragons possessed such powerful strength was precisely because she used Dragon Blood for painting.
Within the City of Sin, there were many who trafficked in Dragon Blood, and there was an enormous variety. Dragon Blood had a vast array of uses within the Supreme Court Courtyard Continent, but it was rare to see it for sale on the Li Chuan Continent.
Where there was Dragon Blood for sale, naturally, there was also Dragon Meat.
Zhu Minglang went to where they sold Dragon Meat and discovered the price was unbelievably extortionate, especially for those processed slices of Dragon Meat. After being cleaned and compressed, it had been turned into large, conveniently portable rock-hard meat cakes.
Humans couldn’t eat it; it was used to feed ferocious carnivorous Dragon Beasts.
“One piece of this kind of meat cake costs five grains of Gold Sand,” Zhu Minglang groaned with a headache.
He had to buy it—for Big Black Tooth’s Dragon Lord Level. Starting now, it
would have to eat real Dragon Meat.
After placing the Dragon Meat cake into Bai Qi’s Universe Magic, Zhu Minglang saw that many Dragon Shepherds had purchased large quantities of Dragon Food. They essentially had to summon their mounts to carry it, tying big bags of it onto the dragons’ backs…
Bai Qi’s Universe Magic was quite rare, saving a lot of trouble. After all, once they started to have more dragon pets, even a short journey out would probably necessitate bringing a food transport caravan!
Little Qingzhuo’s Soul Bead was finally found too. It was exchanged using the Soul Bead from the Corpse Tyrant Dragon that Zhu Minglang had. The other party was quite generous; even though their Spirit Leaf Soul Bead was of higher quality, they still made the trade directly.
Having come to the City of Sin, they ended up procuring a batch of needed supplies, which made Zhu Minglang quite satisfied.
However, you can’t stay long in such a place. Who knows when some villain might take a fancy to a nice item and, unwilling to pay, would just start fighting with the vendor, then trigger chaos down the entire street.
After leaving the City of Sin, night began to fall, the stars twinkling faintly in the sky, barely outlining the road ahead against the silhouette of the mountain.
The wind stirred the leaves, creating a curtain of foliage that whirled up from the trees, floating in the air for a long time before coming to rest on the ground.
“Why aren’t we staying in the city overnight?” Fang Niannian asked with confusion.
“Didn’t you see how many people, like us, left the City of Sin before nightfall?” Zhu Minglang said.
He wasn’t actually afraid of the trouble in the City of Sin, he just didn’t want to be delayed by meaningless strife.
“Gentlemen, in such a hurry to leave, did you really think my brother and I are pushovers?” A voice came from the woods as two figures quickly approached.
“Hmph, if you don’t treat us brothers well, don’t even think about leaving here alive!” said the muscular bald brother.
The speakers were the very same two bald brothers who had already seemed to forget the painful marks left on their necks. Their eyes radiated malicious intent as they ogled the shapely figure of Nan Lingsha.
“You two really are asking for death,” Zhu Minglang said with a cold laugh. “Who’s asking for death? You actually dared to steal our crystals!” the bald elder brother declared.
In the woods, more footsteps could be heard as they rapidly closed in on the trio. There were at least a dozen people, who quickly surrounded Zhu Minglang and his company, clearly having been lying in ambush for a while.
All of these people were Dragon Shepherds, and they one after another summoned their Dragon Beasts. Suddenly, the forest’s night-resting birds were startled into flight.
“Who are these people?” Nan Lingsha asked in confusion.
Zhu Minglang, while waking up the deeply slumbering Big Black Tooth who had eaten the large meat cake, was also puzzled as he looked at Nan Lingsha.
It’s not so dark that you can’t see. Was Nan Lingsha really that face-blind? They had almost strangled those two extremely sleazy bald brothers to death not long before.
Even if she couldn’t remember their faces, she should at least have some impression of their shiny bald heads.
“Zhu Minglang, Zhu Minglang, that one is the one who sold us the Dragon Meat… and that one over there, he’s the one who sold us the Dragon Blood,” Fang Niannian said in a low voice at that moment.
Zhu Minglang looked over and indeed recognized the two somewhat familiar faces.
So these vendors were businessmen by day and turned into bandits at night!
Indeed, it was somewhat meaningful. Normally, the green forest bandits would ambush travelers, but because the smell of blood could alert others, they wouldn’t attack everyone who passed by. Instead, they’d choose the biggest, fattest target, kill, loot, and then pull out immediately.
Even so, they often failed to catch the truly satisfying fat sheep. After all, there were so many brothers, and each share would probably be less than what they could earn from legitimate business during the day.
Therefore, they conducted business in the daytime and chose their prey during transactions.
Many understood the fundamental wisdom of travel: don’t flaunt your wealth. But during a transaction, it was hardly possible to stay on guard, as the goods purchased were often those that caught one’s own fancy and were worth the price.
They would precisely pick out the fat sheep during the day and keep a watchful eye on them continually.
Once the target left the city or became isolated, they would make their move and butcher the prey.
Not only could they take back the valuable goods they had sold during the day, but they could also plunder all of the target’s possessions!
Sly villains, sly villains indeed.
If such behavior wasn’t utterly vile and malicious, Zhu Minglang almost wanted to applaud these villainous merchants of the City of Sin. It wasn’t easy to conduct their trade with such cunning.
Zhu Minglang looked around and, sure enough, wasn’t disappointed. The burly man who had sold him the Soul Bead was also there, eyeing him maliciously, clearly intent on retrieving his treasure!
These merchants, they were all in cahoots…
“How about it, my brothers, didn’t I tell you this woman is a national beauty? Haven’t let you all down, have I?” the bald brother once again leered lasciviously.
“Don’t take her lightly; she’s a Divine and Mortal.”
“That man is a Lord Level Dragon Trainer, and he should have a Spirit Wood Attribute Dragon Beast at Lord Level,” the big man who had traded the Soul Bead with Zhu Minglang spoke up.
Zhu Minglang found himself at a loss for words for a moment.
So it could be like this!
Infer the other party’s strength based on the quality of material goods exchanged.
Learned something new, indeed.
Their industrial chain is quite well established!
“You deal with the group behind us, and I’ll handle the ones in front; these types of guys don’t need to be left alive,” Zhu Minglang whispered to Nan Lingsha beside him.
“You deal with the trouble you’ve caused yourself,” Nan Lingsha said, refusing to dirty her hands with an air of nobility.
“Miss, have you forgotten again?” Zhu Minglang said, feeling helpless.
There were no shortage of fat sheep entering the City of Sin. Why were they particularly targeted if not for the grudging resentment of those two bald brothers?
“Sister, those two bald guys are the filthy ruffians you almost strangled to death today,” Fang Niannian whispered.
“Oh, then let Zhu Minglang handle it,” Nan Lingsha said, seemingly recalling the incident, though such riffraff were too insignificant for her to take to heart.
Zhu Minglang had already summoned the Lei Cang Violent Dragon. Its entire body covered in black thunder scales looked terrifying. Occasionally, electric oscillations highlighted its huge and majestic form, making it appear even more wild and ferocious!
“Ooh ooh!!!!!”
The Lei Cang Violent Dragon charged straight towards the big man who had sold the Soul Bead. In front of the man was a Lord Level Blood Sickle Dragon, whose razor-sharp claws swiped at the Lei Cang Violent Dragon…
But the Lei Cang Violent Dragon didn’t even bother dodging. It bared its fangs and bit off a chunk of the Blood Sickle Dragon’s shoulder meat.
Blood poured out, and the Blood Sickle Dragon quickly pulled away, licking its shoulder wound with its long tongue, trying to use the saliva to numb the pain and stop the bleeding.
But its blood was black.
Far from stopping, the wound began to fester and spread from a small patch to a larger area!
Festering!
This was one of the abilities of Big Black Tooth’s claws and fangs!
After injuring the Blood Sickle Dragon, the Lei Cang Violent Dragon, like a battering ram breaking through city gates, charged in an arc, colliding with the group of Dragon Beasts behind Zhu Minglang!
Its massive Dragon Horns plowed the ground, splitting the earth, and with each collision against the villains’ Dragon Beasts, the thunder scales on its body shone even brighter…
Finally, amidst the frequent flashes of lightning and sparks, the Lei Cang Violent Dragon let out a roar. As seven or eight Dragon Beasts swarmed towards it, Big Black Tooth tensed its entire body.
A black thunderstorm erupted from the Lei Cang Violent Dragon at the center, violently sweeping outwards in all directions.
Lightning danced, air burst, and those seven or eight Dragon Beasts were thrown violently away, their bodies enshrouded in a black web of electrical energy, paralyzed to the bone and skin split open!!
A surge of thunderous power, and with Big Black Tooth’s increasing mastery over lightning, standing amidst a motley crowd of Dragon Beasts of varying strengths, it truly looked down on everything with supreme dragon might!
The man who sold the Soul Bead was stunned…
Even though he had guessed that Zhu Minglang was a Lord Level Dragon
Trainer, he never expected his Dragon to be so powerful.. A group of Dragon Sons together with two Dragon Generals were unable to withstand this Lei Cang Violent Dragon!
