Dragon Tamer - Chapter 467:
Chapter 467: Chapter 469 Dark Vision
The Wings of the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon suddenly spread wide, and the clear sky plunged into darkness in an instant.
Odd dark stars studded the sky, each one slipping from the dark expanse and diving into the still calm sea domain.
The exaggerated power of the TianSha Dragon King made the nearly thirty thousand year old Malevolent Water Dragon apprehensive; it saw the Dark Long Stars falling into the sea and noted each peculiar Dark Long Star transforming into a Black-Spotted Hole as soon as it touched the ocean, creating voids that sucked in everything around them!
Eventually, many Dark Long Stars connected, forming a terrifying Black Star Cave that drew in all the surrounding sea water into its depths!
The Black Star Cave was incomprehensibly fearsome. The Malevolent Water Dragon swam through the surging waters, continuously writhing its body—if it slowed down its swimming pace slightly, it too would be sucked into the Black Star Cave.
The Malevolent Water Dragon was indeed formidable; seeing that its speed was slowed by the water, it no longer tried to escape. Instead, its tail whipped up the waters, its radiant scales shimmering. A dark current from deep within the ocean, akin to a black beast of the abyss, rushed toward the Black Star Cave under the Malevolent Water Dragon’s control!
Clearly, the Black Star Cave had its limits; it couldn’t possibly consume the entire sea.
As the dark currents clashed and reverberated, the black spots in the Black Star Cave gradually filled up. Only then was the dreadful ability of the Fiend Star Dragon completely neutralized.
However, the Fiend Star Dragon had never counted on the Black Star Cave to trap the thirty thousand year old Malevolent Water Dragon; it created an enormous Sky Abyss in the center of the sea domain. The distant sea took minutes to refill the void.
The Heavenly Slaughter Dragon flew into the Sky Abyss, its Eyes of the Mourning Dragon fixedly gazing upon the thirty thousand year old Malevolent Water Dragon beneath the water…
“Whoosh!!!!!!!!!”
Suddenly, the seawater around the Sky Abyss surged violently, as if some terrible force boiled it to frenzied levels.
Nine giant serpents, transformed from deep ocean currents, burst forth; they formed a Nine Palaces Lock, enveloping the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon above with shocking presence.
The Heavenly Slaughter Dragon flapped its wings, vanishing into the darkness, its splendid Scale Feathers neatly flickering, transforming into a pitch-black dragon perfectly merging with its dark realm.
The giant serpent’s Nine Palaces Lock could not confine the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon, and inevitably disintegrated into seawater, spilling back into the ocean.
And the Malevolent Water Dragon, which had been swimming nearby just moments before, suddenly disappeared without a trace. Zhu Minglang on the back of the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon couldn’t sense its presence anymore.
“It seems it doesn’t want to fight with you,” Zhu Minglang said.
The Heavenly Slaughter Dragon had no intention of letting go of this feast; it glanced at the profound darkness of the water below.
Without hesitation, the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon folded its wings and, like a serpent, slithered into the depths, using its long and agile tail to dive toward the seafloor!
The Blood-Sucking Feather Scales of the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon were quite special, particularly after it had consumed the blood of the Absolute Sea Hawk Emperor, its Scale Feathers seemed capable of morphing into various forms.
When its feathers lay flat and neatly arrayed, its body was as smooth as crystal, each scale seamlessly connecting with no gaps, like a single perfect sheet of skin.
When its Scale Feathers stood slightly erect and hardened like steel feathers, not only could it absorb blood essence in combat to replenish its energy, but its defense and resistance also greatly increased.
These were abilities it had possessed before.
Now, its Scale Feathers could also flip backward uniformly, taking on a dark hue, with the hard scales retracting and soft feathers prevailing. In this form, it became exceedingly flexible, and its Feather Dragon muscles adapted to the surrounding environment…
Upon entering the seabed, the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon changed its scale feathers into this dark form, making it resemble a sable dragon swimming through the murky waters, its slender and sinister shape swaying just as fearlessly as it did soaring through the skies.
Its wings were now fully retracted and clung tightly to its back, also providing Zhu Minglang with perfect protection behind it.
Zhu Minglang was somewhat surprised to find that the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon could move so freely in the water…
“Follow it, we are on our way to a very important place,” Zhu Minglang communicated with the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon through their minds.
As it continued to dive, the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon encountered little resistance and the deep-sea pressure hardly affected it.
It wasn’t that the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon was omnipotent, capable of combat in the air and leisurely swimming in the ocean, but rather because the seabed was dark, almost devoid of sunlight, and this cold, dark environment was the secret to its ease of movement in the deep-sea.
Its current dark form allowed it to swim at will through the darkness, not because it was particularly familiar with water.
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Following the Malevolent Water Dragon, Zhu Minglang started to perceive his surroundings using his Spiritual Sense.
He remembered that previously, his Spiritual Sense could only “see” an outline of the seabed, which was also very blurry, similar to viewing a mountain in a dense night.
But this time, because of the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon’s call, Zhu Minglang seemed to gain the Dark Vision of the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon, so that he could see everything on the seabed clearly.
The seabed silt, the magnificent rocky understructures, and the various creatures roaming the seabed…
Zhu Minglang could even see a long, shadowy figure in the far distance, at the very edge of his vision, speeding towards the deeper depths of the seabed.
The sea ridges were sloped, inclining towards an even deeper area, and Zhu Minglang vaguely remembered that near the Undersea Vein previously, there was also a huge seabed slope, though back then he could only sense its outline.
“It’s there, chase after it!” Zhu Minglang pointed towards the seabed slope and said.
The Heavenly Slaughter Dragon swam in that direction.
In the deep sea, it was not as fast as that Malevolent Water Dragon and after a while, lost sight of it.
However, the Malevolent Water Dragon did them a favor by leading Zhu Minglang to successfully find the traces of the Undersea Vein!
That sea ridge slope inclined precisely towards the Veins of the Earth they were looking for, a deep-sea fissure that seawater could not penetrate, which could be mistaken merely for a seabed silt trench if one did not venture to explore.
“We’ve found it!”
Zhu Minglang directed the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon towards the Veins of the Earth.
As they approached the area, Zhu Minglang felt a heat, and although the Veins of the Earth were very deep, the power of the earth’s core still penetrated through the thick layers of the seabed rocks, spreading to the surroundings.
Upon entering the Veins of the Earth, the endless ocean was now above their heads, and there was no difficulty in breathing as one might imagine below, nor was there even the need to hold one’s breath as in the deep waters of the sea.
