Chapter 383: The Treasure Box Flew Away
On Zen and Tia's way back, both of them went through the flood dragon's body without a word.
Perhaps they felt a little embarrassed or they might be angry at each other.
The two of them finally arrived at the head of the flood dragon. Zen looked at its tightly-shut mouth. Some runes were engraved on the rows of its huge teeth, which were interlaced with one another. The Blood Fiend Emperor must have made great changes to the dragon's teeth when the huge flood dragon puppet was made.
However, how could they get out of it since the mouth of the flood dragon was closed?
Even if they could go outside, most of the floating stones were probably destroyed. Flying was prohibited in the trial, and it was also hard to climb up the abyss wall!
Just as Zen thought about it, Tia coldly looked at him and took out the crystal key without a word. She pointed it towards the wall beside her and pressed it hard onto the surface. The wall should be the rear part of the dragon's mouth. It had also been rebuilt, and lots of runes were engraved on it.
Tia pressed the crystal key following the runes.
When Tia did so, Zen felt the ground quake under his feet. He then heard the sound of a chain scratching stone outside. The flood dragon rose continuously. Tia actually had the flood dragon puppet under her control!
Zen gawked at Tia in shock. “This flood dragon puppet was the holy beast to protect Blood Fiend Emperor's sect. It's normal to control it with the crystal key,” Tia said icily when she saw Zen's reaction.
The flood dragon rose to the top as the chain scraped the wall on both sides of the abyss. Zen felt the dragon's body shake dramatically when it broke through the top gateway. The metallic sounds of chains breaking were heard. It turned out that Tia made the flood dragon puppet escape from its chains by controlling it.
Suddenly, a huge flood dragon appeared in the sky above the Cloud Road.
Meanwhile, Frank, Rocher, and the other disciples had passed the Death Road. They were far ahead of the other disciples. Now, they had entered the fourth part of the trial called the “Thrilling Icy Plain.” In addition, they found another hidden trial there and obtained great rewards.
All of them had gotten a lot especially Rocher. He had even received a top-grade fairy weapon. Even Frank was a little envious of him. It seemed that luck had blessed Rocher more than him.
Just after they had gotten the hidden rewards and resumed their path forward, they saw the huge flood dragon in the sky.
Their eyes were a mixture of fright and surprise as they looked at each other.
Why was there a huge flood dragon? Was it the flood dragon in the abyss? Did it swallow Zen and that mysterious disciple of the Cloud Hall? But why was it in the sky now?
They had so many questions in their minds.
After a while, Frank's lips curved into a cold smile. “Let's go and move on. After the Death Road, the fourth part of the trial has also been different and there will be greater rewards waiting for us!” he said.
All the cultivators, who were on the Sea of Raging Fire, had started to enter the Life Road. Although many stone columns were broken, they successfully passed the Sea of Raging due to their good plan. The whole ordeal was extremely dangerous but thankfully, no one died. Only one disciple got burned by the lava due to his carelessness.
Just after the disciples passed the Life Road, they also saw the huge flood dragon in the sky.
“Oh my! What a huge dragon!” one disciple shouted.
“Why is there a huge dragon inside the trial? What does the dragon want to do?” another disciple exclaimed.
The disciples were thrilled as they watched the gigantic flood dragon up in the clouds. Fortunately, the huge creature was flying away from them. Otherwise, they would be in a great disaster.
Outside the trial, Fernandez noticed that all the disciples had looked up. He adjusted the Picture Slab to watch the sky as well.
The sight of the huge flood dragon in flight greeted the eyes of the sect leaders and Fernandez through the Picture Slab.
“This is a flood dragon. It is a mature one that has lived up to at least fifty thousand years!” Fernandez exclaimed in shock. He did not expect to see the flood dragon. He could tell its age, but he didn't see that the flood dragon was actually dead and was now only a puppet.
“A mature dragon that has lived fifty thousand years? Why did it show up in the trial?” a sect leader asked. The other sect leaders were also puzzled as well.
The flood dragon was quite powerful and they could never defeat it at all, so the disciples in the trial didn't stand a chance. If the flood dragon wanted it, all the disciples could die in a second.
The sect leaders and Fernandez probably did not know much about the trial. The whole trial was located in the legacies of a sixth-grade sect. Thus, there were always some forbidden places and a holy beast to protect the sect.
If a disciple trespassed in the forbidden place and released the holy beast, all the disciples in the trial would end up dead!
Moreover, the holy beast could get out of the trial area and attack people outside. Thus, everyone was in danger.
“It's alright now as the flood dragon seems to have left.”
The sect leaders and Fernandez were greatly relieved when the flood dragon's figure disappeared through the distance.
The flood dragon changed its direction every now and then under Tia's control. She then took her Picture Slab from her space bracelet. She could see the world outside the dragon body with the Picture Slab. Now they were above the Sea of Raging Fire.
“What are you looking for?” Zen asked curiously. Tia only stared at Zen with hatred and did not respond.
She mentally blamed Zen for her misfortunes as she had never been in such a low place since her birth, until now. However, there was nothing she could do to him!
She instead concentrated on controlling the flood dragon puppet and carefully searched above the Sea of Raging Fire.
“There it is!” Tia suddenly exclaimed excitedly. They saw an island in the Sea of Raging Fire. It was totally deserted and there wasn't any path to it.
There was also a huge blood-red enchanted barrier outside it, which covered the whole island.
“Get down,” Tia said, then she drove the flood dragon puppet down. When the flood dragon puppet got close to the blood-red enchanted barrier, a huge hole suddenly appeared in the barrier and the flood dragon puppet went inside.
There were many buildings on the island. In front of the gate was a huge square. A huge black column stood in the center of the square.
When Tia saw that Zen was confused probably by the presence of the black column, she drove the huge flood dragon's body and made it twist around the column. After many rounds, the head of the flood dragon finally landed on the ground and at the same time, its mouth opened.
Zen carefully walked outside the flood dragon's body and raised his head to observe the column. 'If the huge flood dragon directly lands on the ground, it will need a large area. It is really smart to let the dragon's body twist around the column. It spares much room and is also convenient. How smart of the Blood Fiend Emperor!' Zen thought.
A large main hall stood behind the huge square. There was a tablet on the hall with three words “Blood Fiend Hall” inscribed on it. It looked like it was the original home of the Blood Fiend Emperor.
Meanwhile, Tia also walked out of the dragon's body with the crystal key in her hand. She went to the platform at the center of the square first instead of the Blood Fiend Hall. The feather of the Ice Phoenix trailed on the ground behind her, and Zen followed.
There was a crystal cube on the small platform that measured two feet long on each side. The inside of the cube seemed to lack a small piece that was needed to form a groove.
Tia looked around the small platform and stared at Zen, then said, “You'd better get close to the platform.”
“Why?”
Zen still asked even though he got closer to the platform.
Tia didn't answer his question but put the crystal key into the groove of the cube instead.
The moment Tia had inserted the key, the ground started to shake as if there was an earthquake. The whole square shook and trembled.
“Bang!”
At that moment, Zen saw that numerous light spots appeared. It was not from the sun, because there wasn't the sun in this space at all. The light spots on the square should be some special runes.
Some of the runes were big and some of them were small. Some were shaped like the petals of a huge flower, while others were like rotating gears. Their shapes and sizes varied from one another.
The one common thing about the runes was that they all started to rotate in the same direction. A slim, long, line of light appeared from each of the runes as they rotated at a certain speed. Then, the light flew in all directions.
The lines looked like pieces of an arc that were meant to connect all the places inside the trial. What Zen didn't know was that one of the lines had flown to the hidden trial inside the Sea of Raging Fire, where Zen had obtained the silver treasure box.
When the light line rushed toward the hidden trial, Lennon was down on the second platform. He was burned black all over. If one didn't look carefully, nobody could tell that it was a human.
Meanwhile in the valley, all the other disciples from Cloud Hall had left. Lennon was the last one who jumped on the platform. He wanted to be well-prepared for it, so he got delayed until the last minute.
Just like Zen and Lewis, Lennon had also obtained the red treasure box on the first platform. It clearly cost him a great amount of life vitality and strength, so he chose to rest and recover first. He chose to meditate and recuperate until he was in the best condition since the hidden trial had no time limit.
After quite a while, Lennon stood up and confidently jumped on the second platform. He mentally thought about the guy at the third grade of the nature level who managed to get the silver box. He could easily do that since he was the top disciple of Cloud Hall. It would be ridiculous if he could not!
He faced the flame and fireball, and tried his best with gritted teeth. In the end, he had survived!
Lennon was completely exhausted after he had passed the trial on the second platform. He was severely burned. He successfully passed the trial because of the temptation of the blue box in front of him.
As long as he had the blood vigor of the nine-headed dragon, he could obtain huge power and his body could recover in a short time!
However, he was too badly hurt that he couldn't walk anymore. Thus, he crawled forward slowly. Even if the blue box was ten feet away from him, it seemed so far away like the end of the world.
Still, Lennon pushed himself. “It doesn't matter! It will be worth it to obtain the blood vigor of the nine-headed dragon!” he encouraged himself with gritted teeth. With great pain and a whole lot of effort, he had almost touched the blue treasure box.
Just before he offered his hand, a light line suddenly shot towards the blue box and covered it.
Then, the blue box turned around and raised itself. It flew away and followed the light line.
'What? It is flying away?' Lennon asked himself in shock. Stunned and dumbfounded, he stared at the flying blue treasure box.