"Dragon?"
The nearly thirty thousand guards and a hundred thousand ordinary citizens of Jinzhou City were all shocked by the sight of a hundred-meter-long giant dragon under the night sky lit by lightning.
Dragons have always been the totem of the Xuanming Country. Although no one has seen a real dragon in ordinary life, legends and images of dragons exist in all aspects of life, including novels, movies, TV series, and picture albums; the figure of the dragon is everywhere.
Therefore, when Long Xiang revealed its true form, the first thought in everyone's mind was, "Dragon?"
At this moment, the owner of the Genetic Store, his assistant, and the two Iron Tower Warriors in front of Zhongyun Building's plaza were all looking up at the night sky.
"Master, is that the dragon from the legends of Earth?"
"I don't know, maybe it is."
The The Genetic Store owner was also showing a shocked expression.
As an owner, he vaguely knew a piece of information: the Fourth Prince and others had once gone deep into the sea to specially hunt a particular creature called "dragon," and that the hunt for members of the Dragon Clan was extremely brutal, with dozens of dragons killed, several captured alive, and a few that had escaped.
Three people from the team sent by the Fourth Prince were also killed by the Dragon Clan.
This was the first and only incident involving casualties since their control of Earth began, which even made the Eldest Prince of Tianzhou extremely furious, ordering a worldwide hunt for the escaped giant dragons.
The power of dragons seemed to surpass their imagination.
However, the Earth was too vast, and they had too few people; finding the escaped giant dragons was not an easy task.
All Genetic Store owners had also received such a notice, but no one took it as an urgent task.
"Boom!"
There was a loud noise in mid-air, and Long Xiang twisted its huge tail, desperately swinging at the airborne figures, creating a massive storm of air currents that blew away hundreds of people in an instant.
After transforming into its dragon body, Long Xiang immediately regained its divine skills, relishing in the unbounded feeling of being able to control the situation.
With several quick flashes and swings of its tail in mid-air, the giant dragon body killed hundreds of flying figures in moments.
The remaining airborne figures, witnessing this scene, dared not linger any longer and scattered, hiding in the night.
Long Xiang did not pursue them. With a thunderous roar, it flew over the plaza and exhaled a massive blast of ice fog directly at the twenty to thirty thousand elite guards on the ground.
The temperature on the ground dropped sharply, especially those in the center of the ice fog felt a powerful killing aura.
He Hui and others were startled and yelled:
"Run!"
Each of them rushed at their top speed towards the outer edges.
The Extreme Cold Ice Fog enveloped the ground from mid-air in an instant, and "crack, crack" noises could be heard—the sound of ice forming.
Thousands of people on the ground were instantly frozen by the ice, turning into ice figures.
Even more, over two thousand were covered in a layer of white frost, shivering uncontrollably as they desperately ran outwards.
More than twenty thousand people in the entire plaza were in a state of panic, desperately crying out:
"Run, the giant dragon is killing people, run, this giant dragon is too powerful!"
With a flash in mid-air, Long Xiang jumped to another location and expelled another blast of Extreme Cold Ice Fog, instantly freezing hundreds more.
The entire crowd on the plaza was in chaos and terror, scattering in panic, with nobody daring to attack the giant dragon, as any attack was futile.
At the entrance of the Genetic Store, the two Iron Tower Warriors holding giant swords looked extremely tense.
"Master, what should we do? Shall we go and fight the Giant Dragon?"
The owner of the Genetic Store gazed at the Giant Dragon in the sky and said in a deep voice:
"We are not its match. Activate the emergency shield and I will report to the higher-ups immediately—that the Giant Dragon has appeared."
The shopkeeper's assistant immediately ran inside the store, entered a room behind the counter, and activated a mysterious device. A blue hemispherical light screen enveloped the entire Genetic Store, and at the same time, the orange light outside receded and vanished.
This hemispherical blue light had a much stronger defensive capability than the orange light, but whether it could withstand the Giant Dragon's attack, the shop owner had no confidence.
The shop owner stepped behind the counter and immediately reported to the organization through a special device that a Giant Dragon had appeared in the skies over Tianyue City, requesting that someone be sent over immediately.
Long Xiang was reveling in the slaughter. Since escaping from the depths of the East Sea last time, she had pent up her frustration in Shenlongjia for half a year, and now she could finally show her prowess and have some fun.
Seeing about twenty-three thousand elite guards on the ground being scared off by her mere Dragon Body induced excitement; she was about to swoop down again to unleash the Extreme Cold Ice Fog when a cry of a Giant Eagle came from the mid-air.
Yang Xiao, Huang Wen, and Lan Xin each rode on the back of three Giant Eagles as they flew over.
Yang Xiao and the others had seen Long Xiang reveal her Dragon Body from afar and were extremely anxious. It was Huang Wen's first time seeing Long Xiang's true form. On the way, Yang Xiao had briefly told Huang Wen about Long Xiang's true identity. Huang Wen did not believe it, saying she was being teased and asking how could there be dragons in this world?
Now that Huang Wen saw Long Xiang was indeed a dragon, the shock within her heart goes without saying.
Huang Wen's two Giant Eagles, upon seeing the Giant Dragon, stayed far away, refusing to fly forward another step. However, Yang Xiao's Giant Eagle was already quite familiar with Long Xiang, and at Yang Xiao's urging, shook as it flew over, reaching above Long Xiang.
Yang Xiao shouted loudly:
"Long Xiang, you've caused trouble! Do you want to die? Have you forgotten what I told you? Take back your Dragon Body immediately and come with me at once."
Long Xiang was startled and suddenly snapped back to reality. The gory scenes of her parents and siblings being hunted and massacred by the Dragon Clan were vivid in her mind; she had once confronted one of the black-clad Samurai and was defeated by him within two moves.
Long Xiang hurriedly retracted her Dragon Body, transforming into a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl. She flew onto the back of Yang Xiao's Giant Eagle, sat behind Yang Xiao, hugged him, and giggled:
"Smelly brother, they are so annoying. Thousands of them ganged up on me. If I hadn't transformed into my Dragon Body, I would have been killed by now. Oh, and I killed at least two thousand of them for you. They were terrified. How are you going to thank me?"
"Thank me? You're nearly out of life and have no sense of severity. Hurry up and go with me; stop talking."
Long Xiang hugged Yang Xiao, stuck out her tongue, and muttered:
"Is it really that serious? We are running in the night; how can they chase us?"
Yang Xiao was speechless. Long Xiang didn't know how formidable the Genetic Store and those behind Long Yu were, but he had seen it with his own eyes. As soon as the Genetic Store in Jinzhou City reported that a dragon had appeared here, he reckoned that Long Yu and the others would soon be able to reach Tianyue City through the Transmission Array.
"Long Xiang, listen to what I have to say now. First off, you've exposed your identity. Just now, tens of thousands of people saw your true form, and they've also seen your human form. That means, from now on, you can't appear in Jinzhou City. You must hide immediately. I will let Lan Xin stay with you, and through the Transmission Array, you will go back to Shenlongjia immediately. If I don't notify you, you must not come out. Moreover, in Shenlongjia, you must not reveal your Dragon Form. I'll have Lan Xin stay with you, and you two can live for a while in the valley beside the lake in Shenlongjia. Once the heat dies down from the hunt for you, I will naturally come to find you."
Hearing Yang Xiao's words, Long Xiang felt the situation was more serious than she thought and couldn't help asking:
"Can't I hide with Sister Lan Xin in the Shenming Mountain Sect of Kongming City? There are many people there, and they would have a hard time finding me."
"No, I can't take the risk. They will soon suspect that you're with me and will send people to search my territory. Perhaps they have special abilities that can detect your presence. If that's the case, you will be captured or killed right there and then. Even Lan Xin and the others might be killed by their people. Do you want that?"
Long Xiang hugged Yang Xiao's body, shuddered, and fell silent.
The world was now under the control of extraterrestrial beings, and even as a Divine Beast, the dragon was no more than an insect to the aliens and extremely vulnerable.
People must bow their heads beneath the eaves.
In the end, Long Xiang said helplessly:
"Okay!"
Then she hugged Yang Xiao tightly, resting her head against his back, feeling a special warmth.
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