The Carefree Little Immortal, Episode 6: The Mighty Great Swamp, Chapter 3: The Betraying Bone Dragon

Cui Caiting led her disciples to the foot of the mountain north of the city. Seeing the eerie, ghostly atmosphere and chilling winds, she felt a chill and said, "Everyone be careful. There are many evil spirits up there, and there are definitely powerful figures among them."

"Sixth Uncle was on the mountain this morning. I wonder if he will come to our aid?"

Li Mengtang asked cautiously.

Yi Xunyan's cultivation was exceptional; he had once subdued the demon kings of the forty-nine caves of the underworld. If they received his help, the situation would be vastly different.

But Cui Caiting only said calmly, "Don't place your hopes on him." She

used her movement technique and took the lead, rushing up the mountain.

The disciples quickly followed.

Just as they reached the halfway point, they suddenly saw a group of imperial soldiers, covered in blood, rushing towards them in panic. Their faces were filled with terror, as if they had encountered something extremely terrifying, and they fled desperately down the mountain.

Li Mengtang wanted to ask what was going on, but even after calling out several times, she couldn't stop one of them.

All the women frowned and had no choice but to continue searching upwards.

"Second Senior Sister, I...I wonder what's up there? It scared them so much."

Shui Ruo asked quietly, her face pale.

Li Mengtang smiled slightly at her and whispered, "Don't be afraid, just stay close to me."

Shui Ruo felt a little calmer and followed closely beside her.

On Xiaoyao Peak, this gentle, calm, and highly skilled Second Senior Sister had always been Shui Ruo's object of affection and her protector.

Corpses began to appear along the way. Judging from their attire, some were from the Imperial Tiger Head Army, while others were from the Demon-Subduing Hands of the Demon-Slaying Fortress. Many of them had long, horrific wounds on their bodies, as if cut by something sharp, leaving their intestines spilling out—a truly gruesome death.

"It was done by those skeleton spiders. It seems they're nearby,"

Li Mengtang said in a deep voice, taking out the Wooden Mother Divine Bow from her magic pouch as she ran.

Shui Ruo had already drawn her weapon, the Evil-Repelling Ice Flame Blade that He Tianpeng had given her. At this moment, she was tense, her knuckles gripping the blade turning white.

"Hey, look here!"

Xiao Wan, who was walking ahead with Cui Caiting, suddenly exclaimed. The other girls looked and saw several giant nets hanging between some large trees. Inside each net were two or three skeletal blood spiders, their long legs twitching intermittently, looking like they were on the verge of death.

"It looks like a Demon-Trapping Net..."

Li Mengtang said.

Just then, a loud shout came from ahead, someone yelling, "It's caught! It's caught! Everyone, give it your all, don't let it escape!"

The girls rushed forward and squeezed into a dense forest. They saw dozens of men in tight-fitting clothes running back and forth, each holding a rope, pulling on a strange, large net. Inside the net was a huge creature struggling frantically.

"It really is the Demon-Slaying Hands of the Demon-Slaying Fortress! They seem to have captured some kind of demon,"

Li Mengtang said.

"Wow! Is this the infamous Demon-Trapping Net?"

Xia Xiaowan exclaimed in surprise, her eyes fixed curiously on the large net. She saw numerous magical runes pasted on it, occasionally flashing with dazzling sparks.

"Yes, this is the Demon-Trapping Net, the large divine weapon of the Demon-Slaying Fortress, the one that once captured the demon general Meng Baihu,"

Li Mengtang nodded in agreement.

The creature trapped in the net was some kind of demon, appearing enormous and incredibly strong. In its struggle, it pulled at dozens of the Demon-Slaying Hands, making them unsteady on their feet. It twisted and leaped, then suddenly crashed into a nearby tree with a deafening roar, snapping the thick trunk in half.

"Hold on, everyone! We finally managed to trap this thing!"

someone shouted hoarsely.

"This bastard killed so many people! Let's take it back, tear it to pieces, and deep-fry it for our drinks!"

someone else said, their eyes bloodshot and teeth clenched.

Suddenly, a terrifying, hook-shaped, blood-red long leg burst out of the web, rapidly stabbing and cutting through the silk threads, touching the magical runes on the web, causing flashes and bursts of electricity.

Shui Ruo, seeing this, turned even paler, her voice trembling, "It...it looks like another skeleton spider, but why is it so much bigger than the others?"

"Perhaps it's their leader?"

Xiao Wan replied, only then pulling out her Earth Spirit Flute from her magic pouch. She wasn't particularly afraid of insect-like monsters, her face much calmer than Shui Ruo's.

At that moment, another long, bare leg burst out of the web, aimlessly poking and stabbing in all directions.

"Careful, it looks like it's trying to break free!"

someone shouted.

"Net! Add another net for this thing!"

someone yelled.

"No more, this is the last one!"

someone replied, their face ashen.

"It's alright! It's alright! Everyone calm down, the more it struggles, the faster it will die! The talismans on the net will soon burn it to ashes!"

A demon-subduing hand, seemingly the leader, shouted in a deep voice. But before he could finish speaking, he was suddenly pierced through the chest by a hook-like long leg that attacked without warning, and was thrown high into the air, dead without a sound.

The demon-subduing hands were shocked, and some immediately withdrew their hands.

"Not good!"

Li Mengtang shouted softly, and with a flick of her sleeve, several strange vines as thick as bowls sprang out from the grass. It was the ultimate technique of the Wood Release system - Python Vine Technique. But Cui Caiting was faster than her, and had already formed a hand seal and rushed out like lightning.

Suddenly, a low roar that did not sound like a human was heard, and the entire Demon-Trapping Net lost control. The demon-subduing hands who had not let go were all pulled up and sent flying, crashing heavily to the ground.

At the same time, several red shadows flashed by, and blood splattered. Several demon-subduing hands who were still in the air were cut in half at the waist.

"What scum dares to ambush my Bloodblade General!"

Accompanied by an extremely piercing, sinister laugh, a gigantic figure with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a spider broke free from the Demon-Trapping Web.

The strange vines summoned by Li Mengtang snapped instantly, and Cui Caiting was also targeted by several crimson shadows accompanied by fierce winds. In a few lightning-fast exchanges, she was forced back two steps.

＊＊＊＊＊＊ Xiao Xuan almost fainted on the spot, thinking dazedly, "Why am I so unlucky! For no reason, I'm accused of being a demon's offspring, and now I've fallen into a dragon's lair! Ugh... and there's a huge circle of skeletons all around!"

The skeleton sorcerers on the edge of the giant pit were all taken aback, hundreds of pairs of black eye sockets locking onto this uninvited guest.

Although Xiao Xuan was wearing the armor of a skeleton soldier, under the gaze of so many high-ranking skeletons, he was practically naked and had nowhere to hide.

"Wow! They're all sorcerers..."

He recognized the skeletons' attire, and his heart sank. "Why are they all skeleton sorcerers? And in a circle? Ah! Are they performing some kind of grand ritual?"

The skeleton sorcerers quickly realized what was happening, their magical artifacts flashing, clearly intending to eliminate this unfortunate fellow who had

walked right into their trap. Xiao Xuan knew something was wrong; seeing all sorts of lights rushing towards him, he quickly leaped to the side. Just as he dodged, a series of eerie and beautiful flames erupted where he stood, like countless fireworks exploding simultaneously.

"If I were bombarded by so many sorcerers, I probably wouldn't even have my teeth left!"

Xiao Xuan's face turned ashen. His mind raced, and he leaped into the air, charging up the steep slope. But after only a few steps, a burst of rapidly approaching blue flames forced him back into the pit. Then, a torrential downpour of various colored lights—some arcing, some straight, some fast, some slow, some bright, some dim—poured down.

Xiao Xuan darted about in the pit, and if it weren't for Fei Luo's lightning spell, he would have been riddled with holes, utterly disheveled.

In just a few breaths, he was drenched in sweat, his true energy severely depleted. Yet, he couldn't stop for a moment. Just then, a large cloud of green smoke suddenly exploded in front of him, expanding rapidly like a demon, its claws bared and phosphorescent, clearly some kind of vicious evil magic. Without thinking, he leaped backward, flying several steps back, when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back—he had crashed into something hard.

Unexpectedly, everything suddenly went silent; the skeleton sorcerers on the edge of the pit all ceased their attack.

Xiao Xuan, bewildered and still shaken, turned around, his body going limp with fear. He had bumped into the chin of the blood-bone dragon; with a mere gulp, the dragon could devour him like a grain of rice.

"Oh God!"

Xiao Xuan's fighting spirit vanished, and he closed his eyes in despair.

"After I die, I wonder if Master and Senior Sister will ever think of me? Will Shui'er always remember me? Waaah, Xiao Wan will probably cry herself to death... Oh dear! What about Yao Yao? No one will let her out, no one will water her..."

He thought and cried, tears welling up in his eyes.

But nothing happened. The surroundings were eerily quiet, save for the clear sound of the dragon's even breathing.

Xiao Xuan waited obediently like a lamb to the slaughter, but after a long while, there was still no movement.

"Could it be that this evil dragon is sleeping?"

Xiao Xuan slowly opened his eyes and looked into the dragon's dark eye sockets. Seeing that they seemed to be facing him, his heart pounded wildly.

"What's going on?"

He thought rapidly. "Hmm, most of the skeletons above stopped attacking because they were afraid of accidentally hitting the dragon... But what's wrong with the dragon? Why is it ignoring me?"

The bone dragon remained motionless. Xiao Xuan noticed that although its body was blood-red, its color was dull and lacked luster, far less vibrant and red than it had been the day before.

He looked up and saw that the skeletons on the edge of the pit were all staring intently at the bottom. Several skeleton sorcerers with unusual attire were whispering among themselves, seemingly discussing something. Suddenly, a thought struck him, and he remembered the battle they had encountered last time: "Could it be that this dragon was severely injured by my martial aunt Fei Luo, which is why it can't move? And those skeleton sorcerers above are casting spells to heal it? Yes! Yes! Judging from this, that must be it! Otherwise, why are so many sorcerers gathered here?"

Thinking of this, Xiao Xuan felt a little more at ease, but he still couldn't find a way to escape. He thought to himself, "I can't let this stalemate continue like this." "Given time, those skeletons will surely find a way to deal with me... Even if they can't do anything to me, once Aunt Feiluo leads me into the Great Swamp, I'll drown like a rat!"

He was burning with anxiety, his breathing becoming rapid. Suddenly, he was startled to find that the bone dragon in front of him was also breathing rapidly. He wondered, "I wonder if it's having a nightmare or about to wake up?"

Suddenly, Xiao Xuan felt a warm, swelling sensation in his chest, and something unseen seemed to be emanating from his body. The bone dragon, which had been dull all over, began to glow strangely, its blood bones emitting a hazy red light.

Then another strange thing happened. His eyes were wide open, yet a series of eerie and vivid images flashed through his mind—the scene he had witnessed when he swallowed the nameless bead: in the raging purple flames, a jade-colored dragon was struggling frantically and desperately, its head raised as if roaring, its expression one of extreme pain and utter misery…

But all of this, though vivid and real, was silent and ethereal, like a dream.

Most perplexingly, the background of this scene was the very real, blood-red bone dragon, still coiled quietly, alternating with the eerie scene before him.

“What’s going on?”

Xiao Xuan was terrified, frantically scanning and shoving his way forward as if possessed, but the terrifying scene remained etched in his mind.

Then, the jade-colored dragon’s struggle gradually ceased, and a beautiful and soft light from beneath its chin suddenly detached itself and flew away like a shooting star, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Xiao Xuan was utterly bewildered. Suddenly, he saw large patches of the dragon's scales and spines burning and melting away. Soon after, the dragon's jade-colored flesh was also incinerated and melted away by the purple flames, revealing shockingly large, crystalline bones beneath. Under the relentless scorching of the purple flames, these crystalline bones gradually turned red and crimson…

Xiao Xuan was horrified. Suddenly, he noticed that the dragon, its bones completely burned away, was eerily and slowly overlapping with the blood-red bone dragon behind it. Just as they were perfectly aligned, a deafening roar erupted, and a blinding crimson light filled the air. The two merged blood-red bone dragons soared into the sky, dragging their skeleton chariots, nearly crashing into the cave ceiling dozens of feet high.

The sight was incredibly shocking. Xiao Xuan stared speechlessly at the swirling, ferocious bone dragons that seemed to devour everything in their path, unable to process what had happened for a long time.

The skeletons surrounding the pit seemed completely stunned, standing frozen in place like wooden statues, staring blankly upwards.

"How could this be? Could something have gone wrong?"

Xiao Xuan was utterly perplexed. He glanced bewildered at the seemingly helpless skeletons on the pit's edge, a thought suddenly crossing his mind: "If only this evil dragon would suddenly go berserk and scare all the skeletons away..."

Just as this thought arose, the crimson bone dragon roared down from above, baring its fangs and claws as it swooped down on the skeletons along the pit's edge, smashing through more than a dozen skeleton sorcerers like a torrent.

Xiao Xuan's jaw dropped. Then, the bone dragon swung its massive body, its enormous tail sweeping across, instantly slamming seven or eight skeleton sorcerers on the other side against the wall, smashing them to pieces.

Only then did the remaining skeletons realize the extreme danger before them, turning and scattering in all directions.

But the crimson bone dragon persisted, tearing several skeleton sorcerers who had fled more than ten feet away to shreds with each leap and bound.

"Good, good! This dragon has been a great help!"

Xiao Xuan exclaimed with delight. He immediately used a land-based leaping technique to soar upwards. Although the walls of the giant pit were steep, they were no obstacle for him. In a few breaths, he reached the edge of the pit and leaped out.

Looking around, he realized that he was in a cave of indescribable size. The ceiling and edges were extremely dark and indistinct, clearly indicating its immense height.

At this moment, apart from the scattered broken bones, there wasn't a single moving skeleton in the cave. The giant dragon was nowhere to be seen. Xiao Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ran towards the entrance.

"I've been delayed here for quite some time. My master must be about to draw down the waters of the Great Swamp!"

Thinking this, he felt a surge of anxiety. He rushed to the gate, about to leave, when a sudden gust of wind blew in his face, not only slowing him down but also pushing him back several steps. Then, a gigantic head emerged from the gate, its sharp snout and protruding forehead revealing blood-red, bare bones—it was none other than the skeletal dragon from before.

"Heavens! Why has this evil dragon returned…"

Xiao Xuan retreated, his face ashen, despair rising again in his heart: "Today, I, Cui Xiao Xuan, will ultimately perish here…"

The skeletal blood dragon, tens of feet long, floated in through the air. Strangely, it didn't rise and fall with the ferocity of a rainbow as before; it simply stared at Xiao Xuan with its empty eye sockets, its massive head slowly approaching.

Xiao Xuan retreated incessantly, tripping over something in his panic, and fell to the ground with a thud. Seeing the dragon's massive head almost upon him, his will suddenly crumbled, and he cried out in a hoarse voice, "Don't come any closer!"

The skeletal blood dragon stopped abruptly at the sound, hovering slightly in mid-air. Strangely, its blood and bones now possessed an unusual luster, soft and flowing like jade.

"Why has the dragon's color changed?"

Xiao Xuan was stunned for a moment, then thought, "How could it obey me? Impossible, impossible! It's probably just a coincidence..."

The skeletal blood dragon exhaled heavily, its two bottomless black eye sockets seemingly scrutinizing him intriguingly.

"You step back... could you step back a little bit?"

Xiao Xuan tentatively asked.

The skeletal blood dragon actually swam back, but its massive head remained facing him.

Xiao Xuan was dumbfounded, unable to understand for a long time, thinking, "Why is this dragon so obedient today? It's the Skeleton Demon's pet!"

He stood there, frozen in a stalemate with the skeletal blood dragon, staring at each other, when a strange feeling he had never experienced before suddenly arose in his heart, as if the enormous creature before him was subtly resonating with him and intimately connected.

Xiao Xuan pondered intently, his gaze unconsciously drifting to the bone dragon's chin. He remembered a giant, blood-red pearl, resembling a black pearl, that had once been destroyed by Fei Luo with her purple rhinoceros hairpin, leaving only a deep indentation. Suddenly, he recalled swallowing a pearl that also resembled a black pearl. Thinking back to the eerie scene that unfolded when he swallowed it, a wave of doubt washed over him: "Could it be... that the pearl I swallowed has some connection to this dragon?"

This realization brought a flood of vague thoughts to his mind, but no matter how hard he racked his brains, he couldn't figure it out.

Continuing like this wasn't a solution, so Xiao Xuan decided to try again. He respectfully addressed the dragon, "Great God, could you... could you leave this place? Please leave!"

The skeletal blood dragon indeed turned and floated towards the gate.

Xiao Xuan stared, finally able to completely deny the "coincidence" theory. Seeing the bone dragon about to swim out the door, he hurriedly shouted, "Come back! Great God, please come back!"

The skeletal blood dragon responded and obediently floated in front of him.

"Great God, can you take me out? Please take me away from here, okay?"

Xiao Xuan shamelessly pressed his advantage.

The skeletal blood dragon coiled its body and swung its tail, steadily tossing the skeletal chariot tied to its waist and tail in front of him.

Xiao Xuan quickly climbed on, and as soon as he sat down, the skeletal bone dragon unfurled its body and spun around, carrying him towards the gate.

"What exactly happened?"

Little Xuan on the skeleton carriage was overjoyed and thought to himself, "The old skeleton demon said that this dragon used to be a celestial dragon, a protective barrier and a spirit of evil left by the Burning Void Hermit in the Great Swamp. Later, something happened that turned it into a demon and enslaved it. It seems that it has finally come to its senses today and will no longer help the wicked! Yes, yes, that must be it!"

The skeleton dragon went out of the gate and carried Little Xuan forward at high speed. Its body was very long and huge, but it was incredibly agile. It moved freely in the narrow passageway without any bumps or delays.

Xiao Xuan grinned from ear to ear, then pondered, "But it's been confused for so long, why has it only suddenly repented today? Hmm... it must have met me, Master Cui Xiaosheng, and been won over and reformed by my kingly aura and great personality!"

Just as he was reveling in his own world, he suddenly saw a dozen or so skeleton sorcerers appear from around the corner. Clearly prepared, they brandished their magical weapons, and countless streams of black energy shot out, filling the entire passageway.

Xiao Xuan was startled, seeing the bone dragon charging headlong at him, defying the attacks of various magical sorceries.

A series of hissing sounds filled the air as the skeleton sorcerers' evil attacks struck the bone dragon's flesh and bones, exploding into clouds of foul smoke and eerie fragments. Yet, the bone dragon remained unharmed. Its ferocious head instantly charged forward, smashing the skeletons into pieces, then its massive skeletal body swung left and right, mercilessly ploughing the scattered fragments into the walls of the passageway.

"That's terrifying! That's amazing!"

Xiao Xuan muttered to himself, gasping for breath. He caught sight of two skeleton sorcerers who had escaped the attack and fled into the distance

. Just as he was about to shout, "Chase after them!" the skeleton dragon turned and gave chase.

Xiao Xuan was startled, then remembered how the dragon had become fierce when he had hoped it would scare away the skeletons in the pit. His heart pounded: "Could this dragon know what I'm thinking?"

Seeing another fork in the road ahead, he tried to think: "Go to the first one on the left!"

Sure enough, the skeleton dragon gave up chasing the two skeleton sorcerers, its massive body swaying as it obediently flew into the first passage on the left.

Xiao Xuan was both surprised and delighted: "My God, this is amazing! This dragon not only listens to me, but it also knows what I'm thinking!"

He immediately tested it again, and the skeleton dragon seemed to understand his thoughts, moving in all directions, its movements perfectly in response to his intentions.

"This demonic dragon was originally the Skeleton Demon's mount, but now it belongs to my little saint grandfather!"

Overjoyed at this unexpected windfall, Xiao Xuan suddenly noticed a group of skeleton halberdiers running past at the right fork in the road. He realized they were not far from the main hall where the Blood Pool was located and worried about Fei Luo. He shouted in his heart, "Chase them down and kill them without mercy!"

With that thought, the skeleton dragon performed a smooth, wide spin and sped off in pursuit.

********* Inside the Blood Pool hall, in mid-air, Fei Luo was constantly circulating her true energy, using the supreme divine power of the Lesser Four Symbols Technique—Heavenly Tribulation—to destroy the giant round stone with magical mechanisms embedded in the cave ceiling. After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the giant round stone suddenly trembled slightly, emitting a muffled roar, and debris rained down. Knowing she had succeeded, she continued to exert her power and intensify her efforts.

Just then, Fei Luo felt a sharp pain shooting from her waist down to her perineum, as if something had quietly sprung out, assaulting her like an electric current. She immediately realized this was the strange lightning energy that had invaded when she was injured by the lightning general earlier. She was shocked: "I clearly cleared it away just now, how come there's still a trace of it here!"

She was currently casting a powerful spell and had no way to resist it. She hesitated for a moment, wondering whether to give up, but then she saw the giant round stone shake again, the vibration even more violent than before. So she gritted her teeth and forced herself to persevere.

Little did she know that the lightning energy was extremely fierce and unpredictable, becoming more and more active in her body. Within a few breaths, it had overwhelmed her, causing her abdomen to feel numb and her true energy to become disordered.

Fei Luo was drenched in sweat. While trying to control her true energy, she suddenly felt a knife-like pain in a certain part of her abdomen. She knew that the lightning energy had penetrated very deeply, and her meridians and vital energy had been greatly damaged. She was both shocked and annoyed, but with success so close at hand, she couldn't care less about that. She only wanted to break this crucial magical mechanism as quickly as possible.

The giant round stone trembled more and more frequently, with large chunks of stone falling and shattering around it. Suddenly, a terrifying "crash" was heard, and a deep, long crack appeared on the stone's surface, which was intricately carved with runes. Its interior, corroded by the power of the heavenly tribulation, was exposed like powder, and it was already on the verge of collapse.

Suddenly, a wave of water-like ripples appeared on the surface of the giant round stone, causing the runes carved on it to twist strangely. A large mass of hazy, turbid energy emanated from somewhere, swirling and churning...

It was the guardian! Just from the spiritual energy of the fluctuations she sensed, she knew it was an unusually powerful spirit. Fei Luo's face turned pale, and she immediately and without hesitation stopped her cultivation and withdrew her spell. Because she had caught her breath too quickly, her blood surged, and she almost vomited blood.

But the Heavenly Tribulation is a great law, and it is not easy to remove it. In the blink of an eye, the hazy and turbid air has rapidly condensed into a huge humanoid monster. Suddenly, it grows tall and bursts up, crashing into Fei Luo, who is in mid-air.

The impact was devastating. Fei Luodeng was sent flying like a kite with a broken string. Blood gushed from her nose and mouth. In the moments before she lost consciousness, she desperately glimpsed a blood-red skeletal dragon, baring its fangs and claws, flying into the hall...

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