**Chapter 296: Sword Cuts True Dragon**
Except for his first life, Chen An did not inherit any special physique.
This was because those were divine powers etched deep within their souls.
Chen An could not replicate them and could only “borrow” them.
He preferred to call this action a gift.
So, if it were the girl with the saber, what would she do?
Thinking of this, Chen An suddenly smiled.
“Hmm, she probably wouldn’t worry about so much and would just swing her saber.”
His peripheral vision swept downward.
Unknowingly, he had brought the girl through numerous obstacles and arrived before a boundless river.
Chen An remembered that the river’s name was the Li River.
If they had followed the correct path, they should have gone straight north and would not have encountered this river.
However, in their hurried escape, Long Yintian would not have allowed him the leisure to choose his direction carefully.
His gaze shifted further outward, and faint sounds of killing could be heard from afar. These were the demonic soldiers who had appeared on the wilderness before and were relentlessly pursuing them.
“Xiao Li, it seems we can’t escape anymore…”
Chen An slightly lowered his head, stroking the girl’s hair in his embrace.
Although he spoke disheartening words, his tone did not show any significant fluctuation.
In his embrace, Long Li heard this and slowly raised her head to meet his gaze.
Her beautiful, glass-like vertical pupils showed no regret of impending death, nor any sense of relief.
She simply blinked, gently pressed his hand, and then placed it on her cheek.
The friction between her palm and skin had a slightly coarse texture.
It was real, not illusory.
Along the way, although their time together was far from long, Long Li’s impression of her adoptive father was deeply etched.
Perhaps, what could trap a person in this world was not just long companionship.
“It’s okay, adoptive father. You are already the most formidable person Long Li has ever met…”
The girl gently soothed him, showing a maturity beyond her years at this moment.
She softly said, “Leave me here. They only want me.”
“Besides, they just don’t want me to go back. They might not kill me…”
As she said this, the girl’s eyes flickered slightly.
Since things had reached this point, it was already a battle to the death. How could that ‘brother’ possibly let her live?
But to reassure the man, she chose to lie.
However, her response was a flick to the forehead.
Long Li yelped in pain, holding her head with both hands.
“Adoptive father!”
The atmosphere and words she had carefully prepared were interrupted by the man’s unexpected action, causing Long Li to raise her voice slightly.
“What are you shouting about? If you dare say that again, believe it or not, I’ll spank your backside next time, oh no, I’ll pull your little horns hard.”
Chen An glanced at her and said casually.
Before the flying earthworm could catch up, he put the girl back on the ground.
This was a dense forest in an unknown location, dark and obscure, filled with bushes everywhere. Without the earthworm in the sky, it was unlikely that the pursuers could find them easily.
After doing this, he prepared to ascend into the air.
He didn’t know if he could win, but he had to try.
However, a corner of his blood-colored robe was quickly pulled tight by a small hand.
Chen An turned around and saw the girl biting her lip, collapsing on the ground in a “ducksit” position.
She mustered her courage, looked up, and whispered, “Adoptive father, please don’t die, alright?”
Guessing what the man intended to do, she didn’t act coyly to dissuade him. Instead, she continued to whisper, “As long as adoptive father promises me, I will never say I dislike adoptive father again…”
“Also… as long as adoptive father is okay, then adoptive father can do whatever he wants in the future, and touch however he wants to touch…”
Although the girl’s face turned red as she said this, Chen An was certain she was referring to his earlier threat of pulling her horns.
He did not have any special preferences; it was just that Long Li had always been sensitive about this matter, which was why he thought of using it to ‘threaten’ her.
Unexpectedly, it seemed to have caused a misunderstanding.
His long sword hung down, and “No Attack” emitted a clear, cold light under the night sky.
The sword’s surface, as smooth as water, reflected the girl’s current appearance.
After being battered by the rain, her moon-white palace dress was tattered and clung to her delicate body.
Above it was her charming face, her eyes red, on the verge of blooming into beauty, now appearing even more alluring in the rain.
Chen An watched quietly for a while before suddenly smiling, “I probably won’t die, but Your Highness might have to walk the rest of the way alone…”
Long Li was stunned. She tried to reach out again, but her hand grasped only air.
She looked up and saw the man’s retreating figure rising into the sky in the darkness.
Although his back currently appeared somewhat unsteady, not tall enough, and even a little perilous, as if he might fall at any moment.
Yet, as always, he stood before the girl.
…
…
Dragon.
In Blue Star, it had always been a creature of ancient mythology.
But now, Chen An had not only seen it with his own eyes but was standing alone before it as an adversary.
This time, the opponent seemed to have lost the patience to exchange words and charged directly at him.
Heaven and earth seemed to dim at this moment, and even the torrential rain was torn to shreds.
The actions of the massive dragon’s body stirred up howling winds that swept through everything between heaven and earth.
The waves on the river, already surging due to the rain, became even more ferocious, with the waves crashing against the shore rising tens of meters high.
Chen An watched all this with a cold gaze, only slightly raising the three-foot green sword in his hand.
He met the gaze of those true dragon’s vertical pupils, seeing the long-brewing anger in their depths.
The first to arrive was a burning fire line, several dozen feet thick, several miles away, yet its intense heat could still be felt.
The fire line broke through the rain, crossed the night sky, carrying a world-ending aura that sought to incinerate everything, attempting to melt the tiny figure completely.
It was a killing blow from the start.
Long Yintian held nothing back.
But when he saw the man’s face, he couldn’t help but be slightly stunned.
Because the man’s expression seemed to be one of incomprehensible… *strangeness*?
A light sigh echoed in his ears.
“You should have said earlier that you were a fire user…”
Immediately after, those massive vertical pupils, already glaring, widened to an extreme.
Because the expected scene of the man seizing the opportunity to dodge did not occur.
Wisps of cold, dark energy coiled around him.
That seemingly tiny figure rose from the night sky and then… actually charged directly towards the fire line!
Long Yintian was dumbfounded.
The next moment, a sharp and peerless sword light shot out from the fire line, like an arrow leaving a bow, striking directly at his brow.
The dragon clan’s often-relied-upon strong physical bodies seemed so fragile under this sword.
Reflected in those infinitely widening vertical pupils were the man’s calm eyes.
“Roar!!!”
In an instant, a roar full of pain echoed through the entire night sky.
Then, with a sharp whistling sound, a terrifying black shadow followed closely.
It was the dragon’s body, writhing in pain.
The dragon’s tail fiercely lashed out at the man, and the tremendous force contained within it sent him flying.
The tiny figure, like a kite with a broken string, plummeted downwards at an extremely fast speed.
All of this happened in an instant.
On the ground, Long Li witnessed this scene, her gaze following the falling figure.
She stretched out her hands, opening her not-so-large embrace, trying to catch the man.
However, along with the sound of the wind came a slightly forced chuckle.
“Look quickly.”
Long Li was stunned and instinctively looked up.
She saw the dragon’s body in the sky, which had almost occupied the entire night sky, instantly explode.
As the rain washed away, scattered pieces of flesh mixed with golden dragon blood rained down, like the grandest fireworks in the world.
