Chronicles of Heaven's Chosen - Chapter 27

Cang Li froze. “If I contract with it just because you told me to, wouldn’t I lose all dignity?”

The instant he finished speaking, he sprinted toward the black dragon.

“Quick, Ying Wuji! Hold it down for me! I’m going to contract with it!”

Everyone was speechless.

The other cultivators wanted to contract with the black dragon too, but none of them possessed the strength to subdue it, much less force a contract.

Naturally, they were both envious and jealous.

They had never expected Cang Li to be the one who ultimately gained such an enormous prize.

Even more shocking was how much stronger Ying Wuji had become.

They guessed that his cultivation was likely somewhere around the late Nascent Soul Realm.

The black dragon tried to struggle, but Ying Wuji’s sword pressed against its head. Every time it moved, the point sank a little deeper.

It immediately went still.

The humiliation nearly overwhelmed it!

It was about to be contracted by a human youth who had not even reached the Golden Core Realm! If the person contracting it were the black-robed youth, it would not have felt nearly so aggrieved.

After all, that youth was strong!

Cang Li walked up and laid a hand on its head. In a patient, earnest tone, he said, “Be good and follow me, Cang Aotian, and I won’t pull out your tendons or strip your bones. Besides, if you follow me, you’ll never lack pills to eat!”

Contempt filled the black dragon’s eyes.

Cang Li promptly slapped it on the forehead.

“Do you believe I’ll have my Fifth Junior Brother stab you to death right now?” he threatened.

No sooner had he spoken than the silver sword really did press a fraction deeper. The terrified dragon hurriedly wiped the scorn from its gaze.

“That’s more like it!” Cang Li nodded in satisfaction.

He and the black dragon soon exchanged blood essence and formed a master-servant contract.

Throughout the process, none of the other cultivators dared make a move.

The moment the contract was complete, the spiritual power inside Cang Li surged. The cultivation level he had deliberately suppressed finally broke through.

He advanced from peak Foundation Establishment Realm to early Golden Core Realm!

Seeing him break through, Weng Mingshu secretly gritted her teeth.

She had to cultivate harder. She absolutely could not lose to Cang Li again at this year’s Grand Sect Tournament!

Cang Li ordered the black dragon to shrink, then settled it on his shoulder.

He fed it a healing pill.

He also picked up the severed piece of horn and returned it.

The black dragon sensed the human youth’s kindness but merely snorted inwardly. It would never trust a human’s hypocritical goodwill.

Watching from a distance, Lu Xiangxiang hated Ying Wuji even more.

Her eyes narrowed. When no one was looking, her fingers trembled several times.

A tiny white speck of light floated out.

At that very moment, Ying Wuji seemed to sense something and looked in her direction.

Lu Xiangxiang was caught off guard by his gaze. Her heart lurched, and panic rose within her.

Ying Wuji’s eyes slowly shifted to the tiny white speck.

He raised a hand, and the silver longsword returned to his grasp.

Then he slashed.

Boom!

The white speck became flying ash and vanishing smoke in an instant.

Lu Xiangxiang’s breath caught.

“Youngest Senior Brother, what did you just cut?” Yuan Yao asked as she walked over.

“Something filthy.” Ying Wuji sheathed his sword.

Yuan Yao looked toward the spot. His attack had landed not far from Lu Xiangxiang.

Her eyes chilled.

Suddenly, System 250’s voice sounded in her mind.

【Target Ying Wuji’s Awakening Value has reached 3. Target Song Yan’s Awakening Value has reached 22. Target Cang Li’s Awakening Value has reached 5. Target Weng Mingshu’s Awakening Value has reached 11. Target Yan Haonan’s Awakening Value has reached 13. Target…】

Yuan Yao froze.

She immediately asked System 250 through her spiritual sense, “Wait. I remember Yan Haonan’s Awakening Value had already reached 15. Why did it drop by two?”

【Host, you have not yet unlocked the reason.】 System 250 replied coldly.

Yuan Yao did her best to keep her expression unchanged as she looked at Yan Haonan.

He was staring at Lu Xiangxiang.

Her heart sank.

Was this because of the heroine?

A powerful sense of danger swept over Yuan Yao. If Lu Xiangxiang could affect the targets’ Awakening Values, she was the greatest obstacle between Yuan Yao and the lifespan she needed!

And Yuan Yao was not allowed to kill her!

She cursed that idiot system several times in her heart.

Then she asked with a smile, “Two-Fifty, what exactly are you? Are you a person or a spirit? Will I ever get to see your true form?”

【You will never see me. This system is merely a string of data.】

“What’s data?”

System 250 fell silent for a moment, then explained it to her anyway.

Yuan Yao still did not quite understand.

“So I really can never see you? You know, I actually like you quite a bit.”

【Host, you should not develop feelings for this system.】

“I lied. Bleh!”

For the first time, System 250 experienced the feeling of being deceived. A faint, almost negligible spark of anger rose within it.

No matter what Yuan Yao asked after that, it refused to answer.

By then, Cang Li, Song Yan, and Ying Wuji had reached her. Seeing her standing there in a foolish daze, all three could not help smiling.

“Yaoyao?”

Yuan Yao snapped back to herself and looked up at them.

Her attention was soon drawn to the tiny black dragon sprawled across Cang Li’s shoulder. She reached out and poked its soft, limp body.

Remembering the two times she had stabbed it—and how she had called it ugly—the dragon flew into a rage and opened its jaws to bite her finger.

Before it could, Cang Li secretly used the power of their contract to immobilize it.

Yuan Yao poked it again and again.

“Still ugly. Brightly colored spirit beasts look much better.”

The black dragon glared at her furiously.

“So your eyes are actually this round?” Yuan Yao asked curiously.

The dragon was speechless. I’m glaring at you!

Unable to bear it any longer, it shouted through their mental link, “Hey! Tell her that her sword is even uglier!”

Cang Li raised an eyebrow. He had not expected the dragon’s voice to sound so young.

“Yaoyao,” he drawled, “it says your sword is very pretty.”

The black dragon stared at him in disbelief.

Yuan Yao immediately beamed. “Thank you for the compliment! I promise I’ll never stab you with the Phantom Spirit Sword again!”

The black dragon’s expression darkened.

The places where her sword had stabbed it were still throbbing.

“Why don’t you give it a name?” Cang Li suddenly suggested.

“No—” It did not want its enemy naming it.

Yuan Yao rubbed her chin in thought. “Then let’s call it Blackie.”

“No—!” The black dragon let out a scream that seemed to tear the heart and split the lungs, the sound echoing through Cang Li’s mind.

Song Yan coughed softly. “That is a little too frivolous.”

Yuan Yao considered this and decided he had a point.

Then Ying Wuji spoke. “Call it Moyang.”

“Moyang…” Cang Li repeated. After a moment, he nodded. “That works.”

Not far away, Lu Xiangxiang heard the name and was shaken.

The black dragon had also been called Moyang in her previous life!

But in that life, Cang Li had chosen the name himself!