Chapter 4

Elder Li and Xiao Hei stared each other down as the disciples backed away. Elder Li stared at the beast in front of him, the dragon had a very inhuman intelligence-like gleam in its eye, like a calculating predator. "You can talk, can't you?" He asked the black wyvern. The disciples looked at him in confusion.

"hoo, you are careful aren't you human?" The magic beast said in a deep and mature female voice. "How did you find out?" She said in a curious tone.

"It is said that smart Earth Realm magic beasts can talk and understand human language, and the way you glared and roared at Young Master Mo." Elder Li said in a calm voice. "Have you picked a name for yourself? I want to know the name of the first dragon I defeated."

"Hmph, your overconfident human, but I will satisfy your curiosity, my Young Dragon Lord gave me a name, Xiao Hei!" She said puffing out her chest in pride.

'Young Dragon Lord... a prideful dragon actually submit to another?' Elder Li thought to himself in caution. He wanted to avoid the fight since if an Earth Realm dragon submitted itself to another, that means the other dragon will be stronger, possibly a Sky Realm dragon, but what happened next sent everything he planned to the deep end.

" Since you, a beast can talk, that means you can understand me, abandon your master and submit to me and become my mount or else Elder Li will beat you to submission." Mo Guangming pointed at Xiao Hei and spoke in an arrogant tone as if being his mount is the greatest honor, "You should know I am a Son of Heaven so I won't treat you too badly."

The black dragon started shaking in rage, breathing heavily until you could see her breath and released a humongous aura of anger and rage, "H-H-HOW DARE YOU, YOU, YOU LOWLY HUMAN!!! YOU WOULD THINK I WOULD ABANDON AND BETRAY YOUNG DRAGONLORD, FOR YOU?! THE ONLY ONE WHO WILL EVER MAKE ME SUBMIT IS HIM! I WILL GUT YOU LIKE THE DOG YOU AREEEE!" She screeched in an angry voice, making some disciples cover their ears.

'Sh*t, I guess there is no other option..' Elder Li thought to himself as he gripped his sword's hilt, unsheathing slowing, forming his sword stance. The dragon stomped her muscular leg onto the ground, creating cracks in the earth, before lowering her head so her horns are pointing at the elder, flicking her tail in agitation.

With a roar of rage, Xiao Hei charged towards the Elder, making him block with his sword. She was pushing him with pure strength. Since he realized he couldn't compete with the wyvern in pure strength, he would need to use speed to his advantage.

Xiao Hei turned to the side and used her studded club-like tail to attack Elder Li. He dodged to the side, using his qi to create wind around his sword, he used the Wind Sword Sect's sword technique and shouted, "Wind Sword Style, Wind Cut!" He cut into the leg of the dragon, barely cutting through the skin and stopping at the muscle.

The disciples looked in horror at the little damage the sword did to the dragon.

"N-No way.."

"Wind Sword Style did so little damage...!"

"The Wind Sword Style is a low Earth Rank Technique, but it barely went through the skin!"

The cut seemed to enrage her even more, she rammed her side into the elder, making him cough out blood. He blocked a quick swipe of a tail before he could be hit by him. 'This isn't working, I need to use my most powerful attack or else I won't be able to win...' Elder Li thought to himself. He gathered as much qi as possible to unleash his attack, making his sword look like a tornado, he yelled "Wind Sword Style, Tempest Slash!" cutting into the tender flesh or her chest.

"ARGG!" Xiao Hei grunted in pain as she looked at the deep, but not fatal cut on her chest. She looked up deeply at the elder in front of her.

"Give up Xiao Hei, you can't win. Please submit to Young Master Mo, the sect won't treat you wrong." Elder Li said as he gazed at the Dragon in front of him.

"Hmph, even if you defeat me, you will never be able to defeat the Young Dragon Lord. He is of noble blood, ten of me can ever hope to defeat him, let alone a small Earth Realm Human. I'd rather die than to betray him." She said in pride to her Young Dragon Lord and contempt towards these humans.

'Of noble blood... what does that mean...?' Elder Li thought to himself

"Your Young Lord will be defeated by the Wind Sword Sect and you will become my mount!" Young Master Mo said in arrogance and contempt.

"Hmph, I hope you don't regret your decision." Xiao Hei said before burrowing into the ground, fleeing towards the cave. Elder Li was quick to follow after the wyvern, leaving the disciple to themselves.

"Should we follow after them?"

"I don't know, what should we do Young Master Mo?"

"Of course we will follow after them!" Young Master Mo said as he ran after them, the disciples running after him after getting out of their shock.

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Elder Li and the disciples arrived at a large cave entrance, looking at it with cautious faces. "Elder Li, is this where the black dragon is?" Mo Guangming said looking curious.

"Yes, I feel her qi in here, everyone, be careful we don't know what else is in there..." Elder Li addressed the disciples. The walked into the cave carefully. As the walked further, they noticed white translucent crystals coming out of the cave. "These crystals... they feel like crystalized life force!" Elder Li said in surprise.

"Are they useful to us Elder Li?" One of the disciples asked.

"No, not to humans, but they are incredibly useful for magic beasts." the Elder replied

The group kept walking for five minutes before they finally reached what seemed like the end of the cave. Everywhere they looked, they could see the crystalized life force, purified water, and the bones of various animals. They looked at the back of the cave and what they saw shocked and frightened them.

In the back of the cave was a sleeping dragon. It 70 meters in size with an otherworldly appearance. It has orange glowing spots running up the length of his now two pairs of horns. Parts of its body glow ethereal blue, instead of only having crystalline and translucent skin, he now had patches of crystal translucent like scales in the shape of diamonds. He had black spike running down his back, ending at the tail. His wings are frayed at the edge of the membrane and are grayish-blue in color. He now had a pair of claw-like hands where the two bones of the wings that join together.

"Everyone, don't move, back away very slowly," Elder Li said in the quietest voice possible, "This is an unknown dragon with unknown cultivation, I'm not its match..." The disciples had fearful looks on their faces. Elder Li, the elder they though were undefeatable, wasn't its match?! How strong was it?!

The elder and disciples backed away as slowly as they could before they could make it to the exit, a soft, youthful, but cold male voice was heard throughout the cave. "Since you are already here, what's the point of leaving?" They stopped, frozen in their tracks, they looked towards the once sleeping dragon and saw his eyes were open. His fiery orange eyes were filled with malice, inhuman intelligence, and slight curiosity.

"We didn't want to awaken his Greatness's slumber," Elder Li said with a slight bow, "The disciples and I will leave now.."

"I thought that you wanted my subordinate to become your Young Master's mount," the great dragon said in an icier voice.

"Haha, young Dragon Lord must be joking..." Elder Li said with cold sweat running down his back.

"You followed her to this cave, did you find what you were looking for?"

"We were just exploring, nothing else, nothing else. The Wind Sword Sect will not bother you any longer."

"Since you didn't find what you are looking for, why are you still here? Leave immediately..."

"Thank you for your generosity, Young Dragon Lord." Elder Li said in a thankful voice, before ushering the disciples out, before he could get all of them out, a disdainful voice was heard.

"Hmph, so your only all talk, after you find out about The Wind Sword Sect you hide away like a turtle!" the voice was none other than Mo Guangming. 'What the f*ck does he think he's doing!?!' Elder Li thought to himself.

"What did you say, Human?" The dragon narrowed his malice filled eyes and said in an arctic voice.

" You heard me, you're just afraid of The Wind Sword Sect's retaliation!" Young Master Mo said in a mocking voice.

Never ending pressure was up upon the group and the dragon sat up"You think me, The Elder Dragon Xeno'Jiiva, fears a small-time Sect? I AM TIANLONG! THE ELDER DRAGON! MY CLAWS ARE LIKE SPEARS, MY TEETH ARE LIKE SWORDS, MY HIDE AND SCALES ARE IMPENETRABLE! You think your sect intimidates me?!" The dragon stood on his hind legs and spreading out his wings. He looked majestic and ethereal, the embodiment of beauty and ferocity.