Trapped

Chapter 50

He can hear his own ragged breathing as cold sweat flow down his forehead. Blood slowly drips to the ground coming from different part of his body which is full of wounds and burn marks. Although the wounds are slowly closing it is apparent that it would still take a little while before they are fully healed. He wanted to take out a very special serum that he made but it is hard for him to move as it seems that the pressure is actually able to suppress his body it may be because he became too weak from his wounds or some other factor.

At this time memories began to appear in his mind like a wave of flood. It was the time when he was given a very difficult mission and was abandoned behind the enemy lines. Surrounded by hundreds of foes, he only had a knife and a pistol without any bullets for defense. In this life-threatening situation, his courage was tested to its limits.

Although he was able to come out in that battle, he was not unscathed receiving a lot of grievous wounds in his body. But with bloodshot eyes, he was like the god of death that emerges from hell clawing his way sluggishly towards the rendezvous point designated by his team.

Shin Jiao suddenly felt his whole body can move again as he regains his control, it seems that he was jolted out of that pressure from the flashback. He could not give up now as his will to live is strong and if it's necessary that he has to scratch and kick so as to preserve his life and that of his friends he'd do it.

He then thought and analyzed what had happened a while ago…

GROWWWLLL…

The colossal underworld dragon Mok Dong began to chase after Shin Jiao when he escaped. But with Shin Jiao's speed, the dragon is a little bit slow, so Shin Jiao grabbed this opportunity to move ahead. Then with a plan in his mind, he lures the beast toward the thickest part of the forest and started to lay traps in it.

"Where are you coward! Show yourself!" Mok Dong shouted as it had already taken too much time and is still is having a hard time finding Shin Jiao.

Even if it uses its spiritual sense, the beast still cannot find any trace of a cultivator's aura in the surroundings. Although the island is small, still it is a little bit bigger than the illusion mountain in the Daemon forest where all the schools from the city of Er compete. So the beast is having a hard time finding Shin Jiao as he searches each part of the island carefully. Then after some time it became irritated and decided to just destroy everything to flush out the puny human. It once again breathes in deep, and then released its fire breath which started to scorch the whole area in front of it.

Shin Jiao, on the other hand, is standing not too far away activating his suit's aura hiding function which he often uses before as he hunts or lay ambush to those powerful beasts. Seeing the devastation that the underworld dragon is causing Shin Jiao felt a little scared, though his body is tough he didn't know if he truly can withstand that kind of fire. But he needed to end this thing or else they would not be able to escape this tiny world.

So he made up his mind to execute his plan.

Standing up Shin Jiao immediately deactivates the camouflage function of the suit and jumped down the tree where he was hiding. Then he looks at the colossal creature ahead and grips both of his weapons tightly.

"Damn it! Here goes nothing…" Shin Jiao said to himself as he lifted the gun and empty a full-clip targeting one of the eyes of Mok Dong and immediately reloaded after.

While Mok Dong torched the area in its front, it suddenly felt a sense of danger. So by instinct, it tilted its head up and jumped back. But since Shin Jiao had already marked an eye the bullets continuously flew towards it and hits it breaking through the shelled eyelid and making the eye inside burst into a pulp and blood suddenly started to flow constantly.

Puchi!

Splat!

Graaahhh!!!

Mok Dong let out a bloodcurdling howl, as it felt the pain of losing one of its eyes. Then it glared with its remaining eye to Shin Jiao's direction. It can't believe that it would be wounded this severely by a puny human. And what the beast can't believe is that the human in front of it seems to have unstable cultivation of core-forming realm. Which is an insult to Mok Dong, as it is in the primary stage of the nascent realm.

"Arrgghhh… I WILL KILL YOU!"

Mok Dong shouted as it suddenly conjures out a wall of flame surrounding Shin Jiao. This is a flame trap spell which would render anyone unable to escape as it closes the space around its target with its nascent flames.

Upon seeing this, Shin Jiao was shaken as he is not familiar with this kind of power level. He never thought that a beast can use this kind of cultivation skill. Now he can say that nascent realm cultivators truly stand in the apex of this continent. Although it is still the starting point of being an immortal, nascent realm cultivators stand above the rest of the lower realms.

"I got you now little man. Let see you escape this." Mok Dong shouted seeing that Shin Jiao was trapped.

Then it suddenly opens its huge mouth and a fireball slowly condensed inside it. It's like the element of fire in the surroundings are congealing in the beast mouth slowly forming a ball of fire which is slowly growing in size. Shin Jiao began to panic in his heart, as he had no way to escape this predicament.

"If only I had the time to analyze and learn how to coat myself with fire, this situation would be too easy to deal with." Shin Jiao grumbled.

In his mind, he has two choices, but he didn't have time to think about it. So Shin Jiao immediately execute the first option he thought.

Phhtaff! Phhtaff!

Shin Jiao spends two spheres of energy in each bullet he fired while channeling fire elements and embedding them in the bullets.

But as soon as Shin Jiao lifted his gun the beast immediately stop the spell and release the fireball. It knows that the projectile that Shin Jiao is using could penetrate its fire so it was in a panic. Because of the unfinished skill, Mok Dong received a skill backlash in its core which made it winched in pain.

Before it could think again it suddenly feels another stinging pain inside its mouth as some of its teeth are shattered by the bullets.

Meanwhile, Shin Jiao is now facing an incoming fireball as big as himself. He reluctantly lifted his sword and slashed downwards aiming to cut the fireball in two. And with the help of the force of nascent realm strength, Shin Jiao successfully sliced the fireball in two which fell in both opposite sides of him.

A smile crept on Shin Jiao's face as he felt elated upon experiencing one of the wishes he had before while watching those martial arts movies. But before he could rejoice, Shin Jiao was flung forward with a very strong and powerful force making him feel like some of his inner organs was shifted by the blast.

BOOM! BOOM!

Two very powerful explosions rock the area from where Shin Jiao stood creating a large crater and turning everything into ashes. Shin Jiao himself was not spared as his whole body was riddled in wounds and patches of his skin was burnt to crisp.

"Shit! I miscalculate this… this power… I… thought… Arrgghhh…" Shin Jiao muttered while gritting his teeth in pain.

He quickly crawls toward an inconspicuous stockpile of rocks and fallen trees, while he painfully activated his suits camouflage function to hide his aura immediately. Luckily his suit is sturdy enough and was spared from being toasted from that explosion.

At this time Shin Jiao is trying to pull out one of the serum he made to heal his wound. He needed to be in a fighting condition to continue and fight the beast. He suffered such wounds because he truly overestimated himself because so far he could not feel the pressure of a level 6 beast when facing Mok Dong, unlike the time when he faced the wounded Rock Ant old Queen.

But before Shin Jiao could take out medicine from his storage ring, he suddenly feels his movement was locked. And the pressure is making him unable to move an inch of his muscle.

…

Meanwhile, as Shin Jiao and the underworld dragon Mok Dong fight each other. Qin Lou and Susu Ling began to regain their consciousness. While they are looking around the area, they discover that they are under a huge tree stump and beside them laid Lemy who is still unconscious but is breathing calmly and his large wound is already healed.

"What happened? Why are we here?" Susu Ling asked in confusion.

All she could remember is that they are escaping at the imminent threat of a volcanic eruption. Then all of a sudden she felt a huge and powerful pressure which engulfs her and then everything went black. She didn't know what happened next and now she found herself in this place.

"I don't know. I think we passed out before we could escape." Qin Lou replied as she has already thought of some possible things that might have happened.

"Shin Jiao!" both girls suddenly exclaimed as they thought of the person not present.

"We need to get out of here and find him." Qin Lou suggested as she stood up.

But suddenly they heard the ear-piercing roaring sound of a beast. And the shaking of the ground, which made the two girls look at each other in other shock and disbelief. They slowly peek out of the tree stump and found that the place they are in is now under some large fallen trees and scattered rocks.

Then from afar, they can see the colossal sized beast which sends shivers down their spine.

"That… that is a Flame Dragoon! This is impossible! Those beasts only exist in myths… this… how could this be?" Susu Ling blurted out as she had read of those legends before.

"A Flame Dragoon? I think I've also heard of that creature before… Look! It seems that it is fighting against someone." Qin Lou suddenly said as she discovers something odd about the rampaging dragon.

"Could it be? No, that's impossible…" Susu Ling thought but rejected the idea as it seems absurd.

"Shi… Shin Jiao?" Qin Lou said with also a little doubt.

As no matter how they thought of Shin Jiao's strength it is still impossible for him to fight against a Flame Dragoon. Even an infant soul realm cultivator would immediately die just from a dragoon's spiritual pressure.

As the two didn't know that Shin Jiao already has the body of a nascent realm cultivator, they are not aware that he also could at least resist the pressure from the same realm albeit barely as the sphere in his dantian is still lacking.

Then all of a sudden they heard an explosion as the Fire Dragoon was also pushed back. Then they can see that it began to search the area. Qin Lou and Susu Ling are not newbies so when the Fire Dragoon searches the area they immediately hid and stopped peeking.

…

Using its spiritual pressure, Mok Dong started to search its surroundings as it knows that the human was heavily wounded. It needed to find Shin Jiao and finish him once and for all, but then suddenly it felt confused as no matter how hard it searched it could not find Shin Jiao's aura.

Shin Jiao was jolted from the flashback of his memories, and then he is now able to resist the pressure and was able to take out a serum and injects himself. Immediately in not more than a few seconds, the wounds all over his body began to mend itself as scabs immediately was formed and then peel off, now on his body no wound can be seen only a jade white smooth skin.

"Since you are looking for me, let me show myself to you." Shin Jiao said to himself and an evil grin appear on his handsome face.

Mok Dong started to feel agitated as it could not find any traces of its opponent. No matter how hard it tries to search and use its spiritual pressure it could not detect Shin Jiao. Then it turned around wanting to give up in searching. But suddenly it heard a sound of something melting from behind it.

Fizz… Fizz…

Mok Dong's huge remaining eye suddenly lit up with excitement as it finally found its target. Not too far away from a tree, it can clearly see the figure of a young man sitting weakly while his back is being supported by the tree. His body seemed to be riddled with wounds and blood is flowing dyeing the ground red.

Although Mok Dong was confused as to how come Shin Jiao was able to run to that far distance it didn't mind. All it could think about is to kill the puny human that humiliated it. Though none have seen this fight, all of its generations in the future can see this scene and it would be a stain in its glorious life as a dragon.

"Haha! You are too weak to dream of defeating me! A puny mortal like you is no way a match for the great Mok Dong! Hahaha…"

From the distance, Qin Lou and Susu Ling was able to hear the declaration of the dragoon and was shook in their hearts. They did not expect that the Fire Dragoon in the legend is the red-skinned Mok Dong person that they saw falling into the volcano.

Then both suddenly had a realization as they look at each other with worry-filled eyes. But unless they could see it for themselves they would not believe what's on their mind.

As Mok Dong approaches, Shin Jiao, sitting silently and weakly supporting his badly bruised body on a tree. His unmoving state made Mok Dong look at him with murderous eyes. It could not wait to devour Shin Jiao and taste its sweet victory.

Then when it reached near Shin Jiao, it sneered at the bloody figure.

"I'll flatten you first and then absorb your essence that way you will feel the pain thoroughly and suffer the consequence in daring to face me, the great Mok Dong. Haha." Mok Dong said as it suddenly lifted its tail.

Without a second thought, it immediately smashed its tail towards Shin Jiao who is still sitting weakly on the ground. Mok Dong watches as its long and large tail slowly descended like a huge pillar, if Shin Jiao would be hit by this he could be pulverized immediately. But Mok Dong knows that with Shin Jiao's nascent physique this would not kill him. So it just decided to play with him and humiliate him like what the human did to it.

But then Mok Dong saw Shin Jiao lifting his head slowly and saw an evil grin on his face.