Chapter 00096: The Demonic Dragon Blocking the Path
# The Demonic Dragon Blocking the Path
Chapter 96
Novel: After the Myth
Chapter 96: The Demonic Dragon Blocking the Path
"You're not planning to use your true essence to help me detoxify, are you?" Seeing Ding Huan ask him to sit down and place his hand on the Du Yu acupoint on his back, Zhong Chi couldn't help but ask in disbelief.
"You guessed right," Ding Huan replied, already beginning to circulate his true essence through the meridians.
As soon as the true essence entered Zhong Chi's meridians, it began to stir up the toxins within.
Qi Xin Yue, standing to the side, blushed slightly as she recalled the time Ding Huan had healed her by pressing on her Tian Tu acupoint, which was located at the junction of her neck and chest.
She thought to herself that it must have been because her situation was more urgent at the time.
If Ding Huan knew what Qi Xin Yue was thinking, he would have felt wronged.
Zhong Chi's meridians were poisoned, so he had to start from the Du Yu acupoint.
Moreover, after healing Qi Xin Yue, he had gained his own insights into healing.
Even if he were to heal Qi Xin Yue again now, he wouldn't necessarily need to start from the Tian Tu acupoint.
Hearing Ding Huan confirm his guess, Zhong Chi sighed inwardly.
He thought to himself that Ding Huan was too young, and youth often meant being fearless due to ignorance.
Unfortunately, since Ding Huan had already started detoxifying him, he couldn't forcibly stop the process.
If circulating true essence through the meridians could remove the toxins from his body, then the poison wasn't something to worry about.
Similarly, he wouldn't need anyone else's help; he could remove the toxins himself.
What he was worried about was that the poison in his body might be transferred to Ding Huan's meridians.
If Ding Huan were to be poisoned as well, Zhong Chi would feel like a criminal.
After the first cycle of true essence circulation, Zhong Chi was stunned.
He could clearly feel the toxins in his meridians rapidly decreasing.
Was Ding Huan really taking the poison from his body?
But Zhong Chi wasn't happy at all.
Instead, he felt uneasy and anxious.
He didn't want to be saved at the cost of Ding Huan being poisoned.
However, he absolutely couldn't stop now, or both he and Ding Huan would suffer.
The poison in Zhong Chi's body was indeed potent, but to Ding Huan, it was nothing special.
His detoxification genes weren't just for show.
As his cultivation level increased, so did his ability to detoxify.
This was the difference between his gene serum and others'.
While drawing the toxins from Zhong Chi's meridians, Ding Huan completely neutralized the poison himself.
In just twenty minutes, Ding Huan withdrew his hand.
"Ding Huan, how are you?" Zhong Chi's first reaction was to turn around and ask about Ding Huan's condition.
Ding Huan replied, "Shouldn't you be asking about yourself? I'm the doctor here."
"I'm fine. I feel better than ever. I was just worried about you..."
Zhong Chi's words trailed off as he saw Ding Huan casually raise his hand.
"Do I look poisoned to you?"
"Incredible..."
Zhong Chi couldn't help but marvel after confirming that Ding Huan was indeed unharmed.
Previously, when Ding Huan had walked on a log in the sea, Zhong Chi had admired him but thought it was normal.
Now, seeing Ding Huan effortlessly remove the supposedly incurable poison from his body, Zhong Chi was truly impressed.
He had been certain that no one on Earth could cure him, yet Ding Huan had done it in the blink of an eye.
"If everything's fine, let's go," Ding Huan said, slinging his bag over his shoulder but keeping his knife in hand.
On the way back, he could only rely on his instincts since he didn't know which direction led to the nearest shore.
Seeing Ding Huan pick up his bag, Qi Xin Yue couldn't help but chide herself.
Ding Huan's bag was still here, yet she had thought he had left.
"Alright," Zhong Chi said, feeling much better now that the poison was gone.
He no longer feared Shi Changyi.
As fellow innate experts, he was confident he could crush Shi Changyi.
"Old Zhong, you said Shi Changyi is from the Gene Alliance. Why does he practice martial arts?" Ding Huan's question caught Zhong Chi off guard.
Zhong Chi quickly recovered and said disdainfully, "That guy thinks he's highly talented, so he practices both martial arts and gene techniques."
"I see," Ding Huan nodded, finally understanding why Anton Ao practiced both martial arts and gene techniques.
It all made sense now.
The three of them reached the edge of the reef island.
Ding Huan grabbed Qi Xin Yue and landed on the log with her.
Zhong Chi, now free of the poison, moved with grace and agility, landing on the log as if he had flown there.
"Let's go," Ding Huan said, using his true essence to propel the log away from the reef island.
A dozen knife-backed fish shot out arrow-like projectiles, but Zhong Chi's short knife flew out, instantly shattering the projectiles.
The knife seemed to have a mind of its own, tearing through the projectiles before returning to his hand.
Ding Huan, on the other hand, sent out a dozen wind blades, killing all the knife-backed fish.
One blocked the sneak attacks, while the other killed the fish.
Their offense and defense were perfectly coordinated.
"Impressive," Zhong Chi couldn't help but praise when he saw Ding Huan's wind blades.
He could also condense true essence into blades, but it was far from as effortless and precise as Ding Huan's.
With Zhong Chi, a master, joining them, Ding Huan felt much more at ease.
He no longer needed to block attacks from the sea, whether they came from fish attacking the log or knife-backed fish shooting projectiles.
Any attacks directed at them were mostly blocked by Zhong Chi.
Some were killed by Zhong Chi, while others were killed by Ding Huan.
Ding Huan had spiritual sense.
Although he had lost his way when chased by the knife-backed fish earlier, he still had a basic sense of direction.
In just half a day, he found the correct direction and sped up the log.
An hour later, Ding Huan spotted land.
"Haha, I never thought I'd see land again," Zhong Chi laughed heartily as he also saw the shore.
Ding Huan moved even faster.
In just a few minutes, the log reached the shore, and Ding Huan, along with Qi Xin Yue, landed on the ground.
Zhong Chi, like a large bird, flew off the log and landed gracefully on the ground.
"Watch out!" Ding Huan suddenly shouted, slashing out with his Starry Sky Blade.
"Clang!" The blade struck something as hard as steel, and a powerful recoil sent Ding Huan flying.
Qi Xin Yue rushed to help him up.
Ding Huan was shocked.
What kind of creature was this? He was certain that the beast he had just fought wasn't an ordinary beast but a demonic beast, one that surpassed even a ninth-level beast.
Zhong Chi also reacted quickly.
Before the demonic beast could pursue Ding Huan, his short knife transformed into a blade of light and slashed at the beast.
Despite being only half a meter long, Zhong Chi's short knife unleashed a blade energy several meters long.
Boom! Zhong Chi fared slightly better than Ding Huan but was still sent flying by the immense force.
He and Ding Huan stood back-to-back, staring at the creature that had ambushed them.
It was a dragon, nearly thirty meters long, with a partially healed wound on its head.
"So it's this beast," Ding Huan realized.
He was certain this demonic dragon was the mastermind behind the global beast uprising.
In reality, Ding Huan was wrong.
The dragon had merely been used by the giant ape.
The beast uprising hadn't been its doing.
Seeing that Ding Huan and Zhong Chi were unharmed after its attack, the dragon let out a furious roar.
"Ding Huan, this dragon is heavily injured. If we work together, we might be able to take it down," Zhong Chi said.
Though he wasn't the best in the workplace, he was a seasoned fighter.
"Alright," Ding Huan agreed, but he was already planning to flank the dragon while Zhong Chi engaged it.
As Zhong Chi had said, if the dragon weren't injured, even two Ding Huans and a Zhong Chi wouldn't stand a chance.
This dragon's strength was close to that of a Foundation Establishment-level demonic beast.
Ding Huan was grateful that the dragon hadn't noticed them while they were at sea.
If it had, they would have been dead for sure.
Zhong Chi, despite his scholarly appearance, fought like a madman.
He gripped his short knife and leaped into the air, slashing down at the dragon's head.
Even though Ding Huan and Zhong Chi were back-to-back, Ding Huan could still feel the pressure from Zhong Chi's blade energy.
Ding Huan also charged forward, slashing at the dragon's body with his Starry Sky Blade.
Unlike Zhong Chi, who used his full strength, Ding Huan only used half his power, ready to pull back at any moment.
He was planning to use wind blades.
Ding Huan knew very well that his wind blade technique would be like tickling the dragon, even though he had reached the fifth level of gene cultivation.
Such a minor technique wouldn't even register to the dragon.
Ding Huan's plan was to attack the dragon's wound with hundreds of wind blades once it blocked his Starry Sky Blade.
The dragon's head had been injured by some weapon, and the reddish-brown blood still flowing from the wound indicated that it was far from healed.
The dragon had even abandoned its healing to attack them.
Since that was the case, Ding Huan was determined to make the dragon understand why flowers were so red.
Boom! The dragon's immense power clashed with Zhong Chi's blade energy.
Though Zhong Chi's blade energy was strong, it was no match for the dragon.
The blade energy shattered instantly, and the terrifying force sent Zhong Chi tumbling through the air before he was flung backward.
At the same time, the dragon's claw swiped at Ding Huan's Starry Sky Blade.
Clearly, the dragon knew Ding Huan's blade was no ordinary weapon.
But Ding Huan's real trump card wasn't his blade.
As the dragon's claw approached, Ding Huan unleashed a hundred compressed wind blades, all striking the dragon's wound.
The dragon hadn't expected Ding Huan to possess such powerful invisible blade energy.
The energy was far stronger than anything it had encountered before, on a completely different level.
The wound on its head, still healing, was torn open again by the relentless barrage of invisible blades.
The dragon roared in pain, trying to push through the agony to attack Ding Huan, but a fireball exploded on its wound.
The dragon let out a凄厉的惨叫, then turned and plunged into the sea, disappearing in an instant.
(That's all for today's update.
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