Chapter 1421: Chapter 1421: 1406: Ransom and War Reparations
Chapter 1421: Chapter 1406: Ransom and War Reparations
“Zheng’er, stop!”
With a furious roar, the Blue-scaled Dragon King rushed towards Dragon Prince Ao Zheng, attempting to halt Ao Zheng’s self-harming actions. But as he approached, the Blue-scaled Dragon King was horrified to find that the true form of Dragon Prince Ao Zheng was far too large.
At that moment, with a long howl, the Blue-scaled Dragon King’s body shook, revealing his Dragon King true form. Instantly, an indescribable pressure emanated, and a sense of inexplicable fear arose in everyone’s hearts.
The Water Demons, especially the Realm King Realm Grand Demons, were completely dumbfounded!
It had been so many years since they last saw the Blue-scaled Dragon King reveal his true body!
Today, here, he was forced by a mere Dao Entrance Realm Viscount to show his true form!
With the Blue-scaled Dragon King’s mighty power, his two giant dragon claws instantly clenched tightly, as if capturing a chick, onto Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s self-harming front claws.
Unfortunately, the one controlling Dragon Prince Ao Zheng was Ye Zhen!
Ye Zhen’s Divine Sense slightly moved, and Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s two extremely sharp dragon claws lightning-swiftly thrust toward the soft area of the Blue-scaled Dragon King’s abdomen.
“Father… be… careful…” Discovering what his own body was doing but unable to control himself, Dragon Prince Ao Zheng screamed frantically.
The Blue-scaled Dragon King’s reaction couldn’t be considered slow, yet it was still somewhat late.
Puff!
Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s two sharp claws pierced into the Blue-scaled Dragon King, but only less than half a meter deep, before the Blue-scaled Dragon King reacted and tightly clutched Ao Zheng’s claws with his own rear claws.
This scene caused the Blue-scaled Dragon King to break out in a cold sweat, roaring in fury, “You despicable…”
Yet before he could finish cursing, Dragon Prince Ao Zheng, whom he had pinned down, suddenly opened his mouth and fiercely bit toward the Blue-scaled Dragon King.
This time, being prepared, the Blue-scaled Dragon King dodged cautiously, but in that instant, Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s blood mouth fiercely struck toward his own front claw.
The Blue-scaled Dragon King was desperate. To prevent his beloved son from feeling pain again, he could only thrust his head forward. He had no choice, all four of his claws were occupied.
Instantly, the Blue-scaled Dragon King got his face full of blood from Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s bite.
After the initial chaos subsided, the Blue-scaled Dragon King quickly reacted, releasing a shimmering water whip to tightly bind Dragon Prince Ao Zheng.
Then, with a casual slap, he knocked Dragon Prince Ao Zheng into unconsciousness.
Only then did the Blue-scaled Dragon King breathe a sigh of relief, returning to human form and barely having time to wipe away the cold sweat.
However, merely knocking out and binding to eliminate the threat — if it were that simple, the Soul-locking Technique wouldn’t be called the Soul-locking Technique.
Already carefully hidden a kilometer underground, Ye Zhen’s mouth suddenly curled into a cold smile, urging his Divine Sense!
In the next moment, the already unconscious Dragon Prince Ao Zheng suddenly let out a sharp howl, like a resurrection from the dead, leaping dozens of meters in place, struggling and screaming wildly.
Each time he struggled and screamed, Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s body would inexplicably twitch, and each twitch caused his Divine Soul Aura to weaken.
In a panic, the Blue-scaled Dragon King hurried forward, using various Mysterious Skills and Techniques, yet unable to stop his beloved’s miserable howling and twitching.
In desperation, Ao Zheng ordered the Realm King Realm Grand Demon behind him to pin his son Ao Zheng firmly. Ao Zheng then mobilized his immense Divine Soul Power to form a Divine Soul Barrier around his son, intending to block Ye Zhen’s soul control!
However, this Soul-locking Technique drew directly from a wisp of Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s Innate Primordial Divine Soul. The connection between this Split Soul and the True Body represented the most fundamental connection in the world.
Hoping a simple Divine Soul Barrier could block soul control was utterly impossible!
Watching his beloved son continually twitch, the Blue-scaled Dragon King felt a wave of insanity!
“Start killing! Start killing for me!”
“Kill until it stops!” The Blue-scaled Dragon King roared madly.
But in the next instant, the response to the Blue-scaled Dragon King’s order was even more violent twitching from Dragon Prince Ao Zheng, more than tenfold, with the speed of weakening Divine Soul Aura intensified over tenfold!
In this situation, merely persisting for an hour would cause his beloved Ao Zheng’s Divine Soul to dissipate, utterly scattering.
Even persisting for just half a quarter-hour, his beloved son’s Innate Divine Soul Origin would suffer severe damage, possibly resulting in complete disablement or, even worse, becoming an imbecile!
“Hey, then start your slaughter. Let’s see if you can kill all the citizens of North Sea County, or if your son dies first!” Ye Zhen’s voice echoed from all directions.
The Blue-scaled Dragon King harnessed all his skills, listening, yet unable to pinpoint Ye Zhen’s location!
For the current predicament, the best solution was to capture Ye Zhen alive, knock him unconscious, keep him asleep, and then slowly find a solution.
Yet Ye Zhen refused to give him that chance!
“Ye Zhen, if you dare lay a hand on my beloved son, I don’t believe it. You must have loved ones, family? Don’t let me catch your family or loved ones, or I guarantee they’ll suffer worse than death!” The Blue-scaled Dragon King roared vengefully.
“Hahahahaha…”
Ye Zhen laughed wildly, “Old Blue-scaled Dragon, my relatives? You don’t bother to ask around, I am an overseas exile, where would I have family and relatives!”
“Besides, even if I did, what of it?”
“When the time comes, we can see whether your son dies faster, or your side kills faster!”
“In your ten thousand acres, he’s your only seedling! With just a thought, he must die, he must die!”
These words from Ye Zhen struck the Blue-scaled Dragon King like a critical blow, causing his imposing manner to deflate in an instant, like a punctured balloon.
The heartrending screams of his beloved son, each one like a dagger striking his heart!
The key is, Ao Zheng really is the only seedling in his ten thousand acres!
He understands that since Ye Zhen knows this, he holds the key to his weakness, and in the face of his beloved son’s life, he would ultimately have to yield!
“Ah……”
For a moment, the Blue-scaled Dragon King regretted endlessly that he had been overly indulgent towards Dragon Prince Ao Zheng and should not have let him out to stir up trouble!
At the very least, he should have waited until Ao Zheng’s cultivation broke through to Mid Dark Palace Realm and inherited several life-saving secret techniques from the Dragon Clan’s bloodline, so he wouldn’t be captured alive and have his Divine Soul controlled, resulting in such a passive situation!
With a long sigh, the Blue-scaled Dragon King spoke to the void, “I accept defeat, we can sit down and talk properly!”
Upon hearing these words, Fengg Jiumo, the Heavenly Patrol Divine General hidden in the virtual reality, suddenly widened his eyes, and in that instant, his admiration for Ye Zhen was beyond measure!
In that instant, Ye Zhen became his idol, facing a terrifying existence like the Blue-scaled Dragon King, while as a Heavenly Patrol Divine General, his breathing wouldn’t be smooth, but Ye Zhen was able to confront him!
“Sit down and talk, I don’t have the guts!” Ye Zhen’s cold laugh rang out!
“Stop first, whatever the negotiations, we can proceed!” Seeing his beloved son Ao Zheng still convulsing and screaming, the Blue-scaled Dragon King roared in fury and urgency.
“Old Dragon King, remember this, during the negotiation, if you make any improper moves, hmph, the consequences, you understand, my patience is limited!” Ye Zhen shouted.
Suppressing his anger, the Blue-scaled Dragon King nodded, but his beloved son Ao Zheng continued to convulse and scream.
This made the Blue-scaled Dragon King unfathomably angry, “I already agreed to negotiate, why hasn’t it stopped?”
“First thing, release the tens of thousands of North Sea citizens you captured, and order your Water Army divisions to cease their plundering and release the North Sea people they’ve captured!
From now on, if I receive news of North Sea citizens being killed by Water Demons, for each person that dies, I’ll strip a piece of dragon scale from your son Ao Zheng and let his Innate Primordial Divine Soul dissipate a bit!
If a hundred die, then a hundred times!
Then, let’s see whether your son’s life is tougher than the multitude of my North Sea citizens!”
Upon hearing this, the Blue-scaled Dragon King became anxious, and through the exchanges so far, he had already determined that Ye Zhen is an extremely decisive, ruthless, and committed person.
Should that truly happen, not to say of thousands, even if just a thousand North Sea citizens were killed, his beloved son Ao Zheng would be finished!
In the next moment, the Blue-scaled Dragon King simultaneously produced more than a dozen Mother-child Magic Conches and activated them, practically roaring his orders, “Stop, stop all offensive operations, withdraw to the shore immediately, from now on, anyone daring to kill any North Sea Human Clan, I’ll directly eliminate everyone from that Water Mansion Water Monarch, Water General, etc.!”
With this severe command issued, even some audacious members of the Water Clan still thinking to cause trouble, their Water General and Water Monarch wouldn’t let them do such a thing.
Anyone who dared to cause disorder would be killed first!
No one would dare bet their life!
“Release them, release them now!”
After shouting orders, the Blue-scaled Dragon King furiously roared at the Water Demons behind him, as the Water Demons hurriedly released the captives, the wildly screaming and convulsing Dragon Prince Ao Zheng suddenly stopped convulsing.
The convulsions stopped, but the whole person collapsed on the ground like a soft body, seemingly lacking even the strength to speak.
The released civilian citizens, having personally experienced this, many in their distress still knelt to thank Prefectural Governor Ye Zhen in the sky direction before hurriedly leaving, their eyes full of gratitude.
It can be said that after this incident, from today onwards, the entire North Sea County would be thoroughly won over.
As for Viscount Ye Zhen being revered as a deity, each household starting to offer tributes to Ye Zhen’s spirit tablet, that’s another story.
Seeing Ye Zhen cease tormenting his son, the Blue-scaled Dragon King hastily rushed forward to check on him, his old face darkening once again, yet he restrained himself from getting angry.
His son’s condition was very poor, weakened to the extreme, even injured at the origin.
However, it was not entirely beyond saving; after returning, with more supplements and a few Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures for a few years, he would completely recover!
Yet, the ordeal just now, if prolonged by half a quarter-hour, would not have been so certain.
Ye Zhen’s voice then rang out at this moment, “Your Excellency Dragon King, now, can we start discussing the ransom and war compensation?”