In the scenic spot in the middle of the night, there are only the screams of owls.
Lin Luoran flies to the shore carrying Rong Donglin. The morning sun is going to jump out of the lake. In a few seconds, Liao’s fishing boat has disappeared in the mist on the lake.
“Ah! He hasn’t told us where the Dragon Palace is!” The nasty old man wants to swindle them out of 30,000. No way!
Lin Luoran covers his mouth with her hand immediately. Rong is a good guy except that he is too nagging.
“Let’s go. I know where it is. Keep your voice down. We’re trespassing.” Seeing Rong Donglin nod, she moves her hand away.
Generally, there is maps at the entrance of tourist attractions. It’s very easy to identify the direction of a certain scenic spot on the map. Lin Luoran reads the map for a while before dragging Rong Donglin ahead. Seeing that Rong walks so slowly, she takes out a piece of “yellow paper” and puts it on Rong’s foot.
The Shui script on the wall is written lively and vigorous in calligraphy, also clear to see. It is easy to recognize for Rong Donglin who is well-educated. It is because he understands the meaning immediately that his expression becomes so weird.“What does it mean?” Lin Luoran asks anxiously.When Rong Donglin finally closes his eyes and reads the contents on the wall out loud, Lin Luoran is confused—“Knock three times and enter Dongting Dragon Palace.”Such a simple way is too incredible. Besides, the signature under the big characters make them astonished.“Liao didn’t lie to you, did he?”Liao! These characters are 100% Shui script, but they are newly engraved…Is all this arranged by Liao? Even Lin Luoran doubts if she was cheated by Liao, let alone Rong Donglin!Why did she believe in Liao? Lin Luoran finds she has no reason to do so.Knock three times. How should she knock
Dressed in Taoist rope, the appearance as pretty as a young woman with a plump face, this could not be anybody other than young master An. “Miss Lin!” An greets Lin Luoran, regardless of the different looks of all the people. It seems like An came closely after Xin Yuanping. With too much unknown to her, although things are happening too fast to catch up with her train of thought, Lin Luoran has the instinct that a clue is connecting the ambiguity together.“Now that young master An is here, and he represents master Huizhu, of course we need to share some treasures with him.” She solely wants the Soul Wood and doesn’t mind how much she gets. It looks like she is proposing casually, yet she is keeping an eye on the expressions of both Xin Yuanping and An.“Miss Lin must be joking. I’m here on behalf of the superior of the Qingcheng Taoist Temple to look for a missing old piece. Please excuse me for bothering you and Miss Xin.”
Just as the name implies, Sea-view Pavilion was the place where the Dragon King used to come to watch the sea. The pavilion is grand and splendid. Of course, Dongting Lake is a lake, not a sea. However, the Dragon King insisted to name the pavilion “Sea-view Pavilion”.Thousands of years ago, the pavilion must be popular. Now, the grand hall is empty. Lin Luoran never expected the trip to be so smooth. She is glad that she has reached the Sea-view Pavilion without encountering any danger and the treasure vault of the Dragon Palace is just around. “Miss Lin, look! It’s the Sea Stairs!”In the center of the hall, there are some stairs that lead to the second floor. It is said that the Dragon King usually took the stairs to the second floor to observe the water. The story is all recorded by the bamboo sheets. Lin Luoran wonders whom the tomb belongs to and why he was so familiar with the Dragon Palace.
It’s a trap! The bamboo sheets and even Liao are also parts of the trap!Lin Luoran is falling. She feels strange. She keeps falling down and she can’t use her Wakan. Lin now hates these tactful senior cultivators. All they could is either imprison her spiritual mind or make her Wakan is out of use. This is so annoying. Lin thinks of her experience in the secret land. Back when she was at the bottom of the deep valley, it was White Fairy who taught her to ride the flying sword to get out. Now, she can’t even use any of her Wakan… Lin is never a resigned person. Luckily, she still gets her clear eyes. She can see everything in the dark. Lin opens her eyes widely against the wind and sees some vines not far from her.This is it! She must save herself by these vines! The vines are as thick as the baby’s arms and they should be able to stand Lin’s weight. Nevertheless, she must try.Lin adjusts her direction of falling in the mid-air.
Though they have plenty of food and drinks, they can’t stay here forever. Rong Donglin tries to stand up. He is not in pain anymore. Lin checks on his shank and tells him he is not fully healed and the wood board has to stay on longer. They decide to go down.Lin wants to use the strong vines around them. Her is light and it will be easy for her to jump between rocks by the vines. She collects lots of thick vines and chops them up with her sword. It takes her quite a while to tie the vines together into a long rope. Lin Luoran doesn’t know how long the rope is. The rope piles up on the web like a little hill. Lin Luoran digs out a huge rock and ties it on the end of the rope. Then she throws the rock down.In the mist, they can’t see what is going on in the dark. Lin starts to pull the rope when the rock hit the bottom. The end of the rope is wet. Lin is glad. When she pulls the rock up, it is dripping
Maybe time is the most powerful weapon in the world. Time can change a person. People will forget about things and enemies may make up with each other as time passes… Even a giant dragon can be killed by time.“Miss Lin, are you saying that the dragon starved to death?” Rong Donglin touches the skeleton carefully. The bones of the dragon are so shiny that it seems to be alive. Lin Luoran answers seriously, “Look at it. Does it look like it starved to death?”The entire skeleton is strapped and fixed in two enormous pillars aside by a thick chain. The chain is still shiny though a long time has passed. The chain goes through the shoulder blade of the dragon’s skeleton. When Lin Luoran was a little girl, she loved to watch the TV series, The Tale of the White Serpent. In the series, a thick chain pierced through the hero’s shoulder blade. His screams scared Lin Luoran. Lin understood from then on that someone would on
With the flesh and blood rotten, the chain off appears to be directly locked on the dragon’s shoulder blade without any gap. The Bright Sword knocks Lin’s hands numb, yet the chain is unscathed. Lin doesn’t want to wound her sword so she gives up the shoulder blade and breaks the skeleton by the joints. She puts the bones into her space — if her space hadn’t grown larger, she wouldn’t have enough space for these bones. Even so, the bones pile up in her space like a hill higher than the tallest apple tree. The fire phoenix and the silver fish have talked to Lin, so they no longer need to pretend to be indifferent. They sit on the swing under the apple tree and whisper to each other, pointing to the dragon’s bones. Lin ignores them and gets out of the space. The shoulder blade of the dragon is still strapped by the chains. However, the fire phoenix told Lin to get the entire skeleton. Lin doesn’t know what the fire phoenix needs
Would I spare him?Lin Luoran is not the heroine in a Mary Sue novel. If she can move, she would definitely kill An with her sword.Whatever reason he has, it does not make his move forgivable. If he can negotiate with her reasonably, he can exchange the Dragon Marrow for something equally valuable in Qingcheng Taoist Temple considering that Lin Luoran is not a scrooge. Even if he wants to take a little for granted, after everything they’ve been through, she is willing to give him some for free.What shocked her was that he’d rather choose to work with Xin Yuanping to take it in such a shameful way.Watching their change of looks, naturally, Xin Yuanping would not want them to reconcile with each other.“No more hesitation. Lin Luoran, which one do you choose? The Dragon Bones and Dragon Marrow, or your own life?”“Master Lin, I just want a bit of Dragon Marrow.”Their noisy voices pump at Lin