Chapter 3520 — Playing Them Back and Forth
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Kang Jingming was struck dumb. He had never expected his pill-fire bomb to blow up Little Eleven, and when he saw her upper body tear free and go flying, he was frightened out of his wits.
True, it was the Five-Shas Dragon that had killed Little Eleven, but he supposed he counted as an accomplice—the pill-fire bomb had been his to throw! When they got back, would Ancestor Xuanchen blame him? What on earth was he to do?
"Bang!"
Little Eleven's two legs came down on Kang Jingming's head and nearly knocked him senseless. What now? Little Eleven was certainly done for, but how were they supposed to deal with the Five-Shas Dragon?
Kang Jingming was beginning to regret it. Wasn't he just asking for it? What had possessed him to have Zhong Yongliang suppress the beast for no reason at all? He should have just let Wei Zhao and the Five-Shas Dragon run their laps! Now look at the mess: not only was Little Eleven dead, but the Five-Shas Dragon clearly would not let the matter drop.
"Oh heavens above!" Kang Jingming scrambled to his feet and took to his heels. After killing Little Eleven, the Five-Shas Dragon did not go after Han Jingyi at all—it turned and came running straight at Kang Jingming!
Fortunately, Wei Zhao had not ordered the Five-Shas Dragon to finish Kang Jingming off on schedule. Killing Little Eleven was about the limit Ancestor Xuanchen could stomach, but if Kang Jingming died too, the Ancestor would likely fly into a rage outright.
Wei Zhao had no wish to upset the plan to open the Cloud-Tier Island, so he left Kang Jingming alone for the time being.
And so Wei Zhao had it easy. For the time that followed, it was simply the Five-Shas Dragon chasing Kang Jingming and Zhong Yongliang—now after Kang Jingming, now after Zhong Yongliang. Just as one of them was about to be caught, it would switch targets, letting them catch their breath before resuming the pursuit in turn.
Gradually Kang Jingming and Zhong Yongliang came to understand: the Five-Shas Dragon was toying with them for sport! But was the beast really that clever?
"Hey, Five-Shas Dragon, could you give it a rest? I really can't take much more!" Two days of this, and Kang Jingming was thoroughly wrung out. The Five-Shas Dragon would not attack anyone else—it had to keep chasing him all over the place!
Of course, whenever his strength gave out, the Five-Shas Dragon's target became Zhong Yongliang; and when Zhong Yongliang flagged, it switched back to Kang Jingming. Round and round it went, leaving him absolutely no way out.
The other trial participants had seen this clearly enough, and were only too glad to stay out of it. They all withdrew to one side and hid themselves, refusing to get involved—standing aloof, as though it had nothing to do with them.
The Five-Shas Dragon was only playing with them anyway, and no one was going to die. Why should they step forward and play the hero? And even if they wanted to, playing the hero required strength—and they simply did not have the strength for it.
The Five-Shas Dragon had hide like leather and flesh like stone. It was now a single step from comprehending the Heavenly Dao, on the verge of cultivating into a spirit. What hope did human cultivators like them have of matching a spirit beast like that?
Besides, had they not seen it before? Wei Zhao was a figure of what immense power—and what had come of it? Even at the peak grand-completion of the late Heaven Tier, Wei Zhao had done no more than leave the Five-Shas Dragon with a small scratch. Even if they all joined forces in a siege, they would probably exhaust themselves into idiots without dealing the beast any real harm!
Kang Jingming had been running for a day and a night. He had barely recovered a bit of strength when the Five-Shas Dragon came after him again. He was on the verge of going mad, and he cursed furiously: "Five-Shas Dragon, you motherless mule!"