A meeting with the Frost Dragon
Inside the Long Sect dojo, in the main hall.
Everyone learned about Long Huo’s death and were chatting amongst them. Whispers from the crowd of disciples could be heard from the second floor, where all the elders were standing.
One of the elder stepped forwards and clapped his hands. It was Long Hēi’àn. He was the elder of the second branch and the second strongest within the Long Sect after Long Bing. After the sound of the clap resounded, the disciples stopped talking to each other and looked at Long Hēi’àn.
Long Hēi’àn who stepped forwards waited until there was not a single sound anymore. After the silence was filling the hall, he coughed then spoke.
“As everyone heard this morning, the emperor Wu Kong announced Long Huo’s death…I know that everyone is shocked and frustrated by our Sect leader’s death, but we need to move forwards and forget the past! It has been four years already that elder Long Huo disappeared in the deadly swamps. Today, we, elders, decided to make the future vote for the next Sect’s leader position. Thus, everyone, please write on a paper the name of who you think deserve that position.”
Several names were written in a black board in the center of the main hall. All of them were the names of the six elders who leaded the Long Sect, Long Jin from the first branch, Long Hēi’àn from the second branch, Long Gãng from the third branch, Long Dìqiú from the fourth branch, Long Gǔ from the fifth branch and Long Shuǐ from the sixth branch.
Most of people knew the trio elders Long Hēi’àn, Long Gãng and Long Dìqiú who hate Long Bing and his father. They didn’t want him to become the Sect’s leader. Thus, they tried collided together to change the old system of the Long Sect leader’s selection.
Now that Long Huo is no longer here to protect Long Bing, most of the people inside the dojo tried to not befriend with Long Bing and their party so they didn’t say anything and discretely murmuring to each other.
People who hates Long Bin, didn’t mind and just wrote the names of the person they devoted. The people who devoted to Long Bing were few. Furthermore, they knew that Long Bing wasn’t interested in the Sect’s leader position, thus, they ended voting for Long Jin who was Yong Bing’s uncle and elder of the first branch.
Unfortunately, Long Jin did a mistake in the past and accepted to send Long Huo in the deadly swamp, causing his death. It was Long Huo’s choice to go in the deadly swamps, but in the end, Long Jin was the one who recommend him to go since it was the emperor’s orders. Long Jin was regretting his mistake and was deep in thought.
Obliviously, Long Jin’s disciples all decided to votes for their master. Long Jing didn’t expect that he was going to have a fierce voting battle against Long Hēi’àn.
Long Gǔ wasn’t the kind of guy to use a tricky method like Long Hēi’àn. That’s why he didn’t like Long Hēi’àn’s personality and always admired Long Bing since a long time for his strength. He already acknowledged him good enough to be the Sect’s leader. Thus, he joined Long Jin’s side and with his disciples voted for Long Jin.
Long Shuǐ wasn’t on Long Bing’s side but wasn’t on Long Hēi’àn’s side either. He was a neutral within the clan and always decided what he thought right. He was surprised by the sudden event and wasn’t prepared, thus, he judged that Long Bing’s side who was also unprepared and unfairly trapped by Long Hēi’àn’s plan, finally decided with his disciples to join Long Jing’s side and vote for Long Jin.
Long Hēi’àn was probably the one with the highest chance to become the next Sect’s leader. He was the elder of the second branch and the one who organized the event.
After that Long Huo went to the deadly swamps, Long Bing’s Qi cultivation surpassed everyone within the Long Sect.
Long Hēi’àn became furious learning that Long Bing was to the pinnacle of breaking through the Heaven realm at such young age. He was extremely jealous of Long Huo who broke through the Heaven realm before him. It’s the reason why his pride didn’t allow Long Bing, who was Long Huo’s son to become the next Sect’s leader.
He collided with his brother, the elder of the third branch, Long Gãng and his father, the elder of the fourth branch, Long Dìqiú and created the selection’s system.
He also mysteriously succeeded to persuade the elder of the fifth branch, Long Hǎi.
After that everyone voted, one of the elder took out all the paper one by one and wrote it on the black board in the center of the hall.
One by one, the 2 names appeared on the board and climbed at an unbelievable speed.
* Long Jin 5,190 votes
* Long Hēi’àn 5,189 votes
The two numbers were just increasing without stopping. It was only after reaching 10,000 votes, Long Jin’s votes stopped increasing and Long Hēi’àn’s votes exceeded Long Jin. A faint smile appeared on Long Hēi’àn’s face and he shouted.
“With this I will finally become the Sect’s leader of the Long clan!”
At the same time, a huge amount of Qi energy was emitting towards the hall’s entrance. It was Long Bing who was emitting an extraordinary Qi energy surrounding the whole hall.
The disciples that couldn’t take the huge pressure emitting from the monstrous Qi energy of Long Bing fainted one by one and in the end, only the elders were the only remaining.
“No one is allowed excepted to be the Sect’s leader except me! You dare scheming again while I was outside Wuhan City, elder Long Hēi’àn!”
With a shout, Long Bing slowly stepped towards Long Hēi’àn without stopping his Qi energy from leaking and even increased the pressure put on the Qi energy to the point that the elders’ bodies that started to tremble and slowly knelt because of the pressure.
Long Hēi’àn make a bright smile once he saw Long Bing. After he noticed the huge pressure releasing in the hall, he used all his remaining strength to took out a purple sphere out of his robe and shouted.
“You…Stupid kid! That’s why you don’t deserve to be the Sect’s leader! Wasting so much Qi energy for such shameless reason!”
Long Hēi’àn concentrated his Qi energy in his palm and the purple sphere started to glow. A black smoke escaped from the sphere and quickly spread over the hall. The black smoke swallowed the Qi energy that Long Bing released with an astonishing speed.
Long Bing was surprised and couldn’t understand the ability of the purple sphere. He concentrated his Qi energy but noticed that his meridians have been locked. Without thinking, he dashed towards Long Hēi’àn.
The black smoke entered in his body and quickly swallowed all his remaining Qi energy, absorbing all his strength and almost fainting him. His body trembled, and the muscles from his body started to deflated, and his body slowly weakened while he started feeling exhausted. Noticing the sudden strange changes happened to him, Long Bing glanced at Long Hēi’àn with murderous intent and shouted.
“You! Bastard! …What did you do to me?”
Long Hēi’àn smirked and proudly said. While approaching Long Bing.
“You were a genius and wise expert Qi cultivator, even without your father teaching you, you succeeded to almost broke through the Heaven realm…I took your Qi energy as punishment for your shameless attitude! Hahaha!! This is hilarious! Thanks to the Qi energy you’ve given to me, I finally can break through the Heaven realm. Furthermore, I won the votes on today’s election which means that you can no longer become the Sect’s leader! Now that I am the Sect’s leader and the strongest inside the clan, you can just die and join your pitiful father in heaven!”
One of the biggest secret inside the Long’s Sect was the Qi energy.
The dragon’s cultivation’s growth is slow but the gain by each technique greatly increase the Qi energy within the body. The Qi energy gained by a body is relative to his Qi energy’s reserve. One can regenerated his whole Qi energy in only few hours. Others are longer and take a day to regenerate. But with the dragon’s cultivation, the Qi energy’s regenerated only every year. One could also regenerated by meditating but it couldn’t be use while fighting.
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Long Bing was a genius that could cultivate so fast and meditate so well that his Qi energy was large that he could wastefully spent them without caring. For the first time, he realized how foolish his actions were, the black smoke he inhaled was a strong poison that paralyzed him after a few seconds. He couldn’t move a single party of his body. It was totally paralyzed by the poison and the exhausted body that no longer had any Qi energy left. He was barely able to not faint from the moment but his vision was blurred and already guessed that he reaches his limit.
A black sword made from the black smoke appeared next to Long Hēi’àn. He took the sword and with an amazing speed rush towards Long Bing.
The world suddenly stopped. It was like a slow motion. Long Bing knows very well this slow motion. It was the slow motion that he loved every time he fought. It was the motion that could make him smile every time he cut someone’s head. It was something that was unique to Long Bing. Feeling once again that feeling before dying, Long Bing closes his eyes and bitterly smiled as he was prepared to die. ‘Father…In the end, I couldn’t avenge you nor surpassed you…I’m sorry…’
*Swoosh*
“Long Bing!!!”
*Argh…! *
Long Bing perfectly heard the sound of the sword along with the voices from the elders. He strangely didn’t feel any pain and recognized a familiar voice from the screen. He was scared to open his eyes but forced his eyes to move and finally opened both of his eyes.
Only few seconds happened, but it was like five minutes for Long Bing. As he slowly opened his eyes, Long Yan was in front of him, with the black sword penetrated in his heart. He slowly turned his head while coughing blood and spoke with his remaining energy.
“Big brother Bing…You cannot afford to die in this kind of place…”
“This is a joke…no…please…LONG YAN!!!”
Long Bing shouted with a disbelieving face, he never expected his brother to be able to move from his pressure and save him. It was already a miracle for him to not collapse.
If you compare Long Bing’s strength with Long Yan’s strength, then Long Bing’s strength was ten times stronger than Long Yan. Even though Long Yan received a harsh training, his body wasn’t one of the Long clan so his Qi’s energy was way weaker than Long Bin. Long Jin, Long Shuǐ and Long Gǔ looked at that scene, shocked. The Qi energy pressuring them suddenly disappeared, but they were still all frozen watching Long Yan who was coughing blood without moving.
On the contrary, Long Gãng and Long Dìqiú were calm. They planned since the beginning to start this stupid election only to lure Long Bing’s fury and take his Qi energy. They didn’t expect Long Bing to be this stupid and come with his Qi energy released.
Long Jin stared at Long Hēi’àn with a frightening expression and ask him.
“Elder Long Hēi’àn…what is the meaning of this?”
Long Hēi’àn removed the black sword from Long Yan’s chest and spoke.
“Long Bing revolted against me! He deserves death as punishment! Luckily enough, this trash from the outside took the blow, this is the last time though. The remaining of you who choose to side Long Bing has two choices now...Serve me, or die! Hahaha!”
Long Hēi’àn concentrated once again his Qi energy in his palm. The purple sphere shined more brightly than before and the huge black smoke that was leaking from the sphere entered in Long Hēi’àn’s body.
Long Hēi’àn’s Qi energy gradually rose…until it broke through the Heaven realm!
He slowly approach closer to Long Bing and was ready to lift his sword a second time.
Watching the Qi energy gathering near Long Hēi’àn, sweats started to drop from Long Bing’s forehead. Right now, he didn’t had any Qi energy left and he couldn’t even move.
If it wasn’t for his little brother who protected him, Long Bing couldn’t even clench his fists. He was watching expressionlessly Long Yan’s body that fell after once the sword separate from his chest.
As Long Hēi’àn’s sword was slowly approaching, Long Bing’s neck was nearly going to fly away. When all the elders thought so, the sword stopped parried by Long Bing’s arm.
*Clang*
A metal sound resounded through the hall. Noticing that Long Bing’s arm was covered with blue scales and a strange ice surroundings his arm, Long Hēi’àn quickly jumped back while looking at Long Bing’s with shocking eyes before talking.
“To be able to even dragonify without Qi energy…That’s truly a waste to kill such talent but unfortunately you must to die! I had no choice! You becoming the next Sect’s leader means the Long Sect’s destruction!”
This time, Long Hēi’àn was careful since he didn’t know the full ability of Long Bing’s dragonification. Several black balls formed from the black smoke surrounding the hall. Around thirty black sphere were surroundings Long Bing. The sphere suddenly started to fly towards Long Bing as full speed.
*BOOM*
A huge explosion resounded as the black sphere were continuously flying towards Long Bing’s spot.
The smoke slowly disappeared without letting any trace behind…no smoke…no body…Only pieces of blue scales from his skin was remaining on the ground.
“Hm? Where did he could possibly go? “
Long Hēi’àn murmured. With Long Bing’s remaining Qi energy, it was impossible for Long Bing to activate any technique nor teleportation scroll. He was at loss at words about Long Bing’s disappearance.
“Wherever he goes, he’s Qi energy has been stolen anyway so whatever! He’s only a simple commoner now.”
Long Hēi’àn slowly left the hall after letting out a mocking laugh and headed towards the secret room with a crystal that he took inside Long Bing’s amulet.
The room was dark and only an ancient bridge made from stones could be seen. He slowly crossed through the longue bridge and arrived in front of a huge door made from red stones. The door was shabby and hardly damaged. But the toughness of the red stones was showing through the faint Qi energy he was releasing. Long Hēi’àn putted the crystal inside the middle of door, inside the hole that was as the same size as the crystal.
The door slowly opened with a *Grshgrsghsh* sound and Long Hēi’àn entered inside. In the little room, a single crystal monument with a green core inside. The green core release a malefic green energy surroundings its core. Just the thought of touching it, the feeling of the skin burning under the green energy could be seen under Long Hēi’àn’s eyes.
Long Hēi’àn slowly concentrated his Qi energy, spreading the black smoke and destroyed the crystal monument. He took the green core and swallowed it. Blinded by the power that illuminated through the green core, he swallowed the green core and murmured.
“The earth of Hunluan is finally mine! Hahaha!!! The portal for the invasion can be finally prepared.”
With a loud laugh and a frightening change happening to his body, Long Hēi’àn exited the secret room.
Long Hēi’àn asked his brother to clean the others elders and throw the bodies to the deadly swamps discretely. He also asked his father to inform the Shé clan to come to the dojo.
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Where is this place?…Damn! I underestimate this old fox I never thought that one day I'll make this kind of foolish mistake like that! Did I die? No…This is weird, my body doesn’t feel any pain and I can feel that I can freely move my body.
Long Bing was confused. Few seconds ago, he was sure that he was cornered with several black spheres aiming at him. He opened his eyes but it was dark and he couldn’t see anything.
“I can’t see anything…”
His voice resounded through dark space. He slowly tried to concentrate his Qi energy and tried to illuminate the place with his Qi energy, but as expected he didn’t had any Qi energy left after he fought against Long Hēi’àn.
A sudden voice follow Long Bing’s voice after the echo ended.
You are annoying…well all the humans are annoying. That was an amusing show you showed me before you died Guhahaha!
The voice resounded deeply through the space. He looked at his right, his left, behind, in the sky but no trace of any presence.
Long Bing was well trained; thus, his radar range was wide. He could perceive a presence inside a 25-meter radius even in the dark without problem. After he checked his surroundings, Long Bing truly believed that there wasn’t any presence, he thought of two possibility.
One, the fellow who talk had a monstrous hiding ability, two, he was going mad and could heard voices. He slowly walked looking for a light or any entrance near the place but without any light, he didn’t really know if he was either walking or not.
The voice spoke once again with a self-mocking tone.
That’s rude of me, I forgot to illuminate the room…Muhahaha! Welcome to my territory little human!
The room suddenly illuminated with a strong light glued to the ceiling. Long Bing Looked at the light and realized that he was inside an immense ice cavern.
An Ice cavern? Since when did I collapsed inside this cavern? Did he bring me there? Where are you? …Woah!!!”
A huge and monstrous dragon made from ice was standing in front of Long Bing. He was thirty-meter-tall and was looking at Long Bing with his eyes.
To be frightened by this much…that is why humans are so pathetic! So, little boy...now that you lost everything, what do you intend to do? Don't tell me something stupid like 'I'm going to live peacefully!' Guhahaha!
His breathe that reach Long Bing froze his body making him realize that he wasn’t dreaming, or at least the cold was real. He slowly looked at the dragon while making few steps back and spoke.
“…I will go back to the Long Sect’s dojo… and kill Long Hēi’àn by my own hands!”
The ice dragon slowly approach his large full-ice head towards Long Bing who was taken aback. He didn’t knew why but after that Long Bing looked at the dragon was strangely he noticed that he was strangely connected to him.
Long Bing wasn’t in the current state to be shocked or amazed by every single thing. Dragons were not unbelieved existence. People in his clan were using the dragon cultivation and could even dragonify! He already saw his own death by his own eyes, thus, he was not scared of something like getting kill by the ice dragon.
Long Bing just wondered about how to leave this place.
Forget it, you’ll just die pitifully. The kind me gave you another chance and save you from your pitiful death. You no longer had a single Qi energy within your body and your dragon cultivation decreased to its worst state possible. You are like an insect trying to fight a tiger! Hahaha! That is why human are pitiful. You took my interest. Do you want me to borrow my mighty power to you? It won’t be free. Guhahaha! This world is inside your meridians body boy. I’m the one who reign inside this ice cavern situated inside your blood and the once called the Ice King Dragon, Bing An.
Long Bing hesitate for a short moment. His mind was perfectly clear and he only had two things to do. he nodded and say.
“What do you want? You can take anything as the price for it, I had only two goals in my life…give me your mighty power and help me to avenge my father! Once I realize my goals, I’ll fulfill your promise only after then.”
Hahaha! You dare to play with me! What a nice joke. Very well! I’ll let you realize your dream. With this the pact is completed. I only had 2 requests, give me a new body and help me to kill the King of Dragons. We don’t have too much times left. I will give you a thin part of my power for now, I hope you won’t deceive me! Descendant of the Dragon clan, Long Bing!
After that Bing An finished to spoke, a mist gradually appeared inside the cavern. The mist gradually fill the cavern and once it entered in contact with Long Bing, he collapsed.
When he woke up, he noticed that he was once again in a different place. Only swamps could be seen from his surroundings…Long Bing woke up in the deadly swamps.
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