Chapter 1698 Descent
?1698 Descent
The Empress's death haunted the Dragon Emperor. The words she last spoke, the unknown message left him wondering what it was that she wanted to tell him as she died.
Did she want to tell him that she loved him? Did she want to curse him? What was it that she said? He didn't know, and it haunted him.
His wife, the one who had been together with him for more than half of his life, had died without a last word. And she had died saving him.
He cried in the secret chamber in his palace, where he spent his days, claiming that he needed time to heal his body.
The healing had happened long ago. Now, he just stayed there because the silence made him hopeful that his wife's final words would come through.
The Azure Dragon's son, the little white cat, had most likely survived. Even if it hadn't, he needed to find the corpse at least. He would have to soon give command for some of his people to go look for them.
'The White Tiger...' the words still taunted him. Even after all this time, how was that one single prophecy coming after him time and time again? Had he not had enough of it by now?
He remembered what the White Cat had told him the last time he had seen her. She was the daughter of the Lion Leader of the Beast Paradise. Which meant her mother had the White Tiger's bloodline.
He had to do something about that.
That very night, the Azure Dragon left for the Beast Paradise and met up with the leader of the Lion Colony, Shi Guyong. His wife was indeed a White Cat.
After a few questions about where she had come from, the Dragon Emperor found out that she had been married off here 5 thousand years ago, and she was the daughter of the White Tiger who had died back then.
Shock filled him for a while, overtaken by rage and anger. There had been someone with White Tiger's bloodline living right here and he hadn't known about it.
Without waiting, he attacked the two.
Any little thing could be a big help to the Dragon Emperor.
And for that, he needed the Ivory sword.
He called over his son to have a little talk, to tell him that he needed his sword, but Long Huan seemed to have seen something in him. His second son had recognized that he had changed.
Instead of returning with the sword, he had run off.
The Dragon Emperor hastily sent some of the legionnaires to go after him and bring him back. He didn't even care if his son was back at all. The prophecy always said one of them would leave him anyway. He only wanted the sword back.
But the news came back instead that there was a woman with him who had defeated everyone.
The Dragon Emperor was surprised by the news. Instead of letting the legionnaires send reinforcement, he went along himself.
The woman he saw there was too young to even be called a woman. She was still just a girl, and yet somehow was so very powerful. Her cultivation base had already reached the peak of the Saint realm, although the Dragon Emperor could sense some instability in her aura.
She protected his son, so he fought her to get through to him, but he couldn't get through her at all. For some reason, on just Qi alone, the Dragon Emperor lost.
This young girl had Qi that surpassed him.
The Dragon Emperor feared for his life as he knew if he continued this any longer, he would die. The young girl was way too strong and he could not beat her at all.
He had to fight along with 3 other people to keep her occupied in the first place.
So, in a last act of desperation, he took out the poison the Azure Dragon had given him and splashed it on her when he found the chance.
The poison immediately killed two of his men, but somehow it didn't kill the young girl. She was hurt, but not killed.
He moved to kill her with one last strike, but before he could do so, someone else stopped him.
The Dragon Emperor couldn't believe it at all when he saw the old man that stopped him.
Even his cook was going against him now.