Chapter 475: The Most Familiar Stranger

Ao Quan was startled. "Forgot what?"

"You forgot about me," Zu An sighed.

Ao Quan laughed. "Precisely because of you, this woman couldn't defeat me. With her cultivation, she could have fought or left as she pleased, but now, to protect you, she'll just throw away her life."

"Don't try to drive a wedge between us. You, an impotent old dragon, wouldn't understand the kind of love we share—a love that faces life and death together," Zu An snorted.

Yun Ruxue's beautiful face flushed. This man really dared to say anything. Was this love between them? She was still someone else's wife.

Then again, she wasn't sure what she was thinking. The moment she heard he was in danger, she rushed back.

"Impotent?" Ao Quan's eyes turned red at the word. He roared furiously, "When I catch you, I won't kill you right away. I'll chop that thing of yours into pieces, and then we'll see if you're still so smug!"

Rage from Ao Quan +1024!

This wasn't rage triggered by insults, but rather his genuine extreme anger at Zu An.

"I'm just afraid you'll feel deeply inferior once you see it," Zu An said, seizing the opportunity to look for a weakness in Ao Quan. Although Ao Quan's body was affected by the Eye of the Celestial Demon, his movements were only slowed, not completely immobilized.

Yun Ruxue's heart pounded. She knew exactly why this man was so confident; she had experienced it firsthand not long ago, and the shock of it still lingered in her memory.

But the creature before them was a giant dragon, a hundred zhang long. How could it possibly be intimidated by him?

To everyone's surprise, Ao Quan was profoundly provoked. His body twisted continuously, trying to break free from the Eye of the Celestial Demon's influence, as he roared incessantly, "I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"

Rage from Ao Quan +999+999+999...

Yun Ruxue immediately felt immense pressure, as if she was about to lose control of him. She quickly said, "Don't provoke him anymore, I'm about to..."

Before she could finish, Zu An's eyes lit up. "Now!"

The moment he spoke, he blurred into an afterimage, attacking the dragon's toes, which were resting on the ground.

Ao Quan immediately saw through his intention and burst out laughing. "What are you trying to do? With your cultivation, that of an ant, do you really think you can hurt me?"

"Wait, with your tiny stature, you couldn't even reach my knee by jumping as high as you can. And you expect to injure me?"

Having just had his ego deeply bruised by the other's trash talk, he had been looking for a chance to retaliate and finally found it. In that instant, his thoughts flowed freely, a feeling of utter exhilaration.

Zu An snorted coldly, and a pitch-black dagger suddenly appeared in his hand.

Ao Quan chuckled at the sight. Such a small dagger was like a toothpick against his massive body; he could stab him for a lifetime and still not kill him.

Zu An intended to exploit Ao Quan's overconfident mindset. Seeing that the dragon didn't dodge, he directly plunged the dagger into his claw. Learning from his previous experience, this time he didn't stab directly at the dragon scales. Instead, he slid the dagger into the gap between two scales, directly piercing its flesh.

A slight stinging sensation came from his toe. Ao Quan was surprised by the dagger's sharpness, knowing that a dragon's skin, let alone its scales, could not be harmed by ordinary weapons.

But he didn't care and laughed heartily. "Is that all? Is that all? Uh..."

His laughter abruptly stopped as he felt an extreme terror. His massive dragon body was covered in black runes, so abstruse and profound that even he, with all his knowledge, couldn't recognize them.

"How is this possible!"

This was his last thought. Then his entire consciousness plunged into endless darkness, and his massive body plummeted from mid-air, crashing heavily to the ground and raising a cloud of dust.

"That's what you get for showing off!" Zu An retrieved the fatal dagger and spat at the old dragon's corpse.

He hadn't expected to have two dragon corpses so quickly. They said a dragon's entire body was treasure; he'd have to find a chance to study them properly.

But would eating this old dragon cause impotence?

As he mulled over these random thoughts, he used the Glazed Pearl to collect the dragon's corpse.

Beside him, Yun Ruxue was struggling to control the berserk dragon when, in the blink of an eye, it died. This sudden and immense change left her speechless.

Zu An ran to her side and waved a hand in front of her eyes. "How about that? Your man is amazing, isn't he?"

"Amazing..." Yun Ruxue nodded instinctively, but then quickly reacted, "You're not my man."

Zu An was amused. This woman was willing to be intimate with him and even bear his children, yet she nitpicked over such trivial details.

"By the way, how are your injuries? I have some miraculous healing medicine here," Zu An asked with concern, remembering that she had been hit hard by Ao Quan's dragon tail.

"It's just a minor injury, nothing serious." Yun Ruxue shook her head. With her cultivation, she would recover after a period of meditation. She was more concerned about something else now. "How did you do that?"

That dragon's power surpassed hers. If it could use spirit language, even an ordinary grandmaster might not be able to handle it, yet he had dispatched it with a single strike so easily.

"My weapon is a bit special; it kills as long as it draws blood," Zu An explained. Since she had just witnessed it, he knew he couldn't hide it from her given her knowledge, so it was better to tell the truth.

"Such a miraculous weapon exists?" Yun Ruxue was somewhat shocked. That was a giant dragon; it died from a single poke from that weapon. Was it covered in potent poison? But what kind of poison could be so powerful? "By the way, do you have some kind of spatial artifact on you?"

Zu An nodded. "Yes, I just put the dragon's corpse in it."

"Is there really a spatial artifact with such a vast capacity in the world?" Yun Ruxue's delicate body swayed. She felt her mind was overwhelmed. She had witnessed too many unbelievable things today, each one difficult to process.

Zu An chuckled, reaching out to wrap an arm around her incredibly soft waist. "How about that? Do you realize how capable I am now?"

Yun Ruxue's face instantly flushed, though she didn't know why. She snorted, "As the saying goes, 'don't flaunt your wealth.' With so many miraculous items on you, aren't you afraid I'll get greedy, kill you, and take them?"

Zu An put on a frightened expression. "Are you going to rob me for my wealth or for my body? If it's wealth, I don't care. If it's my body, I can do the work myself."

"Pah!" Yun Ruxue's heart pounded. She spat, "You're always so shameless."

Zu An chuckled, pulling her back into his embrace. Her body was fragrant and soft, extremely comfortable to hold. "By the way, why are you here? I thought I wouldn't see you for a long time."

Yun Ruxue sighed softly. "A couple of days ago, I inadvertently learned that King Wu seemed to be planning to have someone kill you... This matter, after all, started because of me, and I couldn't bear to see anything happen to you, so I came to check."

Zu An stared at her blankly after hearing this. It wasn't surprising that King Wu wanted to kill him; after what happened that night, whether for revenge or to silence him, King Wu wouldn't likely let him live.

But it was unexpected that Yun Ruxue would come to stop it.

After all, the relationship between them could best be described as familiar strangers.

Ultimately, they had only met a few times and belonged to two completely different social strata, so ordinarily, they would have no reason to interact.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Yun Ruxue shyly averted her gaze. "Don't overthink it. I didn't... I didn't come for you, I just didn't want you to be implicated because of me."

Zu An smiled slightly without speaking. He gently lifted the veil from her face, then, taking her smooth, jade-like chin, he leaned in and kissed her directly.