The sheepish smile that softly graced her lips towards him bothered him greatly. He wondered who she was and he did not want to imagine how the hell she had broken through his resting place and…
He tried not to get too angry but failed.
This creature dared barge into his territory and disturbed his peaceful long years of seclusion! He tried to sleep back but for some disturbing reason he couldn't.
His gaze hardened on her form and wondered the best painful way to make her realize what she had just done to him.
Xueyao's smile faltered when he wasn't responding with a friendly look. Her eyes wandered up to the mouth of where she had just fallen from and thought of flying up and out of here to reunite with Sheng Chong. This enigma looked like he wants her dead.
Flying out through there shouldn't be as tiring as when she did a free fall down here. She decided and clasped her hand behind her immediately to escape. The act conjured up identical, vertical walls of glowing blue energy by her side, ready to take off.
One blink from him was enough to ruin her flight spell and seal her feet to the ground. Xueyao stared down to see the magic keeping her feet to the ground. She shifted and moved her body to break loose in vain.
Slowly and with measured efforts he began to rise to his feet. The walls around her began to break into particles of sand and rock and the ground which held her hostage began to quake in response to this new awakened power. The chains holding his hands rattled and dangled as they loosened from where they were nailed to. Bright gold heavenly writings came to life around his lower left arm and curled all the way to his wrist, ending at the back of his left palm. His dark, long midnight hair with eternal silver strands shining within swayed with his movements as the cuffs broke and his arms were free. The one locked around his neck withered away like burning flames of ash as he stood, imagining what it felt like to be asleep for one hundred thousand years. But to him, it felt like yesterday when he gave it all up, bound himself to this place and cursed himself into a deep sleep to find answers to the meaning of these feelings.
His longings and pains had spawned from memories he let go of just to become what he was today.
An ancient black dragon and creator of worlds.
He didn't just want to conclude yet that he gained nothing from this long rest if a particular vermin didn't just crash–land on him and disrupt everything. Mocking his long years of trying to seek answers to his feelings for many centuries in vain.
Xueyao stiffened when he was staring down at her murderously again. Slowly, it began to click in her head one by one. This must still be the forbidden place of the Undying Realm. She stared up at the ceiling of the cave and observed them intelligently.
I must be trapped somewhere in one of the scary mountains of the Undying Realm.
Xueyao gasped when it all clicked in her head like a bell. Her eyes widened as it moved until it went to the raging beauty glaring deep into the roots of her soul like a powerful God ready to punish a foolish mortal.
Why was this place forbidden in the first place? If not because it is rumored to be the resting ground for the all-powerful…
''Black dragon immortal…?'' She whispered out wrongly and the stunning enigma who was contemplating ten thousand ways to make her feel all kinds of pain and death for her sin blinked not once and not twice.
They both gazed at each other in an amazingly terrifying and confusing way. The immortal black dragon was particularly taken aback by her. Ever since she crash landed—-wait, wait, wait. How did she even survive the barriers he set up around his resting grounds? His gaze moved slowly from her head to her toe and wondered what kind of creature presented itself to him now. He was not only mystified by her presence and abilities but also curious to know who or what she was. And when did his title from being the Immortal Black Dragon become pronounced so backward. It sounded so disrespectful to him.
Do they think shutting himself up from everything and the entire world should give them the avenue to do as they pleased and even ruin his dead attempts to find meaning to everything.
She really liked how he looked. It showed in her eyes, the gentle sparkle of admiration and genuine happiness. Most of them, especially the blue dragons, imagined the legendary immortal blue dragon to be one blind, aged and toothless immortal with beards dragging before him and his head so bald the sun could admire its reflection on it. An immortal snoring and wasting away somewhere in an isolated cave on the undying mountains.
Her smile confused him again.
They were all wrong.
The beauty of the white dragons couldn't hold a single match to him.
She was so happy the kind of immortal they held in their imagination that was going to save their world someday was not what was standing before her.
Her entire body tensed up when he suddenly stretched forth a hand towards her and all she did was blink before she found herself captive of his hold. Xueyao struggled to breathe as his darkened fingernails pressed hard into the soft flesh of her neck and her face was brought impossibly close to his immaculate face. Stray strands of silver fell to the sides as he leaned down to ask in a voice she will never forget, ''What are You?''
Her lips trembled as her lungs tightened for air. His hardened gaze was not helping matters as she wrapped her two arms around his and struggled to let go.
Yes, he wanted her dead right after knowing what she was.
But…
His gaze wandered to the softness of her plump pink lips and for some odd moments he seemed captivated by it.
Xueyao used this opportunity to concentrate enough of her spiritual power to cause enough electric shock on the smooth, pale skin on his hand and the ancient immortal dragon let go immediately. Xueyao collapsed on the floor and breathed in as much air as possible in between her coughs.
The ancient immortal dragon stepped back to examine the burn on his arms and watched as it slowly began to heal. Xueyao then stumbled to her feet and tried casting the spell that would fly her out of here this instant. On her way up, Xueyao gasped in protest when he held her back, freezing her movements mid air and her heart began to race in fear, her eyes began to soften in tears at his determination to kill her.
He rose to the air towards her and appeared before her frozen form. Xueyao's lips quivered at their close proximity. Her eyes darted back and forth as she wondered what he wanted to do with her this time.
The Immortal black dragon's gaze softened on her frightened form as he gazed down at her form like she was some paradox.
An intriguing mystery.
Xueyao shivered slightly when his hands briefly grazed the skin on her left cheek, his eyes never parting from hers.
You are the first to give me wounds.
He reached out to touch her and amazingly, he fell in love with the feeling.
How am I not invincible to you?
He wondered as he reached out to touch her again when his gaze suddenly glitched to reveal the bright golden heavenly writings inscribed beautifully in them. He sensed the incoming force of an external threat, raised his hands to repel it quickly, right before it hit them.
But the force of the clash of power was so strong, he saw her begin to slip from his arms and plummet to the ground. He moved to save her right before she crashed, bringing her to himself as he teleported them safely back to the platform in which he was once bound.
Xueyao's feet trembled slightly on the ground. She gazed down as he held her around the waist, bringing her protectively towards himself.
They both watched as many red dragons flew in and positioned themselves at strategic places of the cave. Xueyao's eyes wandered to every armed red dragon and it widened the more in surprise when her Master flew in and landed powerfully before the red dragons and ready to defend and fight.
Xueyao observed each of them with parted lips. She didn't know she was worth that much to them to fly in all the way here to rescue her.
Just when she thought they were all complete, two powerful double beams of white flew in and landed beside her master.
Xueyao thought this must all be some crazy dream when the male and female white immortal dragons of the fourth heaven also presented themselves before.