Astral Pet Store (WN)
chapter-535

Chapter 535 Repression

Su Ping cooled himself down once he saw the dragon climb to his aid. “Don’t come over. Go on and absorb the dragon origin. Destroy the rest if you can’t take all of it!”

Su Ping was able to tell that the old dragon cared about the dragon origin deeply and it was being cautious. The old dragon didn’t try to stop the flow of time to drag Inferno Dragon out from the lake. Su Ping had the feeling that he could tell the Inferno Dragon to plunder all of the dragon origin. He would make the purple-blood dragons feel sorry! The Inferno Dragon stopped and stared at Su Ping. The determination in Su Ping’s eyes told the Inferno Dragon what it needed to do. They had formed a special bond over time. The dragon immediately obeyed and threw itself back into the dragon origin.

The water tumbled. The Inferno Dragon roared. This time, it wasn’t a choice spurred by instinct; the Inferno Dragon chose to do so. The dragon origin was being constantly sucked into the Inferno Dragon. “Make it stop!!”

“Damn you! Damn you!” The purple-blood dragons were losing their minds and so was the old dragon. Once again, the old dragon slashed the Inferno Dragon to death.

Su Ping brought the Inferno Dragon back to life at once. The Inferno Dragon had thrown itself into absorbing the dragon origin again, even before Su Ping said anything.

The old dragon furiously killed the Inferno Dragon again and again.

But the Inferno Dragon had never truly died. The old, powerful dragon felt too vulnerable at the moment.

The old dragon tried to reverse time again but no matter how many times it tried, the Inferno Dragon would only go back to its previous death.

There was a wall that stopped the old dragon from rewinding time any further. The old dragon had a feeling that the thing that stopped it wasn’t merely a skill to reverse time, but some sort of nature’s law!

The old dragon abandoned its demeanor and cried, “Stop it. Make it stop!!” That cry echoed at the peak and shook the whole mountain.

The dragons around the mountain heard the cry. The anger that the cry had expressed came as a shock to all the dragons.

Our king hasn’t vented its anger yet?

Su Ping was feeling relieved as he saw how the Inferno Dragon continued to absorb the dragon origin. Its body was being constructed, and its strength was increasing rapidly, the more dragon origin it absorbed!

Bang! Bang!

The old dragon continued to wield the blade of time but Su Ping had never stopped bringing the Inferno Dragon back to life.

The Inferno Dragon would wake up and continue to absorb the dragon origin.

The old dragon’s efforts, all of it, were futile. Su Ping had to admit that the system was awesome. The revival ability had enabled him to challenge a creature at the Star Rank, a dragon no less, in that cultivation site.

“Tell your dragon to stop!”

The old dragon’s emotions shifted from fury, to a sense of powerlessness, to despair and pain as the Inferno Dragon repeatedly returned to life. The old dragon put away its sorrow and stopped the strikes. “I can let you leave. Tell your dragon to stop.” The old dragon gazed at Su Ping.

The old dragon adopted not a soft tone, it was outright begging. Su Ping could not help but laugh while still being impaled to the ground.

“Are you begging me?”

The old dragon felt its blood boil. Dragons were born to be irritable, not to mention when Su Ping’s words hurt its heart. The old dragon had never felt so humiliated. A dragon at the Star Rank was begging a lowly being to stop. Some words didn’t have to be explained. Did this human not know that?

“You fool!” The old dragon bit its teeth.

Even though unable to move, Su Ping’s laugh became louder. “I am a fool? You are the fool! You don’t have the right to call me that. You will be too weak in my eyes when I reach the Star Rank!

“You are a dragon at the Star Rank, but you have thought too highly of yourself. The other dragons may not have your bloodline but they are dragons nonetheless. If you think otherwise… then you shall not call yourself a dragon!”

“Do you want to be impaled here forever?” The old dragon threatened Su Ping.

Su Ping was unable to stop his laughter. “I can come here, so I can leave as well. You won’t be able to stop me!”

“You!”

The old dragon was hopping mad. Still, Su Ping’s words weighed its mind down. The old dragon had only heard about creatures named humans from its ancestors and had never seen one before that day. It had been told that humans had long become extinct. There had not been a trace of humans left in that world.

Where did this human come from?

The human had such an odd revival ability. The old dragon was in agony. If Su Ping was speaking the truth, there was nothing it could do to him.

But the purple-blood dragons had been ruling that world for centuries. How could the old dragon accept the fact that a human had forced them into such a difficult position where it had to beg for mercy?! “You call me a lowlife, and a pathetic creature. You belittled my Inferno Dragon. I will let you see how the Inferno Dragon you all think so little of can easily wipe the lot of you when I come here again in the future!” Su Ping didn’t even try to sugarcoat his killing intent and resolution of revenge.

He could leave at will since the Inferno Dragon was back. True, he had been impaled, but the system would send him back automatically when his time in the cultivation site was up. No amount of imprisonment could stop that. Or, once he exhausted his energy points and was unable to buy another chance of revival, he could choose to go back to the store.

Either way, Su Ping had no fear.

The old dragon shouted, “You have gone too far!”

It was kind of absurd. The mountain-like magnificent Star Rank dragon was shouting about “having gone too far” to a human that was nailed to the ground, completely unable to move.

The purple-blood dragons felt their blood was boiling in humiliation.

“You gave me no chance to talk when you called me a lowly being. Now, you won’t get a chance to talk about terms with me, either!” Su Ping added coldly.

In a fit of rage, the old dragon squeezed Su Ping to dust.

Su Ping came back to life.

Bang!

The old dragon killed him again.

After a dozen times, the old dragon had finished venting its anger. “What the hell do you want to do?”

Su Ping offered no reply.

Inside the lake, the Inferno Dragon was still sucking in the dragon origin and was becoming more like a purple-blood dragon. The Inferno Dragon would carry part of the purple-blood dragon’s bloodline after this. The red and purple scales gave the Inferno Dragon quite a regal look.

Roar!

The Inferno Dragon stopped taking in the dragon origin. It was full.

The Inferno Dragon was over thirty meters tall, higher than it was before. It was able to float above the lake without flapping its wings.

“Master…” the Inferno Dragon called, gazing at Su Ping.

Su Ping was amazed when he saw the new Inferno Dragon. He thought the Inferno Dragon was even more magnificent than the other purple-blood dragons it had more ferocity.

“System, is my Inferno Dragon completely safe and sound now?”

Just to be safe, Su Ping had to verify with the system because he had little experience in this regard.

The system gave a brief answer. “Yes.”

Su Ping was relieved. He called the Inferno Dragon back and darted one last look at the dragon origin. “I will leave the dragon origin for you. Take good care of it. I’m leaving now. Do you have any objections?”

The old dragon and the purple-blood dragons were losing their minds because of rage. The blood streaks in their eyes gave them a terrifying look. “Leaving? I’m going to keep you under the mountain forever and you’ll be under our feet!” the old dragon bellowed.

The purple-blood dragon that was still holding the two spikes suddenly lost grip of one of them. The spike pierced through Su Ping. The pain made Su Ping frown but he wasn’t surprised. Su Ping neither cried nor shouted as he glared at the old dragon.

“Take him away!”

The old dragon snarled.

All the purple-blood dragons shared a deep hatred for Su Ping. Two of them immediately hurried over, froze Su Ping and carried him down hill.

Su Ping was unable to do anything. He was checking the remaining energy points, though. He had no idea how many energy points he had spent on revivals; he merely had tens of thousands of energy points left.

Su Ping felt lucky that the Inferno Dragon had managed to build a new body in time. Otherwise, he would have had to cut short their journey and go back when all the energy points were depleted. He would die for good if he forced himself to stay.

If he would have had to cut the trip short, he would have to come back again.

Now I have to wait for the time to end so I can go back. Su Ping saw that he had a dozen hours left.

He didn’t worry. He just had to endure the pain from the Dragon Spikes.

Whoosh!

The two purple-blood dragons flew down the mountain. The no-flying rule didn’t apply to them.

The dragons gathered at the hillside recognized the two as the leaders of the purple-blood dragons. Soon, the dragons also noticed that the two purple-blood dragons were also carrying a small figure: the human from earlier.

The dragons could not believe that Su Ping had been subdued with the Dragon Spikes.

Why would they use the Dragon Spikes–that were only intended for punishing dragon sinners–on a human being? The dragons, to their astonishment, realized that the human was why their king was so furious.

Whoosh!

The two purple-blood dragons took Su Ping directly to the foot of the mountain.

Even more dragons were gathered there. The two purple-blood dragons landed by the entrance of the mountain and their huge size and ferocity alerted the other dragons present.

All the dragons knelt to salute their leaders

When it came to dragonkind, it was demanded for them to kneel and snuggle their heads under their wings when they saluted their leaders.

“You will be here and be stomped upon by dragons for all eternity!”

One of the two purple-blood dragons dug a huge pit, threw Su Ping inside and sealed Su Ping inside the pit with a square made out of void space.

The square was transparent and those walking by were able to see Su Ping.

The purple-blood dragons meant to keep Su Ping there forever so that all dragons could step on him and humiliate him.

Su Ping replied with a silent sneer.

The purple-blood dragons told some guards to walk over and keep an eye on Su Ping before they flew back to the mountain top.

Out of curiosity, the other dragons moved closer after the two left and looked at Su Ping through the transparent seal.

The Dragon Spikes on Su Ping stunned all the dragons, making them flinch out of instinct. All dragons were afraid of them; no matter how powerful, any of them would lose all their abilities after being impaled by the Dragon Spikes.

But why would that small creature be impaled?

The dragons asked each other. On the other hand, Su Ping closed his eyes and waited for the time of his return.