As soon as Li Xi's voice fell, a white stream of water shot out from the serpent's mouth towards Li Xi. It was just like the Water Severing Wave ninjutsu Li Xi used. Wherever the breath touched, the trees and large rocks between them were as if sliced by a sharp long knife. The difference was that the wounds cut by the Deep Sea Cold Dragon were covered with white ice crystals, freezing everything it touched.
"You're better than me, and you even have freezing."
The two were only thirty meters apart, and in the blink of an eye, the extreme cold breath was upon them.
Looking at the murderous breath, Li Xi feigned difficulty, constantly appearing in various places using the Body Flicker Technique, on trees, behind rocks, in the grass, and in the bushes. But every time Li Xi appeared, the Deep Sea Cold Dragon, relying on its giant raised body, could accurately target Li Xi's position with its extreme cold breath.
While attacking, the Deep Sea Cold Dragon continuously approached Li Xi's position, compressing Li Xi's movement range. Soon, the distance between them was less than ten meters.
The cold ice energy of the extreme cold breath made Li Xi feel a penetrating coldness even in his breathing. The entire battlefield was like a god who had woken up in a bad mood, casually changing the seasons and bringing winter prematurely, with white ice crystals everywhere, emitting cold energy. Many small animals were frozen, forever paused at the last moment of their lives.
Li Xi reappeared behind a large tree. He knew he couldn't delay any longer by himself. He formed hand seals, "Shadow Clone Jutsu."
"Bang," "Bang," "Bang."
Three shadow clones appeared. As soon as they materialized, they vanished using the Body Flicker Technique. However, one large tree couldn't block four people, so the Deep Sea Cold Dragon was stunned when it saw one person turn into many. It didn't know which was the real one, nor whom to attack. The breath it had been spitting out also vanished due to this pause.
The Deep Sea Cold Dragon's breath stopped, but Li Xi's counterattack had just begun.
The three shadow clones appeared on the sides of the Deep Sea Cold Dragon.
One shadow clone formed hand seals and took a bite at the tail of the Deep Sea Cold Dragon.
"Fire Style. Fireball Jutsu."
The blazing burning oil immediately ignited everything it touched. Even some frozen areas produced rolling white mist.
The Deep Sea Cold Dragon sensed something was wrong and lunged forward. But in front of it, another shadow clone suddenly descended from the sky and also took a bite at the Deep Sea Cold Dragon. "Fire Style. Ash Pile Burning."
Gray combustible gas sprayed from the shadow clone's mouth. Before the Deep Sea Cold Dragon could figure out why there was mist, the shadow clone finally bit down with its teeth, creating a spark that instantly ignited the gray mist.
The previous Fireball Jutsu attack had a limited range, not even touching the Deep Sea Cold Dragon's tail. But the Ash Pile Burning was different; its mist spread rapidly. Half of the Deep Sea Cold Dragon's body was within the mist, and this attack ignited it. Sudana Novel Network.
Judging by its name, the Deep Sea Cold Dragon was a water and ice attribute magic beast, and its natural enemy was fire.
Amidst the exploding inferno, accompanied by a painful roar, the charred Deep Sea Cold Dragon burst out of the flames with full fury. To be honest, such an attack could not harm the Deep Sea Cold Dragon at all. Its entire body of silver scales gave it a defense comparable to a dragon.
However, such an attack thoroughly angered it. Its huge eyes were bloodshot, and it looked like it wanted to devour everyone. Just as it was about to seek revenge on the shadow clones, another voice came from afar.
"Earth Style. Great Flower."
A large pot lid, shaped like a lucky cat, with a radius of five meters, descended from the sky. The pot lid, weighing several tons, landed precisely on the Deep Sea Cold Dragon's head, smashing the Deep Sea Cold Dragon, which was about to emerge, back into the inferno.
"It's not going to die just like this, is it?" The three shadow clones returned to the main body.
"No, you haven't even used half your strength. How could a dignified level six magic beast die so easily?" Li Xi's main body said with certainty.
Perhaps to verify Li Xi's words, the lucky cat pot lid, which had been firmly covering the Deep Sea Cold Dragon, was shattered from the inside with a "bang." Half of the lucky cat's head was smashed far away. The Deep Sea Cold Dragon let out an angry roar, looking at the four Li Xis standing together as if they were enemies from eight lifetimes. Its once handsome and gleaming silver scales were now black and gray in patches. There were no wounds, but Cinderella had truly become a cinder girl.
"One isn't enough."
Li Xi's main body looked at the Deep Sea Cold Dragon, whose eyes were filled with murderous intent, and said.
"Then let's have a few more."
"Earth Style. Great Flower."
"Earth Style. Great Flower."
"Earth Style. Great Flower."
"Earth Style. Great Flower."
The main body plus three shadow clones meant four. The four of them acted together, and four large pot lids descended from the sky, neatly pressing down on the Deep Sea Cold Dragon's head. Before the Deep Sea Cold Dragon could unleash its full fury, it was again trampled into the ground like an ant.
This time, the four of them watched for a long time. They could only see the Deep Sea Cold Dragon's exposed tail thrashing wildly. There were thudding sounds from inside the pot lids, but the four pot lids together weighed at least ten tons, making the Deep Sea Cold Dragon unable to move for the time being.
"Go check on Soros's side and see how it's going. When the time is right, we'll let it go."
"Understood."
A shadow clone vanished.
The Deep Sea Cold Dragon continued to crash frantically inside the large pot lids. Li Xi, listening from outside, heard sounds like a low-frequency woodpecker, mixed with muffled roars. Li Xi even worried that it would suffocate if it continued like this.
"Do you think if we start a fire now, it will turn into charcoal-roasted long worm?"
"It seems like beggar's chicken is made like this."
"Who knows? I've never done it before." The two shadow clones shook their heads in unison, impressed by the main body's idea, being able to see a round object and turn it into a pot!
Finally, the Deep Sea Cold Dragon was completely enraged. A white, extremely cold water pillar shot through the four stacked pot lids. The Deep Sea Cold Dragon, with its barely suppressed murderous intent, its scales flared up all over its body, and it charged at Li Xi's position.
"Go."
Three figures vanished. The Deep Sea Cold Dragon's heavy tail smashed through two large trees.
To be honest, Li Xi felt that the Deep Sea Cold Dragon's strength did not match its level six rank at all. The Mountain Ape was also level six, but its strength could crush the Deep Sea Cold Dragon by several levels.
Li Xi currently had four clones, including the ones sent out and one in Cardo City. Each clone had only one-fifth of the main body's strength, yet the Deep Sea Cold Dragon was still helpless against Li Xi, and instead, it found itself constantly at a disadvantage.
The Deep Sea Cold Dragon still couldn't distinguish between the main body and the clones. It would fixate on one and not let go, allowing Li Xi's main body to stand in the trees and watch the show.
Watching the shadow clones lead the Deep Sea Cold Dragon around like a dog, the shadow clone sent to check on the situation finally returned. "It's okay, Soros has already collected the medicinal herbs and is back."
"I understand."
"Release."
Li Xi only released two of the three shadow clones. The third one was still leading the Deep Sea Cold Dragon around, so Li Xi didn't release it.
This shadow clone, knowing from the released clones that the time was up, began to pretend to be panicked and ran towards the lake.
It even made itself look disheveled, panting and shouting noisily.
Passing through the forest and arriving at the lake, Li Xi directly threw the potion given by Soros into the lake. The Deep Sea Cold Dragon was originally full of murderous intent, but upon seeing the potion sinking in the lake, it instantly abandoned Li Xi. It was like a dragon returning to the sea. Without even a splash, it swallowed the potion and then sank to the bottom of the lake, disappearing.
Li Xi looked at Soros in the distance, who was constantly wiping the dirt off himself, and walked towards him tiredly. "How was it? Did you get it?"
Soros shook the ring in his hand and said to Li Xi with satisfaction, "I also have to thank Brother Li Xi, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get the Nine Dragon Grass so easily."
"This is the proof of mission completion." Soros handed over a piece of paper and then motioned for himself and Li Xi to move away from the lake, as the Deep Sea Cold Dragon would go mad if it discovered its medicinal herbs were missing later.
"Does Brother Li Xi want a Dou Qi secret manual, or gold coins?"
"Gold coins, Dou Qi secret manuals are of no use to me."
"Then as we agreed, 1500 gold coins."
Soros said, taking out a chest of gold coins from his spatial ring and placing it on the ground. Upon opening it, it was full of gold coins.
"Brother Li Xi, you count them. I guarantee there's only more, not less."
Li Xi smiled, "No need, I trust the reputation of your caravan."
After saying that, he went to close the lid of the chest, preparing to put it into his spatial ring. But just as Li Xi bent over to approach, Soros behind him moved his hand, and a sword light flashed. Li Xi was cut on the arm before he could even react.
After being injured, Li Xi finally realized that Soros had attacked him.
He didn't care about the gold coins on the ground anymore and used the Body Flicker Technique to leap away.
After creating distance, he pointed at Soros angrily and said, "Why did you attack me?"
Soros stopped attacking after just one strike, sheathed his short sword, and stood in place, looking at Li Xi, counting aloud, "One, two, three."
As he counted to three, Li Xi in the distance suddenly felt dizzy and stumbled to the ground.
At this moment, Li Xi looked at his arm again. Although the wound was only a shallow cut, breaking only the skin, his entire arm had inexplicably turned purplish-blue. It turned out that Soros's long sword was poisoned.
Li Xi gave a wry smile, "Is it necessary to be so cautious and use poison against a small fry like me?"
Soros walked over slowly. "You are not a small fry. I investigated you before coming. Originally, you were just an insignificant blacksmith's apprentice. Then, one day, you suddenly used gold coins to register as a mercenary. In three months, you advanced from F-class to D-class, with a 100% mission completion rate. You even survived several near-death missions where mercenaries of higher ranks died, yet you came out unscathed. Although your information was intentionally hidden by someone, it can still be found with a little effort."
"After investigating your information, I broke out in a cold sweat. Your strength is definitely not weaker than mine. If it were not absolutely necessary, I wouldn't want to make a move against you."
Li Xi moved his body and found that in this short time, his whole body was immobilized. "Since you haven't killed me, you must have something to ask. Ask away. I'll tell you everything I know."
Soros stopped moving when he was five meters in front of Li Xi. "I'm glad you said that. I have no other intentions in doing this today; I just want to ask about Delabonte."
Soros's hand remained on his sword hilt. "You won't tell me you don't remember Delabonte, will you?"
Li Xi's pupils trembled violently. Delabonte was the gang leader in the slums where he lived, and he had already killed him. Why was someone still asking him about this? And it was an expert like Soros? Could there be some hidden reason behind Delabonte's death? It shouldn't be. Even the City Lord's mansion didn't inquire about his death, as if a nobody had died.
"I remember that matter. The money I used to register as a mercenary was raised by pawning my house to him. Later, when he died, I saved a lot of money."
Li Xi frowned and tried to recall carefully. "At that time, I only saw a person wearing a death mask flash by. I really don't know anything else."
"Not enough, think harder."