Chapter 390: Trap, Black Dragon

As the team marched forward, soon, one of them noticed that something was wrong.

Even if they had never taken this route, as far as they knew, this road would guide them to an entrance of a small village. Since it was so, it meant that this road should not be completely covered with messy tree leaves and no signs of footprints.

But now, there was no sign of footprint, the road was full of dead leaves, and the atmosphere was filled with a sense of coldness. It was as if… as if they were on a high mountain!

“Not good!” An elder silently sent a signal to another elder near him.

The latter raised his brows and sent a voice transmission back, “What’s wrong, Elder Yong?”

“Elder Tie, I think we are taking the wrong route,” Elder Yong said solemnly.

Hearing this, Elder Tie was taken aback and subconsciously observed the surrounding. Then, he was stunned.

“How could it be? Weren’t were always observing it together? Why did we just notice it now… no, there’s something wrong with our team! A malicious person in our team must have deliberately led us here!” As Elder Tie continued to guess, he felt chilly behind his back.

How terrible must that person be to be able to deceive so many warriors?

Anyhow, Elder Tie and Elder Yong tacitly did not say it out loud and decided to talk to their trusted friends via voice transmission.

There was one thing in common, that was, all of them did not tell their leader, Zhong Lifeng, at all. After all, the one who led the way all along was other than Zhong Lifeng. Hence, even if he was actually innocent, he was still the most suspicious.

The atmosphere suddenly became weird all of a sudden.

As they continued to move forward with their beast mounts, the already weird atmosphere turned even weirder.

At some point, the person in the lead, which was Zhong Lifeng, suddenly slowed down and slowly came to a halt.

The group of elders behind Zhong Lifeng looked at each other before they asked Zhong Lifeng, “Is something wrong, Elder Zhong?”

Zhong Lifeng did not look at that person, he just seemed to heave a sigh and chuckled, “Haha, I didn’t expect you guys to be so better at acting than me.”

While the group of elders were stunned, Zhong Lifeng continued, “You don’t have to pretend anymore. I know that you guys have figured out that something is not right… Since it is so, then I’m also tired of pretending.”

As he said this, Zhong Lifeng slowly turned back. While doing so, a weird scene appeared in the eyes of everyone.

The original white-haired Zhong Lifeng suddenly became black-haired, his usually gentle face became hideous and cold.

The clothes on his body that represented the Sky Cloud Sword Sect also turned into ashes, revealing a brand-new outfit in the color of light red and black. In addition, there was also a black dragon embroidered on it, which looked very conspicuous and had a sense of wildness in it.

Even the mount under Zhong Lifeng also transformed and became an unclassified creature, its special trait was that it was completely black all over.

Everyone was stupefied by the scene before them.

“Oh my god, what is happening to Elder Zhong?”

“Why did he become this way?”

“He looks so different from before. Is he from an evil sect?”

“Elder Zhong now looks no different from an evil warrior…”

“What did he say again? About pretending or something… Does anyone know what he’s talking about?”

“…”

The scene became chaotic for a while. Many disciples were panicked because they sensed a kind of dark energy which was exclusive to evil warriors from Elder Zhong Lifeng.

The elders came back to their senses and calmed down the disciples swiftly.

Everyone immediately opened a distance from Zhong Lifeng and retreated.

Zhong Lifeng laughed when he saw this, but the laugh did not look so pleasant, on the contrary, he looked even more terrifying and gave off an oddly gloomy feeling. “Are you that afraid of me?”

Elder Tie and Elder Yong, the two strongest elders after Zhong Lifeng, came forward and confronted Zhong Lifeng.

“Zhong Lifeng, are you a spy from another sect?” Elder Yong asked.

“A spy? No, I am not a spy at all,” Zhong Lifeng replied slowly.

“Then who are you? What is your intention in leading us here?” Elder Tie secretly took out a sound transmission jade slip and wanted to send a signal for help in case something bad would happen later.

As if he noticed this silent action, Zhong Lifeng sneered, “You don’t have to do that, it’s useless. An enchantment has been set up here beforehand. Now, all of you are restricted here and cannot connect with the outside world at all.”

“Right, I want to answer your question, too. You asked me who I am? Well, I am Zhong Lifeng. As for my intention in bringing you guys here… isn’t it obvious enough?”

Everyone looked at each other and tried to figure out what Zhong Lifeng meant by that.

Elder Yong stared at Zhong Lifeng intensely and he combined all the clues he had together. Then, he said his thoughts out.

“Could it be that you are practicing some kind of evil technique, and that technique requires you to consume the vitality of warriors in order to strengthen yourself? As for the fact that our sect is being attacked by a black dragon with the strength stronger than even the God Star White Tiger, it is a complete lie, right?”

After hearing what Elder Yong said, not only the other people were stunned, but Zhong Lifeng was also taken aback by him.

“Tsk, tsk, as expected of you, Yong Qiang. You really have a good brain there. Since you have guessed it, I am not afraid to tell you either. Yes, the technique I am practicing is called the ‘Dragon King Art’.”

“I don’t want to explain to you much, but I can say that I have a different destiny from you all. After I successfully practice this godly technique to the final form, I will become the king of dragon and dominate the entire world.”

“Therefore, you, lowly mortals, will have the honor of turning into food that will create a dragon king! Hahaha…”

While laughing, Zhong Lifeng’s eyes turned crimson, and his veins bulged as if he was a real madman who had lost his mind a long time ago.

Elder Yong’s face turned ugly, “You are crazy! Everyone, let’s kill this guy to prevent him from harming others!”

There were hundreds of people this time. A majority of them were disciples, while there were six elders excluding Zhong Lifeng.

With so many people, everyone subconsciously felt that it was not a problem to kill Zhong Lifeng at all.

Everyone took out their weapons and some of them prepared to release their attacks.

Zhong Lifeng did not seem to be afraid, to some extent, it seemed like he did not even care.

But as he continued to laugh, a change appeared in him.

Black scales grew on his skin at a speed visible to the naked eyes. His crimson pupils became vertical like that of an animal, his entire face deformed and became horizontally long. Sharp fangs protruded out coldly from that rough mouth.

A pair of deer-like horns penetrated the skin from the inside and splashed out blood on the forehead.

The transformation looked quite painful as many bones inside seemed to be moving unscrupulously.

Perhaps he could not endure it anymore, Zhong Lifeng finally screamed in pain loudly.

“Arghh… hahaha…”

Not only that, the scream was also accompanied by a maniacal laugh that did not sound like a human’s laugh anymore. It was more like… a roar of a beast.

Zhong Lifeng suddenly crouched on the ground. His human body finally also changed.

The normal human-like body metamorphosed and grew quickly. In the process, his pair of hands and legs became claw-like that resembled an eagle’s claws but much bigger.

Everyone watched the entire process of transformation blankly and could not move their eyes away.

Maybe the situation before them was too shocking and too novel, their minds seemed to have been sunk into it.

Finally, a complete, over 40-meter-long black dragon got up from the ground with its four legs and leg out a loud and hoarse roar.

All the people were forced to come back to their senses by this huge roar.

At the same time, Elder Yong yelled, “Kill this black creature at all cost!”

The disciples and other elders quickly released all kinds of attacks at the black dragon. The stronger ones came close to the dragon and intended to kill this creature with bare hands.

“Humph, foolish humans!” A strange and hoarse voice that belonged to a beast resounded like thunder.

Accompanied by that, the dragon roared and spat out a mass of black mist from its mouth.

Wherever that black mist passed, things would turn black and withered like dry woods.

“Not good, try to avoid that black mist as best as you can!”

All the elders roared and tried their best to protect their disciples.

Among them, Elder Yong was thinking something when he saw the black dragon which was originally Zhong Lifeng before.

Wasn’t it said that a black dragon attacked the Sky Cloud Sword Sect?

Previously, he felt that it was a lie. But when he saw this black dragon now, he felt that it was not a lie at all.

It was just that there was a bit of a twist in it. That was, a black dragon really attacked their sect, but that dragon was not a wild dragon at all, but a dragon transformed from Zhong Lifeng.. Or it could be said that the one who attacked the Sky Cloud Sword Sect was Zhong Lifeng.