The Endless Promise {COMPLETED}

148. Tragedy 1

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Gruesome warning!

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Yan Liwei's warm acceptance filled Bailong with warmth and new hope, and he wondered if he might be able to turn things around.

And as if to dim the gloom further, a voice suddenly rang out, "Xiaobai! You were right!"

Yinying suddenly appeared, his sleek black paws landing on the floor behind them.

"Something is really buried beneath Jinyu City's Arena! I couldn't even transform whenever I came close to that place!"

He noticed the couple hugging before him, though they jumped apart in his presence. "Hao. Hao hao hao...

"Aiya!" He wailed suddenly, transforming to his old man form and falling heavily on the ground. "Lao Deng, ever since you left, your son has been disrespecting me everywhere!" He cried out, slapping the ground.

"You tiny dragon seedling! So now you can deliberately send this old man away on some random mission, just so you and your wife can be alone here like this?!"

"Eiss! Laoying, how come I never noticed you were so dramatic?!"

"Heh! 'Dramatic', you say?! I won't ask what drama you and the lady were acting just now!"

"Laoying!" Bailong protested, while Liwei giggled into her sleeves demurely.

"Ahem! Anyway, as I was saying..." Yinying continued...

A few weeks before, on the day Liwei had been possessed, Bailong had sent Yinying back to Jinyu City to investigate, and he had just returned with news.

Whenever he approached the City's Arena, he was forced into his Tiger form and couldn't transform back till he distanced himself.

"A-Bai, isn't that similar to what happened to you?" Liwei asked, and Bailong nodded.

"It's indeed suspicious because I felt the demon aura right before I transformed. However, I was nowhere near Jinyu City when it happened..." He filled them in about the battle with Sky Realm and how he had transformed in the Out worlds.

"Xiaobai, such a treacherous battle, and you didn't summon me back?!" Yinying admonished, a rare annoyed look on his face. "Xiaobai, I watched you grow from when you resembled a tiny white snake...

"You say I'm the last thing your father left to you, then why don't you realize you're also the last thing he left to me?!"

Bailong hung his head in repentance. "Ehehe, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

The three sighed in unison, the weight of the day's events, hanging in the air.

"From now on, Sky Realm would surely consider us traitors, and Caoyang, a den of traitors..." Liwei voiced out what they were all thinking.

And now, with Yinying's discovery, Bailong realized both he and Liwei's possessions were likely direct attacks.

"We already left Jinyu City before Liwei became possessed. Still, I assumed it was the city, but it was more likely someone around the Sky Villa.

"She was attacked because these enemies know she's my bottomline, so I would likely go against A-Tian to protect her..." He squeezed her hand, linking their fingers before continuing.

"And in my case, I had gone near the Arena several times with nothing happening to me, so how did it suddenly follow me to the Out worlds...?

"Hmph. Someone clearly wanted me to appear as the Demon King incarnate, so a final wedge between me and Tianlong would arise."