Ze Tian Ji

Chapter 121 - 140

Chapter 121 – The Dragon's Dilemma
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The Black Dragon indifferently gave him a glance, it didn't contain any emotion, or more specifically it was rather simplistic. But it was the same as the dragon speech it used; this simplicity contained a complex message. Chen Chang Sheng only met the dragon's gaze for a moment, but it felt as if he had seen innumerable stars and had received a large amount of information the dragon had wanted to convey.

The abandoned well's creation was personally overseen by Wang Zhi Ce and was the Life Gate of the array that formed the prison for the Black Dragon, just akin to how the Black Dragon Pond that was located within the derelict garden was the Life Gate of Tong Palace.

The bottom of the well originally had a net that was woven from three strands of a special alloy, which served the function of keeping the array's Life Gate functional, and ensuring that citizens of the Capital did not accidentally fall into the well and end up becoming food for the dragon. Not long ago however – Chen Chang Sheng couldn't make out how long this "not long ago" actually was, it could have been decades ago or maybe just days – from the Imperial Palace, someone retrieved the three strands of alloyed net for some unknown reason.

The Black Dragon had only used a single detached glance to transmit this information straight into Chen Chang Sheng's mind, he understood most of it, but there were still parts he hadn't yet had the chance or time to fully process, he didn't fully understand its meaning, but he did clearly manage to perceive what the dragon wanted to project: humans are really inane.

A being that had been imprisoned for hundreds of years, without being able to communicate and had to endure days of solitude and cold, actually called humans inane. Chen Chang Sheng couldn't quite accept this, thinking to himself, "If you weren't bored, why were you so insistent on keeping me here and had to make me promise to come back and talk to you?" The bigger question was why did someone come to take away the three strands of alloyed net, weren't they afraid of people falling in?

He looked towards the two metal chains behind the Black Dragon, the gaze travelled a long distance before resting upon the gigantic portrayals of those two legendary Divine Generals that were on the stone wall, questions filled his mind.

He had never thought of assisting the Black Dragon in leaving this place. Firstly, he was unsure as to how much of the legend was actually factual; if the dragon was to leave this underground cavern, would it bring death and destruction to the Capital? More importantly, the array that was used to imprison the Black Dragon was created by Wang Zhi Ce and other peak experts during Taizong's era, with his current level of ability, even the thought of attempting to breach it was preposterous.

He suddenly thought of something, since the Black Dragon understood human speech and he could directly receive messages from its gaze, there wasn't any problem in their ability to communicate. Incidentally, experts who had reached the realm of Star Fusion and above could rapidly communicate using just their divine sense, therefore, there wasn't any reason why a divine existence on the level of the Might Black Frost Dragons would have been any different.

Chen Chang Sheng looked towards the Black Dragon, wishing to inform it of this, but the Black Dragon, akin to having already guessed what he was thinking, quickly closed its eyes, scattering a spray of ice shards. Chen Chang Sheng was stunned by its response, he guessed that the Black Dragon did not only wish to converse; did it want to hear speech from its own species? For what reason? A yearning?

"That night, I had promised to come see you as quickly as I can... but the Imperial Palace is hard to enter and even getting in once is difficult, requiring enormous risk, you know that I'm afraid of dying. But I'm on the verge of something problematic, that if handled badly, I will probably die, therefore I decided I should come see you before it happens."