Chapter XXIII: The Price of Freedom

Kong Ming had a dream in which he was sitting on the body of a golden dragon and flying freely in the air, when suddenly a gust of wind blew from the front, and the wind carried rain and hail in front of him. Kong Ming wanted to dodge, but there was no way to move, he wanted to open the dou qi shield, but he couldn't open it, and he couldn't open it for the magic shield, Kong Ming opened his mouth to shout the golden dragon, but he couldn't make a sound, so he could only make a noise by the wind and rain. The wind struck Kong Ming's body with rain and hail, just like a sharp knife cutting Kong Ming's body one by one, but what made Kong Ming strange was that although it was very painful, the wounds on his body were cut one after another, but after the wounds were cut, they quickly closed together, and the closure was much faster than the cut, so Kong Ming's body still looked good from the outside, and did not become an undead creature like a skeleton. This made Kong Ming's heart relax a lot. I don't know how long it took, the gust of wind finally passed, Kong Ming just wanted to let go, but saw the golden dragon plunged into a sea of fire, the raging fire, burned head-on, Kong Ming's skin and even internal organs burned many times, and the fire was the higher the temperature the further inside, the same Kong Ming's body was also burning while recovering, the pain also made Kong Ming unable to face it, and he couldn't move, and finally, Kong Ming remembered when he was a child, the old mage taught him to meditate when he had to devote himself wholeheartedly, the old mage told him to just think about ordinary words, and use his mind to repeat it, thinking of this, Kong Ming thought of a sentence in the book "Magic Art of War", the soldier is treacherous. He had to recite these four words with his mind repeatedly, and sure enough, when he devoted himself to the four words, from the pain at the beginning to the complete separation of body and mind later, it made him feel like he was sitting on the side and watching others suffer. Later, there were the Sea of Ice, the Knife Mountain, and so on, it seemed that a long time had passed, and it seemed that only a second had passed, and a huge slap fell from the sky and hit Kong Ming's body and mind together.

When Kong Ming woke up, he saw a young man squatting next to him, very handsome, with golden hair, golden eyes, wearing a snow-white dress, there was no dust at all, Kong Ming's mind was not very clear, and he slowly raised it, and he saw that there were woods all around. Kong Ming struggled hard, to get up, but he didn't move, but it was okay for him not to move, his whole body seemed to be cracked, there were tens of millions of needles pricked, and it hurt terribly, subconsciously, there was a wail, and the sound rose to the sky, but it scared the young man next to him. Kong Ming saw that the birds and beasts around him heard this sound, and they fled in all directions in shock. After the voice stopped, Kong Ming subconsciously sat up, shook his head, and tried his best to make his head clearer, the situation in front of him made Kong Ming feel a little confused. This is a mountain forest, Kong Ming is lying naked on a leaf, the gap between the leaves is full of bursts of rotten smell, next to the towering trees, and in front of Kong Ming is a young man in snow-white clothes, the whole person seems to be spotless, this situation is really weird. Kong Ming took a large leaf from the side to cover the important parts of his body, and when he was about to ask the person what was going on, the person had already spoken.

"There's a waterfall a hundred meters ahead, go wash these things off your body first, and then we'll talk about it. There was a hint of non-refusal in his tone, and just when he thought Kong Ming was going to say a wordy sentence, Kong Ming stood up without a snort, picked up the sword next to him with one hand, and walked forward. Not far away is a waterfall, under the waterfall is a waterhole about 20 meters long and wide, the waterfall is not big, the water is very clear, Kong Ming saw a lot of small fish swimming freely in the water, Kong Ming did not pay attention to more things, and plunged directly into the water. In the cool water, the pain all over his body disappeared at once, when Kong Ming wiped his whole body, he was completely speechless, Kong Ming's yellow skin turned yellow with a little dark golden smell, and all the scars left on the battlefield disappeared, not a single scar, even the heavy scars that almost killed Kong Ming, were gone.

"This dragon's blood still has a beauty effect? Kong Ming muttered.

"Of course, dragon blood is comparable to the fountain of life, do you think it's so easy to get?" A voice came from the spring, Kong Ming looked over, it was the young man, he was looking at Kong Ming with a trace of complexity in his eyes, after Kong Ming saw it, he didn't have a desire to know what he was thinking, after all, Kong Ming is not the kind of gossip person, and he has no more thoughts about the rights and wrongs of others.

"I can feel that my whole person has a feeling of being charged with power, this feeling is really beautiful, people seem to be much healthier, many dark injuries are healed now, it feels so good!" Kong Ming glanced at the man, washed the sword, and then began to use the sword technique of the fire dragon fighting spirit in the water. As he spoke, he talked to the man. The man saw that Kong Ming was practicing, and he didn't speak again.

"Are you wondering whether to let me go or kill me?" Kong Ming suddenly said to the man after he finished practicing.

"Oh, I don't know yet. The man subconsciously replied, and when he reacted, he looked at Kong Ming in surprise and said, "Do you know who I am?"

"You're the golden dragon, what's the guess about that?, but I think it's very strange why you would spare me when I stabbed you and drank your blood, and you stayed by my side until I woke up, I think it's been a long time since the battle. Kong Ming said lightly.

"You think it's strange, I think it's strange myself, after I came back to my senses that day, I wanted to tear you apart with a claw, but the moment I started it, I suddenly felt a burst of relief, so I stopped next to you, and looked at the way you made my blood transform, which was also a very interesting thing. The golden dragon said, thinking that he was in a really good mood, otherwise he would not let go of Kong Ming, and when Kong Ming was powerless to protect, he would protect Kong Ming on the side.

"This makes me feel weird, you should have killed me, why was it so nice to me all of a sudden?"

"It's very strange to you, but it's not strange to me at all, because you've set me free. The golden dragon looked up at the sky, and looked very yearning.

"Freedom?" Kong Ming felt very strange, a dragon still needs him to give him freedom?

"Yes, freedom. It's freedom, you don't have to doubt it, the moment I want to kill you, I feel that the master-slave contract that has been in my heart has disappeared, and I have been free again, two hundred years, two hundred years. The golden dragon muttered. He looked at the sky in distraction, as if he was missing something, and it seemed that the past two hundred years had made him extremely depressed. Kong Ming didn't speak, smart people generally in this kind of people think of painful things, should follow the words of others to comfort him, but unfortunately Kong Ming doesn't know how to comfort a dragon that can tear him apart at any time, so he wisely chose to shut up, being a good listener is sometimes worth a thousand words, so in front of Kong Ming, the story of a head dragon unfolded, that dragon is called Ao Liang.

Ao Liang officially became an adult when he was three thousand years old, and ordinary dragons are three thousand years old, and adult dragons are ninth-level demonic beasts, which are what we usually call god-level. After spending three thousand years on Dragon Island, he was a little tired of that place, so he asked the patriarch of the Dragon Clan for instructions, and then left Dragon Island and came to the world, the ninth-level demonic beasts have the ability to transform into shapes, of course, once he turns into a person, then his human form will be fixed, and it will never change again, he has become like this, traveling on the earth. Unfortunately, the first person he met was his recently deceased master. Just like all the big bad wolves deceive the little white rabbit, between the golden dragon and the man for more than a year, the two can be said to have a very happy conversation, there is a feeling of seeing each other late, in this year, they have traveled together on the continent of all kinds of scenery, experience life, explore knowledge, magic, fighting spirit and all kinds of gains and losses of history. The friendship between the two rose rapidly, with the deepening of the relationship, Ao Liang's wariness of him became more and more weak, in a very ordinary festival, they went to a small city, together into the most famous local flower building, and the top brand there together chanted poems, chatting, so happy, the more and more the wine was drunk, both of them had a little unsober appearance, at this time the big bad wolf finally showed his sharp claws, he used an artifact a "careless" There was a little scar on Ao Liang's hand, and the dragon's blood dripped a little bit, Ao Liang didn't care anymore, and the three of them continued their topic, but, a very suddenly, the man made a small joke with Ao Liang, which was a master-slave contract, and Ao Liang, who thought he was joking, also jokingly agreed, and then the contract fell from the sky and disappeared into the bodies of the two, Ao Liang found out that he had been deceived, but he couldn't make any reaction, because in the wine, the man took a drug that made the dragon temporarily lose its strength after eating, and when he found out that he was fooled, he no longer had any ability to fight back。 In this way, the little white rabbit followed the big bad wolf until the man died. Ao Liang also thought about resisting, but the contract did not allow any opposition, and his rebellion was often met with more fierce retaliation. What's even more excessive is that when the person's descendants are born, he will come to extract Ao Liang's dragon blood to improve the physique of his descendants, which makes their family continue to prosper, and high-level magicians and swordsmen abound. In this operation, Ao Liang did not know, he could only do what the man said, in the operation, although Ao Liang wanted those who besieged them to kill that person, but the contract made him unable to move, because the slave side of the master-slave contract had no secrets to speak of among the master's side, and could not perform any actions that were unfavorable to the master. But because of the sword that Kong Ming came from, Ao Liang completely got rid of the status of a slave dragon for two hundred years, and that sword made Ao Liang in pain still take the two out of his back. Ao Liang said with a smile, at that time he was very annoyed with Kong Ming's move, Kong Ming and him, the two fell not far from here, when they fell, Ao Liang wanted to claw Kong Ming to death with one claw, but at that moment, the contract left by the person in the depths of his soul disappeared, which made him free all of a sudden, excited, and decided to let Kong Ming, the assassin, because he let him free.

"That's it?" asked Ku Ming strangely.

"That's the way it is. Ao Liang replied.

"Then why didn't you die when that man died, I remember it seems to be written in the book that if the owner of the pet dies, then the pet will also die, well, it seems like that. Kong Ming slapped himself in the face with some water with his hand, so that he was sober and sober, otherwise, if he regarded himself as the savior of this dragon, he would definitely be eaten by him in one bite, so that the blood on Kong Ming's body would return to his body again.

"Yes, but for some reason, I didn't die, and my soul wasn't hurt in any way. Ao Liang was also puzzled.

"I think it should be that you are deceived, coerced and involuntary. For example, that contract is a chain that locks the depths of the soul, but as a chain, whether it is its strength or durability, there will be a degree, beyond that degree, the chain will no longer become a chain, this should be the result of your long-term resistance, and I am just a person who leads to the result. Kong Ming thought about it and used a simple example to explain this problem that they couldn't explain, although it was just a guess, but obviously it was not too far from the truth.

"Haha, no matter what, I will thank you, life is precious, love is more valuable, if it is for freedom, both can be thrown. When you don't lose your freedom, you can't understand the preciousness of freedom. Without you, I wouldn't have been able to regain my freedom so quickly. Ao Liang said to Kong Ming. "The blood I shed before was forced by that man, and that was something that made me very angry, but this time yours, although I didn't do it voluntarily, made me bleed the most willingly. Now that I see my friend again, I'm going to go on that journey, and I'm going to get my blood back, in addition to seeing this beautiful continent. ”

Seeing that Sora was obviously a little scared, Ao Liang continued: "Of course, except for you. Hah!!ha!!"

With Nahaha's long laugh, Ao Liang showed the dragon body and flew into the sky, and after three turns on Kong Ming's head, he disappeared beyond the mountain.

Looking at the disappeared dragon shadow, Kong Ming washed his face again with the cold water, wiped his face vigorously with his hands, stared at the water, and saw a bare head, reflected in the water, looked carefully, as if this was himself? After looking at it for a long time, Kong Ming finally knew that the bald head reflected in the water was himself, and he thought that it must be because the dragon's blood was too domineering, and he transformed his body, which was really a gain and a loss.