Infinite wealth In A New World Chapter 485: The Secret of the Dragon
Previously on Infinite wealth In A New World...
[In The Forest.]
The fabric of space tore open with a sharp, violent hiss, and both Sunny and Nioh stepped out onto the scorched dirt.
Sunny moved his cold, piercing golden gaze across the devastated clearing. He had sensed the sudden, brief manifestation of the Saint of Insect and the Saint of Monsters from across the realm, but it seemed he was too late to intercept them. The air still hung heavy with the toxic residue of their final, desperate gambit.
"These are the bodies of the invaders," Nioh said, his deep voice serious as he walked over to inspect the mangled, crimson remains of the two dark Saints shattered by Ladon's rage.
"Nioh, can you see it?" Sunny asked, his voice deceptively quiet, though his gaze remained locked onto an apparently empty patch of air directly in front of the ruined road.
Nioh turned to him, acknowledging the shift in his tone, then slowly moved all three of his eyes toward the space before him. The third eye embedded in the center of his forehead flared with a brilliant, arcane light, piercing through the visual illusions of the realm. Suddenly, his eyes widened in genuine surprise.
"There is a formation here!" He exclaimed, instinctively drawing his weapon and rushing to take a defensive position at Sunny's side.
"Yes." Sunny nodded his head slowly, his eyes narrowing as he analyzed the invisible, pulsing web of runes binding the area.
"How can we destroy it? Wait, what formation is this?! I haven't seen it before," Nioh asked, his forehead furrowed as he scanned the intricately woven, foreign runes spanning all over the hidden boundary.
"This formation is known as the Hell and Heaven Formation. It has two spaces; one is filled with absolute, lethal dangers, and the second is filled with overwhelming, lustful emotions. You can guess which is which," Sunny said, his fist clenching so tightly that the air pressure around his knuckles began to buckle.
"This!! Not only Ellen, Perran, and Jinx. With the specific residual energies lingering around here, Ladon is also among them. If Ellen falls into the Heaven space, she will be consumed by those lustful emotions and..." Nioh paused mid-sentence, the words catching in his throat as a suffocating, world-crushing wave of pure killing intent radiated from Sunny.
Realizing the danger of his king losing control, Nioh quickly bowed his head: "My King, please calm down. We should try our best to take them out."
"I can do that." Sunny stretched his right hand forward, his palm facing the invisible matrix of the barrier.
"But this formation is created by the Devil Ruler himself... It will take me at least two hours to break it! I hope those four can hold on," he said, his jaw tightening. A radiant, golden light flew from his hand, transforming into microscopic needles of primordial force that buried themselves into the runes of the invisible formation, beginning a slow, agonizing process of deconstruction.
"If I use force, the spaces will destroy, and they will be crushed inside... I can't risk it."
Nioh stared intently at his sovereign, then cast a worried glance at the shimmering air of the formation: "I hope they're safe," he muttered under his breath.
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[Formation Space - Heaven.]
"Cough!"
Inside a cavern carved from smooth, unfamiliar stone, Jinx vomited a thick mouthful of dark blood, her body trembling as she moved her weakened gaze all over the isolated cave walls.
'Where the hell did those two bitches throw us...? I hope he finds something,' she thought grimly, her breath coming in ragged gasps. She leaned against the cold rock and stared outside the cave entrance, watching as Ladon came rushing back inside from the desolate, uncharted landscape.
"Sorry, I found nothing... I even spread my spiritual energy a hundred miles away, and didn't detect a single living life force," he said, his face pale with anxiety as his eyes immediately locked onto the fresh blood staining the cave floor. He hurried to her side, his voice dripping with worry: "What about your healing powers?" he asked.
"I can't heal myself... This poison actively destroys all my healing abilities," Jinx said, her voice dropping to a strained whisper as she wiped the remaining blood off her pale lips with the back of her hand.
"Then take my blood." Ladon quickly said, sitting squarely beside her on the stone floor. Without a shred of hesitation, he pulled back his heavy sleeves and deliberately cut his palm with a sharp claw, which quickly reverted to his regular human finger as the wound welled with glowing, golden-red essence.
"Are you crazy! Why injure yourself?!" Jinx snapped at him.
"Pure royal Dragon's blood has a powerful, miraculous healing effect! It should be able to take care of this poison!" Ladon quickly yelled back at her, his voice cracking with an intense emotion he could no longer hide.
Jinx stared at him in absolute shock, her fierce silver eyes softening slightly into bewilderment. "Why are you doing all this?" she asked, suddenly finding it difficult to maintain her usual distance, quickly looking away to avoid his intense gaze.
"Because I love you! I can't just stand here and watch you die!! I will do everything in my powers to help you," he said, his declaration carrying a fierce, unyielding determination that completely stunned Jinx into silence.
"I chased you away countless times—"
"—And I will keep coming back," Ladon cut her off instantly, his red eyes burning with absolute certainty.
"You?" Jinx was entirely speechless, her shoulders dropping as she turned her head back to face him fully.
"But—"
"—No buts. Here." He stretched his bleeding hand directly towards her lips, the draconic essence radiating a warm, comforting heat.
Jinx stared at him, an unknown, complex swirl of emotions rising within her chest, before she looked down at the blood dripping from his wrist.
"Come on!! You can't die here! Think of Ellen! She is outside right now worrying about you! Will you just give up on your life?!" he yelled at her, desperate to spark the fierce survival instinct he knew she possessed. "Do you think we can all bear such a pain?!"
Jinx blinked, his words striking a chord deep within her soul. The vivid image of her younger sister, Sunny's grand goals, and the terrifying weight of the upcoming war flashed through her mind. She took a deep, agonizing breath, and exhaled slowly:
"I promise, I will pay you back," she said softly. She reached out, slowly taking hold of Ladon's strong arm to steady herself, and gently placed her mouth on his wounded hand, softly drinking the thick, royal dragon's blood.
Ladon smiled softly at her, his expression entirely relaxed, not feeling a single shred of pain from his arm as he offered his life essence to her.
"Cough!"
Suddenly, Jinx violently pulled her mouth away, coughing out another massive mouthful of blood that now carried a dark, corrupted tint. Her face instantly lost all residual color, turning dangerously pale.
"This?!" Ladon instantly panicked, leaping to his feet in sheer shock as his heart dropped into his stomach.
"Dragon's blood... It didn't work." He muttered in utter disbelief, staring down at his blood-stained palm, then back at Jinx in absolute horror.
Jinx weakly wiped her lips, leaning heavily against the stone: "Thank you for trying... this poison... I don't know what it is, but I can feel it actively eating away my Primordial energy from the inside out."
"No! There must be something—" Ladon paused abruptly. His sudden silence caught her attention, causing Jinx to look up at him through her blurred vision.
"What is it?" She asked, noticing the strange, tense shift in his posture.
"No... It's nothing! I will be back," he said quickly, his voice tight as he turned and rushed frantically out of the cave entrance. "There must be something in this place that will be useful here!!" he yelled back, his voice echoing into the canyon.
Jinx stared at his retreating back, a slight, weary frown creasing her brow. Even with her senses dulled by the poison, she knew him well enough to know he was hiding something monumental.
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[Ten minutes later.]
The heavy silence of the cave was broken as Ladon walked back inside. He stood completely still for a moment, staring down at Jinx, who was now lying helplessly on the smooth rock beside the cave wall. Her condition had deteriorated drastically in his absence; she was shivering violently, her skin translucent and cold to the touch, while the tips of her dark hair were slowly turning a stark, lifeless white.
"I flew around this whole world," he said quietly, walking over to sit heavily beside her head. "We are trapped inside some kind of specialized formation."
As he spoke, a bizarre, foreign sensation began to creep beneath his own skin. 'What is happening to me? Why am I suddenly feeling so hot?' he thought, a sudden, heavy warmth blossoming in his chest as he turned his head to look at Jinx.
Hoping to counteract her violent shivering, he quickly sat her up and pulled her fragile body flush against his chest, resting her weight on his own body in a desperate attempt to share his physical heat. Seeking to warm the damp cave, Ladon opened his left palm, summoning a concentrated ball of draconic fire. He threw it towards a small, withered bush near the entrance, but to his absolute shock, the moment the fire touched the air, it was instantly and violently extinguished. In its place, a massive, invisible wave of oppressive, unnatural ambient heat smashed directly back into the two of them.
"This?" He was completely dumbfounded, his grip tightening around the shivering Jinx as the reality of the "Heaven" space began to warp their physical senses.
"Ladon... Is... Do you know of another way? I can't die yet," she whispered, her teeth clicking together as the internal poison clashed brutally with the external warmth of his body.
Ladon stared down into her eyes, his chest heaving as he turned his face slightly towards the dark interior of the cave. The ancient knowledge of his draconic lineage, combined with his understanding of hidden arrays, forced him to acknowledge the only solution left.
"Yes, there is a way... I am 100% sure you will be cured, but—"
"—Really? Why hide it then? You are the one who just said I can't die yet," Jinx said, her grip tightening weakly on his clothes as she shivered against him.
"What... What is it?" She asked, looking up at him, demanding the truth.
Ladon stared down at her face, his throat going completely dry as he swallowed hard. The fierce, confident Dragon Emperor vanished, replaced by a nervous, flushing man.
"Um... You will have to have sex with a pure royal dragon, and he will have to... Um... Climax inside you. That specific release of raw draconic source energy is the only thing powerful enough to wash away all the poison," he said nervously, his voice dropping to a low stammer as he quickly looked away, entirely unable to meet Jinx's piercing eyes.
"Huh?" Jinx froze completely, her mind stalling out as his words resounded in her mind like a deafening war drum.
