1697 Survive and Live

Shi Meiyoung screamed in pain as the sword dug into her while she was distracted. She was already wounded, and this one was particularly bad too, but on top of that, it also dug right into where her Beast Core was.

Qing Tianchui moved at once, slamming his tail into the Empress, tossing her away to who knows where. He came closer to his wife and saw the sword that was stabbed into her.

The Azure Dragon looked at the stab in shock and horror. He could tell, even without using his senses that the sword had stabbed directly where his wife's beast core was situated at.

"Meiyoung, your—"

The Heavenly Judgment fell for the second time and the Azure Dragon immediately put up the best defense his distracted self could.

The lightning strike still landed on him, leaving behind a brilliant light and a shockwave that tore through the ground and trees on either side of him.

Humans that were close by, unconscious, were thrown away by the wide, and sent elsewhere.

Meiyoung barely managed to stay with her son because the Azure Dragon protected them with his Qi at the last moment, leaving himself vulnerable.

When the thunderous sound faded, it left behind a wounded Azure Dragon, part of whose body was now bare with no scales. He fell to the ground, slumping in a coil around his wife and son, looking at them.

His breathing had long since grown haggard and he looked up. The dark clouds still roiled in the sky. There was more coming.

He could not handle more.

The Azure Dragon looked at his wife, feeling pain for her.

Meiyoung's core was separating from her body as the meridians that connected the two were no longer. Maybe a miracle could save her, but the Azure Dragon didn't know what that would be.

Even Meiyoung's soul was slowly dying, her Saint Transformation realm body feeling the damage of the soul on the body. She could no longer move most of her body, and barely even speak.

He looked at the sword that was stabbing his wife and felt his heart grow cold. Then he looked at his son and knew he had to do something.

"We're both dying," the Azure Dragon said. "But… our son won't have to."

"What can you do?" she asked. She used her weak spiritual sense to talk with her husband

"I can send you two away, but we must give up a lot for it," he said softly. "Our son must give up a lot."

Meiyoung's eyes teared up as she looked down on her innocent son whom she had managed to successfully protect all this time.

"Do what you must," she said. "Save our child, at any cost."

At any cost. The Azure Dragon felt tears flowing down his eyes. Tears of anger. Tears of sadness.

He closed his eyes once, letting the tears stream down

"You must survive Shouchuang," the Azure Dragon said with a hoarse voice, but his voice still roared with the authority of a thousand lightning bolts.

The Sword of Teleportation did not just interfere with someone's teleportation. It absorbed the teleportation aura, storing it for later use.

The Azure Dragon latched onto that aura that had been gathering in the sword for the past however many years and finally used it. The black sword burned white and created a sphere of silver energy around the mother and son.

But unfortunately, that wasn't enough. The aura was strong, but it couldn't get them away from the Eastern Continent. He needed more teleportation aura, and the only place to get that from right now was the Azure Dragon's bloodline and essence.

Unfortunately, the Azure Dragon was completely out of it, destroyed by the Heavenly Judgment.

'I'm sorry, son,' he thought. He felt pain in what he must do.

He reached for his son's body and burned the Azure Dragon's bloodline and essence inside of him, destroying both the bloodline and his Supreme Wood Spiritual root.

Immediately, an immense amount of aura appeared from inside the child, the aura of the potential he would lose.

The Azure Dragon didn't let it go to waste. He grabbed onto it and used the Dao of Teleportation to turn it into Teleportation aura of a magnitude larger than what the Intercontinental Teleportation formation produced.

The Teleportation aura instantly grabbed onto the mother and son. The Azure Dragon wished to leave with them as well, but as the thunder in the sky rang even harder, he knew he couldn't do so.

He would only endanger them instead.

"Survive!" he said with what he could muster. "And Live!"

The light flashed and vanished as the two white cats disappeared from where they were, and teleported away. Teleported to a place where she and their son would be taken care of.

He had sent the two to the White Tiger's domain, for that was the only place he considered safe for the two. No other place could protect them any longer.

A last strand of spiritual sense reached his mind, and his wife's final words spoke out to him.

"Thank you," she had said. "And I love you."

The Azure Dragon could not stop his tears any longer. "Live!" he roared. "My son, you must live."

He looked toward the wounded Dragon Emperor who stared back at the Azure Dragon in shock as though it was him that was going to be his death. In those moments, the Dragon Emperor wondered if he had misread the entire prophecy.

"I shall fulfill this prophecy of yours, Tiankong," the Azure Dragon roared as he had nothing else to lose.

"Because of my wife and son, you shall die today."

The Azure Dragon used what bit of energy he still had and channeled them into a single target technique, ready to obliterate the Dragon Emperor.

The wounded Dragon Emperor could only stare. He had no more power to stop whatever was going to happen next. "No…" he slowly said. "Not like this. I've lost so much for this. I've done so much. I cannot… I cannot die like this."

The Azure Dragon let out the technique known as the Dragon's Breath and threw it at the Dragon Emperor.

The Dragon Emperor watched as the attack that would kill him was used and—

The Empress appeared in front of the Dragon Emperor, bloodied and beaten, and used what power she had left to move him out of the way.

"NO! Tianyue!" the Dragon Emperor shouted back.

The Empress said something but the deafening blast that followed drowned her words. The Dragon Emperor landed far away from the attack and quickly looked back, but when he did, his wife was no longer there.

The Azure Dragon immediately grimaced and his massive serpentine body started writhing in pain. He had done the one thing he had made an oath not to do 14 Millennia ago.

When he came to this world, he had made an oath to only harm humans when necessary, and never kill. Today he had broken that very oath and the broken oath killed him from the inside.

He felt his soul twist and turn on the inside as it was lacerated apart by the broken oath, quickly torn to shred. Within seconds, the Azure Dragon started dying.

So when the third and final Heavenly Judgment fell from the sky, there was nothing the Azure Dragon could do to protect himself.

And with a loud resounding thunderous strike, Qing Tianchui, the Ruler of the Eastern Continent, the Azure Dragon, passed away.