Chapter 179: Life Link

The moment that golden longsword was unsheathed, Li Qiu's gaze froze.

This sword?

Something is wrong!

That majestic and overbearing aura felt as if it could split the heaven and earth apart.

Could it be… Legendary Rank?

Li Qiu's mind blanked for a fraction of a second.

A fellow who clearly had been blasted into ashes by his Silver Dragon just a few months ago was now standing alive right in front of him.

Not only did he not die, but he had also changed into a set of gear that looked far from cheap.

In his hand, he was even holding a Legendary-Rank weapon.

What on earth was going on here?

Li Qiu felt like his brain couldn't keep up.

In the brief instant of his trance,

Yasuo moved.

With a flick of his wrist, a dart wrapped in blinding electric arcs left his hand, turning into a silver thread that shot straight at Li Qiu's face.

The speed of the dart was extremely fast.

Li Qiu's reaction was even faster.

He only tilted his head slightly, and the dart flew past his cheek, embedding itself into the wall of a dilapidated building behind him.

"A swordsman playing with hidden weapons?"

Li Qiu twitched the corner of his mouth, feeling somewhat disdainful in his heart.

To him, an attack of this level couldn't even be considered a tickle.

However, the next second, the ease on his face completely stiffened.

He saw that figure on the rooftop below disappear without any warning.

Alarm bells rang wildly in Li Qiu's heart.

Before he could react, an extreme sense of danger had already erupted from his side!

He abruptly turned his head.

Only to see that Yasuo's figure had somehow appeared right beside him.

That person was covered in leaping thunder, and the golden longsword in his hand turned into a flash of lightning that tore through the night sky, slashing down fiercely toward his head!

"[Thunderous Strike]!"

"Boom——!"

This sword strike was without any reservation.

Li Qiu had no time to make any dodging movements at all.

He only felt an irresistible, terrifying force transmitted from the blade.

The Silver Dragon beneath him let out an angry roar.

Man and Dragon, as if hit head-on by a high-speed train, were instantly blasted flying.

"Rumble——!"

The huge silver body smashed through several crumbling, abandoned buildings along the way.

Bricks, steel bars, glass shards… danced all over the sky.

In the end, the Silver Dragon's massive body heavily crashed into a pile of architectural ruins, kicking up a sky full of dust and smoke.

The entire Old City District seemed to tremble violently under this intense impact.

Zhou Huai controlled Yasuo, steadily landing back on the rooftop.

He looked at the distant ruins that had been smashed beyond recognition, but his brow furrowed slightly.

Although the attack succeeded, he didn't feel the slightest bit relaxed in his heart.

[-12457]

He saw the damage number dealt by that sword strike just now clearly.

According to his expectation, with such a close-range sneak attack, plus the terrifying attack power of the Kingslayer's Edge, this sword strike—not to mention a one-hit kill—should have at least severely wounded Li Qiu.

However, the reality was not so.

He had glanced at Li Qiu's health bar just now.

With over ten thousand points of damage smashed down, the opponent's health value only dropped by an insignificant little fraction.

This fellow… how could he have such a high health value?

It was simply even more outrageous than Xiang Yu!

Inside the ruins,

Li Qiu shook his slightly dizzy head and quickly flipped back onto the back of the Silver Dragon.

He patted the dust stained on his body, looked up at the figure on the distant rooftop, and the expression on his face remained calm.

"A bit interesting."

He grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

"If it were anyone else, that sword strike just now would probably have killed them."

"Pity, the one you encountered is me!"

"Roar——!"

The Silver Dragon beneath him let out a high-pitched dragon roar.

An invisible pressure swept out in all directions like a tide.

The ground of the entire Old City District trembled violently accordingly.

Countless dilapidated wall skins fell off in rustling sounds.

The System prompt immediately rang in Zhou Huai's mind.

[Ding! Yasuo is affected by 'Dragon Might'!]

[Movement speed reduced by 30%!]

[Yasuo's attack power reduced by 20%!]

[Duration: 2 minutes!]

Zhou Huai immediately tried running two steps among the buildings.

Sure enough, he could clearly feel that his body had become much heavier, and his movements had also obviously slowed down.

At this moment, Li Qiu was already driving the Silver Dragon, flying back up into the high sky, hovering hundreds of meters above.

He was obviously guarding against Yasuo's bizarre sneak attack method from earlier, intentionally keeping his distance.

"Roar——!"

The Silver Dragon roared again.

It opened its huge mouth and took a deep breath.

Blinding white-gold light rapidly gathered in its mouth.

The next second, a thick Dragon Breath, like divine punishment, tore through the rain curtain and accurately shot towards the location where Yasuo was!

Zhou Huai's pupils shrank.

He dared not take it head-on at all, exerting force under his feet, and his body shot sideways like an arrow leaving the string, evading rapidly.

"Boom!"

The Dragon Breath landed on the position where he had just stood, and the entire building was instantly melted into a huge hole, then collapsed with a crash.

While swiftly shuttling through the dilapidated buildings, Zhou Huai dodged the Dragon Breath continuously spewed from the sky.

Seeing that another Dragon Breath was about to block all his retreats,

he didn't hesitate, throwing another dart again and nailing it to the wall of a building in the distance.

[Thunder Blink Seal]!

His figure instantly vanished from the spot and appeared hundreds of meters away.

High in the air, Li Qiu watched this scene and raised an eyebrow.

"This fellow has improved quite a bit in just a few short months."

When he first met him, he hadn't persisted under his Dragon Breath for this long.

On the ground,

while dodging the attacks of the Dragon Breath, Zhou Huai's brain was spinning rapidly.

What on earth was going on with this fellow's unusual health bar?

A Summoner, even if their Rank reached level fifty and they wore top-tier equipment, would have at most just over ten thousand points of health.

But Li Qiu's health value was at least dozens, or even hundreds of times that number.

Then there was only one greatest possibility.

He and his Silver Dragon had carried out a Life Link.

The health bars of man and Dragon were bound together.

This was why Li Qiu was so emboldened without fear.

At this moment, Li Qiu and the Silver Dragon were no longer two independent targets.

But a single entity.

Zhou Huai's brows furrowed even deeper.

If that really was the case, then the effect of this skill was simply even more outrageous than Xiang Yu's Guardian Oath.

That Silver Dragon was at least a Calamity-tier BOSS template.

Its health pool was probably close to a million.

With Yasuo's current strength, trying to grind it to death alive was simply as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Just as he was at his wits' end,

a certain detail from the first sneak attack just now suddenly flashed through Zhou Huai's mind.

Li Qiu had been slashed flying off the dragon's back by him, and after landing on the ground,

his first reaction was to return to the dragon's back first.

Then, he leisurely patted the dust off his body.

It was as if the priority of returning to the Silver Dragon's back was extremely high.

Even more important than anything else.

Is there a possibility…

That the Life Link between them was not unconditionally effective?

It required a prerequisite.

A condition that must be met.

For instance…

Must they be in contact with each other?