Chapter Thirty-Eight: Orange Eyes

  Li Xie was ruthlessly thrown into the cave by Ze Ennarde, hitting the rock wall inside and falling heavily to the ground. Already dizzy and disoriented, his body felt like it had been torn apart. After hearing Ze Ennarde's words about cutting off his arm, he hastily scrambled up, only to see a strange man. Stunned, he timidly asked: "Who are you? Where is that dragon?"

  "I am that dragon!"

  Can dragons transform into humans? This question is not what Li Xie needs to consider right now.

  "Great hero!" Li Xie shamelessly kowtowed: "Great hero, let me go back, I'll immediately ask Meng Na to upgrade you, I guarantee it with my personal integrity, no, I guarantee it with my life! If she doesn't agree to help you upgrade, you can kill me afterwards, anyway I'm not capable of resisting you!"

  If he were to have his arm chopped off, Li Ye wouldn't be afraid of becoming disabled, as his arm could still grow back. However, the loss of energy might make him extremely weak, and if he were to suffer another injury in between, it would likely put his life in danger!

  In Li Xie's view, helping this dragon upgrade was simply no big deal. Even if it were a big deal, it wasn't as precious as his own life!

  "Do you think I'd believe you? Humans are the most deceitful creatures, I only trust myself!" Zayn Nadir approached Li Xie, his eyes filled with ruthless and cold light: "Are you going to do it yourself or should I take care of it?"

  Li Ye didn't want to lose his arm, and his body instinctively shrunk back. He hastily said: "Why must you cut off my arm? I'll write a letter, you send it to Duke Aiwei'er, she will definitely agree!"

  "Nonsense!" Zainnad seized Lee Xie's left hand at a speed that Lee Xie couldn't react to, and with a force disproportionate to his human body, he brutally tore Lee Xie's arm off from the shoulder. The sound of muscles tearing made Zainnad's face, covered in thorny tattoos, look even more ferocious: "Write a letter? Hahaha, what could be more direct than fresh blood?"

  "Ah......" His arm was abruptly torn off, the pain stimulating Li Xie's nerves, causing him to fall to the ground with a loud cry of agony!

  Suddenly lost an arm's worth of energy, his body rapidly exposed its weakness, his face as pale as paper, his forehead dripping with cold sweat, enduring the pain, Li Xie gritted his teeth tightly, his eyes fixed intently on Zayn Nadir, his fierce gaze, as if he wanted to devour Zayn Nadir!

  Li Xie is a gentle and easy-going person, but he has a stubborn temper. When someone hits him, he will fiercely counterattack. In his wandering life on earth, this temperament has brought him a lot of suffering. Every time he suffers from bullying and beating, he becomes even more fierce, which only makes others hit him harder! However, this temperament of his cannot be changed, and it only applies to humans. If Zayn was in dragon form, Li Xie would probably be terrified, but the person in front of him is a human!

  "Get out of here!"

  Ignoring his physical weakness, Li Xie seemed to have gone mad, and suddenly came up with a national curse, and rushed up from the ground again, opening his mouth to bite at Zayn Nader.

  Now he can only use his fangs to attack!

  Li Xie was just a useless person without magic or aura fluctuations in Zeinard's eyes, and he didn't mind his ferocity. He simply raised his hand to block Li Xie out of the way, then slowly savored Li Xie's futile struggles!

  Li Xie took advantage of the opportunity and bit down on Zeinard's arm!

  The faint stinging sensation from his arm made Zainard extremely angry, and with a sudden burst of strength, he shook off Li Xie's mouth. He then lifted his foot and kicked Li Xie in the abdomen, sending him flying into the air, heavily crashing into the rock wall, and then heavily falling to the ground.

  Li Xie didn't know that even if Zayn transformed into a human form, his physical defense wasn't much worse than his giant dragon form. His skin was as hard as steel, and the vampire's hardest fangs only left two not-too-deep-not-too-shallow tooth marks on Zayn's arm, without even piercing the skin! Yet, this led to Li Xie inviting another round of heavy blows!

  First, his arm was twisted, then his mouth was split open, and he was kicked again. The intense pain stimulated Li Xie's nerves, causing his body to curl up into a ball, his internal organs churning, and he felt like vomiting!

  The energy inside his body was rapidly repairing his injuries, but a large amount of energy was lost in the process. Li Xie was now weak to the point of being on the verge of death!

  Too weak, Li Xie could only turn over, his consciousness had begun to blur, but the fierce tendon did not disappear: "Have a kind, kill me! Damn it!"

  Weak and powerless, yet speaking with a vicious tone, in Zayn's ears, it was simply a joke from an idiot! He didn't bother to respond, coldly saying: "I won't let you die, as long as I'm here, you can't even think of dying! When I advance, I'll be happy to send you on your way!"

  "Ding......Ding......"

  A few metallic thuds made Zaynarde stunned, the arm he was holding turned into charcoal and then black smoke, dispersing directly, leaving behind four space rings that fell to the ground!

  Look at Li Xie's arm again, it has grown back, perfectly intact!

  "Are you not human?! What kind of monster are you?" Zayn Nad was very curious, walked up to Li Xie and stepped on his chest with his foot, looking at Li Xie's intact arm, a hint of disgust in his eyes: "Also a monster!"

  The massive loss of physical energy made Li Xie, the lowest-ranking vampire, start to feel dizzy and weak. Gone was his previous ferocity, replaced by a wave of weakness that invaded his nerves, making him dazed and confused. His consciousness gradually gave way to instinct, leaving him with a parched throat and an extreme hunger!

  "Blood..."

  Instinctively, the demand for blood is just like a starving person who has only one thought in mind - food!

  "Give me blood..."

  A frail and powerless beggar, his strong nerves wouldn't let him faint, but his weak body made him dizzy, his consciousness was now only left with a craving for fresh blood.

  "They're all monsters!" Looking at Li Xie, who was begging on the ground like a dead dog, Zayn's disgusted gaze somehow had a hint of sympathy that shouldn't be there! Seeing him raise his hand, his fingernails scratched open a wound on his own arm: "This monster wants to upgrade, wants revenge, but has to work hard to create opportunities for itself! And you, this bloodthirsty monster, what will happen if you drink blood?"

  Zain's arm wound flowed with golden blood, dripping down his arm onto Li Xie's face. The taste of fresh blood made Li Xie feel like a traveler in the desert who had just found an oasis on the verge of dying from thirst!

  The long tongue licked his face, sucking all the blood that dripped on his face into his mouth. The energy of the fresh blood made Li Xie even more eager, and his body crawled up, his mouth following the direction of the dripping blood upwards, finally biting onto Zeennard's wound!

  More blood gushed into his mouth, stimulating Li Xie's hazy consciousness, making him suck harder!

  Zayn's eyes were fixed on Li Xie, who was sucking his blood like a leech, and he squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Despicable monster!"

  Discriminatory words, but again can't hear the disgust in Zayn's tone, some, just thick hatred!

  "That's enough!"

  Zainnarde felt that his blood had been sucked away for a few seconds, at least one-tenth of it, and he couldn't help but be shocked by the monster's sucking ability! He hastily kicked Li Xie away with one foot, fearing that if he continued to suck, Zainnarde himself would not be able to withstand it!

  Li Xie didn't retreat like before, his body moved straight and parallel, sticking close to the rock wall, with his head lowered!

  "Roar......"

  Li Xie suddenly lifted his head, opened his mouth to reveal two sharp fangs, and let out a low growl from the depths of his throat. His eyes snapped open, and the color of his pupils was not black, but orange!

  The third stage of vampires - Orange-eyed Vampires!

  "Wow! The blood is filled with such vibrant energy!"

  The energy surging inside his body, the feeling of having ample physical strength, finally made Li Ye somewhat understand why he couldn't advance by sucking human blood!

  "The blood of people from other worlds can only provide me with a small amount of energy for some reason, and there's no such energetic energy at all!"

  Zayn Nad was sucked out of one-tenth of his blood by Li Xie, but in fact, one-fifth of the blood that entered his body had already restored the energy that Li Xie's body had lost, and his consciousness also recovered calmness! The rest of the blood, as soon as it entered, immediately turned into surging energy, like a tidal wave sweeping through Li Xie's entire body!

  Never had such a fulfilling feeling of power!

  In the past, drinking human blood only felt icy cool and refreshing, invigorating the spirit, but it didn't have the surging feeling of absorbing Zerenade's blood, like my body was filled with power! And this power instantly flowed throughout my entire body, merging into every cell!

  The blood of the people from other worlds also has this energy, but not much, or rather, Li Xie can't absorb it, and can only use it to recover his body. Zayn's blood, on the other hand, is full of energy, and Li Xie can fully absorb it, which allows him to upgrade!

  Zaynarde is not a human, but a giant dragon. This makes Li Xie realize that he may need to absorb the blood of magical beasts in order to advance, and if the magical beast cannot advance, then it would be necessary to absorb dragon's blood!

  Li Xie looked at Zainnarde, not knowing whether to thank him or resent him. It was Zainnarde's mistake that helped Li Xie advance, yet it was also Zainnarde who almost killed him, and even now the crisis had not been resolved!

  Although Li Xie knew he had leveled up, for the first time leveling up, without comparing with "Vampire's Handbook", he still didn't know what abilities he had. Moreover, although he now felt his whole body was filled with power, compared to a 9th-level giant dragon, it was undoubtedly the difference between an ant and an elephant!

  "Why did you give me blood to drink?" Just a moment ago, Li Xie even thought he was going to die. Zaynarde, this giant dragon, didn't understand how to control his power at all! The injury from that one kick of Li Xie's was even greater than if he had torn off Li Xie's arm! If he hadn't drunk the blood, Li Xie would definitely have died from weakness!

  "What are you?" Zainnarde looked at Li Xie with great interest, he could feel that Li Xie was different from before, his body's vitality was more abundant, his heartbeat was stronger, and the color of his eyes had changed!

  Li Xie sat down, he had already forgotten the hatred of Zeenath's tearing off his arm, after all, it was also Zeenath who saved him and let him know a bit about his own promotion! The favors and grievances cancelled each other out, and the two were no longer related.

  Now Li Xie's priority was to figure out how to stop this damned dragon from hurting him and even let him go!

  "I'm a vampire, in your understanding, anyway, I'm not human." Li Xie sat on the ground, saying casually.

  Zayn Nad also sat down, using a wooden stick to stir the charcoal that was burning with star fire, making the charcoal reignite. However, his voice didn't gain any more passion from the flames, but instead had some melancholy: "Growing up not much different from humans, yet not human, and without human strength, living in human society is very hard, isn't it?"

  Li's eyebrow twitched, and Ze Ennarde's words seemed to have a story behind them! Connecting it to what Duke Avier said, the Dragon Emperor ordered that no one was allowed to help him advance, could it be that this dragon is being ostracized by its own kind?

  Hmph! It's settled then! Let's deceive him!