In the darkness, Aric felt cold all over, as if he was back in the ice and snow. He walked aimlessly, his whole body shrouded in a layer of black smoke. He wanted to escape, but he couldn't get out.
Suddenly, a fiery red sun appeared in the sky, followed by another one side by side. But Aric couldn't feel any warmth at all.
The light emitted by the two scorching suns could not illuminate his surroundings, as if it had been sucked away by the darkness. The sun suddenly disappeared, and reappeared suddenly the next second.
Just like that, it disappears and reappears, appears and disappears again. Aric was afraid that the light would disappear and never appear again, so he ran wildly in that direction, not daring to stop for a moment.
It was getting closer, and his surroundings changed from darkness to dimness, with a hint of light.
Gradually, he stopped.
As it got closer, Aric realized that it was not the sun at all, but a pair of blinking eyes! In the dim space, a huge outline gradually became clear, from a head similar to a giant crocodile, a body like a giant python, and sharp claws...
Until the very end, that layer of dark scales hinted at who it was. That's a black dragon!
Aric recognized it; it was the terrifying creature he had once seen under Antarctica!
"Roar!"
A dragon roared, shaking the entire space. Its huge mouth opened, revealing two rows of terrifying sharp teeth, as if it was going to devour him alive in the next second.
Aric was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, shaking all over. The black dragon twisted its body, and with great power, it crushed the world, causing a series of "booming" explosions around it.
It seemed to be running wild, soaring into the air and rushing towards Aric.
"Crash!"
The sound of metal colliding continued to ring out. Suddenly, more than a dozen chains thicker than an adult appeared and locked the black dragon tightly, making it useless no matter how it struggled.
"Buzz!" Suddenly, a square formation appeared around the black dragon, and a powerful pressure descended from the sky, suppressing it directly to the ground.
The pressure continued, the black dragon's face was distorted, and no matter how it struggled, it was useless. After a while, it finally gave in.
"Stop it!" The black dragon spoke in human language, but no one knew who it was talking to. Judging from its expression, it seemed to be in great pain.
Aric listened carefully, the dragon was actually speaking. After a long time, the pressure that suppressed the black dragon finally disappeared.
With a "clatter", the black dragon moved its body, causing the chains to make a noise. Aric stood there in a daze for a long time.
Am I dreaming? But how can this dream be so real? The black dragon's eyes, like the sun and the moon, fell on Aric, making him feel cold all over.
"How about we make a deal, little guy?"
The black dragon's words were like thunder, bringing Aric back to his senses from his shock.
"Wh…what deal?"
Aric calmed down and asked.
"Let me out, I can cure your blood cancer and give you supreme power."
Hearing this, Aric fell silent. It doesn't matter what the power is; what attracted him was the condition that he could cure his own blood cancer.
Just as he was hesitating, the black dragon continued to tempt him, "If you make a deal with me, you still have a chance to live. If you don't, I'm afraid you only have three months left to live."
"Why am I here? What is this place?" Aric did not agree directly, but instead asked the question in his mind.
"This is the Ten Directions Demon Body. You came in on your own."
The black dragon replied calmly.
"Evil Suppression Art- Ten Directions Demon Body!"
Aric's whole body trembled. He clearly remembered that the ancient box had entered his body, which was the so-called Ten Directions Demonic Body.
There's a dragon sealed inside me?
He wondered in his heart, what is the Ten Directions Demon Body? What are the characteristics of this evil-suppressing weapon? Thinking of this, a thought suddenly emerged.
Ten-Direction Demon Body: Derived from an ancient god, one of the ten ancestral-level evil-suppressing bodies, capable of suppressing all evil creatures in the world. Each area is sealed, indestructible.
The holder has currently revived the magic box characteristics and cause & effect characteristics.
Characteristics of the magic box: According to the concentration of evil energy absorbed by the holder, and the level of killing and sealing evil spirits, a magic box of the corresponding level can be condensed, and the sealed evil spirit will condense a magic box every day.
The higher the level of the magic box, the better the items obtained.
The more magic boxes you open at the same time, the greater the chance of obtaining special items.
Causal characteristics: When using the items in the magic box, there is a probability that a certain causal blessing will be triggered on the user.
All the information ended here, and Aric's heart was in turmoil. He knew that only by becoming an evil-control master could one condense the Evil-Suppressing Art. Now he was just an ordinary person, but he actually possessed an Evil-Suppressing Art, and it was an ancestral-level Evil-Suppressing Wu.
What kind of existence was this? Aric didn't know. His thoughts turned, and he thought again, if he became a master of controlling evil in the future, would he be able to condense another evil-suppressing weapon?
Just as he was lost in thought, the black dragon's voice rang out again.
"Little guy, do you agree or not?"
Aric raised his head and looked upwards, and when he looked at the terrifying creature again, he didn't seem so scared anymore.
It's all sealed inside my body, so why is it still so arrogant? He looked indifferent and acted like a nonchalant person.
"I have to crane my neck to communicate with you, which is... too tiring."
When he spoke the latter part, he drew out the tone, and there was a hint of laziness in his words.
Hearing this, the corner of the black dragon's mouth twitched, and two huge streams of dragon breath spurted out of his nose, spreading towards the surroundings like a blazing wave.
When this terrifying air wave approached Aric, it was separated by an invisible force and could not reach him.
As the saying goes, people have to bow their heads under the eaves, and the same goes for dragons.
The black dragon was filled with rage and reluctantly coiled down. When it landed on the same level as Aric, the latter lowered his body and sat cross-legged again.
"I'm tired of standing. Sit down for a while." The black dragon's eyes were blazing with fire, and it almost went berserk, but unfortunately... it was useless.
If it makes even the slightest unusual move, the power of the seal will torment it to the point of death. Rather than this, it's better to just be quiet.
The black dragon's mouthful of dragon teeth made a crunching sound as it bit. In desperation, it bent down again and finally lowered its proud head.
Even though the black dragon's chin was touching the ground, the sitting Aric was not as tall as the dragon's mouth. The dragon's head was too big.
"Oh, I'm tired of sitting. Let me lie down for a while." As he spoke, Aric stretched out his legs and was about to lie down.
"That's enough, kid! I'm already on the ground!" Seeing that this guy was about to lie down again, the black dragon was so upset that he really wanted to bite him to death.
Aric had lowered his head before and didn't look carefully. After hearing these words, he looked up. Oh my god, I saw a dragon head lying on the ground in front of me, with a ferocious expression as if it wanted to eat someone.
"Ah, it's already at the bottom. Sorry." Aric smiled awkwardly and scratched his head.
"What deal did you just say?" Seeing that he got back to the point, the black dragon's expression finally eased a lot.
"If you let me out, I can cure your blood cancer and give you supreme power!" Aric shook his head and sneered.
"You expect me to let you go for this little favor? Like sending away a beggar?" Although the black dragon was dissatisfied, he could only endure it temporarily when he heard that there was a possibility of continuing the negotiation.
"What else do you want?"
Aric thought for a moment, then said, "Give me some magical skills, magical artifacts, elixirs, and the like."
Upon hearing this, the black dragon's forehead became even darker, and its fangs made a "clacking" sound. Seeing its expression, Aric understood.
"No? There's no deal going on when there's nothing going on. What a waste!"
The black dragon's eyes were blazing with fire, but it calmed down again and again, and finally suppressed its anger once again.
"Not to mention how dangerous the era of the resurrection of evil is, the blood cancer in your body can kill you at any time. If you make a deal with me, I can immediately cure your blood cancer and grant you power beyond that of a god-level evil master!"
"Isn't that enough?"
"I am immortal. Even the ancestral-level Suppressing Evil Art can only seal me here. Even if you don't agree, I can just wait until you die and the Ten Directions Demon Body welcomes the next owner. Then I can make a deal with him."
Aric frowned, feeling that what the black dragon said was not false.
"Immortality? How long have you lived?"
The black dragon raised its head, looking proud again.
"Aeons have passed in the blink of an eye. I can't remember them all."
"I only remember the last time evil revived. Your species didn't exist in this world. Back then, there were only a bunch of lizard-like creatures. Some could fly, some had very long necks, and some looked a bit like me."
Aric felt a loud bang in his head and froze in place in shock.
"Are you talking about dinosaurs?"
"It's been so long, I can't remember what they were called..."
How could it not be far away? It can be traced back to more than 200 million years ago.
The black dragon continued, "During this period, I don't know how many times the evil spirit has revived. It's a pity that I have been sealed this entire time..."
As he spoke, the black dragon sighed, with a somewhat sad tone.
"I want freedom! Do you understand freedom?"
Aric was speechless. What the hell is freedom? If this guy were let out, who knows what kind of disaster would happen and how many people would die. That's what he thought, but of course he wouldn't say it out loud.
"What if I let you go and you don't fulfill your promise? You're so powerful, I can't do anything to you."
The black dragon said solemnly and decisively: "I will keep my word!"
Aric shook his head with a look of disdain.
"How about this? You pay half the deposit first, and you give me the other half after I release you. How about that?"
The black dragon raised his eyebrows and asked, "Deposit?"
"First, you cure my blood cancer, then I will release you, and then you can grant me power beyond the divine level."
The black dragon was silent for a while, then nodded in agreement after a moment.
"Good!"
Hearing this, Aric's eyes lit up. He didn't expect that this dragon was so easy to fool. The black dragon rose into the sky, and its tail swept across, shaking the sealed area.
Then, with a "puff" sound, a black, ominous object was thrown out from the dragon's tail and flew towards Aric, scaring him so much that he stepped back repeatedly.
A large mass of black, sticky, gooey substance landed in front of Aric. It looked...
"What's this?"
"Silas! It's a natural treasure. If you eat it, it will completely cure all your illnesses."
Aric was so angry that his liver ached, and he raised his finger and pointed at the black dragon.
"You…you…you… Do you really think I am uneducated? The so-called "Silas" is dragon dung!"
"Humph! A gentleman... does not accept food given out of pity!"
The black dragon also snorted coldly, and its momentum suddenly changed, with endless pressure rolling in.
"Do you really think I don't know what you're thinking?"
"Just wait, my other half will come back to find you!"