The Urban Dao Child

The Azure Dragon was floating in the void with his gigantic body wriggling around. The gaze was pointed at Yang Dao, who stood on the ground. The boy had just asked him about how does the dragon differentiates between the reverse scale and the normal ones. The heavenly spirit beast was stunned.

He replied in a deep voice, “This, I…”

Yang Dao her his response and chuckled. He said, “Okay, I was joking with you. Can you tell me what are the rules of this duel?”

The Azure Dragon said, “I will have a strength higher than you. Fairness is just a hoax of imagination. I will be using all four elements. You can fight with me at your full strength without holding back anything. You can pass the trial if you can last for more than ten minutes or defeat me. The choice is yours. However, shall you fail the trial? The Dao will penalize you.”

Yang Dao nodded. Although he did not understand what will be the penalty or how will it be decided, he agreed to the duel. After all, the dragon had said it already. Fairness was a hoax of the imagination. His brain started to move at a super-fast speed and at least ten strategies formed inside his mind. His IQ has taken off to the skies lately. Atsuji Kurogame said, that as he continues to instill the source energy inside his brain. His IQ will keep on rising.

The boy had no thoughts about it. It was okay as long as he can get strong and walk forward. The dragon said, “We start fighting in two breaths.”

The duration of a breath was one second. That means the duel will start after two seconds. Yang Dao was not dazed enough to confuse this time given to him by the dragon and just as two seconds passed, he cast an earth wall around him. The reaction was based on his instinct as he sensed that the dragon was going to attack him with wind blades.

He was sensing everything around him ever since Ryu Jinshi turned into the dragon and was ready to act at the moment’s notice. That is why he could sense the slight moment of the wind. His earth walls were slashed through by hundreds of wind blades. However, Yang Dao was missing from his spot. The azure dragon cast a fire spell on the earth and made it heat up. The heat burnt down the whole plain filled with bluegrass.

Yang Dao, however, was not to be found. The dragons were an arrogant species. They had learned this skill from their ancestors. Arrogance and dominance ran through their veins. This innate arrogance made him underestimate the ingenuity of the Dao Child. The moment the dragon cast the wind blades, Yang Dao had flown up in the air.

He was not detected by the Azure Dragon. How could it be that the heavenly dragon missed an existence as weak as Yang Dao? The boy had cast a spell he learned during these days of practice. When the Dao child discovered that he can manipulate the microparticles of the source energy, he became curious about things.

He began to dabble in the manipulation of light and dark energies. The energies of the laws were different from the source energy of the elements. So they had to be mastered differently. Yang Dao had earned his special eyes and as he discovered them further, he found out that he can manipulate these two energies as well.

What was the most fascinated thought among the teenagers? To become invisible and prank on people. He loved jokes, but he was never good with them or to say he never had the luxury to. So, he started to manipulate the light to make himself invisible. The process of mastering invisibility took him five months, starting from his fingers, hands, and finally in the end, his body.

The first victim was Lisa, whose hair was played by the invisible Yang Dao. The girl was scared and just when she was about to cry Yang Dao stopped his acts. After half an hour only did Lisa forgave him. This was a secret of the two of them. None of the people knew. Laohu Bai was a little suspicious of the growth of his skills, but she did not say anything. After all, which magical person did not have their secrets?

Yang Dao bend the light around him and vanished as he flew into the air. He held his breath as he flew up. After all, what if the heavenly beast sensed his breath and foiled his plans? he made a careful action when he moved. Just like him, the Azure dragon could also sense the movement in the wind. So, he cast a few mini wind blades of his own.

The surrounding wall was cut through, but he made the incoming attacks clash with his wind blades, causing them to be deflected, and he followed them. The Azure Dragon had cast the heat spell, burning down the whole plain of grass. Yang Dao frowned as he saw this.

The azure dragon was too single-minded. He should not have harmed nature like this. He chanted under his breath and a bow appeared in front of him. This bow was the same weapon Laohu Bai gave him. She had taught him a spell to summon the weapon as it will stay in the void until he ascends to the heavenly palace. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀ​ꪶ​

The boy pulled the string back to the full moon and aimed. An arrow condensed out of nowhere. The color was not azure blue but teal. Dao was going to use the combination of two different types of source energies. He even manipulated the light rays around the arrow. The purpose of this move was to make the arrow fast.

Light and dark could provide augmentation to any article the caster wished for. The arrow was augmented by speed and the next moment, Yang Dao released it decisively. The arrow vanished and landed right at the brows of the Azure dragon.

ROARRRR!!!!!

Yang Dao sighed and bitterly said, “Guess that was the reverse scale.”

The roar shook the whole realm. Yang Dao was blasted off just by the shock wave of it. He gazed at the Azure dragon that started to look around with red eyes. Yes, the deep blue eyes turned red as soon as the arrow lodged inside the reverse scale. The body of the heavenly being may be ethereal, but the sensations were all real.

The pain he experienced right now was also real, and it was horrible. When has the Azure Dragon ever suffered so much? He sensed the arrow only after it lodged itself between his scales. Yes, how hard were his scales? Let alone piercing them if the arrow can even scratch them would be a great achievement, but somehow the arrow lodged itself between the two scales.

The pain was terrible and what was even more terrible was that the afflicted area happened to be the soft flesh under his reverse scale. Every dragon had one, and he was no different. He was enraged after this and started to cast elemental spells all around the void and land. The spells had something very odd about them. Yang Dao could see that wherever the spells fell, the world became dead.

Yes, dead. The burning fire stopped as the new wave of spells hit the plain. Yang Dao was overwhelmed by a sense of dread. He did not expect his attack to cause the death of the surroundings. He did not know what was going on, but he could not just let it all go on.

The boy maintained his invisible state and made his way towards the enraged dragon. The onslaught of spells made Yang Dao scared as he advanced. The closer he got to the dragon, the harsher the pressure became. He had a simple idea. That was to take out the arrow, however, to take it out. He needed to reach it.

This was easier said than done. Yang Dao moved forward, but he was constantly pushed back by the powerful roars and shock waves. He could not advance forward and after five minutes, he gave up. While avoiding the attacks, he looked around the dragon and found that the tail was not flickering around as before but stationary.

Something about this situation was not fitting well. Yang Dao opened his dao eyes and looked around. The scene was something he did not comprehend. He found that everything was exactly as it should be, but the colors were reversed. The blob of light was being contained with the rays of darkness.

He focused and soon the scene turned back to how it was supposed to be. The dark rays became light rays and the blobs of light became a spread of the dark. The pressure from the Azure Dragon vanished. Yang Dao’s pupil returned to normal, and he spotted Ryu Jinshi standing in the distance. He floated over to the man and asked, “What happened?”

Ryu smiled and said, “The test was to defeat the Azure Dragon. You destroyed his spiritual image by hitting the reverse scale. The heavenly spirit is only able to come here with limited strength. Not wanting to lose his face. You were put through an illusion. You broke it by using your eyes. So you passed the trial.”

Yang Dao was at a loss after hearing these words.