Above the firmament, Gu Ning stood upon the dragon's head, his black hair wildly fluttering, and his eyes filled solely with maddened killing intent.
"Lin Chen! Today, I will show you the unmatched divine might forged by the power of an entire nation!"
"Ancestral Sacred Dragon·All Laws Submit!"
"Ang——!!!!"
With Gu Ning's furious roar, the Ancestral Sacred Dragon, stretching ten thousand meters long, slowly extended its body.
Each of its purplish-gold dragon scales seemed to transform into a cold, indifferent eye, as countless golden lights erupted simultaneously, weaving into a vast golden net that spanned the sky for thousands of miles!
Under this net, the wind ceased to flow, the clouds stopped drifting, and even the space around Lin Chen was forcibly solidified.
This was an absolute "order" and "control."
Gu Ning intended to use the national power of Cangling Ancient Country to physically erase Lin Chen, the "variable"!
Lin Chen stood on Xiaobai's back, facing the imperial might capable of crushing the heavens, his spine straight as a spear piercing the sky.
"Moo——!!!!"
Xiaobai stood upright, its five-meter tall body as insignificant as dust before the ten-thousand-meter dragon.
Yet the instant its roar echoed, a gray, chaotic aura representing the cosmos's beginnings exploded around it!
It unfurled like a divine or demonic domain, reinstating the ancient might of the Demon Bull.
Ka-cha!
Ka-cha!
The seemingly indestructible golden net shattered into a million golden fragments upon contact with the chaotic aura, like fine porcelain meeting a crude hammer.
"Kill!!!"
The two Super Immortal Beasts clashed without holding back.
Boom boom boom——!!!!!!!
In that moment, no one could describe the sound.
The great silence felt like the world lost its sound for an instant, followed by a deep tremor of the soul.
The sky was torn violently in two.
To the east, purple aura surged, myriad dragons worshipping as the Ancestral Sacred Dragon wielded its nine dragon claws capable of shattering stars, each strike enveloped in torrents of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, light, and darkness — nine rivers of destruction!
To the west, demonic qi soared, chaos ruled as Xiaobai turned into a black-golden aurora, ignoring all attacks and letting thunder and flame crash upon it without harming a single hair.
It did only one thing — charge!
That was pure, extreme power!
"Bang!"
Xiaobai's divine demonic horn slammed into the belly of the Ancestral Sacred Dragon, sending the enormous dragon body flying backward, shattering layers of Void.
"Rip!"
The Ancestral Sacred Dragon countered furiously, its tail like a collapsing heavenly pillar, sweeping Xiaobai into the ground, forming a bottomless crater.
Yet in the next second, Xiaobai burst skyward wrapped in magma, biting through one of the Sacred Dragon's claws!
Dragon blood rained down like a storm, demonic qi rising like beacons.
This was nothing short of a mythic era replay!
"Impossible! This is impossible!"
Gu Ning's hair was disheveled, face bloodied; he watched in horror as the Ancestor Dragon Power he cherished was being dismantled piece by piece by that bull!
He let out his final, desperate cry, plunging his hands into his chest, offering his heart's blood to refine the dragon soul.
"Forbidden Technique: Dragon Transformation Skill of the Holy Lord!"
"Ancestral Sacred Dragon·Exterminate Demons and Gods!"
Buzz——
The world changed color.
The Ancestral Sacred Dragon let out a mournful wail, its body igniting, turning its once brilliant purplish-gold light into a bloody crimson.
It unleashed its nine claws, forcibly dragging nine enormous city shadows from the Void!
These were the nine main cities of Cangling Ancient Country!
In each city shadow seemed to echo the cries and wailing of countless citizens.
Gu Ning channeled the weight, fate, and very lives of the entire nation into this one attack!
The nine cities united, transforming into a "National Destiny Seal" capable of suppressing the ages, descending upon Xiaobai with destructive force!
Under the seal, space was directly annihilated into nothingness, leaving no chance to flee.
Lin Chen watched the descending Nine City Seal, his eyes blazing with cold light.
He didn't retreat, instead taking a step forward, merging minds with Xiaobai.
"Divine Demon·Great Wilderness Unity!!!"
"Moo——!!!!!"
Xiaobai roared to the heavens, the divine demonic vertical eye on its forehead fully opening!
Bang!
Behind it appeared a towering manifestation of the ancient Demon Bull. The manifestation raised its arms, assuming a sky-supporting pose.
Next, on Xiaobai's spiral divine demonic horns, a black light the size of a fist condensed, as if compressing the universe's entire mass.
"Break!"
Zing——
The black light shot upward.
It was tiny, seemingly ant-like before the all-encompassing National Destiny Seal.
Yet when they met.
No thunderous explosion occurred, only a crisp sound —
"Crack."
It was the sound of a collapsing belief.
The National Destiny Seal, symbolizing Gu Ning's ultimate ambition, cracked from the center.
Immediately, countless black demonic runes frantically spread along the fissure.
Boom!!!
The Nine City shadows shattered instantly!
The black light pierced through the National Destiny Seal, transforming into an eternal black beam, striking fiercely into the Ancestral Sacred Dragon's forehead!
Time froze.
The vast body of the Ancestral Sacred Dragon stiffened mid-air, the blood-red in its eyes faded, replaced by the gray lifelessness of death.
"No..."
Gu Ning stared blankly at it all, watching as the enormous dragon under him began to inch by inch crumble, dissolving into a rain of light.
"Pfft——!!!"
The backlash struck.
Gu Ning spat out a towering column of blood, collapsing from the sky, crashing heavily against a shattered boulder below.
He struggled to rise, only to find his body empty.
Defeated.
Utterly and thoroughly defeated.
"Why...why..."
Gu Ning lay on the ground, his vision stained red with blood, glaring deathly at the godlike young figure in the air, eyes filled with venom and unwillingness:
"I do not accept this!"
"I, Gu Ning... am the destiny!!!!"
"I am the one..."
His voice was abruptly cut off.
Gu Ning's head fell weakly, those eyes never closing even in death, fixed on the world he wished to control but ultimately lost.
A generation's National Preceptor, thus fell.
Yet before Lin Chen could even catch his breath from this pyrrhic victory.
"Boom——"
At the very moment Gu Ning died, the sky didn't clear; instead, an even more terrifying thunder erupted.
What had been a dim sky suddenly turned into a nauseating dark purple.
A colossal black chasm, exuding a thick stench of sulfur and blood, slowly tore open at the peak of the firmament.
Lin Chen abruptly looked up, pupils constricted.
This aura... was too familiar to him!
"Demon Realm?!"
Lin Chen was terrified because he knew...
Once the Demon Realm descended, no one in the human world could oppose it.
Currently, the combat power between the human world and the Demon Realm was simply on different levels.
