Dem Zarn roared with all the power of an Empyrean and his draconic bloodline. With his black robes billowing backward, he looked like a demon straight from hell. All of reality seemed to bow before the power of the Chaos Dragon; even Mistie and the counselors felt frightened by that primordial power.
Everyone could feel the overwhelming hatred radiating from him. On planet Gloom, everyone below the divine realm, even from a huge distance, felt fear and trepidation, their blood seeming to boil with an imminent explosion.
At the same time, Alm and Bruno watched the demon silently. They instinctively felt something; something hidden was inside him, and they couldn’t let their guard down. With their experience, both knew it would be very hard to kill him.
’That bastard Dragon is cunning; he made sure his disciple wouldn’t die somehow. Breaking his defenses will be very tough; we’ll have to compete with raw power,’ Bruno huffed.
Alm spoke calmly. ’It’s fine; that spear is a treasure, and he has other good things. It would be a shame to break them. We have many mouths to feed; let’s just take them. Maybe he’ll come back with more gifts.’
’...’
Buzz.
"Nullify his aura," Mistie said quickly, and all the counselors around woke up and withdrew. They spread out with their divine realm peak cultivation, protecting the planet from any external fluctuations.
The counselors looked at Mistie with a mix of relief and bewilderment. Relief because she seemed to have given up on attacking and killing Dem Zarn; so, even if he died in this fight, the Shadow God sect couldn’t use it to retaliate directly, as it was a fair fight between disciples of the middle realm.
The bewilderment came because, with just a few words, this half-human made this extremely dominant Fey retreat without contesting; they had never seen her accept something so easily, as she usually roared and made others comply with her demands.
"Were the rumors true?" a small Fey counselor murmured, "Did this human really deal with her, after all this time..."
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! Focus on the orders!" Mistie roared angrily, and everyone fell silent. The rumors really had wings.
The whale in front just watched the demon radiating power and yawned slightly. "Why are you acting so grand? A grand entity wouldn’t have been beaten and left all its allies to die... twice."
"Hmph, I remember you fleeing, you bastard! Let’s see where you run to now. A monk can flee, but your temple won’t."
Space buzzed, and behind Dem Zarn, the void opened up. Suddenly, a primordial roar shook the cosmos. The spear in his hand stirred, releasing a bright light; made of bones, it now looked like ivory fangs, as if a real dragon had awakened in his hands.
’Ruri, Rehvka, Thea, and Corin, get ready; the rest retreat,’ the whale’s words echoed through the array.
Everyone not called retreated, clenching their fists. They weren’t conquerors, and in this battle, they could die easily; soon, they fell behind and felt like a burden.
Even Kaiyka fell back. Despite having the power to kill a conqueror, she wasn’t an idiot. Dem Zarn knew she and Rehvka could kill him; if he dared to stay and fight, it was because he was prepared to deal with them. Thea didn’t have a real body; even if everything was destroyed, Ruri or the whale could protect her core, and she would survive. Her attacking power was valuable.
Alm and Bruno didn’t dare be careless. The moment everyone else retreated, the whale’s eyes lit up, and the sound of heartbeats resonated throughout the cosmos.
The moment the Behemoth’s bloodline was pushed to its limit, a terrifying aura erupted, forming a pillar of light that split time and space. Two primordial powers clashed, and any cultivator in a vast region of the galaxy could see that phenomenon.
"Heavens, that’s frightening!"
Disciples, elders, and any cultivator at a great distance on the planet looked up in shock. All of this was just from the two of them unleashing their maximum power.
Everything around the planet started to warp. This wasn’t the conventional power of a cultivator; it was something from the primordial power of two mythological beasts. Even Mistie and the most powerful had to give their all to match it, but these two... they had just entered the divine realms...
The two auras were rising wildly, giving the feeling of two ancient monsters roaring at each other, trying to suppress each other. This primordial aura was essentially formed by bloodline, supplemented by will, creating overwhelming pressure. It was the best technique to suppress opponents without even fighting.
It took only a few seconds for the white, draconic power to start trembling and retreating before the brown earth fluctuations. The demon looked at the whale, which seemed relaxed but whose will was apparently limitless, almost like a sword aiming to pierce the dome of the sky, with nothing able to block it.
Dem Zarn’s hatred had reached its peak. He planned to crush him body and soul, making him feel endless despair, crushing him like an ant. He possessed the bloodline of a primordial Dragon; what could be superior to that? How could this half-human be so much stronger than him?
His fury exploded completely. "DIE!"
Suddenly, one of them tore through the void and disappeared.
The whale waved, pulling out a saber and slashing sideways, causing the void to explode, revealing that enemy’s heritage-level spear. The space around the whale distorted, as if the world couldn’t handle this level of power.
"Is this all?!"
The whale spoke slowly. At that very moment, Dem Zarn felt as if his organs were turning inside him, and a sweet taste rose to his throat, almost making him vomit blood.
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Everyone watching from a distance forgot to breathe. They saw the whale holding the saber with just one arm and blocking that terrifying demon with an even more terrifying weapon, as if he were a child with a stick.
Suddenly, the whale moved his arm, and with a simple motion, the sound of bones breaking was heard. Dem Zarn was thrown away, spitting blood. At that moment, Mistie and all the counselors had truly scared expressions.
’Is this the physique of a human? He’s half-human, half primordial beast?’ Everyone thought in sync. Little did they know that they were partially correct, but the whale’s power didn’t come from that... that was just the surface.
Dem Zarn stopped in mid-air, dozens of meters away. He quickly stabilized and turned to face the whale, his eyes wide with fear. His physique using the Dragon bloodline was extreme... but... this whale had just moved and instantly caused severe internal impact on him.
How could this human be so strong? Before, he could physically contend with him, and it was already terrifying enough that they reached a stalemate. Now that his master had improved his bloodline and he was even more powerful than before... but it seemed like the whale had multiplied his power thousands of times, and he couldn’t block a single one of its attacks.
This made Dem Zarn feel an explosion of helplessness. He had now been thrown away and lost all his allies. "This humiliation will be washed away with blood..."
He murmured and made a move, slashing his wrist. Black blood with small white runes dripped onto that spear. Suddenly, it was as if the world went silent, and the only thing that existed was that spear.
"Only one Immortal Spear at the heritage level has such power..." A female Fey counselor from the Feral Fey clan murmured, stunned; she was the youngest counselor and had never seen, knowing very little about a weapon of this level.
"This bone was refined from the fangs of a very powerful demonic beast from an ancient era that no longer exists. Almost all weapons of this level have terrifying origins to exist. Besides its unparalleled hardness and weight, an ancestral immortal weapon completely merges with its user. Part of the power of the ancient beast when it was alive is transferred to the wielder. Probably, its cultivation was at the peak, and with Dem Zarn’s exalted blood used as fuel, it can reveal its full strength. If this demon were three realms higher, even though still much weaker, we would be in danger being attacked by it." An older counselor replied with a sigh.
At that moment, a sinister smile spread across Dem Zarn’s face. "Try blocking me now!"
BOOM!!!!
The space shattered with the spear’s forward movement. The whale narrowed its eyes, and its expression changed for the first time. Vorion moved, and the Yin and Yang tattoos on his fists glowed.
A violent shock along with a piercing sound almost made everyone on the planet bleed from their ears. The two weapons clashed, and the two figures stood facing each other.
Then, Mistie and the counselors took a deep breath as they looked ahead... they saw the whale being slowly pushed back, clearly at a disadvantage.