Chapter 563 - The Divine Dragons Appear (Part 2)

Lu Ran watched the impending attack in horror. He scrambled to make his way back into the Stellar Moon World. Even though he had been preparing for this, there was no way to get out of this unscathed.

Even Six-Path Flower landed in Stellar Moon World injured and tattered. Its Hell Domain shook, and everyone outside was forcibly ejected.

“What is happening?”

The haggard Hel and Ice Emperor staggered out with #18. They were shocked to see the condition of the outside world, along with Lu Ran and Six-Path Flower’s battered state. Stellar Moon looked like it was going through an apocalypse.

The once-peaceful world had been transformed into a wasteland. The air was laden with dust and suffocating. Countless natural disasters rained destruction around the world. The populace descended into terror.

“Do not panic. We are simply smoking out the heretic. There’s nowhere left for him to escape now.”

The Elemental Gods communicated with their subjects to quell some of the unrest, which proved to be largely effective.

𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Lu Ran also heard what the Elemental Gods said. He turned to Hel and the others with a smirk on his face.

“Sounds about right. They couldn’t win a game of hide and seek, so they decided to nuke the entire playground.”

Hel: ???

Ice Emperor: ???

Pfft.

Lu Ran suddenly staggered and spat out a mouthful of blood. He knew that the gods were going all out to hunt him down, but he managed to evade them once more with Time Shield. Now the backlash finally hit him, and he really overused it this time.

“Those bastards.” Lu Ran wiped the blood from his lips.

“Six-Path Flower, make some adjustments. Send those two back, and we’ll continue hiding. We can keep dragging this out, but we don’t need to hide anymore.”

Six-Path Flower pressed a hand against her forehead.

“The Divine Dragons shouldn’t be far from awakening.”

“What are y’all pla—?” Hel suddenly gasped. Her Sky Dragon’s Scale had started emitting a blinding light.

Lu Ran took a deep breath and pulled out the Stone of the Other Shore, which had also started reacting by emitting a ghostly glow. He froze briefly before bursting into unrestrained laughter.

“See? I told you—they’re coming!” he shouted as he turned to Hel and Ice Emperor.

The Elemental Gods had wreaked havoc across the Stellar Moon Void and punctured the world barriers. They finally caused a big enough commotion to awaken the four Divine Dragons! Knowing that the Divine Dragons’ awakening was imminent, Lu Ran became even more arrogant. He summoned Dark Crow and used it as a broadcasting system.

"Death is upon you!"

Spiritual Word energy rippled across the entire world and into the ears of every living being.

"It’s him again!" Believers from various nations had just been placated by the gods, but were once again distressed by the reappearance of the necromancer. They feared that Lu Ran would soon target them next.

From what they knew, Lu Ran had gone on a full-blown killing spree that not only felled gods but also various elemental creatures that served them. What if the indiscriminate slaughter were to soon descend upon them as well?

"Ice God, please freeze him to death!"

"Lightning God, please smite him!"

"Light God, please cleanse the world of his sins."

Countless believers knelt in prayer to assuage their fears. To most people, Lu Ran was nothing more than a terrorist. They wished for the gods to quickly step in and subdue him.

"Find him!" The Elemental Gods intensified their efforts to search for Lu Ran while nullifying the Spiritual Word effects. However, Lu Ran wasn’t just going to sit quietly and continued to send out messages using Dark Crow’s voice.

"Not only have you shattered the world order, but you have even broken the world barrier. You have exposed the entire world to the dangers of the void. We will now be targeted by vicious void beasts from the depths of the cosmos. I, the Legendary necromancer, Lu Ran, hereby declare the Elemental Gods guilty of crimes against all living things!"

Lu Ran's words shocked everyone who heard them. How could a human declare gods to be guilty? Was this a joke? Who did he think he was?

The Elemental God couldn't help but sneer.

Suddenly, a hole in spacetime opened up and dazzling light poured out of it, encompassing the entire world. It felt as if it contained limitless power, and no one dared to look directly at it, even the Light elementals.

As it spread, space began to tremble as if it were withstanding a tremendous impact. Four dragons slowly emerged from the portal. Their immense bodies wove through the air and appeared as if they were adorned with stars, mirroring the depiction found in the eastern parts of Blue Planet.

From the body of each divine dragon radiated a boundless power—one of Life, Death, Time, or Space. Together, they seemed to form the very foundation of the universe.

The Life Dragon shone with emerald green light and brimmed with vitality, its eyes full of life.

The Death Dragon was pitch black, emanating a cold, deathly aura. Its eyes were deep and hollow, as if they sought to consume all life. The world stilled at its arrival, as if awaiting its judgment.

The Time Dragon was a brilliant gold, and power flowed through it like an immense river. Its eyes could see all that was and all that would be. Once it fully descended, its face distorted into a frown.

Finally, there was the Space Dragon, pure white with eyes that mirrored the galaxies. In its presence, the world barrier rapidly mended itself, and it unleashed a pressure that forced all living things to bow before it.

"The messenger of the Life Dragon greets the four Supreme Divine Dragons!"

The world was calmed by the appearance of the Divine Dragons. Even the Light and Dark Gods didn’t know how to react. Hel nervously swallowed while Lu Ran slowly raised the Stone of the Other Shore.

The four Divine Dragons cast an indifferent gaze at Lu Ran, but to him, it felt like being crushed by a mountain. Lu Ran was covered in a cold sweat as he endured the immense pressure.

Six-Path Flower didn’t dare to utter a peep from behind him. It had never experienced such a terrifying pressure, even when facing the Chaos Dragon God and Divine Tree.

“You hold a token of the Death Dragon but claim to be the messenger of the Life Dragon. How peculiar.”

The Life and Death Dragon looked at Lu Ran in confusion, while the Time and Space Dragon appeared to have a much better understanding of the world around them. They looked through the world, observing each of the Elemental Gods.

“Disrupting the world order, damaging the world barrier. Your guilt is irrefutable.”

These words made everyone’s mind go blank. No one expected the necromancer to have such a deep background. He was actually a messenger of the mythical Divine Dragons that had existed since the days of creation.

The Elemental Gods had already steeled themselves to resist the Divine Dragons and overturn the existing world order, but at this moment, all of their resolve collapsed.

“How can they possibly be so powerful? Light should be...”

The Light God tried to spread its wings, but countless transparent cubes appeared around it and devoured all of the light it emitted. The cubes proliferated before finally engulfing it, at which point it was banished into an unknown space and sealed away.

Boom!

A similar fate soon befell the Dark God. It tried to turn itself into a black hole to devour everything around it, but it suddenly froze in place as if time had stopped before being submerged into the river of time.

The demise of those two made the other Elemental Gods and their followers reel in shock. The Divine Dragons’ next words were even more devastating. Even Lu Ran was caught off guard.

“Who is capable of manifesting this fragment of the past and creating a projection of us in this reality? Even replicating our strength to such a degree?” the Time Dragon slowly asked.

As soon as those words fell, the ascension realm quaked despite being open for just a few days.

[Warning! The ascension realm has been detected by a powerful lifeform’s projection while the realm is in operation! Beginning repair. Repair failed. The realm will now forcibly shut down.]

[Ascension and Legendary quests will be terminated early.]

Lu Ran’s mind reeled in disbelief, and before he could react, the Divine Dragons unleashed overwhelming power and suppressed the system announcement.

The still dazed Lu Ran was dragged into a realm where time didn’t exist. A dragon towered over each cardinal direction and stared at him intensely.

“Only a truly powerful existence could manifest phantoms of us. It might even be more powerful than our original form. Its sole purpose for creating us was for this human. Besides him, nothing else in this world is real.”