Chapter 1006: The Ten Great Hidden Abilities, Devouring the True Spirit

The moment the Five-Colored True Spirit’s ventral eye shattered, tearing open a rift that plunged hundreds of kilometers deep, a surge of purple-black radiance exploded.

Boom!

The burst of substance, its surface wreathed in black flames, spread outward and permeated the beast’s mineral-like body. Wherever it passed, the iridescent matter instantly dulled, as if millennia-worn rock had been sapped of all life and vitality.

In the blink of an eye, that purple-black glow had crawled over two thousand kilometers, weaving like countless veins across half of the creature’s belly and relentlessly seeping inward.

Roar!

The True Spirit’s furious cry reverberated through spacetime, and the five-colored radiance within it flared in response. Those principle-level glimmers, brimming with life force, swept back the corrosive fumes and slowed the advance of the toxin, but cleared it far more slowly than the creature’s shattered form could restore itself.

This purple-black force belonged to one of the Destructive Dragon Emperor’s ten high-level laws, the long-overlooked toxin-type law. When it broke through the ancient titan level, each of the ten high-level laws advanced into distinct and uniquely powerful principle-level hidden abilities.

Now, with the fusion of the Chaotic End principle, the might of the Omni-Corrosion ability surged exponentially. It corroded all matter, energy, and life force, including the True Spirit’s principle-forged body.

Boom!

The layered five-colored barriers surrounding the colossal beast shattered. The joints in its hind legs collapsed as the Dragon Emperor suddenly pierced through, forming a gaping hole more than ten kilometers wide and over a hundred kilometers deep.

Deep within that tunnel-like wound, a compressed purple-black fireball exploded, unleashing endless corrosive principle power in all directions.

Roar!

The five-colored true spirit howled again in fury and alarm. From within it erupted six colors of light that illuminated all of space and time, radiating a destructive aura.

Boom!

Like the collapse of a great dam, the six-colored radiance flooded outward from the True Spirit, drowning everything within its reach. Even space itself was assimilated. In an instant, a six-colored ocean spanning a hundred thousand kilometers surged into existence. At its center, the colossal beast, ten thousand kilometers long, roared with a world-shaking wave of power.

With the explosive release of its true spirit origin, the wounds on its abdomen and hind legs instantly regenerated. Even the corrosive black-purple energy was forcefully purged. Despite that, the now Six-Colored True Spirit's gaze grew solemn as it locked onto the being ahead.

Amid the ocean formed from its origin, that seemingly insect-sized, fifty-thousand-meter-long beast stood upright. Red light shimmered around the Dragon Emperor, and three-colored lightning danced along its form, emanating an aura of absolute destruction that disintegrated all it touched. Even the True Spirit principle origin that filled the surroundings were annihilated, forming a ten-thousand-kilometer-wide domain of chaotic destruction.

With only the briefest moment of tension between them, the two true spirits clashed again. The Six-Colored True Spirit roared, and its ten-thousand-kilometer body split with cracks. Crystalline eyes, shimmering like colored gems, emerged all across its form.

Hum!

Tens of thousands of eyes flashed with colored light, releasing dazzling brilliance and space-distorting ripples.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

In an instant, the void around the Dragon Emperor collapsed. One after another, rainbow-colored beams of light blasted outward like a barrage of cannons, engulfing the heavens and earth. They were condensed from the True Spirit’s burning origin, drawing on the power of six elemental principles. Each carried overwhelming destructive force.

Having witnessed the Dragon Emperor’s near-invincible physical defense and the all-resisting Chaotic Force Field, the beast had quickly devised a counter, to obliterate it with pure origin. No matter how strong a force field was, it was still composed of principles and energy. If the attack was sufficiently intense and massive, it could overwhelm the defense.

However, despite unleashing an ocean of beams capable of annihilating tens of thousands of kilometers in an instant, they still failed to catch up to the Dragon Emperor.

Boom!

Even within the range dyed by the true spirit origin, the Dragon Emperor ignored all hindrances and appeared atop the True Spirit’s back in an instant. Both claws crackled with blood-red, black, and golden-red lightning, smashing down to destroy everything beneath them.

Boom!

Half a mountain range collapsed with a thunderous roar. Countless multicolored crystal ores shattered, forming a crater several hundred kilometers wide as fissures extended outward for over a thousand kilometers. At the same time, raging purple-black flames erupted between the claws, exuding a corrosive aura capable of dissolving all things.

Hum!

Just as the Dragon Emperor’s assault paused, the countless eyes hidden across the surrounding mountains burst with light. This time, they didn’t release beams. Instead, layer upon layer of transparent ripples surged outward.

This was the same move the True Spirit had used by stomping down with both hooves. It carried a power capable of suppressing time and space and obliterating all things.

Yet, the moment those ripples, nearly reaching the speed of light, spread out, the Dragon Emperor had already vanished once more, leaving behind only a reverberating distortion of space and the crumbling mountains on the beast’s back.

Upon breaking through to the ancient titan level, the Dragon Emperor had awakened ten principle-imbued abilities. Each one was terrifying in its own right, whether it was the Chaotic Tyrant Body, which unleashed the full might of its physical form; or the Indestructible Vajra, which rendered its defense invincible against any peer-level attack; or even the Power of Undying, which allowed it to resurrect twice at the moment of death. There was also the Dark-Red Destruction, the Electromagnetic Tyrant that drew in the power of heaven and earth, and the nearly unmatched speed of Instant Divine Movement.

However, the Dragon Emperor had rarely encountered opponents that forced it into an all-out battle. Most of the time, it simply crushed everything with absolute power. Under such circumstances, these principle-level hidden abilities were rarely ever used, but today, facing a middle-stage true spirit with a vast and resilient true world form, they were finally brought to bear.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Relying on its terrifying speed that ignored all obstacles and transcended time itself, the Dragon Emperor evaded every one of the True Spirit's attacks. Hundreds of clones appeared around the colossal beast. Its ferocious, razor-sharp claws tore through everything. The tail blade slashed space and time, leaving behind massive wounds dozens to hundreds of kilometers long.

To the True Spirit, such wounds were mere scratches, but each strike embedded the destructive, corrosive power of death into its body, drawing furious roars from deep within. The purple flames fused with the Chaotic End principle were unspeakably dreadful. They annihilated all vitality and rapidly corroded the beast’s principle-infused body.

In response, the True Spirit had no choice but to continuously release its vast life force, to purge the spreading death power. At this point, the battle had entered a stage of attrition, though the stronger Dragon Emperor clearly held the upper hand.

The True Spirit’s roars echoed endlessly through the heavens, along with beams of multicolored light that swept across the world, destroying everything in their path. The battle devastated nearly a million kilometers in every direction. The sky collapsed, and the ground fractured.

The invisible waves of destruction and the trembling principle power that distorted space-time caused even the other colossal beasts locked in fierce combat to feel a chill of dread.

Boom!

The Ancient Magma Dragon, its body flowing with golden molten rock, roared. Each of its four claws contained the weight of a world as it slammed the Three-Headed Golden Colossal Dragon to the ground with a thunderous crash.

Roar! Roar! Roar!

The Magma Dragon’s nine heads roared in unison. Three heads bit into the Golden Dragon’s necks, erupting with an explosion like a nuclear blast. At the same time, the remaining six heads glowed brightly, unleashing five streams of dark-golden lava that engulfed the Golden Dragon below.

𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Roar!

Within the blinding light, agonized screams echoed through the heavens. As it began using its principle-infused dragon breath to destroy the suppressed Golden Dragon's true form, the Magma Dragon’s last head turned toward the distance, eyes filled with horror.

Far away, that region of space and time had been obliterated. The land fractured into layers, and shockwaves filled the air, making even ancient titans tremble.

Too strong. So this is the power a true spirit possesses.

Compared to ancient titans, true spirits wielded near-invincible strength. The only reason the Dragon Emperor was suppressing the True Spirit was because it was stronger. Under normal circumstances, ancient titans didn’t even qualify to stand beside a true spirit.

Surrounding the True Spirit was a domain of multicolored spatial barriers spanning ten thousand kilometers, composed of over nine hundred layers of principle barrier. It was so powerful that even ancient titans couldn’t shake it.

Even a powerhouse like Tyretis, who had broken the limits of the ancient titan level, would only barely be able to destroy a few layers, and the domain would regenerate faster than it could tear them down. This wasn’t even mentioning the all-encompassing principle power filling the heavens and earth, or the various abilities that suppressed all beneath them.

Yet all of this strength only applied to beasts below the true spirit level. For someone of equal level or stronger, like the Dragon Emperor, these defenses were meaningless. Had it not been for the sheer size of its opponent’s true world form, the Dragon Emperor would have already torn it apart like it had done to so many others before.

As the brutal battle dragged on, half a day passed. The True Spirit’s roars gradually weakened, and the glow that once shone from its body had begun to dim. At the center of the chaotic battlefield, the ten-thousand-kilometer-long True Spirit was covered in massive wounds, some stretching two to three thousand kilometers, gouged hundreds or even thousands of kilometers deep. Even its skull had partially collapsed. Two pairs of massive horns had snapped off, leaving it in a wretched state.

More importantly, those wounds were shrouded in dense purple-black mist. This black fog linked together vast swathes of the beast’s body, dissolving all life force with corrosive power.

The six-colored ore veins across its hide faded into a lifeless gray-white stone under the slow corrosion. Even when brilliant colored light burst from within, flooding its entire form, it still couldn’t instantly recover. It could only gradually drive out the corrosive force devouring it.

At this rate, it was only a matter of time before the True Spirit fell.

Boom!

The True Spirit let out a savage roar. It once again radiated dazzling light, drawing upon the power of this world to charge straight at the Dragon Emperor. Its sweeping form shattered the chaotic energy streams around it, generating wave after wave of mountainous shockwaves that crashed in all directions.

This strike contained enough power to shatter a planet the size of Jupiter, yet this time, the Dragon Emperor didn’t evade. It erupted with crimson light, making the Dark-Red World behind it appear even more vivid. Within that world, a massive shadow stood upright, watching the battle. It looked as though it could descend across dimensions at any moment.

Boom!

As the two colossal beasts collided, a force that compressed and shattered space-time erupted. The entire world within a million kilometers shook violently. Compared to the enormous True Spirit, the Dragon Emperor looked as small as an insect. Yet after that strike, it stood unmoved, radiating an incomparably dreadful aura of destruction.

Instead, it was the True Spirit that suffered. The gray-white stone on its shoulder crumbled on a massive scale, countless hardened fragments breaking off and crashing down below.

Just then, a savage glint flared in the beast’s eyes. The side of its neck cracked open, revealing a massive, grotesque maw that tore across half its body, gleaming with seven-colored light.

From that abyss-like mouth, a devouring force erupted again. This time, it was magnified dozens of times in power. Space-time within ten thousand kilometers collapsed, forming a giant funnel that twisted everything. All matter and energy vanished into the gaping maw.

At the same time, as the seven-colored radiance bloomed, the entire world abruptly solidified. Streams of light gathered across millions of kilometers, casting the world into a seven-colored domain.

In that instant, drawing upon the full might of the Five-Colored Empire, with its true spirit origin fully expended, the beast unleashed a final blow that froze and suppressed all of existence, including the Dragon Emperor standing beneath the Dark-Red World.

This was the True Spirit's long-prepared ultimate strike. If it could just swallow that red beast into its body, it could rely on its principle energy—tens of thousands of times more than its opponent’s—to grind the Dragon Emperor down, reversing the outcome.

You think killing me is that simple?

A deep, resonant growl echoed through the world as the Dragon Emperor silently cracked apart. Even its unmatched scales fractured. A tidal wave of black light erupted from it, and an aura of annihilation and great destruction burst forth.

In that moment, the entire world was reduced to one thing: a black hole endlessly expanding to consume it all. At its center, a massive draconic head, over a hundred thousand kilometers long, slowly emerged.

It was the Terminal Dark Devourer ability. In that instant, by burning ninety percent of its divine soul and principle origin, the Dragon Emperor’s power surged to an unimaginable level. It had nearly become the incarnation of destruction itself, ushering in the Endbringer Descent. With a deafening bite, it tore through space-time and swallowed the now Seven-Colored True Spirit’s entire body in one gulp.

However, just as the Dragon Emperor devoured the True Spirit, the beast’s ten-thousand-kilometer-long body erupted. The entire world trembled violently as its true world form self-detonated. The energy it released directly obliterated the black-hole-like dragon head.

Boom!

A cataclysmic roar resounded through the heavens. The apocalyptic shockwave swept across a million kilometers like a supernova, its radiant light engulfing the world.

Roar!

A furious, unwilling howl shook the realm. Amid the infinitely expanding radiance, a nine-colored figure soared into the sky.

Just then, a massive shadow smashed through the void. A ferocious maw snapped open, a black hole swirling inside it, and it bit down savagely, ripping off a chunk of that nine-colored figure.

Yet killing a true spirit was never so easy. While the Dragon Emperor tore off a portion of the True Spirit, the rest of it—now nearly pure energy—vanished into the chaotic currents of space-time, disappearing into the depths.

Roar!

The red colossal beast standing tall above the sky raised its head and roared. Its massive body was fractured and broken, and the space beneath its feet continuously shattered and rebuilt itself in an endless cycle of collapse and renewal. Its entire being radiated a storm of vicious, overwhelming pressure that shook the very stars.