Chapter 1092: Devouring a Planet, The Detached World (II)

Boom!

A pressure erupted from the Dragon Emperor of the End, so fearsome that even the void trembled. Its entire body radiated dazzling blood-red light, arcs of crimson lightning spreading across a million kilometers. Time and space twisted within the lightning, turbid currents disintegrated, and the brilliance lit up this stretch of the chaotic void.

At the center of the scarlet lightning web, in blazing red radiance, appeared a colossal beast a thousand kilometers long, its draconic body rearing to a height of more than five hundred kilometers.

Roar!

Seeing the Dragon Emperor enter its Dark-Red Endbringer Form, with an aura so dreadful it nearly split the void apart, the true-spirit-level dragon opposite it instinctively roared in terror before plunging into madness.

Boom!

Around the black dragon, a domain of darkness spanning a hundred thousand kilometers collapsed inward, endless shadows converging into a demonic dragon ten thousand kilometers long that sprawled across the void.

This technique bore some resemblance to the Nine-Headed Serpent Ghidorah’s domain true form. However, this dragon had fused its power into a principle-world domain, uniting all of its abilities and strength as one. Its aura surged more than tenfold, its might reaching heaven-shaking heights. Especially terrifying were its claws, entwined with black light. They lashed out suddenly, grasping at the kilometer-thick crimson lightning bolts that coiled toward it.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Those claws, wrapped in black light, were devastatingly strong. Wherever they passed, everything was sliced apart and annihilated, leaving behind pitch-black abysses. Even the blood-red lightning bolts, each containing destructive and chaotic principles strong enough to grievously wound ordinary true spirits, were shredded to pieces. They were durable and razor-sharp beyond measure.

However, in that instant, the Dragon Emperor vanished from the center of the crimson lightning and reappeared above the black dragon’s head. Its right claw, wreathed in blood-red lightning, came crashing down.

Roar!

The black dragon bellowed, its dark-shrouded claws rising skyward.

Boom!

Beneath the tyrannical crimson claw filled with destructive power, heaven and earth shattered, and the starry sky shook. The black claws, sharp beyond compare, were smashed apart in one strike, followed by its ten-thousand-kilometer-long principle-condensed true form. The chaotic void exploded under the Dragon Emperor’s blow, forming a black hole tens of thousands of kilometers wide as the black dragon let out a shrill, miserable wail.

At the heart of the raging black hole stood the Dark-Red Endbringer Dragon Emperor, radiating blazing crimson light as its entire body exuded an unbearably violent aura. With its foundational strength and defense magnified a hundredfold, its raw power had reached an indescribable level.

Though the late-stage true spirit was powerful, with its principle-condensed true form reaching the peak of the true spirit level, and its claws sharper than anything, the beast was still destroyed in a single strike.

Roar!

The Dragon Emperor suddenly tilted back its head and roared. Its vast jaws opened wide as endless dark-golden radiance expanded outward, condensing into a phantom of a dragon’s head tens of thousands of kilometers across.

The dark-golden dragon head faced the collapsing black hole and the scattered remnants of the true-spirit-level dragon, spread over tens of thousands of kilometers, and slowly opened its maw.

Instantly, a world-devouring power exploded forth. Space and time twisted within the phantom’s jaws.

Boom!

A black hole a hundred thousand kilometers wide appeared in the chaotic void, swallowing everything inside—broken space, matter, energy, even time itself. Within the Dragon Emperor’s body, endless energy erupted, accompanied by the faint death-cry of a colossal beast. The late-stage true-spirit-level dragon had fallen.

Overbearing and ferocious. This was the power of the Dragon Emperor after breaking through to the true spirit level.

Ao Tian, kill! The great Saixitia loves nothing more than rivers of blood.

Bathed in red light, the Silver Colossal Dragon on the Dragon Emperor’s shoulder cried out in wild excitement.

Sensing the true spirit’s fallen aura flooding the heavens, the Silver Dragon trembled in its legs, its tail going limp as it thought,

The current Ao Tian is too strong. No chaotic beast, no true-spirit-level dragon could withstand it. They were all torn apart and devoured in mere moments. Invincible!

Crunch! Crunch!

As the Dragon Emperor refined the true form of the slain dragon piece by piece, its glowing body swelled at a staggering speed.

We should go take a look over there.

With a low growl that shook the void, the Dragon Emperor moved, still digesting the dragon’s flesh. Bearing a world-ending aura, it came before the thousand-kilometer-long rift.

Boom! Boom!

Its claws, wrapped in crimson lightning, reached out and seized the rift, ripping it apart with explosive force.

Boom!

Space-time quaked. Amid a riot of world power, the rift split further until it was ten thousand kilometers long, revealing the resplendent starry sky beyond. In the dark void, a black-blue galaxy spanning millions of kilometers slowly revolved, glowing faintly. At its center lay a black planet tens of thousands of kilometers in diameter, radiating dark light and an unimaginably heavy, piercing aura.

The surrounding galaxy itself was born from that planet’s slow rotation, the black radiance it shed tearing apart the chaotic void around it and forming energy halos. As the planet turned, the shredded void was compressed and condensed, gathering into black strands of substance that were half energy, half liquid.

The moment the Dragon Emperor laid eyes on that black planet, a violent hunger surged through its bloodline. Its instincts screamed that devouring those black substances, or even the planet itself, would benefit it greatly.

Roar!

The Dragon Emperor bellowed, unleashing its Eternal Darkness Devourer ability once more. It transformed into a dark-golden dragon head tens of thousands of kilometers wide, its jaws opening slowly.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The galaxy collapsed under that world-devouring dragon head, bursting apart with earth-shaking detonations. The void quaked, chaos surged. Soon, the dark-golden dragon head swallowed the black planet whole. The instant the planet entered its belly, the Dragon Emperor sank, then flared with even brighter red light. From afar, it resembled a crimson sun a million kilometers across. Its dazzling radiance was so bright that countless beings in the mythical world could see it.

Roar! Roar! Roar!

Bathed in dazzling red light, the Dragon Emperor kept roaring. Inside it, alongside the dense energy refined from the true-spirit-level dragon, a heavy, razor-edged black energy had been spreading, so sharp that even as it merged into the Dragon Emperor, it pricked faintly like needles.

Crack! Crack!

The Dragon Emperor kept swelling. It soon reached 1,020,000 meters, then 1,030,000 meters...

Half a day passed before it finished digesting all of the energy and its growth finally halted, its body length reaching 1,200,000 meters. Excluding the size increase from its abilities, that worked out to a net gain of roughly forty thousand meters. Of course, a late-stage true spirit didn’t contain that much energy. Most of the gain came from that black planet, the one formed from some unknown substance.

By now, changes had spread across the Dragon Emperor’s entire body. The claws wreathed in blood-red lightning, which glowed crimson before, had turned jet black, exuding an intangible sharpness. Its teeth, the horns on its head, the three rows of dorsal fins along its back, and the tail blade stretching more than five hundred thousand meters behind it, every part that could be used to attack had become coated in that heavy, keen black substance.

Not even the power of its dark-red form could suppress that razor-edged black matter. Sensing the weight and edge emanating from its claws, the Dragon Emperor slashed a single need-keen claw across its left forearm.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Under the ever-increasing force of that black, razor-edged claw, its crimson scales, which were hardened to a hundredfold of the foundational defense, boomed and flared with piercing light before slowly being carved open into a fissure a thousand meters long and several dozen meters deep.

So sharp!

Watching the gash on its arm knit closed in an instant, the Dragon Emperor felt a flicker of surprise.

Even though it had struck itself, it estimated that, after fusing that black substance, the sharpness of its claws had multiplied several times over, now bearing a property that could cut through anything, principles included. Together with the destruction principle that annihilated all things, its true form had become even more fearsome at close quarters, like a weapon born purely for slaughter.

This gain has been worthwhile.

The Dragon Emperor nodded slowly. With a thought, the blood light and lightning faded from its body, and its colossal form shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, returning in a blink to its normal length of a little over 243,000 meters.

In its regular form, the Dragon Emperor’s body remained pitch black, with only ominous crimson glimmers seeping through the seams of its scales, yet the ten claws on its front legs, blacker than the dark itself, still betrayed a clear difference. The invisible edge they gave off made the Silver Dragon’s whole body feel cold just looking at them.

The Dragon Emperor’s massive head tilted slightly. As it moved, the black mane below its horns flowed without wind, lending it an awe-inspiring savagery. It rumbled to the Silver Dragon on its shoulder.

Saixitia, you will lead the way again.

No problem, Ao Tian.

The Silver Dragon let out an excited bellow.

Apart from when they had first met, the Dragon Emperor had mostly been the one looking after it. Though they called it a partnership and a friendship, the Silver Dragon still felt as if it had been taking advantage of the Dragon Emperor.

Now that it could finally help, it grew thrilled, spread its wings, and flew toward the deeper chaotic void.

Boom!

The Dragon Emperor unfurled its wings. The surrounding void erupted at once, rolling out a black tsunami in all directions. As it followed slowly behind the Silver Dragon, the Little Purple Dragon beneath its horns yawned after finishing digesting that golden lotus platform and chirped.

Big Brother, Saixitia’s luck feels really useful.

It is indeed very useful.

The Dragon Emperor nodded slowly, a savage smile tugging at the corner of its mouth.

That fortune-and-calamity luck was dangerous for the Silver Dragon. One bout of bad luck and a foe beyond its ability would put its life at risk. For the Dragon Emperor, however, that luck was a two-for-one blessing. Whatever natural treasures they encountered, it could refine with its devouring ability and turn into growth, while the colossal beasts that guarded those treasures, or were drawn by them, served as its food.

At this pace, the Dragon Emperor felt it wouldn’t be long before it broke through to the middle stage of the true spirit level. If it devoured a few more true spirits and a few planets, it could even reach the late stage by the time it met those primordial colossal beasts.

When that happened, should it catch a primordial beast? It hadn’t tasted one yet.

While it pondered, the Silver Dragon’s luck flared again. Before they had flown even ten million kilometers, it stopped short.

Ao Tian, there’s something ahead!

As the Silver Dragon bellowed, the Dragon Emperor had already sensed the anomaly.

Boom!

Far off in the chaotic void, a million kilometers away, space collapsed and formed a turbid vortex two hundred thousand kilometers across. At the vortex’s center, the blurred outline of a vast continent more than a million kilometers in diameter emerged.

A figure as tall as the sky stood upright on that land. Most of its body had pushed up through the cloud-shrouded atmosphere, slowly squeezing out of its world to force its way into the chaotic void.

Roar! Roar! Roar!

The titanic figure howled and struggled, and the power erupting from its body collided with the twisted space-time around it in bursts of blinding light. Sensing the aura pouring from that giant in a human shape, its body clad in golden-red substance like mountain-forged armor, the Dragon Emperor’s eyes lit up. It was an aura beyond the true spirit level, comparable to a semi-primordial being.

As expected, the outer chaotic heavens brimmed with treasures. The "detached" creature of that world was strong. Its body contained abundant principle energy and might already have condensed a wisp of primordial aura. If it ate this one, it should be able to grow fifty, perhaps sixty thousand meters.