Chapter 1100: Nightmare Yu and Primordial Destruction

The primordial-level colossal beast towered in its true form, carrying power vast enough to sweep through an entire world. Primordial principles blazed around its body with a force that could suppress even the principles of heaven and earth. Everything beneath the primordial level bent under its weight. Even spacetime became distorted under this display of power.

Furthermore, with the Primordial Heavens compressing a world around it, anything not at the same level of power couldn’t even approach within a million kilometers, let alone inflict harm. This overwhelming force surpassed even the suppression an ancient- or true-spirit-level cultivator could exert on someone one major realm lower.

Yet today, a black-and-red colossal beast had broken this rule. Though it carried only the aura of a middle-stage true-spirit-level colossal beast, it unleashed strength equal to the primordial level. After its second transformation, entering its End Form, its power surpassed the primordial-star Nightmare Yu, which was at the First Primordial Heaven. [1]

At that moment, the Divine Void Dragon released its life-bound ability. A divine dragon a million kilometers long took shape and coiled around the enemy. Then, with the Dragon Emperor striking head-on, the primordial Yu was driven a million kilometers into the earth.

The origin of this continent remained a mystery. The very fabric of space here was firm and unyielding, infused with an immense suppressive force, while the land beneath was impossibly dense and heavy. The deeper one descended, the heavier the suppressive force grew. It was like sinking into the heart of a star, where even a primordial colossal beast found its power suppressed. In a place like this, ultimate moves, innate abilities, and even divine abilities all lost much of their edge. This land was a natural burial ground.

Back on the Heavenly Feathered Battlefield, Chen Chu had once used an environment like this to his advantage to slay a demon god before Tyretis and other demon gods could come to the rescue. However, the Yu was nothing like that demon god. It immediately caught the End Dragon’s intent.

Get out of my way!

Its roar shook the heavens, dripping with murderous intent. From the depths of the million-kilometer pit, black flames surged and spun into a vortex. At its core, a massive black blade, part knife and part insect claw, slowly pushed outward.

The moment the hundreds-of-thousands-of-kilometers-long blade broke free, the Void Dragon let out a warning roar.

Be careful, little one! That is the Nightmare Yu Blade. It carries a strike that crosses time to draw power from a stronger Yu. Do not meet it head-on. Even we cannot withstand it!

The Void Dragon coiled across the land roared, gathering dazzling light in its mouth. A second later, a purple beam tens of thousands of kilometers wide tore through heaven and earth.

This breath, powerful enough to pierce a star, shook spacetime and sent radiant ripples surging outwards. As it crashed against the black blade, blinding light erupted, followed by a terrifying explosion that flooded the area with purple brilliance.

Boom!

The ground across millions of kilometers quaked. Mountains shattered and melted, and torrents of purple light blasted skyward like lava erupting from a volcano. Despite illuminating the world with its purple primordial brilliance, the Void Dragon’s strike still couldn’t fully pierce through the darkness that shrouded the world. Soon, the light was consumed by the darkness.

At the edge of the pit, the End Dragon lowered its massive head, its cold eyes locked onto the black blade. This blade ignored the Divine Void Dragon’s breath and continued to thrust forward. It appeared to move slowly, but with every inch forward, it ripped through space like an unstoppable force.

Every primordial colossal beast carried a life-bound ability. For the Void Dragon, that ability allowed its body to expand from a hundred thousand kilometers to more than a million in an instant, similar to the Dragon Emperor’s Dark-Red Gigantification ability. However, unlike the Dark-Red Gigantification, which merely increased size, strength, and defense, the Void Dragon could amplify the full might of its primordial power.

On the other hand, this Yu seemed to lack a life-bound ability. Despite this, its strike was still so powerful that not even the Void Dragon dared to meet it directly. The End Dragon felt the sharp power radiating from the blade. It was strong, but no matter how strong, it had to be stopped. If not, the Yu would break free.

Boom!

The End Dragon slowly lifted its right claw. A black substance darker than night coated it, gleaming with a killing edge as sharp as the incoming blade. At the same time, countless strands of destructive power descended from beyond, containing force strong enough to erase worlds and unravel universes. They streamed into black bands of light and converged on the Dragon Emperor’s claw, as tens of thousands of complex gray runes surfaced on the black scales.

Long ago, the Dragon Emperor had carved thousands of these runes. They could greatly compress and condense the flaming power within its body, instantly releasing dozens of times the destructive power. As the Dragon Emperor continued to break through and evolve, those runes fused with its true form. They never became an ability, but under the Dragon Emperor's control, their power to compress and condense energy only grew.

𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

At that moment, the runes even dragged in destructive force from beyond chaos itself, compressing it bit by bit into the End Dragon's claw. Its claws grew darker and sharper, blazing with a cutting edge that seemed able to shear through existence.

This was what the End Dragon had planned for earlier. If it couldn’t fuse the Supreme Destruction Principle into its claw, it would force that principle into its body instead. Within a heartbeat, the End Dragon had forced thirty percent of the destructive force into its claw. Then, a massive aura of annihilation burst outward.

The claw no longer looked like a claw; it had turned into a pure black light that radiated with the pressure of supreme majesty. It filled heaven and earth with an aura as unyielding as a blazing sun, without the despair or darkness one might expect from destruction.

This was the true essence of destruction: where life had existed, death followed. Where creation had risen, ruin awaited. Every world, every plane, even entire universes followed the same cycle. They were born, they lived, and in the end they crumbled into nothing.

Whoosh!

The End Dragon’s claw, an embodiment of destruction, struck against the black blade rising toward the sky. No sound followed, only a silent eruption of black shockwaves. Wherever they swept past, matter, space, and energy vanished without a trace. The impact turned the End Dragon’s right claw to ash. At the same time, the black blade, which even the Void Dragon hadn’t dared to face directly, shattered as well.

The End Dragon stood tall in the darkness with one claw gone. Its gaze locked on the hideous figure seven thousand kilometers tall far below and let out a low growl.

So this is what primordial power is like.

A monstrous aura spread from it. Its scales, muscles, bones, and even its cells quivered in a silent rhythm that felt like countless lives praising destruction and singing hymns to the end of all things. Its life-bound ability, the End Form, multiplied its strength and defense hundreds, even thousands of times over. With that absolute might, the End Dragon forced its power to reach the primordial level despite still standing at the true spirit level.

The true spirit level included the Chaotic End Principle, mastery of power, and the will of the divine soul. However, by forcing its power into the primordial level, the End Dragon drove the essence of the Supreme Destruction Principle into its body and grasped the meaning of "primordial" annihilation ahead of its time.

It even began to stir the supreme principle that lay beyond the universe itself. Chaotic destructive power descended, strengthening it. Strands of black light slowly seeped into its dark scales, while the radiance covering its body gradually dimmed. Its size swelled at an astonishing pace. Bit by bit, it grew to twelve thousand kilometers, then fifteen thousand...

Primordial beings gathered all power into themselves. Their true forms were the sum of every principle and every innate ability, and the stronger they became, the larger they grew. Though the Dragon Emperor had not yet stepped fully into the primordial level, the destructive principles flooding its body pushed the power of its End Form even higher.

The sight left the Void Dragon, coiling high above the sky, stunned by what it saw.

Colossal beasts normally evolved slowly, relying on long slumber and passive growth. To them, the End Dragon’s feat was unthinkable. It was like a pack of muscle-bound jocks suddenly producing a genius with brains as sharp as their brawn.

Monster!

Even the primordial Yu showed fear in its eyes at the sight. The black flames cloaking its body drew inward, sinking into its core as its legs bent.

Boom!

Spacetime beneath it collapsed into a pitch-black void. The Yu vanished at a speed so fast that even beings with primordial awareness couldn’t sense it.

This is the Nightmare Yu’s spacetime rift ability. It wants to escape!

the Void Dragon in the sky roared. Purple primordial light burst from its body, spilling into layer after layer of space and tugging at time itself to halt the retreat. However, against a creature with a spacetime racial ability, it could do nothing.

Our battle is not over!

A deep roar rolled across the collapsing void.

From within the vast darkness, the End Dragon descended. Its body, now twenty thousand kilometers long, radiated darkness like a living black hole. Strange markings spread across its scales and formed images of worlds collapsing and planes shattering, which made the End Dragon look even more savage and terrifying.

Those who stand against my kind will be buried in chaos forever!

The Yu roared. Its arms crossed, unleashing blades in the shape of a flaming black "X" that stretched a million kilometers.

Boom!

The dragon’s claw, marked with the images of world destruction, smashed through the saber light. The heavens fell dark, and the Yu's supposedly indestructible twin blades shattered in a single strike.

The End Dragon was unstoppable. In the same instant its claw crushed the Nightmare Yu's arms, it lunged forward. Its massive body carried the weight of world-ending destruction as it slammed into the Yu's chest.

Boom!

The Yu’s chest caved in under the weight of that impact. Its armor-thick scales shattered like a brittle shell, and its flesh, swollen with immense energy, exploded in a violent spray of blood.

Roar!

The Yu howled in pain. Anger burned in its eyes as its broken arms swung in, trapping the Dragon Emperor with a violent surge of power. Black-and-red radiance flared in its throat, filling the air with a suffocating aura of danger.

However, before the Yu could release that breath, its mangled arms were torn apart by an explosive power. In the next second, a black tail blade, sharp enough to pierce heaven and earth, sliced through.

Squelch!

The blade speared into the Yu’s gaping mouth, ripped its jaw apart, and severed the attack before it could erupt.

Roar!

The Yu shrieked again. It launched itself forward with a sharp snap of its reverse-jointed legs, propelling its massive frame into the End Dragon’s chest. With the force of that powerful collision, even the mighty End Dragon was blasted out of the spacetime rift.

Locked in raw, brutal combat, the two primordial beings fought like savage beasts. Every strike carried unimaginable force. The shockwaves alone shattered the surrounding world, collapsing space and time into a storm millions of kilometers wide. The explosion of all of this power was still under the suppression of heaven and earth. Without that restraint, the aftershocks alone would have destroyed a galaxy.

Beast, you dare meddle in our war. One day, I will kill you!

The Yu roared as its body flickered.

Squelch!

As it leapt into the spacetime rift, the Dragon Emperor's ten-thousand-kilometer tail blade swept sideways. Everything beneath the blade vanished, and a scream of agony shook the heavens.

In the rift where spacetime had frozen, the lower half of the primordial Yu’s body dropped away. Black blood, thick with destructive energy, poured like a flood from the severed wound, vanishing into the endless void.

Boom!

Before that half could escape, a black dragon claw descended from above and crushed it firmly into the ground.

The End Dragon bared its fangs in a savage grin.

Half a body will do.

1. The author will explain the primordial system in detail in the following chapter, but here is a brief note for context to hopefully help you understand what this paragraph is saying. The primordial level is not a "single level," but a path of Nine Heavens. Each Heaven in the primordial level marks a new evolution of power, achieved by reshaping the body with primordial qi, condensing a life-bound ability, and opening additional "Heavens" on top of one’s foundation. Primordial beasts at the First Primordial Heaven are known as "primordial-star colossal beasts" which is what the Nightmare Yu here is. ☜