Chapter 487: Entering the Mythical World, Black Abyss King's Altar (II)

As soon as the Dragon Emperor arrived, it keenly noticed the differences between this world and the one it had come from. The dense transcendent energy in the air gathered around it, swirling into a fierce wind with each breath.

The transcendent energy here was incredibly rich.

If the transcendent energy in East Xia were this dense, the number of people with the ability to cultivate would be at least a hundred times more than it currently was, and the chances of producing powerful individuals would also be much higher.

Of course, there would also be more and stronger mutated creatures.

Everything flourished in the mythical world. It even had towering trees hundreds or even thousands of meters high serving as home to countless mutated creatures and powerful species. Nevertheless, humans had discovered that most of the creatures in this world were not as powerful as they had imagined.

There were many mutated creatures, but those that reached level 9 or the mythical level were still very rare. It wasn’t like they were everywhere.

Sometimes, within thousands or tens of thousands of kilometers, there would only be one mythical colossal beast occupying the area.

Through extensive research, humans learned that the reason for this was that the mutated creatures had long since adapted to the environment here, causing their evolution and growth to slow down significantly.

It was similar to how the humans, animals, and plants on the Blue Planet had already adapted to the planet's environment and gravity, stopping them from undergoing rapid mutations.

In this situation, it was actually the mutated creatures on the Blue Planet that grew faster and had a greater chance of becoming stronger through mutation.

Over the past few decades, both humans and animals had been frantically evolving, growing, and adapting to the new environment to survive.

The Dragon Emperor also noticed that the space in the mythical world was stronger and more stable. Tearing apart space here was dozens of times more difficult than on the Blue Planet.

This just meant that the space had greater capacity, though; it didn’t suppress their power. In fact, their destructive potential was enhanced here since they could draw upon more transcendent energy.

An excited roar came from behind. The Silver Colossal Dragon flapped its wings and shot into the sky, rising tens of thousands of meters in the blink of an eye as it let out high-pitched roars.

Saixitia seemed thrilled to be able to return to a familiar environment. It flew back and forth among the clouds, tearing open passages thousands or tens of thousands of meters long.

Crackle!

Suddenly, blue-black lightning flashed between the dorsal fins of the Dragon Emperor and formed a pair of thunderbolt wings. They were over five hundred meters long and unleashed a thunderous boom with each flap.

With a flap of the thunderbolt wings, the air within a kilometer exploded, forming a tangible air shockwave.

Amid the howling winds, the Dragon Emperor shot straight into the sky like a black and blue beam of light.

Around the Dragon Emperor, sonic booms roared as shockwaves spread out, tearing through layers of clouds. In no time, it had risen to an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, then hundreds of thousands.

Roar!

Surrounded by thunderbolts, the Dragon Emperor let out an excited roar as it flew higher and higher.

As a colossal beast with the title of "Dragon Emperor," it had long possessed the ability to fly. However, to avoid conflict with humans, it had spent most of its time lurking in the deep sea.

But now, in this vast and boundless world, it no longer had any reservations; it could soar through the skies freely!

Ao Tian, wait for the great Saixitia!

Seeing the Dragon Emperor disappear into the sky in an instant, the Silver Colossal Dragon surrounded itself with a black-green storm. It exploded into terrifying speed to chase after the Dragon Emperor.

Just as the Dragon Emperor pierced through another layer of clouds, attempting to fly beyond the "heavens" of the mythical world to overlook the land, a heavy sense of pressure suddenly weighed down on it.

When it reached an altitude of over a thousand kilometers, the invisible pressure multiplied hundreds of times, preventing it from ascending further.

Rumble!

In the thin, icy air, gales strong enough to tear through metal howled as they crashed against the Dragon Emperor, producing explosive rumbles.

Amid it all, the Dragon Emperor looked up at the still distant "sky," its gaze growing serious.

Is this the limit?

Deep in thought, the Dragon Emperor lowered its gaze, seeing the endless sea of clouds below and the faint outlines of distant mountains and land emerging on the horizon.

Most notably, from an altitude of a thousand kilometers, the mountain ranges at the horizon did not exhibit the curvature of a planet but rather resembled an infinitely flat land.

No wonder this mythical world was so vast and boundless.

As night began to fall, the Dragon Emperor suppressed its urge to continue exploring the mythical world. It looked toward the distance.

There, beyond the dark red horizon, rolling black clouds hovered ominously, emanating an unsettling aura.

With a powerful flap of its wings, the Dragon Emperor descended rapidly, leaving sonic booms in its wake. Soon, it found the Silver Colossal Dragon hovering at an altitude of seven hundred kilometers.

Saixitia, let's check out that area.

In the cultivation room, Chen Chu, who was deep in thought, slowly opened his eyes.

"It seems like the mythical world isn’t as terrifying as I imagined. Still, it is undoubtedly full of mystery."

Since it seemed temporarily safe, Chen Chu turned his attention to the remaining twenty thousand attribute points on his page.

"Burn one thousand attribute points. Enter the epiphany state."

Hum!

As the aura of enlightenment enveloped him, countless memories of his earlier training in the Insightful Eye and Insightful Blade arts surfaced in Chen Chu’s mind.

Next came realizations about the Eight Desolations Purgatory Halberd, followed by scenes of the many battles he had experienced along the way.

These memories transformed into dozens of versions of Chen Chu, each practicing various blade arts and halberd arts as well as refining the power flows of these techniques within his body.

𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Drawing upon his true dragon power, the strength of the five Runic Divine Seeds, his Hellblood Battle Will, and the Apocalypse Purgatory Rune, he began to forge his own advanced combat skill.

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The earth under the pitch-black night sky cracked open. Molten lava flowed through the fissures, emitting a dim red glow as it burned.

Near the searing lava river stood a small, rugged town of over a thousand gray stone houses, each about ten to twenty meters tall.

At the outskirts, thousands of male and female aliens were gathered, conducting a grand ceremony.

Most of them were over three meters tall, resembling upright dinosaurs. They were covered in red scales, and they wore black armor or animal hides.

Before them was a massive stone altar, five hundred meters wide at its base and three hundred meters tall. The altar was engraved with dark red runes, and atop it was a fifty-meter-tall statue of the Black Abyss King.

The colossal beast bore some resemblance to a Western dragon, but it appeared more savage and fierce. It was covered in heavy scales and had sharp horns crowning its head.

To the left of the altar, every ten-meter-wide step was piled high with the flesh and blood of mutated beasts. Fresh blood flowed down the altar, giving off a thick metallic stench.

To its right were neatly arranged complete skeletons of mutated beasts. Some were over ten meters long, and a few even spanned over twenty meters.

Behind the altar, laid out in a similarly orderly fashion, were the scales and pelts of various mutated creatures.

Thousands of small, hunched-over creatures knelt on the steps in front of the altar in prayer. However, all of them had been disemboweled, long since dead, with their green-scaled, grotesque faces frozen in terror and despair.

From a distance, the altar resembled a towering mountain of corpses, composed of countless mutated beasts and small creatures.

The Black Abyss King statue loomed all over them like a demonic god from hell. The dark red runes at its feet flickered faintly, exuding a terrifyingly vicious aura.

Below, an elderly alien, adorned with colorful feathers, raised its hands high, uttering a series of strange words—perhaps a prayer or a chant.

Behind it, all the aliens gazed at the statue with fanatical and crazed eyes, their faces twisted with fervor as they shouted in unison.

Their prayers made the dark red runes glow brighter and brighter. The radiance dissolved the corpses and blood, transforming them into a strange energy that seeped into the earth through the altar’s cracks.

Boom!

From within the statue, a terrifying force was unleashed. As the ground trembled, endless dark purple flames erupted, spreading outward from the statue and consuming everything in their path.

Wherever the flames passed, the land turned dry and cracked. Vegetation withered into ash, and molten lava flowed from the growing rifts in the earth, burning everything.

As the bones dissolved, blue and green crystals that were brimming with life energy were revealed within the rune nodes. Absorbing the energy, the altar transformed the blood and flesh into dark, purple hellfire, which began to taint and contaminate everything around it.

The aliens grew even more frenzied, their eyes gleaming with madness and bloodlust. Strangely, the purple flames didn’t harm them. Instead, those at level 4 or level 5 saw their power rapidly increasing.

On a hillside several kilometers away, the Dragon Emperor observed the scene. Upon seeing the crystals, it suddenly brightened up.