Chapter 493: Ancient Titan Creature, Breakthrough to The Late Stage of Level 9 (I)

Black clouds obscured the sky, casting a murky darkness over the land where lava flowed and red flames blazed.

At the edge of a massive crater, where everything had been destroyed, the Thunder Fiery Dragon Emperor was rummaging through the rubble, carefully picking up fist-sized crystals from the piles of rocks.

However, compared to its enormous body, which had already reached 270 meters in length, the scene looked strangely out of place.

After sifting through the rubble twice, and using its domain power to crush the stones one by one, the Dragon Emperor finally nodded in satisfaction.

This was the fourth small town of the Scaled Fiery Race it had destroyed. With four altars demolished, it had managed to collect nearly 300 crystals.

Although the energy within these Life Crystals—ranging from level 4 to level 6—had severely diminished due to the sacrificial rituals, the estimated attribute points it could convert would still exceed 10,000.

Even the Dragon Emperor felt a surge of excitement at this harvest.

After all, it didn’t need to spend time hunting down peak-level mutated beasts everywhere. All it had to do was descend from the sky and smash everything to collect the crystals.

If only such opportunities could continue indefinitely.

The Dragon Emperor turned its head to look behind. There, the Silver Colossal Dragon was curiously playing with the remaining half of the Black Abyss King's statue, extending its enormous claw.

The Dragon Emperor growled.

Saixitia, help me store these crystals

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Roar! No problem, Ao Tian.

The Silver Colossal Dragon gleefully approached, extending its claws to catch the fist-sized and head-sized crystals. It happily placed them into its reverse scale space.

Not having spatial equipment was really inconvenient. It seemed like it was about time to create a storage space of its own.

The Dragon Emperor pondered thoughtfully.

Actually, Chen Chu still had a special piece of spatial equipment he had obtained from Maximus of the Purgatory Demon Clan, capable of withstanding unstable spatial passages.

However, the storage space in that bag was too small, and once the Dragon Emperor entered battle, its body would erupt in Sky-Scorching Golden Flames.

Under the terrifying heat of its top-level flame ability, no spatial equipment could withstand it for long, and it would soon be damaged or destroyed.

As for making a big "leather bag" from the hide of a level 9 colossal beast... the Dragon Emperor imagined the scene of carrying a huge bag and instinctively shook its head.

Saixitia, it's time to go.

With a low growl, the Dragon Emperor unfolded its thunderbolt wings. The ground within hundreds of meters beneath it shattered, and under the immense force of the rebound, it shot into the sky, leaving a gust of fierce wind in its wake.

Roar! Wait for me, Ao Tian.

The Silver Colossal Dragon flapped its wings and hurriedly followed.

As the Dragon Emperor continued along the edge of the hellish domain, searching for the next alien town that had been driven to the hellish magma, a massive black beast stood by the towering volcano’s rim. Its gaze, cold and indifferent, looked into the distant sky. Purple flames burned in its eyes as it spoke in a low, resonant voice.

Roar! Another three fanatics have disappeared, along with the destroyed law's marks. Is that mythical creature targeting my followers?

As it spoke, the purple flames in Kartos' eyes intensified, and an invisible wave pierced through the void.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Along the edge of the hellish domain, which spanned over ten thousand kilometers in diameter, hundreds of statues in the alien towns trembled.

In an instant, all the aliens knelt with fanatical fervor. The priests, who were fanatics, especially connected their spiritual will to the statues, listening to their god's will.

Soon, all the priests stood up and shouted, "The great Black Abyss God has commanded—everyone must immediately retreat from the border areas and return to the Divine City."

Under the Black Abyss King's orders, the alien tribes at the edge of the hellish domain began collecting their belongings and evacuating in a grand procession.

Uncertain of the opponent's strength, and unsure if it was the mythical colossal beast behind the Dragon Palace that had been summoned, the Black Abyss King would not recklessly step out of the hellish domain.

However, from the current situation, it seemed the opponent wasn’t that powerful. Otherwise, they would have stormed into the domain long ago to engage in battle, instead of lingering around the edges, destroying statues and law’s marks.

Boom!

A massive black vertical pupil appeared above the volcano, burning with purple flames, watching in all directions.

This Hell's Eye was connected to the hellish domain. If a mythical-level colossal beast entered the domain, the Black Abyss King would be the first to detect it.

Then, it would finally know who this intruder really was.

...

Boom!

A colossal beast with thunderbolt wings descended from the sky, instantly shattering the earth within a thousand-meter radius. Flames exploded, and the destructive shockwave demolished all the surrounding buildings.

The Thunder Fiery Dragon Emperor surveyed the empty town, the extinguished altar, and the removed statues, feeling a bit regretful.

The Silver Colossal Dragon circled overhead and growled.

Ao Tian, there's nothing here either.

That guy must have caught on by now.

The Dragon Emperor growled in response.

It had anticipated this situation. After all, the Black Abyss King was connected to the marks on the statues and could sense their movements.

The Dragon Emperor's sweeping destruction had already exposed its general location and intentions. If the Black Abyss King wished, it could be waiting for the Dragon Emperor at any moment.

However, that mythical colossal beast was cautious and hadn’t left the center of the hellish domain. Instead, it chose to withdraw all the alien races from the edges.

Still, if the Black Abyss King wasn’t coming out, then the Dragon Emperor might as well do something big.

As for the Life Crystals, once the alien races and the Black Abyss King were all eliminated, those would naturally belong to it too. It roared.

Roar! Saixitia, let's go, we're about to hit something big.

Ao Tian, are you finally going to make rivers of blood?

The Silver Colossal Dragon's eyes gleamed with excitement as it roared and shot into the sky behind him.

Within the 3000-kilometer range of the hellish domain, the land had already been corrupted. Rivers had dried up, replaced by scorching lava. Hundreds of meters tall trees had been reduced to charred stumps, with flames dancing atop them.

On a plain where two small mountain ranges crossed, stood a sprawling gray-brown stone city that stretched for several kilometers, inhabited by over 200,000 members of the Scaled Fiery Race.

A lava river, over two hundred meters wide, snaked its way past the city walls, radiating heat and light. In the middle of the city stood a 300-meter-high black statue of a colossal beast, its surface flickering with violet flames.

Along both banks of the river, large trees with twisted trunks resembling dragons and a bark like scales, but no leaves, stood tall, some reaching dozens of meters.

These trees bore black-red fruits, ranging from half a meter to a meter in size, glowing with dark red light, exuding intense energy.

In addition, there were over a dozen black dragon trees, each more than a hundred meters tall, planted in the lava river itself. The fruits at their tops were as large as three meters.

Not far from the statue, the largest of these black dragon trees stood over 300 meters tall, with a few divine fruits, each five meters in diameter, emanating ripples of light.

Underneath these trees, red vines twisted around, bearing many red fruits the size of fists.

Many of the alien races were busy working among the trees, channeling lava to irrigate the soil and picking the red fruits as food to replenish their energy and enhance their strength.

In the distance, 20-meter-tall mutated beasts, covered in black scales and resembling massive bulls, were hauling back the bodies of various mutated creatures.

Farther away, on a 3,000-meter-high "small" mountain, stood a late-stage level 9 colossal beast.

This beast was nearly 290 meters long, with shoulders reaching close to 100 meters in height. Its body was covered in brown scales, and it looked like a bloated giant lizard, radiating an intimidating aura.

Standing on the small hill, it surveyed the lava-tending alien races and the flourishing Dark Molten Divine Fruits with satisfaction.

These fruits were divine fruits formed from the essence of heaven and earth, after the hellfire had ravaged the land. They contained pure, vast energy and the essence of the world.

Especially the three-meter-sized divine fruits, which even colossal beasts at late-stage level 9 could consume to accelerate their growth and significantly enhance their strength.

This was why the colossal beasts willingly followed the Black Abyss King. It wasn't just coercion through power; it was also the promise of these fruits that earned their loyalty.

However, the divine fruits took a long time to mature—ten years for each batch—and the trees would wither after that, requiring the beasts to find a new location to plant them.

Roar!

Suddenly, the late-stage level 9 colossal beast roared in shock and anger, its eyes snapping to the rear.

In the distance, nine radiant blue-black thunder rings lit up within the clouds. A golden-purple beam of light, ten meters wide, pierced the heavens and earth, plunging the world into darkness.

At that moment, all the alien races instinctively looked toward the source, witnessing the dispersing black clouds, a towering black-red colossal beast, and the devastating breath it had unleashed.

The golden-purple beam, surrounded by rings of energy, obliterated everything in its path, forming a zone of absolute darkness.

In the stark contrast between the brilliant light and utter darkness, even though the beam moved incredibly fast, the alien races were left with the illusion that time itself had slowed.

The colossal beast, reacting the fastest, barely had time to activate its innate ability. In an instant, the ground within 800 meters trembled, forming a solidified yellow earth domain.

Boom!

The earth shook, and a mushroom cloud of destruction bloomed over the mountain range.

The Sky-Scorching Golden Flames fused with the Purple Void Death Toxin, and with the added power of the nine thunder rings, the breath attack caused the mountain to collapse. Debris flew into the air, only to be melted into molten material, which rained down in all directions.

The terrifying destructive shockwave swept across several kilometers, melting the ground in its wake. A scorching wind whipped up black-red smoke, hundreds of meters high, engulfing the alien city on the plain.

Under the heat of the blast, many level 4 aliens were incinerated before they could even react, and the inferno consumed the entire city.

"Run, hurry!"

"The almighty Black Abyss God, please protect your people."

"Don't run! Protect the Dark Molten Divine Fruit..."

At that moment, the entire alien city descended into chaos, filled with terror, despair, and screams that echoed across the heavens, as if the apocalypse had descended.

Amid this scene, in the dissipating black clouds above, the Silver Colossal Dragon circled around the Dragon Emperor, letting out high-pitched, excited roars.

Roar! The great Saixitia is both disaster and destruction, granting death to you wicked aliens! Charge, Ao Tian, the mighty Saixitia wants to see rivers of blood!

The Dragon Emperor couldn't help but twitch its lips. Listening to the roars of the Silver Colossal Dragon, it almost felt like a supervillain.

But in the eyes of the alien race, it indeed seemed like the monster that brought destruction.

Roar!

Surrounded by golden flames and circled by blue-black thunderbolts, the Dragon Emperor turned into a destructive meteor descending from the sky at supersonic speed, crashing into the center of the city in the blink of an eye.

Boom!

In an instant, the ground within a thousand-meter radius shattered and exploded. The destructive shockwave wiped out half the city, erasing tens of thousands of aliens in a flash.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The intense heat radiation caused the ground within several kilometers to burn and melt, while black-blue thunderbolts rained down from the sky.

At the same time, a circle of purple light exploded outward, radiating across a ten-kilometer area. The bodies of the aliens that had survived the initial destruction froze in place.

Squelch, squelch!

Under the terrifying energy toxins, all the aliens' bodies disintegrated, turning to black ash in the blink of an eye. Their armor and weapons crumbled and fell to the ground as well.

In just a few breaths, over 200,000 level 4 and above Scaled Fiery Race aliens were wiped out by the Dragon Emperor, their city consumed by flames, transforming into a molten hell.

The sight only excited the Silver Colossal Dragon further, as it continued to circle in the thunderous sky, letting out savage roars.