Chapter 510: Fifth Evolution, Vajra, Indestructible (I)

The golden flames, which controlled the temperature, evaporated the seawater and revealed nearly two thousand white and blue Life Crystals, each shimmering with an enchanting glow.

The Thunder Fiery Dragon Emperor let out a low, rumbling growl.

You all worked hard. Saixitia, Give Hu San and the others Dark Molten Divine Fruits. Consider it your reward for doing great, orcas.

The Dark Molten Divine Fruits, each about a meter in size, could boost the strength of any mutated beast below level 7.

However, the effectiveness of these divine fruits diminished with each one consumed. After the three young orcas had devoured a few, a few dozen of fruits still remained.

𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Hu San, who had previously two fruits from a colossal mosasaur, consumed the least. Still, it didn’t waste its share; it passed three of its fruits to Little Hime, a female orca, which managed to reach level 5 after consuming just one.

The Silver Colossal Dragon nodded approvingly.

Well done. You've gathered a considerable number of Life Crystals for Ao Tian again.

Acting like a steward, the Silver Colossal Dragon drew out several dozen Dark Molten Divine Fruits from its reverse scale, sweeping them into the seawater with a gust of green wind.

Leader, I tried hard down there. Could you give me one, please?

Second General, I worked the hardest herding the fish earlier. I want one! I want one!

Leader, I, um... me too...

As the orca group grew more boisterous, the Dragon Emperor turned toward the Single-Horned Kun and the others.

I’m going to enhance my strength next. Afterward, I’ll help activate your bloodlines.

The Single-Horned Kun clapped its fins, chirping excitedly.

Thunder Fiery, it’s more important that you get stronger! Go ahead and become even more... monstrous!

The Deep Sea Dragon Turtle looked on enviously.

Thunder Fiery is about to power up again!

It wasn't just the turtle; other colossal beasts like Ghidorah also gazed longingly. They, too, wished they could grow stronger as easily as the Dragon Emperor.

Listening to the two dimwits rendered the Dragon Emperor speechless, fighting the urge to smack them.

If you don’t know what to say, then just say less. What does ‘become even more monstrous’ even mean?

Ever since the two got tangled up in a fight, they had only gotten more chaotic with their words. Anyone who didn’t know better would likely assume they’d been in a gang since they were young.

Boom!

With the colossal beasts watching, golden flames rose around the Dragon Emperor, forming a circular domain of vacuum fire that shielded it from view.

Hum!

Flames then ignited along the six pairs of red feathery horns on both sides of its head. Right after, silver runes flickered and converged in the center of its golden flame-formed crown.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Thousands of Life Crystals were drawn into the air by the domain's power, streaming through a spatial passage and cascading onto the damaged floor of a nearby chamber.

Once the Life Crystals piled around Chen Chu's feet, the golden-red glow from the runes on his arms slowly faded, closing the spatial passage.

"What a pity..." Chen Chu muttered, looking at the hundreds of level 4 Life Crystals and above before him with a hint of regret.

Due to the sacrificial nature of these Life Crystals, which were brought back from the mythical world, their life energy had significantly waned.

Otherwise, this many level 4 and higher crystals, along with the lower-level ones collected by the orcas, would have been enough to yield tens of thousands of attribute points.

However, his main objective for entering the mythical world had been to eliminate that mythical colossal beast, a resource to fuel the Dragon Emperor’s rapid breakthrough to the peak of level 9.

All things considered, it hadn’t been a loss—a pleasant surprise, really.

With this comforting thought, Chen Chu picked up two bowl-sized pale golden crystals. "Convert to attribute points."

[You have converted a high-purity Life Crystal, gaining 621 attribute points.]

[You have converted a high-purity Life Crystal, gaining 521 attribute points...]

His total attribute points, which had been over eleven thousand, quickly skyrocketed past thirty and forty thousand.

Having converted over a thousand level 2 crystals, seven hundred level 3 crystals, several hundred level 4 and level 5 crystals, and one level 9 crystal, he accumulated a total of 89,304 attribute points.

"Over eighty thousand attribute points..." Chen Chu grinned as he shifted his gaze to the Dragon Emperor's Defense ability.

For the Dragon Emperor, which relied on physical evolution, raw strength wasn’t enough. It also needed defense. Once that was fortified, it would become an unstoppable force in close combat.

"Consume fifty thousand attribute points to enhance the Defense ability."

An immense surge of enhancement energy traveled through the soul passage and flooded into the Dragon Emperor.

Boom!

A terrifying pressure shook the heavens and earth. The golden flame vacuum domain exploded, the blast covering the sea bed within a kilometer-wide range. Countless fragments and shockwaves were sent flying in all directions.

Every colossal beast's consciousness shook. It was as if the entire world trembled around them.

The clash of dual-world powers created a deep-sea whirlpool that spanned dozens of kilometers. It shuddered violently and formed towering tsunamis hundreds of meters tall.

Boom!

A black-red light then burst forth and pierced upward, cutting through the thousand-meter-deep seabed whirlpool. It reached tens of thousands of meters in the sky.

Standing in the firmament, a ferocious colossal beast cloaked in black light raised its head and let out an earth-shaking roar. Its ferocious and overwhelming might darkened the heavens and gathered storm clouds out of nowhere, forming a vortex spanning dozens of kilometers.

Boom!

Gales howled over the sea, the waves raged, and blue thunderbolts rumbled within the dark clouds, occasionally striking the sea and sending water splashing skyward.

The sea burst open as colossal beasts looked up excitedly at the sky.

So powerful, incredible! Ao Ba has gotten even stronger.

On the turbulent sea, the Nine-Headed Serpent, now over two hundred meters long, twisted wildly. Its nine heads whipped from side to side in excitement.

The scene made the Single-Horned Kun and other colossal beasts hurriedly back away, fearful of being infected by its enthusiasm.

That scared me. Even if you're excited, there's no need to make such a big scene.

Keep going, Ao Tian! Break through and take down that ancient creature! The great Saixitia will stomp on its head and roar in triumph!

The Silver Colossal Dragon spread its wings, circling in the sky and howling excitedly as it watched the Dragon Emperor’s power surge. Every bit of strength that the Dragon Emperor gained translated into power for the Dragon Palace, which, in turn, meant more strength for the Silver Colossal Dragon.

Meanwhile, a detection satellite beyond the atmosphere began blaring urgent alarms.

[Warning! Mythical-level energy detected above Passage Three in the deep sea. Codename: Thunder Fiery. Energy levels are steadily rising!]

The staff in the monitoring center stared in disbelief.

"That mutated creature is growing stronger again!"

"Its growth rate is terrifying."

In just over half a month, they nearly witnessed the colossal beast advance from the beginning stage of level 9 to the late stage of level 9 and then slay a mythical colossal beast.

Now, barely two days later, the mutated creature has grown even more powerful.

Its immense potential was comparable to that of the supreme human powerhouses who rose during the Era of Darkness.

Amidst the excited roars of the other colossal beasts, the Dragon Emperor’s aura intensified, and it began to transform once more.

Its thick scales and skin began merging, with softer tissues joining the underlying muscles. It was reminiscent of when it first gained its Defense ability.

However, unlike when it evolved into the Six-Horned Armored Beast with a fully integrated thousand-layered armor, its entire body structure was now evolving on a deeper level.

Moreover, golden patterns began to emerge on its black-red scales, radiating an indestructible aura.

For a transcendent colossal beast, every breakthrough in ability would lead to a corresponding evolution and upgrade in its bloodline.

The dual divine transformation abilities caused the Dragon Emperor’s life stage to evolve yet again, reaching pseudo-celestial heights, with an emperor-level aura growing increasingly formidable.

On the Dragon Emperor’s head, the purple dragon egg emanated joyful energy, eagerly absorbing the imperceptible life aura radiating from it.

As a result, the pressure radiating from the purple dragon egg also gradually intensified.

Despite the loss of much of its life essence over the years, the dragon egg had maintained an emperor-level life stage, hinting that its innate power could be even stronger than expected.

After all, the life essence it had released contained the potential to reshape the bloodlines of other mutated colossal beasts.

But ever since it followed the Dragon Emperor and absorbed its emperor-level life energy, the dragon egg’s life essence had stopped flowing away.

In the mythical world, a monstrous creature, stretching tens of kilometers in length and standing twenty kilometers tall with mountains and rivers upon its back, let out a terrifying roar.

Sensing the Dragon Emperor's even stronger heavenly-tier emperor-level life aura, the ancient creature grew frenzied, itching to charge forward and devour it.

Boom!

The area around the world passage—which was formed by the entanglement of two realms—trembled due to the terrifying impact of the ancient creature, showing signs of instability and even collapse.

A passage only a few hundred meters wide was insignificant to the colossal ancient creature, whose immense size seemed to block out the sky.

If this ancient creature could harness the power of principle, it would be able to destroy this ordinary world passage with a casual strike.

After more than an hour, as the aura of the king-level being on the other side faded, the massive creature abruptly stopped on the shattered ground in confusion.

The mountain that held the passage had long since collapsed, leaving a wasteland that stretched hundreds of kilometers.