Chapter 544: Thunder Fiery, The Destructive Heavenly Dragon and the Blood God Arrive (II)

"Chaotic Black Patterns," Chen Chu murmured, his gaze lingering on the new ability. A faint smile tugged at the corner of his lips.

Before its slumber and evolution, the Thunder Fiery Heavenly Dragon had devoured a black-striped mutated beast, acquiring its unique ability to resist transcendent powers such as time, space, thunderbolts, and flames.

Due to its breakthrough to the mythical level, this ability, which should have been classified as mid-level, was greatly enhanced during its evolution, directly reaching high-level status. This granted it exceptional resistance to all transcendent forces.

The ability’s strength scaled with the Heavenly Dragon's power—stronger power meant stronger defenses from the Chaotic Black Patterns. In essence, it was akin to a unique ability that provided immunity to magic.

When combined with the Heavenly Dragon's thick scales, this ability turned its defenses into something truly terrifying—precisely the kind of absolute defense Chen Chu desired.

No matter the opponent’s mastery of abilities like time manipulation, spatial disruption, or soul-burning techniques, they would be unable to affect the Heavenly Dragon. They would be left with no choice but to engage it in close combat.

Suppressing his excitement, Chen Chu’s gaze swept over the advancements in the high-level laws of strength and defense.

In human cultivation, reaching the king level still divided practitioners into beginning, middle, and late stages, distinguished by their comprehension of the laws.

Breaking through to the king level only signified an entry-level mastery of the laws, which were incomplete and required continual evolution and refinement.

This was akin to nurturing a sapling into a towering tree. The process of contemplating and perfecting one’s laws was not merely quantitative but qualitative. Each minor realm within the king level represented significant advancements.

The ultimate goal of cultivation was to transcend the heavens and earth, becoming a self-contained world with mastery over one’s unique, complete set of laws.

Mythical colossal beasts, on the other hand, primarily evolved through the fusion of their bodies, refined by laws. They drove the evolution of their laws through self-growth, which sounded simpler compared to human cultivation, but came with a heavy cost: time.

Many mythical colossal beasts took decades or centuries to grow from the beginning stage to the middle stage of the mythical level, while human kings could achieve such progress in mere years or decades.

This was the fundamental difference between passive evolution and active cultivation.

Of course, exceptions existed. The mythical world was vast, and some colossal beasts grew rapidly due to innate powerful abilities or inherited bloodlines. Others, like the Heavenly Dragon, possessed evolutionary abilities to accelerate their growth with.

There were even cases where ordinary beasts consumed a law-infused divine artifact by chance, instantly elevating them to top-tier mythical colossal beasts.

After thoroughly reviewing the changes in the Heavenly Dragon's data, Chen Chu’s gaze settled on the requirement of two million evolution points for its sixth evolution.

He was unsurprised. Judging by the pattern of its first five evolutions, this sixth evolution was likely to transcend the mythical and mythical titan levels, reaching the peak of the ancient titan level.

Given such a significant leap, the requirement of only two million evolution points was actually quite reasonable. For those ancient titan-level creatures who had failed and devolved into ancient beings, even two hundred million points would be a cause for excitement.

Even Chen Chu felt a slight sense of relief. The ability to continue evolving meant the Heavenly Dragon could still break through after reaching the peak of the ancient titan level, eventually surpassing it entirely.

Boom!

The ocean trembled, and a powerful shockwave rippled through the void. The flames atop the Heavenly Dragon’s three pairs of feathery horns flickered under the backlash of energy emanating from the depths of the void.

As expected, with a great world separating us, the passage between my main body and avatar can’t be opened.

As the silver runes on the feathery horns gradually dimmed, regret flashed in the Heavenly Dragon’s eyes.

If the spatial passage couldn’t be opened, it couldn’t transfer Life Crystals to Chen Chu’s main body, which meant the Chaotic Black Patterns couldn’t be enhanced immediately. The level 9 colossal beast remains and the essence of the Black Abyss King couldn’t be sent over, either.

To address this, Chen Chu would either need to upgrade and enhance the spatial rune to create a passage capable of breaking the barrier between the two worlds, or the Heavenly Dragon itself would have to enter the mythical world.

Boom! Boom!

As the Heavenly Dragon pondered, the ocean below erupted. Two colossal beasts emerged: the Nine-Headed Serpent and the Blue Giant Crab.

Gazing at the terrifying beast towering above them, the Serpent twisted its nine heads frantically, letting out excited, chaotic roars.

Roar! Roar! Roar! Ao Ba! You’re awake! You’re so pervertedly strong now!

The Blue Crab bubbled excitedly.

Gurgle! My king, you’re amazing! I’m so thrilled, my eight legs have gone weak!

Seriously?!

The Heavenly Dragon felt speechless.

Especially the Blue Giant Crab. Never mind Ghidorah calling me "pervertedly strong," what's with the "weak legs" nonsense?

Suppressing the urge to strike them down with a single claw, the Heavenly Dragon let out a low growl that resonated across the heavens and earth.

Roar! You two, go summon Big Horn and the others back.

The Silver Colossal Dragon's eyes immediately lit up with excitement as it roared.

Roar! Ao Tian, are you gathering the army to wage war and unite the oceans?

Roar! Something like that.

The Heavenly Dragon responded with a slow nod, though its true intent was merely to check how many crystals Horn Hime and the others had collected.

Roar! Ghidorah, General Crab, hurry up and bring Big Horn and the others back!

With the Silver Dragon’s urging, the two colossal beasts quickly vanished across the sea’s surface.

Watching the two beasts depart, the Heavenly Dragon turned its gaze to the distance. There, a kilometer-wide stretch of the ocean was enveloped in a shroud of darkness and daylight, where time seemed almost frozen.

More than half a month had passed, and the colossal beast Zhulong still hadn’t broken through to the quasi-mythical level.

Below the ocean’s surface, the whirlpool that had been scattered by the Heavenly Dragon's awakening had reformed, stretching skyward as the forces of two realms converged once more.

However, under the spinning red vortex, the seabed had sunk another kilometer, repeatedly destroyed by the Heavenly Dragon's tremendous power.

Roar! Ao Tian, weren’t we going to fight?

The Silver Dragon, confused by the sight of the Heavenly Dragon settling down on the seabed again, let out a bewildered roar.

After all, in the past, every time the Heavenly Dragon advanced in strength, it would immediately head out to battle.

The Heavenly Dragon rumbled softly.

Roar! Not yet. Big Horn and the others haven’t returned. I’ll first take some time to open a storage space within my reverse scale.

The Silver Dragon had previously used its spiritual will to explain to the Heavenly Dragon how to create a storage space within its reverse scale, but it had never gotten around to it.

With the unification of the oceans on the horizon and a journey to the mythical world imminent, the Heavenly Dragon would need a storage space to hold Life Crystals and the essences and remains of colossal beasts.

Hearing this, the Silver Dragon blinked.

Roar! Ao Tian, creating a storage space is hard. My mother had to help me make mine back then. Actually, the great Saixitia’s storage space is vast. I can help store your things so you don’t have to go through all that trouble.

Roar! It’s fine. I’ll finish it quickly.

For the Heavenly Dragon, which had already reached the mythical level and achieved a high level of spatial mastery and comprehension, opening a storage space within its reverse scale was a straightforward task.

Moreover, its reverse scale, made of top-tier divine materials, was more than capable of sustaining a massive space.

Boom!

Under the destructive lightning guided by the Heavenly Dragon’s immense spiritual will, the thick reverse scale on its neck trembled as a singularity connected to the void was forcibly created.

The moment the black hole-like spatial singularity formed, a powerful spiritual will descended and stabilized it, anchoring it firmly at the center of the scale.

With its overwhelming spiritual will, the Heavenly Dragon surrounded the singularity with spatial runes, condensing and inscribing them around the reverse scale.

As the dragon continued to condense the storage space, Chen Chu, preparing to enter seclusion once more, suddenly sensed figures enveloped in blood-red light appearing outside the world rift.