Chapter 564: Chaotic Dark Force Laws, Chen Chu Emerges from Seclusion (I)

Boom!

The frozen, crystalline ground trembled violently.

In a side hall forged entirely of ice, towering thousands of meters tall and over ten thousand meters wide, the Heavenly Dragon radiated an aura of immense power. Centered around it, a fusion of lightning, fire, and violet energy coalesced into a domain, spreading outward and enveloping the surrounding space.

The area within the domain's energy was locked down, shielding the Heavenly Dragon against any potential prying eyes. Only then did the Heavenly Dragon take a deep, expectant breath.

Hum!

The six feathery horns on either side of its head shimmered with intricate silver runes far more complex than ever before. Reconstructed during its days in seclusion, they blazed with golden and violet flames.

The mythical world’s space was exceptionally stable, making it far more challenging to carve out a temporary passage over great distances.

However, the Heavenly Dragon, whose strength rivaled or surpassed peak mythical level, combined its overwhelming power with a perfected spatial rune structure. Soon, amid the swirling flames, a silver vortex about a meter in diameter began to form.

In the forbidden zone’s Heart of the World, Chen Chu—in the form of an eighty-meter-tall, three-faced, six-armed figure that resembled an ancient demon god—slowly opened his eyes. A golden-red glow pulsed on his right arm.

Amid the spatial vibrations, a vortex appeared in front of Chen Chu that matched the one on the other side.

On the Heavenly Dragon's head, a small purple dragon curiously watched as shimmering Life Crystals vanished into the vortex. Reaching out with its tiny claws, it squeaked.

The black-and-red beast nearby replied,

I am performing a sacrifice.

Eeya!

The Little Purple Dragon tilted its head in confusion.

Why is the Heavenly Dragon offering up those shiny crystals? To whom are they being sacrificed?

In no time, thousands of Life Crystals disappeared into the passage. The Heavenly Dragon then roared, unleashing a terrifying surge of power. The silver vortex on its head expanded rapidly to over ten meters in diameter.

As the spatial passage widened, a powerful counterforce erupted and pressed down on the Heavenly Dragon. The immense pressure caused cracks to spread across its sturdy scales.

Simultaneously, massive chunks of essence, including a refined black-and-red essence from the Black Abyss King’s remains, appeared in the Heavenly Dragon's claws.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The muscles in its claws bulged as it endured the backlash from the spatial passage. It then forcibly shattered the Black Abyss King's essence into four pieces and hurled them into the vortex.

Boom!

Once the last of the colossal beast essences had passed through, the spatial passage collapsed violently, triggering tremors throughout the crystalline ice hall.

***

Chen Chu gasped for air. Even with the Heavenly Dragon absorbing most of the rebound, he still suffered an intense backlash from forcefully widening the passage.

Still, his gaze softened and his lips curved into a smile as he surveyed the thousands of low-level Life Crystals and the powerful beast essences floating in the void before him.

After composing himself, Chen Chu stored the essences in his Sumeru Bracelet and began refining the Life Crystals.

[You have refined a high-purity Life Crystal, gaining 892 attribute points.]

[You have refined a high-purity Life Crystal, gaining 3,915 attribute points.]

[You have refined a high-purity Life Crystal, gaining 35 attribute points...]

The attribute points on the transparent interface before Chen Chu soared. The total soon surpassed 30,000 and then 40,000 before finally settling at 84,321.

Of the over 80,000 attribute points earned, about 60,000 came from the mutated orca army.

The remaining 20,000 were collected by the Silver Colossal Dragon and three other colossal beasts during their rampage across the ocean, which had them slaughtering level 7 and level 8 beasts encountered along the way.

With the Life Crystal now converted, he proceeded to enhance his abilities.

Chen Chu’s gaze shifted to the list of talents displayed under his avatar. He began to contemplate which to upgrade first.

Should he strengthen physical talents like Agility or Regeneration or upgrade the advanced Chaotic Black Patterns ability? He could also focus on transcendent abilities such as the Sky-Scorching Golden Flames, Destructive True Lightning, or Purple Void Death Toxin.

Gigantification’s enhancement cost had tripled. Hence, it was at the bottom of his list of options.

The Heavenly Dragon’s primary advantage lay in its formidable physique—forged through countless top-level abilities and divine transformations.

With dozens of enhancements and continuous micro-evolutions, its strength, defense, and explosive power far exceeded those of other colossal beasts of the same rank.

Combined with nine powerful talents spanning physical, transcendent, and unique categories, it was nearly unrivaled at its level. Despite still being at the beginning stage of mythical level, its power already rivaled the peak of mythical level.

It was already that strong with only two of its abilities enhanced to the divine transformation stage and upgraded to high-level laws. If its nine other laws were all enhanced to the same degree, the Heavenly Dragon would become unimaginably powerful.

Even among humanity’s king-level prodigies, those who had mastered top-level and high-level laws were rare. Most of the Purgatory Clan’s demon kings only had ordinary low-level laws as well. Only a few reached the middle level.

Mastering a high-level law generally signified the ability to step into the king level. After all, high-level laws not only offered greater power but also represented a more complete and closer connection to the principles of the world's origin.

Given this, many kings chose to comprehend a second or third law to boost their overall combat power through synergy.

However, every living being had limits in comprehending and bearing laws. Currently, the human king with the greatest mastery over laws controlled four low-level laws and one middle-level law. This was largely due to their innately powerful soul, which allowed for the bearing of more law origins.

Additionally, some kings opted for a focused path, using sword will or saber will to amplify the power of their laws. By achieving unity of mind and body, they aimed for even higher stages of power.

In comparison to the passive evolution of colossal beasts, humans who transcended life stages and reached the king level progressed much faster. That was especially true for the monstrous prodigies who had comprehended supreme laws upon breaking through.

Supreme laws were superior to high-level laws; they were incredibly powerful and terrifying.

Even supreme laws had their limits. In pure power, they could rival three high-level laws or the fused strength of two high-level laws. That alone showed how terrifying the Heavenly Dragon truly was.

Considering it had nine abilities capable of advancing to high-level laws, it would be able to directly contend with ancient titans once it had broken through to the titan level.

And if the Heavenly Dragon managed to fuse its nine high-level laws in the future...

The mere thought of it made Chen Chu gasp.

At its inception as an avatar, the six-horned salamander only had average talent, comparable to those of a human Innate Awakener. However, its innate ability, evolution, allowed it to evolve rapidly and grow into a mythical-level being in less than a year.

The Heavenly Dragon now had monstrous combat power thanks to the countless abilities it had acquired while breaking past its limits through successive evolutions. These abilities, in turn, were pushed beyond their limits through Chen Chu’s repeated enhancements.

The combination of these advantages created a colossal beast that was a freak among monsters. At the same time, the feedback from this colossal beast avatar significantly boosted Chen Chu, making him a prodigy among humans.

It’s a mutually reinforcing relationship.

Without the feedback from the evolving colossal beast avatar, Chen Chu wouldn’t have become so physically powerful. With a weaker foundation, he would at best be a genius cultivating at a slightly faster pace.

Similarly, without the attribute points and enhancements from Chen Chu, the Heavenly Dragon would have remained an ordinary mythical colossal beast, possessing only two top-level abilities and several middle-level ones.

Phew! No rush; gotta do this one step at a time.

Suppressing his excitement, Chen Chu looked at the Chaotic Black Patterns.

Unlike Destructive True Lightning, Sky-Scorching Golden Flames, and Agility, the Heavenly Dragon urgently needed to enhance its Defense.

If its dark-red form had an impenetrable defense, the Heavenly Dragon would be strong enough to clash head-on with titans and even tear apart the ordinary ones.

After all, the strength of ordinary titans still fell under the category of laws. They were simply more perfected in power and had larger physiques.

Additionally, an invincible defense would make venturing into the Chaotic Region much safer since it harbored not only mythical colossal beasts but also numerous treacherous dangers.

Taking that into consideration, Chen Chu mentally instructed,

Consume ten thousand attribute points to enhance Chaotic Black Patterns.

Boom!

Within the side hall, an overwhelming aura erupted from the Heavenly Dragon, shaking heaven and earth. Its terrifying presence shook the Ice Crystal Shrine with a nigh-tangible pressure.

Countless rune chains appeared within the Heavenly Dragon as it evolved and grew more intricate. Its genes and bloodline were further refined, growing stronger as its ability runes interwove.

Even though the Heavenly Dragon had already broken into mythical level, every time an ability was enhanced to the top level, it marked a leap in its physique and life stage.

The sudden changes startled the Little Purple Dragon, who was perched atop the Heavenly Dragon’s head.

Eeya!

Unlike the purple dragon, the Single-Horned Kun, the Silver Colossal Dragon, and Zhulong—who were in nearby halls—were already accustomed to such phenomena.

The Silver Colossal Dragon, which had already consumed two law-infused divine items and fallen into slumber, unconsciously growled,

Ao Tian has grown stronger again. The great Saixitia has to strive harder as well.