Chapter 873: King of Sky and Void, Meeting The Great Dragon King (II)

Bang!

Over a hundred kilometers away, space ruptured as the shockwaves detonated. A second, even larger ray-like beast had no time to dodge and was slammed into by the first. There was an immense eruption, shaking the world, and the both of them went flying.

Just then, a black-and-red bladed tail nearly two kilometers long, wrapped in golden flames and blue-violet thunder, tore through space and flashed before another ray-beast.

Wooo!

The 23,000-meter-long ray-beast inhaled sharply, its body expanding rapidly. A moment later, a horrifying black sonic wave burst from its mouth.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The black shockwave fanned out, sweeping hundreds of kilometers. It reduced all space in its path to layered fragments, forming a tide of utter destruction. At the heart of that radiation-like shockwave, however, the black-and-red tail blade cleaved through everything, slashing directly down the center of the ray-beast.

Boom!

With one fearsome strike, the beast—over twenty kilometers long and nearly a kilometer thick—was split clean in two. Grayish-red blood gushed across the sky, radiating scorching, corrosive steam.

The instant the middle-stage titan ray-beast was bisected, the void beneath the Destructive Dragon Emperor’s feet collapsed. Harnessing the Law of Speed, its massive form blinked three hundred kilometers away.

Boom!

A claw wreathed in black lightning smashed down on another ray-beast over twenty-one kilometers long, shattering its dorsal scales and breaking its spine. The immense beast let out a tortured scream as it crashed through space and plummeted over a thousand kilometers, nearly falling into the dark rift below.

Wooo!

Furious wails echoed from behind. Three gray tail spikes, each a hundred meters thick, pierced through space and instantly appeared behind the Dragon Emperor.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The spikes, brimming with gray energy, struck the thick scale armor on the Dragon Emperor’s back, creating explosions at the impact point. Yet even the combined full-power assault of four titans couldn’t shake its incomparably durable black-and-red scale armor, leaving only faint white marks a hundred meters across.

Hum!

The Dragon Emperor’s dark-golden dorsal fins began to glow with a blue-violet light. In the next instant, dozens of laser-like beams, formed from a fusion of laws of lightning and corrosion, blasted forth.

The rapidly expanding blue-violet beams streaked forward with blinding speed. They crossed hundreds of kilometers in an instant and struck three of the ray-beasts, unleashing a torrent of destructive energy like breath attacks.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The beasts let out agonized roars as the hundreds-of-meters-wide laser beams dissolved their scale armor and blew apart flesh and blood, punching massive bloody holes straight through their bodies.

In just the blink of an eye, the Dragon Emperor had severely wounded all eight titan-level beasts. Standing amid the raging shockwaves of the gray currents, its golden vertical pupils remained cold as it surveyed the heavily injured giants around it, though a flicker of doubt surfaced in its gaze.

It couldn’t help but feel that these colossal beasts were rather weak. Despite being tempered by the chaotic destruction currents and boasting bodies tougher than typical titan-level beasts, their offensive capabilities were seriously lacking.

Aside from their resilience, they didn’t appear to possess any law-based abilities. It was as if all their energy had been devoted purely to evolving their physical bodies. It seemed likely that this was a result of their environment.

Pondering this, the Dragon Emperor flapped its vast wings, tearing through the turbulent current as it descended to the head of the ray-beast it had previously cleaved in two.

Despite being cut in half, its life force as a titan was formidable. Its two severed halves had already begun to rejoin, flesh regenerating rapidly at the wound. Even the scattered gray-red blood around it flowed back as if it were alive, reintegrating with the beast’s body and resisting dissolution by the surrounding gray currents.

Bang!

The weakened ray-beast trembled and attempted to flee, but its head was instantly seized by the Dragon Emperor’s claw, which moved quickly enough to leave afterimages. Terror filled its eyes.

Wooo!

Sensing the ferocious murderous aura radiating from this fearsome titan, the ray-beast flapped its immense wings in a frenzy, its body twisting violently as it struggled with explosive strength.

The black-and-red colossal beast's eyes turned cold.

Boom!

Space exploded as the Dragon Emperor’s claw smashed down, and the beast’s flattened skull caved in. Its scales shattered, and a gush of gray blood and other fluids erupted forth, instantly weakening its resistance.

Even with the immense life force of a titan and a soul already deeply fused with its flesh, a crushed skull left it mortally wounded and on the brink of death. Only then did the Dragon Emperor cast its gaze upon the beast’s skull, where five gray crystals could be seen embedded between the splintered bones.

These crystals ranged in diameter from over ten meters to more than thirty. Flat and oval-shaped, they were half-embedded into the beast’s scale-covered flesh. Relative to the colossal creature’s immense size, they were barely noticeable. Even the Dragon Emperor had felt nothing unusual from the crystals before. Now intrigued, it reached out its claw to investigate.

Splurt!

With a sweep of its sharp talons, the flesh and scales atop the beast’s skull shattered, carving out five bloody holes that exposed vascular tissues and fascia. The moment the gray crystals detached from the beast’s flesh, they began to change, transforming from a solid state into a liquid energy form that emanated dense and powerful energy waves.

Though the energy felt somewhat turbid, it startled the Dragon Emperor, whose eyes gleamed with intense heat.

Chaos

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These crystals on the beasts’ heads actually contained impure chaotic matter. It was solid when attached, but once removed, the material within immediately activated. Clutching the five gray crystals, the Dragon Emperor now looked upon the colossal beasts not with killing intent, but with the gleam of one who had discovered a priceless treasure.

As its cultivation advanced, so too did its understanding of the world. As a heavenly-tier lifeform, the Dragon Emperor naturally knew that chaos was the foundation of all existence. Chaos gave birth to all things—everything in the mythical world, in the universe of Blue Planet, and all forms of energy and matter originated from it.

This Chaotic Region had only become so resource-rich because, when the mythical world devoured it long ago, it shattered the world’s crystalline wall, allowing vast amounts of chaotic qi to flood in.

Who would have thought that these ray-beasts would be a source of this chaotic matter? Each of these crystals was equivalent to a law-level resource, perhaps even more precious.

Bang!

Without hesitation, the Dragon Emperor tossed all five crystals into its mouth, crushing and swallowing them. The moment they entered its body, a violent and tyrannical energy erupted within the Dragon Emperor, like chaotic qi flooding through and scouring everything in its path.

Yet even this muddled, chaotic force, which was enough to blow apart mythical colossal beasts and dissolve their laws and flesh, was unable to shake the peerlessly strong Dragon Emperor. Instead, its countless cells hungrily absorbed the energy.

Crack! Crack!

The Dragon Emperor’s aura exploded. Its enormous frame expanded at a rate visible to the naked eye, and the force it released crushed the surrounding space, generating waves of black shock explosions.

In just a short moment, the Dragon Emperor’s body had expanded by over fifty meters. That didn’t sound like much, but considering its current strength and toughness, even devouring an ancient titan would at most yield an increase of around a hundred meters.

Combined, the Chaotic Crystal Cores embedded in the heads of all of these titans contained the equivalent biological energy of four ancient titans, and it wasn’t just energy. The Dragon Emperor keenly sensed that its heavenly-tier bloodline had undergone a subtle evolution under the influence of that chaotic matter, refining its body to an even more perfect state.

Though this bloodline optimization was minute, the fact that it had a noticeable effect even on itself raised a question. What about the Silver Colossal Dragon and the others, whose bloodlines were still at the king level? More importantly, could this chaotic matter affect Chen Chu’s main body? Could it further strengthen the Eight-Armed Demon God's body, enhancing its potential?

If it could improve the talent of human cultivators...

Whoosh!

The Dragon Emperor snorted, exhaling a searing stream of air. These beasts suddenly seemed far more valuable in its eyes.