Chapter 1291: Dragon Xiao’s Mockery (Second Update)
Bo Yang’s mount, Dragon Xiao, was a colossal creature even larger and more terrifying than a fully grown Void Mother Beast. Its arrival caused the void where Qin Mu was hiding to tremble violently, almost making it impossible for him to stay there!
This was an unimaginably massive being. In the primordial era, it would likely have been worshipped as a god by the Creators!
“There can’t be a creature this powerful… No, there is!”
Qin Mu looked up at Dragon Xiao in a daze, muttering to himself, “As long as the Creators worshipped Dragon Xiao like they worshipped the Grand Emperor, they could make a giant beast like Dragon Xiao this strong…”
At that moment, far away in the Ten Thousand Black Mountains of the Great Blackwood, Divine King Shu Jun suddenly felt a stirring in his heart. He looked up at the sky, a look of shock on his face.
“Bo Yang’s mount—or rather, the guardian god of the Wu Jia clan—Dragon Xiao…”
He murmured, “The primordial creature second only to the Grand Emperor… wasn’t it supposed to be dead?”
That was from the primordial era, the giant beast he had dreamed of taming. However, among the three primordial kings, he ranked third. Bo Yang was first, being the most ancient and the first to discover the wonders of the Primal Chaos Divine Stone.
Gong Yun was second. Divine King Gong Yun’s Nu Xin clan was a powerful race, and although Gong Yun’s strength might not have surpassed Shu Jun’s, she was a heroine among the female Creators.
It was only natural that Shu Jun came in third.
Though Shu Jun was powerful, he couldn’t compare to those two in terms of strength and influence. Even though he often boasted in front of Qin Mu, that was only because he was taking advantage of Qin Mu’s ignorance of primordial history.
When facing the other two directly, he still felt inferior.
He had always wanted to subdue Bo Yang Divine King’s Dragon Xiao, but knowing he couldn’t defeat Bo Yang or Dragon Xiao, he had ultimately settled for the Tai Pu giant beast.
Now, seeing Dragon Xiao again, his heart burned with renewed desire.
“Bo Yang is dead, and Dragon Xiao has reappeared. Aside from the Grand Emperor and Gong Yun, no one else can compete with me!”
He flew out of the Great Blackwood, heading straight for the place where Dragon Xiao had descended, his heart ablaze: “My chance has finally come!”
At the same time, Yan Tianfei was also startled by the strange phenomena accompanying Dragon Xiao’s descent. She stepped out of her detached palace and looked up at the colossal being descending from the sky, her pretty face changing color.
“Dragon Xiao…”
“That bastard Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign didn’t kill Dragon Xiao! Instead, she hid this fearsome god away!”
She was furious, but also fearful. In the ancient war between the ancient gods and the Creators, the Empress and her sister were responsible for dealing with Bo Yang, while Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign was tasked with handling Dragon Xiao.
The two sisters had stuffed Bo Yang into the Abyss of Return to refine him, annihilating his body and soul, leaving not even black sand of his spirit, and even his divine consciousness was completely burned to ashes!
That battle had been extremely grueling for them.
Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign, however, had dealt with Dragon Xiao quite simply, later telling them that Dragon Xiao was dead.
Dragon Xiao was the most powerful giant beast of the primordial era, arguably a god among giant beasts, akin to a sacrificial god like Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign!
Yet it had been created as a weapon of war against the ancient gods!
Even the Empress and her sister were filled with fear toward this divine beast. Before the Grand Emperor’s rise, it was Bo Yang Divine King, the first of the three primordial kings, who ruled and enslaved the ancient gods, and his reliance was on Dragon Xiao.
This giant beast had been the object of worship for the longest time, and its combat power had undoubtedly reached the peak of that era!
More critically, it could control all beasts in the Ancestral Court except for the Void Beasts, making even Heaven Duke and Earth Count fear it!
Even the Empress and her sister couldn’t make the Abyss of Return swallow it!
In those days, Bo Yang Divine King had even ridden it into the Return Abyss, deep into the great chasm, and the abyss couldn’t do a thing to it!
It wasn’t until later that the Grand Emperor rose to power.
The Grand Emperor controlled the Primal Chaos, and Dragon Xiao couldn’t do anything about it, allowing the Grand Emperor’s race to thrive.
Unexpectedly, during the primordial war, Earth Mother hadn’t killed Dragon Xiao at all!
“Earth Mother planned to keep it to deal with me and the other ancient gods. Her schemes have always been far-reaching!”
Standing before the palace, Yan Tianfei looked up at the nine enormous dragon heads in the sky, enraged: “My sister and I killed Bo Yang. Dragon Xiao will surely come after me to avenge him! She’s playing a clever game! But the era of the Creators has passed. Even Dragon Xiao can’t stir up much trouble in the face of the Celestial Venerables!”
In the sky, the nine heads of the colossal beast had already appeared, but no matter how Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign summoned it, Dragon Xiao was never fully called forth.
This unparalleled giant beast looked at Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign, even showing a hint of mockery.
“Dragon Xiao, the most powerful existence of the primordial era. Back then, I spared you, not letting you die in the ancient war!”
On the altar, Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign shouted harshly, “Now it’s time for you to repay that debt! Why don’t you obey my summons and come over from the other side of the Ancestral Court?”
The nine dragon heads of the Dragon Xiao beast suddenly burst into laughter, and an incredibly powerful divine consciousness spread across the sky and earth, speaking leisurely: “Poor and pitiful Yuan Wood. In those days, how lush and verdant you were, your canopy covering the sky, with thousand-mile Kun Peng swimming around you like tiny fish and insects. Now, you’ve become a tiny little sapling. You don’t have the power to summon me!”
One of its heads descended from the sky, passing by the void where Qin Mu was hiding. On its thick, massive neck, each dragon scale even passed through the void!
Those scales were so smooth that they reflected the images of Qin Mu and the Primal Beginning Egg in the void, leaving them nowhere to hide!
Qin Mu was horrified.
This Dragon Xiao beast might not be as strong as the Grand Emperor, but it was probably not far off!
Dragon Xiao’s head reached over the altar, its shadow covering and obscuring the mountains. Though Earth Mother’s altar was large, it seemed insignificant before this dragon head.
“I’m doing well on the other side of the Ancestral Court. There, I’m carefree, with countless giant beasts inhabiting and multiplying. Without the Creators, we have no masters, and we are free.”
This dragon head didn’t speak; its divine consciousness was too powerful. It conveyed its thoughts through that consciousness.
The mere stirring of its thoughts caused various strange phenomena in the sky and on the ground. When it thought of thunder, thunder pools densely filled the sky; when it thought of mountains, mountains rumbled and rose from the earth; when it thought of angry ocean waves, vast seas appeared on the ground with fierce winds and raging waves.
“Dragon Xiao’s divine consciousness is not weaker than the Grand Emperor’s, but it’s not as pure!”
Qin Mu immediately saw where Dragon Xiao fell short compared to the Grand Emperor. Probably, Dragon Xiao didn’t have the Primal Chaos Primordial Stone or a technique like the Supreme Unrivaled Divine Consciousness to refine the vast divine consciousness within its body to purity, nor could it comprehend the Way of Divine Consciousness, which was why it couldn’t match the Grand Emperor.
“Judging by the injuries on your body, you’ve lost, utterly defeated, with only a remnant of your soul left. You’ve even lost your original body.”
Dragon Xiao’s mockery grew stronger, speaking leisurely: “You’ve stooped to any means, devouring others’ life force to enhance yourself, leaving endless hidden dangers. In the past, you were Earth Mother, possessing the great merit of protecting all living beings, so you could survive calamities without dying. But now, you’ve squandered all your virtue, and you are destined for utter annihilation, body and soul.”
It sneered, “You’re asking me to come out of retirement now, just to have me take the blade for you. Heh, Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign, your idea is good, but far too naive.”
Its head slowly rose, and the other heads vanished one after another into the void.
On the altar, Earth Mother Primordial Sovereign shouted harshly, “Dragon Xiao! I spared your life back then; now it’s your turn to repay me!”
Dragon Xiao completely disappeared: “Spared me? You only threatened me with the lives of my offspring. Back then, you were no match for me; how could you have spared me? Don’t come bothering me, don’t come bothering my descendants…”