Chapter 1852: True Form of the Demon Lord (Part 2)
Under the dragon aura that Yun Che had fully released, the last vestiges of certainty within Long Bai almost completely collapsed.
His Dragon God aura was in chaos, even his roars becoming unusually frenzied.
The five Withered Dragon Venerables, who had long been "separated from the world" and thought they would no longer be stirred, now had faces turned pale from extreme shock.
Because this was a Dragon God presence that surpassed... no, that far surpassed the level of their ancestors!
"Hmph, a pitiful trick."
From high above came Long Bai's low growl: "A fabricated aura simulated through Evil God power dares to act presumptuously before this emperor!"
How could Long Bai possibly believe it? No Dragon Lord or Dragon Sovereign of the Dragon God Realm, nor any Divine Lord of the Western Divine Region, could ever believe it.
Indeed! This must be some special method Yun Che used to simulate a Dragon God aura... How could there be someone in this world whose Dragon God presence far exceeds that of the Dragon Emperor who rules over the Dragon God Clan.
"Laughable illusion, along with your sin-laden, base soul... perish together!"
Amid the endless majesty and heavy dragon roars, Long Bai's giant claw slammed down violently. The several-hundred-zhang dragon claw tore through dimensions, casting a shadow as deep as an abyss over the space where Yun Che stood.
But...
At this moment, in the distance, Chi Wuyue, Yan Yi, Yan San, Qianye Bingzhu, and others—their pupils all flickered with an unusual glint.
They had all previously fought against Long Bai's true form and endured the Dragon Emperor's complete dragon might at extremely close range.
Yet now, his furious dragon claw strike released a power that was far inferior to before!
It was a full two to three tenths weaker!
Earlier, Long Bai's dragon aura had retreated, happening only at the instant his power clashed with Yun Che's. Only the Withered Dragon Venerables, intimately familiar with Dragon God presence, had clearly sensed it.
But now, even the dragon might that Long Bai released was noticeably weaker... All the Northern Domain cultivators and Western Divine Region Divine Lords could clearly detect it.
"Heh!"
Facing the dragon claw and dragon might descending from above, Yun Che let out a cruel, low chuckle without lifting his head. His right arm, wrapped in extreme darkness, shot upward with explosive force.
The moment darkness touched the dragon claw, Long Bai—and the five Withered Dragon Venerables—clearly sensed that the already heavily suppressed dragon might collapsed further by several percent.
When it erupted, it was barely only... sixty percent of dragon might!
A suppression of forty percent at the pinnacle of the Divine Lord realm was so vast it was unimaginable, something that should not even exist.
And such terrifying suppression had an impact on the battle so enormous that it was utterly impossible to compensate for or reverse.
Boom!!
The Dragon Emperor's claw and the Demon Lord's dark profound light collided violently. The ground beneath Yun Che's feet shattered, but his posture barely shifted at all. Meanwhile, the pale, giant dragon claw was deflected and bounced back a great distance, the sound of finger bones breaking as deafening as earth splitting and heaven collapsing.
In terms of pure profound force, Long Bai was undoubtedly unrivaled under heaven.
At full strength, he could suppress Yun Che in a prolonged battle.
At ninety percent strength, he could remain undefeated.
At seventy percent strength, he was at a clear disadvantage against Yun Che, who only used pure profound energy and physical power.
And at sixty percent strength...
One strike broke the Dragon Emperor's finger bones... If not for witnessing it with their own eyes, even if the heads of all dragons in the Western Divine Region were twisted off, they would never believe such a thing could exist.
Long Bai's roar shook the heavens—whether in pain or rage was unclear. Meanwhile, Yun Che's figure had already blurred. The next instant, he appeared above the dragon's head, the darkness around him condensing into a black vortex around his right fist, smashing straight toward Long Bai's brow.
Bang!
The dark profound light shattered Long Bai's protective white glow in an instant, blocked by dragon aura... but this block lasted only an incredibly brief moment before the dragon aura completely collapsed.
The dark profound light, carrying Yun Che's right fist and even his entire right arm, punched into Long Bai's brow.
Darkness erupted, and a blood fountain burst from Long Bai's brow, black blood wildly spraying in all directions.
The defense that had taken the Northern Domain's Divine Lords considerable effort and cost to breach... under Yun Che's hand, it was so pathetically fragile.
Not only the Western Divine Region dragons, but even Chi Wuyue and others found it hard to accept.
Long Bai roared in fury. The massive recoil forced Yun Che far away. The pain of dark residual erosion, coupled with extreme rage, caused Long Bai's aura to become intensely frenzied, as if all his dragon blood and aura were ignited, transforming into violently churning magma.
ROOOAR!!!
This roar, carrying boundless fury, shook nearly half the Southern Divine Region, causing the souls of countless beings to tremble in fear.
Two pale dragon claws, bearing the completely berserk power of the Dragon God, smashed toward Yun Che from left and right.
Boom!
Yun Che spread his arms, and the power of the Demon Lord and the Dragon Emperor collided across the void, then locked in stalemate across the air.
Under Long Bai's giant dragon claws, Yun Che's figure seemed far too small.
Yet this tiny figure completely held up Long Bai's furious power.
Long Bai's mouth kept emitting deep dragon chants. The dragon aura coiled around his two giant claws was as thick as substance. Inch by inch, they closed in on Yun Che's location, intending to crush him directly between the claws.
The space around Yun Che was violently compressed, again and again. Through the severely distorted vision, his body seemed to have completely deformed under the immense pressure.
Yun Che's arms shook, his expression gloomy, as if he were struggling quite hard.
This terrifying stalemate lasted for a full dozen breaths, and the space around Yun Che had been crushed several times. Then, Yun Che suddenly raised his head, a sinister sneer flashing at the corner of his mouth.
The heaviness on his face disappeared. Under the pressure of Long Bai's dual claws, he spoke leisurely: "It seems this truly is the limit of your current state."
Long Bai: "...!?"
"I don't know if I underestimated myself or overestimated you too much. To be honest, I'm disappointed."
With these indifferent words, Yun Che's arms suddenly shook.
BOOM!!
With a thunderous noise, Long Bai's claws were directly blasted back dozens of zhang, and the seemingly horrifying stalemate was instantly broken.
"This game is far more boring than I expected." Yun Che looked askance at Long Bai, actually stepping through the air under the suppression of dragon might, his pace slow and steady, as if strolling leisurely: "Since it's so boring, let's end it early."
As his voice fell, Yun Che's gaze suddenly changed. His body flipped violently, exploding with black light that covered the sky and devoured the sun.
CRACK!!
Heaven and earth shook together, sun and moon lost their light. Long Bai's claws, which had seemed to suppress Yun Che for over ten breaths, were violently shattered. Especially the broken dragon finger on his right claw—it suffered even more severe cracking and a terrifying bent deformation.
The dark force vibrated from the dragon claw to the dragon body, causing the ten-thousand-zhang dragon body to flip and lose balance in midair. Yun Che had already transformed into a dark flowing light, charging upward with the most extreme dark profound force from the ancient Demon Emperor, the pinnacle of the current age.
Puff!
The light guardian and protective dragon force under Yun Che's hands were as fragile as cloth. A black, bloody hole exploded on the dragon's belly, spilling a rain of black blood.
Boom!
As Yun Che's figure shifted, another beam of black light exploded, blasting a rain of blood mixed with bone shards on the dragon's neck.
Crack!!
The black light seemed to pierce space itself, heavily striking the left claw that was flailing chaotically in pain and rage. Dragon bones shattered in an instant, flesh and blood flew everywhere.
Under Yun Che's Dragon God aura, what was suppressed was not only Long Bai's strength, but also his perception and speed.
Moreover, under the overwhelmingly domineering bloodline suppression, Long Bai's Dragon Emperor aura, even at such close range, could not effectively suppress Yun Che.
Yun Che simultaneously wielded Moon-Breaking Shadow Flick and Star God Remnant Shadow, treading Phantom Lightning Extreme... With these advantages, Long Bai's originally peerless perception and dragon body were almost completely unable to track and lock onto Yun Che's figure and power. Meanwhile, black, bloody holes were blasted open on his body one after another.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Long Bai's body writhed and roared in the air. In just a hundred breaths, under the continuous flashing dark light, hundreds of black, bloody holes had been punctured through his body. Black blood poured down like a torrential rain, shocking to the soul.
"Ah... ah... Your Highness..." The dragon gods cried out in terror. But with the lesson of Bai Hong Dragon God before them, how could they dare to intervene.
The Western Divine Region Divine Lords were all terrified, their eyes almost splitting. The Northern Domain cultivators were also stunned, as if their souls had fled.
Long Bai... the supreme Dragon Emperor of the chaos... was being brutally battered by Yun Che without any ability to fight back!
That most powerful dragon body in the age, under his hands, was as fragile as rotten wood!?
Was that really the Dragon Emperor?
Was that really Yun Che?
Yun Che's figure shattered, his true form appearing beneath Long Bai, emitting a cold whisper: "Long Bai, everything you have possessed over the years was bestowed by Shen Xi. You have long been unworthy of these... and you must repay them ten thousand times over!"
"Open your dog eyes wide and watch... who truly deserves to be the emperor of this heaven and earth!"
His arm swept out a thousand-zhang black shadow, smashing into Long Bai and sending his ten-thousand-zhang dragon body flying toward the firmament a hundred li above.
Yun Che changed his hand seal, the black light around him turning into crimson lightning. As his five fingers spread, red light filled the sky, and bloody lightning bolts descended like ten thousand furious dragons, roaring down upon the world.
Heavenly Dao Calamity Thunder!
CRACK!!
The thunder shook the world, and in the vast star domain, countless beings felt as if their souls had been split in two.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
Ten thousand calamity thunders fell chaotically upon Long Bai, their violent light dyeing his pale dragon body a horrifying bloody hue.
The thunder drowned out his screams. The ten-thousand-zhang dragon body was brutally slammed from the dome of the sky down to the earth, flesh torn open, crimson lightning entwined.
The crimson light in Yun Che's pupils dissipated, azure light flashed, and a terrifying storm wildly swept up Long Bai, who had just crashed to the ground. Then, as Yun Che's arm swung down, he was viciously smashed again.
BOOM!
Hundreds of blood fountains sprayed simultaneously, and dozens of li of the earth were instantly dyed red by dragon blood.
Yun Che raised his arm again, then lowered it, driving the storm to violently lift the blood-spurting Long Bai and smash him harshly down again.
BOOM!
BOOM!!
BOOM!!!
...
The Canglan Divine Domain trembled, then trembled again... As Long Bai's body crashed down time after time, heaven and earth flipped and cracked.
The Dragon Emperor, like a blood-soaked ball, was brutally and humiliatingly ravaged in the most savage manner.
He could not break free, could not struggle. Even his roars of anger and pain were mercilessly drowned by the storm and thunder.
BOOM!!!
The earth split open for ten thousand li, and the entire Canglan Realm almost shook apart. Long Bai's bloody body was rebounded into the distant sky... When the storm dissipated and he thought Yun Che was exhausted and the nightmare would end, Yun Che's pupils flashed with golden light, and the image of a Golden Crow flickered behind him.
A phoenix cry filled the sky, shaking souls. The firmament instantly ignited with blazing golden fire.
Yun Che's figure floated upward, and as he neared Long Bai's tumbling body, he was already engulfed in golden flames. As he spread his arms, a golden purgatory sea of fire exploded in midair, completely swallowing the ten-thousand-zhang dragon body.
SHRIEEEEK!!!
Long Bai's dragon roar this time was as agonized as a demon's despairing scream.
Yun Che pressed forward, the violent golden flame erupting mercilessly amidst repeated phoenix cries.
Blazing Sun Burst!
Golden Annihilation!
Purgatory Red Lotus!
Yellow Springs Ashes!
Blazing Sun Ray!
Flame stacked upon flame, hell stacked upon hell. Dragon scales, dragon skin, dragon blood, dragon flesh... eventually, even the exposed dragon bones became fuel for the golden flame.
The golden flame on Long Bai burned hotter and hotter, and the golden light between heaven and earth grew more intense with each breath. In the distant sky, nine golden suns finally appeared.
Golden Crow Extreme Flame — Nine Suns Heavenly Wrath!
The nine suns fell together, exploding upon Long Bai's body with the most dazzling and most extreme Golden Crow flame light of the age.