Chapter 457 Two Beasts Unleashed, Shocking the Entire Audience!

"He's gone in again!!!"

In front of the mystic light mirror.

I don't know who was the first to let out this shout.

The voice cracked from excessive excitement, sounding sharp like a rooster being held by the neck.

But no one cared about that at this moment, because everyone's eyes were nailed to the image in the mystic light mirror.

That slim figure wearing white clothes and a silver-white mask stood up again after the beam of light dissipated, and without hesitation, walked toward the ancestral dragon essence blood once more, then reached out and touched the invisible Restriction barrier.

The Teleportation Formation light membrane lit up.

He went in.

He really went in again.

The entire treasury square exploded after a brief dead silence.

"Is it finally time to fight?! A True Dragon and a Divine Peng joining forces, two top-tier Purple Gold Rank Bloodline beasts, battling the guardian phantom of the seventh level's treasure! Just thinking about this battle makes one's scalp tingle!!"

"But the challenge rule for the seventh level is a ten-Realm gap! His True Dragon is Purple Gold Rank Six, the Divine Peng is Purple Gold Rank Four, what Realm will that phantom be? Diamond Rank? Or even higher? The gap still exists!"

"So what if it exists? Two beasts joining forces, and both are at their Peak state after just completing a Breakthrough and evolution! This battle is definitely winnable!"

The Liu Family Disciple members were so excited their faces were flushed red; noisy discussions, arguments, and betting sounds rose one after another, turning the entire square into a pot of boiling porridge.

Most of these young Liu Family Disciples had never seen what the seventh-level guardian phantom was, but that didn't stop their expectations from being pulled to the maximum.

For them, being able to witness two top-tier Divine Beast Bloodline beasts join forces to fight the highest difficulty challenge of the Ten Thousand Beast Battle Formation was a capital for bragging for a lifetime in itself.

As for whether the Liu Family's treasure would be taken away?

That was the Clan Head and the Grand Elders' business to worry about; ordinary Disciples didn't care about that.

However, in the area where the Grand Elders and core deacons were located, the atmosphere was not so relaxed.

An old-timer Grand Elder with white hair and beard frowned, and every wrinkle on his aged face was filled with worry.

He gazed at the challenge space slowly unfolding in the mystic light mirror, his voice deep like muffled thunder.

"The seventh-level guardian phantom, I once witnessed it once back in the day. It is a Dragon Soul projection summoned by our ancestor using a drop of Azure Ancient Dragon residual blood as a guide, from fragments of ancient remnant souls. Although it only retains thirty percent of the Dragon prestige from its lifetime, its essence is a true Ancient True Dragon remnant soul, not comparable to the Vicious Beast phantoms simulated by Spiritual Qi in the lower levels. The ten-Realm gap, plus the True Dragon remnant soul's own combat instinct and forbidden techniques... If this Grand Tutor Dongxuan really takes away the ancestral dragon essence blood, then one of the pillars supporting the sky of our Liu Family's heritage will be gone."

Another Grand Elder beside him, Supreme Elder Liu Yunshan, also had a grave expression.

As the leader of the faction supporting the Clan Head, his attitude toward Jiang Yun was not as hostile as Liu Lie's, but at this moment, seeing Jiang Yun really going to challenge the seventh level, his mood was equally complicated to the extreme.

On one hand, having witnessed Jiang Yun's Heaven-Defying methods, he was already impressed by this youth's ability and background.

But on the other hand, the ancestral dragon essence blood was, after all, the Liu Family's supreme treasure, a Legendary Medium Grade item that would make Radiant Sun-Level powerhouses break their heads fighting for it across the entire Eastern Region.

If it were really taken away, the Liu Family's loss would indeed be immeasurable.

"May the ancestors protect us..."

Supreme Elder Liu Yunshan muttered in a low voice, then felt that he had spoken with some lack of confidence.

And on the other side.

Liu Lie's complexion was even uglier to the extreme.

Since Jiang Yun entered the seventh level, his face had been slapped again and again.

From Little Fire's Breakthrough jumping six ranks, to Little Skylark's evolution and subsequent Breakthrough jumping several ranks, every time he confidently said it was impossible, every time he was slapped back by reality in the loudest way.

At this moment, he stood at the edge of the crowd, arms crossed, his face so gloomy it could drip ink, his lips pressed into a pale line, the muscles at the corners of his eyes twitching uncontrollably.

But he didn't speak.

Not a single word.

It wasn't that he didn't want to speak, it was that he didn't dare to.

He previously said Grand Tutor Dongxuan couldn't take the Law Crystal from the sixth level, and he took it.

He said the two beasts couldn't recover within half an incense stick of time, and they were fully healed.

He said Gold Rank beasts couldn't win the seventh-level challenge, and he directly let the beasts break through and evolve in the treasury.

His old face had been slapped until it swelled, subsided, and swelled again; now he could even feel his cheeks burning with pain.

If he jumped out to say "impossible" again, what if he got slapped in the face again later?

He didn't want to really chew up a teacup and swallow it in public.

So he chose to shut up.

Shutting up might be stifling, but at least he didn't have to get slapped again.

And at the very front of everyone, Liu Qingyun's face could no longer show any expression.

It wasn't that there was no expression, but there were too many complex expressions twisted together, making it impossible to see anything.

His gaze was locked tightly on the challenge space of green hills and clear waters in the mystic light mirror, his hands in his sleeves unconsciously clenched into fists, his knuckles turning pale from excessive force.

He knew clearly in his heart that Jiang Yun went in this time with real skills.

A Purple Gold Rank Six True Dragon, a Purple Gold Rank Four Divine Peng, both beasts had just completed a qualitative leap and were at their absolute Peak state.

And with the tactical literacy and on-site command ability Jiang Yun had shown in his previous challenges, he would absolutely not fight an unprepared battle.

Since he chose to enter the challenge space again, it meant he already had at least a fifty percent chance of winning in his heart.

Fifty percent.

For a challenge spanning nearly a major Realm gap, a fifty percent chance of winning was already a terrifyingly outrageous number.

"If he really takes away the ancestral dragon essence blood..."

Liu Qingyun didn't finish his sentence, but Elder Liu Lan beside him had already understood his meaning.

If Grand Tutor Dongxuan really took away the ancestral dragon essence blood, the Liu Family's loss this time would not be describable by the words "heavy bleeding."

From the beast taming armor condensation knee pads on the fourth level of the treasury, to the dark-attribute origin law crystal and thunder soul crystal on the sixth level, then to the ancestral dragon essence blood on the seventh level.

Every treasure Jiang Yun took from the Star Pavilion was at least Falling Star Rank or above.

Just the items already in his hands added up to a total value exceeding the entire net worth of many second-rate forces.

If a drop of Legendary Grade ancestral dragon essence blood was added, calculating this account, the Liu Family's heritage would have to regress by at least several decades.

But what could Liu Qingyun do?

The rule of five opportunities was set by himself, pick whatever you want from each level.

Back then, to beg Jiang Yun to take action, he not only increased the number of times in the treasury but also swore that "as long as you can take it, it's the Liu Family's good intention."

Now it's good, he really came to take it, and he took it rightfully and square; he didn't even have the qualifications to go back on his word.

Not to mention the impact of breaking his word on the Liu Family's reputation, just the strength and background of Grand Tutor Dongxuan himself were not things Liu Qingyun dared to offend easily.

A Prodigy who could complete the resonance of three Bloodlines in the Liu Family Ancestral Land and make his beasts break through and evolve one after another in the treasury—who would dare to break their word to him?

"Clan Head."

Elder Liu Lan's voice rang in his ear, calm with a hint of resignation.

"Since we can't stop him, it's better to calm down and watch. Regardless of the outcome, this battle will be the most brilliant challenge in the Liu Family for hundreds of years."

Liu Qingyun was silent for a long time, eventually just snorted heavily through his nose, which counted as acquiescence.

And at this moment, Old Mo and Great Master Fu Shan stood side by side at the very front of the crowd, the eyes of the two Grand Tutor Level masters flashing with expectation.

Their positions were different from the Liu Family members.

As a Rune Master and a Formation Master, they didn't care much about the ownership of the Liu Family's treasures; what truly interested them was the Peak duel about to unfold in the mystic light mirror.

Two top-tier Bloodline beasts joining forces to fight a True Dragon remnant soul—this level of battle wasn't something one could see just anywhere.

"A Purple Gold Rank Six True Dragon Bloodline, a Purple Gold Rank Four Wind-Thunder Divine Peng Bloodline, battling a Diamond Rank Azure Ancient Dragon remnant soul."

Old Mo stroked his beard, his murky old eyes flashing with brilliance, his tone full of the expectation of someone who loves to watch the chaos.

"Both are Divine Beast grade Bloodlines, both possess Domain skills, and they have just completed a Breakthrough and evolution; they are at their absolute Peak state. Old Fu, guess who will win this battle?"

Great Master Fu Shan did not answer immediately.

He squinted his eyes and stared at the small world of green hills and clear waters in the mystic light mirror, silent for a good while before speaking slowly.

"In terms of Realm, the Azure Ancient Dragon crushes them. In terms of Bloodline, both sides are top-tier Divine Beast Bloodlines, neither is worse than the other. In terms of combat instinct, the Azure Ancient Dragon, as a remnant soul projection of an ancient True Dragon, possesses complete combat wisdom and nine True Dragon innate skills; if it were a one-on-one, neither beast would be its opponent. But the problem is... they have two, and Grand Tutor Dongxuan's on-site command ability is something you and I have both witnessed in the Ancestral Land."

"Are you saying... there's a chance?"

Old Mo raised an eyebrow.

"More than just a chance."

Great Master Fu Shan's mouth curved into a meaningful smile.

"I now strongly suspect that Grand Tutor Dongxuan never considered the seventh-level challenge an impossible task from the beginning. He was already planning for the seventh level while he was on the sixth level; the reason he entered and exited the first two times was just waiting for his beasts to complete their Breakthrough and evolution. Now that everything is ready, do you think with his personality, he would do something he wasn't sure of?"

Old Mo heard this, stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter, his laughter full of admiration and emotion.

"According to you, this drop of ancestral dragon essence blood of the Liu Family is really not going to be kept today. That kid Liu Qingyun is still standing there with a livid face; I'm afraid his heart is beating like a drum too. Oh well, oh well, anyway, the Liu Family's treasure is not yours or mine, we'll just watch the fun."

Just as thousands of people in the square had different thoughts and were looking forward to it, the image in the mystic light mirror finally stabilized.

Green hills and clear waters, flying waterfalls and drifting clouds.

That small world shrouded by a translucent boundary a thousand feet away was as quiet as a landscape painting.

Above the firmament, a dark green Dragon shadow completely covered in dark green scales was slowly circling; the slender Dragon body was faintly visible among the clouds and mist, and two ink-colored Dragon horns shone with a cold luster in the sunlight.

Jiang Yun stood on a slightly raised hill, looking up at the Dragon shadow circling leisurely in the firmament.

It was still that Azure Ancient Dragon.

It was still that vast and ancient feeling emanating from its bones.

It was still those dark golden vertical pupils without any emotional fluctuation.

Its circling posture was leisurely and elegant; every tail flick would ripple a faint green circle in the Void Realm, and every wing flap would cause the surrounding wind attribute Spiritual Qi to emit a low resonance.

That pressure from the very top of the life hierarchy still shrouded the entire world like a substance.

But Jiang Yun's state of mind was completely different from the first time he faced it.

The first time he saw this Azure Ancient Dragon, his heart was pounding wildly, his legs were weak, and his subconscious was screaming crazily at him to run away.

That kind of pressure didn't come from the gap in Realm, but from the most instinctive fear of an ordinary human facing the master of all spirits.

But now, when he stood on this hill again and looked up at that circling green Dragon shadow again, his heartbeat was steady, his breathing was even, and the corners of his lips even curled up with a faint arc.

He was still afraid.

Facing a real Ancient True Dragon remnant soul, it would be a lie to say he wasn't afraid.

But that fear was no longer the suffocating despair of the first time; it had turned into excitement and eagerness before the battle.

Because this time, he didn't come empty-handed.

"Last time, I could only take Little Fire and flee in a hurry."

Jiang Yun whispered to himself, his voice carrying a trace of irrepressible Battle Intent.

"But this time is different."

He raised his right arm, his five fingers spread wide.

There was no golden light gate, no Teleportation Formation, and not even any visible energy fluctuations.

But at the same instant Jiang Yun raised his right arm, a heat strong enough to distort the air exploded suddenly from his whole body.

The flames presented a pure, ultimate gold. Amidst the flickering flames, faint sounds of a dragon's roar drifted from the Void, as if an ancient flame dragon, dormant for ages, was raising its head and roaring within his Beast Taming Space.

Immediately following, a deep blue vapor, diametrically opposed to the fire yet equally majestic, erupted from his body. The vapor and the golden flames intertwined around him, transforming into a gold and blue Taiji light wheel that slowly expanded in all directions with him at the center.

Wherever the Taiji light wheel passed, the lush green wild grass was either scorched brown and curled by the heat or covered and frozen by frost. Ice and fire coexisted on the same patch of land, presenting an eerie yet magnificent spectacle.

At the very center of the light wheel, the Void behind Jiang Yun began to tremble violently.

The amplitude of the tremors grew larger and the frequency faster, as if some colossal behemoth were crashing in from another dimension.

The air emitted a low hum amidst the tremors; tiny pebbles on the ground vibrated and danced, and even the surface of the mountain stream in the distance was rippled with concentric circles.

Then, the Void split open.

It was not split; it was burned open.

A long, narrow spatial rift appeared out of thin air behind Jiang Yun. The edges of the rift burned with scorching golden flames, while deep azure water light surged within.

Two diametrically opposed energies surged, intertwined, and collided madly within the rift, emitting a roar like an underwater volcanic eruption.

And in the deepest part where water and fire intertwined, a slender and majestic dark golden dragon shadow was approaching rapidly from afar, growing larger and clearer.

"Roar—!!!"

A dragon's roar that shook the nine heavens exploded from the rift.

The dragon might contained within the roar crushed down in all directions, suppressing the wild grass on the hill until it lay flat against the ground, causing the water in the stream to explode into sprays several zhang high, and even shattering the drifting clouds in the sky into fragments.

A giant dragon, its entire body covered in dark golden scales, raised its head and emerged from the rift.

It slithered entirely out of the rift, its fifteen-meter dragon body winding and spiraling in the air. Scorching golden flames burned around its body, with deep blue water vapor flowing amidst the flames—water and fire fused together, its momentum as grand as a rainbow.

That pair of majestic golden dragon eyes swept coldly toward the Azure Ancient Dragon shadow in the sky, burning with intense Battle Intent. Its dragon mouth slightly opened, and a low, somewhat provocative whimper emanated from deep within its throat.

It had broken through.

The Purple Gold Rank 6 fire dragon stood before the Azure Ancient Dragon.

And this time, although there was still wariness and vigilance in its eyes, the fear that had previously suppressed it from the depths of its Bloodline, leaving it unable to raise its head, was gone.

Last time, the pseudo-dragon Bloodline was like ice and snow under the scorching sun in the face of the True Dragon's might, melting by thirty percent before the battle even began.

But this time, with the leap in Realm and the Awakening of the reverse scale, the pseudo-dragon Bloodline within Little Fire had begun the crucial transformation toward becoming a True Dragon.

That feeling of being crushed from the level of life by the True Dragon's might, while still existing, no longer prevented it from releasing its own dragon might as it had before.

Its dragon might, its Battle Intent, and its pride all steadily supported an Aura of its own, rising with the dual improvement of its Realm and Bloodline.

Above the sky, the dark golden vertical pupils of the Azure Ancient Dragon shadow turned slowly, its gaze falling for the first time truly upon the golden flame fire dragon below, which was much smaller than itself.

In its eyes, which were indifferent to the extreme, there seemed to be a faint change—not wariness, and certainly not fear, but a kind of casual scrutiny.

It was like a giant looking down to see a dung beetle crawling by its feet, discovering that the beetle actually dared to raise its front limbs to provoke it, and thus, it felt a trace of interest.

Then, its Realm Aura began to climb.

It was the exact same process as last time.

That terrifying, suffocating dragon might slowly overflowed from the body of the Azure Ancient Dragon shadow, crushing in all directions like an invisible tsunami.

Its size gradually expanded with the climbing Realm, growing bit by bit from a slender figure of over ten meters, its dark cyan scales reflecting an increasingly cold, biting glint under the light.

Bronze Rank, Silver Rank, Gold Rank, Purple Gold Rank—the Realm numbers jumped upward all the way. With each jump, the Aura around it became more violent, and its size expanded by a circle.

Purple Gold Rank 1.

Its body length had already exceeded Little Fire's, reaching over twenty meters.

Purple Gold Rank 3.

Twenty-five meters.

The concentration of dragon might had already caused the surrounding air to begin to distort.

Purple Gold Rank 5.

Thirty meters.

It was twice as large as Little Fire, and the ancient patterns on its dark cyan scales began to emit a dim, dark light.

Purple Gold Rank 7.

Forty meters.

Its wings spread out, blotting out the sky and sun, the shadow cast covering the entire hill.

Peak Purple Gold Rank 9.

Then, the threshold was broken through without any resistance.

Diamond Rank 1.

Its body length had already exceeded fifty meters, more than three times larger than Little Fire.

But this was not over. Because Little Fire was now Purple Gold Rank 6, not Purple Gold Rank 1. The ten Realm levels were calculated starting from Little Fire's Realm.

Diamond Rank 2.

Diamond Rank 3.

Diamond Rank 5.

Diamond Rank 7.

The momentum of the Realm climbing finally slowed and stopped at Diamond Rank 7.

And at this moment, the Azure Ancient Dragon shadow circling in the sky had completely transformed into a behemoth.

Its body length exceeded seventy meters, and the shadow of its spread wings covered nearly half of the challenge space. Each dragon scale was the size of a door panel, and the cold, biting luster on the edges of the scales connected into one piece, as if it were clad in an eternal, indestructible cyan battle armor.

Its dragon head hung low, its two ink-colored dragon horns now as thick as thousand-year-old trees. At the tips of the horns, two high-speed rotating cyan wind masses condensed; each rotation of the wind masses sliced out tiny spatial rifts in the Void.

Its dark golden vertical pupils looked down coldly from hundreds of zhang high. That indifferent gaze and the posture of looking down upon ants were exactly the same as last time, even more suffocating due to the doubling of its size and might.

But Little Fire held its dragon head high, and the golden flames on its dragon body, instead of being pressed tightly against its scales, burned even more vigorously.

Its golden dragon eyes locked firmly onto the massive shadow in the sky that was four or five times larger than itself, and the low whimper from deep in its throat grew louder and more aggressive.

Jiang Yun stood on the hill, looking up at the Azure Ancient Dragon blotting out the sky, then looked down at Little Fire, which stood tall and unyielding, the curve of his lips deepening.

Diamond Rank 7.

It was a full ten ranks higher than Little Fire's Purple Gold Rank 6, five of which were ranks after crossing a major Realm, which held far more weight than an ordinary minor rank difference.

This gap was indeed large, large enough to make anyone with any remaining rationality shrink back.

But Jiang Yun was not the least bit surprised; he did not even frown.

The entry stated ten Realm levels, but this description of Realm levels inherently carried a certain degree of ambiguity.

Ten Realm levels was the baseline, not the upper limit.

Little Fire had broken through from Peak Gold Rank 9 to Purple Gold Rank 6, so the shadow's Realm would naturally rise accordingly.

He had been fully mentally prepared for this gap before stepping into the challenge space again.

Moreover.

He hadn't even summoned his second Beast yet.

Jiang Yun's thoughts stirred once more.

This time, it was completely different from the golden flames and water vapor of Little Fire's appearance; a cyan storm of extreme sharpness suddenly diffused from his body.

That storm was not as scorching and overbearing as Little Fire's appearance, but carried a sharp, piercing sense; the wind was like a knife, each blade cutting at the face.

The thunder was like a hammer, each sound shaking the soul.

Cyan wind and purple thunder intertwined around him, forming a wind-thunder vortex dozens of zhang in diameter. The vortex rotated at high speed, stirring the surrounding space until it slightly distorted.

And at the very center of the vortex, a cry of extreme clarity pierced through the roar of the wind and thunder, shooting straight into the clouds.

"Chirp—!!!"

The majesty contained in that cry was not the overbearing nature of dragon might, but another completely different kind of majesty.

It was the majesty of the sky sovereign, the gaze of a predator standing at the very top of the sky's food chain looking down upon all living things.

Amidst the cry, the cyan-purple wind-thunder vortex suddenly exploded, and a slender, magnificent giant bird figure flapped its wings and emerged from the center of the vortex.

Its thirty-meter wingspan fully opened, the divine feathers interwoven with sky cyan and deep purple refracting magnificent luster under the sunlight. Each flight feather seemed to be condensed from the purest wind-thunder power; the feather shafts were as translucent as jade, and the feather edges flowed with a pale cyan halo.

Three long, slender purple plumes on its head stood high, with fine electric arcs dancing at their tips.

The long tail feathers drifted behind it like ribbons, each movement leaving a pale purple afterimage in the air.

In that pair of pale golden eyes, a miniature thunderstorm pattern slowly rotated deep within each pupil, each rotation making its gaze sharper and more piercing.

Little Skylark circled in the air once, a gentle flap of its wings leaving a pale purple afterimage trajectory in the sky; the speed was hair-raisingly fast.

It circled above Little Fire, its pale golden eyes sweeping over the seventy-meter-long Azure Ancient Dragon shadow in the sky. The emotion in its eyes was not fear. It was Battle Intent.

A Battle Intent that was pure to the extreme, irrepressible, and desperate to rush up and tear the opponent apart the next second.

This was not hard to understand. Before evolution, the Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng wing bone fused within Little Skylark had only exerted a portion of its power. Although its Bloodline had reached the Divine Peng level, its completeness and purity were insufficient.

But now it was different. During the evolution process, it had fused with a second piece of Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng remnant bone. The two homologous Divine Peng remains merged into one, the completeness of the Divine Peng Bloodline was greatly improved, and the ancient memories and fighting instincts dormant in the Bloodline were further awakened.

More crucially, its Aptitude grade had leaped from diamond rank peak to Sun-Level Peak, completing a qualitative transformation in its level of life.

The Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng was a sky sovereign in the ancient era capable of battling True Dragons head-on.

In terms of Bloodline grade, it was not the slightest bit inferior to the Azure Ancient Dragon, and in some aspects, it was even superior.

Moreover, although the Azure Ancient Dragon shadow before them was a True Dragon, it was only a projection of a remnant soul, with less than thirty percent of the original's strength.

A descendant of the Divine Peng with a greatly improved Bloodline completeness, facing a True Dragon remnant soul with less than thirty percent of its strength—why should it be afraid?

Jiang Yun clearly felt the emotion transmitted from Little Skylark's contract.

It was a kind of arrogance mixed with eagerness and disdain.

It was telling him that this big dragon looked quite intimidating, but that was all it was. "Master, don't worry, watch how I use Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash to tear its scales."

Jiang Yun nodded with satisfaction, his gaze sweeping back and forth between the two Beasts.

One raised its head and roared, its dragon might awe-inspiring; the other flapped its wings and circled, its Battle Intent soaring.

Both were Purple Gold Rank, both had Divine Beast Bloodlines, and both had just completed a transformative evolution.

Although facing a Diamond Rank 7 True Dragon remnant soul, their Aura was not suppressed by the opponent, but instead showed signs of standing on equal footing.

Meanwhile, outside the mystic light mirror.

When Little Fire raised its head and emerged from the space rift where water and fire intertwined, the plaza had already erupted into a round of commotion.

When Little Skylark flapped its wings and appeared from the cyan-purple wind-thunder vortex, the roar of the entire plaza directly increased by an order of magnitude...

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