Chapter 458 Fierce Battle Between Two Beasts Against the Azure Ancient Dragon!

"That is the True Dragon that had a Breakthrough in the treasury!! Look at its scales! They are dark gold! Every single scale has those ancient patterns! Is that a sign of True Dragon Bloodline Awakening?!"

"What's that under the dragon's neck? The Reverse Scale! That's the Reverse Scale!! I learned in class that all True Dragons have a Reverse Scale, and touching it provokes instant rage! That beast has already grown a Reverse Scale! It has begun its transformation into a True Dragon!!"

"And that Divine Peng! Heavens, that Divine Peng has completely changed! I saw it from afar once when it was in the ancestral grounds; it was silver-grey back then, and its size wasn't this big. Now, this wingspan... it must be thirty meters, right? And look at the patterns on its feathers; those aren't dyed. Those are Law patterns naturally formed on the feathers by Wind-Thunder power! This is a characteristic only found in legendary-level Bloodlines!!"

"The feathers of that Divine Peng are also evolving! Before, there were three short ones; now there are three long ones, with electric arcs at the tips! And the ribbons on its tail feathers, those are the manifestation of the Wind-Thunder Law! It is no longer the same beast as before; this is a brand-new beast!! Evolution, this is a true evolution of life level!!"

"Diamond Rank Seven!! That phantom is at Diamond Rank Seven!! Ten Realm levels! No, eleven! Counting from Purple Gold Rank Six: Purple Gold Seven, Eight, Nine, Diamond One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven! Eleven ranks! That's one more than the ten Realm levels mentioned in the rules!!"

"But those two beasts aren't afraid of it! Look at the eyes of that True Dragon; it actually dares to make eye contact with the Azure Ancient Dragon! Last time it came out, it was suppressed until it trembled all over, but this time it's holding its head high and staring back! And that Divine Peng, my god, it actually dares to fly higher than that dragon! It's looking down on that dragon!! It's looking down on an ancient True Dragon with the posture of a sovereign of the firmament!!"

A Formation Master who had witnessed Little Fire and Little Skylark up close in the ancestral grounds widened his eyes, his face full of unbelievable shock.

He pointed at the two beasts with surging Auras in the mystic light mirror, his voice trembling.

"When I saw these two beasts in the ancestral grounds, although they had Divine Beast Bloodlines and impressive pressure, they were like night and day compared to now! That True Dragon was only Gold Rank then, its body several sizes smaller, and it would instinctively fear the pressure of an Eclipsing Moon Rank. That Divine Peng was only Gold Rank Eight then; although its speed was fast, its Aura was far from as sharp as it is now. But look at them now! Purple Gold Rank! One is Purple Gold Rank Six, the other is Purple Gold Rank Four! And the temperament they possess, that confidence, that look of disdain for all things—it's completely different!!"

Beside him, another Rune Master nodded repeatedly, his beard trembling with excitement.

"Only half a day has passed? From the ancestral grounds to the treasury, in just half a day, the two beasts completed the leap from Gold Rank to Purple Gold Rank, and their Bloodlines underwent a qualitative transformation. How did Grand Tutor Dongxuan manage this? This isn't something that can be piled up with simple Heaven And Earth Treasure; this is foundation! It is precise control over the evolution path of the beasts! It is the terrifying resource integration ability that only a Grand Tutor Level Appraiser possesses!! With those two beasts standing there, their Aura doesn't make it look like they are fighting an uphill battle with a huge gap; instead, it looks like an evenly matched duel! This kind of Aura is the chance of winning!"

The Liu family high-level members present also had various expressions.

Liu Qingyun's gaze swept over the two beasts with surging Auras in the mystic light mirror repeatedly, his eyelids twitching.

Beside him, Elder Liu Lan narrowed her eyes slightly, her gaze falling on Little Skylark's thirty-meter wingspan and tail ribbons, and she murmured softly.

"No wonder he wanted to wait. Evolution plus Breakthrough, the combat power of the two beasts has at least multiplied several times. In this state, they are indeed qualified to fight the remnant Soul of the Azure Ancient Dragon."

And those conservative Elders who had originally harbored luck, believing that Grand Tutor Dongxuan could not defeat the Azure Ancient Dragon, were now silent.

It wasn't that they didn't want to speak; they just didn't know what to say.

The Auras of these two beasts were too imposing, so much so that the words "impossible" were stuck in their throats and couldn't be uttered.

A Purple Gold Rank Six True Dragon Bloodline and a Purple Gold Rank Four Wind-Thunder Divine Peng Bloodline—both had just completed a qualitative leap and were at their absolute Peak.

And although the Azure Ancient Dragon phantom had a crushing Realm advantage, it was ultimately just a remnant Soul projection, and no matter how strong its combat power was, it had a limit.

With two top-tier Bloodlines joining forces, who could say they had no chance of winning?

Liu Lie still stood at the edge of the crowd, arms crossed, face ashen, and still not saying a word.

But his eyes were fixed on the two beasts standing tall and proud in the mystic light mirror, extremely complex emotions churning in the depths of his pupils.

There was shock, wariness, jealousy, and a trace of awe he didn't even want to admit to himself.

More than anything, he was looking forward to the arrival of this monumental duel.

In the mystic light mirror.

Jiang Yun stood on the hill, with the True Dragon Little Fire surging with golden flames on his left, and the Wind-Thunder Sky Sparrow Little Skylark with its wings blocking the sky on his right.

The two beasts stood on his left and right, their Auras surging, their Battle Intent piercing the sky.

Above the firmament, the Azure Ancient Dragon phantom with a body length of over seventy meters was still circling indifferently, its dark golden vertical pupils coldly looking down at the pair below who dared to challenge its majesty.

Jiang Yun took a deep breath.

"Little Fire, Little Skylark!"

"Attack!!!"

Jiang Yun swung his right hand down like a battle blade, his voice, wrapped in spiritual power, exploding like thunder in this small world.

The last time he entered this challenge space, before he could make any reaction, the Azure Dragon Breath of that Azure Ancient Dragon had arrived like divine punishment, and he could only hurriedly recall Little Fire and flee in a sorry state.

But this time it was different.

He had used Entry Manifestation to clearly figure out all the skills, attributes, and combat styles of this Azure Ancient Dragon; the effects, range, and weaknesses of the nine True Dragon innate skills and Legacy skills were all engraved in his mind.

His beasts were no longer blindly beaten, but were actively attacking with a complete tactical plan.

Jiang Yun decided to strike first.

Little Fire suddenly raised its head in mid-air, and nine Reverse Scales at specific positions on its dragon body ignited with blinding golden flames simultaneously.

Those flames were different from the golden flames that had been burning around its body; they were purer, more intense, and closer to the Origin.

That was the innate Origin True Fire accumulated in the depths of the Reverse Scales, and every flicker of the flames was accompanied by a visible golden shockwave spreading in all directions.

The flames on the Reverse Scales spread rapidly across Little Fire's body like a prairie fire, and the fifteen-meter dragon body instantly turned into a giant fire dragon composed entirely of golden flames.

"Roar!!!"

Amidst the earth-shaking dragon roar, nine thick golden dragon flames were stripped from the nine Reverse Scales simultaneously.

The moment the nine dragon flames left the dragon body, they expanded in the wind, each turning into a hundred-zhang-long golden flame dragon.

The nine fire dragons roared, their voices shaking the clouds. The flames on their bodies burned more violently and intensely than Little Fire's own dragon flames, because they were the Origin True Fire stripped directly from the Reverse Scales—the purest fire essence in Little Fire's body, closest to the source of the True Dragon Bloodline.

The nine fire dragons soared into the sky, weaving and circling above the head of the Azure Ancient Dragon phantom. Dragon shadows flew, golden flames connected the sky, and in the blink of an eye, they constructed a Heaven-burning fire array covering hundreds of zhang.

Inside the fire array, the air distorted violently under the high temperature, and light refracted eerie halos in the golden flames.

The entire firmament was illuminated by this fire array into a blinding golden red; looking from afar, it was as if nine ancient fire dragons had descended from the sky, turning this small world into a furnace of fire.

Fine golden fire rain constantly fell from the edge of the fire array. When the fire rain fell on the hills, the wild grass instantly turned to ashes; when it fell into the stream, large bursts of white steam exploded on the water's surface.

Nine Flames Burning Heaven!!!

This was a legendary-level area destruction skill awakened by Little Fire after reaching Purple Gold Rank Six, released without reservation for the first time in actual combat.

And while the nine fire dragons were weaving into a fire array, Little Skylark had already turned into a cyan-purple stream of light almost impossible to capture with the naked eye, moving at high speed on the periphery of the fire array.

Its thirty-meter wingspan suddenly unfolded in the air, and the three slender purple feathers on its head stood upright, the jumping frequency of the electric arcs at the tips of the feathers suddenly accelerating to a dazzling degree.

A violent, extreme thunder power exploded with Little Skylark as the center.

Countless arm-thick purple electric arcs shot out from the soul crystal, crazily weaving and merging with the already rich wind-attribute spiritual power around its body.

Wind aided the thunder's momentum, thunder borrowed the wind's power; the two attributes merged and transformed at an unprecedented speed under the control of the soul crystal, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into a Wind-Thunder dual Domain covering an area no less than Nine Flames Burning Heaven.

Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain!!!

Within the Domain, the wind was like a knife, and ten thousand thunders roared in unison.

Cyan wind blades raged everywhere in the Domain, each wind blade being several zhang long, the edges sharp enough to cut off a small hill.

Purple thunder struck down from the void, dense like a torrential rain, and every strike would explode a scorched deep pit on the ground.

And at the junction of the two Domains, the golden flames and the wind-thunder collided, exploding one after another into blinding energy shockwaves, stirring up the entire firmament.

From Jiang Yun's order to the full deployment of the two Domains, it took only three breaths.

Outside the mystic light mirror, the eyeballs of thousands of Liu family disciples almost popped out of their sockets at the same time.

"My god!! What skill is that?! Nine fire dragons!! Nine hundred-zhang fire dragons!! That True Dragon is only Purple Gold Rank Six, how could it release a Domain-level fire array covering hundreds of zhang?! Just looking at this skill makes one feel their Soul burning!!"

"And that Divine Peng! Its Domain has also unfolded! Wind-Thunder dual Domain! Wind blades and thunder exist at the same time! I feel like just looking at it makes my eyes sting as if they were electrocuted! Two major Domain skills! Both beasts possess legendary-level Domain skills! This is a Domain! Even Eclipsing Moon Rank Experts don't necessarily all have Domains, and he has two Purple Gold Rank beasts, one for each!!"

"No! It is not just the overlapping of Domains! Look at their positioning! The Fire Formation is blocking the retreat of the Azure Ancient Dragon from above, while the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain is blocking its range of movement from below. With this pincer attack from above and below, no matter which direction the dragon moves, it will be continuously drained by the power of the Domains! This is not just a simple exchange of skills; this is tactical coordination! This is true combat proficiency!!"

"Grand Tutor Dongxuan is intending to take on the Azure Ancient Dragon head-on!! Starting off with a dual Domain suppression—this is not a probe at all; this is an attempt to crush the opponent directly within the Domains! It is too fierce! It is damn fierce!!"

"But that Azure Ancient Dragon..."

Within the crowd, someone swallowed hard, their voice carrying a hint of imperceptible trembling.

"It has not even moved yet."

This sentence was like a bucket of cold water poured onto the fervent excitement of the crowd.

Within the mystic light mirror, high above the firmament.

Directly beneath the Nine Flames Burning Heaven fire formation that had left everyone breathless, the phantom of the Azure Ancient Dragon, over seventy meters in length, merely raised its incomparably massive dragon head in the face of the overwhelming dual Domain suppression.

There was still no unnecessary emotion within its dark golden vertical pupils.

No anger, no astonishment, no Battle Intent, not even a trace of displeasure at being provoked.

From the moment the Nine Flames Burning Heaven fire formation was formed until now, it had maintained that circling posture, which was so composed it was chilling.

It indifferently swept a glance at the golden flame formation above its head where nine fire dragons surged, then indifferently swept a glance at the violent Domain of wind and thunder beneath its feet, as if it were looking at two slightly oversized fireworks.

Then, it moved.

It was not dodging, not defending, and certainly not retreating.

It simply opened its dragon mouth.

The moment the Azure Ancient Dragon's mouth opened, the wind-attribute Spiritual Qi of the entire challenge space was gripped tightly by an invisible giant hand, pouring frantically into its mouth.

And within the torrent of wind-attribute Spiritual Qi, there was another completely different power mixed in.

That was the Law power of the wood attribute, vibrant with life yet concealing murderous intent.

The two Law powers intertwined and merged deep within the dragon's throat in a way that was mysterious to the extreme, compressing into a fist-sized azure light orb.

Although the light orb was small, the destructive Aura contained within it caused both the Nine Flames Burning Heaven and the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain to tremble violently.

Azure Dragon Breath.

The next instant, a destructive azure breath with a diameter exceeding ten zhang erupted from its dragon mouth.

That breath was not a beam of light, but a torrent capable of devouring everything.

Within the azure breath, the cyan wind-attribute Law continuously tore apart all matter along its path, while the green wood-attribute Law frantically eroded all life along the way.

The superposition of the two Laws was not an additive effect, but a multiplicative one. Wherever the breath passed, the air was directly decomposed into nothingness, and the space itself groaned under the unbearable burden.

Its target was the Nine Flames Burning Heaven fire formation above its head.

Little Fire's reaction could not be called slow.

The very instant the Azure Ancient Dragon opened its dragon mouth, it had already sensed through their contract the threat that was enough to make its Soul tremble.

It suddenly raised its head, and the nine golden flame dragons circling within the fire formation let out a collective roar, simultaneously diving downwards and weaving together beneath the fire formation into a massive golden flame shield formed by the nine fire dragons.

The moment the massive shield took form, the Azure Dragon Breath arrived with a boom.

"Rumble rumble rumble!!!"

The golden flames and the azure light collided violently in mid-air, and the exploding shockwave swept away the clouds and mist within a radius of hundreds of zhang.

The massive shield formed by the nine fire dragons let out a piercing wail under the impact of the breath, and the golden flames were stripped away, decomposed, and devoured layer by layer under the erosion of the azure light.

Little Fire gritted its dragon teeth, and the Origin True Fire on its reverse scales poured frantically into the fire formation, continuously repairing the tears ripped open in the massive shield.

However, the speed at which it repaired was only barely keeping up with the speed at which the opponent was destroying it.

Just as the two forces were locked in a stalemate, Little Skylark's opportunity arrived.

Under the cover of the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain, it silently circled behind the Azure Ancient Dragon.

Its thirty-meter wingspan fully expanded in an instant, and the naturally formed wind-thunder patterns on its wings simultaneously lit up with a blinding cyan-purple light.

It crossed its wings in front of its chest, and two overlapping wind-thunder blade lights slowly condensed at the wingtips.

The edges of the blade lights shimmered with a layer of silver halo that did not belong to the wind-thunder attribute; that was a trace of the Ancient space-tearing power contained within the Bloodline of the Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng.

With the reinforcement of this trace of space power, fine cracks began to appear in the Void Realm around the blade light, like glass about to shatter.

Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash.

It swung its wings forward violently.

The two overlapping blade lights flew off the wings, turning into a cyan-purple cross-shaped light blade several tens of zhang long, slashing toward the back of the Azure Ancient Dragon at a speed approaching teleportation.

Wherever the blade light passed, the space was forcibly torn open into a long, narrow fissure, with pale silver space fire burning at the edges of the fissure, emitting a sizzling sound.

This strike specifically targeted the seams of the scale armor on the Azure Ancient Dragon's back.

However, just the moment before the blade light was about to strike, every single dark cyan dragon scale on the Azure Ancient Dragon's body, each the size of a door panel, simultaneously lit up with a layer of dim light.

That light was not blinding, but it carried an indestructible sense of heaviness.

Reverse Scale Protection.

Dragons have reverse scales that, if touched, will surely rouse their wrath, and once this Reverse Scale Protection is triggered, the scale armor defense of the entire giant dragon will instantly skyrocket to a level capable of resisting High-level Diamond Rank.

"Clang!!!"

A sound of metal collision, louder than a thunderclap, exploded.

The cyan-purple blade light of the Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash slashed fiercely onto the back of the Azure Ancient Dragon, but it was like cutting into an ancient sacred mountain, leaving only a shallow white mark on the surface of several dragon scales.

The trace of Ancient space-tearing power contained within the blade light did indeed ignore thirty percent of the defense, allowing the blade light to cut into the surface of the scale armor, but the depth of the cut was not even half an inch. For a colossus over seventy meters long, the only difference between this strike and a mosquito bite was...

A mosquito bite itches, while this strike made it feel a slight stinging pain.

For the first time, a trace of extremely faint emotional fluctuation flashed within the Azure Ancient Dragon's dark golden vertical pupils.

It was not anger, but a slight surprise that could be interpreted as "This bug can actually hurt me."

It did not even turn its head to look at the Little Skylark that had ambushed it, but while maintaining the Azure Dragon Breath to suppress the Nine Flames Burning Heaven, it casually flicked its dragon tail backward.

That dragon tail, as thick as a thousand-year-old ancient tree, carrying a terrifying force capable of shattering a small hill, swept across at a speed on par with the Little Skylark.

Wherever the dragon tail passed, a visible white sonic boom cloud exploded in the air; that was the sign of speed breaking the sound barrier.

At the critical moment, the Little Skylark flapped its wings rapidly, its figure tracing an almost impossible sharp-angled zigzag in mid-air.

The dragon tail whistled past, brushing its tail feathers, and the violent wind pressure it brought directly sent it flying dozens of zhang away.

It tumbled several times in the air before stabilizing its figure, the three purple feathers on its head swaying violently in the wind pressure, and the arcs of electricity at their tips were blown away and scattered.

And at the very same instant the Little Skylark was repelled, the mouth of the Azure Ancient Dragon phantom snapped shut, and the previously continuous Azure Dragon Breath was suddenly interrupted.

But interruption did not mean the end.

Its pair of dragon wings that covered the sky flapped violently, and its massive dragon body soared upwards at a terrifying speed completely inconsistent with its size. In the gap before the Nine Flames Burning Heaven fire formation could adjust its suppression direction, it had already rushed to a position equal to or even slightly higher than the fire formation.

Immediately following, it flapped its wings forward violently.

Wind Fall Nine Heavens.

Nine world-destroying gale winds roared out from between its wings.

Those nine gale winds were not ordinary dragon-wing hurricanes.

The first gale wind was pale cyan, with a diameter of only a few zhang, but for every subsequent one, the color of the gale wind deepened by a shade, the diameter expanded by a circle, and the power increased exponentially.

By the ninth gale wind, that gale wind had already taken on a heart-palpitating dark green color, with a diameter exceeding fifty zhang, and within the gale wind, one could faintly see tiny spatial cracks being born and dying, like a door of destruction leading to the abyss of the Void Realm.

The nine gale winds slammed into the Nine Flames Burning Heaven fire formation one after another.

The first two gale winds blew the golden flame dragons within the fire formation into instability; the third to fifth gale winds tore several cracks in the outer structure of the fire formation; the sixth to eighth gale winds knocked the entire fire formation into a precarious state, with fragments of flame scattering everywhere.

And when the ninth gale wind.

That dark green world-destroying gale wind, with power equal to nine times the first one.

Arrived with a boom, the entire Nine Flames Burning Heaven fire formation let out a wail of unbearable burden. The nine golden flame dragons were simultaneously swallowed by the gale wind; the fire dragons struggled frantically but were firmly bound by the Law power contained within the gale wind. Their fire dragon bodies were stripped away, shredded, and devoured layer by layer within the gale wind, finally turning into golden sparks scattered across the sky, dissipating into the Void Realm like fireworks.

Nine Flames Burning Heaven, broken?!!!

Little Fire let out a suppressed grunt, its dragon body shaking violently.

Nine Flames Burning Heaven was formed from the Origin True Fire stripped from its nine reverse scales. The fire formation being forcibly blasted apart meant that those Origin True Fires were also shredded by the gale wind. Although they would not be permanently lost, it would be unable to re-condense Nine Flames Burning Heaven for a short period.

A trace of golden dragon blood overflowed from the corner of its mouth, and a look of genuine solemnity finally emerged in its golden dragon eyes.

But Little Fire did not retreat, and it could not retreat.

It took a deep breath, and the golden flames around its body surged again under the support of Dragons Wrath, and the Water-Fire Dragon Domain was fully deployed without reservation.

The sea of golden flames and the deep blue water Domain expanded frantically beneath its feet, and a golden-blue intertwined Taiji light wheel suddenly lit up from the intersection of water and fire, re-shrouding the entire battlefield under the dual-attribute Domain suppression.

Meanwhile, the Little Skylark also flapped its wings and returned from dozens of zhang away, and the thunder storm within the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain intersected perfectly with Little Fire's Water-Fire Dragon Domain in the center of the battlefield.

The four Domains of water, fire, wind, and thunder attributes overlapped together, forming a destructive battlefield covering a radius of nearly a thousand zhang.

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