299: Cosmic creatures, nightmares

Golden Qi and blood, obscuring the sky and sun, surged from Yang Dian's body, condensing beside him into a ferocious Dragon claw, hundreds or thousands of meters in size.

The Dragon claw merely bent slightly, and space itself wrinkled beneath its grasp.

Countless people, just by looking at it through a screen, felt an indescribable pressure fall upon them, and a sense of suffocation enveloped their entire bodies.

It was as if, in the next moment, that sky-obscuring Dragon claw would tear through the screen, cross countless distances, and descend upon them.

'Is this the strength of the Huaxia powerhouses?'

As countless people murmured, the five sharp Dragon claws slightly opened and closed, pressing down on the space in front.

The space beneath the claw rippled endlessly, and the Dragon claw, extending forward, seemed to press into a water surface.

With an almost imperceptible 'splash' sound, the Dragon claw vanished from Yang Dian's side, reappearing out of thin air before the natural lifeform that resembled a Dragon but wasn't, named Cang Lin by Huaxia, and seized its head.

"Aoh~"

Amidst a roar, whether from pain or fury, circles of blue-green light waves erupted from Cang Lin's body, whose half-face had been torn apart.

"Boom!"

The earth shook and the sky swayed.

Immeasurable seawater rushed towards the sky, and the two brilliant golden Dragon claws, which had already dug into Cang Lin's eyes, instantly disintegrated under the impact of the light waves.

Countless green light points emerged from the earth, oceans, and mountains, traversing endless distances in an instant, merging into the wounds on Cang Lin's body torn by the Dragon claws.

The face torn by the Dragon claw instantly recovered completely, and Cang Lin, whose vision was restored, was about to let out an angry roar to the sky when he found five golden flame waves, carrying a deadly aura and seemingly capable of tearing apart heaven and earth, enveloping his head.

Yang Dian had appeared before him at some unknown point, golden Qi and blood surged overwhelmingly, and his right hand, transformed into a golden Dragon claw, descended diagonally.

Tearing apart heaven and earth.

"Aoh~"

Countless blue-green energies surged from Cang Lin's body, blocking the five flame waves that descended from Yang Dian's fingertips, seemingly intent on tearing the world apart.

But it was useless.

As the golden flame waves descended, the energy shield that had once withstood a desperate blow from a Cosmic Creature was torn apart by the five flame waves as if it were made of paper.

"Chii"

After tearing through the shield, the flame waves penetrated deep into Cang Lin's flesh and blood, directly cutting his body into six sections at the waist.

"Bang!"

Even after cutting him into six segments, Yang Dian felt it wasn't enough. He put his hands together, transforming his Qi and blood into two towering giant hands, grabbing the six-sectioned Cang Lin and squeezing inwards.

"Aoh!!"

Amidst Cang Lin's painful roar, Yang Dian kneaded the six-sectioned body back into one.

"Chii chii"

As the Qi and blood remaining within Cang Lin's body emitted corrosive sizzling sounds, Yang Dian stepped forward and landed before Cang Lin's eyes. Meeting his gaze, which was filled with anger, pain, and a hint of fear, he stroked the Little Black Cat on his shoulder:

"Tell him the Lingwen Clan are the vanguards, the spearhead of the Cosmic Creatures. The Cosmic Creatures found this planet because of the Lingwen Clan's meddling."

The Little Black Cat began to meow, and Cang Lin's eyes grew even angrier, finally letting out an enraged roar.

The Little Black Cat stomped its paws a couple of times, slightly annoyed, then looked at Yang Dian and said:

"Human, the big guy doesn't believe meow."

"Human, he also said meow lied to him."

"Human, meow never lies to anyone."

Yang Dian smiled, stroking the Little Black Cat. Sensing that the aura beneath the cliff by the sea had completely revived, he directly grabbed Cang Lin, whose injuries were rapidly recovering under the nourishment of green energy, and flew to the nuclear explosion zone, throwing him into the dust.

"Bang!"

The tattered Cang Lin flew back even faster than he had gone.

The anger in his eyes simultaneously transformed into bewilderment.

"Zizi"

Amidst sizzling sounds, like electricity burning through the air, the endless dust raised by the explosion of hundreds of nuclear bombs began to churn.

Time seemed to flow backward.

The mushroom cloud, obscuring the sky and sun, that had risen to an unknown height, began to roll back.

In just a few breaths, countless dust vanished, revealing the ground, which had crystallized under the nuclear blast, and a somewhat illusory, unreal monster, half-buried underground and half standing above.

The moment he saw that monster, a piece of information naturally emerged in Yang Dian's mind.

"Cosmic Creature, Nightmare?"

As he murmured, Nightmare looked at Yang Dian.

Then, an inexplicable fear arose in Yang Dian's heart.

However, just as the fear began, a rune of anger surged in Yang Dian's heart.

Boundless, as if unable to be extinguished by all the waters of the three rivers and five lakes, an emotion of fury erupted within Yang Dian's heart.

Fragmented scenes, amidst endless anger, flooded Yang Dian's mind.

Countless Cosmic Creatures, gigantic monsters obscuring the sky and sun, endless war and slaughter, and finally, a shattered planet... as well as the rune of anger, condensed from the boundless unwillingness and fury of all life on a planet before its death.

"So, that mutated octopus also benefited from something that fell from a dimensional rift?"

"And coincidentally, that planet was also blown up by Cosmic Creatures?"

As he murmured, a broken golden rune of anger appeared in Yang Dian's eyes. He looked up and met Nightmare's gaze.

A trace of negligible fear was crushed into dust by the boundless anger. A hint of astonishment appeared in Nightmare's eyes, and its dark body began to change to a golden color.

Then, like a fragile mirror, it was shattered into countless pieces by Yang Dian's flick of a finger, transforming into golden dust that drifted away and vanished into the world.

A wisp of lingering angry obsession on the rune of anger dissipated, and Yang Dian also lowered his head, looking at the Lingwen people, now numbering just over a hundred, who appeared on the ground after losing Nightmare's protection.

"I said you are the Cosmic Creatures' guides, was I wrong?"

The Little Black Cat meowed, perfectly fulfilling his duty as a translator cat.

Cang Lin flew dazedly above the Lingwen Clan, lowering his head, his eyes full of disbelief.

Those Lingwen Clan members protected by Nightmare also seemed somewhat incredulous.

They, too, apparently didn't know that after being hunted by Cosmic Creatures for countless years and fighting them for countless years, they were, in fact, members of the Cosmic Creatures themselves.

Only the Lingwen Clan's High Priest, after surveying the few remaining members of his clan, showed a look of sorrowful indignation:

"I only wanted to ensure the continuation of our clan."

"Why can't you just die for us?"

Yang Dian, who had put on his simultaneous translation headphones again, raised an eyebrow:

"Then, for the continuation of our civilization, please do us the favor of dying."

He raised his hand and pressed down a palm towards the direction of the Lingwen Clan.

"Bang!"

The descending great hand of Qi and blood had only flown halfway when it was shattered by Cang Lin's tail, his injuries fully recovered.

Yang Dian thought Cang Lin was being stubborn, but then he turned around and saw him opening his mouth towards the Lingwen Clan.

"Roar!"

A torrent of blue-green energy poured from his mouth, enveloping the Lingwen Clan, who were now only a little over a hundred people.

It corroded flesh, bone, and soul.

A moment later, the remaining hundred-plus members of the Lingwen Clan all turned into dust in the world.