279: With a golden dragon in his left hand and a fire dragon in his right, it's not easy to have two such rebellious sons!

"ROAR————!!"

The roar, mingled with scalding sulfurous toxic smoke, instantly filled the entire treasury space.

It was not the cry of a living creature, but the rumble of magma in violent turmoil deep within the earth's crust.

As the flames dissipated, a monster of the utmost ferocity was exposed to the air.

It lacked the cold, precise beauty of the Golden Dragon, akin to a sophisticated instrument.

It was fierce, brutal, exuding a primitive savagery.

Its body stretched a hundred meters long, with not a single patch of good skin—only muscle bundles flowing with dark red magma. At its joints protruded sharp black obsidian bone spikes. It resembled a demon stripped of its skin and thrown into a volcano to be tempered for three thousand years.

With every breath, two orange-red pillars of fire shot from its nostrils, burning deep pits wherever they landed.

Heat.

Extreme heat.

The temperature inside the treasury soared to thousands of degrees within mere seconds. Moisture in the air evaporated instantly, and the light distorted wildly within sight.

"This... is this the thing you created?"

In the corner, Luo Tianfei pressed herself tightly against the wall. Her originally noble and sacred Divine Phoenix shield was now sizzling under the heat, on the verge of shattering at any moment.

She stared at the monster wildly thrashing its magma tail, her scalp tingling with fear.

If the Golden Dragon was a killing machine, then this Fire Dragon was a walking natural disaster.

Lu Sheng stood before the Fire Dragon, covered in blood, yet the corners of his mouth were stretched wide to his ears.

"Well? Impressive enough, right?"

He patted the blood blisters raised on his body by the intense heat, his eyes burning with the fervor of a madman.

However, it was a bit too impressive.

The moment the Fire Dragon took form,

the metallic Golden Dragon, which had been coiled on the other side in a dormant state, abruptly opened its electronic compound eyes.

Hum—!

A sound of grinding metal, enough to set one's teeth on edge, rang out.

Metal, representing solemn killing, is cold in nature and most averse to being overcome by fire.

Fire, representing explosive violence, is dry in nature and most delights in melting metal.

This was a Mortal enmity etched into the very foundation of the rules.

No command was needed at all.

The Golden Dragon's scales all stood on end with a rustling sound, like sharp razor blades, and a low, threatening growl rumbled from deep within its throat.

As for the newly-born Fire Dragon, it was clearly a reckless hothead.

It sensed the provocation.

"ROAR!!"

The Fire Dragon turned its burning head, its eyes composed of pure high-energy particles locking firmly onto the Golden Dragon.

Without any preamble.

It opened its large mouth, still dripping with magma, and a red light swelled violently deep in its throat.

BOOM!!!

A pillar of Red Lotus Karmic Fire, ten meters thick and carrying an Aura to annihilate everything, shot directly towards the Golden Dragon's head.

"Holy shit?!"

The smile froze on Lu Sheng's face.

He hadn't expected the first thing these two would do upon meeting was not to acknowledge their master, but to fight each other.

The Golden Dragon was no pushover either.

Its tail, forged from pure metal, whipped the ground. Its massive body displayed a flexibility that defied the laws of physics.

Swish!

A silvery-white afterimage flashed.

It dodged the frontal breath attack. Its drill-like dragon head, carrying the kinetic energy of thousands of tons, slammed fiercely into the Fire Dragon's side.

THUD————!!!

A sound loud enough to shatter eardrums.

The two hundred-meter behemoths collided violently within the confined treasury.

It was like Mars smashing into Earth.

It was a direct clash of rules against rules.

The Golden Dragon's claws sliced through the Fire Dragon's magma muscles, sending showers of fire into the air; the Fire Dragon's flames melted the Golden Dragon's scales, dripping down as molten golden metal.

The shockwave swept across the entire area.

The mountains of Spirit Stones instantly turned to powder. Precious shelves, weapons, Medicinal Pills—all were tossed about like dry branches and rotten leaves in this storm.

"My Spirit Stones!!"

Lu Sheng watched the Spirit Stone powder drifting everywhere, his heart aching so much he trembled.

What the Hell kind of fight was this?

This was burning his money!

"Madmen... they're all madmen..."

Luo Tianfei had already been slammed against the wall by the blast wave, stuck like a painting that couldn't be pried off.

She looked at the two giant beasts treating the treasury as a colosseum for a wild demolition derby, then at Lu Sheng who was still mourning his money, feeling like she was going insane.

Was this what he called a "Protector"?

This was clearly trying to bury everyone here together!

"Lu Sheng! If you don't act now, this treasury is going to collapse!!"

Luo Tianfei screamed, her voice filled with despair.

On the vaulted ceiling, half of the tens of thousands of night pearls had already shattered. Huge falling rocks began to crash down. The entire independent Small World was teetering on the brink of collapse.

Lu Sheng suddenly turned his head.

He looked at the two beasts, fighting merrily and completely ignoring him, their creator. The savage emotion in his dark golden vertical pupils instantly overwhelmed his heartache.

"How dare you defy the heavens..."

Lu Sheng slowly straightened his back. His wounds split open under extreme rage, blood spurting out.

But he didn't care.

An Aura more terrifying and ancient than the two giant beasts combined began to awaken within him.

"I worked so hard to create you..."

"So you could bite others, not so you could tear down my home!!"

Lu Sheng took a step forward.

Boom!

The ground beneath his feet instantly collapsed.

"All of you... STOP!!!"

"Roar?"

The Fire Dragon, which had been biting the Golden Dragon's neck, paused slightly.

The Golden Dragon, pinned to the ground, flickered its electronic eyes.

But the next second, they merely glanced at the puny human before throwing themselves back into their grand mutual pummeling.

In the eyes of rule-based creatures, size is justice, and energy is truth.

To them, the current Lu Sheng was too small.

"Heh."

Lu Sheng laughed in anger.

It was a bone-chilling cold born from extreme fury.

"Fine."

"Think I'm small, huh?"

"Then let me show you who's really the boss!"

Lu Sheng abruptly brought his hands together before his chest, fingers interlocked, knuckles white.

ROAR——————!!!!

A dragon's roar.

This sound didn't come from his throat; it exploded from every cell, every drop of his blood.

It was the full-power release of the 【Dragon God Sequence】!

It was the sovereign will at the very top of the food chain!

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The sickening sound of bones cracking came as densely as rain.

Lu Sheng's body began to swell violently in the storm.

Three meters... five meters... ten meters... thirty meters!

Though not as exaggerated as the two hundred meters of his Dragon Transformation Form, at this moment, he was a highly compressed, incredibly dense dark golden giant.

Dense dragon scales covered his entire body. The dragon horns on his forehead were as imposing as heavenly blades. Behind him, a thick, powerful dragon tail lashed through the Void Realm, cracking like a whip.

【Human-Dragon Form—Limit Stance】!

Lu Sheng pushed off with his feet.

Boom!

A white sonic boom cloud exploded at his original spot.

The thirty-meter-tall dark golden giant, like a heavy shell fired from a cannon, charged into the battle circle of the two hundred-meter behemoths with unstoppable kinetic energy.

Fast!

Too fast!

So fast that even the Golden Dragon with its electronic eyes couldn't react.

A giant hand covered in dragon scales, the size of a millstone, had already clamped firmly around the Golden Dragon's supposedly indestructible metallic throat.

"Get down here!"

Lu Sheng roared, the muscles in his arm bulging like coiling dragons.

BAM!!!

That metal dragon weighing tens of thousands of tons was actually lifted with one hand, swung in a perfect half-circle through the air, and then smashed hard into the ground.

The ground shattered, rubble flying a hundred meters high.

The Golden Dragon was stunned, struggling frantically, trying to whip with its tail.

"Behave!"

Lu Sheng stomped on the Golden Dragon's head. Six hundred tons of monstrous strength plus the inertia of the fall—nearly ten million tons of force—drove that arrogant dragon head straight into the ground.

At the same time, the Fire Dragon beside them reacted.

It sensed the threat and opened its mouth, spewing a pillar of magma-like fire.

Lu Sheng didn't even turn his head.

His thick dragon tail lashed out like a divine whip, striking later but arriving first.

Whap!

A crisp sound.

The Fire Dragon's jaw was knocked askew. The magma breath exploded in its mouth before it could even be expelled, scalding it and making it howl in pain.

Before it could recover.

Lu Sheng had already turned around.

His vertical pupils, burning with golden flames, were full of savagery.

He extended his other large hand, ignoring the heat capable of melting steel, and grabbed the Fire Dragon's scorching neck.

Sizzle—!

The dragon scales on his palm burned red-hot, but Lu Sheng didn't even frown.

"You too... kneel!!"

BOOM!!!

Lu Sheng exerted force from his core, pressing this still-flaming beast to the ground as well.

Left hand subduing the Golden Dragon, right hand pinning the Fire Dragon.

At this moment, Lu Sheng resembled a demon god suppressing Hell.

The two hundred-meter behemoths struggled, roared, and tried to resist frantically under his grip.

But Lu Sheng's hands were like iron welded to their necks, immovable.

"Not convinced?"

Lu Sheng grinned, revealing a mouth full of sharp dragon teeth.

Hum—!

A pure, primal Bloodline pressure from the 【Dragon God】 Origin, flowed down his arms and blasted unreservedly into the bodies of the two giant beasts.

It was the absolute domination of a superior over an inferior.

It was the power of life and death a creator held over their creation.

"I am your bone! I am your blood!"

"My will is your only rule!"

Lu Sheng's voice echoed through the treasury, shaking dust loose from the ceiling.

Under this pressure, the two dragons, who had been struggling wildly, suddenly stiffened.

The savagery in their eyes began to fade, replaced by a deep-seated fear.

The red light in the Golden Dragon's electronic eyes extinguished, turning into a submissive blue.

The Fire Dragon retracted all its high temperature, letting out a pleading whimper from its throat, like a puppy that had done something wrong.

They were afraid.

Truly afraid.

In the corner, Luo Tianfei had long forgotten to breathe.

She stared blankly at the man straddling the two giant beasts, suppressing rule-based creatures with a Mortal's body, her mind completely blank.

This was the Spirit Apprentice level?

Who cultivates like this at the Spirit Apprentice level?

This wasn't about controlling the rules; this was about violently dominating them!

"Hah..."

Seeing the two beasts finally behaving, Lu Sheng finally let out a heavy sigh.

He released his grip, slowly stood up, dispelled his giant form, and returned to the blood-covered yet still arrogant and domineering youth.

He patted the Golden Dragon's cold forehead and gave the Fire Dragon's scalding rump a kick.

"If you dare fight amongst yourselves again, I'll dismantle you and sell you for scrap metal."

"Now..."

Lu Sheng raised his head, his eyes blazing.

"Shrink down a bit. Time to get to work."

ps: The Five Elements are just the foundation. As the Dragon God, mastering time and space isn't too much to ask, right? As for the last one, you can all guess. Actually, the protagonist has already mastered another top-tier rule long ago.