451: Chapter 451 The Battle of the True Dragon

A dark-gold giant dragon coiled in space.

Its ten-meter-long dragon body radiated Law fluctuations of the Spirit Immortal Realm. A dark-gold Domain expanded outward from the dragon—one thousand five hundred meters.

It was now the same size as Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's Ice Sealing Domain.

"The Domain's range has changed." Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's voice turned cold.

After the True Dragon transformation, Lu Sheng's Law output efficiency had increased significantly. The Spirit Immortal Realm Dragon God Law was released to its maximum extent in his True Dragon form. His Domain had expanded from one thousand two hundred meters to one thousand five hundred meters.

Two fifteen-hundred-meter Domains collided in space.

Dark-gold and blue-white formed a sharp Law front at the boundary. At the front, the two Laws were locked in a frantic struggle.

They were evenly matched.

"Impossible—" Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's pupils constricted slightly. "You only just made a Breakthrough to the Spirit Immortal Realm—how can your Domain range be equal to mine?"

The dragon's mouth opened.

Dragon Breath.

A Spirit Immortal Realm version of Dragon Breath.

It wasn't gold. It was dark-gold.

A beam of dark-gold Dragon Breath five meters in diameter erupted from the dragon's mouth—temperature, penetration power, and Law concentration—all reached the level of the Spirit Immortal Realm!

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate retreated with all his might. Seven layers of ice seal shields were stacked in front of him once again.

The Dragon Breath slammed into the shields—

First layer. Shattered. Second layer. Shattered. Third layer. Shattered. Fourth layer. Shattered. Fifth layer. Shattered.

Five layers of shields evaporated instantly before the Dragon Breath.

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate gritted his teeth and stacked three more layers—

Sixth layer. Shattered. Seventh layer. Shattered.

Eighth layer—the Dragon Breath's energy finally exhausted itself.

Eight layers.

The previous Chain Resonance light orb had only pierced through seven layers. The Dragon Breath had pierced through eight.

"It's close."

The giant dragon's tail swung—the entire dragon body spun rapidly in space—the dark-gold Law blade at the tail swept across Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's left side!

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate raised his hand. The ice seal greatsword blocked in front of him.

The power of the dragon tail, bolstered by the Spirit Immortal Realm, was terrifying to the extreme—

Clang—!!

The crack on Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's ice seal greatsword widened.

His body was pushed back by the impact of the dragon tail.

But he stabilized himself. The Ice Sealing Domain formed a buffer layer around him, shedding most of the impact force.

"Your power is indeed great. But—"

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's right hand traced a complex Law rune in the air.

"Do you think the Spirit Immortal Realm just means having a bit more strength?"

The rune took shape.

The Ice-Sealing Law condensed in space to form an—

Ice Dragon.

A blue-white Ice Dragon. It was roughly the same size as Lu Sheng's True Dragon form, condensed from pure Spirit Immortal Realm Ice-Sealing Law.

The Ice Dragon was not alive, but it was imbued with Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's Law will—equivalent to a Clone of Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate.

"Spirit Immortal Realm Cross-System Fusion—Origin Divine Ability."

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's voice came from the Ice Dragon's mouth.

The Ice Dragon opened its mouth—a blue-white ice breath erupted from it—

Dark-gold Dragon Breath against blue-white ice breath.

The two breaths collided in space—

Boom—!!

Space at the point of collision was torn apart. A spatial rift a hundred meters wide appeared—then barely closed under the suppression of the two Spirit Immortal Realm Laws.

The Ice Dragon took advantage of the gap during the breath collision—pouncing toward Lu Sheng's dragon body from the side!

Blue-white ice claws lunged toward the dark-gold dragon belly!

Lu Sheng's dragon tail whipped across—striking the Ice Dragon's head.

The Ice Dragon's head cracked, but in the next second—the crack repaired itself automatically. The Ice Dragon condensed from Ice-Sealing Law possessed nearly infinite regenerative capabilities—as long as Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's spirit source was not cut off, the Ice Dragon could not be killed.

"Troublesome."

While Lu Sheng was entangled with the Ice Dragon, he also had to watch out for a sneak attack from Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's main body.

Under the Ice Dragon's cover—Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate circled from Lu Sheng's blind spot to his back. The ice seal greatsword stabbed toward the base of the dragon wings.

Lu Sheng's dragon wings folded at the last moment—the blade grazed the outer edge of the dragon wings, shearing off a piece of a law wing.

"Do you have eyes in your back too?" Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate frowned.

It wasn't eyes. It was the all-encompassing perception of the Dragon God Law. After reaching the Spirit Immortal Realm, Lu Sheng could perceive Law fluctuations within a 360-degree range in real-time.

But perceiving didn't mean he could fully respond. Fighting the Ice Dragon while defending against Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's main body—his processing capacity had reached its limit.

"I must deal with the Ice Dragon first."

How to deal with it? He couldn't kill it—it would automatically regenerate.

Unless—he cut off the Law connection between it and Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate.

Lu Sheng's Dragon Eyes scanned the Ice Dragon's body—under his dark-gold Law vision, he saw an extremely thin blue-white Law thread extending from the Ice Dragon's core, connecting to Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's spirit source core.

That thread was the Ice Dragon's energy supply line.

"Cut that line—and the Ice Dragon is finished."

But that Law thread was inside the Ice Dragon's body. To touch it—he had to pierce through the Ice Dragon's body first.

As Lu Sheng's Dragon Claw turned—Chaos runes lit up.

He didn't go for the Ice Dragon's head or limbs. Those parts would regenerate if shattered.

He lunged his claw directly at the Ice Dragon's chest—the location of the Law thread.

The Dragon Claw penetrated the Ice Dragon's chest cavity—the moment the Chaos runes touched the Law thread—

Devour!

A large portion of the Ice-Sealing Law energy within the Law thread was instantly devoured by the Chaos Dragon Claw.

The thread—snapped.

The Ice Dragon's movements suddenly stiffened. Its body began to disintegrate—the ice-sealed matter, having lost its Law supply, rapidly shattered and scattered into space as countless ice crystal fragments.

"So fast—" Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate's expression changed drastically.

His Ice Dragon—a Spirit Immortal Realm Origin Divine Ability—had been dealt with in a single claw strike.

It wasn't smashed. The Law supply had been cut off at its source.

The Chaos Dragon Claw's devouring ability—was effective against Law itself.

At this moment, Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate truly realized how terrifying Lu Sheng was.

It wasn't power. It wasn't speed. It wasn't Law concentration.

It was devouring.

This young man's Dragon God Sequence—was essentially an infinitely devouring monster.

He could devour Laws. Devour spirit sources. Devour Qi and blood.

Even—devour Law Origins.

"If I'm touched by that hand—"

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate thought back to his experience of being struck in the back by the Dragon Claw. That time, forty percent of his Qi and blood and thirty percent of his spirit source had been drained.

The Spirit Immortal Realm Chaos Dragon Claw's absorption effect would only be more horrifying.

"I cannot be touched. Absolutely not."

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate made a decision.

He abandoned close combat.

Completely abandoned it.

From this moment on—he would only use long-range attacks.

Ice rays. Ice Sealing Domain suppression. Long-range condensed attacks of Ice-Sealing Law.

He would never let Lu Sheng get close.

The dark-gold giant dragon roared in space.

He pursued. Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate retreated.

He charged. Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate pulled away, using ice rays to keep him at bay from a distance.

He used Dragon Breath to blanket the area. Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate used the Ice Sealing Domain to weaken the Dragon Breath's penetration power.

A chase unfolded in the space of the Old God Abyss.

Two streaks of light traversed, collided, separated, and collided again in the dark space.

The space within a radius of several hundred kilometers became their battlefield.

Ten minutes passed.

Twenty minutes passed.

Thirty minutes.

Lu Sheng could not catch up to Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate.

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate was more refined in his speed control at the Spirit Immortal Realm. After all—hundreds of years of experience were there.

"I can't catch him."

Lu Sheng's giant dragon form hovered in space. His dark-gold dragon pupils stared at Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate, who was floating three hundred meters away.

Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate also stopped.

The two faced off across three hundred meters.

"You can't catch me," Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate said.

"And you can't kill me either," Lu Sheng spoke human words in the Dragon tongue. His voice was low and resonant, transmitted through Law fluctuations in space.

"A war of attrition," Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate said. "Let's see who exhausts their spirit source first."

Lu Sheng knew this was disadvantageous to him. Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate had Cultivated for over three hundred years; his spirit source foundation far exceeded his own. In a war of attrition—he couldn't outlast him.

"There's one more way."

A flash of determination crossed Lu Sheng's dragon pupils.

Origin Detonation.

A Spirit Immortal Realm version of Origin Detonation.

But this time, it wasn't five percent.

He was considering—ten percent. Or even—fifteen percent.

Enough to produce a devastating attack that surpassed the upper limit of the Early Stage of the Spirit Immortal Realm.

The price was the permanent loss of that much spirit source capacity.

He had already lost five percent before. If he lost another fifteen percent—his maximum spirit source would only be eighty percent.

"Is it worth it?"

Lu Sheng asked himself in his heart.

The answer was—

"To kill Myriad Manifestations Heavenly Venerate—any price is worth it."