DiploNovel #439 - Dragon Slayer
#439 - Dragon Slayer
Chapter 436: Dragon Slaughter
Dugu Qiu was calm and collected, walking on the water, surrounded by lightning, looking like an immortal.
"Stop him!" King Pingbian shouted when he saw Dugu Qiu's movements.
As King Pingbian's words fell, more than a dozen divine lights flew up, blocking Dugu Qiu's path.
"All are eighth-order deities!" Xie Xuan looked at the dozen or so divine lights, a solemn expression in his eyes.
Eighth-order deities of the Divine Dao command the power to change the world; their supernatural powers can move mountains and overturn seas, no less than ninth-order Yang Gods of the Divine Soul Dao.
However, when cultivators of the Divine Soul Dao advance to become ninth-order Yang Gods, they can, in turn, suppress ninth-order deities.
The ninth order is a crucial node in the power dynamic between the two.
"Gods? Truly, things that shouldn't exist in this world, disrupting the balance of this world," Dugu Qiu said, unfazed by the divine lights. Instead, he leisurely removed the spear from his back, holding it in his hand. The tip of the spear flickered with sparks of lightning, and he fearlessly charged into the crowd.
In an instant, bolts of lightning erupted, accompanied by terrifying flashes of light. The lake water rippled for hundreds of feet. After thirty breaths, a miserable scream echoed as the two sides scattered. Dugu Qiu stood quietly on the water, a corpse impaled on his spear. Golden blood flowed down the red tassel, staining the blue of the lake.
"So strong!" Zhang Chen gasped.
Xie Lingyun said beside him, "Although deities can mobilize the power of heaven and earth because they control the authority of heaven and earth, they have no understanding of the laws of heaven and earth. They simply know what it is, but not why. Yang God experts, although they do not control the authority of heaven and earth, have already begun to analyze the laws of heaven and earth, and have their own understanding of the laws of heaven and earth. They know what it is and why. The understanding and comprehension of the laws of heaven and earth between the two are vastly different. Moreover, Dugu Qiu is holding a twelfth-order divine artifact, further amplifying his combat power to an incredible level."
"Kill!"
Dugu Qiu flicked the spear in his hand, throwing off the figure on the spear. The next moment, he charged into the center of the gods once again.
After eight breaths, the battlefield separated again. Another figure hung on Dugu Qiu's spear, another deity fallen.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Roars echoed on the lakeside as the two sides engaged in a fierce battle. Neither side had any intention of retreating. The corpses of deities continuously fell from the void into the lake, creating layers of ripples.
After only a hundred breaths, only eight divine lights remained in the field. The eight divine lights fled in panic, disappearing into the misty rain. Dugu Qiu stood quietly on the water, holding his spear, not intending to chase the fleeing deities, but steadily walking towards Zhang Shicheng, who was in the midst of dragon transformation.
"Too strong! His breathing hasn't even been disturbed," Zhang Chen said, a rare look of gravity on his face as he looked at the back in the crimson robe.
"This old eunuch is known as the number one expert in the inner palace. He obtained a visualization technique sixty years ago, entered the Dao in three years, broke through to Yin God in another three years, and stepped into the realm of Yang God in another three years. He has been immersed in the realm of Yang God for fifty years. You can imagine how strong this old boy really is," Xie Xuan said from the side.
"Stepping into the Yang God realm in less than ten years, is that possible?" Zhang Chen was stunned.
That was the Yang God realm! It was like someone saying that they directly became an immortal in less than ten years, a dreamlike and unbelievable thing.
"It is said that the inner palace dug out a pill furnace many years ago. There was incredible creation within the pill furnace. This old eunuch was ordered to test the medicine and swallowed a pill, which is why he has today's creation," Xie Xuan said.
Hearing Xie Xuan's words, Zhang Chen secretly clicked his tongue: "The great world is indeed full of wonders. I am already heaven-defying enough by cheating, but who knew there would be a guy in this world even more heaven-defying than me."
Zhang Chen increasingly felt that the water in this world was too deep, simply unfathomable. Although he had some means, he still had to be careful and cautious to avoid capsizing.
Over there, Dugu Qiu held his spear, step by step approaching the dragon body transformed by Zhang Shicheng. Sparks of divine light flickered on the spear in his hand, and inexplicable runes lit up. He had already begun to activate the Spear of Heavenly Punishment, gathering the mighty power of the dark.
The Spear of Heavenly Punishment originally controlled the power of heavenly lightning, and at this time, Zhang Shicheng was transforming into a dragon, attracting the power of lightning from the dark, which instead fulfilled Dugu Qiu's Spear of Heavenly Punishment, boosting its power.
"Old mud loach, who can save you this time? You're doomed!" Dugu Qiu's voice was full of decisiveness. The next moment, man and spear became one, his entire body attached to the spear. The spear attracted thousands of lightning bolts to follow, forming a waterfall of lightning, and stabbed towards Zhang Shicheng.
Zhang Shicheng stood on the waves, his huge dragon head looking at the incoming lightning spear, a trace of tension in his eyes. The next moment, a dragon claw rose, grabbing towards the Spear of Heavenly Punishment: "I am the king born to control lightning, how can your Spear of Heavenly Punishment hurt me…"
Puchi ~
Zhang Shicheng had not finished speaking when the lightning spear pierced through his dragon claw. Accompanied by the splashing of dragon blood, leaving a large hole, it stabbed towards Zhang Shicheng's reverse scale.
"Holy crap! How is this possible!" Zhang Shicheng cursed, his voice full of panic. The next moment, he hurriedly spat out a bead shimmering with purple light. The bead blocked the Spear of Heavenly Punishment, and after colliding with the Spear of Heavenly Punishment, it burst out with tremendous energy, pushing the hundred-mile lake into a monstrous wave. The wave rushed out of the surrounding mountains, as if it were a shaking bowl of water, spilling the water out.
"Heh heh, a twelfth-order divine artifact is nothing more than this!" Zhang Shicheng revealed a hint of triumph in his eyes when he saw his dragon pearl blocking the Spear of Heavenly Punishment.
"Again!" Dugu Qiu turned the spear, and with a 'swoosh~' sound, flew into the sea of clouds, devouring the power of lightning in the sea of clouds. The lightning on the Spear of Heavenly Punishment became brighter and brighter, and more and more runes flickered. Then, the spear flew out of the clouds and stabbed towards Zhang Shicheng.
Zhang Shicheng fully mobilized the dragon pearl, and the dragon pearl burst out with purple light, flying towards the Spear of Heavenly Punishment. The two of them did not show weakness to each other between you and me. For a time, the onlookers saw lightning constantly colliding with the Spear of Heavenly Punishment, bursting out with dazzling energy fluctuations between you and me, dazzling people and making it impossible to see the situation in the field.
Zhang Chen also opened his Dharma Eye, golden light flowing in the depths of his pupils, trying to capture the trajectories of the two experts fighting, but the two's movements were too fast. Zhang Chen could only see afterimages, but could not see anything clearly.
"Can you see clearly? Who won or lost between the two of them?" Zhang Chen asked, turning his head to ask Xie Xuan when he could not see the situation in the field clearly.
Xie Xuan scratched his head: "I can't see clearly! I can't see at all! My strength is too far from theirs, I can't see how the two of them are fighting at all."
Although everyone was in the Yang God realm, Xie Xuan felt that compared to Dugu Qiu, who was holding a twelfth-order divine artifact at this time, he was not on the same level at all.
And Zhang Shicheng, whose dragon transformation had just begun, was even stronger than him, at least at the tenth order, otherwise he would have been killed by Dugu Qiu with one spear, without any resistance at all.
Xie Xuan felt that his previous layout was too naive. If he did not have Zhang Chen's assistance, he would have rushed up rashly, and he would have been slapped to death by Zhang Shicheng.
"Boom ~"
Just as the two were talking, the clanging sounds in the field suddenly stopped. When the smoke cleared, Dugu Qiu held his spear, standing quietly in the center of the battlefield, facing Zhang Shicheng.
"Puff ~" Dugu Qiu spat out a mouthful of blood, and then, without saying a word, turned into a flash of lightning and rushed straight into the sky, disappearing into the sea of thunder without a trace.
Dugu Qiu ran away!
"It seems that Dugu Qiu failed!" Zhang Chen muttered to himself.
"Is this a place where you can come and go as you please? Leave that twelfth-order divine artifact to me." Zhang Shicheng smiled coldly, about to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but suddenly a series of 'crack' sounds came from the dragon pearl in front of him. The dragon pearl was like shattered glass, flashing with hideous cracks.
"No!" Zhang Shicheng quickly swallowed the dragon pearl into his lower jaw to nurture it. The dragon pearl was his lifeblood, the foundation of his being. Once the dragon pearl was broken, he would also suffer a terrifying calamity.
"Great Victory Royal Family!!!" Zhang Shicheng roared to the sky at this time, his voice full of anger, startling the thunderclouds in the sky to roll, and countless lightning bolts fell like waterfalls, completely submerging him.
The dragon pearl was his foundation. Although it had not been broken at the moment, it had already cracked, damaging his foundation, causing flaws in his cultivation, and greatly reducing his potential. The twelfth order was already a delusion.
"If I can successfully survive the tribulation, I will definitely go to Kyoto in person to get back at you!" Zhang Shicheng's voice was full of anger. Relying on this anger, he simply transformed into a stream of light and rushed into the thunderclouds, actively accepting the heavenly thunder to temper and complete the tribulation. If there was enough time, he could also intercept Dugu Qiu before he fled back, and then seize the twelfth-order divine artifact, which would be considered a compensation for his loss.
With his twelfth-order foundation, if he only sought the eleventh-order cultivation, he would not need seven days to complete the transformation at all. To be precise, he would only need an hour to complete the transformation, and then catch the damn bug and crush him to death, taking away the other party's treasure, which could barely restore his loss.