Chapter 129: Deceiving the Gods
Compared with the chaos of the Martial Soul Continent, the Blood Coast at this moment resembled a paradise untouched by the world. The terror of earlier was gone, replaced by dense spiritual energy and several hundred young powerhouses searching for fortuitous opportunities.
Ye Feng sat quietly before the stone stele, motionless as a stone statue.
His consciousness enveloped the stele, and he was completely captivated by the densely packed characters, “observing” them with utmost concentration.
Suddenly, Ye Feng’s body trembled. A wisp of consciousness covering the stele was drawn into another space.
Perhaps “another space” was not quite accurate. For what Ye Feng saw was still Dragon Island.
A peaceful Dragon Island.
Here, birds sang and flowers bloomed. Divine trees towered into the heavens, with numerous ancient celestial birds resting quietly among their branches.
Farther away stretched a vast meadow filled with flowers. Two jade rabbits wandered lazily, stopping now and then to glance around with their plump heads.
Beyond them stood one magnificent palace after another.
On the paths between the divine trees and the meadows, several young men chatted as they slowly made their way toward the palaces.
Boom...
Suddenly, the entire palace complex shook violently, as though heaven and earth were collapsing. The celestial birds and jade rabbits sensed the danger at once and fled in an instant, vanishing without a trace.
“Who dares attack Dragon Island?” A majestic voice rang out from deep within the palaces. Immediately afterward, several divine dragons hundreds of yards long shot into the sky and coiled through the void, warily watching the distant horizon.
Boom...
In the next moment, the sea surged toward the heavens. Several hundred figures of strange and varied forms burst from the depths and hovered in the air, coldly gazing at Dragon Island.
“So this is the Eastern Divine Dragon Clan. We trusted your people and entrusted this place to you for protection. Who would have thought you would dare commit such an outrageous act?” A man wreathed in flames slowly stepped forward through the void and spoke in a harsh voice.
“Bastards! What nonsense are you spouting? You dare attack Dragon Island, and unless you give me a proper explanation, none of you will leave here alive today!” Above Dragon Island, the divine dragons soared through the sky and roared furiously.
“Hmph...”
At that moment, a cold snort suddenly came from within the strange crowd. Before anyone could react, an aura capable of destroying heaven and earth erupted without warning.
“The Eastern Dragon Clan has betrayed the natural order. Kill them...”
Amid that terrifying aura, a blade radiance stretching across the sky tore through the air and swept horizontally across the magnificent palaces.
“How dare you...”
The attacker acted without the slightest hesitation. Everyone froze for a moment; no one had expected him to launch an assault without so much as a word.
Rumble...
Amid the collapse of heaven and earth, the palaces crumbled, the divine trees snapped, and clouds of dust surged into the sky.
“Kill!”
At that moment, every inhabitant of Dragon Island bristled with fury. One divine dragon after another, each hundreds of yards long, rose into the air. Even from millions of miles away, that terrifying draconic might was enough to make people tremble.
Boom...
Thunderous explosions rang out continuously through the void. One divine dragon after another hovered in the air, their presence so oppressive that cracks began to appear throughout the surrounding space.
“Roar... You will all die!”
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Nearly a hundred giant dragons erupted in fury at the same time. Brilliant divine arts and laws descended in a torrent, instantly engulfing dozens of people.
Across the several-hundred-mile stretch of land, spatial rifts hundreds of yards long appeared again and again, swallowing everything around them.
After a long while, the void finally grew calm once more. Yet every figure within it had vanished without a trace.
Boom...
Suddenly, thunderous roars echoed from somewhere in the void above Dragon Island. Even more people emerged from the darkness of space, their numbers overwhelming the heavens.
“King of Fire, look! They dared to strike first. They must be plotting something sinister!” the middle-aged man who had launched the initial attack shouted loudly from within the crowd, deliberately sowing discord.
“You vile wretch! I’ll kill you!” Seeing that the attacker continued to slander the dragons, dozens of giant dragons flew into a rage and attacked again, unleashing streaks of radiant laws.
Buzz...
Several figures within the crowd joined forces and tore open spatial rifts, drawing all those terrifying beams of spatial law into them.
Boom...
The man who had spoken earlier attacked once more. Again, a colossal blade radiance hundreds of yards long descended with a thunderous crash, cleaving toward another group of palaces.
Crash!
The earth trembled. Rifts thousands of yards long split open across the ground. Rubble and debris flew everywhere as entire stretches of palaces collapsed, while countless celestial birds fled in terror. Dozens, even hundreds, of divine trees snapped at the waist.
“Enough! You’re pushing us too far!”
In the next moment, even more divine dragons rose into the air, and innumerable beams of divine law rained down. Many dragons transformed into human forms and strode across the sky, casually unleashing rays of light capable of destroying heaven and earth toward the crowd.
“Aaah!”
This time, even the combined strength of more than a dozen people could not withstand that terrifying radiance. Three or four middle-aged men cried out in terror before their bodies were shattered by the waves of divine light.
“Kill!”
No one knew who among the crowd suddenly shouted. In an instant, terrifying laws and divine arts filled the universe.
The great battle erupted.
Roar...
A divine dragon opened its jaws and swallowed a mighty expert before swinging its tail and charging toward another.
Boom...
A palm hundreds of miles across descended from the heavens, intending to crush one of the divine dragons to death. Yet the dragon tore open the void and escaped into the distance.
Rumble...
That boundless palm crashed directly into the raging sea, instantly raising waves a thousand yards high.
Within the void, laws spread in all directions, and overwhelming pressure filled the heavens.
Along the coast, tens of thousands of miles away, a powerful cultivator attempted to release his divine sense and investigate what had happened on Dragon Island.
“Ah...”
Suddenly, the laws reached him. That expert, whose strength had already attained the Heavenly Venerable realm, instantly disintegrated into dust and scattered through the air.
Roar...
Sheets of blood fell from the void like torrential rain. Amid the roars of dragons and the cries of men, the corpses of dragons and humans continually tumbled from the sky.
It was a scene like the end of the world—a divine war so terrifying that merely hearing of it would make anyone tremble.
The battle continued for several dozen days. During that time, experts from all directions continued to gather and join the fighting.
By the final few days, hundreds of divine dragons had been slain, leaving fewer than twenty alive.
“I hate this! My dragon clan guarded the Spirit Core for tens of thousands of years. We never perished on the battlefields against the enemies of other realms, yet in the end, our clan was destroyed by our own kind. I hate this...”
One giant dragon fought desperately while drenched in blood, unleashing vast waves of divine law that blanketed thousands of miles.
“Aah!”
One expert after another cried out and died, their corpses radiating terrifying power as they drifted down through the void.
“If our dragon clan is not annihilated, then when our battle spirits return, we will exterminate every last one of you...”
The divine dragon was bathed in blood. At that moment, its boundless draconic might seemed to overwhelm heaven and earth. Countless rifts thousands of yards long split open through the void, while its terrifying aura caused the furious sea to surge into waves ten thousand yards high.
“Well, well... What a splendid spectacle of dogs devouring one another. Truly magnificent, magnificent...”
Just as everyone was nearing the limits of their strength, a treacherous voice rang out in praise from the void.
In the next moment, space trembled, and several hundred towering humanoid creatures emerged. Each stood several yards tall, with grotesque and bizarre features.
“Yunming, you... Was all of this your doing?” Among the fewer than thirty humans who remained, the flame-haired man pointed angrily at one of the giants and spoke in shock and fury.
He turned his head and looked over. There, among the towering giants, stood the very man who had launched the first attack on Dragon Island.