The black rock platform of Edge Sharpening Valley groaned beneath the collision of the Fiend Bone arm blade and the metallic torrent. Energy turbulence tore apart the gray mist, revealing the endlessly writhing metal swamp below. The dark gold skeletal body of the young dragon knelt on one knee. Its savage left arm blade was cracking inch by inch, while gray-black Killing Intent Energy flowed from the shoulder-level stump of its right arm like thick blood. At its brow, the Mysterious Yellow axe mark that had torn through the Entropy Beacon glowed like a red-hot iron, emitting a faint yet incomparably pure lingering aura of creation.
The pain was isolated by the Information Singularity in the depths of consciousness. Within its petrified gray left eye, a speck of Mysterious Yellow Starlight flickered with difficulty, coldly scanning the battlefield wreckage and its own condition:
[Shell Integrity: 42%... Main Damage: right arm missing, left Fiend Bone blade (near destruction), three penetrating cracks in the sternum...] [Energy Reserves: Chaos Origin (0.3%)... Witch Fiend Ember (embers remaining)... Sharp Metal Killing Intent Energy (moderate contamination)...] [Entropy Beacon Status: core structure torn apart by the World Opening Axe Mark (damage rate 61%), entropy increase rate reduced to 0.8% per hour...] [Spore Network Assimilation: 0.7% (deep dormancy)...]
A brief dead silence followed. At the platform's edge, the wreckage of broken swords recoiled like a retreating tide under the lingering might of the World Opening Axe Mark, and the metal swamp also fell into an eerie calm. Yet this calm was like the eve of a storm. In the deeper darkness below, an even greater fiendish presence was being... awakened by the aura of that creation axe mark!
Biyou Palace, deep within the Ten Thousand Swords Tomb.
Cold Killing Intent Energy condensed into frost, covering countless