"Roar—"
The Gold Dragon King suddenly let out one final furious roar. It had been barely an hour since it broke free of its seal, yet its life was about to reach its end beneath the Six Paths Judgment Sword. It was unwilling! Truly unwilling!
Suddenly, it threw open its jaws, spewing out a ball of golden light.
The instant that ball of golden light left its body, its ruby-like eyes immediately dimmed. Yet even with its gaze fading, they remained vicious, carrying the thrill of revenge.
"Boom—" The golden sphere forcefully pierced through the God Realm Committee's protective barrier.
In the sky, five figures flashed into view almost simultaneously, each trying to intercept and stop the golden light, but all of them missed.
In that instant, the speed unleashed by that golden light was simply too terrifying.
Huo Yuhao, whose vision was the sharpest, clearly saw that it was a brilliant golden crystal the size of a fist. It was diamond-shaped, with raised ridges where its leading edges met, just like the Gold Dragon King's own scales.
Yet within it was contained an immensely terrifying amount of Divine Power.
"Divine Core!" the God of Destruction cried out.
Just as gods possessed Divine Souls and Divine Sense, the core of a divine beast was its Divine Core. However, after that great war, the God Realm Committee had stripped nearly every surviving divine beast of the possibility of possessing a Divine Core.
That was what prevented them from continuing to grow. Yet the Gold Dragon King's Divine Core had existed from beginning to end!
Though it had once been only a part of the Dragon God, it was still the very core of the Gold Dragon King's power.
The quality of this Divine Core was even slightly higher than the one