Ends of the Earth

Though he roared inwardly that it was unfair, Old Dragon Lord reacted quickly and honestly:

"I surrender! I surrender!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Old Dragon Lord acted entirely on instinct. Even as he surrendered, his dragon body exploded with a thunderous boom.

Amid the rolling Blood Light, even Lu Yang could only take a step back.

The next instant, the Blood Light gathered again, and Old Dragon Lord's figure reappeared. Yet compared to before, he now truly showed several signs of age.

The Old Dragon Lord of before had looked old, but that was merely outward appearance. In truth, his vitality had been at its peak, making him seem younger even than Tian Qiu. But now, the hair and beard that had once only been deliberately streaked with white had genuinely gained a touch more gray. His life force had been worn away.

It was the Calamity Baleful Light!

Lu Yang understood perfectly. That earlier surprise attack, when he had borrowed Sky Soaring to cast the Perception Barrier, had detonated the Calamity Baleful Light within Old Dragon Lord's body in one stroke.

The effect was astonishingly good.

Old Dragon Lord had endured until now purely because his innate dragon body was too powerful, allowing him to hold on through sheer physical constitution. Anyone else would have died and reincarnated long ago.

Of course, reincarnation would not allow one to escape it either.

That was the tyranny of the Calamity Baleful Light. It resonated with Karma; once struck, even if one reincarnated, so long as Karma remained undying, it would still arise out of thin air.

The only way to dispel it was as Sky Soaring had done before: use time to slowly wear away the inner Killing Intent and the outer Karma. Both had to be erased simultaneously. Leave behind