Thick storm clouds seemed to divide heaven and earth into two layers.
Below the clouds lay a dim, rain-lashed world: muddy mountainsides, villages reduced to ruins, soldiers carrying out rescue work in the rain, and a dazzling neon city in the distance.
Above the clouds—
Cold moonlight spilled over the pitch-black sea of clouds. In the tranquil sky, only a bright moon shone upon all things, like an otherworldly paradise, like another world detached from mortal dust.
The joys and sorrows of the mortal world seemed to have nothing to do with this place.
But at this moment, a man and a dragon stood facing each other in this world.
ROAR ROAR ROAR—!!
The dragon's furious roar echoed beneath the heavens as a blinding pillar of flame tore through the air, shooting straight toward Lin Qiye!
Lin Qiye's figure flashed, and in the next instant, he appeared directly above the earth dragon. His black military coat snapped in the wind as he gripped his straight blade and slashed down at the dragon's spine!
"Without the earth, your strength really has been greatly weakened," Lin Qiye said calmly.
The reason he had moved the battlefield into the air was not only to prevent the aftermath of their battle from dragging Instructor Hong and the others into it. There was another important reason... the dragon was simply too strong while on the ground.
Although Lin Qiye was currently carrying the soul of the Goddess of Night, that did not mean he possessed godlike strength. Limited by his own realm, he could wield less than one percent of the divine power of night.
Though he did not know his exact realm at the moment, Lin Qiye estimated that he was at the peak of the "Sea" realm, or perhaps had just entered "Limitless."