The World Gravely Wounded

Within Myriad Phenomena Firmament, beyond the nine different Innate Restrictions.

Boom!!

The twelve dragon guards of the Xuanming Dragon Race came trampling through the void, their dark-gold scales reflecting a rainbow halo before the restrictions. Dragon Race Elder Ao Guang held the Coiling Dragon Staff and drew talismans in midair. Nine water dragons, carrying the spiritual energy of the Eastern Sea, roared toward the restriction entrance. When the lead dragon guard stepped three zhang inside the restriction, web-like cracks suddenly surfaced across his scales.

"Dragon Soul Protection!" Captain Ao Lie roared as he urged his innate blood essence into action, and a hundred-zhang dragon-soul phantom appeared behind him. But at the twentieth zhang, the gravity had already exceeded his limits. The sound of bones cracking burst from his knees, and golden dragon blood sprayed from between his scales. The dragon guards behind him tried to rescue him, but the instant they stepped into the restriction's range, they were crushed into bloody paste. Their flesh congealed in midair into blood-crystal spheres, on whose surfaces the Dao Pattern "Ten Thousand Jun" appeared.

Ao Guang's eyes nearly split with fury. He slammed the Coiling Dragon Staff into the sea. "Sacrifice the Dragon Ancestor's Reverse Scale!" A thousand-zhang dragon skeleton rose from the ten-thousand-zhang-deep sea, and ghostly blue beams shot from its eye sockets. Yet when the beams touched the restriction, the law of gravity actually traced back to its source. The entire dragon skeleton collapsed with a boom into a fist-sized black hole, swallowing three dragon guards in an instant.

"Retreat!" Ao Guang tore open a spatial rift, only to discover that the area surrounding the restriction had already become a gravity prison. In the end, only half a dragon tail escaped. From the gray mist growing around the severed end came the