"Th-this is the Supreme Heavenly Dragon?"
One of the female Golden Immortals saw the blue-gray dragon shadow and went deathly pale with fright. It was hardly surprising that she was so terrified; the others looked no better.
"I-it probably isn't," Hu Zhengfeng said, his throat dry.
"Surely not. If the Supreme Heavenly Dragon had really broken free of its shackles, the few Heavenly Emperors would have acted long ago. They wouldn't have waited until now." Immortal Venerable Haoyu, the strongest among them, tried to sound calm.
Roar! The gray dragon shadow spotted their group, its eyes brimming with boundless killing intent. It opened its jaws and spat a blast of dragon breath at them.
"We're finished." Even if it wasn't the Supreme Heavenly Dragon's true body, it was still far beyond anything they could easily withstand.
Immortal Venerable Haoyu was about to turn and flee when, at that very moment, the shadow of a Dragon-Slaying Guillotine descended from the clouds. It shattered the dragon breath and came crashing down on the blue-gray dragon shadow.
A shrill, furious roar rang out. Moments later, only a shocking mass of resentment and fragments of spatial power remained, churning and tearing through the dark clouds.
"That was close." Immortal Venerable Haoyu, Hu Zhengfeng, and the others breathed a sigh of relief, still completely at a loss as to what had happened.
Before coming, they had heard plenty of rumors about the Dragon-Slaying Guillotine, but none of them seemed to match what they had just witnessed.
They barely had time to catch their breath before pairs of scarlet eyes, each the size of a fist, began floating up around the dark clouds.
In the blink of an eye, dark clouds drifted everywhere across the sea. Countless scarlet eyeballs surged through them like a flood, surrounding