"Heh. You're just a mud loach. How dare you presume to call yourself king?"
Ye Xuan's voice was calm, yet it pierced through the wind and waves, ringing across the sea.
Ao Qing froze, then flew into a towering rage.
Mud loach?
How dare this lowly human call a noble True Dragon a mud loach?
"You're asking for death!"
"This Crown Prince will tear you limb from limb and pull out your Primordial Spirit to use as a sky lantern!"
Ao Qing roared and thrust out his enormous dragon claw. Wrapped in wind and thunder, it came crashing down at Ye Xuan.
The force of that claw was enough to shatter a mountain. An ordinary Golden Immortal would be gravely wounded, if not killed, by the blow.
Faced with this world-shattering attack, Ye Xuan advanced instead of retreating.
"You don't know what's good for you."
He took a step forward, neither dodging nor evading, and met the enormous dragon claw head-on.
The Five Great Secret Realms within him roared in unison, and the golden Sea of Suffering churned.
Ye Xuan clenched his right hand into a fist. With no fancy movements at all, he simply punched.
"Boom!"
A giant and a tiny figure collided, their sizes wildly disproportionate.
The dull impact instantly sent the sea exploding for thousands of miles in every direction.
"Crack!"
A moment later came the crisp sound of breaking bone.
Ao Qing's supposedly indestructible dragon claw shattered beneath Ye Xuan's fist like porcelain struck by a hammer. Blood and flesh flew everywhere.
"Roar—!"
Ao Qing let out a piteous scream.
The terrifying force sent his enormous body flying backward. He slammed into the sea, sending water spraying into the sky.
"How is this possible?!"
Ao Qing roared in pain, his eyes filled with shock.
How could a human possess such terrifying Physical Body Strength?
This was even more monstrous than a Great Wu of the Wu Clan!
"Heh. You're this weak, yet you still dared to act so arrogant?"
Ye Xuan strode across the waves and appeared above Ao Qing in an instant.
He formed a hand seal. Behind him, the phantom of a Primordial Vermilion Bird emerged, wreathed in crimson divine flames.
Vermilion Bird Treasure Art!
"Burn Heaven Boil Sea!"
Ye Xuan pressed down with one palm.
"Whoosh—"
A vast torrent of Southern Bright Leaving Fire poured down, instantly turning the sea below into an ocean of flames.
The seawater evaporated in an instant, sending white mist billowing upward.
At the heart of the blaze, Ao Qing felt as if he had been thrown into a pill furnace.
The terrifying heat bypassed the dragon scales he had always prided himself on and scorched his flesh and soul directly.
"No! This fire... What kind of fire is this?!"
Ao Qing writhed in agony, his body giving off the stench of burning flesh.
He tried to dive into the depths to escape, but Ye Xuan gave him no chance.
"Trying to run?"
The Double Pupils in Ye Xuan's left eye turned. Six black holes appeared behind him, slowly revolving.
Cycle Treasure Technique!
"Suppress!"
The six black holes unleashed a terrifying force of suction, locking onto Ao Qing's aura and pinning him to the surface, unable to move.
At last, Ao Qing was afraid.
He realized he had kicked an unbreakable iron wall.
This seemingly insignificant human was a primordial Fierce Beast wearing human skin!
"Friend, spare me! Please, spare my life!"
Ao Qing pleaded loudly, his voice trembling.
"I'm the nephew of the East Sea Dragon King! My father is a Grand Unity Golden Immortal! You can't kill me! If you do, you'll bring great trouble upon yourself!"
"If you let me go, you can choose anything you want from the Dragon Palace Treasury..."
Standing above the sea of flames, Ye Xuan's eyes were as cold as blades.
"Now you're bringing up your backing?"
"When you were eating someone else just now, why weren't you so polite?"
Ye Xuan raised a finger.
The phantom of a Nine-Leaf Sword Grass slowly appeared behind him.
Grass Character Sword Art!
A sword intent sharp enough to sever the ages instantly locked onto the space between Ao Qing's brows.
"No—!"
Ao Qing felt the aura of death and screamed in despair.
"Father, save me!!!"
"I'll send you on your way."
Ye Xuan lightly lowered his finger.
"Shhk!"
A brilliant sword beam ripped through the sky.
Nothing stood in its way.
The sword beam pierced Ao Qing's sturdy dragon bones and pulverized the Primordial Spirit hidden within his Consciousness Sea.
Ao Qing's massive body stiffened, then crashed heavily into the sea. He fell silent forever.
One blow, one kill!
Ye Xuan waved away the sea of divine flames.
Looking at the enormous True Dragon corpse before him, he nodded in satisfaction.
"A Golden Immortal Realm True Dragon. Every part of him is a treasure."
"The dragon hide can make a few protective armors, and the sinews can be made into bowstrings. As for the Dragon Meat..."
Ye Xuan swallowed.
"That'll be a nourishing meal."
With practiced ease, he waved his hand and sent the thousand-zhang-long corpse straight into the System Space.
Having finished, Ye Xuan brushed off his hands and prepared to leave the scene.
Just then—
"Rumble!!!"
A violent tremor suddenly came from the depths below.
The waters across the entire sea churned madly, as if a prehistoric behemoth were awakening.
An aura countless times more terrifying than Ao Qing's surged up from the ocean depths, instantly locking onto Ye Xuan.
"Who?!"
"Who dares kill my son?!"
A furious dragon's roar shook the clouds to pieces for hundreds of thousands of miles around.
"Boom!"
The sea exploded.
A terrifying crimson dragon, ten thousand zhang long, burst out of the water.
Every scale on his body burned with blazing flames. His eyes were like two blood-red suns, radiating an oppressive might that made it hard to breathe.
Five streams of energy circled faintly above his head—the Five Qi in the Chest, a sign that his laws had reached perfection.
A Grand Unity Golden Immortal!
The one who had arrived was Ao Qing's father, a younger brother of the East Sea Dragon King and the Red Dragon King, Ao Lie!
Ao Lie hovered in the sky. The lingering stench of blood and the sword intent that had yet to fade ignited the fury in his eyes, threatening to set heaven and earth ablaze.
His only son had just been killed!
And right here, at the Dragon Race's own doorstep in the East Sea!
"It was you?!"
Ao Lie fixed his enormous dragon eyes on Ye Xuan, his killing intent almost tangible.
"A mere human Golden Immortal dares to kill a bloodline of the Dragon Race?!"
Locked beneath the aura of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, Ye Xuan felt his whole body grow heavy, as if the space around him had solidified.
Although there was only one realm between a Golden Immortal and a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, the difference between them was like heaven and earth.
A Grand Unity Golden Immortal had condensed the Five Qi in the Chest and begun to touch the Great Dao Laws. Such a being could not be easily countered through Physical Body Strength alone.
Ye Xuan made his judgment in an instant.
He could fight, but there was no need to go all out.
If he used all his trump cards and brought out the Kongtong Seal and Golden Wheel of Merit, he might be able to hold off the old dragon.
But that would inevitably attract more Dragon Race powerhouses and might even alarm the East Sea Dragon King.
If they surrounded and attacked him, things would truly become troublesome.
"Hmph. Just as I thought—the moment you beat the younger one, the older one shows up."
Ye Xuan snorted, without the slightest hesitation.
"Go!"
A pair of enormous azure wings suddenly unfurled behind him. They were the Heavenly Peng Extreme Speed manifested through the Azure Sky Roc Treasure Art.
His wings beat once.
Ye Xuan's figure became a streak of light, fleeing into the distance at an inconceivable speed.
"Trying to run?!"
Ao Lie's rage only burned hotter at the sight.
He had killed his son and still thought he could escape? Dream on!
"Above the heavens or beneath the earth, I will kill you!"
"Roar!"
Ao Lie roared. His ten-thousand-zhang-long body twisted in the air, transforming into a streak of crimson lightning as he gave chase.
A Grand Unity Golden Immortal's escape speed was astonishing. The sea split apart into an enormous trench wherever he passed.
Two figures, one ahead of the other, launched into a breathtaking chase across the East Sea.
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