Purple Wing, Hazy Moon, and Yu Lei rushed into the sky.
The instant they appeared, a terrifying aura that seemed capable of crushing the firmament swept over them, pressing down so hard they could barely breathe.
"What is...?"
All three froze in midair like sealed statues, their eyes wide and staring, even their pupils trembling violently.
ROOOAR!!!
The dragon's roar shattered the clouds, its vast sound waves spreading in every direction as though they had substance.
Above the battlefield ruins, the Desolate Silence Poison Dragon that had been coiled there all this time had now raised his entire forebody. His immense draconic form resembled a black mountain range come alive, his scales undergoing a frenzied transformation amid the torrents of energy pouring down from the void. Every scale reflected an eerie gleam that sent hearts trembling.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The entire earth groaned, mountains collapsed, and magma erupted. With no more than a gentle sweep of his tail, the dragon tore the ground for a hundred miles around into fragments, then hurled his enormous body into the sky.
Holy Realm pressure swept outward like a tsunami, forcing even the clouds to hang so low they seemed within reach.
"The holy realm... he really broke through!"
Purple Wing's throat went dry, his voice so hoarse it was barely audible.
He did not need to hear the system's shrill alarms, much less look at the energy warnings flashing a red so intense it bordered on purple.
He had witnessed the giant crocodile's pressure. The Desolate Silence Poison Dragon before him now truly possessed an aura on par with that crocodile's—violent, chaotic, and filled with an undisguised desire for destruction.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Piercing alarms tore through the sky above the fortress as figure after figure rushed out.
Even Lei Qie, who had