"Rather than waste time here, we should hurry back to the Dragon Palace with the good news!"
With that, the turtle-backed elder did not wait for the woman behind him to agree. He plunged straight into the bottomless Endless Sea below and vanished from everyone's sight.
"Huff, huff, huff!"
Not long after the turtle-backed elder and the woman left, gasps rose all around.
The elder's demonic features had been all too obvious. Even after his taunts, the surviving Human Race cultivators had not dared to talk back.
Boom!
Half an incense stick later, while everyone was lost in their own thoughts, the Black Flood Dragon wreathed in silver light finally took shape, setting off peals of thunder.
The dragon sniffed, found its target, then plunged toward the continent sealed beneath the Array.
Just as it neared the Array's Light Barrier, a cold gleam shot up from the continent below.
Crack, crack...!
The gleam shattered space with ease as it streaked straight toward the Black Flood Dragon's body.
Thud!
A muffled impact echoed across the scene.
The instant the cold gleam struck, it sank easily into the dragon's silver-wreathed body.
The dragon shuddered violently. Its hard-won form had begun to turn faintly insubstantial after the gleam pierced it.
If that cold gleam struck a few more times, the silver-wreathed dragon's complete disappearance would only be a matter of time.
The Black Flood Dragon formed from Heavenly Tribulation had clearly realized this too. Before another cold gleam could shoot from the continent beneath the Array,
it whipped its enormous, steel-whip tail toward the Array's Light Barrier below.
Boom!
The dragon's tail slammed into the Light Barrier, shaking the entire continent.
The Light Barrier, which had withstood the thunderous runes earlier with no more than ripples,
now gave off a cascade of