[Old Dragon, you truly have a few tricks up your sleeve—but I have allies as well.]
The phantom within the Blood Sea palace had anticipated this too. It gave a cold snort, yet remained utterly unafraid.
[Four Seasons Old Dragons, forgive me, but this disturbance of the Ancestral Dragon Scale is not something you alone can monopolize!]
To the south of Zhongheng Dao Continent, in the direction of Nanhuanghong Continent, at Liehuang Mountain—the main mountain of the Lianxuan Wanhua True Dao—the winds and clouds rose once more!
Rumble!
Heaven and earth shook violently! A phantom of a Divine Wood so vast as to beggar imagination tore through the clouds above Liehuang Mountain, rising from the ground and piercing the firmament like the primordial World Tree that held up heaven and earth!
This Divine Wood was wholly grayish-blue, the color of chaos at the dawn of creation. Its Tree Bark was mottled like scales, its branches twisted and powerful like dragons, and its towering solemnity was in no way inferior to the Four Seasons Dragon Gods!
The Divine Wood Dharma Image blotted out the sky and covered the sun. Its immense branches pierced heaven and earth, plunging straight into the nether void and spanning the Three Realms of Heaven, Earth, and Underworld. Countless emerald leaves shimmering like stars gathered and swayed, like a dazzling river of stars flowing around the Divine Wood!
Its branches and leaves ran through endless years, time, and space. The mighty power of the Dragon God of the Present repelled it from leaving the [present], but the [present] would always pass, and it would inevitably arrive at the [future].
And in every future, there would be branches of the Divine Wood—or at least a single leaf.
Past and future, it was everywhere!
[Haoyu!]
The Dragon God of