Destruction or Rebirth

The waters of the great river began to spread onto the land.

It was the result of the sea beasts behind the Shark People manipulating the river's flow.

As the water spread, the burning plains immediately began to quell all heat and flame.

Magma flowing down from the mountain peaks soon met the river water, sending towering plumes of white smoke into the sky.

In an instant, the entire plain was shrouded in thick mist.

Amid the watery haze, the Dinosaur People trampled through the lava, wading into knee-deep river water, and within moments were locked in battle once more with the Water Tribe.

On the other side of the battlefield, the Serpent People's blood-kin—massive serpent monsters—continuously spewed poisonous mist, turning the entire field into a pitch-black miasmic swamp.

The battle erupted in an instant.

Beneath the sky-obscuring clouds of multicolored toxic fumes, all three tribes fought with bloodshot eyes.

Stepping forward, Kang Qiao kept his gaze fixed on the battlefield.

The fighting of these three primitive intelligent races was utterly without order.

Giant beasts and humanoids were all tangled together in chaos, with no concept of soldiers facing soldiers or generals facing generals.

Yet, the combat patterns of the three tribes during this time left Kang Qiao somewhat surprised.

When the Dinosaur People entered their battle state, their veins bulged and their entire bodies seemed to swell by a noticeable degree.

Some leaders among them, standing four meters tall, could punch a twenty-meter-long serpent monster's head to pieces with a single blow.

These fellows could leap over twenty or thirty meters in a single bound.

Utterly inhuman!

Though they were never human to begin with, such physiques still astonished Kang Qiao.

The Serpent People were no pushovers either. Not counting their humanoid upper bodies, each serpent person was generally over seven or eight meters in length.

Compared to the Dinosaur People, these Serpent People were physically inferior, but a single spit of venom could erode the Dinosaur People's stone-like skin, the corrosive effect rivaling concentrated sulfuric acid.

Even the robust Dinosaur People couldn't withstand too many venom sprays.

As for the Shark People, they were even more brutal.

With a mix of sea beasts like octopuses, their attack patterns were far more varied.

Not to mention that the Shark People's physiques were no weaker than the Dinosaur People's, and both they and the Serpent People vastly outnumbered the Dinosaur People.

Thus, within a short time of renewed fighting, the Dinosaur People's side began to suffer heavy casualties and fell into a clear disadvantage.

Faith and a fearless spirit alone weren't enough.

War was no child's play, and in this savage age, individuals unafraid of death among the Extraordinary Races were a dime a dozen.

This was probably what they called a warrior's honor, wasn't it?

Watching the carnage on the battlefield, Kang Qiao stood far in the rear.

By now, he had arrived at the foot of the mountain range, with the Flame Mountain Range, filled with vast amounts of magma, at his back.

Standing at the smoky boundary where lava met river water, Kang Qiao had decided to make his move.

And this time, of course, he chose to test his abilities.

If he relied on brute force to charge in, that would be too undignified, and he couldn't guarantee he wouldn't harm the Dinosaur People.

Taking a deep breath.

This time, Kang Qiao closed his eyes slightly, carefully sensing the mysterious energy flow within his powerful body.

Then, gather!

Gather. Gather.

Kang Qiao was charging up, and this time it was clearly different from before—strangely, he also temporarily lost perception of the outside world.

And just as Kang Qiao was gathering energy, beneath his feet, behind him on the volcanic mountain range where lava continuously flowed down, Countless streams of molten rock, like seawater, all accelerated and converged toward Kang Qiao's body.

Yes, endless magma began to climb up Kang Qiao's form.

From Godzilla's thighs upward, these fiery red lava flows, as if alive, coiled and spread across Kang Qiao's body.

They climbed his back, his chest, his head.

Then, once this boundless magma had covered his entire body, it seemed to transform into a nourishing liquid, absorbed into Kang Qiao's form.

Like water soaking into paper.

Magma continuously gathered on Kang Qiao's body, but it also rapidly vanished into his body.

Kang Qiao's body grew redder and brighter.

Finally, countless dense lines resembling runes spread across Godzilla's entire form.

For a moment, Godzilla's body seemed to become almost translucent.

Yet beneath that translucence, countless lights like molten lava blazed.

Unnoticed, the temperature in the air began to spike sharply.

Wherever the ground or river water neared Kang Qiao, it was instantly vaporized, not even a wisp of steam rising.

This intense heat spread from near to far.

Finally, the moment Godzilla opened its eyes, a red ring of light suddenly rippled out from beneath its feet.

The ring carried searing heat and immediately expanded outward.

Its speed broke the sound barrier, producing a massive sonic boom.

As the boom erupted, sand and stones flew beneath Godzilla, and the ring spread in an instant.

The ground parallel to the ring—where river water had been controlled by the sea beasts—was evaporated in that same moment.

Time seemed to freeze at this instant.

Where the ring passed, the soil and rocks on the earth all melted, instantly turning into a Lava Hell.

The Dinosaur Elder struck by the ring burst into flames, becoming living torches.

They did not turn to ash but became fire-wreathed figures, roaring in agony!

All of this happened so suddenly that when the ring expanded, many Primal Dinosaurs and Dinosaur Elder locked in battle hadn't even noticed.

Even the Dinosaur Elder, with their high resistance to heat and flames, suffered this fate—let alone the Serpent People and Shark People.

The red ring of fire didn't spread far, but it wasn't small either.

With Godzilla at the center, everything within a five-kilometer radius turned into a sea of molten lava.

Serpent People, Serpent monsters, Shark People, Sea beasts—every Foreign Race within this range was reduced to ash, nothing left behind.

Outside this range, those even slightly closer were all burned by the intense heat, wailing in pain.

Where the river met the sea of fire, a massive white curtain of steam formed a wall.

This terrifying and grotesque scene stunned every living being present.

All combatants froze and stopped their actions, instinctively turning to gaze at the colossal figure at the heart of the fire, their minds going blank.

"What... what is going on?"

"Father God! Have you truly abandoned your people?"

"Why must your own subjects suffer divine punishment? Why?"

Outside the sea of fire, countless Dinosaur Elder were the first to snap back to reality.

But the moment they did, they were filled with grief and disbelief.

Because within the fire, the lives closest to the mountain range were none other than the Dinosaur Elder clan!

Watching their kin and Primal Dinosaurs in the flames, howling and turning into living torches, how could they accept this?

The Dinosaur Elder untouched by the blaze were despairing and broken.

Some, ignoring the fire's heat, rushed straight into the sea of flames, calling out for their family and friends.

They wept, tears streaming down their faces, while others had already collapsed in terror, their faces pale with despair.

"It hurts!"

"It hurts so much!"

"Ah, Father! Ah, Father! Father, save me!"

In the sea of fire, a young Dinosaur Elder was engulfed in massive flames.

He kept rolling on the ground, but the ground itself was already a sea of lava—no matter how he thrashed, he couldn't extinguish the fire on his body.

So, the young Dinosaur Elder could only cry out in pain and scream.

This entire horrific scene unfolded in just over ten seconds, but those ten seconds had already frozen the three races present in terror.

"Father God! Is this the punishment for us, your failed subjects?"

In the sea of fire, watching the flames consuming his own body and feeling his life slipping away, the Dinosaur Elder also fell into despair.

Who could have imagined it?

A moment ago, they were full of hope, excited by Father God's awakening, only to find that His divine punishment had fallen, including upon themselves.

Enduring the pain, looking at the kin around him rolling, screaming, and wailing in the flames, the Dinosaur Elder closed his eyes in agony.

Yet, just as the Dinosaur Elder shut his eyes—

Suddenly, he opened them again!

Because the Dinosaur Elder realized that the life slipping away from his body wasn't truly fading.

The pain was there, and it was most intense at first.

But within thirty seconds, that pain rapidly subsided.

Finally, the Dinosaur Elder raised his hand and saw that the blazing flames on his body and arms were slowly receding.

It was as if their bodies had absorbed the fire itself.

Finally, in less than a minute, by the time the Dinosaur Elder snapped out of his dazed observation, the flames on his body had completely vanished.

At the same time, the Dinosaur Elder felt a surge of unprecedented power rapidly enveloping his entire body.

Originally, as an old man, he should have had little time left, but now, sensing the inexplicable strength within him, the Dinosaur Elder felt as if he had returned to his youth.

"This?"

The Dinosaur Elder's eyes widened, and for a moment, he stood frozen in disbelief.