The waters of the Great River began to spread onto the land.
That was the result of the sea beasts behind the Shark People manipulating the river water.
As the river water spread across the land, the burning plains immediately began to cool, quelling all the blazing heat.
The lava flowing down from the mountaintops quickly came into contact with the river water, sending up towering billows of white smoke.
For a time, the entire plain was shrouded in thick smoke.
Amid the mist of water, the Dinosaur People trampled across the lava and waded into knee-deep river water. In mere moments, they were once again locked in battle with the Water Tribe.
On the other side of the battlefield, the poisonous mist-wielding Serpent People and their blood-related giant Serpent monsters continuously spewed toxic fog, turning the entire battlefield into a dark miasmic swamp.
The battle was on the verge of erupting.
Beneath the various poisonous smokes that blotted out the sky, all three races nearly fought with bloodshot eyes.
Stepping down, Kangqiao kept his eyes fixed on the battlefield.
The fighting of these three primitive intelligent races was utterly without order.
Giant Beasts and humanoids alike were all tangled together in a brawl. There was no such thing as soldiers against soldiers or generals against generals.
However, the fighting methods of the three races left Kangqiao rather surprised.
When the Dinosaur People entered combat, the veins across their bodies bulged, and their entire frames seemed to swell larger.
Some four-meter-tall Dinosaur People leaders could actually smash the brains of Serpent monsters more than twenty meters long with a single punch.
When these fellows leaped, they could jump nearly twenty or thirty meters high.
They were practically inhuman!
Though they had never been human to begin with, such physiques still surprised Kangqiao.
The Serpent People were no pushovers either. Excluding the humanoid portions of their bodies, each one was generally more than seven or eight meters long.
Compared to the Dinosaur People, these Serpent People might have lacked physical strength, but the venom they spat could corrode the Dinosaur People's stone-like skin. The sight of that corrosion was practically comparable to concentrated sulfuric acid.
Even physically robust Dinosaur People could not hold out after being sprayed with too much venom.
As for the Shark People, they were even more brutal.
Mixed among numerous sea beasts such as octopuses, their methods of attack were even more varied.
Not to mention that the Shark People's physiques were no weaker than the Dinosaur People's, while the numbers of those two races far exceeded the Dinosaur People's.
Therefore, not long after the fighting resumed, the Dinosaur People's side began suffering heavy casualties and was clearly falling into a disadvantage.
Faith and fearlessness in the face of death alone were not enough.
War was no game, especially in this savage age, where fearless individuals among the Extraordinary Races were everywhere.
Perhaps that was the so-called glory of warriors?
Kangqiao watched the slaughter on the battlefield from afar, standing at the rear.
At this moment, he had arrived at the foot of the mountain range, with the Flame Mountain Range filled with vast amounts of lava behind him.
Standing amid the smoke at the boundary between lava and river water, Kangqiao had already decided to make a move.
This time, Kangqiao naturally chose to test his abilities again.
If he charged in and fought with brute force, it would be far too undignified. Besides, he could not guarantee that he would not harm the Dinosaur People.
He took a deep breath.
This time, Kangqiao slightly closed his eyes and carefully sensed the strange energy flowing within his powerful body.
Then, gather!
Gather! Gather.
Kangqiao was charging up. Unlike before, he had also strangely and temporarily lost his awareness of the outside world.
And just as Kangqiao gathered energy, beneath his feet and upon the volcanic mountain range behind him, where lava continuously flowed downward—
Countless torrents of lava flowing down like seawater suddenly accelerated, all converging toward Kangqiao's body.
Yes, countless streams of lava began climbing up Kangqiao's body.
From Godzilla's thighs upward, the blazing red lava seemed to come alive, winding across and covering Kangqiao's body.
It climbed over Kangqiao's back, chest, and head.
Then, as the endless lava covered Kangqiao's entire body, it seemed to turn into a nourishing liquid and was absorbed into his body.
Like droplets of water falling onto paper.
Lava continuously gathered on Kangqiao's body, yet it also rapidly vanished into it.
Kangqiao's body became redder and brighter.
In the end, countless dense lines resembling runes covered Godzilla's entire body.
For a moment, Godzilla's body seemed to become transparent.
Yet beneath that transparency shone countless lights like molten lava.
Unknowingly, the temperature in the air began to soar.
The river water on the ground near Kangqiao evaporated in an instant, without even a wisp of steam rising.
The extreme heat spread from near to far.
Finally, the instant Godzilla opened his eyes, a red ring of light suddenly rippled out from beneath his feet.
Carrying immense heat, the ring of light immediately spread outward.
Its speed broke the sound barrier, producing a tremendous sonic boom.
The moment the sonic boom erupted, sand and stones flew beneath Godzilla's feet. And the instant the ring of light spread outward—
The river water that the sea beasts had controlled and brought in over the ground parallel to the ring instantly evaporated.
Time seemed to freeze at that moment.
Wherever the ring of light spread, the soil and stones on the ground all melted, instantly turning into a Lava Hell.
The Dinosaur People struck by the ring were set ablaze from head to toe, becoming living torches.
They did not vanish into ash. Instead, they became burning figures roaring in agony!
Everything happened so suddenly that when the ring of light spread outward, many Dinosaur People and Primal dinosaurs fighting on the battlefield had not even noticed it.
Even Dinosaur People, who possessed extremely high resistance to heat and fire, ended up like this. Let alone the Serpent People and Shark People.
The red ring of flaming light did not spread especially far, but neither was its range small.
Centered on Godzilla, everything within a radius of five kilometers turned into a sea of lava and fire.
Serpent People, Serpent monsters, Shark People, and sea beasts—every alien race within that range was reduced to ash, leaving nothing behind.
Even those just outside that range but slightly closer to it were scorched by the heat, wailing in agony.
At the boundary between the river water and the sea of fire, a massive white curtain of water vapor appeared.
This terrifying and exaggerated scene stunned every living being present.
Everyone who had been fighting froze and stopped, all looking toward the colossal creature at the center of the sea of fire. For a moment, their minds went blank.
"What? What is going on?"
"Father God! Have You truly abandoned Your people?"
"Why must Your people also suffer divine punishment? Why?"
Outside the sea of fire, countless Dinosaur People were the first to regain their senses.
But the moment they did, they were overwhelmed by grief, their faces filled with disbelief.
Because the lives closest to the mountain range within the sea of fire were the Dinosaur People!
How could they accept seeing their clansmen and Primal dinosaurs screaming in agony amid the sea of fire, turning into burning figures one after another?
The Dinosaur People who had not been affected were despairing and on the verge of collapse.
Some even ignored the scorching flames and rushed directly into the sea of fire, calling out for their relatives and friends.
They cried and wailed, tears streaming down their faces. Some had already collapsed to the ground in terror, their faces pale with despair.
"It hurts!"
"It hurts so much!"
"Ah Father! Ah Father! Ah Father, save me."
Within the sea of fire, a young Dinosaur Person was engulfed in blazing flames.
He continuously rolled across the ground, but the ground had already become a sea of lava and fire. No matter how he rolled, it was impossible to extinguish the flames on his body.
Thus, the young Dinosaur Person could only cry bitterly and scream at the top of his lungs.
The entire horrifying scene lasted only a little over ten seconds, yet those ten seconds were enough to terrify all three races present into immobility.
"Father God! Is this Your punishment for us, Your failed people?"
Within the sea of fire, the Dinosaur Elder looked at the flames burning all over his body and felt his life slipping away. He too fell into despair.
Who could have imagined it?
Just moments ago, they had been filled with hope and exhilaration at Father God's awakening. Yet Father God's divine punishment had fallen in an instant, encompassing even themselves.
Enduring the pain and looking at the clansmen all around the sea of fire who were screaming, rolling, and wailing, the Dinosaur Elder closed his eyes in anguish.
However, the instant the Dinosaur Elder closed his eyes—
He suddenly opened them again!
Because the Dinosaur Elder discovered that the life draining from his body was not truly being lost.
The pain was there, and at first it had been unbearable.
But in less than thirty seconds, the pain rapidly faded.
Finally, the Dinosaur Elder raised his hand and discovered that the raging flames that had been burning over his body and arms were slowly receding.
It was as if their bodies were absorbing the flames.
In the end, before a minute had passed, when the Dinosaur Elder finally snapped out of his dazed observations, the flames over his body had completely vanished.
At the same time, the Dinosaur Elder felt an unprecedented power rapidly spreading throughout his body.
He had been old and should not have had much time left, but now, feeling the strange power within him, the Dinosaur Elder seemed to have returned to his youth.
"What?"
The Dinosaur Elder's eyes widened as he stood frozen in disbelief.
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