Di Tian's Death, Heaven Dooms My Clan!

The instant the Reverse Scale left his body, Di Tian's body shuddered violently.

It was not from pain. The physical agony of a Dragon Clan member losing its Reverse Scale was entirely bearable for Di Tian, who had lived for eight hundred thousand years.

He trembled because, to the Dragon Clan, the Reverse Scale was more than just a scale. Aside from the heart, it was the most important innate thing in a dragon's life.

A dragon that lost its Reverse Scale was like a warrior stripped of armor. Its strength would plummet in a short time, while its defense would fall to an extremely dangerous level.

Throughout his long life, Di Tian had only used his Reverse Scale twice, each time at a critical moment of life and death.

Yet today, facing a human youth, he had been forced to use it for the third time.

The Reverse Scale shot forth and rapidly expanded in midair.

At first, it was merely a scale the size of a door panel. Within a few breaths, it had swollen to a size that blotted out the sky and sun.

It transformed into an inky-black canopy stretching across heaven and earth, like a colossal black curtain hanging down from the ninth heavens, completely shielding Di Tian's three-thousand-meter dragon body behind it.

Countless dark-gold runes flowed across the canopy. Every rune operated at maximum speed, moving, intertwining, and combining across its surface like living creatures, releasing an unprecedented defensive aura.

That defensive aura was several times stronger and more condensed than the canopy Di Tian had released when he first used the Reverse Scale to block Yang Jian's Flame Meteor.

That was because the previous Reverse-Scale Skyveil had merely been a projection split off from the Reverse Scale. This time, Di Tian had sacrificed