The instant Jiang Ce's voice fell beside Zi JI's ear, the drop of ink-black venom on the sole of her shoe suddenly exploded.
Countless pitch-black threads burrowed through the gaps in her dragon scales, winding their way up her body and making straight for the Soul Core in her chest.
"Get out!"
Zi JI roared. Dragon Might erupted around her, and her five fingers curled into claws. Dark power condensed into blades, and she slashed at herself without hesitation.
She would rather carve out the infested part of her body than allow a lump of unknown Black Slime to take over.
But the venom had already seeped into every inch of her flesh. The moment her fingers touched her skin, the Black Latex Suit surged out from beneath it, binding her arm tight.
"Don't bother. Now we're inseparable."
The lump of Black Slime was moving through her body, like countless warm hands stroking her all at once.
Zi JI clenched her teeth, furious beyond measure.
Di Tian stepped forward and reached out with five fingers. His destructive dark power poured straight into Zi JI's body, trying to forcibly tear the parasitic venom from her.
But the venom was exceedingly cunning. The moment the dark power touched it,
it scattered into hundreds of fine threads, burrowing into the deepest parts of Zi JI's body and winding tight around her Soul Core.
Di Tian's power swept through Zi JI's body several times. It separated some strands, only for others to tangle together again.
Di Tian's face darkened. An unprecedented gravity appeared in his golden eyes.
What, exactly, was this thing?
Just then, Jiang Ce's voice rang out in the mind of the Imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
"Do you want to beat Di Tian to a pulp?"
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion was perched on Liu Erlong's shoulder, all three of her eyes widening at once.
Beat Di Tian to a pulp?
Had she heard wrong?
Could she really do that?
Wouldn't she get beaten up badly?
"Are you scared?"
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion flicked her tail, the unease in her eyes replaced by eager anticipation.
She had wanted to see Di Tian get knocked down a peg for ages.
Ever since she was little, Di Tian had been ordering her around, telling her not to wander too far, not to leave the Core Area, forbidding this and that—
Now she had someone to back her up. What was there to fear?
The Black Latex Suits on Liu Erlong, Ye Yingling, and Tang Yuehua all surged at once.
The Golden Holy Flame Dragon Martial Soul, Nine-Heart Begonia: Sacred Chant, Noble Ring, and the Golden Dragon King Bloodline of the Imperial Auspicious Beast—
Four entirely different powers converged through the Symbiotic Link.
Jiang Ce's several split bodies fused together, and his cultivation age broke through 160,000 years in one leap.
He manifested all of the Martial Souls belonging to the three women and the Auspicious Beast,
then roused the trace of Golden Dragon King Bloodline within the Imperial Auspicious Beast, along with the same-origin bloodline he had copied.
Under his catalysis, the two strands of Golden Dragon King Bloodline finally exploded with a roar.
In an instant,
supreme Dragon Might thundered out, as tangible as a physical force.
A golden beam of light shot into the sky, piercing the clouds.
Deep in the Star Dou Great Forest, every Ferocious Beast felt its soul shudder.
They all felt the bloodline suppression at once.
An ancient, pure kingly pressure, older than Di Tian's.
Di Tian whipped around, his golden pupils contracting sharply.
The Golden Dragon King.
An enormous golden dragon slowly took shape within the golden light.
Its dragon body blotted out the sky, every scale shimmering with the dark-golden Light of Destruction,
and its horns resembled two golden spears thrusting through the firmament.
When its Dragon Wings spread, the storm they unleashed snapped the treetops across the entire forest in two.
"A demigod-level Golden Dragon King?!"
"How is this possible?!"
Zi JI cried out. The golden dragon's pressure crushed her entire mind.
Her legs trembled, her dragon scales shuddered,
and every drop of dragon blood in her body screamed the same word—
Submit.
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Golden Dragon King Domain · Annihilation Dragon Domain
The domain spread out forty kilometers from the Golden Dragon King.
The world lost its color, as destructive power woven from dark gold and blood-red stained space.
Annihilation Suppression: All enemy targets had every attribute reduced by 90%; all allies had every attribute increased by 300%.
Dragons with a bloodline lower than the Golden Dragon King's had their fighting spirit stripped away outright.
Dragon Emperor's Edict: Teleportation, invisibility, invincibility, resurrection, and all space-type, concealment-type, immunity-type, and death-triggered skills were rendered ineffective.
Annihilation Dragon Breath: Countless dark-golden dragon breaths automatically locked onto every enemy target,
simultaneously scorching the body, soul power, and Mental Power, with no way to cleanse or dispel them.
Dragon King's Judgment: Every attack carried the law of destruction, ignoring all defenses, shields, and invincible states.
Damage was doubled against those whose cultivation was lower than the Golden Dragon King's; if the difference exceeded one major realm, Annihilation was triggered outright.
Di Tian's dragon body shook violently within the domain.
All his attributes were instantly reduced by ninety percent. The ten percent of his power that remained couldn't even keep him in human form under the continual scorching of Annihilation Dragon Breath.
He was forced to reveal his true form:
a massive Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King with a pair of wings on its back.
The Black Dragon King raised its head with a roar, trying to resist this suppression with its own Dragon Might.
But the roar caught in its throat halfway through.
The Golden Dragon King raised one claw and casually swatted.
Di Tian's enormous Black Dragon King body flew backward as if struck by a giant hammer,
crashing through a mountain,
plowing a deep furrow several miles long across the ground before slamming into a wasteland.
The earth erupted into a crater hundreds of meters wide, while rocks and soil rained down from above.
Di Tian couldn't fight back at all.
The gap in their bloodline ranks was simply too vast. Any struggle was futile.
Di Tian lay at the bottom of the crater, a trace of golden dragon blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
He struggled to raise his head and stared at the golden dragon in the distance, its body blotting out the sky. His eyes were filled with disbelief.
How was this possible?
The Golden Dragon King, half of the Dragon God, wasn't supposed to be imprisoned in the Divine Realm?
How could it have appeared here?
"There's nothing impossible about it."
Jiang Ce's voice came from within the Golden Dragon King.
"Zi JI, return."
Zi JI hadn't yet recovered from her shock
when the venom surged once more, completely wrapping around her.
To her horror, she discovered she had lost all control of her body.
Her whole body turned into a streak of purple light and flew toward the Golden Dragon King.
The Golden Dragon King opened its jaws, and Zi JI's body flew straight into that golden radiance.
The Hell Demon Dragon King's bloodline shared the same origin as the Golden Dragon King's.
With their fusion, the Golden Dragon King's aura surged another great deal.
Its terrifying aura poured forth, and Di Tian felt the bones throughout his body creak as if being crushed.
This was the first time he had ever endured such absolute suppression.
"Di Tian! I want to go out and play! Otherwise, I'll beat you up!"
The Auspicious Beast's voice came from within the Golden Dragon King, dripping with smugness.
Di Tian's mouth twitched violently.
In all his long years, no one had ever threatened him like this.
The problem was, this Golden Dragon King was too terrifying.
Even if it had been on par with him at the start, under its terrifying bloodline suppression,
he couldn't even muster the will to fight.
It wasn't that he didn't want to fight. The absolute submission imposed by their bloodlines had completely crushed even the thought of raising a claw.
Zi JI, now fused within the Golden Dragon King, felt even more conflicted.
She lowered her head and looked at her hands—
She had actually become part of the Golden Dragon King.
Though it had been forced on her, this level of power, something she had never experienced before, left her unsure how to react.
Being able to suppress Di Tian just as she had a moment ago was something she had never even imagined.
"Silver Dragon King, are you just going to stand by and watch your subordinate get suppressed?"
Jiang Ce's voice rang out from within the Golden Dragon King again.
As his voice fell,
a silver-white radiance suddenly bloomed in the sky.
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