Roar—!
A dragon-like roar resounded through the night sky, seeming to pierce the soul and stir the most primal fear deep within people's hearts.
Bang!
A pitch-black figure burst from the massive hole in the ground, sending shattered stones flying.
The Warden had taken on a different appearance. Fine black dragon scales covered his entire body, savage killing intent radiated from his golden vertical pupils, and two thick black-scaled dragon horns grew from his head. He was half man, half dragon!
This was precisely Stage Two, Dragonkin Form.
His already berserk Blood Qi grew even more intense, his Blood Qi value continually rising to—350,000!!
Fine grains of sand on the ground trembled incessantly, as though drawn by some invisible force, slowly rising into the air.
Lu Yao, within Yinglong, frowned slightly. He wasn't dead?
Perfect. She could use him to test Yinglong's true power!
With that thought, Lu Yao controlled Yinglong as she flew toward the Warden. Her enormous dark-purple dragon claw descended like a small mountain, carrying immense force.
Before the dragon claw arrived, the pressure of its wind did. The gale sweeping over the ground whipped up a violent sandstorm.
Yet the next second, the dark-purple dragon claw stopped in midair, as if it had been caught, unable to descend any further.
What blocked the dark-purple dragon claw was another dragon claw.
A black-scaled dragon claw covered in pitch-black scales, yet several times smaller.
The Warden held one hand aloft, his terrifying Blood Qi forcibly stopping Yinglong's claw.
"Hmph!" he snorted coldly. "Godfather, is this the dragon you chose to replace me? What a feeble, pathetic creation!"
"What!?" Lu Yao's brows furrowed tightly. She felt as though she had stepped on a small stone. Though she was far larger, that tiny, hard stone refused to budge.
Then, an