Candle Dragon could be said to have suffered a wretched fate. Like Southern Dipper, Sun Eater, Red Buddha, and the others, he had set his sights on Donghua, yet he himself had fallen into the Five Declines of Heaven and Man, leaving him at a disadvantage.
Earlier, in the battle in the starry void beyond Donghua, many figures at the Heaven Lord level had fallen into the Mohist School Mechanical Puppets' trap and been forcibly dragged into a starry maze, lost amid time and space. Yet Qiu Yan had already discovered that the true form of this starry maze was in fact the outermost layer of the Three-Manifest Dharma Realm.
However, what truly deserved attention was that after the Heaven Lord-level figures had fallen inside, the Five-Decline Qi upon Candle Dragon's body had erupted and swiftly grown, forcing Southern Dipper, Sun Eater, and the others to retreat for the moment. Each tore through the layers of space, using this method to press directly toward the outside world.
Candle Dragon himself had manifested a human form, but naturally he would not willingly remain trapped and had sought a way out. Yet no one knew what he had experienced now. Not only had he reverted to his original form and become an enormous creature, his body was rotten beyond measure, with many Mechanical Scale-Armored People gathered around him.
However, these Mechanical Scale-Armored People did not cling to Candle Dragon's body like ordinary members of the Scale-Armored Tribe. They were even continuously opening their mouths, devouring and gnawing at Candle Dragon's flesh!
Yet members of the Scale-Armored Tribe also kept springing out from within Candle Dragon's body, fighting the Mechanical Scale-Armored People to the death, with neither side gaining a clear advantage.
Whether Mechanical Scale-Armored People or members of the Scale-Armored Tribe, their