The sky of the Divine Realm split open.
The fissure spread from the deepest part of the Divine Realm Prison, and dark-gold light crawled like blood vessels across the Divine Realm barrier, making the entire Divine Realm shudder with every pulsation. That was not ordinary energy leakage, but pollution at the level of fundamental laws—the power of the Golden Dragon King was rewriting the underlying rules of the surrounding space.
Huo Yuhao stood on the dome of the Emotion Temple with his Spirit Eyes fully opened, trillions of data streams reflecting in the depths of his pupils. He was analyzing, calculating, and searching for the weak point of this disaster, but the analytical results made even his Divine Godhood turn cold—the power tier displayed by the Golden Dragon King far surpassed any riot recorded in history.
All Second-Level Gods evacuate the prison area three million divine miles! Poseidon Tang San's voice resounded through every corner via the Divine Realm Central Nexus. First-Level Gods construct the "Immortal Bastion" defense array! It is... different this time.
Before his voice finished falling, the prison exploded.
It was not an explosion, but a quieter disintegration. Nine thousand nine hundred Divine Punishment Chains shattered simultaneously; the fragments did not scatter, but hovered in the air before turning in unison, their tips aiming at the huge figure slowly rising from the center of the seal. In the next second, all the fragments transformed into a dark-gold torrent, absorbed into the regenerating dragon scales of the Golden Dragon King.
It was absorbing the seal.
"Interesting." A voice rang directly in the consciousness of all the gods, hoarse, deep, carrying the unique overlapping echo of dragon species. "Ten thousand years, and you lot still only know how to use these old-fashioned tricks."
The Golden Dragon King fully stretched out its body.
Its size was a full three times larger than it had been ten thousand years ago. Every dragon scale was as thick as a shield, with scarlet, lava-like light patterns flowing along the edges. The most terrifying thing was its eyes—the left pupil burned with pure destructive golden flames, while the right pupil was an ice-blue sea of calm clarity. Madness and sanity, two contradictory traits, coexisted perfectly in the same entity.
"Welcome to... my new era." The Golden Dragon King raised its front right paw and gently clenched it toward the Void.
A thousand miles away, three supervisory spirit towers guarded by First-Level Gods shattered simultaneously. They were not attacked, but the material laws constituting the tower bodies were temporarily rewritten—the sturdiness attribute was replaced with "fragility," and the stable structure was replaced with "disorder." The spirit towers collapsed like sandcastles, and the guarding gods did not even have time to react before they were buried by the ruins.
"Law rewriting..." The figure of the God of Destruction appeared above the battlefield, purple-black destructive divine lightning entangling around him. "You actually mastered this level of power?"
"Mastered?" The Golden Dragon King let out a low chuckle, full of mockery. "Destruction, you are still this arrogant. This is not 'mastering,' this is 'reclaiming'—reclaiming everything that the Dragon God should have possessed."
It opened its dragon mouth, not to breathe fire, but to speak.
Every word transformed into substantive dark-gold runes that arranged and combined in the air, forming a complete declaration of laws:
Declared in the name of the Dragon God:
The space of this realm belongs to my dominion.
The matter of this realm is shaped by my will.
The laws of this realm obey my command.
Wherever the might of the dragon reaches shall be my domain.
The moment the declaration was completed, with the Golden Dragon King as the center, the space within a radius of one hundred thousand divine miles began to "surrender." The inherent silver-white background of the Divine Realm was covered by dark gold, and the divine power in the air no longer obeyed the mobilization of the gods, instead beginning to actively flow toward the Golden Dragon King to replenish its consumption.
It was establishing a God Kingdom—establishing another God Kingdom within the interior of the Divine Realm.
"Stop it!" The figure of the Goddess of Life appeared beside the God of Destruction, emerald-green light of life surging like a tide toward the Dark-Gold Domain, attempting to use the laws of life to counteract that erosion of death.
The Golden Dragon King's response was to raise its left paw.
The light of life suddenly stalled a thousand miles away from it, and then began to... reverse. It was not pushed back, but went in reverse on the time dimension—the light current retreated to the launching point and re-submerged into the palm of the Goddess of Life as if it had never been released.
"Time reversal?!" Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eyes captured this incredible scene. "This is impossible! Even during the peak of the Dragon God, it never displayed time-type authority!"
"So I said," the Golden Dragon King turned its huge head, its gaze sweeping across every God King present, "this is a new era."
It began to walk.
With every step it took, the Dark-Gold Domain expanded outward by a thousand miles. Where the domain passed, Divine Realm buildings were assimilated, divine plants withered and were reborn into dark-gold twisted forms, and even the flowing rivers of divine power diverted to flow in its direction. It was not destroying the Divine Realm; it was "digesting" the Divine Realm.
Tang San finally made his move.
Poseidon's Trident cleaved through the sky, its blue-gold light not diffusing, but instead infinitely converging, ultimately condensing at a single point on the tip of the trident. Wherever that point of light passed, the expansion of the Dark-Gold Domain stopped—it was not blocked, but "frozen." Tang San utilized the authority of the Divine Realm Central Nexus to temporarily solidify the laws of that region, causing it to refuse all rewriting.
"Oh?" The Golden Dragon King showed an interested expression for the first time. "Using the Central Nexus authority? Fine, let me see how much this generation of enforcers has improved."
It did not use any fancy techniques, simply slamming its right paw toward the trident.
The moment claw and trident collided, no sound was emitted.
Because the space at the point of collision completely shattered, forming an absolute vacuum sphere with a diameter of one hundred miles. Inside the sphere, light was distorted, the flow of time was abnormal, and even the most basic physical constants fluctuated violently. This was a head-on collision of two supreme laws, a savage clash of authority against authority.
Three seconds later, the result manifested.
Tang San retreated three steps, each step stamping spiderweb-like cracks onto the foundation of the Divine Realm.
The Golden Dragon King stood in place, but a faint crack had appeared on a dragon scale in the center of its right paw.
"Not bad." The Golden Dragon King looked at the crack on its paw, its tone actually carrying appreciation. "Being able to injure one of my scales makes you much stronger than those trash from ten thousand years ago. Then... warm-up is over."
Its aura changed.
If the Golden Dragon King just now was a volcano about to erupt at any moment, then it was now the all-encompassing apocalyptic ash left after a volcanic eruption. Dark-gold light seeped from every pore of its body, condensing into billions of runes in the air that rotated, combined, and nested to form a three-dimensional magical array covering the entire battlefield.
The moment the array was completed, all First-Level and lower gods simultaneously felt their Divine Godhood being "suppressed." It was not a weakening of power, but a lowering of their tier of existence—as if in front of the Golden Dragon King, they were no longer eternal deities, but merely slightly stronger mortals.
"Divine Godhood Suppression..." The expression of the God of Destruction turned completely gloomy. "It has developed the Dragon God's coercion to the level of laws."
"More than that." Huo Yuhao's Spirit Eyes operated at high speed, analyzing the composition of those runes. "It is reconstructing the basic rules of the battlefield—here, only 'dragon laws' take priority, and all other laws must be demoted and obey. Our divine power output efficiency has dropped by at least forty percent."
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