The Golden Dragon King Broke His Seal

The instant the purple and green in the sky fully merged, all of space and time abruptly stood still. That mighty, overwhelming Creation Power flowed like a tide into the Divine Realm itself. A sturdy barrier gradually emerged around its outer perimeter, shutting out the raging Space-Time Turbulence.

Meanwhile, pink light born of the mingling purple and green blossomed atop the 108 divine pillars of the Divine Realm Core. The light rose and connected, forming heavenly pillars that supported heaven and earth, pouring creation power into the barrier without cease and making it ever more stable.

At the moment the barrier finally took shape, the origin powers of life and destruction also reached their end. Having fulfilled their final mission, they quietly dissipated within the light of creation, leaving the Divine Realm to return to peace under its new protection.

Tang San gazed at the sky, now clear once more, and the Divine Realm growing increasingly stable beneath his feet, his heart awash with conflicting emotions. The God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life had paid with their own deaths to preserve this world.

Did the story end here? No, of course not.

Deep within the Divine Forbidden Zone, a dragon's cry that shook the universe suddenly rang out from the chaotic land of churning clouds and mist. It was no ordinary sound. It carried the oppressive might of the primordial wilderness, making heaven and earth tremble. This place had already become a lifeless wasteland during the great battle between Tang San and the God of Destruction. Now, the central tower that had once symbolized majesty collapsed with a thunderous crash. Jagged fissures spread across the ground, as though the earth's wounds were being torn open again and again.

Crack—

From the depths of a fissure, a pure gold dragon claw thrust out. Cold light flashed at its tips as it forcibly tore the opening wider. The claw's owner seemed to possess boundless might. With Space-Time Turbulence destabilizing space, he had seized the opportunity, using the turbulence as a catalyst to tear through his imprisonment by force.

"Roar—!"

A deafening dragon roar resounded through heaven and earth, filled with defiance pent up over countless ages, bone-corroding malice, and fury that would burn everything to ash. As the fissure opened completely, an enormous figure broke free from the abyss. His golden body blotted out the sky and sun, and the pressure radiating from him made the entire Divine Realm shudder.

He had emerged.

Where the clouds and mist parted, a golden dragon thirty thousand meters long slowly stretched his body. His scales gleamed with an ancient luster in the faint light of chaos, each seeming to bear the weight of hundreds of millions of years. Brutality and destruction wreathed him like a ferocious beast that had slumbered for endless ages and had finally broken free of his shackles.

When his scarlet eyes opened, they resembled two blood moons suspended within the chaos. Wherever his gaze fell, even space rippled and twisted.

"I... have broken the seal."

His deep voice carried unquestionable majesty, echoing through every corner of the Divine Realm and making the ancient beings dwelling there tremble.

"Human gods, you imprisoned me for hundreds of millions of years. I will make you pay the price you deserve."

The instant his words fell, the enormous golden dragon moved, streaking through the chaos like golden lightning. Wherever he passed, laws shattered and space tore apart, while an aura capable of destroying heaven and earth spread in all directions.

The golden dragon, fifty thousand kilometers long, hovered in the air, dazzling golden light encircling him. Wherever he passed, the boiling, churning spacetime was forcibly subdued into stillness. Such overwhelming might offered a glimpse of how unfathomable his power was.

As he took flight, he resembled a moving mountain, his massive body blotting out the sky and sun. His scales shimmered with magnificent light. Each was diamond-shaped, its center slightly raised where two axes crossed, forming four sharp ridges that conveyed both solidity and a hidden edge. A single scale measured more than a square meter, and they overlapped in layers like the sturdiest armor.

When he spread his wings, it seemed as though the entire sky of the Divine Realm had been obscured. Spikes jutted from the crown and lower jaw of his enormous head, extending along his spine all the way to his tail, grim and terrifying. His long tail grew thicker toward its tip and was covered in sharp bone spurs, resembling a thorn branch magnified beyond measure, imbued with an aura capable of destroying heaven and earth.

The golden dragon slowly turned his head, his scarlet eyes sweeping over the Divine Realm. With every blink, thunder seemed to brew behind the clouds. An ancient, brutal pressure spread, making everything between heaven and earth hold its breath.

This golden dragon, tens of thousands of meters long, was none other than the Golden Dragon King!

The Golden Dragon King's origins traced back to the Dragon God, who had once brought a catastrophic calamity upon the Divine Realm.

In those days, the Dragon God had been the undisputed strongest being in the Divine Realm, his overwhelming power unmatched throughout the universe. Legend held that he could fight several God Kings single-handedly; even the Five Great God Kings together could scarcely withstand his might. Later, the Dragon God sought to elevate the Divine Realm into a God Star, only to suffer an unexpected backlash from the origin of the universe's laws. The moment he witnessed his own son's death, he lost control completely and began attacking every god without restraint.

Countless human gods perished in that catastrophe. Even among the Dragon Clan's Dragon Kings who had inherited his nine great origin energies, several died horribly at his hands. When the Dragon God finally regained his senses and faced the devastated Divine Realm and its endless departed souls, grief overwhelmed him. In the end, he laid his mind and spirit bare and allowed the First-Generation Asura God to strike him with the Asura Demon Sword, splitting his origin in two—the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King.

The Golden Dragon King inherited the Dragon God's formidable strength and physical body, while the Silver Dragon King inherited his control over the elements. At the outbreak of the Divine Realm war, the Silver Dragon King vanished without a trace, while the God Kings joined forces to suppress the Golden Dragon King. On the brink of death, he transformed into a dragon cocoon and was sealed within the Divine Realm Land by five strands of God King Divine Power, lying dormant for endless ages.

Now, this colossal beast who had inherited the Dragon God's destructive power had broken his seal. The threat he posed was no less than that of the Space-Time Turbulence before him.

The instant the Golden Dragon King broke free, towering hatred and chilling killing intent swept through the Divine Realm like a tsunami. Wherever they passed, laws trembled and divine light dimmed.

At this point, Tang San was the only one capable of opposing the Golden Dragon King. As a God King, he had no choice but to fight. His gaze sharpened, and the blue-gold sea god divine power surrounding him abruptly withdrew, replaced by a chilling blood red. He switched to his Asura Godhood, and a longsword wreathed in an aura of slaughter materialized in his hand, its blade gleaming with an edge sharp enough to tear through all things.

"Roar—!"

The Golden Dragon King roared and dove, his thirty-thousand-meter dragon body crashing down with enough force to collapse the heavens and split the earth. His golden claws tore through the sky, carrying malice pent up over countless ages as they drove straight toward the point between Tang San's brows.

Tang San flickered into a streak of blood-red light, narrowly avoiding the attack. The Asura Demon Sword traced a breathtaking arc toward the Golden Dragon King's neck. The slaughter divine power on the blade collided with his opponent's savage dragon power, unleashing a deafening boom. Energy shock waves spread outward, shaking the entire Divine Realm.

A new bloody battle began. On one side stood an ancient colossal beast who had inherited the Dragon God's destructive power; on the other, a God King who wielded the law of slaughter. The two terrifying powers intertwined and collided above the Divine Realm, each clash seeming ready to grind heaven and earth to pieces.

As one half split from the Dragon God, the Golden Dragon King had inherited his core power and physical body, and his physical resilience had long since reached the Transcendent God Level. Against the fierce slashes of the Asura Demon Sword, a Transcendent God Level weapon, he brazenly met them head-on with his fists. Golden dragon fists collided with the pitch-black demon sword, unleashing energy that nearly tore space apart.

This contest was nothing less than a collision of pure power. Every punch from the Golden Dragon King held the savage force to shatter stars, and he interspersed his ordinary attacks with skills capable of destroying heaven and earth, every move lethal. Though Tang San housed two gods within one body, he gradually fell behind beneath that tempest of attacks. Several wounds deep enough to expose bone had appeared on his body, and even the circulation of his divine power had grown somewhat sluggish.

Had the God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life not burned their divine origins shortly before, producing Creation Power that happened to replenish the depleted divine power origins of his dual godhood and restore him to his peak within a short time, he would likely have already buckled beneath this ferocious assault, his defeat assured.

Even so, Tang San could only grit his teeth and hold on. The slaughter aura of the Asura Demon Sword grew ever more intense, and he poured everything he had into each swing, trying to tear an opening in the Golden Dragon King's impregnable scales. This deadly struggle had already reached the thin line between life and death.

Just as the battle was about to be decided, two figures broke through the clouds—the God King of Goodness and the Evil God King, who had returned just in time. Though they were second-generation God Kings whose strength fell somewhat short of Tang San and the fallen gods of life and destruction, they still held the rank of God King.

The three gods' divine powers abruptly resonated. The white light of Kindness, the inky darkness of Evil, and the scarlet of Asura intertwined in midair, condensing into a colossal three-colored sword. Before it had even left its sheath, its divine might surged to the heavens. It pointed straight at the Golden Dragon King, as though it would forge the very laws of heaven and earth into its blade.

The Golden Dragon King's pupils abruptly contracted, and warning bells screamed in his heart. This colossal sword posed a lethal threat to his life origin! His earlier arrogance vanished in an instant, leaving only instinctive terror. He finally realized how terribly wrong he had been. He had thought his God King-level might and formidable body would be enough to sweep away everything, never expecting to face such crushing superiority at the level of laws.

Flee!

The thought had barely formed before the Golden Dragon King spread his wings wide and beat them with all his strength. His golden figure fled like a meteor, crossing five hundred kilometers in an instant. Yet no matter how fast he fled, his body felt as though invisible chains were pulling at it. The colossal three-colored sword remained suspended behind him, following like his shadow with a pressure that locked onto his divine soul.

"Three Realms Judgment Sword!" Tang San's voice was cold as frost. He exchanged a glance with the gods of Kindness and Evil, and the three drove their divine power forward once more.

The Golden Dragon King felt that he could no longer escape. Even if he fell, he intended to drag the gods of the Divine Realm down with him. He roared and charged toward the Divine Realm's protective barrier, his crazed laughter shaking the universe. "Even if I die, I will drag you down with me! Let jade and stone burn alike! All of you will join me in death!"

The Golden Dragon King turned and charged toward the protective barrier formed not long before from the origin divine flames of the Destruction God King and the Life God King as they burned themselves away. He intended to break through it and let the Space-Time Turbulence in.

Just as he came within ten meters of the barrier—a distance no greater than a thought to a god—the colossal three-colored sword tore through the sky. It was the Three Realms Judgment Sword, condensed from the divine powers of Kindness, Evil, and Asura. Black, white, and red light pulsed around its hilt as it flashed behind the Golden Dragon King almost instantaneously, the divine light along its blade blazing like the sun.

"Ah! I refuse to accept this!" The Golden Dragon King let out a despairing roar, watching helplessly as the three-colored light pierced his enormous body. His dragon body convulsed violently, his life force draining away at terrifying speed, yet the madness and malice in his eyes had not diminished in the slightest.