Yet just as Liu Changxu displayed his divine might, slaying more than a dozen seventh-tier sea monsters in a single blow with the force of ten thousand thunderbolts, an earth-shaking roar like thunder suddenly rang out from the distant void.
Though the roar came from an immense distance, it shook heaven and earth like rolling celestial thunder. Wherever its sound waves reached, the surrounding void rippled like a lake into which a boulder had been hurled, sending wave upon wave spreading in every direction. A heart-quailing pressure filled the air.
Immediately afterward, an enormous shadow abruptly swept over them, as though night had fallen. An Azure Dragon, like a moving, towering mountain range, came hurtling into everyone's sight.
The dragon's body was unimaginably vast, as though it could fill all of heaven and earth. His azure scales gleamed with a mysterious, majestic light beneath the brilliant sun, exuding an ancient aura tempered by the passage of ages and a terrifyingly powerful presence.
He flew toward them with fangs bared and claws brandished. Wherever he passed, howling winds sliced through the air like countless sharp blades, whipping up monstrous waves high enough to blot out the sky and sun.
His terrifying presence swept toward them with the mountain-toppling, sea-overturning force of Mount Tai collapsing. Some of the less powerful Liu Household Members were instantly engulfed by that overwhelming pressure. They felt as though they had been plunged into boundless darkness, its crushing weight leaving them unable to breathe.
Faced with the terrifyingly powerful Eighth Tier Azure Dragon, Liu Changxu remained unusually calm. Like an immortal banished to the mortal world, he stood tall in midair, his robe fluttering gently in the wind, his expression composed and his gaze deep and resolute.
As the Eighth Tier Azure Dragon rapidly approached and entered