Meanwhile.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Li Xiaoya was now a hundred thousand feet underground, his entire body wrapped in orange light. Earth-shaking explosions thundered through the ground above his head...
"Damn it! That red dragon had far more backbone than the blue one!" Li Xiaoya muttered, still shaken...
Indeed.
When Li Xiaoya had seized the Blue Dragon Elder's Demon Core and Nascent Soul, the elder had actually had a chance to self-destruct. But the blue dragon clearly had not wanted to die just like that and had chosen to struggle instead, giving Li Xiaoya enough time to seal his Nascent Soul and Demon Core. The Red Dragon Elder, however, had realized he could not escape when he was about to be caught. He had instantly ignited his Nascent Soul and unleashed the power of destruction laws, clearly intending to take Li Xiaoya down with him...
Had Li Xiaoya not reacted early and forcibly hurled the Red Dragon Elder's Demon Core into space, that savage power would likely have blasted apart everything within ten thousand miles, affecting the land for tens of thousands of miles around... Li Xiaoya himself would not have fared much better...
In fact.
Li Xiaoya could actually have returned straight to his Human Realm Secret Realm in that instant and escaped the attack completely unharmed...
But if he had allowed the red dragon's Demon Core and Nascent Soul to explode in the world, the East Xia Continent would have lost another enormous swath of territory. His Wood-Element Clone was still on the other side, too, and would likely have fared no better...
He had made his choice in an instant, throwing the entire Demon Core into space and letting spatial power block a considerable portion of the blast. Otherwise, its force would have been even more terrifying...
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