"Bang!"
With a low, muffled boom, an enormous golden claw actually reached out of the crack in the sky. A round protrusion crowned each of its joints, like a golden gemstone embedded there.
Gleaming golden spiral patterns marked the very tips of the massive claw.
"Bang!"
Another muffled boom rang out, and a second golden claw emerged from the crack in the sky, identical to the first.
Then both enormous golden claws exerted their strength at once, tearing fiercely in opposite directions. The crack in the sky grew wider and wider, until a colossal creature, golden all over and wreathed in pale-yellow flames, flew out of the void.
Its appearance was like a great river soaring into the heavens. Intense golden light washed everything around it in gold.
"A dragon? No, it's the Mysterious Yellow Flame!"
"This fellow must have spent a long time with the Mysterious Yellow Flame, hoping to devour its energy for himself, only to end up parasitized by it."
Xiao Yan stared fixedly at the colossal creature, a startling blaze of fervor suddenly erupting in his eyes.
As the appearance of the Mysterious Yellow Flame made Xiao Yan's breathing grow heavier, undisguisable ecstasy also surfaced on Nihility Devouring Flame's face in the sky. Whichever of them devoured the Mysterious Yellow Flame would be the final victor.
The golden dragon's scales shone with magnificent radiance, each one diamond-shaped. Enormous wings spread behind his back, and spikes rose from both the crown of his massive head and his lower jaw. Those on his crown continued down his spine to his tail, which was long and likewise covered in spikes.
He was the Golden Dragon King, the other half of the Dragon God who had instigated the previous great calamity in the Divine Realm. After the Asura God cleaved