Rumble-
Centered on the ninth level, a terrifying force surged wildly outward!
A long, resonant dragon roar rang out.
The True Qi around Qin Shi Huang solidified, and his Incarnation Beyond the Body manifested once more. The Li Dragon had risen from the dead and returned to the mortal world!
Man and dragon faced each other.
Qin Shi Huang nodded to him. "Go."
"Roar-"
With a thunderous roar, the Li Dragon shot upward, breaking through layer upon layer of thick earth and charging into the Eighth Level!
Qin Shi Huang followed at an unhurried pace, leaping upward.
On the Eighth Level, Liu Xuance had just pulled out the Black Dragon Banner and had yet to steady himself.
Suddenly, the earth shook. An enormous black silhouette burst out of the ground, its draconic body coiling above the hall. The light of the Luminous Pearls shone upon it, revealing a deep, fathomless black.
The Li Dragon!
The First Emperor's Incarnation Beyond the Body!
The dragon was pitch-black as ink, his scales gleaming with a cold, eerie light beneath the starlight.
His body stretched thirty zhang long, his horns rugged and powerful, his whiskers streaming. His lightning-bright eyes struck terror into the heart. With every breath, black mist poured from his mouth—the Mysterious Water Qi, condensed to its utmost limit!
Everyone looked up at the enormous dragon and froze.
It was not as though they had never seen dragons.
Dragon-Slaying City had slain dragons for generations. They had each taken part in at least seven or eight dragon hunts, fighting shoulder to shoulder to slay Flood Dragons, Hornless Dragons, and Coiling Dragons.
But the dragon before them was different.
His draconic might, that terrifying aura that seemed to hail from the primordial wilderness of antiquity, stirred an uncontrollable fear in the depths of