The azure-green goddess soared into the heavens, her blue-and-gold spear blazing with light that cleaved through heaven, earth, and their myriad paths as she swept it fiercely at the five dragons in the sky.
Exultant, ferocious, unmatched in might!
This was Li Xiaowa's power and will. She was the tacitly acknowledged eighth king of the Divine Clan!
Her strength likewise stood undiminished among kings!
Her azure-green Divine Ring poured down torrents of radiance, forcibly halting the storm about to rise between heaven and earth!
The gale died down, and the beings in the laboratory also stilled the surging power within their bodies, all turning to watch the battle high above.
Up in the sky, Li Xiaowa had drawn her spear and risen, her shout ringing across the heavens.
The five Yinglong were initially stunned and failed to react, but then annoyance and disdain welled up within them.
A mere mortal actually dared to attack them, favored children of heaven.
But soon, their anger and disdain vanished, replaced by profound disbelief.
Under Li Xiaowa's attacks, the five Yinglong could barely hold their own even with every ounce of their strength.
Their innate divine abilities to summon wind and rain, and their bodies cast as though from steel, were all useless before Li Xiaowa.
What infuriated them most was that they rarely managed to land an attack on her, yet Li Xiaowa found openings in their defenses time and again, drawing blood with a single thrust.
Part of this was because they had only just been born, and their battle experience fell short of that of Li Xiaowa, a Goddess of War seasoned by a hundred battles.
It was also because their initial carelessness had left them suppressed, and they had been taking a beating ever since.
Golden dragon blood rained from