By the time the Golden Dragon King climbed out of the rubble, his face was already mangled beyond recognition.
Half his face had been reduced to a bloody mess by that Black Flash, his cheekbone caved in, golden blood streaming down his jaw.
He stood on the broken stones, his chest heaving violently, his presence weakening in a very short span of time.
Lu Ren looked at him, the corner of his mouth twitching.
No way?
That one punch had nearly killed the Golden Dragon King?
Even something outrageous shouldn't have gone this far-
The next instant, a roar erupted from deep within the rubble.
"ROOOAR!!!"
That dragon's roar shook the surrounding stones off the ground. Even the air trembled.
The Golden Dragon King's human form could no longer hold under that roar.
His body swelled in midair, bursting his battle robes and sending his pauldrons flying as layers of golden scales surged out beneath his skin.
The sharp cracks of growing bones ran together, finally solidifying into a heavy thud as he landed.
An enormous dragon once again stood upon the wasteland.
His body stretched a thousand zhang, his spread wings blotting out the sky overhead.
The Golden Dragon King planted all four limbs on the ground. His golden scales gleamed dully in the gray mist, and bony spines lined his back from behind his neck to the end of his tail.
But there was a conspicuous dent in his skull.
Lu Ren's punch had left it there.
The Golden Dragon King stood there, his crimson eyes fixed on the man in midair.
"You-"
"Deserve to die!!!"
The Golden Dragon King opened his cavernous, blood-red maw.
The instant his mouth opened, the surrounding air began collapsing into it.
Golden light gathered in that unfathomably deep throat, growing brighter and