Hai Bodong: Going all in is a kind of wisdom

After Tiga grew from a 1.9-meter-tall human into a 55-meter giant of light, his Three-Star Dou Emperor strength also began to soar, reaching at least the level of a Peak Dou Emperor... or even a Dou Zong expert.

His ultimate defense and maximum destructive power could rival even a Two- or Three-Star Dou Zong.

So Hai Bodong's nine loaches could not possibly inflict any real damage on him.

Since it was only a transformation device, it still needed a human host as its vessel, and the power unleashed after transforming fell short of directly reviving the original body or a stone statue.

Daigo at least had a stone statue as his vessel, while Luo Yang had only himself.

However, activating the Sparklence had cost Luo Yang only as much causality as activating a Three-Star Dou Emperor expert.

If Luo Yang had been an ordinary person with no cultivation whatsoever, his transformed strength would only have reached that of a Three- or Four-Star Dou Emperor. It was because his Five-Star Dou Master strength far surpassed an ordinary person's that he could reach the level of a Dou Zong expert after transforming.

He had paid a Dou Emperor's price and bought a genuine Dou Zong exper... oh, no, in the future, it might even be a Dou Zun expert.

(A slight nerf early on; it will gradually improve in the middle stages. Too much strength would easily break things. It has room to grow.)

Gazing at that giant, towering majestically like a mountain, like a mountain, its whole body radiating holy light, Hai Bodong felt only a profound sense of suffocation and helplessness.

He had never felt such an awe-inspiring sense of oppression even from Yun Shan and Queen Medusa back then. Could this brat have already stepped into that legendary realm?

Gulp...

Hai Bodong swallowed, inwardly extremely relieved that he had not overstepped his bounds when he first recovered his strength in Mo City. Otherwise, he would probably have long since gone off to be reincarnated...

"Elder Hai, do you have any trump cards left? If not, then now, it's my turn..."

"What?! Wait..."

Luo Yang once again began gathering power in the opening stance for [Zeperion Ray]. It was already too late for Hai Bodong to stop him.

"Bastard! Are you fucking trying to kill me..."

Cold sweat poured from Hai Bodong's forehead. He had only just managed to handle that tiny ray earlier. A Dou Technique unleashed from this enormous body would kill a hundred of him and still have power to spare...

But it was already too late to run. Luo Yang took only two and a half seconds to go from charging to firing.

Hyah!!!

Bzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Watching the [Zeperion Ray] draw closer and closer, Hai Bodong's eyes bulged as he counted down to his death. Yet the [Zeperion Ray] skimmed over his head without striking his body.

Although he had survived, Hai Bodong was somewhat scared witless, his mind completely blank.

Luo Yang had never actually intended to hit Hai Bodong with this [Zeperion Ray], which could kill a Two- to Three-Star Dou Zong, because Hai Bodong really would die if he did. He was only trying it out.

With plenty of energy still remaining, Luo Yang swung the "muzzle" around and aimed into the pitch-black night sky. In an instant, the ray pierced the heavens, lighting the entire night sky as brightly as day and dispersing white clouds across a thousand miles.

The recoil also drove his enormous body down into the loose yellow sand, gradually burying him up to his knees.

Hai Bodong stared blankly at that enormous pillar of light shooting straight into the heavens, with only one thought in his mind.

Was this something a human could do?

Deep within the Tagor Desert, at the Snake-People Tribe's settlement, in the queen's bedchamber.

Upon the bed, Medusa, queen of the Snake-People Tribe, was enjoying her beauty sleep when her tightly shut, beautiful eyes suddenly opened. She sat up, and the thin blanket slipped away, exposing her completely naked body to the air. Swaying her alluring, wild snake tail, she moved to the window and looked into the distance.

The horizon glowed faintly white, as though something momentous had happened.

Medusa sensed an extremely powerful fluctuation of energy there, one that made even her, a Peak Nine-Star Dou Emperor expert, tremble a little.

Could it be a Dou Zong expert...

Crimson wings appeared behind her, and she instinctively wanted to fly out through the window to investigate.

But then she suddenly remembered that her injuries had only just healed, and she still had to prepare a secret method for her evolution soon. Better one less complication than one more...

"Someone, come!!"

Queen Medusa dismissed her Dou Qi Wings and called out, her voice infused with powerful Dou Qi.

No sooner had her words fallen than the rustle of scales rubbing against the floor sounded outside the bedchamber. Immediately afterward, a lovely female voice came from beyond the doors.

"Your Majesty, what are your orders..."

It was Hua She'er, captain of the queen's personal guard, a Dou Wang expert.

"Notify the leaders of the Eight Great Tribes and have them maintain strict vigilance. If they discover anything unusual, they must not act rashly and must report to me immediately..."

"Yes..."

Somewhere in the Tagor Desert, Xiao Third Brother was sleeping when the suddenly day-bright sky shone against his eyelids, making him groggily open his eyes.

"Huh? Dawn already..."

Xiao Yan only remembered lying down not long ago. How had dawn come so quickly?

Beside him, the translucent Yao Lao had long since emerged from the ring. He floated in midair, gazing from afar at the pillar of light soaring into the sky several hundred miles away.

His aged eyes opened slightly, his expression extremely grave.

As an eighth-tier alchemist, and at such a close distance, Yao Lao could clearly sense just how powerful that energy was. And the attribute of that Dou Qi... was unheard of.

A Dou Zong expert with an unknown attribute had actually appeared in this remote Tagor Desert, completely disrupting the special training and Heavenly Flames search plans Yao Lao had set for Xiao Yan.

At present, Xiao Yan only possessed Dou Shi strength and could not bear the entirety of Yao Lao's soul. At most, he could unleash the might of a Three- to Four-Star Dou Emperor. Dealing with some ordinary Five- or Six-Star Dou Emperors might still be possible, but that was nowhere near enough before a Dou Zong expert.

Even if the other party was the weakest, a One-Star Dou Zong...

"Little Yanzi, stop sleeping. We have to get out of here quickly..."

After pondering for a moment, Yao Chen prepared to call Xiao Yan over and leave. But when he saw Xiao Yan lying down to go back to sleep, he raised his fist and delivered a vicious knuckle rap to Xiao Yan's head.

As pain shot through his head, Xiao Yan instantly woke up, all sleepiness gone.

"Ow, what are you doing~ Teacher..."

"Cut the fucking crap! If that Dou Zong discovers us, the two of us are dead..."

Yao Lao swiftly darted into the ring, reining in his presence as he urged Xiao Yan on.

After saying that, he made no further sound or fluctuations of his presence.

"What? Dou... Dou... Dou Zong!!"

"Mother of mercy-"

Upon hearing that a Dou Zong expert was nearby, Xiao Yan instantly broke into a cold sweat. After standing dumbfounded for two and a half seconds, he scrambled away in the opposite direction.

Luo Yang had snatched the Purple Cloud Wings first, so until Xiao Yan reached Dou Wang, he could only rely on his pair of short little legs.

The Jia Ma Empire, the imperial palace.

Inside an underground secret chamber, an old man in hemp robes sat cross-legged on a stone bed, his eyes tightly shut and Dou Qi circulating around his body as he attempted to break through into that legendary realm.

The old man in hemp robes was none other than the guardian of the Jia Ma Imperial Family, the Peak Nine-Star Dou Emperor expert, Jia Xingtian.

After a long while, Jia Xingtian slowly opened his eyes, his aged gaze filled with helplessness and unwillingness.

"There is simply no way to be found to break through to Dou Zong."

(Thanks to the handsome reader [Lao Mode 1] for the four monthly tickets.)