The body of the Platinum Dragon God began to disintegrate. His dazzling platinum scales peeled away one by one, transforming into the purest Divine Power, which was swallowed up by the Lord of Time. His soul wailed, struggled, and tried to resist, but the power of the Lord of Time was as irresistible as time itself—before Eternity time, even the most powerful god was but a speck of dust.
"No... impossible... I am the Platinum Dragon God... I am the guardian of the Dragon Clan... how could I...?"
The voice of the Platinum Dragon God grew weaker and weaker until it vanished completely. His body shattered within the Time Crystal Pillar, turning into countless platinum fragments, which were absorbed into the body of the Lord of Time. His Divine Spark, his laws, and his will all became a part of the Lord of Time.
The Mother of Evil Dragons is laughing hysterically.
"Hahaha... Lord of Time! You think you can become Eternity by devouring us?! You are too naive! Even if you are the strongest of the Dragon Clan, you will fail because you have betrayed your people! You will turn into nothingness just like us!"
I curse you...
His maniacal laughter turned into screams as he crumbled. His black scales shattered piece by piece, venom splattering and corroding the inner walls of the Time Crystal Pillar. But the power of the Lord of Time was more deadly than the venom—His devouring was not merely Dragon Devouring's body, but consuming the very existence of the Mother of Evil Dragons. His will, his memories, his hatred, his malice—all were completely swallowed up by the Lord of Time.
Blue Diamond Dragon Heavenly Heart Suli did not struggle, scream, or curse.
He simply gazed silently at the Lord of Time; in those eyes made of blue diamonds, there was no anger, no fear, only a deep, indescribable sorrow.
"You are on the wrong path, Lord of Time." His voice was calm and aged, like weathered rock. "Devouring cannot bring Eternity, only a deeper emptiness. When you stand at the pinnacle of Eternity and look back, you will find that you have lost more than you have gained."
The Lord of Time's dragon eyes flickered slightly.
But that fluctuation lasted only a moment before it was suppressed by His will.
"I will remember your words, Suli." His voice remained calm. "After I ascend to the Land of Origin, I will resurrect you."
The Blue Diamond Dragon closed its eyes.
His body began to shatter, pieces of blue diamond peeling off his surface and being swallowed by the Lord of Time. His soul, in its shattering, transformed into countless points of light, each a fragment of ancient memory, an ancient secret, a wisp of ancient wisdom.
The Lord of Time swallowed all those points of light into his body.
One after another.
One after another.
More than twenty Supreme God- level True Dragon, the most powerful beings in the Dragon Clan, disappeared one after another as the Lord of Time devoured them. Their dragon bodies transformed into the purest bloodline power, their dragon souls into the most profound understanding of the laws, and their dragon blood into the most blazing torrent of power, all converging into the Lord of Time's body, like countless rivers flowing into the sea.
Meanwhile, the body of the Lord of Time continued to expand as it devoured everything.
His scales grew denser, and every tributary of time became clearer. His dragon eyes deepened, his gaze piercing through the distant past and future. His aura surged, barriers were breached, and bloodline bottlenecks were crushed in the process of devouring. His power was charging madly toward that final barrier.
That barrier.
Second-Step Eternity barrier.
The Lord of Time could sense it; it was within reach. With just a little more power, just a little more complete digestion of the impure thoughts within the dragon soul, just a little more—
He stopped.
A turbulent stream of thoughts was churning within me.
Although the dragon souls of more than twenty Supreme God- level True Dragon had been devoured, their will had not completely disappeared. They remained within the Lord of Time's body like more than twenty malignant tumors, constantly releasing resentment, hatred, curses, and whispers.
"You will fail..."
"The Devourer... will eventually be devoured..."
Those who betray their people will ultimately be abandoned by power.
"Eternity... is not something you can touch..."
"The Dragon Clan's curse... will follow you forever..."
The whispers echoed in the soul of the Lord of Time, like countless flies buzzing in his ear. The Lord of Time frowned slightly—He had anticipated this. Devouring the dragon souls of more than twenty Supreme God could not be without side effects. But He had enough time to digest them, and enough power to suppress them.
He only needs... time.
In the Eternally Sealed Dragon Realm, time is the least valuable thing.
The Lord of Time closed his eyes.
His consciousness sank into his body, into the Sea of Chaos composed of countless fragments of dragon souls. It was a boundless, churning, wailing ocean, formed by the remnants, resentment, hatred, and curses of more than twenty Supreme God- level True Dragon.
The remnant soul of the Platinum Dragon God struggled in the ocean, its platinum radiance now stained a dark gold by resentment. It was no longer angry, no longer desperate, but only filled with a pure, irreconcilable hatred.
"Lord of Time... you have betrayed the Dragon Clan... you will pay the price..."
The remnant spirit of the Mother of Evil Dragons laughs wildly, her malice spreading across the ocean like black ink polluting everything.
"Hahaha... You think you can digest us?! We'll be inside you forever... tormenting you forever... never letting you have peace..."
The remnant soul of the Blue Diamond Dragon remained silent. It did not struggle, nor did it curse; it simply floated quietly in the ocean, its blue diamond eyes still clear and calm. But its very existence was a torment—for it reminded the Lord of Time of his former appearance, his vow to protect the Dragon Clan, and everything he had once believed in.
The Lord of Time took a deep breath.
His soul power transformed into a colossal furnace, enveloping the entire Sea of Chaos. The furnace was formed from the Law of Time, and within it burned the Fire of Time —the fires of the past, the present, and the future—intertwined to create a terrifying power capable of burning away all distracting thoughts.
The Fire of Time has begun to burn.
The remnant soul of the Platinum Dragon God screamed in the flames, its dark golden light twisting, deforming, and shattering before finally transforming into countless points of light, which were absorbed by the furnace. These points of light contained the Platinum Dragon God's understanding of divine laws, his comprehension of the Way of Order, and his mastery of the power of light—all of which became a part of the Lord of Time.
The remnant soul of the Mother of Evil Dragons struggled in the flames, her malice fueling the Fire of Time. Her maniacal laughter turned into screams, her curses into wails, and her malice vanished in the flames, leaving only the purest laws of darkness—an understanding of Destruction, a mastery of chaos, and an insight into evil.
One remnant soul after another was refined, absorbed, and transformed into the power of the Lord of Time in the Fire of Time. His aura continued to rise, growing stronger and stronger, drawing ever closer to that barrier.
Finally, at the moment when the last remnant soul—the remnant soul of the Blue Diamond Dragon —was refined, the Lord of Time felt that he had accumulated enough power.
He opened his eyes, and the light of the Fire of Time burned in his dragon pupils.
His body slowly rose on the altar, and countless time crystals shattered, reformed, and spun around him, forming a massive vortex. At the center of that vortex was the Lord of Time —who would use himself as fuel to ignite the Fire of Eternity and forge Eternity Dragon Body.
The Lord of Time opened his massive maw and let out a dragon's roar that shook the River of Space-Time.
"Eternity... Dragon Body!"
At that moment, the entire Eternally Sealed Dragon Realm was ablaze.
It was not ordinary burning, but the burning of time itself. The three timelines of past, present, and future ignited simultaneously, transforming into three blazing flames that coiled around the Lord of Time. His scales melted in the flames, his dragon whiskers turned to Ashes, and his dragon eyes shattered—but this was not Destruction, but rebirth.
His body disintegrated in the flames, and was rebuilt in the flames.
The melted scales solidified again, transforming into a new substance radiating Eternity light. The dragon whiskers that had turned to Ashes grew back, becoming tendrils capable of touching the laws of causality. The shattered dragon eyes reformed, becoming a pair of eyes capable of seeing through Eternity.
The Eternity Dragon Body is being sculpted.
The Lord of Time could sense that the barrier was loosening.
The barrier of Second-Step Eternity, the insurmountable chasm between First-Step Eternity and Second-Step Eternity, began to tremble before His Fire of Eternity. He could sense that on the other side of the barrier, that realm of Eternity, the gates were opening to Him.
Just let it burn a little longer.
As long as we accumulate more strength.
if only--
The flames suddenly went out.
It didn't extinguish gradually, but suddenly. Like a lamp blown out by a gale, like a river blocked by a dam, like a dream abruptly ended— the Fire of Eternity was extinguished in an instant, without any warning, without any buffer.
The Lord of Time's dragon eyes widened suddenly.
"No... impossible!"
He frantically channeled the power within him, attempting to rekindle the Fire of Eternity. But no matter how hard he tried, the flame could not be reignited. Because the fuel—the power of his bloodline—was insufficient.
Not enough?!
The Lord of Time could not believe it.
He devoured more than twenty Supreme God- level True Dragon, devoured the most powerful beings of the Dragon Clan, devoured all True Dragon above the True God realm, and the bloodline essence accumulated by the Dragon Clan over countless years—how could it be insufficient?!
His consciousness frantically searched every inch of space within his body, trying to find any trace of power that had been missed. But all he found was emptiness—his body was indeed empty, all the power of his bloodline had been burned away, and his Eternity Dragon Body was only a little over half complete.
Approximately 80%.
Although it's only a difference of 20%.
The problem is...
At this level, let alone 20%, even a difference of one ten-thousandth or one hundred-millionth is a difference of a hair's breadth that can lead to vastly different outcomes and create an insurmountable chasm.
His body is half Eternity light, half mortal scales. His dragon eyes are half Eternity profound, half mortal turbidity. His soul is half Eternity transcendence, half unwavering devotion to the River of Space-Time.
half.
He got stuck halfway.
It wasn't failure, but rather being stuck. Like a person attempting to cross an Abyss, leaping into the air only to find the opposite cliff face even further away than anticipated. Unable to move forward or backward, they could only hover above the Abyss, awaiting their fall.
For the first time, fear appeared in the dragon's eye of the Lord of Time.
"No... impossible... I've calculated it... I've deduced it... the power of my bloodline should be sufficient..."
His voice echoed throughout the Eternally Sealed Dragon Realm, filled with disbelief.
Then, He sensed it.
Within His body, in a certain place, a trace of bloodline power was hidden. It hadn't disappeared, nor dissipated, but rather was obscured by some force—a force that didn't belong to the Dragon Clan, nor to any True Dragon, but rather came from the outside world, from beyond the River of Space-Time, from—
Mother of the Stars.
"Hehe, you finally figured it out? In that case, the shielding of the Chaos Stele is no longer needed." A soft and gentle female voice rang out.
Immediately afterwards.
The Lord of Time's dragon eyes suddenly contracted.
He understood everything.
Thirty-Eight Paradise Pterosaur.
The Paradise Pterosaur that the Mother of the Stars took as her mount possessed a vast amount of the Dragon Clan power within its bloodline. This power was the essence that the Mother of the Stars extracted from the Dragon Emperor 'Dragon Emperor bloodline after his fall and infused into the bodies of the Thirty-Eight Paradise Pterosaur. It was enough to fill the final void Lord of Time.
But that power was concealed by the Mother of the Stars using the Chaos Stele.
The Lord of Time cannot sense it, cannot touch it, and cannot devour it.
And at this moment, when His Fire of Eternity was extinguished, when His breakthrough failed, when He was stuck in the Abyss between First-Step Eternity and Second-Step Eternity—
The River of Space-Time has cracked open.
It wasn't torn apart, it was pierced through.
A beam of light shone down from the upper reaches of the River of Space-Time, passing through countless tributaries of time, through countless barriers of causality, and through the seal of the Eternally Sealed Dragon Realm, landing directly before the Lord of Time.
The light was not golden, not silvery, not any known color. It was the color of the stars—the light of countless stars coming together to form a pure, ultimate starlight that transcended the entire spectrum.
Amidst the starlight, a figure slowly descended.
It was the silhouette of a woman, but her "womanhood" was merely the limit of mortal comprehension. Her body was composed of countless fragments of stars, each fragment the remnant of a star that once existed. Her long hair was a tributary of the Milky Way, her eyes the event horizon of Black Hole, and her dress the vortex of a nebula.
She is the Mother of the Stars.
One of the oldest, most powerful, and most mysterious beings in the Astral Realm. She is not a god, not a demon, not any known race. She is the stars themselves—the mother of all the stars in the universe, the source of light and heat, the cradle of life.
At this moment, what descended before the Lord of Time was merely a projection of her.
Even a projection was enough to make the entire Eternally Sealed Dragon Realm tremble.
The Mother of the Stars ' gaze fell upon the Lord of Time. In her Black Hole -like eyes, there was no pity, no mockery, only an extremely calm scrutiny.
Like a butcher examining a lamb awaiting slaughter.
"Lord of Time." Her voice echoed throughout the Eternally Sealed Dragon Realm, like countless stars whispering simultaneously, "You have failed."
Anger and humiliation burned in the dragon eyes of the Lord of Time.