The sudden appearance of this異魔 sent a tremor through Li Mu's heart.
A sense of foreboding arose.
He could feel it.
This異魔 was powerful.
The strongest he had ever seen.
He was truly worried if Azure Dragon, in its current form, could defeat it.
If Azure Dragon were to lose to the opponent.
The consequences...
He dared not imagine.
"A tiger fallen into a well is bullied by dogs!" Azure Dragon sighed lightly, "Back in the day, Lord Dragon wreaked havoc in the Divine Realm. How dare a mere nobody like you spew such nonsense before me?"
The humanoid異魔's eyes were filled with disdain, "You are not the you of the past!"
"But that doesn't give an ant like you the right to bark at me!" Azure Dragon roared at the sky, unleashing a deafening dragon's roar.
The annihilating void surged towards the humanoid異魔 with lightning speed.
But when it was less than a hundred meters away.
The humanoid異魔 clenched its fist from afar.
The void instantly froze.
Blocking Azure Dragon's attack.
Then it transformed its fingers into a sword.
A dazzling sword energy sliced through Azure Dragon's body.
At this moment.
Azure Dragon's physical form became much more ethereal.
Like a candle flame about to be extinguished.
It was but a wisp of a remnant soul.
To have sustained itself this long was a miracle in itself.
It was no match for this humanoid異魔.
The humanoid異魔 walked on the void towards Azure Dragon, "Lingxiao has already been shattered. You too should be buried in the ruins of history along with the last era!"
Azure Dragon roared, "Who says I should be buried from the last era?"
"Even in death, I wish to become a stone monument!"
"To witness the demise of you異魔s!"
"You have committed brutal acts, slaughtered my kin, and occupied my ancestral lands."
"If I do not exterminate you all, I will die with regret!"
Before its words could fall, it transformed into a streak of cyan light and charged at the humanoid異魔.
"Die!"
A cold glint flashed in the humanoid異魔's eyes.
It threw a punch.
The terrifying power made the very heavens and earth boil.
Exuding unparalleled might.
Azure Dragon let out a heart-wrenching scream and crashed down heavily in the air.
"Brother Dragon, are you alright?" Li Mu rushed forward, his face filled with anxiety.
At this moment, Azure Dragon had transformed into the form of 'Chen Nan'.
This was the physical body Chen Nan had helped it shape before his departure.
"I'm afraid I can't hold on any longer!" Azure Dragon's eyes were filled with unwillingness.
It had been trying its best.
But cruelly discovered.
That sometimes, effort alone could not change the final outcome.
Some things...
One had to accept fate!
Li Mu's eyes turned bloodshot. He looked up at the sky, about to shout, but was stopped by Azure Dragon, "Do you think it's truly us fighting?"
"If Chen Nan hadn't consumed the Great Dao Fruit and merged with this world."
"If not for his persistent obsession, the異魔 would have already broken through."
"Even if you cry out to the heavens, Chen Nan won't hear you."
Li Mu's tears flowed, "No, no, no, I believe Chen Nan will definitely hear, and the heavens will surely hear."
Azure Dragon gave a bitter smile, "Even if the heavens hear, what then?"
"The Way of Heaven... is heartless!"
"Indeed, the Way of Heaven is inherently heartless. This is an eternal and unchanging law!" The humanoid異魔 flew above them. "I have always wondered, in this heartless world, why do such beings as humans, with their seven emotions and six desires, exist?"
"Don't you find it absurd?"
Azure Dragon helped Li Mu up, struggling to stand. Its gaze was indifferent as it said, "Precisely because the Way of Heaven is heartless, the importance of human emotions and desires can be highlighted."
"If humans were emotionless, what difference would they have from cold stones?"
The humanoid異魔 shook its head, "Humans have always been good at sophistry, but that doesn't matter. As long as the reincarnated celestial gods are annihilated, the Three Realms will be ruled by us!"
"You can die now!"
As it spoke, it extended a palm.
The void twisted, and a spatial rift appeared.
A gigantic demonic hand emerged from the rift, blocking out the sun and moon, and devastating everything in its path.
The ground beneath Azure Dragon and Li Mu instantly cracked, and the surrounding trees turned to dust.
Azure Dragon wanted to resist.
But its heart was willing, and its strength was insufficient.
Just as they believed they would surely die.
A strange red light tore through the sky.
This red light was like a rose blooming in the midst of ice and snow.
Or like an oasis appearing in an endless desert.
Dazzling and brilliant.
It also carried a powerful divine energy.
It instantly entangled the humanoid異魔.
Following it came a childish voice, though young, it possessed great power and boundless hatred, "Bold demon! How dare you injure the beings of the Three Realms and bully them as if no one exists?"
Boom!
Without warning.
Two wheels burning with fire appeared in the night sky.
A figure clad in wind and fire wheels, their eyes filled with killing intent, descended from the sky.
Upon seeing this figure.
Azure Dragon grinned, "You little brat, you've finally come out of seclusion!"
The newcomer was none other than the child named Li Xiang.
However.
In his past life, he was known as Nezha.
Chen Nan, while on Earth, had helped him find the Hun Tian Ling, unlocking some of his past life memories.
Afterward, Azure Dragon spent over thirty years helping him find the Wind Fire Wheels and the Fire-Tipped Spear.
Following that, Li Xiang went into seclusion.
He only emerged from it today.
And he had recovered his cultivation to his peak past-life level.
"Lord Dragon, leave the rest to me!" Li Xiang, standing on the wind and fire wheels, was enveloped in roaring flames, like a reborn demon child.
As he spoke.
He clenched his chubby fists tightly.
Puchi!
The Hun Tian Ling suddenly contracted, causing the異魔 to let out a spurt of crimson blood mist.
"Too weak!"
"I can't believe Lingxiao was shattered by such creatures ten thousand years ago!"
"The gods of the heavens were defeated one by one by such trash!" Recalling his past life, a hint of helplessness appeared in Li Xiang's eyes.
Azure Dragon said weakly, "One humanoid creature is not frightening, nor are ten. But when the enemy possesses hundreds, even thousands, of cultivators at our level, their mere aura can crush us!"
"Lord Dragon, please don't speak. I have recovered my former strength. Let me heal your wounds first." Li Xiang landed on the ground, attempting to channel divine power to heal Azure Dragon.
Azure Dragon replied, "Save it, it's no use!"
It understood its own condition better than anyone.
It was merely a remnant soul.
It might have recovered over millennia, or even tens of thousands of years, in the dragon egg.
But when Chen Nan was in danger in the Divine Realm, it had forced its way out of the egg. This had already damaged its existing remnant soul. It was fortunate that it had lived within Chen Nan's body afterward.
Otherwise, it would have long since dissipated.
Not to mention that resisting the異魔 during this period had further worsened its injuries.
There was no cure.
"For the past few decades, the異魔 have been watching the human world." Azure Dragon said weakly, "Now that we have found the reincarnated celestial gods, the異魔 will surely launch a full-scale attack."
"Because they know."
"As long as the reincarnated celestial gods are killed."
"Even if Chen Nan is humanity's last hope, our human race will have no chance of victory!"
Li Xiang asked nervously, "Then what should we do now?"