What are monsters?

To the Tianyuan mortal realm, long plagued by Kun monsters and rampant evil spirits, monsters are Kun monsters, vengeful spirits and walking corpses born from the great wars of the Warring States period, and evil heretics wandering in the wilderness, capable of bewitching the populace.

However, after the Five Virtues Sect swept across the heavens and the earth, destroying mountains and temples, the world's impression of vengeful souls, evil ghosts, and zombie fiends gradually faded, leaving only the 'extraterrestrial Kun monsters' who had ravaged the world for thousands of years and committed countless slaughters.

And now, in the extraterrestrial void.

[True Dragon!]

Accompanied by the darkness at the center, a divine thought carrying astonishment and joy spread.

Then, countless 'monsters' awakened here.

Moreover, it wasn't just Kun monsters...

--Kacha Kacha Kacha.

The shattering of Xuan ice brought about a shock of spiritual energy, causing ripples that should have been silent to spread in the spirit world.

The friction of scales with jagged serrations sparked in the cold, dark void. Countless massive scaled beasts, giant carapace demon insects, and all kinds of hairy behemoths were now slowly awakening from the many Xuan ice blocks floating in the void.

With the flashing of spiritual light, it could be seen that this was a void celestial body region akin to an asteroid belt. Over hundreds of thousands of huge Xuan ice blocks floated in the darkness, and within each large ice celestial body exceeding a thousand meters in size, a sleeping scale, fur, or even Kun tribe monster slumbered. The Xuan ice, filled with silent spiritual light, faintly had flashing light patterns flowing within, seemingly maintaining the life of the monster within the ice.

But now, most of the Xuan ice was shattering, and the monsters sleeping within had at least opened their eyes.

The spiritual energy shock of thousands of monsters formed a torrent. One could faintly hear the long howls and roars of countless Jiaolong giant beasts, and even feel the incredibly dense, savage, and fierce resentment filling the universe.

"It's...it's a True Dragon!"

"Indeed, I sense it, the aura of a True Dragon..."

"Millions of years...our shared master, the Heavenly Demon, is finally about to descend upon the world, leading us to destroy the heavens and the earth and recreate the epoch?!"

Confused and chaotic, the divine thoughts of countless great demons swept across the void.

Although mixed in were a few doubts like 'What makes you think this aura is that of a True Dragon?' 'Why can't I sense it?' 'Could it just be a normal Jiaolong and you're mistaken?'

However, as the great demon who initially sent out the divine thought shared the aura it sensed, under irrefutable evidence, all the monsters fell silent for a moment before beginning to roar excitedly.

In an instant, the void, which should have been dark, was illuminated by the exuberant spiritual light of many demons, dyed a deep red color. The roars of countless demons shook the heavens above.

"No."

However, at this moment, a voice rang out, interrupting the thoughts of the many great demons: "We must still be careful."

"This may be a disguise of those Nine Nether Heavenly Devils."

The one who spoke was a giant beast that resembled a dragon but was not. It had a dragon's head and a leopard's body, with a body exceeding three thousand meters in length.

It was not enormous, but its whole body exuded a faint light of intertwined red and silver, like a mixture of metal and blood. The sharp claws on its limbs were like divine weapons and blades, releasing a cold spiritual light sufficient to cut the flow of spiritual energy.

The red eyes of the giant beast stared at the distant 'Tianyuan mortal realm,' as if glaring, but its voice was very calm, like cold flowing fire burning in the abyss.

Heavenly Demon 'Yazi,' one of the nine sons of the dragon, sensed the aura from afar, and then slowly said: "The birth of a True Dragon, and we Heavenly Demons once again have a shared master, is truly a fortunate event, but who knows if this is a trick of the Heavenly Devils?"

"Perhaps the Scale and Fur tribes may not be clear, but the Kun tribe should understand very well that in the Tianyuan mortal realm, the Nine Nether Heavenly Devils have been using the demonic thoughts of all living beings to contaminate the earth veins for hundreds of thousands of years, attempting to nurture acquired demon soil and try to obtain the power of the origin—with their understanding of the earth veins, condensing a bit of earth vein aura into a dragon would not be difficult."

Speaking to this point, the giant demon stared at the Tianyuan mortal realm in the distance, and then slowly said: "And the Celestial Gods of the Celestial Heavens intend to collect the endless life-giving substances of all realms, condensing the purity of heaven and earth, naturally they will not allow them to contaminate the heavens and the earth in this way, so the two sides have fought endlessly."

"The purpose of us Heavenly Demons has never been to 'destroy the heavens and the earth and recreate the epoch,' but to make both sides fail, to prevent anyone from succeeding—and then, to allow the ancient ancestor dragon to return."

"Thousands of years ago, our attempt to enter the game failed, we were driven away, and countless compatriots fell...now, we should be more cautious."

Yazi's majesty was enough to shock the demons.

For a time, the excited demons slowly calmed down.

However, just then, another voice rang out.

"But even so, the birth of a True Dragon and the rise of a great calamity are not empty words."

"Whether the Nine Nether Heavenly Devils have mastered the power of the dragon vein, or a real True Dragon is born, we should not stand by and ignore it."

As gray clouds spontaneously arose in the void, a giant winged serpent coiled around a mountain-like asteroid slowly opened its eyes, its red pupils flashing like stars.

Its body length was unknown, tens of thousands of meters, and the asteroid, over ten kilometers long, was tightly coiled by its resilient, unimaginable body, with not a single gap visible.

Using the mountain giant rock as a cornerstone to fix its coordinates in the void, the giant god with a pair of strange scaled wings slowly vibrated its wings, causing the surrounding spiritual energy to ripple in a tide.

The Heavenly Demon 'Tengshe' and 'Yazi' met each other's gaze.

All information was in silence.

"Good."

In the end, Tengshe slowly nodded, then closed its snake pupils, and its whole body's aura suddenly decreased. The huge snake body also began to solidify, transforming from a divine and demonic body full of vitality into a stone-like dead object: "Protect me."

"I will personally descend a wisp of my spirit, pierce through the Immortal Gods' 'All Stars Heavenly Dao', descend to Tianyuan, to see whether this True Dragon is real or fake."

"Go! Go!"

In the next instant, accompanied by the unison roars of farewell from the demons, black and red flames erupted from the gaps in the scales around the giant serpent, like pillars of fire.

Red light burned in the void, like the only light in the night sky, fire burning in the abyss. It ignited the darkness and burned itself out.

A red star flashed, and within it one could vaguely see the illusion of a winged serpent. Squeezing out all its strength, exchanging it for a divine light sufficient to pierce through the barriers of the heavens, Tengshe's divine soul silently vibrated its wings, and then resolutely aimed at the distant Tianyuan mortal world, flying away.

The insignificant red divine light was imperceptible to anyone. Even the star giant array that covered the entire Tianyuan mortal world could not detect such a tiny thing.

Gradually, as the red divine light flew.

Vaguely, one could see.

That Tianyuan mortal world, round above and square below, immense beyond compare, with a single province surpassing the vastness of a star...

Its shape seemed to be merely a piece of intricately patterned, crescent-shaped...

Reverse scale.