Chapter 371 The Progenitor's Body (5000)

A gale swept through the streets, blowing away the sudden snow. The earth trembled violently under the divine dragon's steps, causing houses to sway and collapse, and roads to twist and break.

Spiritual pressure and dragon roars echoed throughout the city, startling all those asleep from their dreams.

The residents who remained in Maya City were destined to spend a sleepless night.

Amidst confusion and fatigue, during the violent earthquake that shook the houses, a little girl of about six or seven years old was picked up from her warm bed by her parents. Her older brother, already an adult, returned from outside with a solemn expression. He urgently communicated with his father in a tone of intense emotion that the girl had never heard before.

"No, the roads are all cracked, and the car can't go out at all. Besides, it's very strange outside, with red lights everywhere, and there seem to be monsters wandering around..."

"There was just an earthquake, we can't hide in the basement... Damn it, this damned Divine Dragon War, why does it have to be fought in the city?!"

In her mother's arms, the tired little girl couldn't understand her father and brother's discussion. Her age prevented her from feeling the seriousness and danger, and she didn't understand what death and despair meant. She just tightly clutched the doll in her hand, and then her little head nodded, and she dozed off.

But, not long after, she felt a large hand grab her, taking her away from her mother's arms.

The girl was very familiar with this hand. It was her brother's hand, the one that often played with her, but compared to the gentle movements of the past, this time her brother's hand was surprisingly strong, even causing her pain. She couldn't help but let out a soft cry, and then opened her eyes, tearfully looking at her brother.

"Did I hurt you? Don't be afraid, go back to sleep..."

Noticing that his movements were too rough, the young man slowed down, but his speed remained undiminished, continuing to bring the girl to the location of the safe in their home as quickly as possible.

The safe wasn't too big or too small, only slightly larger than an ordinary bedside table. It couldn't fit an adult, but it was more than enough for a little girl.

Moving aside the land deeds and jewelry placed in the safe, the young man gently placed the girl inside, also providing her with a pillow to lean on. He said softly, "Just stay here today, don't move, and get some sleep, okay?"

"Okay... Won't brother sleep?"

The tired girl didn't have the energy to complain that it wasn't as comfortable as her own little bed. She hugged the doll in her hand, and then quickly closed her eyes.

The young man didn't reply, but instead put down the slumber bell he held in his hand. After confirming that the girl was asleep, he closed the safe, but didn't lock it—this safe, which utilized modern magic energy technology, could excellently protect anything stored inside, and was said to be impossible to damage, unless directly hit by the attack of a near-god powerhouse.

Although he had never tried it before, protecting a little girl shouldn't be a problem.

After doing all this, the man looked out the window with a worried expression.

In the center of Maya City outside the window, a crimson light was rising.

It was firelight, but not just firelight. In the leaping orange-red light, a dense, blood-colored pillar of light, as if purified and sublimated from blood, pierced through the flying snow, straight into the sky, illuminating most of Maya City's sky.

No matter where they were in the city, everyone could clearly see the pillar of light standing between heaven and earth.

At the moment the light rose, all those who had been forced to leave their collapsed houses due to the previous Divine Dragon War, preparing to flee the city, all those outdoors, were stunned in place the moment they were illuminated by this light. Then, their entire bodies collapsed and shattered like bubbles, their flesh and blood melting away, turning into puddles of blood on the ground.

Pop, pop, pop, people collapsed one after another, turning into thick blood—and at the moment their bodies collapsed, souls could be seen leaping out from within, circling the puddles of blood their bodies had turned into, before flying straight towards the blood-colored pillar of light.

And right after the souls flew away, the blood and flesh on the ground wriggled. Under the influence of the Earth Mother's power, mixed with the surrounding soil and steel, they catalyzed and took shape, then gradually solidified into various terrifying monsters, large and small.

Fearsome fire dragons with wings, giant lizards with two heads, giants with heads full of snake hair and eyes flashing with demonic light, and colossal snakes covered in草木leaves.

All kinds of strangely shaped red dragon serpent races, accompanied by loud hisses and roars, emerged from these human flesh and blood fragments. Their eyes were blood red, releasing the same light as the distant pillar.

Then, these monsters dispersed. As if they had received instructions, they rushed straight towards the different directions of Maya City, towards those gatherings where humans still existed.

Thus, disaster and death descended.

On the street, a huge fire dragon flapped its wings, skimming over blocks at supersonic speed. Wherever the giant dragon passed, the streets churned and shattered, the roofs of houses were all lifted off, and the violent gale directly blew many people preparing to hide in their homes into the sky.

Then, a flash of red light passed, and amidst the shrill screams, these humans all turned into a rain of blood that fell from the sky.

On the square, a lizard with a huge head sat in the center of the square, twisting its slender neck and making strange buzzing sounds. Batch after batch of ordinary people, with dull expressions and blank faces, walked out of their homes following the sound, gathering in front of the lizard.

Blood-red light shot out from the lizard's eyes, sweeping across everyone present. Instantly, hundreds of people turned into blood, gathering in the center of the square—soon, from this blood, new monsters were condensing and being nurtured, about to be born.

In the sky, large groups of wyverns were patrolling, while on the ground, many small centipedes formed from splattered blood were crawling everywhere. They waved their mouthparts, wriggled their limbs, and crawled into one closed and sturdy building after another, such as the castle-style mansions around the center of Maya City.

Soon, screams came from these mansions. Many centipedes crawled out again, but it was clear that there weren't as many centipedes coming out of the castles as there were going in.

In the north district of Maya City, there were tall buildings everywhere. Most of these towering giants were built using magic technology. The previous earthquake didn't cause them to collapse, so many humans took refuge in them.

But now, a deep cyan serpent coiled around this building, flicking its tongue, and then exerting force to twist tightly—instantly, the building shattered and collapsed under the giant serpent's monstrous power. The humans hiding inside either died, or were exposed to the red light, turning into blood amidst screams.

Death, despair, trembling, fear.

This was the feeling of all the humans present.

Faced with the Divine Dragon War, and the subsequent abrupt appearance of blood-colored demons, they had no way to resist.

And as more and more souls were collected, the light released by the blood-colored pillar became brighter and brighter. Even those refugees who had left Maya City in cars as soon as the Divine Dragon War broke out saw it.

They looked up, shocked, watching as dense masses of monsters flew from afar, carrying noisy hisses and blood-colored light. These dragon-blooded flying dragon demons were so terrifying. They swooped down from the sky, tearing apart the metal shells of vehicles like opening cans, turning group after group of humans into blood.

In fact, it wasn't just humans—whether it was birds or beasts, insects or bacteria, anything that had life collapsed and disintegrated under the blood-colored light, and their souls separated.

Even transcendents couldn't resist these monsters carrying the blood-colored red light—as long as they got close, their bodies would dissolve, and the melted blood-colored liquid would gather to create new monsters.

At this moment, in the center of the city, the sacred place crowded with countless monsters, in the very center of the blood-colored pillar, Matvey floated in mid-air, watching all of this.

Matvey had now transformed into a white serpent with a snake tail and a human body, with wings on his back. He had an Ouroboros halo above his head, hanging in the sky like the sun, releasing blood-colored red light that dissolved all life in all directions.

When countless monsters approached him, they would also collapse, then release a large number of souls from their bodies back into the pillar of light, and then under his feet, they would merge with the soil and steel again to form new monsters, and then fly towards all areas with life in all directions.

——In the beginning of creation, the Dragon of Life differentiated into thousands of races, becoming the father of all life.

So now, relying on Leviathan, the Human Dragon, and Gorgon, who inherited the Earth Mother's power to create life, Matvey could reverse this 'differentiation', deconstructing life back into essence, then imitate the Earth Mother's legend of creating giants, creating countless demons under his control, collecting more human souls and essence.

Just like the Second Prince Kumor's idea in the past, using the Earth Mother Giants as an army to form the ruling foundation of a new empire.

In Matvey's plan, this army of demons that could harvest life was his assistant to integrate all life in the world—after all, if it was just him alone, it would be too inefficient and too slow to integrate all the life in the world. Only in this way, by creating a monster legion that could self-expand and reproduce, could he sweep the world in a short period of time.

At this moment, as countless monsters returned into his body, carrying large amounts of souls, Matvey's expression also momentarily blurred from time to time.

——The souls of hundreds of thousands of people were condensed in his body, and this number was constantly rising, more and more, more and more.

In Matvey's body, the souls of all people were connected to each other through his soul. Everyone didn't stop thinking, but communicated and connected with each other in a strange way, mutually reaching a state of complete 'understanding'.

He was the transit station for all minds, a huge network covering the souls of all people—no matter how strong the means, whether those who were connected were willing or forced, what Matvey wanted to do was that simple.

[Human joys and sorrows are not shared. And I will make them share.]

But before that, in order to integrate all the life in the world, he needed more power.

Matvey was immersed in a dream connected to all souls, continuing his sublimation. This was the power he had unearthed from the essence of life after more than ten years of research.

——Since it is said that this heaven and earth, and all living beings, are all differentiated from the original progenitor.

Then, if a person reunites the elements of the dragon of heaven and earth, plus the collective soul fused from all living beings, can it be said that this person can sublimate his essence from the original human into a replica of the 'Progenitor Dragon'?

Now it seems that this is indeed feasible.

"Matvey, it's a pity, I can't see the moment when you truly become a god and ascend to heaven—but I've seen it once, so it doesn't matter."

In the body of the white winged dragon serpent, the voice of a similarly winged celestial dragon sounded. Ying Long's tone was hearty, with a relaxed smile: "Your arrogant wish is so interesting. For thousands of years, no one who has intended to change, unite the world, and pacify the world has been as crazy as you."

[Thank you, my friend Ying Long...] Matvey was also extremely grateful to Ying Long—this celestial dragon, who responded to his wish to unite the world, pacify the world, and even ascend to godhood, had imparted all his knowledge of dragon serpents without reservation, and even contributed his blood. Without him, even if he could find a way to return to the body of the progenitor, it would take another ten years.

"You're welcome, you gave me a very interesting ten years." Ying Long's voice gradually became faint, but soon, his existence was also decomposed under the blood-colored light. His soul returned to another world, but the essence of the dragon serpent merged into the body of the divine official, becoming his power.

[...Thank you, friend...]

Originally, Matvey planned to fall asleep and continue his sublimation.

But suddenly, he woke up from this dream with a start, then opened his eyes, which had turned platinum gold, and looked far to the north.

On that side, something huge was rushing towards Maya City, carrying endless surging life force.

In that instant, all the dragon serpent monsters in the entire city raised their heads one after another, looking up at the wilderness in the north.

Then, they all swarmed towards that direction.

For a time, countless demons blotted out the sky and covered the sun.

In the sky, the wyvern swarm gathered into a living cloud. They spewed venom and flames from their mouths, hissing and obscuring the light, stirring up gales. On the ground, huge dragon serpent lizards formed a strange and hideous legion. Their marching footsteps were like an earthquake, causing the earth to shake and tremble, emitting a rumble like thunder.

Such a military force can be described as invincible. Even the empire's most elite power armor legion would have to weigh it carefully, and would not dare to engage it head-on in the wilderness.

The wyverns roared and attacked the black giant shadow rushing in from the distance. They spewed poison and flames, as if a rain of fire and poison was falling from the sky. The demons on the ground were not to be outdone. They either used lightning, or condensed frost. Thousands of different magic fluctuations stirred up and erupted one after another.

Many dragon-blooded demons spewed dragon breath and used spells. It was as if an entire large artillery group was bombarding wildly. This firepower, which was enough to destroy an entire army and blast half of the northern wilderness into scorched earth, was unleashed, lighting up the sky.

But in contrast to such a vast offensive, there was only a surge of surging gale from the dark wilderness.

The black giant serpent meandered through the snowfield. It crossed mountains and hills all the way, crossed rivers and ravines, and arrived at the outskirts of Maya City at the fastest speed. Su Zhou had already seen the blood-colored pillar of light shining in the center of the city. Instinct told him that that was the source that made him feel fear and endless danger.

Therefore, he had to face this fear and destroy it!

Faced with the monster legion pouncing towards him, the giant serpent had no intention of entanglement at all. It just opened its mouth and took a deep breath, with a violent storm that seemed to suck dry the air of the entire world surging into its mouth.

Then, with the assistance of thousands of Arashi species, the high-heat gale, heated to thousands of degrees, was constricted into a pillar, and then, mixed with Jörmungandr's venom, it was sprayed out.

Boom—with thunder, the storm howled and swept across the earth. Wherever it passed, the frost dissolved and evaporated, white mist rose, and the earth was scorched dry, charred black.

In an instant, facing this bundle of fierce winds that could collapse houses, flatten hills, melt snowfields, and burn forests, the leading wyvern legion was directly torn apart, turning into burning bones and ashes in the bright fire—then, the wind column shifted horizontally, and most of the originally overwhelming cloud of wyverns was turned into nothing, completely burned and annihilated.

And with the Jörmungandr's venom drifting away with the fierce wind, even a trace of it was unbearable for other dragon-blooded demons. Most of the monsters died on the spot the moment they inhaled the poisonous gas, and re-collapsed into blood.

Only a few extremely strong behemoths could endure such venom for a short time. A crocodile-like demon, hundreds of meters high, roared and charged towards the black serpent, trying to stop its advance—but Su Zhou didn't even notice its attack at all. The serpent just advanced normally, pressing it under its body and crushing it into a pile of blood.

Similarly, there were other monster legions charging from the ground—they were no exception, and all of them were crushed into pieces. Even, in the end, Su Zhou was quite impatient, and just flicked his tail slightly, sending more than a dozen monsters into the sky, disappearing without a trace.

Just one breath, one impact, was enough to easily crush the monster army that could contend with the empire's most elite legion—the world was clear, and this was the power of Jörmungandr's body.

Rumble—the giant serpent had completely broken through the monster army's formation. The monstrous beast, thousands of meters long, advanced into the city. It raised its head high, its cold eyes looking at the white winged divine dragon in the city center.

And the snake-tailed human god, who slowly stretched out his body, spread his wings, and had a halo above his head, also narrowed his eyes and looked down at the black, familiar but unfamiliar giant beast in front of him.

Su Zhou, who held the blood of immortality, and Matvey, who reshaped the body of the progenitor, stared at each other.

Then, there were no extra words.

The black giant serpent let out a low roar, and with a sonic boom and fierce wind that shook the atmosphere, it pounced straight towards the enemy!