Chapter 279 Trembling (5200)

"What kind of divine beast is that?!"

From the burning sky high above, the voices of the Divine Beast Kings of the Beast God Realm resounded, carrying roars mixed with fear and rage, echoing in the high sky: "That just now—was that its breath?!"

"I don't know... it looks like a scaled creature, but when did we scaled creatures have such a monster..."

The Azure Heavenly Dragon Lord muttered to himself. It had just unleashed its power, commanding all the moisture in the atmosphere, condensing it into a liquid defensive circle, protecting all its own guards around it—but how could it not know that its defense was nothing more than a bubble that would burst at a touch compared to the breath of that monster in the distance?

"Why are divine beasts mixed up with the Immortal Realm remnants?!"

This was the roar of the Divine Toad. From a young age, it had yearned for the true identity of a divine beast. Even after becoming a king, it still had to face the resistance of traditional old-brand divine beasts, the mixed-blood of different species. In its mind, divine beasts were supreme—why would a divine beast become a lackey of the immortal god remnants? This was a question it could never understand.

But no one answered it.

Because in the distance, Su Zhou once again opened his mouth, filled with sharp teeth, an incomparably terrifying giant mouth that was pitch black, like an abyss.

—Shooting calibration complete. Formal breath condensation begins.

Spinal energy cannon barrel operating well, Leize-Five Elements spiritual power conversion organs operating well, Lán Seed charging... 40%, 60%, 80%—

The air is gathering, the moisture in the atmosphere is dissociating amid the lightning flashes, the gases in the wind are being separated and aggregated, the hydrogen and oxygen in the water are being electrolyzed, and the flames are starting to burn. The rotation between the elements is changing at an incredible speed, illuminating the pitch-black abyss.

Every instant, hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of air pour into his mouth. On the ground, far away and opposite the Beast God Realm army, with Su Zhou as the center, the air forms a constantly descending air vortex, affecting an area of several miles around, and at the very center of this turbulent air torrent, dazzling light is being born.

An immense, pure white, pristine spiritual light, containing more than ten times the spiritual power of an ordinary Transcendent Peak divine beast. Its mere existence causes the surrounding earth to dry up and burn, and the air to distort and boil. And in the next instant, it will be compressed and condensed into the purest ray of destruction. The principle is very simple and crude, but with the most precise operation and immense power, even picking up a stone and throwing it can be powerful enough to make a divine beast despair.

"What are you still hiding?! Use it now!"

At this moment, sensing the spiritual pressure coming from afar, even more terrifying than the last time, the Divine Bird Gui Che immediately roared, taking a piece of iridescent divine feather from its body—a strange divine material flickering with scarlet blood-like light and dark blue soul light, originating from the most core spiritual power organ of the ancient divine bird ancestor.

And now, Gui Che unhesitatingly inserted this feather into the very center of its heart. Countless blood vessels converged, and veins bulged, connecting to this feather—and sensing the call of its bloodline descendants, this feather began to transform. It frantically transformed the spiritual energy between the surrounding heaven and earth, and then turned it into the purest power, pouring it into Gui Che's body.

Buzz! In this instant, Gui Che, who was already standing on the dividing line of the Transcendent Commander realm, immediately broke through this boundary. Black-purple spiritual light feathers began to grow all over its body, and an aura of disaster began to surround Gui Che. Even its entire body seemed to be遁dùn (escape) into the spirit world.

And on its neck, three lumps of flesh were bulging, as if trying to grow three more heads.

At the same time, the other three Divine Beast Kings all let out explosive roars, each taking out the relics left behind by their ancestors—although each use of the relics was a huge loss, now was the moment when they had to be used, a moment of use or die, so no beast hesitated.

The Azure Heavenly Dragon Lord took out a shimmering Dragon Pearl, the Divine Toad Lord plucked out its own eyeball, replacing it with another self-rotating, jewel-like虹光hóng guāng (rainbow light) eye, and the Divining Turtle Lord stuck a piece of tortoise shell onto its own tortoise shell, replacing its own shell fragments and flesh.

In this instant, all four Lords broke through to the Commander realm, which is the Immortal Beast realm in their vocabulary. This was the foundation of the divine beast race, the power originating from the ancient ancestors, allowing them to have the capital to resist in the most critical moments!

Boom! A stream of blazing white light, with a series of explosions and arcs, came flying from afar. That was Su Zhou's breath, and this time, he was aiming precisely at where the Lords were, protected by the heavily guarded Beast God Realm army!

"Don't even think about it!"

The Divine Bird Gui Che cried out, its large wings fluttering slightly, and the surging deep purple spiritual light particles spread like rain, then forming layers upon layers of incomparably solid spiritual light shields. And each particle was a remnant of a soul—Gui Che was the embodiment of disaster, a soul-devouring bird, a synonym for evil, a vicious beast that devoured young ones.

Devouring souls, wantonly slaughtering, this was Gui Che's nature. It didn't know why its ancestors asked them to eat fewer souls, presumably there must be a deeper meaning, but their ancestors had been gone for thousands of years, and their teachings had long been forgotten by their descendants.

Now, the countless souls that Gui Che had devoured turned into the power it could use to attack and defend.

On the other side, the giant Divine Toad was drumming lowly. One could see that its body, which had always been simulating the surrounding natural environment, became chaotic in an instant—the bloodline originating from its father allowed it to maintain a state second only to 天人合一tiān rén hé yī (unity of man and nature) with the surrounding heaven and earth at any time, rapidly accelerating its cultivation speed.

But now, the Divine Toad reversed this process—it no longer simulated the surrounding heaven and earth environment, but instead caused the surrounding heaven and earth environment to拟化nǐ huà (mimic) its form… In a short period of time, as the surrounding atmosphere was eroded by the chaotic spiritual light, it could even reach the realm of 天人合一tiān rén hé yī (unity of man and nature), at least, in this piece of heaven and earth, that was the case.

The two divine beasts took the lead, and the Azure Dragon and Divining Turtle followed closely behind. They had all awakened a supernatural power possessed by their former ancestors. The Azure Heavenly Dragon Lord created huge ice crystals that could refract spiritual light, and the Divining Turtle shrank into its shell, using its body as a shield, cooperating with Gui Che's spiritual light shield, blocking in front of Su Zhou's breath.

Rumble—

The激荡jī dàng (turbulent) explosive sound vibrated in the atmosphere. The already turbulent air currents in the high sky were once again torn out into vacuum断谷duàn gǔ (ravines), and countless spirit beasts within immediately fell, even being cut into pieces—but they blocked it!

When the huge blazing white light pillar collided with the shield jointly set up by the Lords, it immediately split into streams of tilted and distorted light pillars, like countless branches derived from a giant tree, hundreds of thousands of split and scattered tiny light pillars, deviating and flying in all directions, striking down ten times the number of spirit beasts as before.

But, blocking it was blocking it. It didn't matter how many ordinary spirit beasts died. Now, the four Lords were unscathed!

"It can be blocked! That guy's power isn't as strong as we thought!"

Sensing the impact, the Azure Heavenly Dragon Lord was immediately overjoyed. It was the divine beast most wary of Su Zhou, because the other party was also a scaled creature, so it was extremely afraid that Su Zhou would steal its position as the Scale Clan King... Of course, it never thought about why Su Zhou would want to steal it, but for the Azure Heavenly Dragon Lord itself, this was the most important thing, the thing it was most afraid other divine beasts would take away.

"But we can't let him continue to fire... This guy's breath is simply a supernatural power. Don't give him a chance. We'll go down and stop him, otherwise, those servants don't matter, but all our親衛qīn wèi (personal guards) will die!"

After speaking, the Divining Turtle Lord, who was obviously a turtle, but unexpectedly anxious, immediately descended in altitude and began to rush towards Su Zhou at high speed—the combat power of their divine turtle clan required a large number of personal guards to cooperate. If Su Zhou was allowed to kill its personal guards like chickens, then even if it defeated the other party, the status of their clan would decline!

Gaining confidence from the power left behind by its ancestors, and confirming that Su Zhou's power was not as strong as they had imagined, the four divine beasts immediately flew towards Su Zhou's location—but the other spirit beasts, the transcendent-level combat species, hesitated and stayed in place.

"That, aren't we going to cheer for the Lords' battle?"

A fish-type spirit beast said憨憨hān hān (naively), and was immediately silenced by the angry gazes of the other spirit beasts. Another cat-shaped divine beast scolded angrily: "Silly fish, is the Lords' battle something we can interfere with? Those of us who don't have enough good fortune, don't even think about cheering, even getting close will damage our福報fú bào (blessings)!"

"Yes, yes!"

At this moment, Su Zhou, watching the four divine beasts breaking the sound barrier in the distance, charging towards him at a speed exceeding the speed of sound, closed his mouth, and then, thirty-six Lán Seed cores, like cannon barrels, lit up around his body.

Immediately afterwards, streams of light pillars, smaller than the previous breath but more flexible, began to crisscross and fly in the atmosphere. This immediately disrupted the divine beasts' charge, forcing them to erect shields, or dodge left and right, slowing down their speed.

But at this time, Gui Che's eyes lit up, and it seemed to have noticed something: "That strange dragon-shaped divine beast can't use that high-powered breath anymore!"

Whether it was because the distance was too close, the charging time was not enough, or simply because the spiritual power was insufficient to use a second shot, but in any case, this was an opportunity—although those small breath cannons were annoying, if they unleashed their power to defend, they would not be unable to defend against them!

Enough! If that was the case, they could completely start a counterattack!

Thinking like this, it flapped its wings again, and streams of deep purple spiritual light particles began to fly around its body, eventually condensing into two huge spiritual light blades—crying out and waving its wings, Gui Che threw these soul light blades, which were enough to cut off spirit steel and erode souls, towards Su Zhou!

And just as Gui Che cried out, the giant azure Heavenly Dragon had also launched its attack—the Azure Heavenly Dragon Lord was the most orthodox, able to summon wind and rain, and summon lightning. Although it could not exert its full strength without being near a river, by using the Dragon Pearl left behind by its ancestors, the surrounding sky began to stir with wind.

At first, it was just a breeze, and then it became faster and faster, and more and more intense. After a few seconds, the狂風kuáng fēng (gale) stirred up by the Azure Heavenly Dragon Lord had formed a giant tornado hundreds of meters wide. Lightning flashed inside it, and in an instant it shattered everything it came into contact with—whether it was soil, stone, or houses, the buildings of the plantation or the mine, everything was torn apart by lightning and wind, and it swept towards Su Zhou at high speed, seemingly wanting to completely crush him as well.

On the back of the Divining Turtle, patterns rotated. In terms of one-on-one combat, it was actually not strong, but in terms of coordination and cooperation, it was indeed second to none among the divine beasts—as the patterns on the Divining Turtle's back slowly stopped rotating, the power of lightning in the狂風kuáng fēng (gale) summoned by the Azure Heavenly Dragon Lord instantly expanded tenfold!

Rumble—In the sky, lightning蜿蜒wān yán (meandered) and spiraled. Under the full control of the Divining Turtle, a dragon-like lightning bolt fell from the center of the tornado. It was as if a divine dragon controlling heavenly thunder had extended a claw from the sky, and this claw was now pressing straight down on Su Zhou!

To this, Su Zhou didn't care at all. He was about to gather his strength and directly erase all these flashy special effects into blank space with pure brute force, but just as he was about to mobilize the Heavenly Human Cycle, Su Zhou felt that something extremely strange and filthy was interfering with his interaction with spiritual energy.

"Oh?"

The deep purple spiritual light blade was about to strike before his eyes, and the heavenly thunder and tornado were already striking down, but Su Zhou was still curiously looking at a corner of the sky—a Divine Toad that was interfering with the operation of the surrounding heaven and earth's spiritual energy, forcibly achieving 天人合一tiān rén hé yī (unity of man and nature) advancement in another sense, was staring at him with greedy and slightly fearful eyes.

And in the next instant, Su Zhou was overwhelmed by the attacks of the four Divine Beast Lords.

Then, there was a violent explosion that even lost the meaning of sound.

The air was expelled—in an instant, intense and complex spiritual light flickered, and colorful, chaotic light intertwined. For a moment, even the spirit beasts in the distance who were secretly spying on this place couldn't help but scream, their eyes injured by the overly chaotic and dazzling spiritual light, becoming half-blind.

And in the violent explosion, shock waves, and a series of small earthquakes like tremors, a bowl-shaped energy罩zhào (cover) was slowly rising, shattering, and then, a small mushroom cloud rose.

"Is he dead?"

Gui Che nervously watched that direction. In theory, even a true immortal beast could not survive their joint attack. After all, what they used were all the supernatural powers left behind by their ancestors. Although they had not fully mastered them, that power was real and undeniable.

But for some reason, the premonition of danger in Gui Che's heart had not dissipated.

Soon, its premonition came true.

As a gust of violent wind suddenly blew, dispersing the smoke and dust, the figure of a giant wingless white dragon walked out step by step from the center of the explosion, which had turned into a lava land.

One could see that the scales on this great dragon's body were flickering with莹yíng (lustrous) white light, like daylight. It seemed as if it was fully charged, spontaneously releasing fluorescent light...

Almost, almost, the Immortal Dragon Scales would have been attacked beyond their defense limit, and then exploded.

But now...

Su Zhou, whose body was completely unscathed, just calmly watched the four Divine Beast Kings who had approached within a thousand meters of him. There were no scars left on his body, only a slight amount of steam was being released.

"Un... unscathed?!"

"What kind of defense is this?!"

"Could this be a divine beast specializing in defense? Even the defense of the Mountain-Carrying Turtle is only so-so!"

For a time, the four Divine Beast Kings were dumbfounded. They couldn't believe that Su Zhou could withstand their joint attack unscathed—but the Divine Toad, who was most sensitive to the induction of spiritual power, cried out: "No, the spiritual power inside his scales is almost reaching its limit—the next attack will definitely break through his defense!"

"Tear off this layer of skin, and he'll be at our mercy!"

Without hesitation, the four divine beasts all approached Su Zhou. Although they were pampered and well-fed, the infighting between divine beasts had also brought good combat awareness and experience to the Lords. The ancient divine beast ancestors had racked their brains and designed countless rules and regulations for the long-term rule of their bloodline descendants, and now, it was time for the results to show!

Although the wingless white dragon that Su Zhou had transformed into had a powerful breath and defense, in the final analysis, it was just a炮台pào tái (turret)—did they really think they had never seen similar divine beasts? The biggest weakness of this kind of divine beast was being approached by other divine beasts!

And Su Zhou, who had only breathed twice from beginning to end, and then had directly taken one of the other party's joint attacks, had no idea where they got the confidence to charge at him so aggressively, but this was originally the purpose of his disguise.

—You know? If you are in a very dangerous place and see a guy who looks like a mage, if he suddenly picks up a sword, then it's best to run as far as you can.

Because next, he was going to show his true skills!

So, Su Zhou smiled amiably, and then, he raised his arm, bulged his muscles, clenched his dragon claws, and posed in a boxing stance that was very common among humans.

Then, he aimed at the Azure Heavenly Dragon Lord, who was charging the fastest, surrounded by thunder and lightning, and struck with a heavy punch!

Boom!

The thick muscles, which rapidly bulged and were as solid as a mountain peak, contracted and expanded at supersonic speed with the aid of spiritual power, erupting with brute force calculated in thousands of tons, and surging spiritual light enough to blast a mountain peak—in this instant, the air was blown apart, and a linearly extending vacuum track stretched from Su Zhou's dragon fist as the starting point towards the distance.

And the Azure Heavenly Dragon Lord, who was directly hit head-on by a punch, didn't feel anything.

Because its head, along with its soul, and half of its upper body, was directly beaten into a团tuán (mass) of flying碎骨suì gǔ (broken bones) and a sky full of blue blood mist.

Ka—

The lightning and storm dissipated, and the磅礴páng bó (boundless) spiritual power returned to the heaven and earth, leaving only a small Dragon Pearl to fall from the corpse, releasing azure light waves.

"This..."

For a time, the other three Divine Beast Lords stopped in their tracks in confusion. They stared blankly at the Azure Heavenly Dragon Lord's corpse, which was limp on the ground like an earthworm, and then glanced at Su Zhou, who had already retracted his fist and was turning his gaze to them.

Su Zhou smiled, but unfortunately, the current dragon body could not express the essence of his sunny and peaceful smile, and only showed those狰狞zhēng níng (ferocious) and sharp fangs.

He retracted his fist, which still had obvious blood stains and碎骨suì gǔ (broken bones), as well as traces of some kind of浆液jiāng yè (slurry) left on it.

"Clatter, clatter..."

The sound of bones trembling rang out.

The divine beasts began to tremble.