The Forbidden Lands of the Gods.
A giant tower thousands of feet tall, constructed solely from an unknown dark-golden sacred metal, stood silently like a silent giant for hundreds of thousands of years. It suppressed the existence feared even by gods—the Golden Dragon King, who had inherited the Dragon God's unparalleled powerful body and half of its pure, destructive, and violent will after the Dragon God's split!
Even after hundreds of thousands of years of suppression and attrition, they had been unable to completely eradicate the Golden Dragon King's power and ferocity. All they could do was imprison him here.
But at that very moment, the giant tower that had seemed immutable suddenly began to shake violently without any warning.
Crack… crack…
First, faint sounds came from the base of the tower, quickly spreading throughout the tower itself. The ancient sealing runes carved into the tower faded and crumbled one by one.
The entire tower began to shake violently, and astonishingly large cracks appeared on its surface!
Boom—!!!!
Finally, accompanied by an ear-piercing roar that seemed to tear apart the entire Forbidden Lands, the dark-golden tower that had suppressed the Golden Dragon King for thousands of years collapsed with a thunderous crash.
Countless huge fragments of sacred metal flew in all directions, slamming into the ground and stirring up energy storms.
"ROOOAAAR!!!"
From the depths of the collapsed tower's ruins came a roar filled with endless violence. The sound waves transformed into visible dark-golden ripples that spread in all directions, instantly blowing away the surrounding smoke and energy turbulence.
Immediately after, an indescribably massive dragon soared from the ruins into the sky!
Its entire body shone with a dazzling cold dark-golden color, as if cast from gold. The edges of its dragon scales emitted sharp, cold light. Its enormous body overflowed with explosive power, its muscle fibers like undulating mountains.
A pair of dragon wings spread out, covering nearly half the sky above the Forbidden Lands of the Gods! Most terrifying were the pair of dragon eyes that glowed like blazing blood moons, filled with pure destruction, madness, and uncontrollable joy at being freed from bondage.
The one who had broken free was none other than the Golden Dragon King!
"ROOOAAAR!!!"
The Golden Dragon King looked up at the sky and let out two even more exhilarating roars that shook the heavens.
It greedily inhaled the air of freedom. Although the air in the Forbidden Lands was filled with chaos, to something imprisoned for hundreds of thousands of years, it was the most wonderful breath in the world.
At the same time, its massive dragon body began to devour the immortal spiritual qi like a bottomless pit to replenish its depleted power.
"Golden Dragon King! Leave here immediately!"
The disheveled Poseidon flew over from the edge of the distant ruins, urging them anxiously.
The current situation was extremely bad, and it was clear that a considerable price had been paid to break the seal.
The Golden Dragon King glanced contemptuously at Poseidon with its blood-red dragon eyes, as if looking at a troublesome fly, and exhaled two streams of scorching white breath from its nostrils.
It completely ignored Poseidon's warning. Suddenly flapping its huge dragon wings, it stirred up a fierce hurricane and flew at high speed toward the outer edge of the Forbidden Lands of the Gods—to find the Silver Dragon King, regroup the Dragon God's power, and take revenge on the Divine Realm!
However, just as the Golden Dragon King accelerated, a sword light intertwined with gold and black suddenly appeared and slashed down toward its flank from the void.
"Ah—!!!"
Poseidon barely managed to condense a thin water shield. The next moment, he was struck head-on by the gold-black sword light. He was swept into the whirlwind and blasted backward, slamming heavily into a pile of rubble.
"Golden Dragon King, save me!"
Poseidon crawled out of the rubble, ignoring his injuries, and desperately called for help toward the Golden Dragon King, which had already flown ten thousand meters away.
The Golden Dragon King glanced at the disheveled Poseidon with its dragon eyes, a faint trace of contempt in them.
"Useless trash! You can't even withstand a sneak attack, yet you talk about sharing joys and sorrows with me? Don't make me laugh!"
Instead of stopping, it flapped its wings even more fiercely and flew away faster. It didn't even have the energy to look at Poseidon again.
Such a burden might as well be dead.
Seeing this, the last trace of blood drained from Poseidon's face. He stared at the departing Golden Dragon King and cursed loudly,
"You beast! Untrustworthy, treacherous dragon! I'll send you to a horrible death!"
He had risked his life to rescue the Golden Dragon King because he had lost his power in the Divine Realm and needed its help to find a way to escape. Who could have imagined that the moment it was freed, the Golden Dragon King would try to abandon him!
The Golden Dragon King, which had been flying away at full speed, suddenly raised its dragon head. Its massive body came to an abrupt stop in mid-air!
Because at some point ahead, someone had quietly blocked their path.
The woman had four pairs of symmetrical yet eerie wings spread behind her. She wore gold-and-black divine robes, with eight sacred halos floating and rotating behind her head, and held a similarly gold-and-black longsword in her hand.
Qian Renxue snorted coldly, her beautiful face covered in frost. She had originally come to deal with Poseidon, but she had never expected that the moment she arrived at the edge of the Forbidden Lands of the Gods, the Golden Dragon King would be released.
Recalling the legend of the Dragon God that Chen Yi had once told her, she instantly understood the origin of the terrifying dragon before her. The Golden Dragon King had inherited the Dragon God's tough body and destructive will.
"Quasi-God King?" The Golden Dragon King's blood-moon-like dragon eyes were fixed on the eight divine rings behind Qian Renxue's head.
"When did someone like you appear in the Divine Realm? Your aura is strange… a mix of holiness and evil… something I've never seen before."
Qian Renxue did not answer the Golden Dragon King's question. She slowly raised the Angel God Sword in her hand, pointing its tip at the Golden Dragon King. Her divine power surged as the eight divine rings shone brilliantly.
"What a terrifying aura and heavy pressure…" Qian Renxue thought warily. According to Chen Yi, the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King had each inherited only part of the Dragon God, but precisely because of that, they had reached the pinnacle in their respective domains. The Golden Dragon King's physical ability was undoubtedly God King level and might even surpass ordinary God Kings!
Although she was an eighth-ring quasi-God King, she had to be extremely cautious when facing the Golden Dragon King.
"Golden Dragon King," Qian Renxue's cold voice rang out. "If you retreat to the sealing grounds now, there may still be a glimmer of hope."
"Retreat to the seal? Hahahaha!" The Golden Dragon King laughed with contempt and tyranny.
"How dare a little girl who just broke through speak so arrogantly! The Divine Realm has suppressed me for hundreds of thousands of years. Today I am free. Now is the time for revenge! Get out of the way!"
Before the words finished, its massive dragon claw tore through space, aiming to grab Qian Renxue's head.
Wherever the claw-like wind passed, space shattered like fragile glass, revealing the deep, dark void behind it!
This claw strike was fast, ruthless, and precise! Its power sent a chill down Qian Renxue's spine!
"Golden Dragon King… truly worthy of the name!" Qian Renxue felt a chill in her heart, but there was no fear in her eyes.
It was merely the Dragon God's body; she had experienced something like it more than once.
"Power without substance—just a body!" Qian Renxue retorted coldly and suddenly swung down the gold-black holy sword in her hand!
The sword transformed into gold-black sword qi condensed to the extreme, intertwining holiness and evil, and clashed fiercely with the heaven-covering dragon claw!
Clang!
Fierce energy spread violently. The already chaotic space turned into complete chaos as countless spatial cracks spread.
Qian Renxue's slender body trembled. She felt an indescribable, enormous force flowing through the sword. She involuntarily retreated dozens of meters but quickly flapped her eight wings to regain her balance.
The Golden Dragon King's massive claw was also pierced by the sword. Fine scorch marks and corrosion traces appeared on its golden scales, accompanied by sharp pain.
It let out a surprised "Eh?" It had not expected this newly ascended quasi-God King to possess such strange power and attack characteristics that could actually injure it.
"Interesting!" The Golden Dragon King's eyes flashed with sharp light. "But that's not enough!"
The next moment, a fierce battle between dragon and human unfolded in the skies above the Forbidden Lands!
The Golden Dragon King, possessing a God King-level body, held immeAsurable power. Each strike carried the force to tear apart stars. Its massive body moved with unbelievable agility at this moment, and its attacks were like a storm!
Qian Renxue used her special Holy-Evil Angel position and agile movements to fight the Golden Dragon King on equal footing.
The holy sword in her hand sometimes emitted golden light carrying purifying judgment power and sometimes black light carrying corrupting curses.
Both sides engaged in rapid combat, their figures constantly intersecting in the air. Collisions occurred with roars and dazzling energy explosions.
In just a few dozen breaths, they had already exchanged hundreds of blows!
The intense battle at this level caused the space in the Forbidden Lands to become increasingly chaotic.
Finally, the Golden Dragon King delivered a powerful sweeping attack with its dragon tail, striking Qian Renxue's defensive sword exactly.
Bang!
Qian Renxue groaned as she felt an irresistible overwhelming force. Her holy sword shook violently, her tiger's mouth split, and gold-black divine blood flowed out.
The Golden Dragon King was also sent flying backward tens of thousands of meters by the tail strike and barely regained its balance. Although the strike had landed, it did not press the advantage. A trace of unease flashed in its dragon eyes. Although it had held the upper hand in the previous exchange, this god was indeed troublesome and possessed a strange nature.
I've caused too much commotion…
"I can't delay any longer! I must leave the Divine Realm immediately!" The Golden Dragon King ignored Qian Renxue and disappeared into the endless void.
"Trying to escape? It's too late!"
"Evil Energy Soaring to the Heavens!"
"Destruction God's Lightning!"
Two cold, majestic voices rang out almost simultaneously above the Forbidden Lands.
The next instant, a pitch-black pillar of light that seemed to swallow all light and a purplish-black lightning that seemed to destroy everything descended without warning from the void and struck the Golden Dragon King's massive body directly.
"ROOOAAAR!!!"
The Golden Dragon King let out a pain-filled roar. Under the combined attack of the two God Kings, even the Golden Dragon King with its astonishing defense was slammed heavily onto the ground.
The figures of the Evil God and the God of Destruction slowly emerged from the void, standing on either side and coldly looking down at the Golden Dragon King struggling amid the smoke and dust.
Just then, Qian Renxue returned. Seeing that the two God Kings had arrived in time, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"They finally arrived… If they had been even a little later, I alone wouldn't have been able to hold back this ferocious beast for long."
The Evil God's gaze first fell on Qian Renxue, especially on the eight divine rings behind her head. A complex expression appeared in his scarlet eyes.
"Angel God, thank you for your help. If you hadn't arrived in time to heavily injure Poseidon and stop the Golden Dragon King, this beast might have escaped from the Divine Realm."
If Qian Renxue had not intervened to heavily injure Poseidon and stop the Golden Dragon King, preventing it from escaping the Divine Realm like the Silver Dragon King and hiding somewhere, they would have been helpless.
Hearing this, Qian Renxue simply snorted coldly and offered no further response to the Evil God's words. She didn't even glance at him and only nodded lightly to the God of Destruction.
Without hesitation, she turned around and flew straight as a streak of gold-and-black light toward where Poseidon had fallen.
She had neither the interest nor the time to waste on this old man out of a desire for fame.
Seeing Qian Renxue's attitude, the Evil God paused. His face remained calm, but his eyes grew even more complex.
The God of Destruction glanced at the Evil God, then turned his gaze back to the dark-golden giant monster in the smoke and dust.
If only we had known back then.
"Let's deal with this monster first."
As soon as he finished speaking, the God of Destruction's purplish-black destructive divine power began to gather fiercely again, and a fierce light flashed in the Evil God's eyes as dark-red evil divine power surged forth.