Chapter 1803: Demon Queen VS Scarlet Destruction

Ji Wuyou opened her lips. “Jie Xin, Jie Ling, step back.”

Jie Xin and Jie Ling also moved away.

Only the Devil Queen and Fen Mian remained at the center of this world, facing each other across the void.

“How presumptuous!” Fen Mian Dragon God snorted heavily. His dragon body vibrated, simultaneously releasing his dragon might and aura. The world, long silent, instantly churned like a tempestuous sea. Within a thousand miles, everything visible was crushed and annihilated in the sweeping torrent.

“Those four words certainly sound familiar,” Ji Wuyou said, her voice remaining soft and penetrating despite the terrifying hurricane whipping her black hair and demonic attire. “Ten thousand years ago, when I faced Qianye Fantian and Zhou Xuzi alone, Qianye Fantian also uttered those exact four words, and even his expression was identical.”

“A pity,” Ji Wuyou gently shook her head. “It’s a pity that when he fled, he looked like a defeated stray dog with its tail between its legs.”

“So much for the so-called ‘foremost individual below the Dragon Emperor.’ No matter how much you conceal your true power, how much better can you be than him?”

“Heh,” Fen Mian Dragon God scoffed. “You can’t possibly think...” He was about to say, “You can’t possibly think Qianye Fantian is worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as me,” but he stopped mid-sentence. If the Devil Queen underestimated him, what harm would that do him?

He said proudly, “The Devil Queen thinks too highly of herself. I’ve heard that you were defeated by Qianye and Zhoutian back then, and while fleeing, you led them deep into the Northern Region. It was only by using the demonic energy of the Northern Region to heavily damage their souls that the unprepared Qianye and Zhoutian were forced to retreat.”

He suddenly cast a glance, the sarcasm in his smile growing. “So that’s it. This place is so close to the Northern Region. Could it be that the Devil Queen intends to repeat her old trick?”

“Repeat my old trick? Hahahahaha!” After a soft, enchanting voice, came a wild burst of laughter. Ji Wuyou spread her five fingers, each fingertip swirling with a dark vortex. “To destroy your mere dragon soul, I don’t need the help of the Northern Region’s demonic energy!”

Both Fen Mian Dragon God’s and Su Xin Dragon God’s expressions and gazes suddenly turned frigid.

The Dragon Clan possesses bodies and souls superior to all other beings. Dragon Gods, furthermore, are the imperial lineage within the Dragon Clan. Both their bodies and souls are the absolute pinnacle of their kind in this world—a universally acknowledged truth that has never been questioned, and an ultimate source of pride for the Dragon God lineage, one that tolerates no provocation or defilement.

Ji Wuyou’s words, scornful of the Dragon God’s soul, whether spoken from her true heart or merely to exert dominance, deeply touched the Dragon God lineage’s forbidden scale.

“Before my Dragon God soul, the souls of all other beings are but ants! To dare insult my Dragon God soul, Devil Queen, you are truly audacious.”

Fen Mian Dragon God’s smile vanished completely. “For this offense alone, you shall not leave here intact today!”

“Beneath a dragon soul, all are ants? Heh…” The Devil Queen’s lips tilted slightly, a corner of her mouth curling into a smile. Her light chuckle carried an incredibly grating contempt. “Before me, is a mere Dragon Clan even worthy?”

Ji Wuyou’s black hair fanned out, and her dark robes billowed without a breeze. Her dark soul domain suddenly opened, and within everyone’s consciousness, a bewitching black lotus proudly blossomed.

“Then I shall witness for myself how much weight your so-called Dragon God soul truly carries, that it dares speak so presumptuously before me!”

Fen Mian Dragon God’s gaze sharpened.

“What? Afraid?” Ji Wuyou’s disdain grew even more grating.

“Brother, she’s provoking you,” Su Xin Dragon God said.

“I know,” Fen Mian Dragon God grunted. “She knows she’s inferior in profound energy, so she’s deliberately provoking me to battle in the soul domain, where she believes she excels.”

“That’s right,” Ji Wuyou admitted, not denying it in the least.

It was a simple, almost crude provocation, easily discernible by anyone with a sound mind.

However, Ji Wuyou was certain he would take the bait.

Because he was the foremost Dragon God of the Dragon God Realm!

“Very good, excellent,” Fen Mian Dragon God smiled faintly. “You’ve gone to such great lengths to draw me into a soul battle; it seems the Devil Queen is very confident in her soul power.”

ROAR—

A distant, prolonged dragon roar echoed, seeming to come from a thousand miles away, or perhaps even ten million. As Fen Mian Dragon God’s soul domain unfurled, two piercing crimson dragon eyes appeared within everyone’s souls.

“Then let me personally shatter your filthy demonic soul, along with your pathetic ignorance.”

A soul battle was exactly what Ji Wuyou desired. Fen Mian Dragon God directly granted her wish, and the distant Su Xin Dragon God said no more, a hint of mockery faintly flickering in her serene, water-like dragon eyes.

Legend had it that the Northern Region Devil Queen possessed a powerful dark demonic soul, and ten thousand years ago, she had used the Northern Region’s demonic energy to inflict great suffering upon Qianye Fantian and Zhou Xuzi.

Her strategy to draw Fen Mian Dragon God into a battle in her most proficient domain was undoubtedly the best course of action.

Unfortunately, despite her unmatched soul power in the Northern Divine Region, she had never encountered a Dragon God’s soul.

No matter how strong her soul power, she was ultimately still human. And a human’s soul power, even at its absolute peak, was not worthy of comparison to a Dragon God’s!

Such was the epitome of ‘a frog in a well.’

ROAR!!!!!

The crimson dragon eyes suddenly snapped open, and the bursting red light instantly dyed the soul sea into an endless inferno of lava. Above the inferno, a ten-thousand-mile-long crimson dragon revealed its true form. Beneath the crimson dragon’s soul shadow, the black lotus in Ji Wuyou’s soul sea swayed violently.

Jie Xin and Jie Ling’s bodies trembled slightly, their consciousness blank for half a breath. Their expressions unchanged, they refocused and closed their eyes, perceiving the soul battle between the Devil Queen and the strongest Dragon God with their souls.

The world fell into an incredibly eerie silence.

The individuals in this space—Ji Wuyou, Fen Mian Dragon God, Jie Xin, Jie Ling, and Su Xin Dragon God—stood motionless, their eyes closed. No one moved or spoke.

Yet within this stillness, a fierce battle, enough to shock ages, was secretly unfolding.

A colossal dragon, a demonic lotus.

The dragon’s roar shook the soul as it swooped down, bringing with it an endless torrent of lava, engulfing the dark demonic lotus.

Without any obstruction, the dragon shadow and lava instantly overwhelmed Ji Wuyou’s soul domain, also painting the soul seas of all observers a scorching crimson.

However, that dark demonic lotus continued to bloom proudly within the lava. Each petal shimmered with black-crystal-like demonic light, unfurling an even more mysterious dark domain within the crimson world.

ROAR—

The dragon’s roar sounded again, and the lava churned like mad, as if ten thousand most violent volcanoes erupted simultaneously. As the massive dragon claw mercilessly descended, it brought down an incomparably heavy divine dragon might upon everyone’s soul sea.

At this moment, the dark demonic lotus also suddenly bloomed again, its petals unfolding layer upon layer, thousands upon thousands in an instant. Streaks of black light silently flowed, and imperceptibly, the demonic lotus had spread out to a size of a thousand miles.

The dragon claw suddenly slowed.

In Su Xin Dragon God’s world, her consciousness was involuntarily drawn to the demonic lotus, especially its core. Layers upon layers of mysterious black light, like countless coiling demonic hands, pulled her consciousness towards a bottomless abyss...

Suddenly, Su Xin Dragon God jolted awake, her consciousness quickly detaching from the demonic lotus, though a lingering sense of grogginess remained.

This was the rumored Soul Stealing power of the Northern Region Devil Queen? To be affected merely by observing, the Devil Queen’s demonic soul was indeed extraordinary... Su Xin Dragon God thought inwardly.

A pity, for today she had encountered Fen Mian!

The Fen Mian dragon’s shadow halted for only a few brief moments before the vast dragon might swept forth again, dominating the scene. In the crimson world, Fen Mian Dragon God’s arrogant roar resounded: “A mere demonic soul dares to act so brazenly!”

Fen Mian Dragon God seemed enraged by the brief mental disruption. His soul might surged once more, and the massive dragon claw slammed down violently... At this moment, any soul below the Divine Sovereign realm that dared approach this soul domain would be instantly obliterated, without even a chance to struggle.

The dark demonic lotus swayed under the dragon’s might, and even the vast black demonic domain trembled precariously.

BOOM—

The crimson dragon claw slammed heavily onto the demonic lotus, and endless lava collapsed. The dark demonic domain violently contracted and deformed, but it stubbornly withstood the dragon claw’s tearing force.

Black and crimson suddenly entered a stalemate at this moment.

Fen Mian Dragon God, in his repeated surges of fury, held little back. Yet, his fierce soul power was directly withstood by Ji Wuyou, and a clear wave of surprise rippled through his soul sea.

“Brother,” Su Xin Dragon God’s telepathic message echoed in Fen Mian Dragon God’s consciousness, “The Devil Queen is cunning and full of tricks. There’s no need for further probing; finish this quickly to avoid complications.”

Dragon Gods were notoriously arrogant, with Su Xin Dragon God being the sole exception. Her serene disposition was unlike that of other dragons. Correspondingly, she consistently made the calmest and most rational judgments.

This was also why Fen Mian Dragon God had specifically brought Su Xin Dragon God on this trip. The Northern Divine Region had consecutively broken through the Eastern and Southern Divine Regions; while Fen Mian Dragon God outwardly disdained the demon race, inwardly, he would never truly underestimate them.

Su Xin Dragon God’s telepathic message drastically altered the atmosphere within the soul domain.

A sudden dragon roar, astounding as if the nine heavens had collapsed, resounded.

A pair of crimson dragon eyes suddenly shot forth rays of majestic light, more dazzling and soul-piercing than the blazing sun in the sky.

The already immense dragon claw instantly expanded even further, filling every inch of space within the soul domain with the overwhelmingly dominant Dragon God’s soul.

Beneath the dragon claw, the soul domain created by the dark demonic lotus contracted layer by layer, then suddenly fractured with streaks of black, which were swiftly invaded and consumed by the crimson light.

“Be crushed! You filthy, pathetic demonic soul!”

Under the dragon’s roar, darkness shattered. Fen Mian’s dragon claw fiercely slammed onto the demonic lotus, tearing the blossoming lotus to shreds.

Against the irresistible dragon might, the demonic lotus was utterly pulverized and scattered. Ji Wuyou’s soul sea violently churned.

However, amidst the turbulence, the dragon might suddenly diminished. The world, previously saturated with crimson light, now revealed specks of dark, scale-like gleam.

The dark demonic lotus shattered easily, but within the boundless soul sea, countless black lotus petals fluttered—thousands... tens of thousands... tens of millions...

Like black butterflies dancing across the sky, like ink-snow drifting on the wind, like being in a bewitching and perilous nightmare.

The violently churning lava strangely quieted. The sky-covering dragon shadow slowly descended amidst the myriad demonic flowers, and the dragon might silently dissipated.

“Light is merely a fleeting illusion, a phantom bloom, while darkness is true wisdom and eternity.” Ji Wuyou’s demonic voice drifted hauntingly, captivating souls, like a mournful lament:

“All that is sought in life eventually returns to dust. Only darkness is endless, without conclusion. These dark demonic flowers are the resting place of countless souls, eternally radiant and beautiful.”

“Dance with them, and slumber eternally in the darkness.”

The demonic voice wafted, clinging to her soul.

Su Xin Dragon God’s perpetually taut heartstrings loosened. A profound sense of powerlessness permeated her entire being, and her will gradually grew heavy, despondent... until all hope was lost.

Recalling her life, it was nothing but emptiness and pallor. Though she was a Dragon God, standing at the supreme peak, she was destined never to see higher vistas. Ten thousand years of life, and the long existence remaining, still promised only solitude and emptiness.

What mattered life, or death? What mattered if the demon race wreaked havoc upon the world, or if Fen Mian fell? What mattered if she died here...?

Having endured a long, pale existence, what would life in darkness be like? Why not simply sink into it...?

Her dimming dragon eyes, as if pricked by a needle, suddenly regained their focus.

Though it must have lasted only a few brief moments, it truly caused cold sweat to break out all over Su Xin Dragon God’s body.

During those few breaths, she had suddenly lost all desire, repudiated her entire life, grieved for her remaining existence, and wished only to slumber eternally in the darkness, never to awaken.

Her mind snapped taut. Though merely observing, she swiftly erected soul defenses several times stronger than before.

Was this how the Pure Sky Divine Emperor, rumored to have been captured by the Devil Queen in the Northern Region, had fallen into eternal slumber...?

Truly terrifying. But how could it possibly trap Fen Mian!