Chapter 1853: Magic Lord's True Form (Part 1)

Long Bai, with his damaged claws, crashed down fiercely, again creating a terrifying crater in the ground. Yun Che, cloaked in black light, followed closely. The dark profound energy of the Northern Region Devil Master plunged the thousand-mile radius into an icy chill.

Yun Che, using only his profound energy and physical strength, had already directly defeated Long Bai. This dark dominance, stemming from the ancient Devil Emperor, would only be more terrifying. At the very least, as this darkness approached, all seven Dragon Gods trembled in shock.

“Get back!”

With a thunderous roar, a white figure shot out, carrying a hurriedly released, yet still utterly domineering dragon energy that slammed into them. It was none other than the White Rainbow Dragon God.

Yun Che’s gaze tilted, and his hand gesture shifted slightly. The dark profound light collided with the White Rainbow Dragon God’s dragon energy on the side. With a dull thud, the White Rainbow Dragon God retreated sharply. Yun Che also flipped backward and flew out, landing coldly.

Sand and rock exploded as Long Bai burst from the ground again, revealing himself. His face displayed a terrifying chill rarely seen even by Dragon Gods, but his dragon energy remained calm and imposing, showing no signs of anger or impatience.

“Heh, heh…” Yun Che sneered, lowering his gaze: “Long Bai, the dogs you’ve raised don’t seem to be very obedient. Or is it that your Dragon Emperor’s so-called dignity, pride, and imperial decrees are nothing but a pile of readily dispensed dog shit!”

Yun Che extended his pinky finger, pointing it downward, his face showing disgust and contempt as if looking at a stink bug: “Truly sickening! This Devil Master even hurt himself for fairness, yet your Dragon Gods, under the Dragon Emperor, are so vile and dirty. They even dared to challenge this Devil Master to a one-on-one fight… *Pah!*”

“Shut up!” the White Rainbow Dragon God said darkly: “You lowly devil, how dare you insult my Dragon God lineage!?”

“Your Highness,” he turned to Long Bai and said: “These devil beasts are at the end of their tether; we can wipe them out with ease. There’s no need for Your Highness to exert yourself personally, nor are they worthy of soiling your hands.”

The recent exchange between Yun Che and Long Bai had undoubtedly shocked the Dragon Gods the most. If Long Bai were truly to suffer a crushing defeat at Yun Che’s hands, then even if the Devil Race were destroyed afterward, it would still be a huge blow to the prestige of Long Bai and the Dragon God lineage. Therefore, the White Rainbow Dragon God decisively intervened, stopping their battle.

“Oh no… that idiot!” the Pure Heart Dragon God muttered softly. She looked at Long Bai’s back, hesitated repeatedly, and finally did not dare to step forward to speak.

Long Bai pushed his dislocated fingers back into place, then suddenly swung his hand, his dragon claw carrying a burst of violent dragon power that fiercely slapped the White Rainbow Dragon God across the face. Boom—! It was merely a slap, yet the explosion of power was terrifying, like a collapsing mountain.

Caught off guard, the White Rainbow Dragon God was violently slammed to the ground, scattering a large spray of blood. This was perhaps the most brutal slap in the history of the God Realm, directly shattering the White Rainbow Dragon God’s left cheekbone and half of his dragon teeth.

The White Rainbow Dragon God’s vision blurred, his ears deafened, and his mind buzzed as if with a million flies. As he struggled to regain his senses amidst the intense pain, the Dragon Emperor’s foot stomped down heavily, directly onto his right arm… the very arm he had just used to intervene.

Crack!! With a loud crack, the White Rainbow Dragon God’s body stiffened abruptly. His normally incredibly strong dragon arm instantly developed cracks under the Dragon Emperor’s power. He let out a scream, his gaze meeting the Dragon Emperor’s eyes… a terrifying look he had never seen before, so dark it seemed to hold profound killing intent.

“Your Highness…” With his head and broken arm throbbing with excruciating pain, the White Rainbow Dragon God dared not resist or struggle, instead crying out in agony: “Please… forgive me…”

Long Bai’s gaze, as he looked down at the White Rainbow Dragon God, was utterly sinister. An anger and malice, subtly teetering on the edge of control, made the advancing Dragon Gods halt abruptly, not one daring to intercede.

Facing the White Rainbow Dragon God’s plea for mercy, Long Bai slowly lifted his foot, then suddenly his dragon energy surged violently, and he stomped down fiercely. CRACK!! With a fracturing sound that made all hearts pound in terror, the White Rainbow Dragon God’s dragon arm was brutally shattered, accompanied by a piercing scream from the Dragon God.

Long Bai retracted his foot… Just as everyone thought he would spare the White Rainbow Dragon God, his furious dragon energy erupted again, this time stomping directly on his chest. The White Rainbow Dragon God’s chest abruptly caved in, his ribcage completely bent and deformed. His head snapped back, and a gush of blood spurted from his mouth, shooting a thousand zhang away.

“Your… Your Highness!” the Azure Dragon God cried out involuntarily.

“Hmph!” Long Bai coldly looked down at the White Rainbow Dragon God, who was painfully twitching beneath his foot, his voice as deep as an abyss, each word chilling to the soul: “You dog, who gave you the guts to defy an imperial decree!”

The White Rainbow Dragon God’s pupils dilated as if to burst. His blood-stained lips trembled as he uttered: “White Rainbow… presumed… please… Your Highness… mercy!”

Long Bai turned away coldly, kicking the White Rainbow Dragon God flying, like discarding a loathsome worn-out shoe.

The Jade Dragon God and the Azure Firmament Dragon God quickly moved forward to carefully catch the flying White Rainbow Dragon God. In their ears, Long Bai’s chilling and intimidating voice resonated: “Anyone who defies orders again will face a tenfold consequence!”

A chilling silence fell; everyone was as quiet as cicadas in winter, not even a single person daring to respond. Such a terrifying Long Bai had never been seen before, not just by the Western Region Divine Masters, but even by the Dragon Gods themselves.

Long Bai’s cruel punishment of White Rainbow was half anger, half catharsis.

Clap! Clap! Clap! Yun Che raised his arm and clapped, not holding back his praise: “Truly befitting a Dragon God’s bones; the sound of them breaking is indeed crisp and pleasing to the ear. What a pity… even if all of you in the Dragon God Realm knelt down right now and kowtowed ten times to this Devil Master, it wouldn’t change the fact that your Dragon Emperor’s so-called credibility and dignity are nothing but dog shit.”

“Hmph!” The malevolent aura around Long Bai gradually subsided. He lifted his foot and slowly walked towards Yun Che, step by step: “Yun Che, your progress truly surprises me. Back then, to avoid exposure, you constantly did your utmost to conceal your dragon breath.”

Yun Che: “…”

“Now, to be able to wield dragon energy to such an extent in a human body is truly something extraordinary. However…”

Long Bai stopped, a faint white glow appearing in his dragon eyes: “Do you truly think you can suppress my power?!”

Long Bai’s words struck the Dragon Gods of the Dragon God Realm like thunderbolts. “Indeed,” Dragon One said, raising his ancient eyes, which gleamed brightly: “That wasn't an illusion, nor was it the Dragon Emperor’s deliberate doing.”

“Yun Che truly possesses the Dragon God bloodline, and the Dragon Emperor’s power receding might be due to…”

“Blood…line…sup…pression!” Dragon Three slowly uttered these four words, which made all the Dragon Gods, Dragon Monarchs, and Greater Dragons… even the five Elder Dragon Venerables, tremble to their very souls.

“And the extent of the suppression is nearly thirty percent!”

Every release of Long Bai’s dragon power shook heaven and earth, but from the moment the two first clashed, the five Elder Dragon Venerables simultaneously noticed that Long Bai’s power would suddenly dissipate by one-third when it neared Yun Che… as if startled.

Dragon Four whispered: “To suppress it by as much as thirty percent, it would require… at least ten times the purity of bloodline.”

“Is… is that really possible?” Dragon Five murmured, sounding lost.

The Devil Master Yun Che possessed the bloodline of their Dragon God race… But the purity of his bloodline was actually more than ten times that of Long Bai!?

That was the Dragon Emperor!

All the Dragon Gods had long known that Yun Che possessed the Dragon God bloodline and Dragon God soul. But for his Dragon God bloodline to be at least ten times purer than the Dragon Emperor’s… How could they possibly believe it, how could they possibly accept it?

“Northern Region Devil Master,” Dragon One suddenly spoke, his aged voice permeating the heavens and earth: “Where does your Dragon God bloodline originate?”

In response to the Elder Dragon Venerable’s words, Yun Che not only didn't answer, he didn't even spare a glance, as if the other party was not worthy of his reply.

He raised his hand, palm facing Long Bai: “Is that so? Then you might as well give it a try.”

Long Bai clenched his fists, his dragon eyes lowered, murmuring as if to himself: “Annihilating your entire Northern Region race would be as easy as flipping my hand. The only reason you can still be arrogant now is… no matter what, you must die by my hand!”

“Your sin, is—for—ever—un—forgivable!!”

Rumble! He shot into the sky, white light dazzling the heavens, and a violent dragon roar tore through the firmament, devouring all daylight. As the sky abruptly darkened, an immense and boundless dragon might, like thousands of roaring and churning seas, descended upon the world.

Above this divine realm, Long Bai once again revealed his colossal dragon body, unleashing his full, ultimate Dragon Emperor’s heavenly might.

“Ah!!” Disordered cries of alarm erupted from the mouths of the Northern Region profound practitioners. They had all witnessed the terrifying power of Long Bai in his true form… Even someone as strong as Yan Zu suddenly gasped for breath. And Yan San Geng, who was most heavily injured, stumbled, blood trickling from the corners of his lips.

“Unforgivable sinner, I will personally bury you in… a hell from which you will never rise!”

The Dragon Emperor’s roar, each word shaking the void. Anyone could hear the deep resentment within it… and an incredibly terrifying obsession. The obsession to personally slay Yun Che!

The Dragon God’s human form consumed the least energy, but it was also a restraint on their dragon power. But in his true form… with the supreme dragon might fully unleashed by the Dragon Emperor, how could he possibly be suppressed again?!

The endless dragon might completely enveloped Yun Che. Had it been any other Divine Sovereign, their body would have collapsed and soul shattered within moments, but Yun Che showed not the slightest hint of solemnity on his face; instead, he let out a low laugh.

“You, are you even worthy of being a Dragon God?”

“You, are you even worthy of calling yourself Emperor before me?!”

He suddenly tilted his head back and let out a low whistle. The Dragon God blood throughout his body rapidly circulated, and his dragon energy, the Dragon God aura he had always painstakingly hidden, was now completely unleashed without reservation. ROAR—! It was merely the release of dragon energy, yet it felt as if an ancient dragon's roar echoed deep within everyone’s souls.

The instant the dragon might was released, the air between heaven and earth suddenly stagnated. The Dragon Emperor’s might, which had been pressing down on Yun Che’s body, was instantly dispelled like an unbearable gust of wind. Heaven and earth were enveloped by the Dragon Emperor’s might, but around Yun Che, an invisible, absolute domain seemed to spread, preventing the Dragon Emperor’s vast power from encroaching even a jot.

“Ah—!”

“This… this is…”

Terror, shock, soul-shattering disbelief… All five Elder Dragon Venerables changed color, the seven Dragon Gods felt as if struck by lightning, and the Dragon Monarchs and Greater Dragons behind them trembled violently, their hearts and livers feeling as if they would split.

This was the Dragon God aura of the Dragon God lineage; there was no way they could mistake it. In terms of might, Yun Che’s dragon energy was inferior to Long Bai’s. But… its purity and concentration were so terrifying that they couldn’t believe it even if their souls were torn apart, so terrifying that… they weren’t even qualified to sense or touch it.

Dragon One was the oldest Dragon God among them. The shock in his heart surpassed everyone else’s as well. Because… that was a level of purity and concentration that even their world-creating ancestor was far from matching.

“No… impossible… impossible… impossible…” Dragon One murmured repeatedly, utterly dejected, as if falling into an absurd dream.

Long Bai’s dragon body froze in mid-air. The resentment and malice in his dragon eyes began to mix with shock and bewilderment, and a growing, confused disbelief. Previously, when he fought Yun Che in human form, Yun Che’s subtly carried Dragon God aura heavily suppressed his Dragon God power. He was surprised, but not to the point of disbelief… Because as early as the Profound God Convention in the Eastern Region that year, he already knew that Yun Che possessed a pure Dragon God bloodline. He even wanted to publicly adopt Yun Che as his godson because of it.

Later, when he met Yun Che alone, he confirmed from Yun Che’s own words that Yun Che had obtained the primordial bloodline left by an ancient Dragon God. At that time, he had secretly probed the concentration of Yun Che’s Dragon God bloodline: it was pure… but not dense.

However, Long Bai would never have dreamed that Yun Che possessed not only Dragon God blood and a Dragon God soul but also the Dragon God Marrow, bestowed by the Primeval Azure Dragon, which was utterly unique in the current era. The presence of the Dragon God Marrow continuously generated Dragon God blood, making Yun Che’s Dragon God bloodline grow denser minute by minute, every moment, even while he slept. During his time in the God Realm, Yun Che had always relied on his Dragon God body but never easily unleashed his Dragon God aura, precisely because he feared that the increasingly dense Dragon God aura would alert the Dragon God Realm.

Long Bai’s understanding of Yun Che’s Dragon God bloodline was still stuck in the past. He was therefore utterly convinced that in his true form, even if Yun Che possessed primordial Dragon God blood, it would be absolutely impossible for him to be suppressed again. However, at this moment, as Yun Che completely unleashed his dragon energy, Long Bai’s heart pounded wildly, his surging dragon power trembled, and an absurd, utterly inappropriate trace of fear emerged in his soul.

The feeling of being suppressed was even stronger than before!