The Eastern Sea Dragon King’s heart skipped a beat.
He had a feeling that he might die if the slumbering man in the auspicious clouds opened his eyes. No, he would definitely die.
It was only now he realized that Chu Xunxian wasn’t lying to him.
He really had killed an Ancient-class Stranger before. More than one, in fact.
He really could end him without using the Natural Five Phases Flags.
A few breaths of silence later, the Eastern Sea Dragon King asked slowly, “If I submit, will you humans let me live?”
“A dog that bites the hand that feeds it will bite you if an opportunity were to present itself,” Chu Xunxian said coldly. “In that case, why keep it at all?”
“I thought you humans always say to put down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha? Why must you corner me?” The Eastern Sea Dragon King asked.
“The Buddha may preach such a thing, but I am not the Buddha. My duty is to send you to the Buddha!” Chu Xunxian replied.
The Eastern Sea Dragon King was silent for a couple more breaths. Then, he suddenly started laughing all of a sudden. “Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll get the chance to meet the Buddha. I could introduce you to the Dragon Sovereign of the four seas though!”
As he continued laughing, a pillar of light suddenly burst out of the sea and into the clouds.
Similar pillars of light could be seen at the Western Sea, Southern Sea, and Northern Sea.
The pillars of light were golden at the beginning, but they gradually became blood red in color.
It was because the bloody and body of the aquatic people, Strangers and humans were drawn into the pillars of light somehow.
When the pillars of light turned completely red, bloody clouds slowly crept in and covered the sky of the affected areas.
Something absolutely terrifying seemed to be brewing within the clouds.
Seeing this, Chu Xunxian waved the Natural Five Phases Flags and fired a beam of five-colored profound light into the sky. It looked like he was planning to disperse the bloody clouds.
However, for the first time since the battle began, the unstoppable five-colored profound light failed to affect the bloody clouds at all. It simply sank into the clouds and disappeared into nothing.
The Eastern Sea Dragon King sneered at his futile attempt to dispel the bloody clouds. “Hahaha... it’s useless. Once the Great Demonic Array of Million Sacrifice began, it cannot be stopped.”
Ye Qing was certain that they had. Otherwise, Chu Xunxian and Guo Ximian would be doing everything in their power to stop the array or at the very least, run away. They were doing none of those things, however. They were waiting for the inevitable to happen.
That was why Ye Qing was certain they had prepared a trump card; a trump card meant for the Dragon Sovereign himself.
Suddenly, the bloody vortex began shaking violently. The next moment, the head of an unbelievably huge dragon stretched out of it.
The bloody vortex was almost big enough to encompass from one end of the sky to the other. To say it was big would be an understatement. However, it groaned as if the thing that was trying to fit through the passage was too big.
On a related note, the pillar of sea water was now pouring into its mouth instead of the vortex.
That wasn’t all. The second the people saw the dragon’s head, a draconic roar erupted beside their ears and caused them to bleed from all orifices. Their minds trembled like a leaf in a storm, and they felt like prostrating and swearing their allegiance to the dragon’s head despite their will.
Buzz...
Suddenly, the dragon’s head opened both of its eyes. At that moment, it felt as if a pair of suns had suddenly sprung into existence and dyed the entire world white.
“Ahhhh!!!”
Several thousand Nether End Army soldiers screamed at the top of their lungs. These living legends were so tough that they did not bat an eyelid even when their foes disemboweled them or cut off their limbs, and now they were all screaming as if they were being burned from the inside out.
Their eyes dissolved into ash without a sound, and their bodies writhed like dough being squeezed by an invisible hand. At the same time, their flesh and blood were melting like candles.
Chu Mingfeng, Su Bancheng, Chu Wangsun and Chen Wuji fared much better than the Nether End Army, but even they were bleeding all over.
This was with the protection of the Natural Five Phases Flags too.
Realizing that neither the remnants of the Nether End Army nor the Chu’s geniuses could hold out for long, Chu Xunxian hurriedly wrapped them inside the Natural Five Phases Flags and disappeared into space. However, they reappeared at the exact same location almost as if they hadn’t moved.
“Hahaha... you cannot escape.”
Unlike them, the Eastern Sea Dragon King seemed to be reinvigorated by the light. In fact, he was recovering at a visible rate. “You and your people will all become sacrifices, Chu Xunxian. You will all serve the Dragon Sovereign from within his stomach!”
“Hahahahahahahaha!”
There was no mistake. The gigantic dragon’s head belonged to the Dragon Sovereign.