Chapter 98

You and the long worm demon beast covered in snow-white scales fought a battle.

It is the strongest opponent you have ever encountered at the same realm.

At the same level of Earth Demon Third Realm Peak, you actually could not defeat it.

Your path of being invincible among peers seems to have been broken, which makes you even more excited; only such a new world where heavenly pride abounds will not bore you.

The new world has given you an unprecedented sense of freshness!

You and the long worm demon beast could do nothing to each other.

Finally you stopped the meaningless battle, reached a reconciliation, and decided to first explore the opportunities deep in the Forbidden Land, to have a decisive battle when the time is right.

You are both very proud.

You maintained appreciation for the strong, exchanging information with each other.

She is a kind of living being you have never seen before, her name—True Dragon.

The star domain she belongs to is called Tianlong Star Domain; the True Dragon is the supreme race in that star domain, similar to the status of the Heavenly Demon clan in the Blood-Painted Star Domain.

The True Dragon race does not need arduous cultivation; they are naturally powerful.

The True Dragon race possesses supreme bloodline.

Precisely because their bloodline is too powerful, the True Dragon race is restricted by heavenly and earthly laws, making reproduction extremely difficult.

Just like the Heavenly Demon clan, each path can only give birth to one Heavenly Demon, impossible to replicate.

It seems all powerful races will encounter balancing constraints from the Heavenly Dao.

On the way to the depths of the Forbidden Land, you encountered a powerful opponent, that is the guardian beast of the Forbidden Land, whose realm has reached Earth Demon Fourth Realm Peak.

"I'll come, you must not interfere."

Facing an opponent surpassing her by a major realm, White Dragon felt no fear at all.

Because of her pride, she was unwilling to join forces with you.

You were the same.

In the ensuing battle, you witnessed the might of the True Dragon bloodline.

She could easily command the five elements, summon wind and clouds, cast secret arts, and hard‑clash with that guardian beast across a major realm.

After several battles, she successfully slew that Forbidden Land guardian beast.

She glanced at you, stored the guardian beast's corpse in her Space Ring, as if proclaiming her success.

Your competitive spirit was aroused.

You continued to delve deeper into the Forbidden Land.

As you had hoped, a second Forbidden Land guardian beast appeared.

You also stopped her from intervening, and with your own strength slew the second Forbidden Land guardian beast; you did not fight each other directly, but your inner pride compelled you to determine who was superior.

Thus you began an endless comparison.

The Forbidden Land guardian beasts were slain one after another by you; in this endless slaughter you successfully broke through to Earth Demon Fourth Realm.

She also broke through to a realm equivalent to Earth Demon Fourth Realm.

The road to the depths of the Forbidden Land is long and boundless.

You stayed in this Forbidden Land for a long time, yet never reached its end.

Before entering this place, you clearly felt the attraction of a supreme treasure, determining that the Forbidden Land held the opportunity you sought.

"Why has it disappeared?"

White Dragon and you voiced the same question.

You exchanged a glance and sensed that the situation was not simple.

Not long after, you discovered that you had unknowingly been trapped in the Forbidden Zone, unable to escape.

"How could this happen?"

You and White Dragon both felt incredulous; with your abilities, you are already among the strongest beings beneath the supreme powers,

yet you ended up trapped like this? You didn't even have the ability to perceive it.

Even if you knew you were trapped, you could find no gap in the Forbidden Zone; using spatial teleportation Divine Power, you could only wander endlessly within this Shikong.

But you were not despairing.

Such a mighty formation attests to the supreme opportunity hidden here.

In the Blood-Painted Star Domain, breaking through to the Heavenly Demon Realm was extremely difficult, but the emergence of a new world has greatly lowered that difficulty.

No being yet stands at the pinnacle of this new world.

Perhaps you can become that first one!

The old era has passed; the vessel of the new era can carry any being.

White Dragon thinks the same.

Carrying pride and ideals, you spent another long stretch of time in the Forbidden Land until you had slain all the guardian beasts.

Until you discovered that no outsiders were entering anymore.

Until you felt the spiritual qi of the Forbidden Land gradually dissipating.

You frantically searched for an exit, but to no avail.

As the spiritual qi waned, you and White Dragon could only strive to find places where it remained relatively dense to ensure survival.

However, your realms are too powerful; the dissipation of spiritual qi forced you to seal your own realms.

Otherwise your physical bodies would rot and your souls could hardly remain in the world.

For the True Dragon race that fights relying on bloodline and flesh, this situation is undoubtedly worse for her; her massive True Dragon body consumes vast amounts of spiritual qi with each breath.

She had to set aside her dragon pride and change her physical form.

You proposed: "The human race's physical form best conforms to the natural laws of Heaven and Earth; if you wish to live peacefully, become human."

Among the many races that possess complete wisdom, the Human Race is born the weakest.

In such an environment, transforming into the Human Race is naturally the best choice.

You still remember the ancestor Xue Tianmo said that the Human Race body is most in accord with Daoism and nature; the myriad Heavenly Demon clans have long taken human form as their dwelling.

In this Forbidden Zone of the Baixiang Divine Land, this point has been further confirmed.

"Hmph! I won't!"

White Dragon coldly expressed rejection of your proposal.

Not long after, the scales on White Dragon's body began to fall off, and she uttered painful howls day and night.

You too have been constantly suppressing your own realm, having already fallen into the Xuan Mo Realm; even so, you still must continually seal yourself into ever lower realms.

And the True Dragon clan, upon birth, is comparable to an Earth Demon.

As long as she maintains her True Dragon body, she cannot suppress her realm to a lower level, and must therefore suffer the bitter fruit of her physical body's collapse.

You sighed and said: "If you fall, then you truly have nothing left."

White Dragon wavered, fell silent.

Her massive dragon body collapsed to the ground, and she seemed to gradually let go of the pride of the dragon clan.

You again said: "You are the strongest opponent I have ever met at the same realm; I do not wish for you to die, I hope we still have a day to decide victory or defeat."

White Dragon collapsed on the ground, weak and powerless; only her eyes shone like stars, blazing as she gazed at you.

She let go of her pride.

Intense white light enveloped her body; her dragon form continually shrank, the massive form like a great mountain rapidly diminishing, transforming into a seven-foot tall slender figure.

After the white light faded, your gaze showed slight astonishment.

Looking at her snow-white jade-like body, you could not help but remind:

"The Human Race must wear clothes."