Chapter 132: The Great Explosion

After Zhou Tianzi left behind a remark that seemed somewhat inexplicable to Baichuan.

Without much hesitation, before the flood serpent could puff out its neck and spew, the strange eyes on its face opened!

They were an extremely bizarre pair of eyes — the whites were entirely absent, or rather the entire sclera was a blood-red color, and the pupils were an eerily demonic purple, slit vertically.

They were a pair of eyes that did not look human, yet now they had abruptly grown on its face.

Although at first glance they merely looked a little strange, once ripples of energy began spreading out from within them.

Everything changed!

And having done all this, Zhou Tianzi swiftly retreated backward.

In an instant, Baichuan had no time to consider what those words had meant; he only felt a strange ripple sweep across his body, and then the power within him fell silent.

Because of this, the flames about to spew from his mouth were directly interrupted by the strange sensation transmitted through his body, and thick smoke billowed straight out of his mouth.

Yes! The power had fallen silent.

The Frost Light Points and Fire Light Points within his body had fallen silent; he could barely sense the existence of power, but could no longer drive it.

For a moment, Baichuan's entire body began to stiffen in place — that was because he was utterly unaccustomed to the sudden onset of weakness.

He fell back to the ground, gasping for breath, as waves of scorching wind began slowly drifting out.

Seeing this, Zhou Tianzi, who had already retreated far away, watched the scene with a smile on his face; looking at the frozen true dragon, he could not help but laugh out loud:

"Hahaha, what true dragon? In the end, aren't you still just a mindless Strange Beast!"

"So easily toyed with in my palm!"

"You beast, your mistake is being born a Strange Beast!"

"So long as it's a Strange Beast, it can never escape the palm of my hand — feel the agony of your power vanishing from your body step by step!"

"Don't worry, I won't simply slaughter you afterward."

"I will bind you at the highest point of all Tiandu, under the gaze of every subject of my Great Zhou, and day after day I will strip scales from your body, eat your flesh, drink your blood!"

"Letting you watch helplessly as my Great Zhou, drawing on your power, strides toward eternity!"

Seeming to feel that the outcome was already decided, Zhou Tianzi, standing in the distance, grew wilder and wilder in his speech, finally throwing his head back in laughter.

…

For a moment, seeing Zhou Tianzi so delighted, the ministers also stepped forward one after another to offer congratulations, as if everything were already a foregone conclusion.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, on nearly capturing the true dragon alive!"

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, on soon achieving eternity!"

"Your Majesty is wise and brilliant; a mere true dragon is nothing more than this!"

"Your Majesty is divinely mighty; my Great Zhou shall soon become a heavenly kingdom on earth!"

……

Yet while Zhou Tianzi and the others were reveling, they overlooked the gradually rising temperature around them.

At the same time, what Zhou Tianzi did not know was.

For a Strange Beast, the Light Points it relies on to survive are merely a negligible fraction of the power within Baichuan's body.

Perhaps for an ordinary Strange Beast, once the power within its body falls silent, it can only obediently await death.

But what he did not know was that he was about to unleash a demon — a terrifying Fire Demon!

One must understand that Baichuan's flames come from his own scorching body temperature, and the Fire Light Points are merely a node that pressurizes and stores the high-energy heat within his body; with this force in place, the high-energy heat within him will not run out of control and will safely remain inside his body.

But now, the limiter that maintained the balance had been opened.

The high-energy heat that had been crazily accumulating for nearly a full month — and that without pause, twenty-four hours a day — now surged forth like a demon that had lost its shackles.

Boundless heat began to seep out from within the flood serpent's body, and the first change it brought was to the scales.

The scales no longer displayed Baichuan's favorite blue-purple hue, but reverted to their original black, while slowly beginning to flush red, with scorching flowing light coursing across their surface.

In the span of a single instant, the flood serpent's entire body began to emit a faint red glow; that red glow grew ever more brilliant, so brilliant that the scales could no longer contain it, and it began to wind around the flood serpent's entire body like mysterious runes.

"Hot! Hot! So hot!"

At this moment, Baichuan only felt that something was wrong all over his body; ever since Zhou Tianzi opened those eyes and a ripple swept across him, he had felt his entire body slipping out of control.

The terrifying high-energy heat within his body kept slamming against his body — that heat had grown so terrifying that even his Fire Resistance LV3 (King)-level body could barely withstand it.

In this crisis, he directly obeyed his body's instinct and forcibly released his own high-energy heat outward, even if it meant releasing the Fire Light Points along with it.

Because if he did not release it, he would become the first flood serpent to burn itself to death in its own flames.

Along with his release, the surrounding air grew increasingly scorching, and waves of blistering wind rose without any breeze to drive them.

If anyone outside the Inner City were to look this way at this moment, they would surely see a vast, faintly visible red wind vortex about to take shape.

But unfortunately, because of the arrival of the "true dragon," most ordinary people had already grown so frightened that they had shrunk into their houses and refused to come out.

"What's happening?"

The ever more scorching temperature finally drew the attention of Zhou Tianzi, who had been laughing triumphantly; he stifled his laughter and frowned as he examined the "true dragon."

At this moment, the abnormality on the "true dragon" finally made him sense something was wrong — a faintly present sense of crisis in the air prickled him like a thorn in his back.

"What is this?"

"Something's not right."

The ministers also finally noticed, and looking at the increasingly bizarre true dragon, they too were filled with doubt for a moment.

"Not good! The true dragon is fine — it's about to Burst!"

"Run!!"

It was not until a certain expert, who was more sensitive to danger, saw the severity of the situation and abruptly spoke up that everyone finally awoke to the danger and began fleeing one after another.

And only then did everyone come to their senses and hurriedly begin to flee.

In an instant, each of them displayed their own abilities — some shot out arms that had grown thick, large, and long like tentacles, some dropped low onto all fours and fled, and others transformed into shadows or took to the sky.

But it was all too late — as the brilliant red glow across the flood serpent's entire body began to flicker.

A blinding red light shone on the faces of the crowd, who had no time to flee, faces filled with despair.

"Boom——！！！！"

In an instant, heaven and earth first fell silent, then boundless light and heat Burst forth!

It erupted from within the Jiaoshe.

A violent explosion was thus born, like a small sun rising near the Tiandu Imperial Palace.

Flames so scorching they seemed almost solid swept toward the entire Tiandu Neicheng, utterly destroying everything in their path, then transformed overhead into a massive, spectacular fire tornado.

At this moment, the Inner City, which could turn the entire Outer City into a sea of fire.

Everyone knew Great Zhou was finished.

After just a few breaths, the fire tornado vanished, revealing a scene of utter devastation across Tiandu Neicheng.

Fire, fire, everywhere was fire.

The ground was a mess, piled with all manner of debris, wreckage, and ruins; looking out, every house was burning with flame,

"Crack~~"

A crisp sound rang out, then a massive pile of ruins began to move, and a huge dragon head slowly rose.

Immediately after, the Jiaoshe's enormous body stood up, bringing a series of clattering sounds—the noise of debris and wreckage falling from its body.

At this moment, Baichuan only felt a wave of relief throughout his entire body, although his surface still showed grooves and indentations glowing with red light and scorching heat.

But he could no longer feel that searing heat within him, the kind that had been suppressed and unable to be released.

Clearly, he had just released most of the high-energy heat he had stored within his body over this period of Time in one go, and the destruction it caused was so astonishing.

At the same time, that dormant power within his body revived once more.

But, after what had just happened, he found that he no longer treasured this power as much as he had imagined.

While thinking, he followed his perception to a pile of ruins; along the way, every Time his claw touched down, it left a deep scorch mark.

But before he could do anything, the ruins before him moved, then a large number of corpses were pushed aside, and a person resembling a humanoid giant dragon struggled to crawl out……

(End of this chapter)