Chapter 208: The Black-Robed Being Falls Into Madness

"Fa~ther~God~?"

Stunned, he repeated the dragon's words, and the expression hidden beneath the black-robed figure's hood changed abruptly.

In an instant, he realized what was happening.

At this moment, his expression stiffened as he raised his head, looking at the heavens and earth whose changes grew ever more obvious.

Faintly, it seemed he could already see through those gloomy clouds a pair of enormous, indifferent eyes existing above the firmament.

Those eyes had perhaps been silently watching him from behind the scenes since the very moment he arrived in this world, while he had been clumsily performing on this stage called "the world" like a petty buffoon!

Every single one of his actions had been done solely to amuse that mysterious and powerful being!

But the moment he did anything out of line, It could press down with a single finger and kill him at any time!

This world was no ordinary world; perhaps he had stumbled into some great being's playground!

And now, he was about to be crushed to death!

Suddenly enlightened to this point, the black-robed figure instantly felt his scalp explode, as though he were standing stark naked exposed in an icy snowfield, and he was still nothing more than that weak, powerless mortal from before.

No wonder, no wonder that just as he was about to succeed, such a bizarre change suddenly occurred on this dying dragon's body.

For a moment, the black-robed figure felt as though all the strength in his body had vanished, and he slowly, powerlessly sank to his knees.

Faced with such a powerful being, he could not even muster the will to resist.

There was only deep despair and helplessness.

"Ha~ disgusting otherworldly intruder, do you really think kneeling and begging for mercy will do you any good now?"

Watching such a heartening scene, the Progenitor Dragon was also delighted to mock him once more, its expression looking exactly like a child who lost a fight and then found his father to come fight for him.

"It's impossible; the only thing waiting for you is death!"

Perhaps the dragon's voice was too grating, or perhaps because he knew deep down that death was upon him, or perhaps out of an inner desire to live, the black-robed figure who should have completely given up suddenly raised his head, a pair of eyes appearing all the more blood-red against the surrounding blackness.

"No! I don't believe it! I can't just blindly believe this dragon's one-sided words—it must be bluffing!"

"Yes, it must be bluffing!!!"

"How could such a great being possibly appear here? If It truly existed, It should have already shown up to stop me when this dragon was pierced through by me. This evil dragon must be trying to shake my conviction so it can escape this calamity."

"All of this is caused by the divine spark. As long as I seize the divine spark now, then the changes brought about by the divine spark will naturally stop, and this power will even belong to me!"

At this moment, the black-robed figure muttered to himself with a fierce gleam in his eyes, slightly crazed. These words seemed to be spoken for the dying dragon to hear, yet also seemed to be quietly explained to himself, to hypnotize himself.

As he spoke, he stood up once more, and power began to surge and gather madly in his hand.

Amid a violent surge of energy, a transparent golden energy sword slowly took shape in his hand.

The moment this energy sword appeared, it radiated an incomparably terrifying Sharpness, as if the surrounding space itself were about to be torn apart.

Then he suddenly raised the sharp sword in his hand high and roared loudly at the dragon, "Evil dragon, meet your death!!!"

As his words fell, the energy sword held high in his hand carved a sharp trail through the air, then instantly slashed down.

Yet facing this strike, the Progenitor Dragon, who was clearly in a bound and powerless state, did not show even a shred of fear...

No! Let alone negative emotions like fear—at this moment it didn't even attempt to resist, merely watching the sword fall with a smile in its eyes, as if it knew that no matter how terrifying this strike was, it could not possibly harm it.

At this moment, this crazed black-robed figure had clearly become a pitiful clown in its eyes; it should never, on any account, have come to invade this world.

"Clang—!"

As the energy sword fell, the explosive sound that rang out through the air was not the sound of flesh being sliced open, nor the dragon's wailing roar.

It was a piercing clash!

"What?!"

Watching his full-powered sword strike being blocked once again by a transparent barrier, the black-robed figure cried out in disbelief.

"No, no! I don't believe it!!"

In his madness, he kept raising the sword in his hand and stabbing repeatedly.

Yet all of this was utterly futile.

At this moment, the energy changes between heaven and earth had finally reached their conclusion.

As two massive transparent barriers—one inner, one outer—were completely formed, the terrifying Light Points in this stretch of atmosphere finally began to exert their force.

At this moment, a peculiar substance began to pour out unceasingly, merging into the air.

Causing the composition of the air within this transparent Cage to slowly begin changing.

Finally, as a tiny Light Point began to collapse, a bewitching shade of red completely illuminated the entire heavens and earth.

In an instant, the air between heaven and earth first contracted sharply, as if bearing an incomparably immense pressure, and was then completely drained away.

During this process, this shade of red spread out in the blink of an eye.

Red! Red!!

A blackish-red so dense it was impossible to distinguish began to emerge!!!

In an instant, it was as if this region had been completely painted over with red pigment like a painter's canvas, or as if red pigment had been poured to fill a transparent jar.

As the endless red appeared, an explosion occurred.

BOOM!!!

Heaven and earth first fell silent, then the endless red began to sweep outward in all directions, pressing against the surrounding transparent barriers.

"Crack crack crack~~"

For a moment, one after another faint, teeth-grinding sounds of friction began to appear, and the immensely solid barriers finally slowly developed fine cracks.

But before these cracks could fully form, they were repaired by the seemingly endless Light Points around them.

Thus, with nowhere to release, this endless red began to brew madly, growing ever denser.

However, just at this moment, the top of this transparent barrier was suddenly opened!

In an instant, the red that had been brewing for so long began to surge along this sole passage—upward into the sky.

In a short span of Time, this red, carrying tremendous energy, violently rushed into the sky, first piercing into the troposphere at two thousand meters high, then beginning to climb madly, finally coming to a complete halt at the top of the troposphere at ten thousand meters high.

At this point, it lost its momentum and transformed into countless raindrops as large as boulders, falling from the high sky.

At this moment, this red finally revealed its true form — it was fire!

It was a massive amount of flame compressed to an extreme degree, seemingly liquefied!!!

In an instant, these extremely compressed flames, trapped beneath the transparent barrier like a cage, used that terrifying momentum to surge straight up into the high sky, wildly releasing their energy.

At this moment, looking at this planet from afar in the pitch-black cosmos, it was as if this pale blue planet had spat out a beam of flame, or perhaps a sharp sword.

In this pitch-black Xingkong, it was especially striking — all the more so when it later transformed into an umbrella-shaped fireball and fell.

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(End of this chapter)