Chapter 284: Dragon of Science, Claw of the Stars!

Since there was no object to borrow force from, he would create one himself.

May I ask, what are the products of Photosynthesis?

Without a doubt, there must be oxygen!

Oxygen is a part of the air, and the true dragon's ability is 【Atmospheric Shuttle】!

Naturally, this also includes oxygen.

Baichuan believed there were truly few creatures in the world that could wrestle with the dragon race, especially a freakish dragon like him who had gathered the strengths of all things and walked an unconventional path.

He saw that the previously useless Thunderstorm Sea had, at some unknown moment, largely transformed into a green ocean, once again spreading around him, and then, under the effect of Spirit Power, continuously spewing out massive amounts of oxygen.

In an instant, massive amounts of oxygen began to spread across the heavens.

In a flash, embraced by the abundant oxygen, Baichuan felt as if a fish had returned to water, or a tiger had entered the mountains, his heart full of comfort and ease; no matter which direction, he could freely borrow force and apply leverage.

How could he let such a situation pass?

In an instant, on the naturally majestic dragon head of the true dragon, the pair of beautiful coral-shaped dragon horns began to emit a faint glow — this was the dragon race's innate talent, Atmospheric Shuttle, activated under the effect of Dragon Blood.

In the blink of an eye, Baichuan whipped his tail, unleashing a force so terrifying it seemed capable of shifting continental plates, directly pulling the light rope upward, causing the light rope to continuously drop specks of light powder — those were Light Points that had collapsed and died from being unable to withstand the wrestling of two colossal beings.

But at this moment, the other part of the Thunderstorm Sea had not dispersed. Baichuan, with his mind divided into many uses, under massive computing power and Small Self, controlled the subsequent Light Points to replenish energy.

"Ying ying ying!!"

Gradually, the bizarre worm below began to falter. Its small eyes looked at the mostly suspended portion of its body behind it with some panic, continuously letting out long cries.

Wave after wave of almost tangible ripples kept sweeping outward.

For a moment, countless bizarre worms seemed to be stimulated by something, or perhaps had sensed the "Call of the King," and began surging from other parts of the Divine Corpse, trying to rescue their king.

"Can't let you mess up my wrestling match."

Seeing this, how could Baichuan ignore it, he muttered to himself.

From the remaining Thunderstorm Sea, several massive lightning dragons suddenly blasted out, striking directly at the bizarre worms attempting to approach.

The lightning dragons might not have much effect on the king of the bizarre worms, but they were not something ordinary bizarre worms could withstand.

In an instant, countless bizarre worms turned into piles of massive charred mountains under the lightning.

Then, Baichuan seized the opportunity, his muscles continuously bulging, even beginning to faintly emit terrifying high temperatures.

That was because, in his excessive exertion, he could no longer attend to the high temperature of his own body that required him to constantly divert part of his mind to restrain it.

"Boom!"

The next moment, near the bizarre worm, a perfectly ordinary wisp of Yin Qi abruptly transformed into a lightning dragon and blasted out, its target aimed directly at — the bizarre worm!

That was the last small portion of the hidden Light Points he had left behind earlier.

"Ying!"

Amidst the piercing shriek, the bizarre worm stiffened for an instant in the purple-glowing lightning, then completely lost all its attachments, pulled by the Dragon Claw light rope as it flew toward Baichuan.

At this moment, a pale, bizarre worm, compared to Baichuan's true dragon body, was thus pulled straight toward Baichuan by the Dragon Claw.

But just then, a sudden change occurred again.

"Clang clang…"

Amid the sounds of metal chains falling and hitting the ground, a hazy mass of Chaos appeared once again — the Divine Corpse had seized this once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity and was attempting to prepare to disappear into that mass of Chaos.

"Ah!"

"Ang!"

"Ugh! My power!"

"No, don't! Save me!"

At the same time, screams began to continuously rise from below.

Baichuan was suddenly startled and looked downward.

In an instant, he saw that the mysterious chains that had fallen to the ground, as if activated, began continuously extracting power from the bound True Lords and Divine Spirits!

Among them was precisely the Old Dragon Ao Qing he needed to rescue!

At this moment, the Old Dragon, drained by these mysterious chains, instantly lost all ability to resist, lying on the ground like a wrinkled worm. Streams of pale golden Spirit Power, mixed with threads of golden-red essence Dragon Blood, were continuously drawn out and surged toward the source of the mysterious chains — the bronze-colored mysterious chains lying on the ground.

At this moment, Baichuan was still continuously pulling the heavy bizarre worm upward into the sky, and the bizarre worm seemed to have recovered as well. Discovering its life-or-death crisis, it was erupting with all its remaining Yin Qi, preparing to deliver him a fatal blow.

But below, countless True Lords and Divine Spirits were crying out in agony. The speed at which the mysterious chains extracted power was neither fast nor slow. Once Baichuan paid the slightest heed, the Ao Qing he wanted to rescue would surely perish here.

At the same time, the Divine Corpse, which had previously been utterly motionless as if dead, was slowly and steadily disappearing into that mass of Chaos.

At this point, Baichuan had already understood that his situation had entered a three-way dilemma.

Choosing to continue dealing with the bizarre worm meant he might not be able to rescue the Old Dragon Ao Qing, and could only let the Divine Corpse escape.

But choosing to rescue the Old Dragon Ao Qing meant he would have to give up the bizarre worm that was almost in hand, while also facing the bizarre worm's final life-or-death counterattack; in that case, he might still be unable to stop the Divine Corpse's escape.

If he chose to stop the Divine Corpse, then it would be very difficult to attend to the other two. If that bizarre worm still possessed some strange means of escape, then this trip might end with him leaving empty-handed, apart from the rescue target.

None of the above choices were what Baichuan was willing to see.

"Good, very good!"

In an instant, Baichuan, suspended above, could not help but coldly fix his gaze on the steadily disappearing Divine Corpse.

Now he finally understood: the Divine Corpse, which had previously seemed like a victim, must possess some mysterious means of perceiving the outside world.

This means did not come from Spirit Qi, because he had never sensed any fluctuation of Spirit Power. Now, any fluctuation of Spirit Qi could not escape his gaze, who had comprehended part of the essence of Spirit Qi — this was his confidence. Nor did it come from Yin Qi; if Yin Qi had any unusual fluctuation, it likewise absolutely could not be hidden from the current him. And the means the other party used might not even be at the level of Soul Consciousness, because this level was not unfamiliar to him, who possessed Dragon Breath.

It was a perception method he had never encountered before. Only with this could the Divine Corpse, at this optimal moment, mobilize every means available to try to stall him into giving up the choice of stopping its escape.

There was no time to think further. Since everything had already happened, Baichuan was not the kind of dragon who liked to blame fate. In the span of a hundred thoughts, he began to consider the current best option.

First, the Old Dragon Ao Qing absolutely had to be rescued. This was not because Ao Qing was particularly important to him; it was his principle as a person and as a dragon: word given is word kept, action taken is action completed.

He, Baichuan, was a man of his word — once he decided to rescue, he would see it through to the end, never making empty promises.

Of course, although he had already decided to rescue Ao Qing, he, Baichuan, did not want to let go of the bizarre worm that was almost in hand. And since the Divine Corpse dared to play him, even though from the other party's standpoint this decision was very wise, Baichuan was not the kind of person who would swallow a loss in silence!

In the blink of an eye, after Baichuan had decided, under infinite computing power, he sorted out the best course of action — and then he moved.

Dividing his attention, all the remaining energy Light Points ceased their miraculous activity, then swiftly gathered from the void.

At first, it was merely an illusory spear tip; then, in less than a single breath, all the Light Points between heaven and earth began to converge, slowly transforming into a massive Changqiang radiating scorching brilliance.

Immediately after, it shot forth carrying a terrifying momentum.

This was a terrifying divine spear, its full length a full five hundred meters!

The divine spear radiated an eerie golden-purple flame, bearing an unstoppable momentum, and plunged directly from top to bottom toward the mountain-range-like massive divine corpse.

And at the same time, as the divine spear gathered, Baichuan also decisively abandoned the high-temperature suppression on his right Dragon Claw. The next moment, with all the Light Points gone and unable to replenish, the seemingly abundant oxygen, having lost its subsequent support, rapidly dispersed throughout the entire heaven and earth under atmospheric pressure equilibrium.

Thus, having lost oxygen, Baichuan's dragon-kind Flight ability naturally lost its effect.

But this was exactly what Baichuan currently wanted!

Because that bizarre long worm was right below his body, flying toward him from top to bottom, passively and actively.

"Whoosh!"

"Hiss!"

Two strange, abrupt sounds rang out.

The former sound was produced by the束狀 blue-white flame jetting from the rear end of the true dragon's massive dragon body; the latter was produced by the true dragon's right claw releasing its restraints.

But don't forget that the use of flames by the Primordial Dragon in the past was all bestowed by Baichuan.

Since even his Juanzhu could play with flames in such fancy ways, how much more so Baichuan, who had bestowed all power upon his Juanzhu?

His dragon body indeed could not be comprehensively modified, but minor fine-tuning — that he could do!

In this situation, aided by the knowledge of his previous life, having comprehended the essence of combustion and the essence of flame, how could he do nothing? Especially when he could easily produce high-concentration oxidizers.

Thus, he had long ago modified and fine-tuned the rear end of his dragon body, the area above his hind claws, creating several small flame jet ports.

Those were terrifying flame jet thrusters that highly Yasu flame and eject it in束狀 form, carrying extremely powerful thrust. They were one of the preparations Baichuan had originally made to free himself from the planet's magnetic field constraints and step into space.

Unfortunately, plans could not keep up with changes. He had not even begun to test their true effect; at the very initial stage, the unrefined stage, he encountered the appearance of an otherworldly passage, and subsequently obtained the special power system of Spirit Qi, thereby resolving the method of entering space in another direction, and so it was shelved.

But being shelved did not mean it did not exist or could not be used.

Now was the Time to use it!

In an instant, terrifying束狀 high-temperature flame abruptly surged out from behind Baichuan, carrying terrifying thrust and Baichuan's heavy body, in a top-to-bottom posture carrying massive gravitational potential energy as it charged toward the bizarre long worm. During this process, Baichuan also raised high his right Dragon Claw, which Burst with endless light, and pressed it down toward the bizarre long worm.

This endless light was precisely the spectacle produced by Baichuan's own high-energy heat Bursting forth in the form of thermal radiation!

By the same logic, since the rear had been fine-tuned, it would be perfectly normal for his Dragon Claw to be modified a bit as well, right? Especially with a powerful ability like 【Energization】 that could instantly adjust body posture.

In this heaven and earth without the slightest air, the boundless heat on Baichuan's body naturally manifested in the form of thermal radiation, one of the three great heat conduction formulas.

And this was also the way stars like the sun radiated heat in the universe.

In other words, at this moment, his right claw, wrapped in high-energy thermal radiation, was equivalent to a small Heng Xing Zhi Zhua!

This was a Dragon Claw bearing the mighty power of a star!

In an instant, the bizarre long worm, which had just Burst forth with all its Yin Qi, was completely dumbfounded.

Vast amounts of Yin Qi melted away rapidly like butter meeting a hot knife. Fearing Yang and favoring cold, it now found its entire body as if it were deep within the core of a star.

It could never have imagined that even while staying in a dark, sunless world, it could still be blinded by the blazing light.

Thus, it was stunned.

The next moment, before it could react.

"Hiss hiss!"

A massive claw carrying terrifying high temperature directly seized its neck, bringing with it waves of peculiar roasted meat aroma as it slammed straight into the ground.

And the target of the collision was precisely aimed by Baichuan, after tens of millions of calculations, at the source of all the rampaging chains — the bronze-colored chains upon the earth!

Boom!

Boom!!

Boom!!!

"Hmph!!"

Continuous rumblings, accompanied by a muffled groan filled with pain, resounded throughout the entire heaven and earth at this moment.

That was not only produced by Baichuan slamming into the ground with the bizarre long worm that had been blinded, but also by the divine spear carrying terrifying flames striking the divine corpse that was about to flee!

In an instant, the already shattered earth once again welcomed a terrifying impact. Ferocious massive fissures began extending continuously from the center point of the impact in all directions.

Rumble rumble!

The next moment, scorching magma began to gush out from the fissures, bringing with it waves of rising heat and poisonous smoke.

"Cough cough..."

"Cough cough..."

A few breaths later, the Yin Qi vanished, the smoke and dust dispersed, and sounds of painful, weak coughing continuously rang out.

Those were all the True Sovereigns and divine Spirits who had been saved by Baichuan thanks to Ao Qing's good fortune.

Of course, having gone through the previous rampage of those mysterious chains, they had now entered their most weakened state, their full strength not retaining even a tenth.

Nevertheless, they were, after all, True Sovereign and divine Spirit-level powerhouses, that tiny handful standing at the very pinnacle of this heaven and earth. As long as they did not die or meet with accidents, they could still gradually recover their strength with the passage of Time.

"I, we... seem to have been saved?"

"Free... free at last..."

"We survived! We survived!"

"Ten thousand thanks for the前辈's rescue. If there is any need in the future, please do not hesitate to command."

"World-Honored Heavenly Venerable, thank the前辈 for the rescue."

"Amitabha, thank the great compassionate and merciful Senior Bai for today's grace."

"Thanks to our lord, thanks to our lord the Pure White God for the salvation!"

At this moment, all the surviving True Sovereigns and divine Spirits could hardly believe it — the painful days of unknown duration had finally come to an end!

For a moment, some muttered to themselves in disbelief, while others, quick to react, immediately gave thanks to Baichuan who had rescued them.

The Pure White God was naturally the respectful title the Western Spirits used for Baichuan, his divine appellation.

Throughout the entire battle, if one were to ask what impression of Baichuan lingered most deeply in everyone's mind, it would naturally be that sacred scene of him being surrounded by an ocean radiating endless white light.

In that moment, his expression was solemn; his eyes, though appearing cold and indifferent, carried a special nuance of compassion and loving-kindness for all living beings, as if he were the most just and impartial deity of the world — the Dragon of Light!

At this moment, he saved them from the sea of suffering.

These True Lords and Spirits should have been the most resolute in mind and will in the world, yet they still fell captive to Baichuan's sacred bearing.

Of course, anyone who had been tormented for countless ages, only to have a great being stand amid a sacred and warm sea of light coming to rescue them, would also submit to this.

Perhaps some of those True Lords and Spirits among them would not directly submit to Baichuan, but from now on, it was an indisputable truth that they would not make enemies of Baichuan; moreover, if Baichuan had any need, he would not even need to speak, and they would spontaneously gather around to offer help.

This, in itself, was a kind of terrifying power.

If an ordinary person obtained this, relying on it to act tyrannically in the world, whether in Dongfang Quyu or the Western Quyu, would be no dream at all.

Unfortunately, for Baichuan, this was nothing more than something that couldn't even be considered icing on the cake.

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(End of this chapter)