Chapter 412: At Last! Once You Helped Me; Today, Let Me Save You

"What's going on?"

"H-Heavens, why did the sky turn black?!"

"What happened?"

"What's that sound?"

Boundless dark clouds gathered together, and a gale gradually rose that was strong enough to shake the small spatial pockets of every seat in the venue, causing every living being present to rise in alarm, their hearts filled with dread.

After all, not all of them possessed powerful strength; once the small spatial pocket they were in shook and shattered, the terrifying spatial force would instantly mince them into fine filling, just like wrapping dumplings.

Their biological instincts told them that something major was about to happen here!

Only some exceptionally intelligent beings, connecting the dots between the creatures brought up earlier and the current abnormal celestial phenomena, either gazed with sharp-eyed anticipation at what was to come, or felt a twinge of panic at their own weakness and wished to leave—after all, no matter which side won the impending clash, they could all be caught in the crossfire.

Of course, many more simply cursed outright under the threat to their lives, not only cursing the mastermind behind the scene before them, but also cursing the Lingneng Clan for failing to keep watch over their own territory.

"Silence!"

Suddenly, a commanding shout rang out, carrying an aura of authority without anger.

It was a powerful Lingneng Clan expert who had come to take control of the situation amid the panicked crowd caused by the abnormal circumstances.

It was an invincible True Immortal exuding a terrifying, oppressive aura—mouse-headed, human-bodied, four-armed, with knotted muscles all over its body; every movement warped the surrounding space. Truly terrifying.

"General Spirit Mouse has appeared! Wonderful, we don't need to panic too much!"

"With General Spirit Mouse out, that pretender will soon be executed!"

"I never expected this great assembly to have him personally guarding it—seems the Lingneng Clan had long foreseen what would happen at this tribunal…"

"What a pity, no more show to watch…"

In the venue, someone in the previously panicked crowd suddenly recognized the Lingneng Clan True Immortal who had appeared and cried out in shock.

With that cry, the previously panicked crowd gradually began to relax.

General Spirit Mouse—being able to bear the character "Spirit" in his name within the Lingneng Clan and still be called a General, he could certainly not be some unknown weakling.

The fact was exactly so: he was one of the three Great Generals of the vast Lingneng Clan, excluding the Ancestor, having earned countless military merits for the Lingneng Clan's sweeping conquest of this star domain. His most famous traits were his terrifying strength far surpassing peers of the same rank, and his seemingly indestructible defense!

His strength was such that he could lift an entire planet and hurl it as a weapon; his defense was so terrifying it could rival the Star God Clan's 【Wall of Sighs】. Even many True Immortals and True Gods of the same caliber did not wish to face this brute.

Yet now, this General Spirit Mouse, on whom countless beings had pinned their hopes, stood silent, his heart heavy—the thick Dragon Qi permeating the air of the entire space made his heart pound uncontrollably.

The one who caused all this—a great enemy!

An absolute great enemy!

His pair of azure divine eyes shone brightly, and he slowly raised his gaze toward the oppressive black clouds above.

"Splash splash splash…"

Rain began to fall silently, imbued with incomparably thick Dragon Qi, eerily piercing through the spatial barriers and bestowing equally upon every being in this Subspace!

It directly drenched every living being present, making them feel the bone-chilling cold within it.

"Crack crack crack…"

Eerie sounds of freezing began to ring out. On the ground, on the seats, on every structure in the venue, and even on the invisible small spatial barriers, a thin layer of ice that looked like mere decoration slowly condensed—yet it plunged everyone into a sensation as if falling into an icy abyss.

"What rat dares to play tricks here in my Lingneng Clan's domain!"

"Take this strike from me!"

Suddenly, an angry roar exploded like a thunderclap on flat ground, echoing through this Subspace and lingering endlessly.

Surveying the changes around him, General Spirit Mouse finally could hold back no longer. With glaring eyes wide open, he threw back his lion-like mouth and let out a wild howl.

Three peculiar diamond-shaped light shields immediately appeared around him, rotating continuously—that was the manifestation of his power, famed for possessing defensive strength comparable to the Star God Clan's 【Wall of Sighs】.

Under the terrifying pressure pervading the air, he roused himself to full alertness, employing his strongest stance from the very start, which once again drew cries of astonishment from countless beings.

Then he brought his hands together at his waist in a calyx seal, and dazzling pale-blue radiance shone forth from within. Terrifying bursts of energy surged out, kicking up devastation across the ground, and sheets of newly formed Ice Frost were instantly blasted away.

"【Star Piercer】!"

A deadly energy orb between his hands in the calyx seal continuously "multiplied," and then continuously "compressed" when the multiplication reached its limit, repeating this cycle over and over, until even he could no longer withstand the terrifying impact. In an instant, he thrust both hands forward as if pushing a planet, launching it toward the clouds above.

This was his strongest power at the True Immortal realm, one that made countless opponents dread facing him!

【Multiplication】, 【Yasu】!

Two LV6 (Characteristic)-level powers, complementing each other, could easily unleash terrifying might far surpassing those of the same realm!

Given time, he could erupt with terrifying power approaching the Ancient Immortal realm!

And the diamond-shaped light shields he deployed at the start granted him an unbreakable defense, perfectly completing the closed loop. This was the true foundation of a super civilization, a Banzhu force of a star domain.

Not only did he possess two more powers of the same realm than ordinary True Immortal experts, but they could also coordinate with each other, achieving an effect where 1+1 was greater than 2.

By comparison, the True Immortal Guyue that Baichuan had once encountered was truly nothing to speak of.

The deadly energy orb was instantly launched, then violently swelled in an instant. Under a powerful pull, it erupted into a dazzling Sharpness light pillar that shot forth.

"It's over… it's over…"

Inside the small spatial pocket of his seat, Dangya pressed his face against the transparent screen in utter despair. Having survived this long in the hands of the Lingneng Clan, although it was largely because he hid very deep and never directly confronted the Lingneng Clan—yet without some tricks, even if he never confronted them directly, how could he have lived so comfortably and even occasionally saved members of the former High Spirit Clan?

At the very least, the indispensable information was never lacking for him.

Precisely because of this, he understood General Spirit Mouse's strength far better than ordinary people.

That was one of the three most powerful True Immortals of the Lingneng Clan, a terrifying existence who had slain peers of the same True Immortal realm!

Now, the True Immortal combat power he had finally managed to win over…

"Unwise, utterly unwise! …"

"All that hard work has gone to waste again…"

"In the heartland of the Lingneng Clan, no matter how powerful a True Immortal is, what can they do? They'd still have to obediently submit to execution."

"Sigh…"

"Ximan, Little Princess, let's pack up and prepare to leave. Bai… he can't be relied up…"

"Boss, boss…"

"What's wrong?" Dangya, who had been mumbling pessimistically to himself and preparing to run, was suddenly interrupted by a companion's quiet call. He followed his companion's direction and turned his gaze. "Holy shit!"

"Wh-what happened?!"

One moment he had been pessimistic and preparing to run; the next, he was struck dumb by the scene before him. Stumbling backward, he nearly fell flat on his rear. He rubbed his large single eye in disbelief and looked again carefully.

It was still that same scene.

Crackling and exploding continuously, leaping with terrifying arcs of electricity, the ghostly-white ice spear had directly pierced through the terrifying existence he had previously thought impossible to fight—General Spirit Mouse. Like threading a piece of meat, it ran from the crown of the head down to the feet, standing straight at the center of the venue.

And that General Spirit Mouse, until death never knew what had happened; his expression remained the same as before—fierce glaring eyes and a roaring stance.

As if some terrifying existence far beyond his strength had struck from another realm at a speed the other could neither comprehend nor react to, killing him in an instant.

So much so that his invincible defensive power had been rendered completely useless.

At this moment, the entire venue was silent.

Whether they were watching the show, gloating, or terrified—all were the same.

"Above True Immortal! We're done for—that is an unknown Ancient Immortal!"

"A war between Ancient Immortals and Divine Kings is about to Burst…"

After an unknown length of time, a being in the form of an old man with a white beard and hair finally spoke slowly. He was the True Immortal in charge from the Star Sea Federation attending this Arbitration Assembly.

Unlike other beings, as the oldest—though not the strongest—his experience was something the new generation of powerful beings could not compare to. After all, being able to live this long was itself a kind of ability.

At that moment, he had, from the side, 借助 his companion Spirit beast's innate ability and caught a glimpse of what had happened in that instant.

General Spirit Mouse had Burst forth the terrifying power of the peak of True Immortal, attempting to disperse the clouds, causing the existence who had laid down the clouds to suffer a backlash of power, thereby seizing the opportunity to drag out… that Majesty. Who would have thought that not only did his incomparably powerful attack cause no harm, it was directly swallowed by the clouds.

After that, he was pierced from head to foot by a terrifying divine spear that穿越 dimensional space and came from an unknown direction!

In an instant, the entire venue first fell silent for a moment, then suddenly erupted into chaos, becoming a noisy uproar.

Many beings could no longer restrain themselves; they fled out of their seat's small space, their forms transforming into streaks of flowing light as they escaped toward the exit.

Ancient Immortal, Ancient God, Divine King, Immortal King, Ancestor… countless great and revered names—those weighty words contained a power that no being beneath this stretch of Xingkong dared to ignore!

If a True Immortal could be called invincible beneath the Xingkong, then an Ancient Immortal had transcended the specifications; under normal circumstances they would no longer be mentioned in the same breath as the beings below. This was also why the ultimate dream of ordinary beings was merely True Immortal—because those above were already beings beyond the invincible, outside the discussion!

Ordinary beings simply found it hard to comprehend; they did not even dare to harbor thoughts of longing or looking up at such power.

"We must report to our Lord!"

On another side, the True Immortal in charge from the Luo Clan, another super civilization, spoke with an expression solemn and even ugly.

He did not attempt to flee, because before a great existence of the Ancestor realm—flee? That was impossible!

The only option was to report to the Lord behind them; awaiting the Lord's decision was the first priority.

No one had expected that a routine Arbitration Assembly would actually attract an Ancestor realm existence from who-knows-where. Regardless of its purpose, it was bound to cause shifts in the power structure of this star domain.

At this moment, countless people were each thinking their own plans. Dangya was already speechless; his one large eye, usually full of wisdom, was utterly dazed, and he kept muttering to himself.

"Oh my god, oh my god… I-I actually showed off in front of an Ancient Immortal, and didn't die? And even got to talk with such an existence?"

"Ba… that Majesty even personally grabbed my collar? This is clothing touched by an Ancient Immortal! I've decided, I'll solemnly preserve it and pass it down as a family heirloom to my descendants!"

……

Just as all beings displayed their various reactions.

At this time, the clouds in the sky finally stirred, slowly parting to both sides. Then a massive dragon head poked out from within, looking down upon all beings below.

Howling狂风, pouring rain nearly forming a gray curtain of water—a majestic dragon head emerged from the clouds, looking down at the world below. A pair of dragon eyes, dignified as if gilded, shone through the rain like two eternal, never-extinguishing suns between heaven and earth.

Brilliant, dazzling, blinding, inspiring awe in the heart!

A dragon—something that had only ever appeared in myths and legends, exceedingly rare—had descended!

The blazing brilliance caused all beings, under the instinctive fear of their bodies, to bow their heads, not daring to look directly, nor daring to run any longer.

Because, beneath the gaze of such an existence, all action was useless; it might even anger that great being, thereby bringing about an overwhelming catastrophe ahead of time.

"Dragon!"

"So that Majesty was a dragon… no wonder… no wonder…"

The True Immortal elder who had first spoken and revealed that the one who had created the scene before them was an existence above True Immortal, a flash of realization passed through his eyes as he sighed.

He seemed to have misunderstood something, assuming that this dragon, whose origins were unknown, was of the same clan as the Chen Dragon of old, come to seek justice because the Lingneng Clan's Ancestor had seized the territory of a fellow clansman.

Of course, strictly speaking, it wasn't entirely wrong.

At this moment, almost all beings present lowered their heads. Even the Lingneng Clan soldiers and spokespersons nearby, who usually held their heads high with pride, fearfully fell to their knees, trembling.

Because, the rain was too cold.

There was only one exception—a disheveled woman whose hands and feet were bound by heavy chains. Especially now, under the pounding of the pouring rain, she was soaked through. The heavy stone armor representing her prison garb had truly turned to rock, binding and fixing her within the long stone armor—unable to fall, unable to move, even breathing was somewhat difficult.

The peerless elegance seen in former times was gone; only a muddled, wretched state remained.

The princess of the Lingneng Clan who had betrayed her own civilization in the matter of Zhenyu—many beings simply did not understand why this Lingneng Clan princess would so foolishly betray her own mother clan.

After all, her status was a noble position that countless female beings dreamed of day and night yet could never obtain. As long as she wished, wealth and glory beyond the imagination of ordinary beings were all within her easy reach. Yet such a noble status had been abandoned by her.

How many beings, upon hearing of this, wished they could crack open her skull to see what exactly was inside.

But Baichuan knew clearly, and precisely because he knew, he felt even more deeply the weight of this待遇.

"…Once you saved my life; today, I shall repay it…"

While murmuring, a massive Dragon Claw reached down from the peak of the clouds.

"You've gone too far…"

It was also at this moment that the Subspace, solidified by the power permeated with Dragon Qi, suddenly发出了 a sound like glass breaking. Then a voice, indifferent and aloof, ignored the wind and rain and rang clearly through heaven and earth, in the hearts of all beings.

……

(End of this chapter)