Chapter 863: The Dragon God Appears

Almost everyone on the battlefield cast their gaze toward the place where the waves of light were still roaring; after all, the final outcome of that battle could sway the ultimate direction of the Lunar War.

Bright moonlight pierced through the waves of light, and Tsukuyomi's figure emerged from the raging energy storm. Although she had successfully broken free from the energy storm, Tsukuyomi looked extremely disheveled; her long black hair was disarrayed, and her white dress had many holes, revealing glimpses of her skin. Strands of golden God Body blood overflowed from her mouth, clearly indicating she had been severely wounded in this exchange.

Although she had broken free from the energy storm, Tsukuyomi did not feel the slightest bit of relief; her intuition told her that this opponent was likely far more terrifying than she had imagined.

Suddenly, a ray of light tore through the energy storm and lunged straight at Tsukuyomi. Tsukuyomi's pupils constricted, and she almost subconsciously summoned a sheet of moonlight to wrap around her entire body.

Just as the moonlight enveloped Tsukuyomi's entire body, Lingyun's figure appeared before her, his fist wrapped in terrifying Sun Moon Star Power, slamming heavily against the Moonlight Barrier.

"Star Fall!"

Under Lingyun's fist, the Moonlight Barrier lasted for less than a few breaths before shattering completely. With no further obstruction, Lingyun's fist slammed heavily into Tsukuyomi.

Tsukuyomi let out a mournful cry as her figure flew backward, countless rays of moonlight dissipating around her, and the aura on her body rapidly fading.

Lingyun stopped in his tracks. On his body, a layer of armor composed of starlight was slowly shattering, turning into tiny specks of light that dissipated into the Void; it was clear that this layer of armor had blocked the raging energy storm for him just moments ago.

After taking a deep breath, Lingyun's figure tore through the Void once more, pursuing Tsukuyomi. In his hand, Sun Moon Star Power converged into a massive seal, which he hurled heavily toward Tsukuyomi.

Tsukuyomi, who was flying backward, was struck directly by the seal Lingyun had thrown, crashing heavily into the ground and blasting a large crater into the earth. Tsukuyomi was now in a truly miserable state; her God Body had been severely damaged, and her aura was incredibly weak. At this moment, if a Great Youkai were to arrive, they might just be able to accomplish the feat of god-slaying.

Lingyun landed in front of the crater and looked at the disheveled Tsukuyomi inside. Tsukuyomi lay in the large crater, looking up at the man who was towering over her, and could not help but ask, "Who, exactly, are you?"

"Me? My name is Lingyun, just an ordinary human." Lingyun raised his hand. "Oh right, I have another identity, and that is Kaguya's teacher."

Hearing Lingyun's words, a trace of disdain flashed in Tsukuyomi's eyes. An ordinary human? Could an ordinary human control the Moon Sovereignty? Could an ordinary human severely wound her on the Moon to this extent? Who was he trying to fool! However, even though she was severely injured, there was not a hint of fear in her gaze as she looked at Lingyun; she was clearly relying on something.

Seeing this, Lingyun could not help but frown. At the moment Tsukuyomi was wounded earlier, he had felt the Moon let out a mournful cry; it was clear that Tsukuyomi had linked her own fate to the Moon. If Tsukuyomi died, the Moon would also suffer severe damage.

"Tsk, this woman, so she had such a trick up her sleeve?" Lingyun raised his hand, and a bolt of star power shot from his fingertip, piercing toward Tsukuyomi's heart. If this strike landed, even if Tsukuyomi didn't die, she would be left in a dying, critically wounded state.

Just as the star power was about to touch Tsukuyomi, Lingyun's eyes suddenly narrowed, and his figure flickered and vanished from where he stood.

The star power shot from Lingyun's fingertip was completely annihilated the moment it touched Tsukuyomi's body, as if it had never appeared at all. At the same time, the space where Lingyun had just been suddenly solidified; if he hadn't run fast, he likely would have been sealed directly within that space. Even though this level of spatial solidification wouldn't cause him harm, it would still be quite troublesome to break.

"Dragon God?" Lingyun's gaze turned toward the sky, where a giant eye had appeared at some point, coldly watching the battlefield.

"No, this look?" Lingyun stared at that eye, a trace of doubt flashing in his heart. Why did he detect a hint of sleepiness in that eye?

"Human?" A drifting, ethereal voice came over, with a hint of undisguisable surprise in its tone.

As the embodiment of the world's Inhibitory Force, the Dragon God's existence could be said to be as old as the world itself. In the long passage of time, she had seen countless creatures and many humans, but she had truly never seen a human like Lingyun, who could make her feel a sense of closeness or even a trace of pressure.

"So that's how it is, this is your trump card, Tsukuyomi?" Lingyun said in a low voice.

Although the appearance of the Dragon God had indeed surprised Lingyun, thinking of Tsukuyomi's identity, Lingyun felt this was not something incomprehensible. Tsukuyomi was the Moon Goddess; if she died, it would absolutely cause massive damage to the Moon, possibly even leading to the Moon's collapse. And the chain reaction caused by the Moon's collapse would certainly lead this world toward extinction. Facing such a situation, it was only natural for the Dragon God, as the World Guardian, to step in.

Seeing the Dragon God appear, Tsukuyomi felt a bit more confident and stood up with some difficulty: "You cannot kill me!"

Seeing the Dragon God appear, the battlefield fell into an instant silence. This big shot was a legendary existence; if anyone did something to displease it at this time, being wiped out would happen in a matter of minutes.

Watching the Dragon God, which had manifested as an eye in the sky, Yakumo Yukari could not help but clench her teeth. She wanted to establish Gensokyo, and the existence of the Dragon God was an inevitable hurdle. But when the Dragon God truly appeared, she realized that even if the Dragon God just stood there without moving, the feeling it gave you was like an entire world standing before you—it was so overwhelming.

What worried her even more was that the Dragon God had appeared just as Tsukuyomi was pushed to the brink of life and death by Lingyun, which meant it was definitely standing on Tsukuyomi's side. If that were truly the case, then this battle was in jeopardy.

"Tsukuyomi cannot die." A slightly lazy voice sounded in Lingyun's mind, the end of the sentence accompanied by the sound of a yawn.

Hearing this voice and looking at the eye with weariness in its depths, Lingyun's mouth twitched. Originally, the Dragon God of this world should have been a majestic and inviolable existence in his eyes, but the Dragon God's current behavior before him had already made that sense of majesty disappear, much like Remilia's majesty.

Recalling how some World Consciousnesses he had been fortunate enough to see long ago were so bored they were restless, then thinking of those two adorable lolis in the Type-Moon World, and finally adding this half-asleep Dragon God before him, Lingyun felt that a World Consciousness like Ruoxi, who worked tremblingly for her own world, was likely a rare gem among the many World Consciousnesses.

"Is it that Tsukuyomi cannot die, or that nothing can happen to the Moon?" Lingyun asked.

"Hmm, is there a difference?"

For some reason, when Lingyun heard this voice, he couldn't help but imagine a woman rubbing her eyes, struggling to stay awake.

"So that's how it is? Then things are much easier to handle!" A smile appeared on Lingyun's face.