Chapter 301: Raging Dragon

With a "crack" sound, the purple light column aimed straight at the upper part of the white tower and slammed into it.

The already dimming sky stayed constantly bright with hundreds of Alchemical Art matrices, and the wind of falling coins instantly wrapped the whole white tower.

This time it wasn't an attack, or rather Kara hadn't prepared any defense at all.

"It's already here, Ouz of Desire, although you wield forbidden power, that power was ultimately created by me, turning all desire into void."

"It may look terrifying, but it's not unsolvable; I am the true king of this world!"

Kara watched the charging Jiang Xia, the voice as cold as steel, like a great bell striking.

He was confident in his Alchemical Art methods, no longer fearing the power of the dinosaur coin, even feeling disdainful.

Even if he could destroy the Core Coin, so what? For the genius, as long as he's prepared, he can control everything in this world.

"Then let us begin, the true ancient Alchemical Art power, the true power of desire."

Kara activated the massive Alchemical Art matrix surrounding the white tower.

Then, the smooth surface of the white tower emitted a Gold Light energy conduit, and the all‑destructive force within the dark clouds grew ever stronger.

The grand, oppressive aura of the area sealed by the barrier made the transparent shield begin to tremble.

A deafening roar echoed within the sky‑blocking black clouds.

"What is this?"

Jiang Xia's flight speed jolted sharply, his dragon wings fluttering lightly behind.

He suddenly floated in the air, frowning slightly as he gazed at the Alchemical Art matrix covering the white tower.

Endless bookshelves flashed by his side at high speed, appearing and disappearing repeatedly.

Data streamed through his mind, finally allowing him to locate detailed information.

"This is indeed troublesome; Alchemical Art capable of this level is already the ultimate expression of the realm of desire."

Jiang Xia stared at the white tower flashing with Gold Light and began to speak slowly.

When it became clear that the Core Coins could not be fully gathered and the human vessels were lost, Kara had already abandoned the plan to absorb the twenty‑one Core Coins into her body.

He doesn't truly wish to destroy the world; he only wants to cleanse human desire and then rule this world.

After finding that becoming Ouz was impossible, he set his sights on another power.

"Gather humanity's filthy, degenerate desire and become part of me! I will become the true king of desire in this world."

The final cellular coin of the desire scale finally flipped, and the world‑shaking power converged under the guidance of Alchemical Art.

A massive energy surge rippled through the rolling black clouds, and in the now pitch‑black sky, a blinding flash lit up.

The dazzling white light pierced the heavens, illuminating the entire city.

"Is this also an astronomical phenomenon?"

The bald programmer curled up tightly, overwhelming terror rendering him immobile.

"Don't be foolish, the world is ending, there's no hope," the bespectacled man pushed his glasses up his nose, "Hope that in the next life, you won't be bald again."

A white light column thundered down onto the white tower wrapped by the Alchemical Art matrix, and the tower itself became transparent as the power radiated.

The true form of this sky‑piercing white light column was thus revealed…

It is the power that trades via the scale using human desire, the thing that never manifested in history because Huo Ye Yingsi's desire broke the scale.

It is a power that can cleanse most of humanity in an instant, the ultimate force of desire.

Beneath the white tower's Alchemical Art matrix, this ultimate desire merged with Kara; even a civilization of Alchemical Art at its limit would find this scene hard to achieve.

"I can feel the immense power, hahaha! I am the true Ouz," Kara, seated at the center of the white tower, let out a roar that shook the heavens, the tower began to collapse, and the earth started to tremor.

In the now transparent lower part of the white tower, the dinosaurs that Kara had seized began to melt away, turning into coins that Kara instantly absorbed.

The ground that had already been swapped also began to revert, returning to its original state.

The sky‑filled gold matrix gradually disintegrated into light particles amid the sound of shattering.

Inside Kara, a cataclysmic change began; the Core Coin within her erupted in a burst of Gold Light, sounding like a great bell's beating inside her.

Kara seemed to have a heart beating rapidly, with blood vessels, meridians, and bones being reshaped within her body.

Kara is evolving, from a Greed that required a human host into another, more powerful lifeform.

"Ouz.."

The surrounding buildings were all broken down into cellular coins that formed a ring, encircling the volcano‑like fiery heart.

The concrete skyscrapers were being broken down by Alchemical Art; after melting, massive Core Coins streamed like a river into the heart at the center.

Crimson eyes snapped open, bearing a world‑dominating ambition, revealing ultimate madness.

The body, built from countless cellular coins, was incalculably massive; storms swirled from all directions, and ferocious roars filled the space.

It surged skyward, and under the coating of cellular coins, Kara's body began to twist and expand, unstoppable.

Bluish‑gray, steel‑like scales and jagged bones pierced through the body, the skull elongated and mutated in midair, and the twin wings behind pierced the sky.

The steel‑like wings merely fluttered once, dispersing all the sky's black clouds.

It flew into the sky, letting out a triumphant roar, admiring the world on the brink of ruin.

But before that, it must kill the final obstacle; the black giant dragon looked up at the purple dinosaur conglomerate Ouz hovering before it.

The fury in its heart roiled endlessly, a raging cyclone driving its inner madness, its metallic pupils fixed on him.

Eight hundred years ago, most humans were merely tools for them to obtain desire, and even after eight hundred years humans remain the same.

Even as time passed, they became more creative, and those possessing things began to increase.

But one thing stays unchanged: the desire rooted in their hearts. Even if the names change, what they pursue remains the same,

This disgusts it immensely; this world cannot tolerate such tangled desire, they must all submit to me.

Originally, Wang also possessed massive desire, and it watches the dinosaur conglomerate before it now,

Its gaze seemed to pierce time, seeing the once lofty, cold, ruthless king.

This is absolutely intolerable; a second king must not exist.

The massive dragon suddenly manifested multicolored Alchemical Matrices; it now soars into the sky, with attacks of five attributes hovering around it, clustering like a stellar ring at its side.

The winged, ferocious Frenzied Dragon seemed to have devoured the sun; the jagged, broad bone wings spread, casting shadows that made everyone on the ground shiver.

"What a monster! Even a Core Coin's rampage isn't quite like this."

Yi Da Ming, who had recovered all the cell coins from the icy wasteland, looked up at the black shadow hovering in the sky.

He finally understood why such tiny cell coins could fascinate the Hongshang President so much. Such ultimate beings are composed of things like cell coins.

Not merely a tool, but also the key to Evolution.

In the plaza, dust swirled as the earth cracked, the slate floor riddled with fissures, and the survivors stared blankly at the dragon hovering in the air, as if from myth.

The sheer existential pressure made ordinary humans unable to look directly.

Humans lacking any special abilities, whose desires are feeble, simply lacked the courage to stare at it.

The fear etched deep in their genes even robbed them of any chance to flee.

At that moment, the vending units spread throughout Dream Town began to transform automatically.

The clanging of machinery rang out in an instant, and multicolored cans shot out of the vending machines, rapidly reshaping.

These tiny devices moved at abnormal speed before the terrified people, forcibly pulling them from their paralyzing dread and guiding them away from the area.

It is indisputable that the Hongshang Group rules Dream Town; the Hongshang Foundation knows every corner like the back of its hand.

Under the AI‑controlled cans, the crowd evacuated in orderly fashion.

Watching the precise movements of the cans, one could tell many contingency plans were in place; Hongshang Guangsheng, having studied Core Coins for so long, naturally prepared for accidents.

The attacks surrounding the Frenzied Dragon coalesced, countless runes flickering deep within its massive eyes, and five different Alchemical Matrices began to overlay.

The mighty assault gathered into form; it opened a abyssal maw, unleashing a thunderous roar.

In this state, its Alchemical Art became even more effortless; five layers of distinct attacks interlinked into a blaze that incinerated everything, blasting straight at the purple Oz.

"Come, you will become material for my Evolution."

Facing it, Jiang Xia flapped his wings, and extreme cold frost surged from the tips of his dragon wings behind him.

The frigid temperature even froze the entire cloud layer into a massive ice block.

The teal eyes on his visor turned pure white, and a blinding white radiance erupted from his body.

The aftershock of that power made the surrounding space begin to vibrate.

Invisible waves shattered the previously frozen ice block.

Just as the center of the five-layer Alchemical Matrix erupted an incomparable blaze, a pure white pillar of light shot forth like an arrow imbued with destructive power,

surrounded by a rainbow halo, another product also bearing an Alchemical Matrix.

The instant the arrow struck the blaze, chaotic energy exploded violently from their centers.

A moment of stalemate between red and white terrifying energies blossomed like a volcanic eruption.

The white light blotted out the sky and the sun.

A second brilliant sun rose in the sky, bringing incomparable light and heat; everything around was pierced by the dazzling white light.

Several energy ripples spread outward from the center.

The violent roar of the energy explosion, even from thousands of meters up, caused unimaginable turbulence on the ground.

No one could see the outcome of their clash, except the two combatants in the air.

The dazzling arrow pierced the magma‑like scorching breath, heading straight for the black Frenzied Dragon.

The moment it saw its attack pierced, numerous Alchemical Formations suddenly appeared across its body.

However, the Alchemical Art used for defense was useless, being straight through the pure white light wave.

The countless Alchemical Matrices meant for defense were shattered by the strike.

At the moment the defense was pierced, the white light struck the black Frenzied Dragon, its anguished roar drowned by the explosion's thunder.

At the moment of impact, a multitude of cell coins were devoured by the strike.

The explosion's recoil also flung the massive body skyward.

"Anku, do you have a Core Coin that can fight in the air? I also want to do what I'm capable of."

Huo Ye Yingsi looked at the dazzling white light erupting in the sky; he wasn't frightened at all, his gaze showing only seriousness.

Unlike those who could barely stand, his movements were unaffected.

Even his heartbeat rate didn't change; he calmly spoke to Anku.

"Hmm, I have a Core Coin that can fly in my hand; to unleash its true power, it must be used in a linked set,"

Anku nodded, without hesitation spreading his now crimson claws and handing three crimson Core Coins to Huo Ye Yingsi.

Only he knew that removing those Core Coins would leave him without a complete body, reverting to a state with only a right hand.

Even his five senses would begin to blur; the Core Coins were, in fact, more important than his life.

"Thank you, Anku," Huo Ye Yingsi said, feeling the hot coin in his hand and nodding.

"Hmph! Consider it a loan," Anku turned away, hiding his expression from Huo Ye Yingsi.

"Hmm."

The three crimson Core Coins were placed in succession into the Oz Drive, and crimson flames radiated from his body.

Like a phoenix reborn, multicolored wings burst open behind him, propelling him toward the battlefield.

He could not allow Jiang Xia to fight alone; that was all he thought.

Huo Ye Yingsi's goal had always been simple: just to protect others.

The roar gradually faded, and the sun's radiance spilled onto the sky, which resembled a blue mirror.

The dragon's form reappeared before the world, countless surviving eyes gazing upward.

A massive, regular‑shaped primordial hole was torn in the center of the raging dragon, and countless cell coins spilled out.

Its jagged wings behind spread wide, but soon the huge chest wound healed at a visibly rapid pace.

It flapped its wings again and lunged fiercely at Jiang Xia.

"Just a little more, I couldn't completely shatter the Core Coin inside its body; it seems something is neutralizing the power of the dinosaur core." Jiang Xia thought to himself.

Jiang Xia shook his dragon wings, maneuvering in the air to dodge the wild beast's attack.

It has far too many cell coins inside; if they aren't all destroyed at once, they'll quickly heal.

However, having many also has its advantages; Jiang Xia reached out and grabbed the Holy Radiance Explosive Bite Dragon in his hand.

(End of chapter)