Chapter 4022: Ancient Flying Dragon

Snowflakes drifted down from above, landing on the petrified ancient dragon scales. This powerful ancient dragon, once known as the Blood Dragon of the Rose, had by today turned into a giant stone sculpture, standing tall in the Corrupted King City occupied by the Abyss descendants.

From above, the high walls of the entire Corrupted King City were circular, with a total of two layers. The outer layer was the Light-Devouring Layer that would grow rapidly when encountering intense sunlight. This was built to counter the Sun faction. At present, the extraordinary microorganisms that made up the Light-Devouring Layer had all died, turning into gray-white stone.

Inside was the black stone high wall. The high wall of several hundred meters was not high for ancient dragons, mainly used for cold tides. No one hoped that their nest would be frozen into an ice cellar.

The pity was that the Ancient Dragon King City was already in ruins. Many schools had divided this place. Some came from the Meteorite Star, some from areas eroded by the Abyss, and some from the Void. Their purpose in coming here was the same: to understand and explore the Abyss.

That's right, even veteran Abyss descendants didn't explore more than 5% of the Abyss. Perhaps only by sitting on that ancient black throne belonging to the Abyss master could one have more

The burly Paladin Monipe knelt on one knee, intending to support the Twin Kings who were about to fall from the throne.

"In the end, you still didn't listen to my orders."

The Twin Kings spoke. All along, the Twin Kings had been dominated by the consciousness of the elder brother; the younger brother within rarely emerged from the subconscious. These twin brothers, born together, despised each other.

Hearing these words from the Twin Kings, Paladin Monipe lowered her head, clearly acknowledging her error but showing no intention of changing her mind. Seeing this, the Twin Kings, no longer able to sustain it, withdrew the golden light shell that had just blocked the Boundary Thunder flooding into the palace and protected Paladin Monipe, leaving him extremely weak at this moment.

"Since you stayed, finish what you should do."

After the Twin Kings finished speaking, another bout of dry coughing followed. Blood dripped down his fair fingertips; it was very strange that his blood was actually bright red, rather than the pitch-black blood of darkness.

"Yes! Your Majesty."

Paladin Monipe's gaze became resolute once more. She rose from her kneeling position and drew the knight's greatsword that had accompanied her all along. She gripped the greatsword with both hands, her gaze more determined than ever before.

"Wind Sea Continent, Beast Race, Hereditary Paladin, Monipe."

Paladin Monipe held the hilt with both hands, the longsword standing before her.

"Reincarnation, Bai Ye."

Su Xiao rarely spoke before a life-or-death battle.

With a boom, slight cracks appeared on the ground beneath Paladin Monipe's feet. Being able to leave such marks in the great hall was already remarkable; one had to know that this palace had withstood the Boundary Thunder.

Clang!

The knight's greatsword and the longsword clashed, the holy power erupting with full force.

But the next second, blood energy like a terrifying, raging tide swept out, making the holy power feel like a lonely boat in a sea of blood. Feeling the power on the greatsword, Paladin Monipe gritted her teeth; the passing blood energy even cut wounds on both sides of her face.

The dying Goddess of the Dead Moon had just uttered this word when she felt the wind pressure rushing toward her again.

Paladin Monipe roared as her holy power erupted. It wasn't that she was used to roaring, but the pressure from the Technique Grandmaster before her was simply too strong. When fighting, it felt as if the giant claws of a blood beast were pressing down on her head, causing her entire skeleton to emit cracking sounds.

"Blade Dao: Time."

Dong~

The time force field erupted. Against an opponent like Paladin Monipe, not to mention the gap in strength, Su Xiao would not hold back in the slightest. He stepped back and leaped, causing the greatsword Paladin Monipe pressed down with to lose its force and swing forward due to the power of the longsword.

It wasn't that Paladin Monipe's fighting style was shallow, but that she had been perfectly manipulated. She erupted with holy power, trying to create an opening.

Paladin Monipe could only forcibly retract the holy power she had just unleashed. But who would have thought that Su Xiao, who had leaped back a short distance, would leap back again the moment one foot touched the ground, delivering a simple and unadorned slash with his longsword.

Clang!

Paladin Monipe blocked this strike, but the forced retraction of her holy power, combined with being forced to meet this heavy and powerful blow, caused her internal energy to churn.

"Ha!!"

Paladin Monipe forcibly erupted with holy power again and slashed down with her sword. But after the greatsword and longsword clashed, it passed through without any obstruction; Su Xiao had entered the space-penetration state.

"Ultimate Physique: Space Walker (Passive): After you perform a spatial movement, spatial shuttle, or spatial penetration, your next attack speed is increased by 45%, and you deal a certain amount of spatial damage."

"Blade Dao: Extreme."

Su Xiao imbued soul energy onto his longsword, and this strike also possessed spatial slashing characteristics.

Facing this slash, Paladin Monipe, who had just swung her sword into empty air, could only block with her greatsword.

Clang!

Struck by the slash, Paladin Monipe felt a buzzing in her brain. This strike shook her soul, and combined with the spatial characteristics, it gave her the feeling that part of her soul body had been shaken into the spatial gap.

Not giving Paladin Monipe the slightest chance, Su Xiao delivered a straight kick. Strangely, he performed this straight kick while in the "Dragon Shadow Flash" state, and his right foot and lower leg were wrapped in soul energy.

With a bang, a translucent figure seemed to be kicked out from within Paladin Monipe's body, and her entire person instantly went numb on the spot.

Why was this? The reason was that the previous strike with soul characteristics + spatial characteristics, although blocked by Paladin Monipe with her greatsword, had still shaken part of her soul body into the spatial gap. Logically speaking, this was nothing; she could recover after a few seconds.

The problem was that Su Xiao, in a space-penetration state, delivered a straight kick with soul characteristics, which directly caused Paladin Monipe's soul body to suffer a huge shock, even leading to a situation where her soul body and physical body were mildly separated.

In battle, this was extremely dangerous, and in a fight against a Technique Grandmaster, this was equivalent to death.

Zing~

The bright blade edge flashed past, and a bloodstain appeared on Paladin Monipe's neck. She brushed past Su Xiao, but after running only a few steps, Paladin Monipe stopped. She subconsciously covered her throat with one hand, but unfortunately, her vision suddenly rotated and lowered. After a soft thud, she was level with the ground, and she saw a headless corpse falling with blood spraying from the severed neck.

"Truly, a battle that is both despairing and convincing."

This was Paladin Monipe's final thought. She fell completely into darkness. As for being reborn in the abyss, she would not do so, because a few months ago, she had let her "Causal Life Source" dissipate from the "Origin Clan Emblem" of the Ducain family.

"Thank you, Law Breaker. You have given a knight sufficient respect."

The Twin Kings spoke. He sat weakly on the throne, his gaze complex.

"We of the Ducain clan, because of our special birth, possess great power while also being cursed by the evil within our hearts. We are a naturally evil dark race; there is no beauty in our hearts, only enormous desires that expand endlessly."

The Twin Kings rested their elbows on the armrests of the throne, hands clasped. He looked around at the severed limbs and broken arms and continued:

"It cannot be denied that when I was still weak, it was the family that protected me, so I needed to be your enemy."

The Twin Kings smiled and changed the subject: "But I also know that being your enemy is wrong. No matter what your purpose is, you are protecting those innocent humans in Doan. They just want to live, to live without being tormented by hunger and illness. But my clansmen don't seem to like that point.

I have thought of many ways, and finally discovered that knowledge is a good way to find answers. It contains infinite mysteries and might be able to explain the reason for the Ducain clan's innate evil desires. Unfortunately, those wise men who possess vast knowledge are not willing to come to the Corrupt Royal City, and I don't want to force them. However, there are always people willing to come, such as those Ancient God scholars."

Speaking to this point, the Twin Kings shook their heads and smiled: "They are too evil; they always want to bring suffering to living beings and impose evil beliefs upon them..."

At this point, the Twin Kings suddenly stopped, his gaze fixed on Su Xiao: "I have never mentioned these things to anyone else, yet I have said them to you, my enemy. Truly, it is wonderful."

The Twin Kings rose from his seat and came to the side of Paladin Monipe's corpse, his gaze showing a hint of reluctance:

"Regardless, she died for me, and you are already our enemy. Come, Law Breaker!"

The pupils of the Twin Kings turned golden. He floated up, and his hands, supporting the air above, manifested golden light spheres one by one. These light spheres circled him rapidly, tearing black marks into the space along their path.

These golden light spheres, the size of dragon eyes, looked unremarkable, but in reality, they possessed unreasonable penetrating power. Even with Su Xiao's physique, wherever he was hit, there would be a hole. If hit in the head or heart, it was highly likely he would die on the spot.

With a bang! A golden light sphere flew past, almost grazing Su Xiao's face. If not for his intuition ability warning him frantically, allowing him to tilt his head as if he had foreseen it, this strike would have hit.

The next second, hundreds of golden light spheres flew toward him. Even more terrifyingly, these golden light spheres suddenly split into tens of thousands, and the space along their path was cut into pitch-black darkness.

"Blade Dao: Time."

Dong~

The domain of Time expanded. Su Xiao slashed out a black blade light, which passed exactly through the gap between the golden light spheres created by "Time," heading straight for the Twin Kings' throat.

After all the golden light spheres flew into the domain of "Time," they slowed down uncontrollably. Seeing this, the Twin Kings pointed his index finger forward, and a golden light sphere turned into a thin sheet, blocking the incoming black slash.

But the speed of the black slash suddenly slowed down, turning from a black slash into black-blue smoke, and at the fastest speed, it formed the Magic Spirit. The crystal longsword in the Magic Spirit's hand slashed down at the Twin Kings.

With a sizzle, the crystal longsword was devoured and shattered, leaving only the hilt in the Magic Spirit's hand. Almost simultaneously, the tens of thousands of golden light spheres behind pierced through Su Xiao's body.

Zing!

The blade light swept across the Twin Kings' neck. Just a moment before, Su Xiao and the Magic Spirit had "replaced" positions; the one riddled with holes by the golden light spheres was naturally the Magic Spirit.

The strike, imbued with the triple "Soul Slash" characteristic, did not cause the Twin Kings to change his expression in the slightest. The wound on his neck smoothed over instantly; it didn't feel like healing, but rather that the wound had been removed.

A golden light sphere attacked Su Xiao. Crystal layers wrapped around his longsword, and he slashed horizontally, cutting the incoming golden light sphere into an L-shaped path, sending it flying to the side. The part of the crystal layer on the sword that contacted the golden light sphere was devoured and left a gap, but fortunately, Dragon Flash was not damaged.

"Blade Dao: Flow."

Elegant wind marks cut across the Twin Kings' head. He ignored it, flicked his hand, and golden light spheres flew toward Su Xiao.

Clang! Clang!

Slashing away the incoming golden light spheres, Su Xiao raided to the front of the Twin Kings and delivered a straight kick.

Bang!

The Twin Kings were shattered by the straight kick, but his flesh fragments flew back less than half a meter before they began to reassemble. In an instant, the Twin Kings appeared again, completely unharmed.

Su Xiao suppressed him again and delivered another straight kick. However, when he delivered this kick, his right foot and lower leg were covered in soul energy, so dense that the soul energy appeared liquid.

With an ethereal impact sound, the Twin Kings fell to one knee, exhausted. A male soul body, not resembling his appearance but equally soft and handsome, flew out from behind him. Because it was connected to the Twin Kings' soul, the soul body of the Twin Kings, who was kneeling on one knee, was also pulled out somewhat.

Zing.

Blade light flashed. A strike with triple "Soul Slash" cleanly and neatly severed the two soul bodies, and immediately followed with a horizontal slash, cutting off the head of the severed soul body.

The severed soul body did not look at Su Xiao, but stared fixedly at the Twin Kings. The hatred in its eyes was too complex. As the soul body dissolved, it muttered something, but unfortunately, no one heard it clearly.

"Brother."

The Twin Kings, kneeling on one knee, raised his hand and then let it drop. He changed from kneeling on one knee to a sitting posture, exhausted. These two brothers, cursed by fate, finally achieved the separation they had dreamed of, but the price was that they were both going to die.

Yes, the Twin Kings were going to die completely, not like other Ducain family members who, before death, would have an inexplicable pulling force that would drag something away from them.

This was because the Twin Kings had erased his "Causal Life Source" from the Ducain family's "Origin Clan Emblem." He hated the Ducain who were dominated by desire and evil after birth, and he hated the Abyss race, but throughout his life, he could never shake off the identity of being an Abyss descendant.

It wasn't that the Twin Kings hadn't tried to leave the Ancient Dragon Kingdom and go to a world far from evil. The result was that the small town that had been friendly to him was eventually invaded by the abyss, and the young girl who used to have eyes full of him and admired him roared as she mutated into a dark creature.

"Law Breaker, I leave this to you."

After speaking, the Twin Kings stabbed one hand into his chest and pulled out his heart. It was a heart rising with dirty brown smoke, full of corrupt aura.

"Grant me one thing, and I will tell you where the Ducain family emblem I hold is."

"..."

"Take it as your tacit consent. You are willing to deal with us for Doan, and you certainly won't refuse this matter."

After speaking, the Twin Kings threw over a translucent crystal spatial mark. He continued:

"The residents of Ancient Dragon City didn't all die under Lady Scorpion's schemes; one-fifth of the innocent civilians are still alive. I said I would use them as test materials, but actually, I settled them in the closed area corresponding to this mark. After I die, no one will provide them with food, so don't let them wait too long. They are all ordinary and lucky innocent people."

At this point, the Twin Kings spat out a large mouthful of blood. He ignored his status as a Ducain family councilor and crawled toward his personal guard, Paladin Monipe's corpse. Coming to Monipe's side, he smiled at Su Xiao with a meaningful look:

"As a Ducain councilor, the instinct in my bloodline made me protect that family emblem, so I transplanted it into the heart of a big guy with a bad temper. It is down below. When I die, its seal will be broken. However, I am sure you won't dislike this big guy. I wish you to become... the winner."

At this point, the Twin Kings completely lowered his head beside the person he trusted most. His body gradually decomposed, turning into dead-gray worms, which seemed to represent the secrets of the Ducain family.

【You have killed Ducain Councilor: Twin Kings (Former Abyss descendant).】

【You have gained 72,000 points of Sanctuary City reputation.】

【You have gained Abyss Treasure: Hui.】

Closing the prompt, Su Xiao looked at the dirty brown heart floating in front. A slash mark passed through, shattering the dirty brown heart. The corrupt power inside dissipated, but it was quickly absorbed by the spell formation in the great hall. Clearly, this was set up by the Twin Kings to absorb the corrupt power he emitted daily.

【You have destroyed the "Source of Corruption."】

【You have completed Bounty 2: Source of Corruption: Destroy the source of corruption.】

【Due to the multi-fold bounty + bounty correction of "Hunting List: Blood Pact," you will receive a bounty with a total value of 7,500 ounces of Space-Time Power.】

【You have gained Space-Time Stone Fragments x280 (This is an equivalent, which can be sold to Reincarnation Paradise at any time to obtain 2,800 ounces of Space-Time Power).】

【You have gained "Overlord Treasure: ★★★★★" (This item is equivalent to the value of 3,500 ounces of Space-Time Power in this judgment).】

【You have gained Magical Universal Key (This cursed item is equivalent to the value of 1,200 ounces of Space-Time Power).】

A metal key, 12 centimeters long, looking like a safe key, with a crying face on one side of the grip and a smiling face on the other, appeared in Su Xiao's hand.

【Magical Universal Key】

Origin: Second Era, Alchemy Civilization, Forbidden Item Sealing Office.

Category: Cursed Item.

Durability: -/- points (Because it has devoured Astral Power, after this item is shattered, it will re-gather somewhere in the Astral Realm after long ages).

Equipment Requirement: None.

Equipment Effect: Magical Unlocking (Core, Active), can open any "lock" in any sense.

Equipment Debuff 1: Probability Choice (Passive), every time this universal key is used to unlock, a completely random judgment will be performed: 50% probability of "Facing a Smile," 50% probability of "Facing a Wail."

Facing a Smile: Nothing happens.

Facing a Wail: "Magical Universal Key" will devour your bad luck, but if your amount of bad luck does not satisfy the "Magical Universal Key" for this devouring, it will turn from wailing to anger, thereby starting to gnaw on your fate, leading to permanent damage to your fate.

Warning: If you use the "Magical Universal Key" multiple times within 30 natural days, then for each subsequent "Facing a Wail," the "Magical Universal Key"'s appetite will be ten times larger than the last, thereby devouring your bad luck on a massive scale.

Warning: After bad luck is devoured by the "Magical Universal Key," you will not gain good luck, but will be in a mid-range state of fortune. This state lasts for 3–5 hours.

Equipment Debuff 2: Genius of Direction (Passive), within 12 hours after using this key, you will gain a "Causal-level" debuff state, causing the user's sense of direction to be significantly reduced.

Equipment Debuff 3: Amazing Charm (Passive), within 12 hours after using this key, your Charm attribute will be temporarily reduced by 85%.

Prompt: This debuff is ineffective against you.

Equipment Debuff 4: Swimming Expert (Passive), within 12 hours after using this key, you will gain a "Causal-level" debuff state, causing you to sink rapidly upon entering water, with zero swimming-related abilities, and causing all underwater tools, equipment, etc., to temporarily fail due to accidental causality.

Equipment Debuff 5: Chosen Pet (Passive), within 12 hours after using this key, there is a 33.33% probability every hour of being struck by Boundary Thunder.

Introduction: A magical and vicious universal key.

Price: After use, it cannot be sold, traded, discarded, etc.

The characteristics of this key could be called wonderful, but the effect was also very powerful. "Can open any lock in any sense"—this equipment effect really opened one's mind. However, there was no time to study this key right now.

Rumble~

The royal palace began to tremble, and cracks spread across the ground.

Dong!

Dong!!

Dong!!!

With each impact coming from underground, the protrusions on the ground grew larger. Finally, after a violent impact, the royal palace could not hold up and shattered with a boom.

As Su Xiao leaped back, building fragments scattered around him. When he landed, he found that the vast scorched earth created by the Boundary Thunder pillars had turned pitch-black. Pitch-black liquid, like black raindrops, floated out from the soil and flew upward into the sky.

Looking up at the sky, a giant vortex made of darkness was rotating slowly.

Boom!

A giant dragon claw broke through the pitch-black earth, struggling free from the underground palace that had sealed it. This was a powerful Overlord from the Second Era, an Ancient Dragon, 100 meters long with gray-black dragon scales all over its body!

"Roar!!"

The Ancient Dragon, with a rich abyss aura, roared at the sky. Layers of black air waves expanded, and an aura powerful enough to chill one's heart spread with this Abyss Ancient Dragon as the center.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, hiding beside Su Xiao and preparing to use his self-made detection equipment to detect it, was so scared he almost peed on the spot. Fortunately, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's detection equipment was powerful enough.

Speaking of Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's detection, it was truly very interesting. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was a follower and couldn't equip detection-type equipment. The problem was that over 80% of detection-type equipment were products of the technological side, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was now a proper technological dog, so he had self-made a piece of detection equipment.

In this way, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang successfully wore detection equipment; after all, it was his own technological creation. Even more wonderfully, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's primary attribute was the True Charm attribute, and detection was a Charm attribute judgment.

【This detection failed. The enemy was once a "Peak Supreme" individual, and there is some non-detectable residue.】

【Because Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's Charm attribute is 780 points, significantly higher than the enemy's -12 points, some data has been successfully detected. The data is as follows:

Name: Abyss Ancient Dragon / Heyulisai.

Health: 800%

Dragon Power: 12,800/12,800 points (Due to abyss erosion, it has been significantly reduced).

Abyss Power: 1,200,000/1,200,000 points.

True Strength:???

True Agility:???

True Stamina:???

True Intelligence:???

Charm: -12 points

Skill 1, Abyss Devour (Abyss, Passive, LV. EX):???

Skill 2, Dragon Skin (Supreme Passive, Lv. EX): Health +3 million points, ignores all control effects, exempts 75% of all damage.

Skill 3, Extreme Dark: Dragon Fury (Supreme Passive, Lv. EX): All attacks have a 25% probability of carrying an "Instant Death Judgment."

Prompt: Due to abyss erosion, the strength of this ability has been significantly reduced compared to the original.

Skill 4, Extreme Dark: Dragon Roar (Supreme Passive, Lv. EX): Emits an ultra-wide-range dragon roar, affecting an area within 30,000 meters, and every 0.5 seconds is considered an attack judgment.

Prompt: Due to abyss erosion, the strength of this ability has been significantly reduced compared to the original.

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Skill 8, Ancient Dragon Combat Technique (Technique, Passive, Lv. EX):???

Prompt: Due to abyss erosion, this ability has become invalid.

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Skill 17, Dark Ultimate Destruction (Ultimate, Passive, Lv. EX): "Heyulisai" briefly accumulates darkness, then spreads its dragon wings to erupt, causing large-scale True Dark damage and multiple execution judgments.

Warning: The cooldown of this ability is 2 minutes.

Prompt: Due to abyss erosion, the strength of this ability has been significantly reduced compared to the original.

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Skill 19, Supreme Dragon Might (Peak Supreme, Passive/Active, Lv. EX): All hostile targets within a 50,000-meter area of "Heyulisai" will be suppressed by Dragon Might, willpower will rapidly decrease, all attributes will decrease by 95%, physical defense will decrease by 99%, all resistances will decrease by 99%, movement speed will decrease by 100% (and there is a high probability of being immediately frozen), and they will suffer True Frost damage equal to 30% of their maximum health per second, and appear judgments such as "Mental Evaporation," "Consciousness Domination," "Absolute Fear," and "Soul Freezing." If any of these judgments are not passed, they will immediately suffer an "Instant Death Effect."

Prompt: If "Heyulisai" fully deploys "Supreme Dragon Might," the range of "Supreme Dragon Might" will increase by 8–10 times, and its comprehensive power will be improved.

Prompt: If one is a powerful person who is also a "Peak Supreme," one can use their own "Peak Supreme Passive" to offset this ability, thereby exempting all the above debuffs and damage effects.

Prompt: Due to severe abyss erosion, and because "Heyulisai" is no longer a powerful Ancient Dragon at the "Peak Supreme" level, this passive has become invalid.