Chapter 924: Demigod

Zhanqing's crude remarks were cut off after only two curses.

Boom!

The ground shook violently, the six peaks outside Bakhahalu trembled, a mushroom cloud rose above the city gate and in an instant surged into a sky higher than the peaks.

The blast's shockwave swept across most of the city, killing countless barbarians.

A few seconds later, the smoke cleared.

Everyone on the bridge saw the effect of the shot and let out a gasp.

Bakhahalu's walls collapsed entirely, buildings within a kilometer fell outward like a burst, the nearer they were the more severe the damage; the outer defenses were almost destroyed, the city gate at the blast's core vanished, leaving a hundred‑meter‑wide crater.

In the deep pit lay a massive green dragon, its scales blown away, its blood spilling out and pooling beneath it, clearly gravely wounded.

"It's not Zhanqing!" Malius said gravely.

Everyone else saw it too.

Even the green dragon lying in the pit was astonishingly huge, over seventy meters long, likely an ancient green dragon, but the Green Dragon King was even longer and larger; when it emerged from underground its half‑body was nearly a hundred meters, and its crown of horns differed greatly from the pit dragon's.

"Where did this green dragon come from?" Kestajin asked.

Lei En replied calmly, "It is the High Priest Agnis of the Mataji Tribe, also Zhanqing's daughter, used as a shield by her father."

When the Star Cannon bombarded, Zhanqing shifted Agnis in front of him to block part of the damage, and slipped away himself.

Hearing Lei En's words, everyone's hearts tightened and they looked around.

Everyone was searching for the Green Dragon King.

"It's above!"

Anxiwodasi was the first to shout the warning; the others looked up, and through the transparent bridge dome saw, above a kilometer high, a conspicuous ghostly green mist, within which a massive silhouette gradually solidified, revealing its shape.

Its outstretched wings cast a shadow that fell on the Star Destroyer, eclipsing the sun and darkening the sky as if dusk had arrived.

It was a truly colossal beast!

Even Lei En wore a grave expression; before today the largest dragon he had seen was the ancient red dragon 'Yuyan' on Karl Peak, about 150 meters long; next was Aiken's hell‑three‑headed mount, also an ancient dragon over a hundred meters, but roughly twenty meters shorter than Yuyan.

Zhanqing, however, is a primeval dragon, over two hundred meters from head to tail!

Its scales were a dim, near‑black ink‑green; each scale was as thick and large as a wall, darker toward the back and neck, with mottled patterns on the wings that, under the light, reflected a misty halo, dreamlike and ethereal.

Its head was comparable to a three‑story villa, crowned with massive spiky horns, and its curved lower jaw displayed rows of several‑meter‑long snowy‑white teeth.

Its pupils were vertical and as large as a room.

At that moment, the Green Dragon King's eyes brimmed with boundless rage, a terrifying draconic aura spreading tens of miles, enveloping all of Bakhahalu.

"Green Dragon King!"

"Great Lord Zhanqing, please save the Mataji Tribe!"

The barbarians in the city knelt, terrified yet reverent, saluting the giant dragon in the sky with fanatical expressions.

"Mortal!"

Zhanqing dismissed the worshipping barbarians, his eyes fixed on the Star Destroyer below, and roared, "How dare you ambush me—the supreme, noble, wise Green Dragon King—this is an unforgivable crime, and you will pay for this foolish act!"

While it roared, on the bridge Ouroyin frowned and said, "It's wounded, and badly so."

Anxiwodasi also nodded, "It's just bluffing."

In fact, Lei En had also realized it.

The Green Dragon King's reputation was so formidable—having committed countless evils since the Third Epoch and still alive—he must possess terrifying power enough to dominate the mortal pinnacle; even while piloting the Star Destroyer, he still harbored dozens of reservations toward Zhanqing.

All-Seeing Eye pierced the mist surrounding Zhanqing and saw severe injuries to his face and chest, shattered scales—wounds left by the Star Cannon.

He withstood a direct hit from a Ten-ring Star Cannon without dying; although Agnis was forced to share some of the damage, it showed Zhanqing's formidable defense and vitality.

If one shot didn't kill him, fire another!

The Star Destroyer's main cannon flared again, beginning a second charge.

Simultaneously, the Star Destroyer maneuvered, tilting its bow upward; its thirty‑two secondary cannons, staggered in adjustment, fired in batches—some unleashing thick laser beams, some spewing endless bolts of lightning, and others charging to launch Electric Light Cannon projectiles.

Zhanqing had just roared with grandeur when lightning and flame engulfed him.

That was Lei En's promise to him.

"Seeking death!"

The Green Dragon King let out a roar, allowing countless electric rays and endless lightning to strike him; his wings folded, the massive body plunged headfirst, and as he fell he beat his wings rapidly, diving at high speed toward the Star Destroyer.

A veil of ghostly green mist expanded around him as protection; though it seemed insubstantial, any Electric Light Cannon attack that entered vanished as if a mud‑filled ox fell into the sea.

"That's Jade Dream!"

Boorqi shouted in alarm, "The Green Dragon King's most powerful mental realm, Jade Dream, can warp reality and mind; any enemy trapped becomes its slave, and it can deflect all attacks, its protection comparable to the Ten-ring Spell."

"It's far weaker than a true Ten-ring Spell," Anxiwodasi hummed, "If it truly possessed Ten-ring protection, the Star Cannon wouldn't have wounded it."

Boorqi shrank his neck, daring not to argue.

Lei En focused on operating the Star Cannon's attack.

Although Jade Dream was not a Ten-ring Spell, its protection was indeed extremely strong; facing the Star Destroyer's barrage, it dove half the distance in a few breaths, opened its maw, and exhaled a long‑stored dragon breath.

Huff—huff—huff…

A cone of dragon breath hundreds of meters long spread out, carrying lethal poison, corrosion, and reality‑warping effects, covering the Star Destroyer's position.

The sky darkened, a wall of ink‑green blocking the sun.

Boom!

A roar sounded as the Star Destroyer's engines spewed flame, its speed surging severalfold, allowing it to escape the dragon‑breath‑covered area in time.

Zhanqing turned his massive jaws, the dragon breath chasing the Star Destroyer across the sky.

The Star Destroyer suddenly surged upward, repeatedly altering direction at high speed—up, down, left, right—its massive hull moving as lightly and nimbly as a butterfly in a storm, always missing the dragon breath by mere millimeters.

Meanwhile, the Star Destroyer's fire never paused for a half‑second, continuously bombarding Zhanqing.

The dense, high‑frequency bombardment finally broke the Jade Dream surrounding the green dragon, causing violent ripples as dream‑like light and shadow burst apart.

At that moment, ten seconds had passed.

The eight‑gate dual‑linked Electric Light Cannon finished charging and fired sixteen Electric Light Cannon shots, each equivalent to a Nine-ring Technique, all blasting into the open mouth of the Green Dragon.

Boom!

The Emerald Illusion shattered again; the power of the Electric Light Cannon projectile detonated inside its mouth, and even though it had been partially weakened, it still dealt a heavy blow.

A row of massive broken teeth flew apart, and a fragment of its tongue was caught in the explosion.

Zhanqing let out a painful roar.

Lei En, while the Electric Light Cannon hammered, the Star Destroyer suddenly rolled forward and backward during its maneuver, reversing its nose and tail, and he decisively pressed the acceleration button on the screen.

Full speed ahead!

The Star Destroyer's engine flame surged severalfold, as bright and blinding as the sun, crazily accelerating with overloaded energy, its dagger‑like bow slashing straight toward the Green Dragon King ahead.

Battleship ram!

Given the Star Destroyer's mass, the lethal power of its high‑speed physical impact was in no way inferior to a Ten-ring Spell.

Zhanqing, whose half‑opened dragon mouth had already been blown apart, never expected Lei En to have this trick; the distance between them was under five hundred meters, leaving no time to react, and it was instantly struck solidly by the Star Destroyer, its bow piercing straight into its abdomen.

A second before hitting the great dragon, Lei En shut down the massive anti‑gravity field and the floating technique.

Bang!

The billions‑of‑pounds warship, after accelerating, released its kinetic energy entirely, like a stone striking an egg; Zhanqing's dragon scales were useless, the newly opened Emerald Illusion only flickered once before vanishing, the bow pierced its abdomen, and countless bone‑cracking sounds echoed from within.

Aaa…

Zhanqing screamed in relentless pain, its lofty demeanor gone; the terrible agony nearly burst its dragon eyes out of their sockets.

Meanwhile, the Star Destroyer continued to accelerate at full thrust.

Zhanqing was like a beast impaled on a spear, unable to break free; its four dragon claws flailed wildly, trying to tear the Star Destroyer to pieces, but the claws were repelled by a transparent force field, unable to touch the ship's hull.

The dragon wings beat desperately but to no avail; the Star Destroyer was three times longer and a hundred times heavier, unable to halt its acceleration!

Its dragon breath roared out, only to be blocked by the invisible force field.

Various spells rained down like droplets; the ancient dragon, through its long lifespan, had honed its casting skills and even mastered a few instant‑cast Nine-ring Techniques, yet still could not breach the Star Destroyer's deflection field.

It tried to teleport away, but found the Star Destroyer had sealed off space.

All its struggling efforts were futile.

The Star Destroyer, bearing the Green Dragon King, spun in the sky circle after circle, speed increasing, but with the anti‑gravity field and floating technique disabled, its altitude dropped, its flight path resembling a descending spiral spring.

During the fall, the ship's cannons kept firing to maintain pressure; beams and lightning bolts poured onto the great dragon, its scales shattered, flesh sprayed, carving out numerous craters.

Another ten seconds passed, and the second round of Electric Light Cannon fireballs finished charging.

All cannons fire!

The impact points of this volley concentrated on Zhanqing's neck‑to‑body junction; after the deafening explosions, its neck was almost blown off, half of its flesh vanished, the other half was shredded, leaving only a thick spinal column linking to the body.

Sustaining such grievous damage, the Green Dragon King's resistance weakened instantly, no longer able to break free from the Star Destroyer's collision inertia.

The Star Destroyer, still bearing it, flew a few more circles, descending ever closer to the ground.

Just as it was about to crash, it suddenly accelerated in a straight line, bearing the great dragon and diving diagonally toward a mountain peak.

Zhanqing realized what was about to happen, and in desperation unleashed its final power, roaring wildly, "You think you can kill me? Not so easy!"

Its massive dragon eye turned deep black, a god‑like aura radiated, its wounds healed in an instant, its wings flapped furiously, even space rippled in waves, and its claws gripped the Star Destroyer, pushing back forcefully.

The Star Destroyer, soaring at high speed, suddenly hesitated, its velocity dropping.

"Divinity!"

Lei En, on the bridge, whispered.

Character: Anxiwodasi (pinyin: Anxiwodasi) also wore a serious expression, "So it's already a demigod, its Divinity is still so profound; if we could obtain divine fire, it would be enough to ignite the sealing of gods."

Demigod!

Everyone around, hearing the word, stared in shock.

"Demigod, so what…" Lei En sneered, abandoning the plan to slam the great dragon into the mountain, and withdrew Reslin, which had been hidden to release Time Stop, because Time Stop's effect on a divine enemy was greatly reduced, so there was no need to expose it.

At this moment, the Star Destroyer's main cannon had just finished charging, ready to fire at any time.

Under everyone's gaze, Lei En extended a finger and gently pressed the screen.

Thunderclap roared, Electric Light Cannon howled!

Zhanqing was still trying to push the Star Destroyer's bow out of its abdomen; it felt its internal organs churn like a raging river, its body scorching as if under a blazing sun, when the warship shuddered, and terrifying energy erupted directly within its belly.

In an instant, the dragon's belly swelled like a blown‑up balloon, its surface scales cracking inch by inch, with bolts of electricity seeping through the fissures.

Zhanqing's eyes were filled with sheer terror.

"No!"

Boom...

The barbarians in Bakhahalu City saw it: the object of their worship, the Green Dragon King they had prayed to all their lives, the great Sovereign Zhanqing, exploded in the sky!

Blood and flesh rained down across the sky, interspersed with dragon‑scale fragments, like raindrops.

The lower half of Zhanqing's body vanished.

Only half a shattered chest remained, attached to a ruined wing and a broken neck, its massive head blown away and slammed heavily onto a mountain peak outside Bakhahalu; dust billowed as the remaining body tumbled down.

But the Green Dragon King was not dead; its eyes stayed open, and it somehow retained its consciousness.

Coincidentally, Zhanqing rolled next to the gravely wounded Agnis, its eyes filled with shock and anger, and seeing Agnis made it even more furious.

"#@&%… you fool!"

"Why did I give birth to a useless thing like you, not even knowing who the enemy is, yet you summon me here."

The Green Dragon King, lying on the ground, cursed wildly; its venomous tirade was full of helplessness and regret.

"I'm sorry, father."

Agnis felt ashamed in its heart; it tried hard to stand but could not.

Sigh…

Zhanqing sighed, his dragon eyes snapped open, his broken body levitated, divine nature surged wildly repairing his body, while he raised a pale green protective shield a hundred meters in diameter, protecting himself and Agenisi and repelling the Star Destroyer's cannons.

Two figures appeared outside the shield.

The Green Dragon King recognized them and shouted at the top of his voice, "Anxiwodasi, Ouluoyin!" He then cast another glance at the Star Destroyer in the sky and added, "And you, Ryan Augustus! The Green Dragon King will never be knocked down here; you all wait for my revenge!"

Lei En stepped out of the Star Destroyer, looked down from the heights at the Green Dragon within the shield, and said calmly, "I've been waiting for you to come to die."

As he spoke, Reslin, hidden, cast Time Stop.

The world fell silent.

However, within the shield formed by divine nature, the flow of time only slowed.

Zhanqing seemed already accustomed to dealing with foes who wield Time Stop, and sneered, "Hmph… Time Stop again, a boring trick."

It didn't even glance at Anxiwodasi and Ouluoyin who attacked the shield, a massive outpouring of divine nature erupted from its remaining skull, slowly yet calmly enveloping itself and Agenisi; when Time Stop ended, the delayed spell took effect just in time, and the Green Dragon father and daughter vanished instantly.

The two Holy Soul Wizards looked at the empty blood‑filled pit, both feeling somewhat helpless.

(End of chapter)