NIP Chapter 324 - 317: Slaying the Dragon
Chapter 324 - 317: Slaying the Dragon
The Arm of Conquest was the second stage of the Arm of Judgment. It could conquer and absorb one of the opponent’s skills, then return it with ten times the power!
Even Holy Hall Level Skills were subject to its conquest!
Nine-Headed Sanctuary, the signature skill the Great Black Heaven Dragon was so proud of, now combined its nine calamities into one. All the power pouring from the nine massive dragon heads converged, merging into a pitch-black, viscous beam of destruction that surged toward Shi Ming!
It engulfed him!
At the same time, fire and magma rained down like a waterfall from the vortex in the sky, scattering across the Chaotic Divine Country, which was overgrown with Other Shore Flowers.
Some of the petals turned into charred ash.
But even more crimson flowers sprouted from the scorched earth!
"He was swallowed up?"
Aboard the Lighthouse, a king-class ship, the Awakened desired Shi Ming’s victory even more than he did himself. The hearts of all the Awakened watching this battle once again leaped into their throats. Trellin, in particular, was on an emotional rollercoaster. Although Shi Ming had ruthlessly killed several of their S-class Awakened, they were all human in the face of a great enemy, and he still harbored some lingering sentiment. If Shi Ming died, the Great Black Heaven Dragon certainly wouldn’t care about any notion of kinship!
And if they had to seek help from 001...
...the Lighthouse would completely lose its final vestiges of autonomy and become a puppet of "The Net."
The Land of Freedom would be no more!
However, they had no way of interfering in a battle of this level. Even the Angels with their "Demon Descent" ability could never withstand the attack of the nine heads combined. Going up there would be suicide. Such was the gap between tiers.
...
The viscous, pitch-black beam of light dissipated.
The Great Black Heaven Dragon’s eighteen eyes, belonging to its nine now-separating heads, coldly searched for any trace of its "prey." It could sense that a power comparable to its own Nine-Headed Sanctuary had been born within that human’s body. ’If I can devour him, I might become even stronger!’
Finally, it found its "prey" in a pool of magma.
All smoke, no injury!
Shi Ming held his left hand out for balance while his right was completely empty. The Right Arm Red Pattern was now as crimson as fresh blood, looking as if it might drip at any moment!
Completely unscathed!
In fact, he even seemed a little excited!
He raised his right hand, and the Right Arm Red Pattern began to circulate. With nowhere else to put it, he clenched the Blade of Chaos between his teeth, but this didn’t hinder his ability to fight in the slightest. An aura and energy identical to the Great Black Heaven Dragon’s Nine-Headed Sanctuary, condensed to the absolute limit, gathered in his palm. An illusory head sprouted from each of Shi Ming’s shoulders, while four seemingly solid arms grew from above his hands.
Three heads and six arms!
Main Head, Magma, Poisonous Smoke, Rock Spike, Steam, Earthquake, Devour, Perception, and Regeneration!
A perfect match for the nine heads of the Great Black Heaven Dragon!
The next second, the very space around Shi Ming seemed to shake unstably. Outside the Chaotic Divine Country, in the real world, the seawater let out a monstrous roar. This roar halted the Kunwu in its tracks, which had been rushing to the edge of the Sea of Soaring Dragons to rendezvous with the Lighthouse.
Even if they used the Jade Sea Cangwu, they had no confidence they could withstand the force!
Elder Zhou, stroking his golden toad, watched the battlefield that resembled a crimson hell from afar and fell into deep thought.
Within the battlefield, the Great Black Heaven Dragon sensed its enemy using its own skill and began to twist and roar as if it had gone mad.
It controlled the very source of destruction, yet it discovered to its disbelief that the human before it could borrow even more power. ’It’s as if *he* is the true lord of destruction, the real Great Black Heaven Dragon! And I... I am merely a false consciousness, newly awakened from slumber!’
ROAR!
The tenfold amplified power was too immense, and Shi Ming’s right arm unavoidably began to crack.
But his Physical Strength was now at a true Holy Hall level.
A few cracks like this were nothing!
A tenfold calamity poured forth.
The Nine-Headed Sanctuary, unleashed by a human, descended!
Faced with such a disparity in power, the Great Black Heaven Dragon felt an inexplicable dread. It actually wanted to retreat. But in the blink of an eye, the tenfold-amplified Nine-Headed Sanctuary was released. The entire sea region, along with the great vortex of lightning and magma floating above the dragon, began to disintegrate and collapse from within under the overwhelming power!
The lord of destruction, the nine-headed dragon, had its body torn to shreds!
Its heavy blood and flesh, as if being flayed alive, were dissolved, disintegrated, and shredded into a fine, dark mist under the influence of the tenfold power!
The Chaotic Divine Country, being an illusory domain, was not affected.
The petals of the Other Shore Flowers, however, danced and filled the sky, mixing with the storm of flesh and blood and the seawater from the real world in a surprisingly beautiful display.
Roooar...
When the dust settled,
the thousand-meter-long giant dragon had been reduced to a skeleton.
The Lighthouse steered clear of the battle’s epicenter, but the scene on the battlefield was one that no one who witnessed it would ever forget. Upon a red land where Other Shore Flowers bloomed, there was a thousand-meter dragon skeleton and a man holding a blade, all beneath a star-filled sky dyed crimson, from which burning stars of energy would occasionally fall...
’Can a human truly become this powerful?’
Or...
’Is he really human?’
...
Although all the flesh had been stripped from its body, turning the Great Black Heaven Dragon into a skeletal dragon, the source of destruction remained within it. The regeneration head, huddled beneath the main head, could still slowly grow new flesh upon the skeleton.
There was only one way to kill it completely.
Shi Ming let his Arm of Conquest rest.
His right hand once again gripped the Blade of Chaos!
The intelligence from his Eye of Intelligence was definitive: even with all its flesh stripped away, as long as its nine heads were not severed, it was still alive and could make a comeback.
Now a skeleton, the Great Black Heaven Dragon showed a rare trace of fear. This human, less than two meters tall, was so minuscule before it, yet it made the dragon feel a threat of death it hadn’t felt in ten thousand years!
Its skeleton was covered in newly grown flesh,
but its aura was less than one-tenth as strong as before.
All of its previous arrogance was gone!
’Escape!’
Just then—
DONG!
Titan’s clock completed its cycle, and the unnoticed thirteenth second arrived.
Shi Ming seized the opportunity, rushing toward the Great Black Heaven Dragon’s nine heads in an instant. He observed the eyes and different expressions on the dragon heads up close. Some were wicked, some proud, some fierce, some indifferent, and some profound.
But now, they would all fall!
An impossibly cold gleam, capable of dissolving all order and rules, swung from his hand, slashing across the Great Black Heaven Dragon’s nine heads. A single drop can form a river, and under the effect of tenfold power, the light of his blade became a raging torrent!
Dragon-slaying Blade!
Under the influence of the Fallen Sanctuary and the tenfold power, the Nine-headed Giant Dragon’s skeleton, just starting to grow new flesh, crumbled and broke. Its nine heads were severed at the base by the impact and sent flying into the air! Shi Ming didn’t know if the Great Black Heaven Dragon, which had lived for ten thousand years, had any other trump cards, but all trump cards were useless before Judgment!
Arm of Judgment!
A direct execution!
Crimson flames erupted from the severed stumps of flesh, and the ghastly white bones quickly turned iron-black. Blood once again geysered out like fountains, creating a cathartic downpour. As they were severed and sent flying, the nine dragon heads let out one final, agonized shriek.
Then, one by one, they fell into the Disorder Divine Country.
They burst into vast sheets of flame.
Holy Hall-level Sea Beast, Number 007, the Great Black Heaven Dragon, had fallen!
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