novelraw Chapter 1192 - 1191 - Trial of Death
Chapter 1192 - 1191 - Trial of Death
The 7 Ancestral dragons were enjoying the city the True Lord had created. It was clear he had deep experience with handling multiple powers at once in a single city.
The pure Qi and comfortable enclaves made it a reminder of how the world used to be. They also hoped it was how it would be again.
A little over a year had passed since he left them, very little time for Immortals but enough for the younger dragons to be riled up. They were butting heads and some conflicts had arisen but the True Lord had foreseen such issues.
Several arenas had been created for their race to fully use their gifts to their full extent and battles had become common but the Ancestors smirked as the weavings prevented any deaths.
Some dragons tried to have unofficial fights but even more weavings acted to stop even that unless a dragon was truly attacked. Defense of one's life was the only way to kill inside the city but even they were unsure how the criteria was determined.
All they knew was that the weavings moved before anyone could react.
Suddenly, 1 year and 5 months after the True Lord left, all the dragons felt their souls stir. While none knew why, they all looked to the north and a pillar of pure Qi exploded upward not even a few moments later.
[Prepare for war.] The 7 Ancestors sent out the transmission together and they extended their aura beyond the barrier. They were shocked as the shimmering pillar of pure Qi scattered the gray clouds to reveal a delicate dome of crystal above them.
It was a massive artifact that covered the entirety of the barren lands!
They barely had a chance to recognize it when the structure shattered entirely! Shards of crystal came crashing down but glanced off the robust defenses of the city. Hardly any Qi was needed since it was such a light material.
The clouds cleared out faster as natural and demonic Qi roared into the barren lands. The tainted Qi was still there but they could sense it was thinning!
The True Lord had succeeded!
Earthquakes shook the lands all around them as great rents in the earth ripped open and vile Qi flowed like a river out of it. Impure stone was exposed to the still present Celestial Qi.
It turned to ash instantly but swiftly stopped once the Celestial Qi was purged. The Corruption the had plagued them for a million years was thinning! It was evaporating as they watched!
The tears in the soil soon spiked with dangerous Fiend Qi followed by a crazed army!
Ash gray beings with white hair and impossibly beautiful features emerged in droves. They were all Immortals!
The dragons all roared as they infused Qi into the cannons on the walls of their city. Emerald beams sliced into the insane army emerging from deep underground.
The charged cannons were stunningly effective. Millions of Fiends kept flying out but they may as well have been chattel! They were reduced to Ash just by being grazed by the beams!
It was all too soon, however, when the harmonic Qi ran out. The dragons were not dismayed but now truly let their blood boil! Winged and sinuous forms launched from the walls as flames blazed outward.
The Ancestors were with them too! Massive dragon bodies blotted out the sun as cracked and peeling scales revealed their true state. Still, their flames were profound!
Red, sliver, and all colors razed the battleground as the crazed Fiends did not seem able to coordinate.
It was pure chaos but the dragons reveled in it. They finally vented a million years of suppression all at once. They had never felt more free.
Among them, was a winged amber scaled dragon that seemed able to effectively kill Fiends as easy as breathing. Her amber flames reduced her enemies to ash as if she was born to kill them.
[Vile Fiends! You destroyed my Clan! Die!] Her words resonated with man smaller clans that had to watch as their once robust bloodline was reduced to almost nothing in the current generation.
Soul and World Realm dragons did not hold back as they joined their seniors. It was a bloodbath but their advantage began to fade as the sheer wave after wave of Fiends seemed endless.
[Is there no end to them?] The oldest Ancestor finally voiced the concern of all the Immortals. They had wiped out billions of the Fiends but their numbers seemed endless.
If not for their berserk state, they would have been a true danger to the entire 2nd layer
Still, their numbers were a problem. Dragons, despite their deep reserves, still had limits!
The battle had been raging for days. The ash had been compressed by the blood and flames into true soil once more. Yet, the vile creatures never ceased emerging!
The True Lord had been right to worry! If they had emerged unchallenged, the majority of the 2nd layer would have been left unprepared!
Spatial fluctuations suddenly appeared behind their main lines.
The Ancestors turned with a worried glance but then smirked as a crimson haired woman appeared with similar flames on her fists. An army of Heaven and Immortal Realm soldiers were either her.
"For the Rubyfire Kingdom!" She held aloft a spear as the soldiers roared. More spatial fluctuations followed as those that had purified their foundations in the Rubyfire Kingdom came to aid the dragons.
Teegan had told Petryn everything so the Fionan Empire was there. The Emperor and his wife were a surprise but the glee with which they killed Fiends made it clear they were there for revenge.
Beasts, humans, and demons flooded to support the dragons.
As the Corruption thinned, more forces, finally able to tear through space, joined them! The endless battle was at a stalemate as the Fiends showed no fear or end.
Billions of lives were lost but it was like a poison being excised from the cultivators. They had been suppressed and forced to bow for so long that when they could fly once more, they refused to kneel again!
The 7 Ancestors roared in approval as they dove back into battle! Blood flowed freely from many wounds but the supplies provided by the True Lord let them fight with abandon.
His elixirs and artifacts were like a hot knife through butter for Fiend Qi!
The vile creatures kept emerging but the pillar slowly vanished before a new issue arose.
Black clouds began to gather! A tribulation was coming for someone!
The Ancestors recognized a draconic aura in it and knew who it had to be! The True Lord was ascending!
Joy filled them until they felt something odd. Golden lighting raced in the clouds and the feeling of threat was missing as well. It was like there was no danger at all from the tribulation and then a shocking event happened.
Emerald and golden lighting slammed down in all directions. The slowly increasing number of Fiends were wiped out in a single blow!
Joy was felt in all Immortals from the black clouds as the Heavens seemed bent on wiping out the Fiends. There were 9 rounds of lighting, just like their should be, but it all struck the Fiends!
What was going on?!
An ominous shift happened in the sky that even the berserk Fiends paused over. All cultivators, Fiend, natural, or demonic, froze as they looked up. A lighting storm raged until a shape appeared.
All the dragons knelt as one but even other races felt the need to bow. A dragon with massive wings was made of lightning and looked down at them before it glanced directly beneath it.
Laws, Qi, and intent were all mixed together and all felt the touch of death on their necks. It was only peripheral in feeling but the target must be dead!
Yet, all the dragons could feel it. The True Lord lived!
A roar shook the skies as the lightning dragon moved and dove deep into the ground. Where it passed, Fiends simply vanished from the world.
Millions died yet it did not care as it slammed into the prone form of Lind Frey.
A scream filled the air but the battle between conjured dragon and True Lord shattered the final remnants of the surface. The inverted mountain was exposed to the air once more!
No one had time to explore as the dragon tribulation destroyed it entirely! The huge army of Fiends lining the underground passage ways were all reduced to ash in an instant.
The ever growing army that fought at a stalemate to the True Lord was now wiped out several times over by a single tribulation!
The screams followed until a few recognized the True Lord's voice. He was the one screaming!
The 7 Ancestors and many others tried to see his state but it was like Heaven blocked them from any hope of seeing what was going on.
The dragon slowly broke down until it condensed into a deep black storm of lighting.
"THE TRIAL OF DEATH?!" The golden lighting could be considered part of a karmic tribulation but the current state of it was a risky moment. Heaven had determined that the cultivator in question had to be put to the limit.
If they succeeded, they would become a powerful Radiant Tier rarely seen in the annals of history. If they failed, their very soul would be destroyed.
The black lightning gathered together until it was likely directly above the True Lord. Finally, an emerald light flared as a massive dragon appeared.
He was heavily injured but defiant in the fact of Heaven!
[I will not bow!] The True Lord spoke a single sentence before black lighting slammed into him. His body was nearly destroyed right then!
The 7 Ancestors frowned as they doubted the True Lord knew the inherent dangers he faced. The Trial of Death would become harder with each round, a total fo 9 so far as anyone knew.
If a cultivator could reach the 4 round, Heaven would let them go if the cultivator desired it. All could only look on as Lind faced the trial with only his flesh and desperation.
Would he ascend, or would he die? Only the next few moments would tell them all!