Almost the same moment, at the eastern coastal defense line of Jiangzhou City, Lei Jian stood in the temporary command post. His eyes were fixed on the radar screen, dense with red dots surging like a tsunami. Cold sweat streamed down his face.
Chen Lie's intel was real. The eastern sea mutants have landed.
"Fire. All units open fire. We absolutely cannot let them break into the city. There are three million survivors right behind us."
The artillery positions erupted with deafening roars instantly. Countless shells trailing long fiery tails slammed into the coastline, the sky as bright as day.
However, the moment the flares lit up the sky, all front line soldiers despaired. On the sea, hundreds of thousands of mutated sea beasts were charging across the waves. There were mutated crabs the size of armored vehicles, amphibious fishmen covered in venomous spines, and swarms of sea snakes, incredibly fast, charging madly through the artillery fire.
After less than ten minutes, the first line of defense was completely shattered.
"Commander Lei, we can't hold. There are too many mutants. Our defense line is collapsing completely."
Lei Jian drew his pistol, his eyes bloodshot. "Notify all troops. Even if we all die here today, we must protect the civilians."
Boom.
Just as the military prepared for a final desperate stand, the earth shook. An indescribable, terrifying pressure suddenly swept in from the direction of the deep sea.
Inside Jiangzhou City, the three million survivors hiding in ruins and basements felt as if a mountain were crushing their hearts. Even breathing became difficult.
"What is that thing?"
Lei Jian looked up in despair toward the distant night sky. He saw the thick black fog being violently torn apart by a pair of massive bone wings. A bone dragon over a hundred meters long, its body wreathed in the deep sea's eerie mist, slowly descended from the clouds. Its eyes were like two giant red lanterns, radiating a cold aura of death.
A tier five beast king. The sea overturning bone dragon.
In the early apocalypse, a tier five mutant was synonymous with invincibility. A city destroying, apocalyptic level disaster.
Roar.
The sea overturning bone dragon let out a roar that shattered the heavens. It opened its abyssal maw and a jet of ink black dragon's breath erupted, slamming directly into the military's heavy artillery emplacements. Black flames instantly devoured everything within a kilometer radius. The artillery was completely crippled.
"It's over. Jiangzhou is finished."
Despair spread through Jiangzhou City like a plague. Countless people closed their eyes, awaiting death.
And just then, inside the Blackstone bunker, I slowly set down my coffee cup.
On the screen, the hundred-meter bone dragon strutted arrogantly within the black mist. My eyes held no fear. Instead, they burned with fervent light.
Su Xiaodao's face changed. "Brother Lie. You're going out? That's a tier five beast king."
Jiang Xinyi also grabbed my arm. "There's no need to take such a risk."
I gently patted the back of Jiang Xinyi's hand. A hint of a smile touched the corner of my mouth.
"My Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin is still missing a key. I have my eye on that big lizard's crystal core."
I turned and walked toward the elevator. "Watch the home front and brew me some tea. I'll be back by the time it's cool."
Over Jiangzhou City, the sea overturning bone dragon freely spewed black breath, destroying the defenses. Lei Jian closed his eyes, waiting for death.
And just then, a pillar of light, black as ink, soared into the sky from the deep mountains outside Jiangzhou. The black light wasn't cold. Instead, it carried an indescribable ancientness and majesty. The dense black mist was forcibly torn apart.
"What is that?"
Lei Jian's eyes snapped open. All three million survivors in the city and the remaining soldiers instinctively looked toward the direction of the Blackstone bunker.
Under the gaze of the entire city, a slender young man ascended along that black gold pillar of light. Step by step into the high sky. He used no flying equipment, simply walking on air as if on an invisible staircase.
"It's Mr. Chen. It's Chen Lie."
Lei Jian trembled with excitement.
As I continued to rise, the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin totem behind me fully unfurled. Nine pitch black dragon shadows coiled across the firmament, bodies stretching for hundreds of meters. Crimson dragon eyes opened. They dragged an ancient black coffin, which hung suspended over Jiangzhou City. The crimson chains on the coffin trembled slightly. A supreme, ancient, inviolable forbidden pressure swept across Jiangzhou like a tsunami.
Under this pressure, the hundred thousand mutated sea beasts attacking below instantly let out terrified cries, prostrating themselves on the ground, trembling in fear.
"It's Mr. Chen from the Blackstone base. He's come to support Jiangzhou."
Countless survivors looked up from the ruins, their eyes filled with awe and shock after the disaster.
I stood high in the air, facing the hundred-meter-long sea overturning bone dragon. Before its colossal body, I was as insignificant as an ant. But the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin behind me looked more like a nightmare from ancient times than it did.
Feeling provoked, the bone dragon fixed its crimson eyes on me. It let out a sky-shaking roar and opened its abyssal maw. A black dragon's breath, ten times larger than before, crashed down on me like a meteor.
"A petty trick."
The Pangu totem on my chest erupted with soaring fighting spirit. The dharma body of heaven and earth. A phantom of Pangu appeared behind me, facing the roaring black dragon's breath.
I didn't even dodge. I slowly raised my right fist. The dharma body of Pangu on my chest rumbled like thunder. A wisp of world creating power wrapped around my fist.
The next moment, I stepped forward.
Boom.
As my fist collided with the black breath, the entire sky seemed to be torn open. The black flames were forcibly split apart by the domineering world creating power, turning into two waves of fire that swept past me on either side. The fire rays crashed into the earth, scorching two kilometer-long black trenches into the ground. And I stood between the two seas of fire, unmoving.
The Pangu phantom behind me also slowly raised its head. The originally somewhat blurry outline of the dharma body became increasingly solid at this moment. Dark golden divine light. The Pangu tattoo on my chest spread all the way to the phantom behind.
"Big lizard. My turn."
As the words fell, the Pangu tattoo on my chest fully erupted. The originally illusory Pangu dharma body behind me suddenly swelled to dozens of meters tall. Muscles bulging. Its aura was vast and ancient, like a primordial titan stepping out from the end of chaos. And in its palm, a giant axe condensed from pure world-creating power gradually materialized. Dark golden divine patterns lit up inch by inch on the blade.
I slowly raised my right hand. The Pangu dharma body behind me simultaneously raised the world creating axe. Man and shadow. Their movements perfectly synchronized.
The sea overturning bone dragon seemed to sense the crisis of death. Fear finally surfaced in its crimson eyes. It desperately flapped its bone wings, trying to create distance. But the moment it was locked on by the Pangu dharma body, the black mist around it seemed to solidify.
I stepped forward, voice like thunder. "Pangu opens the heavens."
My right hand slashed down fiercely. The Pangu dharma body behind me swung the world creating axe at the same instant.
Boom.
A dark golden axe light hundreds of meters long tore through the black mist, as if to split the night sky in two. The sea overturning bone dragon desperately flapped its wings, but it was already too late. The axe light slammed onto its indestructible bone wing.
Crack.
The massive bone wing shattered instantly. The sea overturning bone dragon let out an earthshaking wail. Its enormous body lost balance, plummeting toward the ground like a meteor.
I gave it no chance to breathe. Stomping the air, my body transformed into a streak of light, instantly appearing above the sea overturning bone dragon. The Pangu dharma form behind me moved in sync, clenching its fist, gripping the heaven cleaving axe and raising it high.
The sea overturning bone dragon struggled to lift its head. Its crimson eyes filled with terror.
My voice was ice cold. "Shatter."
I punched down. The Pangu dharma form's heaven cleaving axe followed, slashing down fiercely. The heavy cleaving axe struck the sea overturning bone dragon's skull squarely. Terrifying heaven cleaving power surged through its hard skull into its body.
The earth shook violently in the outskirts of Jiangzhou City. A massive crater dozens of meters deep was smashed open. Debris flew skyward. The sea overturning bone dragon's huge body was embedded deep in the crater. The light in its crimson eyes rapidly faded.
Behind me, the dharma body slowly withdrew the axe. The dark gold divine light gradually dissipated. I stood at the crater's edge, the Pangu tattoo on my chest still glowing faintly.
A level five overlord. The sea overturning bone dragon is dead.
The battle ended too fast. So fast no one could react. From my ascent, to becoming a hundred-meter giant, to suppressing the bone dragon, the whole process took less than three minutes.