Free Web NovelChapter 242: Chapter 241: The True Dragon Opens Its Eyes
Ignoring [Feng]’s look of indescribable horror, [Ba] glanced at the now-lifeless Jiang Qiu on the ground before raising his head to look at the Enlightenment Fruit above.
The Enlightenment Fruit was translucent and sparkling, containing the very resonance of the Great Dao. A wondrous aura flowed around it, coiling around the branch and drawing in faint wisps of Spirit Charm.
The so-called Enlightenment Fruit did more than just help one cross into the Peeping Dao Realm; it offered an unobstructed path upon the Great Dao.
For ordinary beings, entering the Peeping Dao Realm required decades of accumulation, or perhaps a sudden epiphany. Even then, what they comprehended might not take them very far.
Some beings entered the Peeping Dao Realm only to find themselves unable to ever reach the Dao Entry Realm. This could be because the Mental Realm they grasped was too impure and chaotic, lacking clear boundaries, thus making it impossible to further develop it into a proper Realm.
The Enlightenment Fruit, however, directly streamlined one’s Mental Realm. When the time was right, breaking through was as easy as drinking water, requiring no special accumulation or epiphany.
Of course, the Mental Realm one grasped when breaking into the Peeping Dao Realm with an Enlightenment Fruit was anything but ordinary. It was guaranteed to be a paragon among Mental Realms, representing the difference between a king and a mere soldier.
Using the same Sword Technique, a person who had once been fortunate enough to consume an Enlightenment Fruit could sunder mountains and rivers with a single slash, their Sword Qi raging for ten thousand miles. In contrast, someone without it could only flounder within a single valley.
Such was the gap.
Of course, to [Ba], such trivial differences were beneath his notice. ’I’ve already comprehended a Mental Realm and Realm of sufficient power. Now that I am cultivating anew in this life, my only goal is to aim straight for the Great Dao!’
’Once I achieve Refinement of this Enlightenment Fruit, the Peeping Dao Realm, Dao Entry Realm, and Fusion Realm will be effortless to traverse. It won’t even take long to restore my cultivation to what it was as a Demon Emperor before my fall. When that time comes, the name [BaKi] will bring the entire Human Race Ancestral Realm to its knees.’
[Ba] thought to himself as he prepared to circulate the Nether Dark Spirit Charm he had hidden within his body.
Everyone thought that after Sakai Yoshiei and the other Grandmasters died, no one from Sang Island had entered the Northern Wilderness Great Secret Realm. The truth was, he had disguised himself as a member of another team to reach the Great Secret Realm’s location. He then used a Golden Token to enter, arriving in the Northern Boundary as [Ba].
And why had no Golden Token been found on Sakai Yoshiei and the others?
Because he was the one who had it.
He had sacrificed far too much to enter the Northern Boundary. He had even used a Secret Technique to deliberately lower his main body’s Cultivation, all to avoid being too weak while cultivating here. As a trump card, he had brought with him the ability to unleash his Realm just once, and he had acted at the perfect moment to eliminate his greatest competitor, Jiang Qiu.
As a former top-tier Demon Emperor, he had revived long before [Chen]. People thought the Demon King of Sang Island was merely a Python that had undergone Demonization and cultivated to the level of a Demon King.
They had no idea that he had been in control of the Sang Island Demon Clan from the very beginning. He had revived the moment Sang Island’s Great Secret Realm opened and had immediately begun to cultivate his own bloodline.
He had even taken control of Sang Island’s greatest power—the so-called Sakai Family.
Of course, this method of revival was far from advanced; it was actually quite crude. To get a head start on his development, he had sacrificed his body’s potential, making his method perhaps even inferior to [Kun]’s.
That was why he had chosen to sacrifice his Cultivation to enter the Northern Boundary and forge a new vessel!
’The Northern Boundary seems barren, completely devoid of Spirit Charm, with any treasures being mere legacies hidden by ancient figures. But it also holds the world’s most peerless materials for Casting a Body—a method far more brilliant than that fool [Chen]’s revival!’
In that instant, [Ba] seemed to envision a future of incomparable glory. His cold blood began to pound in his chest. His long-concealed pupils narrowed into vertical slits, the corners of his mouth stretched wide, and sharp fangs emerged. "HISSS—"
What lies at the end of a snake’s path?
A True Dragon!
"Great True Dragon! Your most loyal supporter, Demon Emperor [BaKi], has come to break the seal on your bones—"
A bizarrely high-pitched cry erupted from [Ba]’s mouth as if through a loudspeaker, spreading outward like a massive shockwave and thinning the white mist!
Already at the periphery, [Feng]’s face went deathly pale from the shout, and he felt blood rush to his chest. ’Damn it! I can’t complete Lord [Chen]’s mission now!’
’The Northern Boundary’s legend of the True Dragon’s fall is true. A True Dragon really did exist. The very one who shattered the Great Realm fell here, in the Northern Boundary. Most of the Demon Emperors who followed him were buried here as well, though a few died in other world fragments, which became the various Secret Realms.’
’The end of the ancient era was heralded by the fall of the True Dragon, and with it, the age of the Demon Emperors’ joint rule came to a close.’
’The Human Race, fearing the True Dragon’s complete body, dismembered its powerful corpse. The most crucial part of its body was sealed right here in the Northern Boundary, suppressed by the Celestial Dao Prison Dragon Grand Array.’
’The Spirit Charm in the Northern Boundary withered because suppressing the True Dragon’s remains requires a constant, unending supply of it. As for the perpetual snowfall, that’s a phenomenon caused by the True Dragon’s death here—a form of its revenge upon this land.’
This was all information [Chen] had given him beforehand.
Before he entered the Northern Boundary, [Chen] had given him three crucial missions. First, slay Jiang Qiu’s Soul and capture the Origin of the Great Dao that would flow from it. Second, win the Contest of the Chosen and claim the Enlightenment Fruit. Third, and most importantly...
...break the seal of the Celestial Dao Prison Dragon Grand Array and bring back the True Dragon’s remains.
’Normally, I would have no hope of breaking a sealing Grand Array that envelops the entire Northern Boundary. Even Demon Emperor [Chen] at his peak couldn’t do it if he were here himself.’
’But in reality, the Grand Array has been worn down over tens of thousands of years. With no Spirit Charm to replenish it, it’s now extremely fragile. It might be possible to break it, as long as one can shatter the array core.’
Just as [Ba] was doing now. He had already unleashed the Soul aura of a Demon Emperor. Pitch-black scales erupted one after another across his skin as he underwent a full Demonization!
The sudden, overwhelming aura began to suppress the core of the Celestial Dao Prison Dragon array. Here, on the Northern Boundary Peak, at the very top of the world, dark clouds gathered. The daylight faded, and only [Ba]’s eerie green eyes shone in the gloom, like ghostly lanterns in the night.
As a Demon Emperor who had been revived for over a hundred years, his preparations were the most thorough of all. He had even sacrificed the Cultivation he had painstakingly rebuilt all the way to the Fusion Realm.
He had dropped three entire major Realms, reducing himself to an ordinary Ancestral Great Demon—equivalent to the Human Race’s Dharma Realm—just to be able to enter the Northern Boundary.
This display of power was naturally something that the recently revived [Kun] or [Feng]—who had only brought a sliver of a Demon Emperor’s aura with him—could never hope to match.
’Barring any surprises, the True Dragon’s remains will be his!’
’That’s a True Dragon! An existence beyond a Demon Emperor, one who had mastered the Great Dao and once symbolized the peak of an entire era!’
"Enlightenment Fruit falls, Great Dao returns! True Dragon awakens, Celestial Dao Prison Dragon unbinds!"
Beneath the oppressive black clouds covering the vast Northern Boundary Peak, the Enlightenment Fruit, guided by a golden stream of light, fell into [Ba]’s hand. His face had already taken on the features of a python, and a rabid frenzy blazed in his vertical pupils.
The moment his voice rang out, the immeasurably thick layers of earth and ice beneath his feet suddenly split open, forming a fissure like a great canyon torn apart by tectonic plates.
But unlike a normal canyon, this one on the Northern Boundary Peak erupted with a crimson light that was constantly expanding!
The True Dragon was opening its eyes...
