With a deafening boom, the great formation merely shuddered lightly this time. Gu Wuchen’s robes were instantly shredded to dust. Even though he annihilated the black lightning with a single punch, he groaned, enveloped in a dazzling discharge of electricity, and was blasted far away, crashing heavily into the ground. He twitched there for a long time, unable to rise. Powerful currents surged within his body; despite the constant consumption and digestion of the lightning by the energies of Taiyin and Taiyang, the majority of Gu Wuchen’s body was scorched black, leaving him resembling a corpse laid out for exorcism.

Black and yellow energies continuously erupted from within him. Gu Xichen, wielding the Tianhuang Jie Yin, instantly imprinted hundreds of seals—each representing a different rule—onto his body. He drew a deep breath and sprang back to his feet in a flash. Injuries that would cause ordinary Golden Immortals to scatter their souls were, to him, nothing more than a brief waste of time spent healing.

Stretching his body and finding no serious damage, Gu Wuchen casually waved a hand, manifesting a swath of Taiyin energy that formed a long robe to cover him. He then laughed loudly toward Jin Guang Shengmu, “Let me play with these beasts for a while. These few creatures seem rather durable!”

Jin Guang Shengmu chuckled, halting the frantic oscillation of her precious mirror. Her eyes narrowed slightly as she coldly regarded the several flying dragons. She knew that Gu Xichen’s powers and skills were extraordinary. Though he was merely at the first rank of Golden Immortal cultivation, if the lightning blast that nearly shattered the Jin Guang formation couldn't harm him, what was there left to worry about? She studied the six flying dragons closely, calculating that if they showed any weakness, she would immediately mobilize all her magic power to activate the Jin Guang Shuttle, unleashing golden light spanning ten thousand zhang derived from Yin and Yang energies to strike them down.

Treading upon a cloud of water vapor, Gu Wuchen floated leisurely toward the six dragons. He smiled, “Gentlemen, that last lightning strike had considerable force! I haven't suffered such a blow in two years! Come on, come on, keep going! If you manage to kill me, I’ll personally grant you release from this grand formation! If you can’t kill me, I’ll kill you!”

As he spoke the final words, Gu Wuchen’s body suddenly spun like a windmill at extreme speed. Thousands of Kui Shui Yin Thunderbolts shot forth like a rain of needles toward the dragons, accompanied by sharp, tearing sounds as they broke the air. As the dark lightning exploded, the Hong Shui Formation opportunely sent massive sheets of red water to augment their power. The Yin Thunder continued to detonate, yet ceaselessly drew upon the essence of the Hong Shui Formation’s water to condense new bolts of Yin Thunder. Before one wave ended, another was already rising—endless, silent explosions of Yin Thunder pulverized the protective black aura around the dragons layer by layer.

“Foolish little beings!” the leading dragon, responsible for spewing the lightning, roared toward the sky. “You refuse the goodwill of the Mo Tian § Long Gen bloodline! Although the power held by the Yafike Empire exceeds our estimates, any entity that dares resist the will of Mo Tian Long Gen shall be utterly annihilated!”

Taking a deep breath, the black energy spewing from the six dragons grew even denser, just managing to equalize the ceaseless blasts of Yin Thunder. The sky was a chaotic display of flashing lightning and surging black gas; the black gas could no longer advance a single step outward, and the lightning could not penetrate a single step inward. The dragon roared furiously:

“Yafike Empress Fuya, Ming becoming Mussar, wife to Viking, uniting all forces of the Star Alliance to seek out and destroy the Roman people—this is what serves the interests of Mo Tian Long Gen! Anyone who dares disrupt this alliance dies!”

Gu Xichen shook his head. Seek the Roman people? Unless another lineage of Romans survived in the cosmos, all the Romans he knew had been wiped out, along with the Ducat race that destroyed them. Decades had passed, and these Mo Tian Long Gen still obsessed over this matter. What was stuffed inside their heads? Did they have any brains at all?

“The Luo Yu people are extinct! The Yafike Empire refuses to be a tool of the Star Alliance!” Gu Xichen coldly stared at the dragons. “Fuya and Ming are my women, and neither will become anyone else’s wife! If you dare extend your claws into Yafike territory, I will sever those claws and chop off your heads!”

With a sweep of his hand, hundreds of icebergs condensed from Taiyin energy suddenly descended from the void overhead. Each iceberg spanned nearly a hundred li in circumference and weighed over ten billion tons. These massive icebergs, accelerated by magical force from an altitude of ten thousand zhang, possessed destructive power comparable to a small asteroid impact.

Muffled impacts sounded continuously as the icebergs collided with and shattered the black aura, creating plumes of black gas reaching ten thousand zhang high. Under the combined assault of the Yin Thunder and the icebergs, the black aura continued to break apart, gradually pressing down upon the heads of the dragons.

The leading dragon startled. He roared in anger, unwilling to let the sequence finish. He preemptively opened his mouth and fired a bolt of lightning toward Gu Xichen. This bolt was at least forty percent weaker than the one Gu Xichen had previously withstood. Gu Xichen casually conjured a black wall of Sun Blazing Fire before him, effortlessly weakening the lightning’s power by seventy percent. He then snatched the remaining lightning in his palm, fiddled with it like a child playing with clay for a moment, and then crushed it into a wisp of black smoke that drifted away.

Suddenly, an iceberg spanning a thousand li in circumference formed in the void. White light flashed in Gu Xichen’s eyes, and the iceberg plunged down with a muffled roar. Though it was only ten thousand zhang above the dragons’ heads, the acceleration provided by Gu Xichen’s divine power brought the iceberg to a speed of nearly one hundred thousand kilometers per second over that short distance. Moreover, the closer the iceberg fell, the smaller its volume became, until finally, it shrank to only a thousand zhang across, its original white color darkening to the shade of ink.

With a tremendous crash, six agonizing dragon cries echoed simultaneously. The heavy iceberg broke through the dragons’ protective black aura and smashed directly onto their backs. The ice shattered, and the dragons’ back armor splintered, sending chunks of dark muscle and viscous black blood spraying far away under the massive impact. The demonic runes formed by the dragons were almost shattered by this strike. All eighteen of the dragons’ large mouths spat out torrents of black blood, clearly indicating severe internal trauma.

This blow was so fierce that even the Kui Shui Yin Thunderbolts Gu Xichen had launched were annihilated, causing the Jin Guang Formation to violently shake, and Jin Guang Shengmu’s face to blanch as the formation nearly disintegrated.

Gu Xichen inwardly regretted the outcome. The space within the formation was derived from the diagram; it appeared limitless but was actually constrained. If Jin Guang Shengmu’s power were several times deeper, the formation's altitude could be a hundred times greater. Dropping an iceberg from a million zhang high, accelerated by his divine power, the impact force would increase by at least a thousand times, perhaps enough to instantly slay the six dragons. Cultivators speaking of borrowing the power of heaven and earth rules—this was simply one example: gravitational acceleration, which is also a rule of the cosmos! It was also regrettable that the thousand-li iceberg was the largest single mass Gu Xichen could condense at present. Although its weight was terrifying, it was still somewhat insufficient against Golden Immortal level masters.

If he had possessed the Taiyin True Sundial from back then, he could have condensed a planet made of profound ice, billions of li in diameter, with a mere wave of his hand, and compressed it to the size of a fist to attack the enemy. That level of might, that level of lethality, cannot be truly understood or felt without reaching that state.

After vomiting blood for a while, the leading dragon lifted its head, panting, and fiercely roared at Gu Xichen, “You think this can kill us? The Mo Tian § Long Gen bloodline, possessing the Undying Body, is not so easily dealt with!” The dragons roared skyward in unison. Amidst their piercing, high-pitched cries, the demonic rune formed by their bodies flashed with intense black light. Their damaged bodies healed rapidly under the black glow, and copious amounts of viscous black energy constantly spewed from the rune, accompanied by wisps of black lightning that scarred the ground inside the Jin Guang Formation.

The dragon glared at Gu Xichen and sneered darkly, “You are a rare powerhouse. Therefore, as a sign of respect, we shall overdraft a portion of our lifespan and use our most powerful Secondary Evolution form to kill you! Watch closely, Mo Tian § Long Gen bloodline is not as simple as you imagine!”

In response to the dragons’ provocation, Gu Xichen simply pointed a finger, and a ray of purple light shot out. A Giant Spirit God, a hundred zhang tall, burst forth from the purple light, roaring with laughter and brandishing two massive axes, clearly delighted. This fellow had also been in secluded cultivation for over forty years, absorbing untold amounts of divine crystal energy, finally restoring his cultivation to the initial rank of Golden Immortal. His divine strength had increased to an unimaginable degree. Since the dragons wished to challenge him, Gu Xichen naturally had to respond.

Staring at the six dumbfounded dragons, the Giant Spirit God jumped up without a word, wielding his two great axes from above, hacking and slashing wildly at the dragons with exertion.

Every strike from the Giant Spirit God carried a force comparable to one of Gu Xichen’s icebergs, shaking the six dragons’ bodies repeatedly and causing the black energy spewing from their demonic runes to constantly dissolve. “Oh, I look forward to your Secondary Evolution form!” Gu Xichen leisurely stepped back a few paces. This was an excellent opportunity to probe the depth of the Mo Tian § Long Gen lineage, and he decided to see what this so-called Secondary Evolution form truly entailed. “Hurry up, or my foremost brave general here will chop you into meat filling for dumplings!”

Hearing Gu Xichen praise him as his foremost brave general, the Giant Spirit God beamed with joy, howling and putting all his strength into the frenzied chopping and slashing against the six dragons. His attack power grew stronger and more ferocious. The protective black aura released by the dragons was clearly on the verge of being minced into dust.

“Brothers, for the glory of Mo Tian § Long Gen! With our long, almost infinite lifespans, let us overdraft ten thousand years to force a Secondary Evolution and kill these ungrateful bastards!” the leading dragon shrieked in panic. A scorching black flame, like molten lava but thousands of times hotter, suddenly erupted from his body.

The other dragons responded to his call, and plumes of black flame spewed from their bodies. They roared, spewing viscous smoke and fire from their mouths and nostrils, and their scales suddenly burst open. Accompanied by piercing sonic booms, the dragons’ scales shot out like arrows from a mighty crossbow, scattering densely toward the Giant Spirit God as if drawn by an invisible homing instinct. The Giant Spirit God, who was having the time of his life wielding his axes, had no time to stop his momentum. He let out a miserable howl as he was pierced from head to toe by countless scales.

Thud, thud, thud—the Giant Spirit God was riddled with holes the size of human heads, streams of gushing blood plasma trailing behind him as the scales pierced through his body. More scales twisted and whirled inside him, grinding his internal organs and muscles to powder, only to shatter against his exceptionally sturdy bones. It was only thanks to these resilient bones, which automatically emitted a protective divine light, that his vital essence within was spared from annihilation by the scales.

“Exalted One, save me!” The Giant Spirit God dropped his two great axes and fled toward Gu Xichen as a streak of purple light, blood spurting from his entire body. Gu Xichen rolled his eyes, drew the Giant Spirit God back into his Sea of Consciousness, and ceaselessly poured forth the Primordial Five Elements energy from his own internal organs, nurturing his severely wounded body as if resources were infinite.

A jarring laugh suddenly echoed from within Gu Xichen’s Sea of Consciousness. Sun Monkey rolled with mirth atop a purple cloud: “Oh dear, is this the quality of your foremost brave general? Hahaha, this is the foremost brave general? Hahaha! What a fool, after all these years, not a single bit of progress! Stupid, indescribably stupid!”

The Giant Spirit God, whose very flesh trembled from the pain, rolled his eyes and shrank to the side. He stole a resentful glance at the monkey shaking with laughter but dared not speak a harsh word.

Daring not to speak was the truth.

Someone else was watching him nearby. The Giant Spirit God wisely chose to play dead.

The bodies of the flying dragons underwent a strange transformation. Their ten-thousand-zhang long forms gradually shrank to about a hundred zhang. Although their size decreased, the density of their bodies increased manifold, and their strength was amplified by nearly a hundred times compared to before. More sharp horns sprouted from their heads, three layers of black fins grew on their bodies, and their wings increased to three pairs. Their forms became streamlined, suggesting a significant increase in agility and speed.

Panting heavily, the six flying dragons had forcibly catalyzed their Secondary Evolution, consuming ten thousand years of lifespan.

The leading dragon looked smugly at Gu Xichen. He sneered, “Surprised? After the Secondary Evolution, our strength has increased by at least a hundredfold! A hundredfold increase in power—hear me clearly, a hundredfold increase! Besides our great and supreme Mo Tian § Long Gen clan, which other race can increase its power by a hundredfold in such a short time? What a miraculous, inconceivable divine feat! Why do you not kneel and offer us your loyalty?”

Jin Guang Shengmu, standing on the formation platform beside them, scoffed coldly. She mocked them with biting scorn, “Frog in a well, you uncultured bumpkin. In the past, my Master passed down three thousand techniques. One of them, the God-Demon Blood Siphon Art, allows one at the initial stage of Celestial Immortal cultivation to unleash the strength of a peak Golden Immortal, instantly boosting power by hundreds of billions of times!”

The loudly ranting dragon instantly fell silent, staring at Jin Guang Shengmu in disbelief. After a long pause, the leading dragon hesitantly inquired, “The price? What is the price?”

Gu Xichen also looked curiously at Jin Guang Shengmu. God-Demon Blood Siphon Art—did Sect Master Tongtian also pass down such a ruthless method? However, given the legendary figure’s temperament, such a technique was not impossible! Gu Xichen mused that there were probably even more vicious arts that Jin Guang Shengmu, not being a direct disciple, might not know.

After a moment of thought, Jin Guang Shengmu spoke coldly, “The price? The price is...

Bang. After a brief moment, the practitioner’s soul vanishes, and their flesh and bones turn to ash; no trace of the caster remains in heaven and earth!”

Gu Xichen shuddered. What a ferocious and bizarre technique. Who was this method intended for? This was clearly suicide! The six flying dragons exchanged glances and suddenly burst into simultaneous laughter: “Hahaha, so it’s a mutual destruction technique! It can’t compare to our Secondary Evolution at all!”

The leading dragon laughed loudly, “We only pay a mere ten thousand years of lifespan to unleash a hundredfold power! What is ten thousand years of life to us? As long as we devour a little more living flesh and blood, our lifespan can be slowly replenished! The more we devour, the longer our lives become!”

Taking a deep breath, the dragon sneered, glaring viciously at Gu Xichen. “Surrender and hand over that little Empress to us! Your power is decent enough; it would be a pity to simply kill you now!”

Gu Xichen clasped his hands behind his back and chuckled lightly, “Oh? Surrender? On what grounds?”

The dragon stated bluntly, “A hundredfold increase in power isn't much. We currently possess the Undying Body, and you cannot possibly kill us!”

The Undying Body? Gu Xichen let out a dry laugh, merely shaking his head slightly.

The leading dragon’s gaze suddenly turned icy. Its six wings flapped, and a deafening sound, like hundreds of millions of panes of glass shattering simultaneously, echoed across heaven and earth. The six dragons arrived almost simultaneously in the six spatial positions surrounding Gu Xichen—front, back, left, right, above, and below. They all lashed out fiercely with their tails, which had become thin and long like steel whips, striking at Gu Xichen’s body.

Gu Xichen’s body suddenly collapsed inward. The six heavy strikes nearly crushed his body, but nearly was the operative word.

To the horrified, almost despairing gaze of the dragons, Gu Xichen’s distorted form gradually restored itself amidst the black and yellow light. With a shallow smile, Gu Xichen took only the time of a single breath to mend his body completely! The Profound Yellow Undying Body, having reached this stage of cultivation, was no longer significantly harmed by physical strikes. Ten-tenths of physical force exerted upon him translated to only about fifty to sixty percent of actual impact; killing the current Gu Xichen... would be difficult, very difficult! The dragons froze, murmuring in shock, “Could it be that you also possess the Undying Body?”

With a cold smile, Gu Xichen looked down at the stunned dragons and sneered, “Very well. Secondary Evolution, capable of increasing power a hundredfold—I now know your trump card. You are therefore useless.”

A ray of purple light shot out from Gu Xichen’s side. A golden staff, which seemed capable of punching a hole through heaven and earth, surged forth from the light.

Crack. The bodies of the six flying dragons were smashed into powder almost simultaneously by a blow from above. The so-called Undying Body shattered like tofu under the might of that monkey’s staff.

“Heh heh, frog in a well, uncultured bumpkin. With such meager ability, you boasted for so long?” Sun Monkey repeated Jin Guang Shengmu’s critique with great sarcasm.

Suddenly, it seemed the entire planet Yafike trembled, and a roar of shame, anger, hysteria, and near-madness shook the entire world.

“Who killed my six direct sons? You shall all die!”

Gu Wuchen, Fuya, Ming, and the Ten Heavenly Lords all looked up. The power contained within this voice... With a deafening boom, the great formation merely shuddered lightly this time. Gu Wuchen’s robes were instantly shredded to dust. Even though he annihilated the black lightning with a single punch, he groaned, enveloped in a dazzling discharge of electricity, and was blasted far away, crashing heavily into the ground. He twitched there for a long time, unable to rise. Powerful currents surged within his body; despite the constant consumption and digestion of the lightning by the energies of Taiyin and Taiyang, the majority of Gu Wuchen’s body was scorched black, leaving him resembling a corpse laid out for exorcism.

Black and yellow energies continuously erupted from within him. Gu Xichen, wielding the Tianhuang Jie Yin, instantly imprinted hundreds of seals—each representing a different rule—onto his body. He drew a deep breath and sprang back to his feet in a flash. Injuries that would cause ordinary Golden Immortals to scatter their souls were, to him, nothing more than a brief waste of time spent healing.

Stretching his body and finding no serious damage, Gu Wuchen casually waved a hand, manifesting a swath of Taiyin energy that formed a long robe to cover him. He then laughed loudly toward Jin Guang Shengmu, “Let me play with these beasts for a while. These few creatures seem rather durable!”

Jin Guang Shengmu chuckled, halting the frantic oscillation of her precious mirror. Her eyes narrowed slightly as she coldly regarded the several flying dragons. She knew that Gu Xichen’s powers and skills were extraordinary. Though he was merely at the first rank of Golden Immortal cultivation, if the lightning blast that nearly shattered the Jin Guang formation couldn't harm him, what was there left to worry about? She studied the six flying dragons closely, calculating that if they showed any weakness, she would immediately mobilize all her magic power to activate the Jin Guang Shuttle, unleashing golden light spanning ten thousand zhang derived from Yin and Yang energies to strike them down.

Riding upon a cloud of water vapor, Gu Wuchen drifted leisurely toward the six dragons, chuckling, "Gentlemen, that streak of lightning just now had some real force! I haven't had such a rough time in two years! Come on, come on, continue! If you manage to strike me dead, I promise to let you escape this grand formation! If you can't kill me, then I'll kill you!"

As he uttered the final words, Gu Wuchen’s body suddenly spun like a pinwheel, unleashing thousands of Kui Water Yin Thunders. With a series of swish and whoosh sounds slicing through the air like falling rain, they bombarded the dragons. As the Yin Thunders exploded, the Crimson Water Formation perfectly channeled vast sheets of crimson water to bolster their momentum. The Yin Thunders continued to detonate, yet continuously absorbed the essence of the water from the formation, condensing into new Yin Thunders. One wave hadn't yet subsided before the next arose, and the relentless explosions of Yin Thunder, silent yet ceaseless, pulverized the protective black aura surrounding the dragons layer by layer.

"Foolish little creatures!" the leading dragon, responsible for spewing the lightning attacks, roared skyward. "You reject the kindness of the Mo Ta $\S$ Long Gen bloodline! Although the power possessed by the Yafeike Empire exceeds our estimations, any entity daring to resist the will of Mo Lai Long Gen shall be utterly annihilated!"

Taking a deep breath, the black aura erupting from the six dragons grew denser, barely managing to hold the continuously bursting Yin Thunders to a stalemate. The sky was a chaotic swirl of flashing lightning and surging black mist; the black aura could no longer spread outward a single step, just as the lightning could not penetrate inward. The dragon roared:

"Yafeike Empress Fuya, Ming becoming Musar, Viking’s wife, uniting all forces of the Star Alliance to hunt down and destroy the Luoman people—this aligns with the interests of Mo Ta $\S$ Long Gen! Anyone daring to disrupt this alliance dies!"

Hunt down the Luoman people? Gu Wuchen shook his head. Unless another branch of the Luoman people had survived in the cosmos, all the Luoman people he knew had been annihilated, along with the Dukat who destroyed them. Decades had passed, yet these Mo Ta $\S$ Long Gen still obsessed over this matter. What on earth filled their minds? Had they no brains at all?

"The Luoman people are extinct! And the Yafeike Empire refuses to be a tool for the Star Alliance!" Gu Xiachen coldly faced the dragons. "Fuya and Ming are my women; she will never be anyone else's wife! You dare extend your claws into Yafeike territory, and I will sever those claws and chop off your heads!"

With a wave of his hand, hundreds of ice mountains condensed from Taiyin essence materialized in the void, plummeting downward. Each mountain spanned nearly a hundred li across and weighed over ten billion tons. These colossal mountains, accelerated by divine power from an altitude of ten thousand meters, carried destructive force comparable to a small asteroid impact. Dull thuds echoed as the ice mountains collided with and shattered the black aura. The towering black aura, reaching ten thousand meters high, continuously disintegrated under the combined assault of the Yin Thunders and the ice mountains, gradually bearing down upon the heads of the dragons.

The leading dragon was startled. He roared furiously, unable to wait for the full force of the previous assault to complete. He prematurely opened his maw and spat a bolt of lightning toward Gu Xiachen. This bolt was at least forty percent weaker than the one Gu Xiachen had just confronted. Gu Wuchen, unconcerned, conjured a black wall of scorching Sun Blaze before him, easily diminishing the lightning's power by seventy percent. He then snatched the weakened bolt in his palm, fiddling with it like a child playing with mud for a moment, before crushing it into a puff of black smoke that drifted away.

Suddenly, an ice mountain spanning a thousand li took shape in the void. A flash of white light ignited in Gu Xiachen’s eyes, and the mountain descended with a muffled roar. Though only ten thousand meters above the dragons' heads, under the acceleration of Gu Xiachen's divine power, the mountain reached a speed of nearly a hundred thousand kilometers per second over that short distance. Furthermore, the closer the mountain flew downward, the smaller it became, until finally, it shrank to only a thousand li in scope, its originally white surface turning inky black, like thick ink.

A thunderous crash echoed, followed simultaneously by six piercing dragon cries. The heavy ice mountain smashed through the dragons' protective black aura and slammed onto their backs. The mountain disintegrated, shattering the dragons' dorsal armor. Chunks of dark muscle and viscous black blood sprayed out as the massive impact flung them far away. The demonic patterns formed by the dragons were nearly shattered by this strike from Gu Xiachen. All eighteen of the dragons’ great mouths simultaneously spewed torrents of black blood; clearly, their internal organs had also suffered severe trauma.

This attack was so ferocious that even the Kui Water Yin Thunders unleashed by Gu Xiachen were shaken into dust. The Golden Light Formation shuddered violently, and Mother Guang Sheng’s face turned ashen; the grand formation nearly collapsed.

Gu Xiachen internally lamented the missed opportunity. The space within the formation was derived from the array map; while seemingly boundless, its space was actually finite. If Mother Guang Sheng possessed several times more cultivation, the formation’s height could have been a hundred times greater. Dropping an ice mountain from a million meters high, accelerated by his divine abilities, would have increased its destructive power by at least a thousand times, perhaps enough to kill the six dragons in one blow. The so-called borrowing of the power of the rules of Heaven and Earth that Dao cultivators speak of is truly an example: gravity and acceleration are also rules of Heaven and Earth! It was also regrettable that an ice mountain spanning a thousand li was the largest one Gu Xiachen could currently condense in a single effort; though its weight was terrifying, it was somewhat insufficient against Golden Immortal-level experts.

If he possessed the Taiyin True Sundial from back then, he could have condensed a planet formed of profound ice, billions of li in diameter, with a mere wave of his hand, and compressed it to the size of a fist to attack the enemy. That level of might, that level of destructive power—unless one reaches that realm, it cannot be fully understood or felt.

The dragons coughed up blood for a while. The leading dragon wheezingly lifted his head and roared fiercely at Gu Wuchen, "Is this all you have to kill us? The Mo Ta $\S$ Long Gen bloodline, possessing the Undying Body, is not so easily dealt with!" The dragons simultaneously roared toward the heavens. Amidst their sharp, high-pitched cries, the demonic pattern formed by their bodies pulsed with intense black light. Their damaged bodies rapidly healed within the black light, and large amounts of viscous black aura continuously spewed forth from the pattern, accompanied by tendrils of black electricity that blasted the ground within the Golden Light Formation into pits and craters.

The dragon glared at Gu Wuchen and sneered in a low, sinister voice, "You are a rare powerhouse. Therefore, to show you respect, we shall overdraft a portion of our lifespan and kill you using our strongest second evolution form! Watch closely, the Mo Ta $\S$ Long Gen bloodline is not as simple as you imagine!"

Facing the dragons' provocation, Gu Xiachen chose a single finger point, spitting out a beam of purple light. A Giant Spirit God, a hundred li tall, burst forth from the purple light, laughing heartily while wildly swinging two enormous axes. This fellow had also been cultivating in seclusion for over forty years, absorbing countless divine crystal energies, and had finally restored his cultivation to the early stage of the Golden Immortal realm. His divine strength had increased to an incredible degree. Since the dragons wished to challenge him, Gu Wuchen naturally had to respond. Staring at the six dumbfounded dragons, the Giant Spirit God leapt up without a word, holding his two great axes high above, grunting as he brought them down in a frenzy of chopping and hacking against the dragons.

Each strike from the Giant Spirit God carried the force comparable to one of Gu Wuchen’s ice mountains, causing the six dragons' bodies to tremble repeatedly, and the black aura spewing from their demonic patterns continuously dissolved.

"Oh, I look forward to your second evolution form!" Gu Xiachen casually retreated a few steps. This was a prime opportunity to probe the depths of the Mo Ta $\S$ Long Gen lineage. He decided to see what this so-called second evolution form truly was. "Hurry up, or my foremost brave general here will chop you into meat paste dumplings!"

Hearing Gu Wuchen praise him as his foremost brave general, the Giant Spirit God grinned widely with joy. He howled and roared, exerting every ounce of strength he possessed, hacking and chopping at the six dragons like a madman. The power of his attacks grew stronger and more ferocious; the protective black aura released by the dragons was on the verge of being chopped to pieces.

"Brothers, for the glory of Mo Ta $\S$ Long Gen! With our long, nearly infinite lifespans, let us overdraft ten thousand years of life to forcibly undergo the second evolution and kill these ungrateful bastards!" the leading dragon screamed in terror. Suddenly, a scorching black flame erupted from within his body, resembling molten lava but thousands of times hotter.

The other dragons responded to his call, and masses of black flames burst forth from their bodies. They roared, spewing viscous smoke and fire from their mouths and nostrils, as their scales suddenly cracked open. Accompanied by screeching sounds that tore the air, the dragons' scales shot out like arrows from tightly drawn bows, flying densely toward the Giant Spirit God as if they were spirited little birds returning to their nests. The Giant Spirit God, who was busy enjoying himself swinging his great axes, had no time to stop. He let out a miserable howl as countless scales pierced him from head to toe.

Pfft, pfft, pfft—the sounds were endless. The Giant Spirit God’s body was riddled with countless holes the size of human heads. Streams of blood plasma sprayed out behind him as numerous scales shot through his body. More scales writhed and spun inside him, grinding his internal organs and muscles into pulp, yet they shattered against his exceptionally sturdy bones. It was only due to these incredibly solid bones, which automatically emitted a protective radiance, that his life essence was not annihilated by the scales.

"Exalted One, save me!" The Giant Spirit God dropped his two great axes and, bleeding profusely, fled toward Gu Wuchen in a streak of purple light. Gu Wuchen rolled his eyes and absorbed the Giant Spirit God back into his Sea of Consciousness. The Primordial Five Elements Qi continuously generated from his inner organs, pouring into the Giant Spirit God’s body as if cost were no object, slowly nourishing his grievously injured frame.

A grating laugh suddenly echoed from within Gu Wuchen’s Sea of Consciousness. Sun Monkey rolled with laughter atop a purple cloud. "Oh dear, the foremost fierce general under your command has such character? Hahaha, is this the foremost fierce general? Hahaha, this idiot! After all these years, hasn't he made the slightest progress? Stupid, unimaginably stupid!"

The Giant Spirit God, whose very flesh trembled from pain, rolled his eyes and shrank into a corner. He shot a resentful glance at the monkey shaking with laughter but dared not speak a harsh word.

He truly dared not speak.

Someone else was watching him nearby. The Giant Spirit God wisely chose to feign unconsciousness.

The dragons’ bodies underwent a strange transformation. Their ten-thousand-meter-long bodies gradually shrank to about a hundred meters. Although smaller, their body density increased immensely, and their toughness multiplied by a hundredfold compared to before. More sharp horns sprouted from their heads, three layers of black bony plates grew on their bodies, and their wings increased to three pairs. Their forms became streamlined, suggesting significant improvements in agility and speed.

Panting heavily, the six dragons had forcefully catalyzed their second evolution by expending ten thousand years of their lifespan.

The leading dragon looked at Gu Wuchen triumphantly. He sneered, "Surprised? After the second evolution, our strength has increased by at least a hundredfold! A hundredfold increase in power, listen clearly: a hundredfold increase in power!" He roared almost maniacally, "Besides our great and supreme Mo Ta $\S$ Long Gen race, which other race can increase its power a hundredfold in such a short time? How miraculous, what an unbelievable divine sign! Do you not yet kneel and offer us your loyalty?"

Mother Guang Sheng, standing on the formation platform nearby, let out a cold laugh. She mocked with immense cruelty:

"A frog in a well, a country bumpkin who hasn't seen the world. Back then, my Master passed down three thousand techniques. One of them, the Divine-Demon Blood Searing Art, upon execution, allows someone with early-stage Heavenly Immortal cultivation to unleash the power of a peak Golden Immortal, instantly increasing power by more than ten billionfold!"

The rampaging dragon instantly fell silent, staring at Mother Guang Sheng in disbelief. After a long moment, the leading dragon hesitantly inquired, "The price? What is the price?"

Gu Xiachen also looked curiously at Mother Guang Sheng. The Divine-Demon Blood Searing Art—had the Sect Master Tongtian also passed down such a ruthless technique? However, given the rumored personality of that venerable figure, such a method wasn't impossible! Gu Wuchen mused that there were likely even more vicious techniques that Mother Guang Sheng, as a non-direct disciple, might not know about.

After a moment of contemplation, Mother Guang Sheng stated coldly, "The price? The price is...

Bang. In less than an hour, the caster’s soul scatters, and flesh turns to ash. There will be no trace of the spellcaster left in heaven or earth!"

Gu Wuchen shuddered violently. What a vicious technique, what a bizarre technique! For whom was this method intended to be passed down? This was clearly suicide! The six dragons exchanged glances and then burst into simultaneous laughter: "Hahaha, so it's a method of mutual destruction! It cannot compare to our second evolution!"

The leading dragon laughed heartily, "We only pay a mere ten thousand years of lifespan to unleash a hundredfold power! What is ten thousand years of life to us? As long as we devour a bit more living flesh and blood, our lifespan can slowly replenish! The more we devour, the longer our lifespan!"

Taking a deep breath, the dragon sneered, glaring viciously at Gu Wuchen. He coldly mocked, "Surrender and hand over that little empress to us! Your strength is decent; it would be a pity to kill you just like that!"

Gu Wuchen placed his hands behind his back and chuckled lightly, "Oh? Surrender? On what grounds?"

The dragon stated plainly, "A hundredfold power increase is nothing. We temporarily possess the Undying Body; you cannot possibly kill us!"

The Undying Body? Gu Wuchen let out a short, dry laugh, merely shaking his head gently.

The six dragons’ gazes suddenly turned frigid. Their six wings whipped out simultaneously, and a sound like billions of pieces of glass shattering at once echoed through heaven and earth. The six dragons moved almost simultaneously, flanking Gu Wuchen in front, behind, left, right, above, and below. They all violently lashed out their tails, which had become thin and long like steel whips, toward Gu Wuchen's body.

Gu Wuchen’s body abruptly collapsed inward; the six heavy blows nearly crushed him, but only nearly.

To the dragons' terrified and nearly despairing sight, Gu Wuchen’s twisted and deformed body gradually recovered in a black and yellow radiance. With a faint smile, Gu Wuchen took only one breath to repair his body completely! Having cultivated the Profound Yellow Undying Body to this stage, physical strikes could no longer cause him significant harm; even a hundred percent of physical force applied to him only registered as fifty to sixty percent of its actual power. To kill the current Gu Wuchen... was difficult, very difficult! The dragons froze in place, murmuring in horror, "Could it be that you also possess the Undying Body?"

With a cold sneer, Gu Wuchen looked down at the dumbfounded dragons and chuckled coldly, "Very good. Second evolution, capable of a hundredfold power increase. I know your trump card now; you are no longer useful."

A purple light streamed past Gu Wuchen, and a golden staff, seemingly capable of poking a hole in heaven and earth, surged out of the light.

Crack! The bodies of the six dragons were almost simultaneously smashed to pieces by a blow from above. Their so-called Undying Body shattered like tofu under that monkey's staff.

"Heh heh, a frog in a well, a country bumpkin who hasn't seen the world. Is this all you boast about for so long?" Sun Monkey callously repeated Mother Guang Sheng's appraisal.

Suddenly, it seemed the entire Yafeike Star trembled, followed by a howl of shame, fury, hysteria, and near madness that shook the entire planet.

"Who killed my six direct sons? You shall all die!"

Gu Wuchen, Fuya, Ming, and the Ten Heavenly Sovereigns all looked up. The power contained within that voice...