Chapter 697: Twilight King, March in the Sky (4K)
As war broke out across the world once more...
Deep within the Red Mist Land, certain dynamics were shifting.
"Boom—!!"
A powerful Monster Overlord faction's lair suddenly faced the terrifying descent of Great Power.
The entire lair was razed to the ground in an instant; only a handful of Law Realm Dukes and higher beings managed to survive by sheer luck.
They gazed into the distant Azure Sky.
Ten Saint Realm dread entities stood tall across the ten directions of the sky.
Leading them was a True King Realm figure who spoke coldly, "Submit to my Tianqi Eternal Life, or face absolute annihilation."
Elsewhere,
In the vast territory ruled by the Fallen God and Snake God.
A countless swarm of insects surged forward, devouring and consuming everything within the domain, only to hatch even more swarms in return.
Powerful Legendary Realm monsters vanished in an instant.
Law Realm beings fled in panic, only to be swept up and consumed by the swarm, their bones gone within moments of struggling.
Altars used to house the resurrected forms of Divine Soul Realm and Law Realm beings were also shattered amidst the swarm's surging tide.
A Saint Realm divine spirit loyal to the Snake God roared in fury, "Those Birth Nest bastards, how dare they! Are they not afraid of retaliation from my Senluo Divine Court? Damnable! Contemptible!"
Yet he dared not confront the terrifying swarm head-on, retreating again and again, abandoning pieces of territory.
On this day,
Senluo Divine Court's territory steadily shrank, while the Snake God, the God of Crows, and the Sparrow God—representatives of the Fallen Gods—remained unresponsive.
"The core of corruption rests in their hands!"
...
At the heart of Tianqi Eternal Life lies the blood-and-flesh mountain range, stretching across countless Great Domains, its breathing, pulsing, and swelling increasingly vivid.
Faintly, an unrivaled Great Force seemed to ripple outward from the core of the mountain range.
In that moment,
From these very mountains, numerous powerful corrupted lifeforms awoke.
The force continued to roll forth, spreading beyond Tianqi Mountain Range, sweeping across the entire Eternal Life Faction of Tianqi.
At the outer edges of the Red Mist Land, the top-tier Overlord faction known as 'Dragon Sleep Valley.'
Dragon Sleep Valley's lair—the Sleeping Dragon Valley—used to be the Undead Empire's sacred ground for awakening Bone Dragons and Frost Giant Dragons, and, in even earlier eras, the burial land of the Giant Dragon Clan.
Of course, now, no trace of those bygone days could be seen in the valley.
A crimson river coiled and flowed.
Towering mountain walls, like the flesh lining the belly of a colossal beast, pulsed and squirmed continuously.
The winds swirling through the clouds, the eddies of air, seemed to inhale and exhale, like breath itself.
Everything here was alive.
Yet, everything here was dead.
Apart from the squirming mountains, rivers, clouds, and red mist, there wasn't a single monster in sight.
The desolation was stark, utterly unlike the heart of the Red Mist Land, the very core of Dragon Sleep Valley.
Suddenly,
"Boom rumble—"
The heavens and earth shuddered violently.
If one were to zoom out, and keep zooming out, they would see streams of crimson rivers, resembling capillaries within a living being, woven densely across this land.
This place... was the inner cavity of some colossal creature!
The beast was awakening.
Beyond this colossal land, a pair of faint yellow eyes, larger than the Da Ri, slowly opened above Dragon Sleep Valley.
Or rather, it was Dragon Sleep Valley itself that had suddenly opened a pair of eyes.
Cold and proud, those eyes, like a king's advent, exuded an aura of supreme regality to the world.
All of Dragon Sleep Valley was stirring back to life!
If beings of the Law Realm or even Saint Realm gazed from high above, they would see...
The awakened, animated region faintly reflected the shape of... a Giant Dragon!
"King!"
"Great Twilight King, we welcome your awakening!"
"All hail the True King of Twilight! Praise the True King of Twilight!"
All around the Dragon Sleep Valley region, countless Law Realm entities, world-class strongmen, Divine Soul Realm experts, all bowed down to welcome the great True King's awakening.
The monstrous entities trembled with both terror and elation, fear and ecstasy.
They feared this power.
They exulted in this power.
Numerous Saint Realm beings of Dragon Sleep Valley descended with their consciousness.
"Congratulations, my King! Felicitations, my King!"
Recently resurrected, though their Holy Bodies were far from complete, the Disaster Fear Dominator and Burning Sky Monarch both broke into smiles.
After all,
Dragon Sleep Valley had been enduring far too much humiliation recently!
First, an important nest in Dragon Sleep Valley was destroyed;
Then, their carefully orchestrated plans spanning years were ruined by Taixuan Three Countries and Tianyuan City;
Later still, the fall of two Saint Realm beings, along with dozens of Law Realm entities, was intimately tied to Tianyuan City!
All of which turned Dragon Sleep Valley into the greatest disgrace among top-tier Overlords—not only mocked by nearby Law Realm and Saint Realm beings but lost key territories!
Their frustration had simmered for long.
At last, the King's awakening, and the King's ascension!
Now a Great True King!
None of the surrounding top-tier Overlord leaders had reached the True King Realm.
A True King cannot be insulted!
A True King is unmatched in this world!
"Now, the Firmament's Hand Overlords will finally understand who is the real ruler!"
"Tianyuan City, this Living Beings Miracle Territory that repeatedly humiliated and defeated Dragon Sleep Valley, will surely face its end at last!"
Declared the Saint Realm Disaster Fear Dominator.
As these words fell, the nearby Law Realm and Saint Realm beings fell silent momentarily.
It seemed like... they'd said something similar before, not just once.
This Tianyuan City always felt like their nemesis—time and time again, they believed victory was within reach, yet time and time again met crushing defeat.
Ugh, curse them!
But this time, it would surely be different.