Shennong Dao Master

"Hm? This is..."

The Black Sea Emperor and Emperor Xing felt the world before their eyes grow brighter, their True Spirits far clearer. Before, they could only be said to be "awake"; now they were truly "clear-headed."

"Comprehended from the Life Dao Map." Zhao Xing gave a brief explanation.

He named the transformation he had comprehended from the Dao Map "Dragon Swarm Metamorphosis", because he could freely switch among over three hundred Dragon Clan Emperor forms, and whichever form he took, he would gain that form’s innate Secret Technique.

What he was casting now was an innate Secret Technique of a Spiritual Dragon Emperor—Spiritual Watch.

Relying solely on the Spiritual Will of any one of Zhao Xing, Emperor Xing, or the Black Sea Emperor, it was impossible to contend against the Jiao Yuan Snake among the top ten of the Demon Race.

But through the Spiritual Dragon Emperor’s innate Secret Technique, he could fuse the three people’s Spiritual Power together.

At this moment, the Black Sea Emperor, Emperor Xing, and Zhao Xing all felt that whenever they were affected by the Heart Spirit Abyss Illusion Realm of the Jiao Yuan Snake, another person’s Spiritual Power would immediately guard their companion.

Once Spiritual Watch formed, Emperor Xing discovered that the Reverse Fighting Celestial Array he had been controlling was all blasting beside Bo Qiu, or its power had weakened.

It wasn’t that Emperor Bo Qiu could tank Spells head-on at all, but that he himself had been weakened by the [Heart Spirit Abyss]!

"Boom!"

Thunder Clouds gathered, crimson-gold lightning suddenly descended. This attack instantly snapped Emperor Bo Qiu awake, who had originally been certain of victory and intended to slowly torture his opponents, shatter their psychological defenses.

"Whoosh!" For the first time he broke off his straight-line flight, dodging this immensely powerful Origin Heavenly Thunder.

"Aha!" Seeing this, Emperor Xing immediately burst into laughter.

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!!!!

Origin Heavenly Thunder fell one after another; Emperor Xing, holding back a bellyful of rage, immediately began unleashing his ultimate moves, Mana surging like a breached flood, pouring out madly.

The area where Jiao Yuan Snake Boqiu was located was quickly drowned in golden Heavenly Thunder.

"What? He—"

After being struck by the first bolt of crimson-gold Heavenly Thunder, Bo Qiu immediately sensed something was wrong.

"He broke free of my Spiritual Illusion Realm!"

The Jiao Yuan Snake wasn’t famed for physical defense, but was an arcane Spell-type strange serpent.

Emperor Xing was also a Late-stage Emperor; with the Heavenly Time Array forged together with his Daoist Soldiers, fighting on home ground, and also borrowing the Heavenly Dao momentum of Floating Island Marquis Transformation, the power of each lightning bolt was utterly terrifying.

The black Vestment robe on his body had at this moment turned into a golden Vestment robe, countless lightning arcs slithering across it; even though the robe weakened seventy to eighty percent of the force, his flesh still felt numbed and torn with pain.

The nearby mountain range collapsed with a roar; the entire Sea Star Island split outright, with portions starting to sink.

"Bang!"

No longer able to remain composed, Bo Qiu put away his Vestment robe and was forced to reveal his true body.

He had no choice—keep pretending and he’d be leaving his life here!

Purple-red flames swept across his entire body, devouring the black Vestment robe. Then within the purple-red flames, a serpent head with a single horn emerged first, purple-red-black rings interlaced with mysterious patterns blooming upon the horn.

Its scarlet eyes emitted layers of dazzling light.

A rotating Abyss appeared beneath the serpent head, and space around it began to twist, even affecting the Floating Island Marquis Transformation and the Reversing Heaven and Earth Array.

Zhao Xing felt the defensive power of Spiritual Watch decline, and crystal armor on Emperor Xing and the Black Sea Emperor began to crack.

He glanced at the two.

The status panel showed that Xing and Black Sea had both temporarily dropped from Late-stage Emperor to Early-stage Emperor.

"Truly fearsome—once it reveals its true body and casts Heart Spirit Abyss, its mind control ability is greatly strengthened. The power of two Emperors has been weakened to this extent, and I’m affected too; the Mana consumption to maintain Spiritual Watch instantly increased tenfold."

Some racial talents were extremely powerful; the Void Ancestor among the Human Clan was one example, and the Ancient Gods revived by the Dong Yan Ancient Clan were another.

Waves surged, the floating island quaked; under the Jiao Yuan Snake’s spiritual assault, the power of the two Emperors was massively weakened. As one fell, the other rose—after the Jiao Yuan Snake transformed, it immediately reversed the balance of strength.

"Shoo shoo shoo bang! Shoo shoo shoo shoo shoo shoo shoo!!"

Seizing this shift in momentum, Bo Qiu stopped wasting time, his single horn firing out several beams of light that pierced through the Reversing Heaven and Earth Array, the remaining beams shooting straight at the three of them.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang!"

All six beams hit Zhao Xing, because at the last moment Zhao Xing had curled up and enclosed the other two within his protection.

Buds of cyan blossoms appeared on the crystal scales, and the six beams only kicked up a bit of dust; Zhao Xing merely felt a slight sting.

"The Jiao Yuan Snake’s spiritual talent is so strong it’s practically invincible; its other aspects are just so-so." Zhao Xing jeered. "Bo Qiu, I don’t think you need to waste the effort."

"I can stand here and let you hit me; even in ten thousand years you still won’t be able to hurt us."

In truth, the Jiao Yuan Snake wasn’t that trash—its other Spell attacks also had the level of a Mid Emperor.

In past battles, after revealing his true body he would first use Heart Spirit Abyss to weaken the enemy; once their minds were in chaos and they couldn’t even effectively cast defensive Spells, he’d launch other Spells to grievously wound them or outright kill them.

But once Heart Spirit Abyss was defended against, his other Spells weren’t outstanding, and it was very hard for them to reach the effect of heavily injuring or slaying foes.

Of course, Zhao Xing’s trio had no way to counterattack either; after all, the Jiao Yuan Snake was constantly suppressing them with [Heart Spirit Abyss]. If there were a second Spiritual Dragon Emperor, one could focus on guarding while Zhao Xing switched into Demon Dragon form to strike back, but clearly that wasn’t an option right now.

"Shoo shoo shoo!!"

"Boom boom boom!"

The Jiao Yuan Snake, refusing to accept this, attacked over ten thousand times.