162 Li Yangs mark. (1/2)
Fire and ice covered the earth while lightning lit up the sky, it was a nearly perfect rendition of the apocalypse. But even with all this, Li Yang wasn't satisfied, it wasn't enough just yet. Jinwu, Shenlong, and Huanglong had all awakened once more, they had announced their arrival and might, showcased their fire, ice, and lightning. And now it was Li Yang's turn, his turn to make the declaration of the end, an end to the calmness and laws that ruled this universe.
That was the type of beings that he and his friends were, chaos followed in their wake, they were existences that upheaved the natural order and calm no matter where they went. But then again, such was the nature of all strong beings, they were waves that rushed forth without pause, their mere existence causing chaos. Li Yang raised his right hand towards the dark clouds and the thick-scaly body coiling around within them, his soft voice resonating with the roar of the thunder and fire.
”Jinwu, Shenlong, Huanglong, with the sky as your canvas, can you paint me a picture?”
A cut opened up on the palm of Li Yang's right hand as he spoke, blood gushing forth as it was carried into the sky by Li Yang's Qi. The massive figure in the sky started twisting as it moved and roared, a thick bolt of lightning flashing down and colliding with the blood coming from Li Yang's hand. Jinwu also let out a loud caw and flapped his wings, some fire and ice shooting forth from his wings and colliding with the blood alongside the lightning.
The blood, ice, fire, and lightning merged together and formed a thick crimson paste, Jinwu and Shenlong sending over more and more of their elements to increase the amount of paste. Li Yang drained nearly half of all the blood in his body, enough to fill a 20-meter wide pool thanks to his body cultivation, before he lowered his arm again and closed up the cut in his hand. Hanging in the air above him now was a nearly 40-meter wide crimson orb that occasionally flashed with fire, ice, or lightning, as well as the rare violet flash of poison.
With the orb fully formed, the large figure within the clouds started twisting and turning again, quickly revealing its full body for the first time. Dragon, the third-largest type of beast in existence and the largest of all air-borne beasts, growing exponentially larger the stronger they got, the fusion of Shenlong and Huanglong was finally starting to bring justice to that name.
A nearly 150-meter long serpentine body as thick as an elephant and four barrel-thick limbs that ended in five razor-sharp claws. Glimmering golden scales tinged with a touch of purple that formed five long lines that ran down the entire body, deep violet spines running down the entire back of the beast and a ferocious dragon head with two sets of backward bent horns on each side of the head, the horns on the left were golden while the horns on the right were violet. The tail of the dragon was covered in long strands of silky hair that gave it a refined air and even made it seem graceful and dignified, a true ruler of airborne-beasts.
The fusion of the two was incomparable to how it was before, but then again, so was Jinwu. They were Divine Beasts, beings blessed and beloved by the multiverse itself, and now that they had gotten stronger that blessing was starting to show itself. Shenlong raised his head and let out a rumbling roar that even blew apart the black clouds around him, revealing a portion of the sky as he stretched his body and dipped his tail into the crimson orb.
His tail was quickly dyed red and he drew it back, the crimson paste splashing all around as he moved his tail and used it to spread out the crimson paste. At first, the crimson paste was just used to draw a few lines, but more and more lines were quickly painted in the sky and gathered together to form the outline of an array. Fang Ying, who was still seated on the edge of the wall surrounding the city, was very familiar with this array, it was the same one Li Yang had used inside the hidden realm so that they could escape from the Devil's Grasp Vine.
She didn't know as much about arrays as Li Yang, but she still knew enough about them to let her trace the core locations of the array. Unlike the array he drew back then, this one only had three core points, Li Yang himself, Jinwu, and Shenlong, meaning that the power of these three beings would be gathered within one of the core points. She could already imagine that when all that power was unleashed, it would be sure to create a stunning scene.
The array was finished before long, the ocean of fire and ice that Jinwu had unleashed on the earth holding the remaining Deathcloud Warriors at bay so that none of them could get close to disturb them. Three thin bolts of multicolored energy shot out from the array once it was finished, one latching onto Li Yang, one onto Jinwu, and one onto Shenlong, connecting the three through the array.
With the connection set up, the two Divine Beasts descended to the ground, Jinwu landing on the right of Li Yang and folding his wings. Shenlong had it a bit harder due to his massive size, the best he could do was curl up as much as he could on Li Yang's left, the two beasts resembling guardian statues overlooking their emperor.
Li Yang stretched out his right arm, gathering all the power of him and his two beasts in the palm of his hand. An orb of energy rapidly started to form, at first ballooning into a shining drop that was almost 5-meters in diameter. But he quickly started to condense the energy, causing it to pulsate and shrink, its color turning darker and darker as he condensed it more and more while also adding more energy.