Volume 4: Super-Tier Awakening & The Ancient Capital Calamity
Chapter 364
Twin Dragons of Ice and Fire Shatter the Armor
The sky above the subterranean plaza was dyed in chaotic hues. Half of the spatial domain sank into a scorching golden sea of fire that warped the air with intense heat, while the other half was shrouded in an abyss of frigid azure mist, populated by razor-sharp snowflakes drifting through the void. Two extreme elemental forces—one representing the absolute zenith of solar heat, the other the chilling extremity of lunar cold—refused to merge naturally. Instead, they collided with a terrifying violence, emitting sharp cracking noises like breaking bones echoing directly across the expanse.
Yet at the dead center of this destructive storm, Lin Feng’s hands remained unnaturally calm.
Droplets of sweat instantly vaporized into white mist the moment they formed on his brow, yet his dark, clear eyes burned with razor-sharp intensity. Beneath his robes, the fourth tier of the Primordial Dragon Pendant throbbed with the dull, resonant rhythm of ancient battle drums. The supreme ability—Supreme Dragon Soul Refining—was operating at maximum capacity, transforming Lin Feng’s heart into a massive atomic furnace. It forcefully compelled the opposing energies of water and fire, inherently destined to clash, to coil, intertwine, and fuse together along an exquisitely complex geometric trajectory.
“Hmph! What does it matter if elements are extreme? The absolute law of this heaven and earth is the will resting in my hands!”
Lin Feng suddenly threw back his head and let out a long, resonant roar that pierced the dense layers of magical energy clouds.
Within his palms, two miniature elemental dragons—one with scales glowing like erupting magma, the other forged from translucent, bone-chilling frost—suddenly snapped their eyes open and released dragon roars that shook the entire cavern. Guided by the overwhelming spiritual willpower of a peak Grand Mage, the twin dragons no longer repelled one another. Instead, they locked together in a flawless double helix, forming a fifty-zhang-long energy drill that shrieked as it spun furiously!
“Dual Ultimate Technique: Twin Dragons of Ice and Fire Piercing Drill!!”
Rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble!
The space surrounding the newly formed ice-fire drill collapsed in jagged black fragments, exposing terrifying spatial vacuum fissures. The horrifying pressure exerted by the technique bore down so heavily that the thick obsidian plaza floor, several zhang deep, began to sink. Countless spiderweb cracks spidered outward in all directions at blinding speed.
Ahead, the Blood Puppet Monarch—a sixty-meter colossal beast encased in armor thick with death qi—seemed to sense the ultimate, fatal threat emanating from the impending strike. The empty sockets of its skull blazed with twin ghostly green flames. Its massive head jerked upward, unleashing an ear-splitting howl that reverberated endlessly through the thousands of subterranean gorge walls.
The titan did not retreat. The savage combat instinct and unbroken pride of an ancient engine of war refused to let it bow before a mere human. It raised its colossal greatsword high; thick, pitch-black blood surged wildly from its body into the blade, condensing into a gigantic crimson moon brimming with grievance and death qi. With earth-shattering momentum, it cleaved straight toward Lin Feng in an attempt to split the ice-fire spear in two!
“You want to block me? You’re not worthy!”
Lin Feng sneered coldly, his right arm sweeping forward with devastating force as all his physical weight and mental energy poured into the drill.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The Ice-Fire Twin Dragons Drill surged forward at supersonic speed, its friction with the air carving a brilliant, dazzling streak of light that tore through the gloomy subterranean night. It ignored the incoming blade of blood, plunging directly toward the focal point of the slash with pure, unadulterated brutality.
Clang—— Clang—— BOOM!!
The collision between extreme cold, extreme heat, and the blood-sea death qi triggered a soul-shaking detonation. A white ring-shaped shockwave combined with blazing gold sparks swept away everything in its path. Ten-man-girth primitive stone pillars surrounding the plaza instantly turned to fine powder, scattering into the void.
The gigantic blood blade of the Blood Puppet Monarch shattered into deafening, jagged fragments the instant it met the tip of the ice-fire drill. The immense torsional pressure carrying the fusion strength of both ice and fire instantly ripped through the sword Qi, rebounding violently into the body of the ancient weapon. The massive artifact shuddered furiously, spidered with countless dense fissures, and burst into millions of razor-sharp shards scattering in all directions.
Yet Lin Feng’s momentum did not stop there! Shattering the greatsword was merely the overture. The true target of the Twin Dragons of Ice and Fire Piercing Drill was the most vulnerable joint on the monster’s body: the seam in the chest armor where all the vital energy of the Blood Puppet Monarch converged!
“Break for me!”
With a resounding roar, Lin Feng slammed his hands downward.
The golden sun dragon and the azure snow dragon shrieked as they intertwined, driving straight into the joint seam on the Blood Puppet Monarch’s chest.
BOOM—— BOOM—— DOUBLE CRACK!!
The agonizing shriek of ancient metal being crushed and torn apart echoed like the wails of gods and demons. The half-meter-thick Blood Sa Steel armor—a magical armor that had survived ten thousand ancient battles, defying thousands of destructive spells from ancient archmages without a scratch—now appeared as fragile as tissue paper before the ice-fire drill, burnt by flame and embrittled by frost.
Thick plates of iron flew outward, transforming into blazing red and frozen metal debris that ricocheted backward with terrifying lethality, embedding deep into surrounding stone walls and causing rubble to cascade down like a hailstorm.
“Ugh... RAAAARGH...!!”
The Blood Puppet Monarch emitted a choked, agonizing roar filled with pain and horror. It was the sound echoing from the deepest chest cavity of a war machine whose core heart had just been pierced.
The ice-fire drill burrowed deep into the monster’s chest, carving out a horrifyingly massive ten-zhang-wide cavern that plunged deep into its core. Foul black blood mixed with thick death qi gushed out from the wound like a broken dam, forming an inky black stream that stained a corner of the plaza and hissed as corrosive toxic vapors ate away at the stone floor.
The colossal weight of the sixty-meter war legion could no longer be supported now that its central energy hub was destroyed. Its massive legs trembled violently, and its left knee buckled abruptly, dropping heavily onto the plaza floor. The impact created a minor earthquake, shaking the ground within a five-mile radius and sending massive fissures racing outward to the subterranean city walls.
The Blood Puppet Monarch staggered, one arm propping itself against the ground to maintain balance. Its giant head slumped forward, and its emerald-green eye sockets dimmed, signaling an imminent total collapse of its energy network.
In midair, Lin Feng hovered amidst the chaotic elemental sea, his robes snapping in the gale he had generated. His face was slightly pale from expending massive mental and magical reserves to sustain the recent strike, but his eyes burned with ruthless chill and supreme arrogance.
He withdrew his hands, crossing them before his chest as he looked down at the dying beast below, his lips curling into a mocking sneer:
“Ancient armor? The Blood Puppet Monarch? It seems that’s all you amounted to. An unskilled child wielding a blade dares to show off before an expert; your end is complete erasure in the ashes of history.”
Lin Feng prepared to unleash a final killing blow to completely extinguish the lingering soul within the monster’s body and harvest its core energy node. Yet the moment a sharp bolt of lightning sparked across his fingertips, a sudden anomaly occurred!
Within the gaping chest cavity where black blood gushed ceaselessly, a blinding crimson light suddenly burst through the shroud of death qi. It was no ordinary light, but a gigantic heart-shaped magic crystal the size of a small chamber, embedded deep within the monster’s chest and linked directly to the overarching array of the entire subterranean palace.
Thump-thump! Thump-thump! Thump-thump!
The beating of that blood-red heart was heavy and dull, striking like a sledgehammer against the chest of anyone standing nearby. Each pulse caused the surrounding space to compress, drawing wild torrents of unprecedented death qi from deep within the earth toward the heart.
Lin Feng frowned, instantly sensing the anomaly. His sharp gaze swept across the magic crystal, revealing that its surface was covered in purple-red blood runes writhing like crawling worms. The temperature around the core was soaring to terrifying levels, while the energy contained within it grew erratic and lawless.
“A madman... Does it intend to self-detonate its entire core to drag this entire subterranean palace down with it?”
Lin Feng muttered, a flicker of vigilance rising in his chest. He had not expected that even after being battered to this state, the monster’s remaining basic combat consciousness still held one final, vicious programmed directive: when the chest was breached and the core compromised, immediately trigger a mutual destruction protocol with the enemy!
Boom! Boom!
The heart-shaped magic crystal suddenly swelled to twice its size, spidered with fractures across its surface that shot out blinding blood-red rays tearing through the gloom. An unprecedented destructive pressure began radiating from the epicenter of the Blood Puppet Monarch’s chest, warping the entire plaza space into a funnel drawing everything inward.
The subterranean plaza began collapsing in massive chunks; colossal boulders were sucked upward into the void, vaporized into fine dust before they could even touch the glowing core.
Amidst the brilliant blood-red radiance and choking pressure, Lin Feng stood proudly in midair, his lips curved into a defiant smile. He clenched his fist tightly, wrapping his body in a brilliant layer of golden light combined with thunder and fire.
“Want to self-detonate in front of me? You thought I’d let you succeed so easily?”
The next chapter reveals the breath-stopping moment Lin Feng steps in to halt this earth-shattering self-detonation, confronting the rawest, most violent energy surging from deep within the earth!