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Chapter 122 The Black Conch, Controlling the Giant Dragon
The trident flashed a dark light, leaving an ominous trail in the ancient and solemn Dragon Palace.
Its target is the golden dragon sleeping on the giant pillar.
Basong's face was contorted with madness. He knew very well that if he awakened a dragon soul he couldn't defeat, he wouldn't survive either.
But he was determined to use everyone's lives to pay for his failure.
"roar--!"
A roar, unlike a dragon's cry, sounded more like a furious roar from the primordial wilderness.
The entire underwater palace shook violently with this roar, and dust fell from the luminous pearls embedded in the dome.
On the giant pillar, the pair of tightly closed golden dragon eyes suddenly opened.
Those are not the eyes of a living being.
Those were two rounds of burning, pure rage, a tyranny capable of incinerating everything.
The Dragon Soul of Zhenhai has awakened.
Its lantern-sized dragon eyes swept across the entire area, but did not lock onto Basong, who was throwing the trident, nor did they look at the unscathed first squad.
In its eyes, all intruders are damned ants.
Its anger needed an outlet.
Closest to it were several members of the South Asian Association who rushed in behind Basong.
The dragon opened its mouth.
There was no flame, no lightning. Only a pure, high-pressure water breath, like an invisible blade of judgment, swept across.
Those elite South Asian fighters didn't even manage to utter a sound.
Their protective energy, their equipment, and their flesh and blood were as fragile as paper in the face of that dragon's breath.
After the water flow washed away the debris, only a few wisps of dust remained, proving that they had once existed.
Basong's army vanished in an instant.
Immediately afterwards, countless tightly closed gates on all four sides of the Dragon Palace suddenly burst open, and the icy seawater poured in like a flood bursting its banks.
The water level is rising rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The once solemn palace has been transformed into a complex underwater battlefield in the blink of an eye, with undercurrents and whirlpools everywhere.
"Damn it!" Zhao Leiguang cursed, holding his two shields in front of him to barely steady himself.
The others also found stone pillars as shelter to protect themselves from the impact of the seawater.
Amid the chaos, Lu Yan's voice, far from being flustered, rang out immediately in the communication channel, clear as a scalpel slicing through glass.
"Lin Chuxue, attack three inches below the dragon's reverse scale, but don't use your full strength; provoke it!"
The instructions were brief, yet precise down to every single detail.
Basong, driven to madness, became the only "enemy".
Zhao Leiguang and Shen Xinglin immediately accepted the order. The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, used their charge and shield bashes to drive the still-shaken Basong in the designated direction.
Xiao Qianyu's figure flickered among the towering pillars.
The Blink Strike was slightly hampered underwater, but it was still so fast that its trajectory was impossible to see.
Like an elegant shepherd, she used the tip of her spear to continuously block Basong's retreat, forcing this "lead sheep" step by step toward the predetermined slaughterhouse.
On the other side, Lin Chuxue floated in the water, took a deep breath, and a fireball the size of a human head formed in her palm.
She calculated the angle and force with precision.
The fireball flew out of his hand, leaving a long trail of bubbles in the water. It didn't hit the dragon directly, but instead grazed the slightly upturned golden scale on its neck.
stab-
The high temperature made a piercing sound when it came into contact with the dragon scales.
It doesn't cause much harm, but it's extremely insulting.
This completely ignited the fury of Zhenhai Dragon Soul.
"roar!!!"
The dragon went completely berserk. It no longer attacked indiscriminately; its eyes, burning with rage, were fixed on the source of the damage.
A devastating dragon's breath was brewing, then it was unleashed!
The beam of light formed from the condensed water struck precisely the direction from which Lin Chuxue's attack originated. And at the end of that direction was the number three giant pillar to the east.
Basong had just been forced there by Xiao Qianyu.
He watched helplessly as the dragon's breath, imbued with the power to destroy the world, surged toward him, the last trace of color draining from his face.
He finally understood.
He was not a hunter from the start.
He was merely bait, a pawn, a "tool" used by the first squad to attack the dragon.
boom!!!
The dragon's breath completely engulfed the third giant pillar along with Basong's figure.
The thick stone pillar was instantly vaporized, creating a brief vacuum in the surrounding seawater.
By the time the water had filled the area again, Basong had vanished without a trace, leaving not even ashes behind.
"Beautiful." Zhao Leiguang whistled in the channel.
Using the rules to kill someone else.
This is so Lu Yan.
Despite defeating all the enemies, the pressure on the first squad did not lessen.
The fury of Zhenhai Dragon Soul had not subsided; it regarded the entire First Squad as a new provocateur.
Its massive body churned in the water, creating deadly undercurrents.
"Don't try to fight it head-on, use the stone pillars to circle around it!"
Lu Yan's command sounded again.
The battle turned into a bizarre game of hide-and-seek.
The first squad moved like ghosts in the water, weaving and dodging among hundreds of giant pillars.
Xiao Qianyu was responsible for drawing the main aggro, Zhao Leiguang and Shen Xinglin used their shields to block the impact at crucial moments, and Wen Yue's grenades were responsible for creating water explosions to disrupt the dragon's perception.
They don't attack, they just dodge.
What they need to do is stall for time.
Under Lu Yan's precise command, the enraged dragon was temporarily helpless against the seven "flies".
However, just when the battle seemed to have reached a stalemate, a sinister laugh suddenly rang out in the Dragon Palace.
Basong, who should have been vaporized by the dragon's breath, slowly emerged from the shadow of a stone pillar.
Half of his body had been reduced to charcoal, and his flowing scale armor was tattered, but he was still alive.
And he had something extra in his hand.
A palm-sized black conch shell exuding an ominous aura.
"You...you think this is the end?" Basong's voice was hoarse, filled with resentment. "This is a divine gift from the White Eagle Empire, originally intended for conquering this secret realm...and now, it's being used on you!"
He brought the black conch shell to his lips and, with his last ounce of strength, blew it out.
No sound.
Or rather, it wasn't a sound that humans could hear.
An invisible sound wave, like an unseen poison needle, instantly pierced the mind of the Zhenhai Dragon Soul.
"roar--!"
The dragon let out a roar of extreme pain, its massive body churning violently in the water.
The anger in its savage dragon eyes gradually faded, replaced by a forcibly branded mark of absolute obedience and enslavement.
The previously indiscriminate, frenzied attack paused for a second.
The next moment, all the attacks were locked onto the first squad!
The situation reversed in an instant.
Water jets, shockwaves, and deadly vortexes, as if guided by eyes, attacked the seven members of the first squad from all directions.
The density and accuracy of the attacks have increased by several orders of magnitude.
"Activate the shield!" Xiao Qianyu shouted urgently.
Without the slightest hesitation, Su Yunqing's [Gift of Yao Guang] shone brightly, and a huge semi-transparent light shield instantly enveloped everyone.
boom! boom! boom!
The water arrows struck the shield, creating ripples.
The light shield was flickering violently, and it looked like it was about to give way.
The first squad was in an unprecedented crisis. Targeted by an S+ level dragon, they were forced to rely solely on Su Yunqing's group shield to barely hold on.
"Haha...hahahaha!"
Basong let out a wild laugh, reveling in the feeling of being in control.
"Struggle! Before the power of the gods, you are nothing but slightly stronger insects!"
He held the black conch shell high and gave the dragon his final command.
"The world is united as one!"
The Dragon Soul of Zhenhai roared to the sky, and at that moment, all the seawater in the Dragon Palace seemed to be drained away. All the water flowed to its head, forming a world-destroying tsunami that covered the entire area and left no escape.
The terrifying water pressure caused Su Yunqing's shield to crack under the strain.
This is an unavoidable, fatal blow.
Xiao Qianyu gripped the Crimson Lotus Goddess Spear tightly, while Zhao Leiguang crossed his two shields in front of his chest. Everyone was prepared for a fight to the death.
Faced with this devastating attack, Lu Yan's voice rang out calmly in everyone's ears.
Without a ripple.
"It's finally here."
He looked up at the apocalyptic tsunami about to crash down overhead, then glanced at the laughing Basong in the distance.
He gave a cold laugh.
The cooldown of the Void Disc has just ended.