146: Dragon Hunting

Just as that emerald escape light tore through the dim blood-colored light and, like a stray dog, rushed towards the crack in the northwestern array wall—

About a dozen miles away from the crack, at the bottom of a murky stretch of water that looked ordinary and lush with aquatic plants, a shadow that had almost merged with the jagged reefs stirred slightly.

In Gao De's pair of Purple Lightning vertical pupils, the cold light condensed into substance.

"It has arrived." His Divine Thought, like the finest ripples of water, silently reached the minds of Green Edge and Iron Pincer, who were already in position.

There was no response. Only killing intent quietly surged and locked on like an undercurrent in the deep sea.

The Three-Eyed Poison Flood Dragon had only one thought in its mind at this moment: Escape! Get far away from this death trap!

It didn't even dare to look back at the tottering array and its companions trapped in bitter battle, focusing only on frantically squeezing its demonic core. The emerald escape light sped up once more, heading straight for the increasingly clear crack in the array wall!

"Puchi!"

As if passing through a layer of viscous blood-colored water film, it finally rushed out of the range of the Blood Refining Demonic Formation!

Although the waters outside the array were also surging with spiritual power, with turbulent currents everywhere and the aftermath of the battle sweeping through from time to time, compared to the suffocating blood light and despair inside the array, this place was simply heaven!

The Poison Flood Dragon felt a sense of relief. Its central vertical eye vigilantly scanned the surroundings. In its perception, apart from the intense battle fluctuations in the distance and the scattered, weak auras of fleeing creatures, there were no powerful threats locking onto it.

"Heaven does not cut me off!" It hissed, suppressing its injuries, and was about to adjust its direction to dive into the deep water area far away from the battlefield.

However, at the very moment when its mind was most relaxed, and its old strength was exhausted while new strength had yet to arise—

A sudden change occurred!

The "aquatic plant and reef area" below, which had appeared calm, boiled without warning!

It was not a physical boiling, but a thick, glue-like, ever-changing colored mist that instantly spread across a range of several miles!

This mist appeared so abruptly, as if it had been generated out of thin air. It not only instantly obscured vision but also emitted a strange power that made the Divine Soul dazed and the five senses confused!

【Heaven-Confusing Illusionary Mist】! Activated at full power!

The Three-Eyed Poison Flood Dragon was caught off guard and plunged headfirst into the center of the dense fog.

Its vertical eye could break ordinary illusions, but the mirage dragon characteristics contained within this mist and Gao De's pure Demonic Power far exceeded its expectations.

Immediately, it felt the surrounding scenery twist and change, its sense of direction was completely lost, and even the circulation of its own Demonic Power showed a hint of stagnation!

"Not good! There is an ambush!" The Poison Flood Dragon was terrified. Its three eyes simultaneously erupted with green light, attempting to disperse the illusionary mist, while its body spewed out poison mist, trying to protect itself.

But how could the ambush that Gao De had meticulously planned only have this one trick?

"Sila—!"

A dazzling, hideous giant halberd wrapped in violent Purple Lightning, silent yet fast as lightning, pierced out of the water from the depths of the dense fog, aiming straight for the area below the reverse scale on its throat, which was slightly exposed due to its terror!

It was the thunder fang formation-breaking halberd! Purple Lightning danced on the halberd's body, ionizing the surrounding water into fine electric sparks, carrying an irresistible intent of destruction!

At the same time, two fiercely unparalleled attacks struck from the left and right sides!

On the left was an intensely condensed cyan wind blade, silent yet incomparably sharp, cutting towards the wound on the Poison Flood Dragon's waist and abdomen; on the right was a pair of suddenly appearing, metallic, cold-gleaming giant Iron Pincers, carrying the force of ten thousand jun, fiercely clamping towards its flailing dragon tail!

Green Edge and Iron Pincer, the moment Gao De activated the illusionary mist, tacitly launched a fatal combined attack!

Beset on three sides, trapped in illusionary mist, perception in chaos!

The Three-Eyed Poison Flood Dragon was terrified out of its wits!

After all, it was a Third-Tier Demon King. At the critical moment of life and death, it erupted with horrifying ferocity. Its central vertical eye suddenly shot out a beam of emerald poison light, condensed like substance, to meet the most lethal thunder halberd, while its body forcibly twisted, attempting to avoid the other two attacks.

"Chi—!"

The poison light and the thunder halberd collided, emitting a violent corrosive sound; the thunder light exploded, and the poison light dissolved.

The thunder fang formation-breaking halberd's thrusting momentum was hindered for a moment, but the Purple Lightning Thunder Aura attached to it still tore through the Poison Flood Dragon's protective Demonic Qi, leaving a charred wound on its neck, shattering scales, and causing blood to flow freely.

"Pu! Kacha!"

The wind blade on the left precisely cut into the existing wound on its waist and abdomen, adding injury to injury and causing blood to gush out.

Although the Iron Pincer on the right did not completely clamp onto the dragon tail, it still smashed heavily onto the tail vertebrae, emitting a bone-cracking sound that set one's teeth on edge!

"Roar—!" The Poison Flood Dragon let out a shrill, painful roar. Intense pain and fear drove it completely mad. No longer caring about its injuries, the emerald poison flames around its body burned fiercely; it was actually going to self-detonate part of its Essence Blood to perform some kind of high-cost escape Spell for a final struggle!

It realized that among the ambushers, although the aura of the purple dragon attacking from the front was also Third Order Mid-Stage, its Demonic Power was solid and the thunder was magnificent, posing the greatest threat! It had to force him back first!

However, Gao De had waited too long for this opportunity and had long been prepared to go all out.

Just at the moment when the Poison Flood Dragon was frantically driving its Essence Blood, its aura was extremely unstable, and its defense had dropped to the lowest point—

Gao De's figure, which had always been hidden in the depths of the illusionary mist, appeared above the Poison Flood Dragon's head like a ghost! His right claw, which had been charged for a long time, with five fingers wreathed in a purple thunder ball compressed to the extreme, did not strike down, but pressed through the air!

【Mad Thunder Heavenly Prison】—a newly practiced single-target confinement Spell!

It was not a large-scale lightning cage, but five Purple Lightning chains as thin as hair yet condensed to the extreme, which silently appeared out of thin air and instantly wrapped around the Poison Flood Dragon's head, neck, and waist!

On the lightning chains, countless fine thunder runes flickered, not only containing powerful confinement and paralysis power but also precisely interfering with and cutting off the connection between the Poison Flood Dragon's frantically circulating Essence Blood and its demonic core that it was trying to detonate!

The Poison Flood Dragon's whole body stiffened, the burning poison flames suddenly dimmed, and the madness in its vertical eyes turned into boundless astonishment and despair.

It was this momentary stiffness!

"Die!"

Gao De's cold Divine Thought was like a final verdict.

The thunder fang formation-breaking halberd was raised again. This time, Purple Lightning condensed on the halberd's body, turning into a small thunder sun, carrying the will to destroy everything, and smashed fiercely towards the vertical eye in the center of the Poison Flood Dragon's crown!

Green Edge's wind blade and Iron Pincer's giant claw also struck towards its heart and reverse scale at the same time!

"No—!!!"

The desperate hiss came to an abrupt end.

The thunder sun exploded, and Purple Lightning raged! The wind blade pierced the body, and the Iron Pincer shattered the scales!

The Three-Eyed Poison Flood Dragon's huge body twitched violently. The central vertical eye shattered first, then its head was almost split open by the thunder halberd, its heart was shredded by the wind blade, and its reverse scale was broken by the Iron Pincer!

Emerald poisonous blood mixed with broken internal organs and the wails of the demonic soul instantly dyed a large area of water red.

An Early Third-Rank Demon King might have been able to contend with Gao De in its prime, but under the circumstances of being heavily injured, panicked, falling into a meticulously laid trap, and being besieged by opponents of the same rank, it met its complete demise in just a few exchanges.

Gao De waved his sharp claw, and a powerful suction force surged out, taking the Poison Flood Dragon's broken corpse, which still contained rich flood dragon bloodline essence, along with its weak demonic soul that had tried to escape but had been mostly worn away by the thunder aura, into his internal space.

At the same time, his gaze was like lightning, scanning the surroundings.

The battle broke out fast and ended even faster, and with the Heaven-Confusing Illusionary Mist covering it, the chaos in the distance was still continuing, and for the time being, no one noticed the brief and bloody ambush here.

"Withdraw!" The goal achieved, Gao De had no intention of staying or checking the spoils of war, and decisively gave the order.

The illusionary mist dissipated rapidly like a receding tide. Green Edge and Iron Pincer, as if they had never appeared, followed Gao De as he escaped into the deeper and more complex undercurrents of the water veins. With a few flickers, they were completely away from this battlefield area where the final chaos and slaughter were being staged.

The most elite forces of Qianjiao Cliff, like the most sinister ghosts in the deep sea, completed a precise, fatal, and silent hunt.

Gao De was not greedy; he was very satisfied with this gain.

Now, it was time to take this bountiful "trophy," return to the nest, digest and absorb it, and head towards a higher level—evolution!