159: Chapter 159 Breaking Free! The Birth of a King!

When Lin Qingzhi's words, filled with boundless tenderness and anticipation—'Come back'—drifted down like the most sacred incantation upon that radiant blood cocoon—

BOOM—!!!!!!

A chaotic light, more dazzling, more blinding, and more terrifying by ten thousandfold than any before, erupted violently from within the blood cocoon!

That light was no longer a simple interweaving of blue, gold, and gray, but rather a profound and sacred... chaotic radiance, as if it had fused all the colors from the dawn of the universe!

The light surged skyward like the first divine punishment that cleaved heaven from earth, forcibly tearing a massive, savage... hole in the perpetually gray sky of the Desolate Ruins!

The entire Desolate Ruins trembled violently at this very moment!

But this was not the end!

Alongside that blindingly intense chaotic light, a terrifying, absolute suppression—one that seemed capable of crushing this very heaven and earth, originating from the deepest depths of bloodline—exploded forth!

It was not Demonic Power, nor divine might. It was an even more ancient, more primal... authority of a King, one that stood above all living beings across the myriad realms!

*Thump!*

*Thump!*

Within a radius of a hundred miles, all the Desolate Ruins creatures lurking in this land of death, living on decay and slaughter—whether they were Essence Rank, Demon Rank, or those Aberrations who had long lost their reason, driven only by instinct...

The moment they sensed this Bloodline Suppression, potent enough to freeze their very souls and force their submission, they all, without exception, prostrated themselves on the ground. Pressing their savage, horrifying heads firmly against the earth, they offered their most abject... obeisance in the direction of that blood cocoon!

They were trembling!

They were terrified!

They were... paying homage to the birth of a new King!

Lin Qingzhi was utterly stunned.

Her cool phoenix eyes were locked onto the blood cocoon suspended mid-air, radiating boundless light and heat. Her pale, beautiful face was etched with an indescribable... shock!

She knew Mo Wen's evolution this time would be powerful.

But she never dreamed in her wildest dreams that he would become... this strong!

This level of Bloodline Suppression, even in the Xuan Realm of her past life—a realm teeming with powerful experts and prodigies—was something only thoseDemon Emperor (yāozú huángzhě - demon race emperors) possessing the most supreme, most ancient divine beast bloodlines could possibly possess!

Just what kind of monster had he evolved into?!

However, while this earth-shattering surge of energy attracted those who would submit, it also inevitably disturbed the one and only true... overlord of this region!

ROAR—!!!

A terrifying roar, brimming with boundless savagery and towering rage, suddenly erupted from the distant 'Mountain of Ten Thousand Bones', a peak piled high with countless giant beast skeletons!

Immediately after, a 'King Rank' aura, no less formidable than the one emanating from the blood cocoon now, filled with brutality and destructive intent, surged skyward like an awakening ancient demon god. It collided fiercely with the Bloodline Suppression on this side!

*RUMBLE!*

The entire earth quaked and groaned under the collision of these two 'Kingly' wills!

Lin Qingzhi's expression changed drastically in an instant!

She jerked her head up, looking in that direction!

On the distant horizon, a terrifying lizard, its body as massive as a mountain, covered in thick, black metal-like savage scales, with a fearsome dragon head and four sharp, giant claws, was charging towards them with heavy, earth-shaking steps!

Ancient Desolate Dragon Lizard!

A true absolute overlord with genuine 'King Rank' strength, one that had dominated this region for hundreds of years!

In its eyes, this region was its territory!

And now, the provocative 'Kingly' aura emanating from that blood cocoon was undoubtedly the... fuse that ignited its brutal and ferocious nature!

ROAR!

The Ancient Desolate Dragon Lizard's enormous eyes, like bloody lanterns, locked onto the blood cocoon suspended in mid-air, filled with towering fury at this... affront!

It suddenly opened its... cavernous maw, lined with layer upon layer of sharp teeth!

A visible mass of the purest 'Desolate Ruins' primordial energy, saturated with destruction and death, gathered and compressed frantically within its mouth!

Finally, it coalesced into a pitch-black energy sphere over ten meters in diameter, one that seemed capable of devouring all light!

Then, without the slightest hesitation, it fiercely launched this terrifying energy sphere—powerful enough to instantly flatten a mountain range—towards the blood cocoon undergoing its final metamorphosis!

No!

Lin Qingzhi's pupils constricted sharply!

Without a second thought, she was about to burn her already nearly depleted divine soul once more to block this fatal strike for Mo Wen!

But it was already... too late!

That pitch-black energy sphere was far too fast!

So fast that even light was devoured by it!

So fast that even time seemed to freeze!

Lin Qingzhi could only watch helplessly as that sphere representing 'death' and 'destruction', in an unstoppable manner, instantly traversed several kilometers and appeared... directly in front of the blood cocoon!

It's over!

Lin Qingzhi's heart sank to the very depths in that moment.

Yet, at the critical instant, the very moment that energy sphere was about to strike the blood cocoon—

*Crack.*

A sound, extremely faint yet astonishingly clear, like the sound of the world itself being born, emanated from the blood cocoon.

Immediately after, a hand—slender, pale, with distinct knuckles, as if carved from the most perfect white jade, yet brimming with explosive power—slowly extended from within the shattered, fissure-riddled chaotic light.

Then, under the gaze of the Ancient Desolate Dragon Lizard, filled with shock and disbelief, it nonchalantly... crushed that pitch-black energy sphere capable of obliterating mountains!

Yes, crushed it.

As easily as crushing a ripe... tomato.

BOOM—!

Rampant energy swept out violently in all directions!

But that hand remained suspended in mid-air, utterly motionless, without even a single significant... mark left upon it!

The dazzling chaotic light slowly dissipated.

A youth, clad in a noble and mysterious crimson robe that seemed woven from blood and darkness, with black hair cascading over his shoulders and crimson eyes like blood, handsome as a... primordial demon god walking the mortal world, quietly hovered in mid-air.

He had appeared.

He was Mo Wen!

Mo Wen slowly lowered his head, looking at his own hands, perfect as works of art, sensing the unprecedented, all-controlling... formidable power within his body.

Then, he slowly raised his head.

He turned his cold, emotionless crimson eyes—the eyes of an apex predator—towards the Ancient Desolate Dragon Lizard, which had fallen into utter rage after seeing its sure-kill strike so easily neutralized.

The corner of his mouth slowly curled into a cold, cruel... smile.

In the next second, his figure vanished from his original spot without a sound!

When he reappeared, he was already standing... atop the head of that massive, arrogant Ancient Desolate Dragon Lizard!

He simply, unceremoniously, raised his foot.

And then, gently brought it down upon that savage dragon head, larger than a truck.

There was no earth-shattering roar.

Nor any cataclysmic explosion.

That arrogant Ancient Desolate Dragon Lizard, possessing 'King Rank' strength, didn't even manage to let out a proper death cry—

*Hum—!*

An intangible, yet supremely overbearing law of [Devouring] erupted violently from beneath Mo Wen's foot!

Under Lin Qingzhi's utterly stupefied gaze, the giant beast's massive, seemingly indestructible body began to disintegrate inch by inch, from head to toe!

Its flesh, its bones, its soul...

Everything, under the irresistible law of [Devouring], transformed into the purest, most primordial torrent of energy. Like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, it madly surged into... Mo Wen's body!

Instant kill!

A complete and utter... instant kill!

Having done all this, Mo Wen slowly descended from the now-empty space mid-air.

He landed in front of the Girl in White Robes, who was completely stunned, looking up at him with a gaze filled with shock, bewilderment, and a trace of... a shyness she herself hadn't even noticed.

Looking at her pale, exquisitely beautiful face stained with a trace of blood, a hint of... gentleness, unnoticed even by himself, appeared for the first time in his perpetually cold, cruel crimson eyes.

For the first time, using a voice belonging to a 'human', he softly called out her name.

'Lin Qingzhi.'