Chapter 997: Miss Evil Dragon Awakens
Author: Fingertip Madness
Xia Feng caught the silver light orb.
However, the moment the orb entered his hand, its feel turned illusory, as if grasping nothingness. Simultaneously, the orb split into hundreds and thousands of shadows, flying rapidly to the left and right.
Xia Feng couldn’t tell which one was the true Sky Pivot Five.
Beside him, the Empress raised her hand and pressed on Xia Feng’s arm. Instantly, a divine power surged through his forearm into his palm.
The silver light orb, with its myriad splitting shadows, suddenly reformed into one, which Xia Feng firmly grasped.
[Sky Pivot Five · Non-Calamity]
*Song—!*
At the same time, the gray, hazy sky of the entire sealed land seemed to have descended by a hundred meters, and the surrounding air was compressed to the point of making breathing difficult.
Xia Feng’s entire soul began to tremble uncontrollably, and he abruptly looked up.
He saw the dark black giant tower, which towered towards the sky, suddenly flatten into a piece of paper. The woman in the phoenix dress tore a gap in the center of the paper and slowly stepped out.
With each step she took, a magnificent golden-red staircase condensed beneath her snow-white feet, extending layer by layer towards the sky.
The second step, the third step… Her divine, phoenix-patterned skirt fluttered, her fiery red braided hair tied at the ends, her soft hair that fell to her waist and hips gradually ignited with phoenix-colored holy flames. Her mesmerizing, upturned fox-like pupils spun into a holy golden cross. She took her fourth step—
The Goddess ascended the stairs, and heaven and earth bestowed their positions.
Her fifth step landed, and tree-branch-like profound golden patterns extended from the corners of her eyes, converging towards her brow.
“Buzz—! Buzz—!!!”
Waves of holy golden light spread out layer by layer. In the distance, by the imperial seat, Xia Feng was forced to take half a step back by the shock. The powerful divine pressure made his knees creak, but he held on and did not kneel.
However, as the woman in the phoenix dress took her sixth step, her fox-like, yet divine and indifferent, cross-shaped pupils glanced at Xia Feng.
Xia Feng’s pupils contracted sharply. The desire to kneel, to prostrate, to praise and admire the woman reached its peak.
*Dong dong—* Two heavy sounds, like heartbeats, exploded within his soul. At the same time, Xia Feng felt his blood flow accelerate, a faint, ancient dragon’s roar rising, and his mind suddenly cleared. He looked coldly at the woman in the phoenix dress.
The corners of the woman in the phoenix dress’s lips curled into a lazy smile. She took her seventh step: “Your Majesty, you don’t have much time left to protect that ant.”
“Hmm?” The Empress leaned back, “Is that so.”
Beneath her graceful imperial dress, her long legs crossed. She leaned on her cheek, quietly watching Hua Shen, not in the least bit hurried.
Seeing the Empress’s attitude, Hua Shen was somewhat surprised. She truly didn’t believe that this mere pale dragon scion, who was only twenty thousand years old, could have any means.
Unless the Empress could summon that being at the end of her bloodline,
But unfortunately, that being had been slumbering in the sealed land for who knows how many years. Even if she awoke, her supreme will could not descend to the Three Realms to provide any protection to her believers or dragon scions.
Although the Calamity Contract was only two-thirds broken and not completely shattered, as long as she returned to her divine position and dealt with the Empress, the human named Xia would still be in her grasp, and she would torment him for eternity!
The woman in the phoenix dress stepped onto the eighth tier. The holy cross in her pupils scattered light flows, using the golden patterns at the corners of her eyes as a path, and suddenly converged on her brow, forming a true holy golden cross, profound and majestic.
*Buzz—!* The golden waves of divinity pushed back, and the laws trembled.
She looked down with her fox-like, upturned pupils. However, to her confusion, upon ascending to the true divine position, all things in this place should have praised her name, bowing down to her like living beings.
But none of that happened. The celestial phenomenon after her ascension to godhood was calm, almost nonexistent, as if in fear and reverence of another being.
A thought flashed, and she looked up as if sensing something. A vast, profound voice echoed from an extremely distant place.
It was a summoning call!
The summoning call of the Spirit Summoning Sacred Tree had attracted the attention of a being on the verge of awakening and, following a spatial passage, had reached this place.
But… who was about to awaken here?
Her fox-like pupils subtly narrowed. A sense of extreme ominousness lingered in her heart. She abruptly looked up.
*Bang—*
The scene of the Heavenly Revelation Divine Palace shattered like a mirror, revealing the true appearance of this place.
In the center of the boundless flower garden, the magnificent World Tree reached the sky. In the center of the tree, the skeletal remains of a white dragon were raised in a roar. The divine seat and divine steps at the very bottom were enveloped in unquenchable azure flames.
Above the divine seat, the woman in the imperial dress still leaned on her cheek, seated with elegance and majesty.
But beside the woman in the imperial dress, a woman in a starry skirt, with the same stunning beauty as her, sat properly. The only difference was that her eye corners and temples were adorned with crystal-clear, jade-like pale white dragon scales.
The woman in the starry skirt’s slender eyelids drooped, as if she were in deep sleep.
“…”
The moment she saw this scene, Hua Shen’s mind buzzed, and her fox-like pupils widened imperceptibly.
However, before she could react, the man standing reverently beside the divine seat, like a believer, suddenly turned and slammed the silver light orb in his hand into the center of the divine seat.
*Zzzt—* Like thunder, countless electric charges exploded. Centered on the divine seat, countless distorted light waves instantly spread out in circles. Xia Feng and the woman in the imperial dress were instantly frozen as if time had stopped, unable to move.
And with each spreading circle of distorted light waves, the range of the time stop expanded.
“!!!” Hua Shen’s mind buzzed for the second time. Her widened fox-like pupils contracted sharply. Pale?
Pale and the Abyss were existences that even the gods feared, both the gods of the Astral Realm and the gods of the Nightmare Realm.
And these two supreme Dragon Gods, their human forms were equally mysterious. No one had ever seen their human forms.
Not even the Heavenly Gods of the Twelve Star Palaces.
Gui Hua had actually had many dealings with Pale, or rather, she had caused Pale a lot of trouble with her ‘misfortune’ authority. She had even been hunted by Pale once and almost perished.
However, that was a long, long time ago. But even when being hunted, she had never seen Pale’s human form.
But the layout here, the World Tree, the Pale Divine Flames, the Pale Divine Seat… all indicated that this was the sealed land!
The woman in the starry skirt, slumbering on the divine seat, was the true body of Pale! Her human form!
Why did the Heavenly Martial Empress and the Pale Dragon God have the same appearance…
Countless thoughts flashed in an instant. Hua Shen’s expression stiffened, but she had no time to think further. She took a step back, intending to retreat into the spatial passage and escape—*Buzz!!*
Her retreating movement froze.
The distorted light waves spread out, and the time stop range had instantly expanded, covering the woman in the phoenix dress before continuing to spread throughout the entire sealed land.
In less than half a second, the sealed land fell into complete dead silence. Flowers, plants, flames, men, women, the World Tree, and even the laws of the world, all froze.
Only within the World Tree behind the divine seat, eighteen dark black chains were dimly linked to the divine seat, and wisps of gray mist spread around the woman in the starry skirt.
*Bang—* In the silent world, the surface of a dark black chain was covered by fine silver light and then shattered with a crisp sound.
At the same time, the sound of the summoning call entered her ears, and the woman in the starry skirt’s quietly drooping eyelids trembled slightly.
As the second chain shattered, the woman’s bewitching and majestic vertical pupils suddenly opened, as deep as the abyss.
Those supreme divine eyes quietly looked down at the woman in the phoenix dress.
*Bang—* The third chain shattered.
