Chapter: Chapter 473
What does it feel like to face a true god in their prime?
Leticia might not have been able to answer this question before, but now she could.
Gazing at the golden flames that seemed to engulf the entire sky, and watching the golden great bird dance within the flames, her heart felt as if it were being squeezed.
She dared not breathe, dared not make a sound, afraid of attracting the attention of this great bird. Her intuition told her that if the great bird noticed her, she would be consumed by the endless flames.
But even though Leticia tried her best to minimize her presence, the golden great bird still noticed her.
“Dragon, one of us will fall today!” The great bird let out a thunderous cry, and with that cry, the sea of golden flames surged towards Leticia.
What should she do? How could she block this sea of fire?
She only had time to cast a magic barrier before Leticia was engulfed by the extreme heat. The barrier didn’t even last for a single breath before it was destroyed by the ocean of flames.
Her vision went black. When Leticia regained consciousness, everything around her had changed. The great bird was still circling in the sky, and she was standing in the same spot as before, as if everything that had happened was just a dream…
What is this? A reload?
If she wasn’t mistaken, she should be digesting the Dragon God’s authority right now, and to digest this authority, she had to defeat this great bird?
Heh, this is quite difficult.
Learning from her previous lesson, Leticia quickly set up a large number of defensive spells in front of her. She wanted to see how strong the great bird’s attack was.
With so many shields here, surely it should last for a minute?
But reality slapped Leticia hard. Accompanied by the familiar bird cry, the surging flames once again irresistibly crushed all obstacles in their path, completely defeating Leticia.
Alright, third round. Since defense is useless, let’s take the initiative!
Then she was defeated for the third time.
On the fourth attempt, she tried to use her divine authority to counter the great bird’s flames, and was defeated after holding on for half a minute.
Once again recovering her consciousness from the darkness, Leticia finally understood the purpose of this trial. It was likely to make her thoroughly master the Dragon God’s authority, as only this deity’s authority could counter the flames of this golden great bird.
So where is the Dragon God’s authority? Why can’t I feel it?
If you don’t give me the authority, how can I master it!
“What should I do… Is it impossible to use dragon powers in human form?” A thought crossed Leticia’s mind.
Since she couldn’t find any other way, she decided to try transforming into a dragon and fighting it!
With that thought, Leticia no longer hesitated. While the great bird was still in its introductory animation phase, she quickly chanted a few spells. As a dense black mist spread, a black dragon dozens of meters tall appeared on the ground.
This was the Dragon Transformation spell, a spell of extremely high difficulty even among demons, with only a few masters. Leticia’s dragon transformation was not yet perfected; the dragon she transformed into had the form but not the spirit.
However, it was definitely enough to crush weaker opponents, as a dragon’s body was tough and could outlast many people.
The only question was why Leticia abandoned her magical advantage to transform into a dragon? Wouldn’t it be better to overwhelm the enemy with magic?
But now, the situation had changed. As soon as Leticia transformed into a dragon, she felt an incredibly fierce power surge within her. This power quickly improved her dragon form, making her magical body more akin to a true dragon.
Her size began to expand, from dozens of meters to a hundred meters tall. Looking at the great bird, which was now not much bigger than her, Leticia immediately felt confident.
I have no size disadvantage anymore, isn’t this an easy fight?
I’m stable, charge!
Then she was hit on the head by the great bird’s wing. While she was still dizzy, the great bird’s sharp claws grabbed her dragon head and crushed it with a crunch.
Well, still can’t win!
Her overly large body was a bit clumsy to control. Leticia couldn’t adapt to that heaviness at all. Many times, her brain had already reacted, but her body was too slow to respond.
The reason she was stunned by the great bird’s slap just now was this. She had already seen the incoming slap, and wanted to dodge by tilting her head, but after a few seconds of this thought, her body finally started to move.
“A few seconds!”
The great bird’s wings were already slapping her face, and her body hadn’t even moved yet!
“A too large body is also not good, I can’t control such a large body, it needs to be smaller and more agile…” Leticia thought, touching her burning right cheek.
She felt… she might be entangled with this great bird for a while.
As expected, this power wasn’t so easy to obtain.
…
Somewhere in the Sleeping Dragon Mountain Range, golden flames and starlight shone together. As the sun rose from the horizon, the power of the starry sky inevitably weakened, allowing the fiery great bird a moment of respite.
Fortunately, it wasn’t normal creature, otherwise it would have died countless times under Bai Ling’s sword.
Composed entirely of flames, it had no weaknesses. If its head exploded, it could regenerate quickly. If its body was pierced, it only needed a little energy to repair. There was only one way to defeat it: to exhaust its energy.
It was also fortunate that Bai Ling was the one standing there. The Sword Saint’s endurance was terrifying. After battling the golden great bird for an entire night, she was still clear-headed and looked as if she could fight for a lot longer.
After discovering that the golden great bird could not be killed quickly by conventional means, Bai Ling reduced her output. Anyway, it could break through her defenses, so the difference in power was not significant.
The super ultimate moves from the beginning did not reappear. The current Bai Ling was like playing with the fiery great bird, continuously attacking it with her sword. Each sword strike caused damage to the great bird, and each sword strike consumed its energy, which was diminishing.
The nearby creatures had long since been scared away by the earth-shattering commotion during the night. The fiery great bird had lost the opportunity to replenish its strength from other sources. Under the Sword Saint’s relentless pressure, its only fate was death.
After a while, with a final starlight slash, the white-haired Sword Saint sheathed her sword.
The fiery great bird had disappeared. The black equipment worn by those mercenaries appeared where the great bird had vanished. It could be guessed what their final destination was.
“It’s over?” Sheathing her sword, Bai Ling looked at the black equipment that had fallen to the ground and turned to search for Leticia in the mountains.
The anomaly in the mountains must be related to Leticia, and she had to hurry and check it out…
Before she could even take a step, several fiery flames suddenly appeared in her perception. This scorching sensation was almost identical to the great bird she had just defeated!
The battle was far from over!
Three great birds, reborn from fire, flew from the horizon. Their target was not Bai Ling, who had just defeated a great bird, but a certain location within the Sleeping Dragon Mountain Range.
After the mysterious power shrouding the Sleeping Dragon Mountain Range disappeared, the energy fluctuations within the mountains could no longer be hidden. Huang, who was about to awaken, acutely sensed that a crisis was imminent.
Something was obtaining the Dragon God’s authority, and it must be stopped!
Divine blood weapons contained a trace of divine will. They would not act normally, but once they sensed something related to their opponent, this trace of will would begin to act.
The southern border of the great plains was not heavily infiltrated by merchants. The number of divine blood equipment that could sense the energy fluctuations within the Sleeping Dragon Mountain Range was not large. Even if they were all combined, there were only three great birds that were slightly weaker than the great bird Bai Ling had just defeated.
As soon as they were born, they flew straight towards their target, unwilling to even glance at anything else.
A galaxy that should not have appeared during the day blocked their path. The Sword Saint, who had just killed a great bird, drew her sword again, blocking the three great birds.
“Your target seems to be her, so I cannot let you pass.”
The great birds looked at the girl blocking their path and understood that this battle was unavoidable. To enter the mountains and interrupt the inheritance of authority, they had to defeat the enemy in front of them, who looked like she wouldn’t be easy to deal with.
The three great birds made their choice. They merged together, intending to defeat Bai Ling in their most powerful state.
With the surging flames, the three fiery great birds with wingspans of tens of meters merged into one great bird that was slightly larger than a single great bird.
The size did not change much, but the solidity of their bodies was a world of difference compared to before the merge. The previous fiery great birds looked like a ball of fire, and it was difficult to even make out their bird-like shapes.
But the great bird that now appeared before Bai Ling even had visible feathers, and its angry eyes could be seen.
“Screech!” The great bird flapped its wings, and the flames followed its movements, lunging towards the galaxy that blocked it.
Golden flames clashed with starlight, and the intense energy currents almost destroyed everything nearby.
Under such an attack, Bai Ling calmly held her sword and watched the great bird’s performance. No matter how the great bird screeched or how hard it tried, the galaxy Bai Ling casually waved was like an insurmountable Great Wall, blocking all the flames.
“It’s a bit stronger than before, but as I said, mere accumulation of numbers cannot defeat me.”
The great bird only looked menacing. In actual combat, Bai Ling could easily pin it to the ground with one hand. The vast difference in strength could not be made up by absorbing the lives of a few beastmen warriors.
To put it bluntly, the beastmen warriors absorbed by the great bird combined could not withstand even one of Bai Ling’s swords. How good could a great bird fueled by them be?
“Starfall!”
A giant starlight sword appeared above the great bird’s head. Before the great bird could react, the great sword had already fallen, directly severing its head.
For an ordinary opponent, this move would have been fatal, but the great bird was different. It had almost unfair regeneration abilities. It couldn’t die unless its internal energy was completely depleted.
“Sigh, this is troublesome,” Bai Ling sighed with slight annoyance, then pointed her sword at the great bird from a distance, “Starlight Sword Formation!”
Countless streams of starlight descended from the sky, transforming into exquisite and beautiful star swords that surrounded the great bird.
“Slash!”
The sword formation began to move. Countless sharp swords enveloped the great bird like a storm. Under this level of attack, the great bird could barely maintain its bird-like shape.
But even so, Bai Ling still couldn’t quickly finish off this bird.
Since it couldn’t maintain its bird form, then so be it. Form was not important to the fiery great bird.
Its essence was flame, not a great bird. As long as that trace of will in the flames did not disappear, it could continue to self-repair.
Star swords with form dealt very little damage to formless flames, almost no damage at all. This was Bai Ling’s weakness.
When facing opponents with physical bodies, she was very, very strong, even comparable to gods. But when facing such formless enemies, even if they were far weaker than her, Bai Ling still felt troubled.
Could she attack the will within the flames with mental attacks?
It would be possible for Leticia, but the one here now was Miss Bai, and Miss Bai… she had always been a blank slate in the mental domain.
Her defense and offense were both low, and her understanding could be described as non-existent.
So, what was Leticia, who could deal with the fiery great bird, doing now?
She, ah, was wrestling with the ancestor of the fiery great bird, the true great bird god.
The slender black dragon spewed lightning, fighting an equal battle with the sea of golden flames. Leticia, after dozens of retries, could now reliably withstand the great bird’s first heavy blow.
Whoosh! A huge wing carrying a gust of wind swept towards the black dragon’s head. The black dragon immediately turned its head, dodging this attack as well.
The great bird’s subsequent claw attack did not achieve good results, only leaving three deep wounds on the black dragon’s body.
These injuries were not suffered by Leticia in vain. As the great bird’s claws tore through her scales, her large mouth had already bitten onto the great bird’s wing. With a flash of icy blue light, one of the great bird’s wings was covered in frost.
From being instantly killed at the beginning, to being able to withstand a few moves, and finally to being able to exchange blows with the great bird.
Leticia didn’t know how much time had passed or how many times she had restarted. She was now fighting the great bird almost purely on instinct.
This move means using this skill, I need to react like this. That move means attacking like this, I need to dodge. After this skill is released, there will be a recovery period, and I can use this opportunity to deal some damage.
Leticia felt like she was playing an action game. This great bird was the ultimate boss with invincible mechanics.
