Pure whiteness turned into golden light, causing the sky to explode and the atmosphere to fulminate. Various colored energy balls were merging with each other in the air, causing such raucous and rumbling that even the deaf could hear the sounds. The sky was dark on one end and shining with light on the other. If the golden light was somewhat forced to retreat, the five-colored light would move forward marginally. They were locked in a tussle and neither was giving way to the other. One side of the sky was pouring buckets, while light from the other side passed through the thick clouds and illuminated the clan members’ emaciated bodies.

The dragon chants began weakening and the members were finally able to regain some of their cognizances. They stared at the two great forces doing battle in the air.

“Cough cough, why don’t I have any strength?” A warrior dragon held up his bony claws and asked in confusion.

“Simply standing underneath the two mighty dragons doing battle is enough to consume all our energy! That is the true existence of a king!” The dragon knight’s leader lamented.

“No, don’t you feel like your strength is draining from your body?” Another knight was staring at the glistening ray of light that was emanating from the energy stone embedded in its chest. All of its energy was concentrated there, and suddenly, it disappeared!

“… This is the vitality stone that Leader has implanted in us when we were being modified.” Another black warrior dragon fluttered his wings and howled.

“…”

Bang!

A clash between the Golden Wildblade and the black lightning resulted in a loud spark. Black dust and golden snowflakes fell onto the ground along with dark red blood.

“Bwahaha, I never thought that your skills would increase just by going through Mother Nest’s baptism. Do you really think you can escape in one piece?” In the midst of darkness, blood was flowing out of Qiao Yi’s mouth.

“… I don’t expect to come out unscathed.” Scarlet-red blood covered the whole of Bai Wu’s golden body. Blood was oozing from each scale, but he still fought Qiao Yi with all of his might.

Hearing those words, Qiao Yi paused. He laughed even more maniacally than before, coughing up blood as he cackled.

“HAHA! YOU WANT TO TAKE ME DOWN WITH YOURSELF? Don’t you want that lowly human anymore?” he sneered. At the same time, the power of a lightning-quick thunderbolt came greeting Bai Wu’s body.

“Ptoo!” In a momentary lapse of concentration, his left golden wing suffered yet another attack. It left a hole in the wing, the smell of burnt proteins was dissipating in the air.

Bai Wu suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood. He reacted immediately by throwing himself in Qiao Yi’s direction and facing the latter head-on. It was only natural that Bai Wu abhorred parting with Xu Lan, but he could not let the entire dragon clan die just like that. The effects of disrupting dimensional order were clear to see, and Bai Ling’s sacrifice must not be in vain!

Even before entering the Mother Nest, Bai Wu was already planning to take Qiao Yi down with him. Earlier confrontations between the two had enabled Bai Wu to be aware of Qiao Yi’s formidable strength, and in addition to that, Qiao Yi had just absorbed the clan members’ strength! That was precisely why it was even more unforgivable!

He had ordered Tang to send Xu Lan off. If Qin Lao was able to send them here, then, needless to say, he would be able to bring Xu Lan back! Mother Nest was the ultimate destination for the dragon clan: everything had to undergo the Mother Nest to reach completion, including life and death. More than a decade ago, Qiao Yi exploited a blemish – that Ka Daiwen was Bai Ling’s child. He forced the leader to voluntarily enter the Mother Nest and be smelted, but Bai Ling was not able to come out of it after that.

How could Ka Daiwen live with herself!

‘Rumble, rumble!’

A pure golden color took up one side of the sky, while a charming rainbow color [1] filled the other side. Their rumbling sound was incessant while their radiant light shimmered and sparkled! Blood saturated the black fog, causing blood rain to begin pitter-pattering onto the ground! Blood-red snowflakes were floating down, too.

“Ngehehe!”

“Hohoho!”

With another rumble, both dragons were free-falling from a thousand-meter height!

“BAI WU! NO!” Xu Lan rushed out from a huge boulder like a madman. Disregarding his own life, he reached out his hands to try and catch Bai Wu.

It was at that precise moment that Qiao Yi hurled a fireball right toward Bai Wu!

“NO!”

‘Bang! Bang! Bang!’ White smoke was emanating from the muzzle of a gun…

“NO!”

Xu Lan’s and Ka Daiwen’s voice rang out one after the other. Tang unfolded his wings and stood under Bai Wu, waiting to catch him. Qiao Yi, meanwhile, grabbed Ka Daiwen and crashed directly onto the ground.