Under the Red Dragon.

Chapter 571 The Emperor of Floating Light and Destiny
The corpse of the Primordial Heart-Stealing Dragon fell limply, eventually sliding down the floating island and crashing heavily in front of Kuro and the other two.

With a heavy thud, the five senses within this spiritual realm were shaken by the impact of the massive Primordial Heart-Stealing Dragon. Even a high-level legend like Kuro felt the entire world shaking, and his five senses were instantly out of balance.

It wasn't until a moment later that Kuro was the first to recover. Relying on the huge pearl floating above his head, he tried to get closer to the dead body of the ancient Heartflayer Dragon to take a look.

This ancient dragon was as huge as a mountain. In this strange world, all living beings seemed to exhibit their most powerful essence, so much so that when Kuro stood in front of the ancient heart-stealer's drooping wings, it was as if he were facing a real mountain range.

"This is not the Mindbreaker,"

The young man, who had readjusted himself with his legendary will, frowned and looked with some disgust at the scales on the body of the dead ancient dragon, which seemed to be covered with all the colors in the world, but with the most mixed and chaotic features.

At first glance, this color looks like a colorful rainbow, but upon closer inspection, it is found to be entirely filthy and polluted, with countless twisted lines and marks.

It was this chaotic and filthy color that was slowly flowing from the gaps in the scales of this ancient dragon, a disgusting slime just as repulsive as that found on other native creatures of the spirit realm.

This gave the space a faint, strange, fishy, ​​and sour smell.

This smell was precisely the smell emanating from these strange and disgusting slimes, and from the slimy, grotesque, sucker-covered tentacles of varying lengths protruding from the eye sockets, nostrils, and mouths of the ancient dragon.

Even with the protection of the power of the precious pearl above their heads, the group could still vaguely sense a nauseating smell lingering between their noses and mouths.

The young man couldn't help but reach out, wanting to touch those strange tentacles that were still occasionally throbbing even after they had died.

But the moment the young man's hand reached out from behind the curtain hanging from the jewel above his head, the previously calm and even deathly silent space was instantly filled with countless chaotic, meaningless, and overlapping whispers.

This chaotic and meaningless murmur was so complex and bizarre that even a dragon's throat bone could not produce such a sound, yet it possessed a strange, almost rule-like power.

Even a high-level legend, faced with such whispers, felt like a mortal facing a jumble of chaotic musical notes mixed together, making even the legendary will unable to resist, and instantly feeling dizzy.

This is a chaotic and disordered state caused by the overwhelming size of higher-dimensional consciousness and wisdom, which cannot be fully manifested in the real world.

Even Kuro, a high-level legendary being, could only vaguely make out the clearest word in the whispered murmur.

"Spread your offspring, Khuzun..."

Kuro watched as the young man's arm, which was extended beyond the light screen, was instantly eroded by the power accompanying the whispering murmur, and a twisted, eerie color instantly stained his arm.

Beneath the long sleeves, the skin began to twist and writhe, as if countless buds of flesh were struggling to emerge from the blood and flesh, pushing up the black sleeves inch by inch.

"Damn it, Ruby, what are you doing!"

Kuro felt a chill run down his spine, pulled his long-handled staff from his pocket, and slammed it hard on the head of the bewildered young man.

The enchantment of mental protection and mental fortitude instantly jolted the young man Ruby awake, causing him to instinctively let out a terrified scream.

Ruby quickly pulled his arm back. The light curtain hanging from the jewel above his head seemed to isolate all strange forces, reject all rules that did not belong to him, and also remove the color from Ruby's arm.

With a soft thud, a smear of filthy liquid fell at their feet, isolated from the light barrier. It writhed a few times before finally becoming immobile.

"This is the power of the gods from beyond the realms,"

Ruby, regaining her senses, turned ashen-faced and spoke in a somewhat flustered tone.

Kuro nodded solemnly and said, "This is not an ancient mind-stealing dragon, but an ancient dragon whose self-awareness has been corrupted and whose mind has been controlled by an alien god from another realm."

"But this ancient dragon was killed by an incomparably powerful being with a single palm strike, look!"

Young Ruby and the short, timid Moshi then looked from the angle Kuro had been looking from and saw a huge claw mark deeply imprinted on the top of the head of the dead ancient dragon.

However, because the corpse of this ancient dragon was so enormous and the bodies of the few people were so small, it would have been difficult to notice the deep indentation on the top of the ancient dragon's head if they hadn't found the right angle.

"Hiss, what kind of terrifying power is this?"

Once he had taken to the air using his magic, the diminutive Moxi saw the claw marks on the head of the dead ancient giant and couldn't help but gasp in shock.

But then three inhalations rang out simultaneously.

This ancient dragon was completely intact, except for a claw mark deeply embedded in its massive skull on its head.

The force of this claw mark was so great that it completely shattered the ancient dragon's pair of gnarled horns, which surpassed most legendary artifacts in the world, and its skull, which was a hundred times harder than mountain steel, turning it into a pile of powder in the crater on its head.

This only proves one thing: this ancient dragon was killed here by an extremely powerful being in a single blow.

The three looked at each other, then suddenly looked at the equally enormous corpses around them and realized that the countless huge afterimages they had seen earlier must have been these dead bodies.

These equally strange and powerful beings were probably besieging an even more powerful being, but they were all killed in one blow by another, even more powerful being, leaving their corpses strewn here.

"Why is it that we only discovered this battle a few quarters of an hour ago, but the traces of power left on this ancient dragon show that it happened a month ago?"

Moxi scratched his head, puzzled, and said, "Could it be that the battle we witnessed took place a month ago?"

Young Ruby shook his head and said, "You're not a legend yet, so you haven't perfected your cognitive system to advance to the level of a legend's will. Therefore, your perception of time is anchored incorrectly."

"This vast realm is different from the material world. It was born under the dominion of the spiritual. Everything in it is related to the soul. In other words, the weaker your soul is, the more deficient your spiritual system is, and the more illusory and distant the reality you see will be."

“Even if you can rival many legendary figures through certain means, you are still not a true legend, Moxi,”

"The marks I saw were from three days ago!"

Kuro said with a serious expression, "What I saw were traces left half a day ago!"

In many places in the universe, the standards of time and space need to be recalibrated and anchored by legendary powerhouses using their own will and systems. But at this moment, even the perceptions of two legends differed so greatly, causing a vague sense of panic among the group. "Huh,"

Kuro's eyes twitched slightly, and he let out a surprised sound.

The other two companions looked at the high-level legendary being upon hearing the sound. In such a dangerous place, the high-level legendary Kuro undoubtedly became the backbone and pillar of the trio, and his every word and action was watched and valued.

"What's wrong, Kuro?"

"I asked Lubi," Lubi asked.

Kuro raised his hand and pointed to the huge jewel hanging from the ceiling, which had five claws encircling its surface, making it a luminous pearl.

But as Kuro and the others got closer to the corpse of the ancient dragon, the light emanating from the orbs above their heads became more and more active, faintly echoing the elation of the power remaining in the huge claw marks on the ancient dragon's skull.

"Chaos and disorder are the origin and destiny of the universe, and also its truth, but the power of order is the nemesis of chaos in the universe."

Kuro said solemnly, "But the power of order on this giant claw mark is extraordinary. When I looked with my Magical True Sight, I discovered the remaining power of many aggregates of rules."

"For example, the rules of unity in the universe, the rules of force, and the rules of dissociation, which are the opposite of unity, might also become another rule of entropy increase leading to the destruction of the universe, and so on."

In Kuro's eyes, several huge magical runes were slowly rotating, allowing him to see the essential efficacy behind some of the powers from the outward traces of many powers.

This was also one of the powerful secret techniques from the Second Boss's lineage within the Hall of Reincarnation, which Kuro had acquired through twenty years of hard work and travel to numerous worlds.

This powerful secret technique helped Kuro defeat countless formidable enemies in the past, and it is one of his most powerful and secret magical abilities.

"Hiss, there are also rules of motion and rules of stillness. This powerful being has ingeniously combined the rules of motion and stillness, and can actually interfere with spacetime, creating a spell to control spacetime!"

Kuro suddenly shouted in shock. In his magical vision, the traces of power left around the ancient dragon were analyzed one by one, deduced and processed by the mind of this high-level legend, and then the truth of what happened was revealed.

"That powerful being used magic to control time and space to repeatedly separate and tear apart these terrifying creatures and ancient dragons that besieged it, finding their fatal weaknesses one by one,"

"Then, with lightning speed, we'll kill all these terrifying creatures here in one fell swoop!"

"Terrifying, absolutely terrifying,"

As Kuro shouted, thin lines of blood began to trickle down his face.

The other two looked at Kuro in horror. Even facing a single dead creature would require a lot of effort, let alone a powerful ancient dragon that even the combined strength of the three of them would probably be difficult to harm.

But these terrifying creatures were annihilated in one blow, a chilling sight.

The intense stinging sensation and the immense mental strain caused Kuro's magic to terminate instantly.

"Unfortunately, my abilities are insufficient; I cannot yet see through all the essential manifestations behind this power."

Kuro, panting, expressed his regret. Even though this experience didn't teach him any specific knowledge, the way of thinking that combined different rules to create new rules was a huge inspiration and help to him.

"In this world, in this place, at this point in time, who could possibly possess such power?"

A strange look appeared in young Ruby's eyes as he looked at Kuro.

Kuro stared at Ruby and licked his lips.

"Within the Hall of Reincarnation, there are also many seekers of the Dao from other universes, whose power systems are completely different from ours,"

Kuro said, "According to those guys, if a legendary powerhouse in our universe ascends through the orthodox means, it's equivalent to obtaining the path before the nascent Dao Fruit in their universe."

"Among the legendary destined powerhouses in our universe, the strongest are those who have reached the complete form of Dao Fruit powerhouse, while those who cannot perfect their own rules and create their own rules are those who have strayed from the path and are incomplete Dao Fruit forms."

"Logically speaking, even gods can only grasp one fundamental core rule, which is the core ability of their divine authority. The rest of their divine authority is merely a derivative and a powerful extension of that core ability."

"The same applies to those Dao Fruit powerhouses in the universe. No matter how powerful an existence is, it can only control one core rule, which is one Dao Fruit."

Even though Kuro's eyes were stained with blood, they still shone brightly.

He said with some excitement, "But I only know of one powerful being who can master so many rules."

Young Ruby and Kuro exclaimed in unison, "That's right, Second Boss!"

Moxi scratched his head again and asked in confusion, "Isn't it said that even gods can only master one core rule? Why is the second boss so special?"

Ruby smiled and sighed, "Actually, the second boss only controls one rule, but it's a rule he created himself."

"All the countless rules in the world belong to one system within the rule system He created. Everything is interconnected, influencing and constituting each other. It is the beginning of all things and the end of all paths!"

"Therefore, the combination of different rules can give birth to a new kind of rule power in the hands of the second boss!"

Kuro nodded and said, "This is also why the Second Boss is deeply feared by all the gods. A storm is brewing. If the gods hadn't been going to war with the Golden Dynasty, many secrets wouldn't have been leaked, allowing us little shrimps to grasp their secrets."

Kuro gazed into the distance, feeling both apprehensive and excited.

He said, "The second boss not only possesses the power of all dragons in the world, but also has the potential to possess the power of almost all the gods. Therefore, the gods are afraid that the second boss will strip them of their authority."

"You must understand, the Floating Light Emperor of a thousand years later means that even the individual authority of the gods is nothing more than a fleeting shadow in the face of the Second Boss's destiny!"

(End of this chapter)