Heavenly Ranking

Chapter 482 Destruction
On the warship of the Mountain and Sea Realm.

High Priest Bai Ze personally took control of the warship and steered it at supersonic speed toward the battle location.

They knew in their hearts that with a legendary powerhouse taking action, dealing with a Demon Dragon Lord whose strongest rank was only eleventh would be a sure thing, but...

They refused to allow themselves to face this powerless adversary who had nearly destroyed their civilization, an adversary they could not even muster the slightest strength for.

Therefore, even if it's just cleaning up the battlefield and clearing out the remaining soldiers, they have to get there as quickly as possible.

however……

They were clearly overthinking it.

When the warship was still thousands of kilometers away from the Demon Dragon Monarch's base camp, a dazzling and brilliant light was released from the battlefield thousands of kilometers away. The brilliance of that moment almost overshadowed the sun's light. Even though they were thousands of kilometers apart, everyone felt as if their eyes were about to be blinded.

"That...that's..."

"It's begun! The battle... has begun!"

Amidst the intense light, a fireball expanded at an incredible speed!

One hundred kilometers, two hundred kilometers, three hundred kilometers...

Even though the mountain and sea border patrol warships were thousands of kilometers apart, they seemed to be within arm's reach in front of this huge fireball.

At that moment, countless beings who witnessed the fireball had their retinas carbonized by the intense light.

Everything within the fireball's reach—trees, steel—was vaporized and burned to ashes in the scorching flames.

Around the fireball, the entire earth seemed to transform from a solid crust into surging, violent waves.

Billions, even tens of billions of tons of rock and soil were hurled into the sky, their momentum resembling countless meteor showers flying against the current, recklessly tearing apart the atmosphere.

The largest of these rocks, weighing hundreds of millions of tons, has exceeded the second cosmic velocity, and has been launched thousands of kilometers away. It will continue to fly further and further away for a long time to come, until it becomes a silhouette that will never fall to the ground.

After the roar, a shockwave powerful enough to annihilate everything followed!
These shockwaves swept across the continent at terrifying speeds of several kilometers per second, causing the barren and vast land to rise into hills thousands of meters high, which then slowly collapsed and sank into valleys.

The once flat plain was torn apart by near-plate tectonics, creating a crack that has been difficult to close for tens of millions of years.

Even though they were thousands of kilometers apart, everyone on the warship was filled with unbelievable terror as the storm swept in.

"This power...this power..."

A ninth-level Celestial Realm cultivator gaped, wanting to say something, but couldn't utter a single word.

Apart from those at the ninth-tier Heavenly Realm, the tenth-tier individuals like Fei Lian, Meng Ji, and Qin Yuan were not much better off.

They stared blankly at the horizon...

To be precise, looking at the enormous fireball "before their eyes" with a diameter of at least four hundred kilometers, and feeling the terrifying high temperature and heat emanating from it that could crush them into dust, they were all frozen in place, unable to react in the slightest.

Some people were even bewildered and speechless.

"The sun... fell down..."

The same applies to the High Priest Bai Ze.

This kind of power...

It was a world-destroying power that even the twelfth-tier Demon Dragon Lord couldn't display during their decisive battle with the Demon Dragon Clan back then!
but……

Ji Fuyou had already informed them that he had achieved legendary status, and they were somewhat prepared for this.

Therefore, he was the first to recover from this apocalyptic scene of a falling star. While navigating the warship to avoid the attack, he roused his spirit and roared explosively, "Storm is coming! Prepare for impact!"

Under this conscious mental impact, one by one, the ninth and tenth-level Celestial Realm cultivators finally awoke as if from a dream.

The scene before my eyes, resembling a falling star, gradually shifted from shock and horror that left my mind blank to unbelievable panic and terror.

"Quick! Quick! On your positions! Full power to propel the warships!"

"Enter combat mode and activate the warship's protective force field!"

"To charge the 'Blade of Destruction,' we must shatter the shockwave the moment it arrives. Only in this way can we ensure the safety of the warship!"

"Change direction, accelerate, fly upwards, and break out of the atmosphere!"

All the ninth and tenth-tier warriors in the arena exclaimed in surprise, each performing their duties and concentrating everyone's strength to maximize the defensive capabilities of the warship.

At this moment, they finally understood why Ji Fuyou had gone ahead of them.

This destructive power, akin to the destruction of a star, would be so devastating if they were actually around. They wouldn't be able to help at all; they wouldn't even be able to withstand the scattered aftershocks. They would be incinerated by the intense heat inside the fireball, which is 400 kilometers in diameter.

Even a tenth-tier Celestial Realm cultivator who has begun to energize cannot withstand it.

after all……

The energy transformation of the tenth-order Celestial Realm has only just begun. Under the terrifying burning of that fireball at hundreds of millions or even billions of degrees Celsius, in the end, not even a trace will remain.

at last……

As they were fully prepared, a storm traveling at speeds of several kilometers per second swept across the air patrol warship with the force that was bound to sweep across almost the entire mountain and sea realm.

In an instant, the massive warship seemed to have crashed into a colossal wall hundreds of thousands of meters high, or like a lone boat encountering a giant wave hundreds of meters high. Everyone on board felt the entire warship violently shaking, uncontrollably swept backward by a hurricane. In just a few breaths, the warship was flung away for an unknown number of kilometers.

As the world spun violently, darkness descended upon the surrounding area, making it impossible for the people of the Mountain and Sea Realm who were trapped inside to distinguish east from west, north from south.

It's unclear how much time passed, but the situation seemed to gradually subside, and the surrounding environment slowly returned to stability.

At this moment, Wu Peng on the warship realized that they had flown out of the hundreds of kilometers of the mountain and sea boundary hurricane and plasma fire cloud, and arrived in the relatively stable outer atmosphere.

but……

Reaching this point does not mean the crisis is over.

That impact sent countless rocks and soil layers flying hundreds or even thousands of kilometers into the air.

Right now, the warships that have fled to this area are facing these fiery meteors that are being thrown out of the ground.

These layers of soil and rock fragments ejected from the innermost circle resemble thousands of fireballs. Some of them will burn up completely in the atmosphere, while others will be scattered in all directions as secondary disasters.

It could even be thrown two or three thousand kilometers away.

High Priest Bai Ze concentrated all his energy, steer the warship left and right, and sped through the meteor shower.

During this time, many of the falling fireballs were either dodged by the warship or cleaved into pieces by the "Destruction Blade" launched by the warship after it had fully charged.

Because the warship itself is equipped with a protective shield, smaller fragments, although still carrying speeds of several kilometers or tens of kilometers per second, are still unable to shatter the shield and hit the warship itself.

This evasion continued for some time until the warships finally arrived over the vicinity of the battlefield, then descended and passed through the clouds.

When they crossed the area where the ionosphere had been torn apart again, a magma ocean hundreds of kilometers in diameter came into view.

The churning lava was like a pot of boiling poison, occasionally bursting open with large amounts of liquid and rising terrifying toxic smoke, as if the gates of hell had been opened, bringing hellish scenes back to life.

Everyone on the warship felt an indescribable sense of suffocation at the sight.

Although they had realized when the fireball, which was three or four hundred kilometers in diameter, had risen into the sky earlier, it was a force they could not even imagine.

But now that they have witnessed this overwhelming power, which is like a cataclysmic disaster, they truly realize just how much stronger a legendary being is compared to them, who are at the Heavenly Realm!
"Destruction! This is true destruction!"

"If that seasonal envoy were willing... he could probably destroy the entire ecosystem of our Mountain and Sea Realm, leaving not a single one of all living beings alive!"

"The ultimate goal of cultivation can be to reach such a state..."

The people on the warship looked at the scene that resembled the opening of the gates of hell, and muttered to themselves.

Fei Lian, however, reacted extremely quickly, realizing what was happening immediately: "Look over there!"

He suddenly pointed in a direction...

There……

There was a huge, charred tree that had been completely destroyed, with only a small stump remaining.

"It's the Ancient Demon Dragon Tree!"

Meng Ji exclaimed in surprise.

Immediately afterward, he quickly examined the sea of ​​lava beneath his feet...

"The reason why the Seasonal Envoy unleashed such a world-destroying attack was that, in addition to destroying the main camp of the Demon Dragon Lord, he wanted to uproot the entire Demon Dragon Ancient Tree."

Qin Yuan also chimed in, "The Ancient Demon Dragon Tree is enormous, with a well-developed root system that stretches for hundreds of kilometers. And the Seasonal Envoy... he has transformed the entire area of ​​hundreds of kilometers into a sea of ​​lava... No matter how tenacious the Ancient Demon Dragon Tree's vitality is, it will only face certain death in the face of such an attack!"

The others listened, and they all looked dazed.

Ancient Dragon Tree!

Yes, in their view, the greatest threat was the Demon Dragon Lord, whose cultivation level was as high as eleventh rank.

But what is a mere eleventh-tier Demon Dragon Lord to the already legendary Seasonal Envoy?
His true target was the ancient dragon tree, which was suspected to originate from a legendary civilization and even possessed legendary characteristics itself.

That's why he unleashed such a devastating and suffocating attack on those of them who were at the ninth or tenth rank of the Heavenly Realm.

Judging from the final result of this attack...

The Seasonal God Envoy undoubtedly achieved the final victory.

At that moment, Qin Yuan, with his keen eyesight, seemed to see something and suddenly pointed in a direction: "Over there! The Divine Envoy of the Seasons is over there!"

Everyone looked around.

Just then, in the scorched area where the Ancient Demon Dragon Tree was located, a figure was suspended dozens of meters in the air, holding in his hand a blood-red fruit with a diameter of one meter.

This fruit...

The Blood Dragon Fruit was recorded in the books that Ji Fuyou bought in the Flying Heaven Realm!

Just as he guessed, it was a supreme treasure that could help those at the peak of the twelfth-tier Heavenly Realm achieve legendary status!

(End of this chapter)