Beast Taming: My spirit beast bloodline is overloaded

Chapter 457 Black Dragon
The black dragon was covered in scales as hard and solid as obsidian, with the edges of each scale shimmering with a cold metallic luster.

Within its eyes were two blazing, dark red molten rocks; with each blink, sparks flew out, sizzling and burning the air.

Its appearance was not only visually stunning, but also gave Lin Chen and his companions a sense of awe and shock.

Because it's just too big!
"This... what kind of monster is this..."

A monster hunter standing next to Ning Ye trembled as he swallowed hard.

This kind of black dragon seems to have never been recorded in the "Beast Taming Manual".

Lin Chen and Li Zhen's expressions also became extremely solemn.

The corpses scattered all over the ground, the soaring resentment, and the black dragon before them radiating endless destructive power—it's easy to connect the two.

In their minds, the tragedy in this secret realm was most likely the work of this black dragon.

"This black dragon doesn't have a level yet."

Li Zhen's gaze was fixed on the black dragon as he whispered to Lin Chen.

His senses surged toward the black dragon like a tidal wave, but it was like a mud ox sinking into the sea—he received no response whatsoever.

In this situation, either the other party is stronger than he can perceive, or the other party is not a life form in the conventional sense.

But in any case, the arrow is already on the bowstring and must be released.

"I'll come first!"

Li Zhen roared and no longer hesitated.

His meaning was simple: if a battle could be fought, then so be it.

If the opponent is too powerful, then Lin Chen will urge the little blue fish to retreat together.

His right arm trembled, and the phoenix arm was instantly enveloped in crimson-gold flames. The phoenix phantom spread its wings and cried out behind him, and an incomparably domineering aura soared into the sky!

The ground beneath his feet suddenly exploded, and he transformed into a burning golden meteor, tearing through the sky and charging headlong towards the enormous black dragon with unstoppable momentum.

"Roar!"

The black dragon seemed to sense the provocation, and its giant lava eyes blazed with ferocity.

It opened its massive maw, and a dark black dragon breath, over ten meters in diameter and condensed to its limit, shot towards Li Zhen like a world-destroying pillar of light!

Wherever this breath passed, space shattered layer by layer, forming a pitch-black trail. Its power was enough to instantly level a mountain!
Instead of retreating, Li Zhen advanced, his eyes blazing with fighting spirit.

He pushed the power of the Phoenix Arm to its limit and threw a straight punch!
The golden flame fist aura surged to a hundred meters in size, and the phoenix phantom completely merged with the fist aura, transforming into a lifelike fire god bird, which head-on met the annihilation breath!

"Boom——!!!"

The deafening explosion resounded through the sky!
The golden and black energies collided violently, like two suns colliding in mid-air, and a destructive energy storm swept outwards, flattening the nearby mountains!

However, the result of the collision left everyone feeling uneasy.

The sacred and domineering fire phoenix only lasted a few seconds before letting out a mournful cry amidst the dark annihilation breath, shattering inch by inch!

Li Zhen's figure was struck as if by a heavy blow, flying backward from the center of the explosion, drawing a long parabola in the air before crashing heavily to the ground, carving a deep trench hundreds of meters long.

"Pfft!" He knelt on one knee, spitting out a mouthful of blood. His face turned pale instantly, and his once invincible phoenix arm was now somewhat dull and lifeless.

With just one strike, Li Zhen, at level 89, was completely defeated even while activating the Phoenix Arm!
"President Li!"

The Ning family patriarch and others were shocked and rushed forward.

Meanwhile, the black dragon in the distance seemed to be completely enraged.

It let out a roar, and its massive body leaped down from the mountaintop like a moving black mountain range, crashing to the ground and causing the earth to tremble violently!

Its lantern-like lava eyes swept over the tiny people on the ground, filled with contempt and cruelty. It raised a dragon claw as tall as a pillar, ready to crush everyone into mincemeat!

"You beast, stop your arrogance! Attack together!"

The Ning family patriarch roared and took the initiative to summon a spirit beast.

The others summoned their spirit beasts and joined Li Zhen in attacking the enormous black dragon.

However, a shocking scene happened.

Their attacks landed on the black dragon's indestructible scales, but apart from a series of sparks, they couldn't even leave a white mark!

The black dragon seemed completely oblivious to the attacks. It suddenly swung its thick tail, which swept across the area with immense force at an extreme speed, leaving the other spirit beasts no time to dodge!
"Bang bang bang!"

Amidst a series of muffled thuds, the spirit beasts of the Ning family patriarch and the others were struck as if by a high-speed meteor. They coughed up blood, their bones broke, and they were sent flying backward, their combat power rapidly declining.

Only Li Zhen withstood the blow, but his blood and qi surged, and he suffered serious internal injuries once again.

"Roar--!"

Just as everyone was in despair, the black dragon roared to the sky.

Its body began to swell violently, and the black scales on its body began to fall off piece by piece, in place of a deeper, darker layer of keratin.

Rows of incredibly sharp bone spurs grew from its back, and a fissure appeared in the center of its forehead, from which a single, upright, purple-glowing eye slowly opened!

"It can evolve into a second form?"

Li Zhen's face turned pale.

The black dragon, now in its second form, possessed an aura several times stronger than before!
Its single purple eye swept over the crowd, and a sense of dread from the depths of their souls instantly gripped everyone's hearts.

"not good!"

Alarm bells rang in Lin Chen's mind.

He remained in the rear without making a move, precisely to give the little fox enough time to condense the strongest "different fire nuclear bomb".

Seeing the situation deteriorate rapidly, he knew he couldn't wait any longer!
"Li Zhen! Everyone, scatter!"

Lin Chen's voice was like thunder, exploding in everyone's ears.

Out of absolute trust in Lin Chen, Li Zhen and the others immediately scattered in all directions with all their might.

The moment they left their spot, the black dragon's single purple eye suddenly lit up!
A fan-shaped purple light wave swept across its single eye, and wherever the light wave covered, whether it was mountains or the earth, it was silently annihilated and turned into nothingness!
If they had been even a step later, they would probably have been completely annihilated by now!
"Now! Little Red!"

A fierce glint flashed in Lin Chen's eyes!
The little fox that had been quietly staying by his side suddenly had its eight tails, burning with strange flames, shoot into the sky.

The energy sphere above its head, only the size of a fist and highly compressed from black Purifying True Fire and cyan Taiyi True Fire, finally completed its final condensation!

"go with!"

With Lin Chen's command, the "Strange Fire Nuclear Bomb," carrying extreme destructive power, pierced the sky and shot towards the black dragon's huge head with unparalleled precision at a speed that surpassed the limits of visual perception!

The black dragon seemed to sense the deadly threat as well. It abandoned its pursuit of Li Zhen and the others, opened its huge mouth, and unleashed an even more powerful annihilation breath, attempting to intercept the ball of light in mid-air.

However, how could an energy sphere that has fused two top-tier different flames be so easily destroyed?
It ignored the energy impact of the annihilation breath, passed right through it, and slammed hard into the black dragon's single eye!
Time seemed to stand still at this moment.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only an intense white light that instantly engulfed everyone's vision.

Immediately afterwards, an indescribable aura of destruction spread rapidly and silently outwards from the head of the black dragon!
Wherever the halo passed, everything withered and was broken down into the most primitive energy particles.

As the light faded, everyone was shocked to see that the once invincible abyssal dragon's enormous, ferocious head had been neatly severed from its neck. The massive dragon head tumbled twice in the air before crashing heavily to the ground, kicking up clouds of dust.

Its headless, enormous body collapsed with a crash, and then fell silent.

"Dead... dead?"

Ning Ye and the others collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, their faces filled with the relief of surviving a disaster.

Li Zhen also breathed a sigh of relief. For a moment just now, he really thought he was going to die here.

However, Lin Chen's brows remained furrowed, his gaze fixed on the void where the black dragon had fallen.

He sensed that the chilling feeling of crisis had not only not disappeared, but had become even stronger! Sure enough, the next second, a sudden change occurred!

In that empty void, countless black energy particles appeared out of thin air, and these particles reassembled at an astonishing speed!

In just a few breaths, a brand new black dragon reappeared before everyone!

"Third form?"

This time, the black dragon that appeared was smaller than before, but the sense of oppression it gave off increased exponentially!

Its body was no longer a physical entity, but rather presented a semi-transparent, illusory state, as if it were composed of pure darkness and void energy.

Its body was surrounded by tiny spatial rifts, and with each breath, it would exhale chaotic spatial turbulence.

Seeing this scene, everyone who had just breathed a sigh of relief instantly sank to the bottom.

Can't kill him?

How to fight this? !

"Come again!"

Lin Chen also went all out, having the little blue fish provide the beast power so that the little fox could once again condense a strange fire nuclear bomb.

However, this time, when the sphere of destruction was shot at the black dragon in its third form, the dragon simply raised its claws dismissively and slashed lightly in front of itself.

A spatial rift appeared out of nowhere, swallowing the strange fire nuclear bomb that was powerful enough to destroy mountains, and disappeared without a trace!
Everyone was in despair.

……

Bai Ling, hidden in the mist, finally showed a flicker of emotion in her cold eyes. Her aura stirred slightly, as if she couldn't help but want to lend a helping hand.

"Don't rush," the old doctor said, stopping her with a gesture. He watched the battle below with great interest.
"Lin Chen's excellence has always surpassed yours."

"Huh?" Bai Ling looked at him in surprise.

The old doctor smiled mysteriously: "He has certainly grown a lot over the years."

After the old doctor said that, Bai Ling also suppressed the urge to attack and turned her gaze down again, her face full of doubt.

She knew how outstanding Lin Chen was.

No matter how powerful Lin Chen becomes, Bai Ling is not surprised.

Where is Xiaobai?
Why didn't we see Xiaobai make a move?
Just when everyone was in despair and could only passively defend against the Black Dragon's unpredictable spatial attacks, Lin Chen made a move that surprised everyone.

He leaped up and actually rode directly onto the little blue fish beside him!

He then shouted to Li Zhen and the others, "Chairman Li, you must save your lives first."

Looking in the direction Lin Chen had gone, Li Zhen and the others naturally didn't think he had run away.

Because Lin Chen was heading in the direction of the black dragon's tail?

"Could it be that the black dragon's tail is its weak point?"

Trusting Lin Chen, everyone's eyes lit up, and they perked up again.

But Little Blue Fish activated its Cloud Wing Leap, carrying Lin Chen, and transformed into a blue streak of light, bypassing the terrifying frontal attack of the Black Dragon, and heading straight towards the Black Dragon's rear at an unbelievable angle!
Finally, it simply disappeared.

"." Everyone was speechless.

Now they were the only ones left to hold off the black dragon. Strangely, after seeing Lin Chen bypass it and enter, the black dragon seemed to have no intention of attacking them.

His gaze was fixed on the direction Lin Chen had left in.

At this moment, Lin Chen did not delay at all and made the little blue fish start at its fastest speed.

Lin Chen has been observing since the start of the battle!

He discovered that no matter how the black dragon changed its form or how it attacked, its body, especially its rear, was always facing a fixed position in the center of the mountain peak, and it never moved an inch!

This is extremely abnormal!
There must be some secret hidden there, or even...

Its core!

When Lin Chen rode the little blue fish through the spatial barrier and arrived behind the black dragon, the scene before him made his pupils shrink suddenly.

There was no energy core or formation as one might expect. Instead, there was an elderly man with white hair and beard, sitting cross-legged on a blue stone, smiling at him as if he had been waiting for a long time.

Lin Chen was startled and instinctively wanted to make a move, but when he got closer, he sensed an incredibly pure and strange aura emanating from the old man.

He was very familiar with this aura.

It's like the primordial aura composed of pure elements when Little Fire transforms into a fire spirit!

A bold idea flashed through Lin Chen's mind in an instant.

All strange and unusual things in the world can take shape.

Fire can transform into fire spirits.

So, the source of spiritual energy in this entire secret realm, these so-called fragments of the Great Dao...

Is it possible for it to transform into human form?

"Hehehe..."

Seemingly having read Lin Chen's thoughts, the white-haired old man slowly stood up and said with a smile:

"You guessed right, I am the embodiment of the 'Dao' of this secret realm."

"Senior..." Lin Chen was at a loss for words. He pointed to the black dragon raging outside, then to the corpses scattered on the ground, and asked, "Then everything outside... and these people, were they all done by you, Senior?"

"The deaths of those people have nothing to do with me. I will only teach those who are greedy, not those who would kill." The old man shook his head and said gently, "The one who killed them was someone else."

Lin Chen was taken aback.

The white-haired old man didn't explain much, but simply looked up at the sky meaningfully and slowly said, "They are watching you."

"them?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen's heart skipped a beat!
He immediately followed the old man's gaze and looked around, but found nothing but emptiness.

But the feeling of being spied on surged back into his heart, sending chills down his spine.

Finally, the old man withdrew his gaze, looked at Lin Chen, and a gratified smile appeared on his face:
"Everything has its time. I have been waiting for a long time, just to find a destined person who can carry this 'Tao'."

"Now that you have passed the test, this fragment of the Great Dao is yours."

As soon as he finished speaking, the old man's body began to become transparent, transforming into billions of dazzling golden specks of light.

These points of light converged in the air and eventually coalesced into a rhomboid fragment that was entirely made of crystal-gold.

As the old man disappeared, the terrifying black dragon outside let out a mournful howl of resentment, its body instantly disintegrating into pure energy that vanished into the world.

The golden fragments drifted slowly toward Lin Chen and finally hovered in his palm.

But he felt no joy. Instead, he gripped the shard tightly and remained extremely vigilant, surveying his surroundings.

Who exactly are they?

"Gods?!"

At this moment, Lin Chen had many questions in his mind.

After all, such methods are far too bloody and cruel!

(End of this chapter)