I will eventually become a god through sheer hard work.

The giant god held the blade in both hands, and a massive longsword materialized in his hands, its tip pointing downwards.

Its twenty-meter-tall body, like a mountain peak, slammed down on the sleeping tree dragon below with overwhelming force.

"Sizzle—!!"

With a loud hiss as a sharp blade pierced through flesh, the massive black longsword struck the tree dragon's neck precisely, penetrating it completely!

The massive blade pierced the neck, then plunged into the ground, pinning the tree dragon to the earth. The Shadowflame Giant then sat on its back.

"Roar--!!!"

The sleeping tree dragon was awakened by intense pain, immediately realized what had happened, and then let out a deafening roar.

The entire valley trembled at the roar, soil and debris flew everywhere, and the powerful sound waves distorted the air into ripples.

Even the Shadowflame Giant's black armor rippled slightly upon hearing this roar, almost reversing its transformation into black flames.

"Boom——!!"

Despite the clear blue sky, a rumbling thunder suddenly echoed from above.

Upon seeing this, Xue Jing's eyes flickered.

He immediately pulled a golden seed from his pocket and tossed it out.

The seed rapidly multiplied and grew in the air, from which more than a dozen thick golden roots emerged, spiraling and coalescing onto the head of the Shadowflame Giant, forming a spiral-shaped, umbrella-like golden canopy.

The moment the canopy was completed.

"Click——!!"

Amidst the deafening roar of thunder, a thick bolt of golden lightning suddenly struck down from the sky!

A massive bolt of lightning struck the golden wooden canopy, shattering it in half, scattering golden dust and wood fragments across an area of ​​dozens of meters around it.

"Using Dragon Thunder Plants to resist Dragon Thunder does work."

The person in the mirror, upon seeing this scene, was immediately invigorated.

"Although it's not 100% effective at blocking..."

Xue Jing sat in the 'cockpit', watching the streams of golden lightning pour down onto the Shadow Flame Giant.

Golden lightning bolts raged and danced across his body, leaving slight cracks in the Shadowflame Giant's armor wherever they passed, but these were quickly filled and repaired by the black flames.

"Most of the dragon lightning was blocked, but a small portion still managed to get through."

Xue Jing frowned.

"Its destructive power is secondary; the problem is..."

He felt the sudden increase in weight on his body, as if he had suddenly been carrying a load of several tons.

"Thunder that affects gravity... this is troublesome."

"Roar--!!"

The tree dragon, pinned to the ground, began to struggle angrily, its whole body shaking violently. It paid no heed to the long knife still embedded in its body, and the wound on its neck was immediately torn open and widened.

The twenty-meter-long tree dragon's obese body, with its enormous mass, moved with earth-shattering force, causing the entire valley to tremble.

Seeing this, Xue Jing controlled the Shadow Flame Giant and, with a twist and a slash of his longsword, combined with the Tree Dragon's struggling strength, directly severed more than half of its neck.

He then discarded the longsword, grabbed the tree dragon's head with both hands, and pulled hard.

"crunch-"

With a sickeningly loud thud as flesh tore apart, Tree Dragon's head was ripped off, leaving a long gash on his neck.

The tree dragon's head, once ripped from its body, quickly lost focus in its eyes and ceased movement.

"Be careful, losing a hand, foot, or head is nothing more than a superficial wound to a life-type dragon."

"Its only weakness is its core organ—but even that core organ possesses extraordinary regenerative capabilities; it must be completely destroyed to kill it..."

The person in the mirror reminded me.

As if in response to the words of the person in the mirror, the headless tree dragon was completely unaffected, and its fat body swayed upwards.

The Shadowflame Giant sitting on it was lifted up and sent flying.

Xue Jing controlled the Shadow Flame Giant to flip in the air and landed nimbly on both feet.

"Click——"

Golden lightning fell from the sky, and Xue Jing flicked his finger, controlling the roots of the Dragon Thunder Tree to block it from above.

"boom--"

The roots shattered, blocking most of the dragon lightning, but some thin streams of lightning still fell on the Shadowflame Giant.

The body suddenly felt heavier, making the Shadowflame Giant increasingly difficult to control.

Only after the raging lightning bolts that had been churning around his body disappeared did the gravity return to normal.

His gaze fell upon the obese tree dragon opposite him.

The wound on its neck was writhing extremely rapidly, with countless cells proliferating and growing, and within seconds, most of its head had regenerated.

Before its upper half of its brain had fully regenerated, it opened its massive mouth full of sharp teeth toward Xue Jing.

A bright golden light gathered in his mouth, and upon seeing this, Xue Jing subconsciously activated his twin instincts.

An extremely strong sense of crisis swept over his entire body.

He immediately followed his instincts, activated Twin Speed, and leaped out, jumping away from the Shadowflame Giant's 'cockpit'.

The next moment, a thick, golden lightning beam shot out from the fat tree dragon's mouth, heading towards where Xue Jing had been standing.

"Om-"

The air vibrated as the lightning beam shattered everything in its path, vaporized the Shadowflame Giant, pierced through the valley, and plowed a trench into the earth with the residual shockwave.

Xue Jing's pupils contracted as he looked at the scene.

"What the hell is this? Boss's atomic breath?"

He was speechless.

If you were spit on by this, you would be instantly vaporized on the spot, with absolutely no chance of survival.

His gaze fell on the obese tree dragon.

No, I'm not fat anymore.

That move seemed to have taken a huge toll on him; the tree dragon's originally bloated belly had now shrunk, as if it had emptied its internal reserves.

"Hmm... so it seems this guardian dragon's danger level is around 5.5... I originally thought it was 5.3."

The person in the mirror, inside the bracelet, pinched their chin and commented.

"You can tell that too?"

Xue Jing raised an eyebrow.

He was still somewhat confused about the specific manifestations of the danger levels and did not quite understand the specific manifestations of each level.

The concept of 'danger level' is inherently difficult to determine, as there are far too many factors to consider. It's not simply a matter of larger size and greater strength equating to greater danger.

The person in the mirror snorted, "My eyes are like a ruler, they never make a mistake. If I say 5.5, then it's 5.5."

"—In addition, its core organs are most likely located in its abdomen."

"Roar--!!"

The tree dragon, now fully regenerated, roared at Xue Jing, its eyes filled with hatred and rage.

"Although you have the strength to fight it head-on for a while, if you drag it out, you will definitely be worn down by it."

"Use whatever countermeasures you have as soon as possible."

The person in the mirror reminded me.

Upon hearing this, Xue Jing nodded.

"Click——"

As the dragon lightning struck down from the sky, Xue Jing, who had been using his Twin Instincts, dodged away from his spot in advance.

Without the burden of the Shadow Flame Giant's massive body, Xue Jing's movement speed was extremely fast.

With the added speed of twins, he ran and leaped, his entire body almost becoming a blur.

Golden lightning bolts followed him, striking down one after another, plowing countless cracks into the scorched earth, but they couldn't touch him at all.

As Xue Jing ran at top speed toward the tree dragon, he took out a silver-white claw from his pocket, held it in his palm with one hand, and exposed the tip.

"Click——"

Having dodged another bolt of lightning, Xue Jing took a deep breath and mustered his strength.

Spiral grooves appeared at the base of the thighs, spiraling down to the soles of the feet and converging at the Yongquan acupoint.

"boom!!"

With a burst of power from the whirlwind, Xue Jing created a deep crater in the ground beneath his feet, and a ring of white air surged in front of him. His already extremely fast speed increased dramatically as he charged toward the belly of the tree dragon.

Just as he was about to touch the tree dragon's belly, Xue Jing swung his 'Snake-Slaying Vanguard' in a backhand motion.

The silvery-white claws touched the dragon scales, which were as rough as tree bark.

Like a scalding hot knife cutting through a block of butter, there was absolutely no resistance, and a huge wound was instantly ripped open in the tree dragon's belly.

Xue Jing's eyes widened slightly.

With his sharp eyesight, he naturally noticed the details.

It wasn't the sharpness of the claws that cut through the dragon's scales.

In fact, the tips of the claws did not even touch the dragon scales.

Instead, just as it was about to touch the dragon scales, the tree dragon's body tore itself apart, avoiding the Serpent Slayer Vanguard as if it were in a hurry!

Shulong was completely terrified.

An instinctive fear, as if it had encountered a natural enemy, swept over its entire body—a fear it had never experienced since birth.