With the new aura, an imposing man appeared in front of him. Feicui Long, upon seeing him, could tell that he was probably one of the strongest the masters of a universe of the four that had come.
Along with him, and the two who were fighting with the other three peak absolute kings against his master, plus the one he himself had killed, all the masters of a universe had formally appeared. This made him feel a bit more at ease, but just a little, because the individual in front of him was very strong and powerful. Without a doubt, this was the most powerful individual Feicui Long had faced in his 35 billion years of life.
The man who arrived introduced himself and said: "I am Baskara Venanta, the scorpion devil of desolation. I congratulate you for taking down the trio of the pyramid of annihilation, but this is where your streak ends. You see, the Feilou clan only has 200 peak absolute kings, and therefore ranks among them. But that doesn't count the masters of a universe like me, not to mention the first weakling you killed. Most of us are above the top 20 of the 200."
The man paused for a moment to observe where everyone was fighting, then added and said: "I occupy position number 7, so show me your power, the power of the emerald-golden dragon of space and time."
Feicui Long smiled and responded with an insane calmness: "You have incredible power, I must say. Your power is close to my master's, so I will say the same. Baskara, show this power of the scorpion devil of desolation, give this sovereign a worthy battle."
The two began an exchange, brief but at the same time extremely powerful, because although Feicui Long had already deactivated his dragon fury and dragon rage, in each of his attacks he had used all his power without holding back even a bit. Bashara, on the other hand...
Had only been using 75% of his strength. Soon, the two were separated by the impacts, and that was when the true battle began. Blow after blow, each collision between these two monsters made space and time tremble. The poor fools who happened to be nearby died.
Feicui Long used his Emerald Impact in four consecutive strikes: one with his right arm, another with a left hook, another with a right kick like a whip, and the last one with a left kick from above using his heel.
Bashara pulled out his artifacts and blocked them all with incredible precision. This time, instead of only four extra arms, there were ten floating arms. Feicui Long looked at this and made a grimace. While fighting, he spoke:
"Your Feilou clan has one of the worst tastes I've ever seen."
Bashara laughed, "Hahahaha," and said:
"The winner is always the one who decides the fate of the loser. Besides, mortals don't deserve any mercy."
Feicui Long continued attacking, but each strike was blocked, so Feicui Long began to use several techniques in a row: Space Piercer, Space Slash, Space Rend, Space Bullets, Emerald Bombardment, Emerald Impact, Emerald Clash, Emerald Destroyer, Emerald Dragon Claws, Time Slash, Arrows of Time, Time Strikes, Time Shock.
These attacks this time made Bashara become completely serious and use 90% of his strength. His arms glowed with different attributes, two pairs of them shining in topaz and amethyst colors, indicating they held space and time attributes. Feicui Long knew this was going to be troublesome.
The next moment, the battle changed course. Bashara began to dominate the rhythm. Each attack he launched was precise, methodical, and cruel. He used both his ten floating arms and his own. Thanks to his two fields, the space distortion field and the time distortion field, he could evade most of the others with nearly 99.99% accuracy at first. But those damned arms with space and time attributes were harassing him constantly.
Every time he managed to dodge eight of the arms, a surprise attack from one or another would come, with such terrible power that he had to evade, but that in turn made the others more likely to hit him. In the battle that began with him as the only one who could attack, he was now the only one defending. Worse yet, his wounds kept increasing, and Bashara had not even used a single technique or skill.
It was then that Bashara said: "Thousand Strikes of the Boundless Poisonous Tide!"
The 10 extra arms and the two belonging to Bashara in his human form turned into a tide of strikes, making it almost impossible for Feicui Long to dodge them, only managing to be hit by them and sent flying, crashing into a nearby dwarf planet.
The planet was destroyed by the collision. Feicui Long continued flying but stopped quickly. He was a little annoyed, but he refused to give up. Perhaps this was his chance to break through a realm, besides the fact that he had to finish off this guy since he was too dangerous to leave alive.
Feicui Long returned to the battle, using space blink, time jump, and emerald impulse. He tried to use his speed as an advantage. The battle intensified greatly, to the point that this time the explosions could be heard all across the battlefield, only overshadowed by those of his master and the opponents she was facing.
This battle was terrible. At a certain point, the exchange of techniques and abilities had turned the battlefield into a massacre. One could see emerald, golden, amethyst, and topaz flashes, accompanied by more than 11 other colors ranging from yellow to those same amethyst and topaz gleams. It was a terrifying scene. Even cracks in the fabric of the universe began to appear.
This battle lasted for more than 7 consecutive days, until Bashara released his true form: the shape of a humanoid scorpion, as if it were a mixed combat form combined with that of a monstrous devil. The devil was not very large, only measuring about 3.5 meters. His body was covered by the hard shell of a scorpion. He had a stinger that stood out excessively. Although his whole body shone with natural inscriptions, his stinger had a very dense concentration of them and gave off a sign that a single sting would bring desolation to an area.
This change turned it into a one-sided battle. Feicui Long avoided transforming to prevent a venom outbreak, but his opponent was hitting him so hard that it was very difficult to hold back. At the beginning of the fight, even though the attacks did hurt him, they were minor injuries that his emerald heart could heal. Unfortunately, his absolute seal had been broken by the crystal's attack, and from this point on, in order to regenerate, he would have to dissipate that venom.
It was after an exchange that a very injured Feicui Long stood in front of Bashara, who was in his true form. Feicui Long looked at him, smiled, and said: "You're very strong. I really have to admit it. Forcing this sovereign into this state is a great achievement. You are the greatest enemy I have ever faced, but let me show you something..."
Isabella watched this scene with worry, seeing how her darling was being hurt and cornered, although she knew he would survive, since according to what he and Mariane had told her, he would not die in the war...
Then Feicui Long began to transform into his western dragon form and continued speaking while he did: "Let me show you something... show you the true reason why dragons are called the strongest race of all, below only the three original races."
Moments later, in his dragon form, he began to activate a series of abilities: Dragon's Fury, Dragon's Rage, Dragon's Wrath, Dragon's Fear, Dragon's Horror, Dragon's Terror, Dragon's Power, Dragon's Aura. With each one, his power increased more and more, but he did not stop there. Through clenched teeth, he spoke the names of four abilities, two of which were normally passive and two mixed, with both active and passive parts: "Dragon's Instinct, Dragon's Nature, Dragon's Aura, Dragon's Power."
This caused all his natural inscriptions to glow. Then, clearly clenching his teeth, he said: "Bashara, the scorpion devil of desolation, you are the first in a very long time to force this sovereign to use this ability. Now behold the true power of a dragon... True Dragon Essence!"
A magnificent scene unfolded before this universe. The light of three colors shining from Feicui Long's body was overshadowed by what began. From above Feicui Long, a hole... an emerald-colored hole opened. From it, some chains 'emerged'... no, that was not what had happened. In reality, the chains were already surrounding Feicui Long when the hole opened, showing they had always been there.
Feicui Long, now completely wrapped by these chains, even his wings, began opening his wings. The chains resisted, exerting tremendous force, but Feicui Long's body shone brighter and brighter, and with that, in these chains that seemed to have enough power to subdue the universe itself, cracks began to appear all over the battlefield. What once seemed unbreakable broke, and a spectacle of incredibly beautiful lights was displayed.
The dragons were created to be weapons, perfect soldiers, and to dominate the battlefield. They were created with the law of power, becoming an embodiment of it, but their mastery over it was not as natural as the race that founded the clan above the skies.
That led to the need to use an intermediary, or rather, to limit their power. The power of dragons, in theory, has no limit, but the law of power and its energy are too tyrannical, untamable, uncontrollable, and unpredictable. That is why it was divided into 10 different abilities, each one acting as a chain, especially Dragon's Fury, Dragon's Rage, and Dragon's Wrath, which allowed one to access more of that power.
But this was not to better control the dragons, it was to protect them from themselves, since these abilities have certain adverse effects. However, since he was a Supreme Dragon, an Original Dragon, the only one that affected him with just 25% of its effects was the True Dragon Essence. His title as a sovereign also helped him endure it longer. Dragons, even if it may not seem like it with their strict hierarchy, love freedom. They love it with all their strength, and these abilities can strip you of part of your reason and turn you into a mindless beast.
This is only with those three abilities. If all the power were fully unleashed, a dragon's body would not be able to withstand it forever... that is why Feicui Long avoided using this ability...
Feicui Long then began his counterattack while speaking: "Let me also show you how an Original Dragon fights."
Feicui Long attacked Bashara very fast, too fast, but he also alternated between his western and eastern forms, and even between the mixed combat form. But the worst part for Bashara was the power behind each blow; he even felt how his artifacts almost cried out in pain every time they blocked.
Feicui Long was about to launch his final attacks, so he sent a voice message to all the combatants from his universe in his area, including gods with divine authority, and said: "I am going to transport all of you, including the galaxies, star systems, and planets. Do not resist, as I am going to use a very damaging technique. If you resist, then I cannot guarantee that even your soul will survive."
Using his space energy, he enveloped everything he mentioned and transported them to another part of the universe safely.
Then Feicui Long used his mixed form. With a powerful strike, he sent him flying backward; in his eastern dragon form, he teleported to strike him with his tail. He did it twice and then, in his western form, finally unleashed his triple breath. That was when he finally destroyed the 10 artifacts, and Feicui Long switched to his human form and used that infamous technique he had sworn never to use again, this time in a more powerful and improved version: "Golden Emerald Dragon's Space and Time Supremacy, End of Existence."
He launched himself at full speed and, grabbing Bashara's face with his hand, unleashed a terrible power. A completely black sphere of nothingness emerged and expanded at an incredible speed, devouring billions from the Feilou clan...
After a while, Feicui Long appeared alone, absolutely alone with no trace of Bashara nor of the members of the Feilou clan, leaving a hole that was quickly filled by universal regeneration because he was injecting energy into the area.
The entire battlefield went silent, except for the area where his master was fighting, but that peace was interrupted by a divine sovereign stupid enough to charge at him thinking he was tired.
Feicui Long was a little irritated with a desire to kill, so he grabbed her by the face and smashed her into several empty stars. With every blow he gave her, he shattered her body. He didn't stop until the divine sovereign stopped moving.
Feicui Long took advantage of the calm and flew quickly through the battlefield. The sounds of his master's fight stopped, but even though he wanted to go see her, he couldn't. According to the vision, six of his brothers would fall. He already had Fernando's body; he had to go retrieve the others so he could bury them. Just that thought made his heart ache...
He already knew this could happen, which is why he had brought several of these coffins. Aiónios, Mallicus, Hyperion, and Nepharium had died, four of his brothers: the Supreme God of the End and the clan of the End, the demonic clan, the celestial clan and the celestial law, the infernal clan and the infernal law. Someone was missing...
When Feicui Long arrived, his heart almost collapsed with pain and guilt. The last one was Lucretia... Lucretia once had power comparable to his and was the third strongest in this universe... She was also the third with the greatest probability of reaching the Absolute King, but because he used that technique on her, he broke her ego, her pride... and even though she recovered partially, this never stopped affecting her cultivation path and in the end, it prevented her from even attempting to break through to the Absolute King realm...
He found her body with the mark of a stinger. He could feel Bashara's power coming from inside her. If she had advanced to Absolute King, Bashara wouldn't have stood a chance against her, especially because her divine authority, not being linked to any law, allowed her to use it even against the master of a universe. Also by her side, just like Fernando, he found a divine sovereign of the Feilou clan. It seemed he was the divine sovereign of Bashara's universe because he had an aura very similar to his. She had killed him...
Apologizing intensely but unable to cry, Feicui Long carried her like a princess and gently placed her in the coffin. Even though she wasn't one of the four closest brothers and sisters to him, she was very close and probably could be called the fifth. After all, they had been together a little longer than the others...
Then he went straight to the battlefield of his master, but he could only find the corpses of the enemies. There was no trace of his master... his master Selene had disappeared...
His heart was already on the verge of collapse, and so was his soul. No, his very being had begun to fall apart, but the war wasn't over yet. He had to finish it. Now, with the 10 divine sovereigns dead, including those who had been fighting Yun Hua and Catalina, and the four masters of a universe, plus the remaining 30 peak absolute kings also dead, there were no more elite enemies left. This was going to be a massacre and total annihilation.
Feicui Long, without holding back in the slightest, used everything: spatial collapse, temporal collapse, space-time collapse, space storm, time storm, dragon storm, draconic destruction, emerald tide, an endless barrage of attacks that, wherever they landed on the enemies, killed millions, hundreds of millions. The uncountable number of enemies, which had initially been reduced to 25%, now was down to only a few million.
That was when a master of a universe appeared by surprise, but even more surprising was that, knowing he was no match for Feicui Long, he pulled out an Absolute Emperor-level artifact like the crystal and urged everyone who could to retreat. He even activated a formation that transported those who held the Feilou clan tokens. Unfortunately, among those millions, only a small number had intact tokens, totaling 250,000 who were able to evacuate. As for the rest... well, let's just say Feicui Long killed them all.
And no, it's not that he didn't try, but the artifact was too powerful in defense for him to even scratch it, so he could only watch them escape...
So he simply returned to his palace with all the corpses of his brothers, those of the Feilou clan the masters of a universe, those of the divine sovereigns, the peak absolute kings who had fought against his master, and some other valuable things as spoils of war, including the gem...