Bebe flew very stably, with no turbulence at all.
“Delia, don’t pamper those kids too much,” Linley, flying alongside Bebe, said with a laugh as he saw this.
Delia looked at Linley. “Linley, don’t reprimand me. You see your children so rarely, and you are going to reprimand me?” Linley immediately didn’t dare to say a word. He actually did feel very guilty. Sometimes, he would go off and train for months at a time. He did indeed feel as though he owed the kids and Delia a lot.
Linley looked down at the boundless earth. They weren’t too far from the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts now.
The three major gathering grounds for magical beasts in the Yulan continent were the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts, the Forest of Darkness, and the Mountain Range of the Setting Sun. Of course, other places also had magical beasts, but they were much rarer in those places. But in these three places, a terrifyingly high number of magical beasts congregated.
By now, both the Forest of Darkness and the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts had a Deity present. Thus, Linley had chosen to go to the Mountain Range of the Setting Sun.
A long time later…
The peaks of the Mountain Range of the Setting Sun appeared in the horizon. The Mountain Range of the Setting Sun started from the Dark Alliance, followed the southern boundaries of the Yulan Empire, and then intersected between the Rhine Empire and the Burning Desert.
In truth, the Mountain Range of the Setting Sun and the Burning Desert were both the southernmost points of the Yulan continent.
If one went past the Mountain Range of the Setting Sun or the Burning Desert, they would enter the boundless Southern Seas.
“Wow, it’s so big. It seems to be even longer than the Forest of Darkness,” Taylor said in surprise. Taylor and the others had flown on Bebe’s back before and had seen the Forest of Darkness from the air.
Cena said, “Taylor, according to the books, the Mountain Range of the Setting Sun and the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts are both very long, but only around a thousand kilometers wide. As for the Forest of Darkness, it is thousands of kilometers long, but also two or three thousand kilometers wide.”
Taylor nodded in understanding.
“Get ready to go down,” Linley suddenly said.
The giant Bebe next to Linley suddenly dove down along with him. When they were only a few hundred meters away from the mountains, the two halted in mid-air.
“We’re going to fly at this height for now. Bebe and I are going to go meet some dragon Saints,” Linley said to Delia and the kids.
“Don’t worry about us, Father,” Taylor said confidently.
Linley, looking at his son, couldn’t help but chuckle, and then split apart from Bebe. At the same time, he began to scan the area below with his spiritual energy. The Mountain Range of the Setting Sun didn’t have fewer monsters than the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts. Naturally, there were quite a few Saints as well.
But the Mountain Range of the Setting Sun was very large. The Saint-level magical beasts were scattered all over. To instantly find a Saint-level dragon was not likely.
“Hrm?” Linley’s spiritual energy suddenly discovered a Saint-level magical beast, one that Linley was fairly familiar with. It was a Violet-Eyed Goldfur Ape. This terrifying, three story tall Saint-level beast suddenly noticed a human was scanning him.
“Who is it?” The Violet-Eyed Goldfur Ape’s voice rang out like a bolt of thunder, and it raised its head to stare at the human in mid-air.
Linley stood there in mid-air, transmitting his voice downwards. “Linley of the Anarchic Lands. Excuse me for disturbing you.” After finishing speaking, the Violet-Eyed Goldfur Ape didn’t bother with him any further. Saint-level magical beasts were more intelligent than even your average human.
Ones that had lived a long time were very familiar with the experts of the Yulan continent.
Some of the most powerful experts, such as Desri of the Anarchic Lands, Hayward, Tulily of the great plains, were known to them. Linley of the Anarchic Lands had also become well-known amongst magical beast experts. As long as Linley didn’t go too far, these Saint-level magical beasts didn’t want to fight such a peak expert either.
After searching for quite a while.
“Boss, I found a Saint-level dragon. It is a darkness-element Tyrant Wyrm,” Bebe’s voice rang out in Linley’s mind. Not hesitating at all, Linley flew directly towards Bebe at high speed.
In the ground atop a mountain, Linley instructed, “Cena, you and the other kids all stay here. Delia will take care of you… Bebe, no matter what, you have to protect them.” Linley looked at Bebe, who said confidently, “Don’t worry, Boss. My Shadowshape Doppelganger Technique is able to create four now.”
Given Bebe’s terrifying speed and his Shadowshape Doppelganger Technique, even three ordinary Saint-level magical beasts working in concert still wouldn’t be able to hurt Delia and the others.
“Be careful, Father,” Sasha said.
Linley began to laugh. “Right. Just wait here. I’ll go bring that Tyrant Wyrm over.” As he spoke, Linley flew away at high speed. Delia and the kids just stood there, watching. Fortunately, because they were on a hill, they could see far.
A short while later…
Linley arrived in the air above the Tyrant Wyrm. The dragon race was divided into two types; the extremely strong and tough wingless dragons, and the magically powerful winged dragons. The Tyrant Wyrm was one of the most powerful wingless dragons. Its enormous body was over a hundred meters long, and its pitch-black, marble-like scales were terrifyingly hard.
The Tyrant Wyrm had already noticed Linley. Its massive eyes burned like fire as it stared at Linley. “Who are you?”
“Linley of the Anarchic Lands,” Linley said.
“Linley?” the Tyrant Wyrm growled, “I am Plaket of the Mountain Range of the Setting Sun. Linley, what do you want?” This Saint-level Tyrant Wyrm of the Mountain Range of the Setting Sun was also an apex combatant.
Linley smiled. “Plaket, I want to borrow some of your draconic blood.”
“Growl…” The eyes of the Tyrant Wyrm, Plaket, filled with a fiery rage, and the massive trees and boulders around him began to burn. “Linley, are you trying to humiliate me, Plaket? If you don’t beat it, then prepare to receive my fiery rage.”
In mid-air, Linley could only shake his head and sigh helplessly. With a flip of his hand, he withdrew Bloodviolet.
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A Heated Battle
Seeing Linley draw out Bloodviolet, the Tyrant Wyrm knew that Linley was going to go head on against him!
As a Saint-level dragon, the Tyrant Wyrm was naturally extremely arrogant.
“Bang!” It angrily stomped the ground, causing the earth to shake and crack. The nearby trees all snapped apart and fell, and the Tyrant Wyrm’s hill-sized body shot directly into the air, breathing hellfire as its fiery red eyes stared at Linley.
It didn’t dare to be overconfident.
“Plaket, you are so huge. I just want a little bit of draconic blood.” Linley shook his head and sighed.
“You are trying to insult me, insult a mighty Saint-level dragon!” The Tyrant Wyrm, Plaket, suddenly opened his mouth and blasted out a scorching cloud of black draconic fire, which suddenly enveloped ‘Linley’… but ‘Linley’ immediately dissipated.
Plaket suddenly stared upwards.
Linley was right above him. “Be careful. I’m going to start attacking you now.” Linley seemed to be quite polite.
“Hrmph.” The Tyrant Wyrm, Plaket, felt even more insulted, and his massive body immediately rose at a terrifying pace. “Boom!” A sonic boom could be heard as the Tyrant Wyrm sent its entire massive bulk against Linley.
But hadn’t he already noticed Linley’s astonishing speed?
“What a sly Tyrant Wyrm.” Linley’s body immediately transformed into a wind-shadow, appearing somewhere else. A black shadow sliced through the air, striking through ‘Linley’. It was the
Tyrant Wyrm’s draconic tail.
“Boom!” The speed of the Tyrant Wyrm’s tail caused the air itself to form enormous wind blades which flew in the same direction. The nearby trees and boulders were chopped into small pieces like tofu, and the nearby trees all collapsed.
The speed of the draconic tail alone was enough to create such terrifyingly powerful wind blades. Then how powerful must the actual tail itself be?
“Must not take this draconic tail head on.” Linley’s face grew serious.
“Whoosh!” Linley’s speed suddenly reached its limit, turning into nothing more than a tiny gust of wind. Linley’s current level of control over the wind was now far more terrifying than it had been twelve years ago. The Tyrant Wyrm’s entire body was emitting a scorching, infernal heat, and the air around instantly began to rise to a terrifyingly high temperature.
If Linley was going to attack, he would have to enter this realm of infernal heat.
Linley’s body was covered with that azurish-black wave of energy. Using the Pulseguard Defense, Linley charged straight into the black flames.
“Swish!” Bloodviolet transformed into a streak of violet lightning. It seemed to have passed through reality itself as it reached a terrifying speed, causing space to grow distorted. The blurred space began to fold and distort, and the violet ray of light landed directly on the Tyrant Wyrm’s body.
Profound Truths of the Wind – Spatial Folding.
Crunch!
Bloodviolet chopped out a large wound that was one meter long and thirty centimeters deep. However, not a single drop of the Tyrant Wyrm’s blood came out. This was because its scales were more than thirty centimeters thick.
“What strong defense. It wasn’t broken through by my sword.” Linley was startled. The power of his Spatial Folding attack was so great that it was only one step lower than Higginson’s ‘Illusionary Void Sword’. After all, Linley’s understanding of the ‘Fast’ aspect was still lower than Higginson’s.
Higginson had trained for thousands of years, after all.
“If you have any balls, come fight me, Plaket, head on!” the Tyrant Wyrm roared angrily. He could clearly sense that Linley’s speed was simply too fast, but just as he roared out these words and Linley was about to respond, dozens of black tentacles of infernal fire suddenly appeared out of nowhere from the Tyrant Wyrm’s body and surrounded Linley.
“Tentacles?”
Linley was startled, while at the same time, he felt the tentacles surrounding him were as cold as ice. Linley didn’t worry about his current situation at all. Instead, he began to wonder, “These things are like octopus tentacles. How is it that a Tyrant Wyrm…”
“Boss, these are the ‘Icy Tentacles’ of the darkness spells,” Bebe’s voice rang out in Linley’s mind.
Linley now understood.
The Tyrant Wyrm turned and stared at Linley with its flaming eyes. “Linley, prepare to die.” But before it even had a chance to attack, the deep azure layer of energy around Linley began to roil about and expand… and as it did so, those Icy Tentacles began to shudder.
“Bang!” They exploded.
The Pulseguard Defense now had 256 layers to it. It was more than ten times as powerful as it had been in the past.
But just as Linley exploded those Icy Tentacles… “Swish!” That lightning-fast draconic tail slashed over once more. Linley’s body instantly retreated at high speed, but it nonetheless grazed the edges of the Pulseguard Defense. The terrifying power transmitted by that draconic tail caused Linley’s body to shake.
“There is nothing even remotely ‘ordinary’ about the strength of Tyrant Wyrms.” Linley was secretly surprised.
Experts on the level of Haydson probably couldn’t do anything against this Tyrant Wyrm, given its power.
“Growl!” The Tyrant Wyrm roared angrily, and its terrifying voice somehow seemed to be ‘locked’ into a specific region and blasted against Linley. The terrifying sound caused Linley’s ears to ring, and then, the Tyrant Wyrm wildly charged against Linley.
There was only a distance of a hundred meters between Linley and the Tyrant Wyrm, but as it charged at Linley, its size rapidly began to shrink.
However, its charging attack power seemed to have become even more powerful.
“Groowl!” In the blink of an eye, it seemed like an earthquake or a mountain was charging at Linley.
At the same time, a gray fog appeared out of nowhere, surrounding everything within several hundred meters, including Linley.
“Can’t get hit.” Linley didn’t pay any attention to the fog at all, and he quickly began to dodge as fast as he could while Bloodviolet began to dance in his hands as well. He just barely dodged the charging attack of the Tyrant Wyrm, and then Linley delivered yet another sword onto the Tyrant Wyrm’s body…
His sword was agile and mysterious. It fused both the ‘Spatial Freezing’ concept and the ‘Spatial Folding’ concept, two major yet opposite concepts, to form the ‘Tempos of the Wind’. The power of this attack was a level higher than even the ‘Illusionary Void Sword’.
“Crunch!”
That thick scale instantly split apart.
“Grooooowl!” The Tyrant Wyrm let out an agonized, furious growl. Instantly, fresh blood came spurting out from that meter-long wound.
Seeing draconic blood spurt out, Cena, Sasha, and Taylor, watching from afar, all let out whoops of joy. A hint of a smile appeared on Delia’s face as well. Clearly, Linley had the advantage. And in truth… Linley hadn’t even gone into his Dragonform.
The Tyrant Wyrm was actually knocked flying towards the ground.
“Crash!” An earthquake occurred as the Tyrant Wyrm’s hill-sized body smashed into the ground. At the same time, it raised its head high and howled. “Hooooowl!” A terrifying burst of sound exploded forth from the Tyrant Wyrm, transforming all the nearby trees to splinters.
Bebe managed to react very quickly, instantly creating a black barrier around Delia and the children.
“What are you doing? Showing off your loud voice?” Linley flew down from mid-air. “I’ve already opened up a wound on your body. Just let me retrieve a little bit of fresh blood. Don’t worry, I won’t kill you.”
“You are insulting me.”
The Tyrant Wyrm, Plaket, growled with the utmost anger.
But Linley’s face suddenly changed as he turned to stare into the horizon. Two enormous magical beasts were flying towards them at high speed. One of them had a perfectly sinuous body and a pair of enormous physical wings. It was one of the legendary Saint-level Gold Dragons.
As for the other dragon, its shape was roughly the same as the Tyrant Wyrm’s, except its scales were a deep blue, and lightning crackled on the surface of its body.
“Saint-level Gold Dragon. Saint-level Thunder Lizard!” Linley felt a bit numb.
The Tyrant Wyrm was already very formidable. Even Linley, if he didn’t Dragonform, wouldn’t dare to take the Tyrant Wyrm’s draconic tail head on just by using his enhanced Pulseguard Defense. The weakness of the Tyrant Wyrm was its speed.
But Saint-level Gold Dragons were extremely fast, and Thunder Lizards… were as fast as lightning.
“Plaket, what’s wrong?” A deep voice came forth from the Thunder Lizard. “Is it this detestable human?”
The Tyrant Wyrm growled, “It is, Big Brother. This detestable human is relying on his speed and reaction speed.” The Tyrant Wyrm was furious. If it wasn’t for the fact that he was slow, how would he be losing? Tyrant Wyrms were slow, but possessed terrifying defense and attack. They were similar to Undying Warriors.
The Thunder Lizard stared at Linley with its two golden eyes.
Saint-level Thunder Lizard. Saint-level Gold Dragon. Saint-level Tyrant Wyrm. These three dragons made up an extremely powerful force in the Mountain Range of the Setting Sun. Whenever they met a powerful foe, they would all help each other. When they combined forces… they were terrifying, especially when they compensated for each other’s defi
ciencies.
“Father!” The distant Taylor grow nervous. Cena and Sasha both watched the three Saint-level dragons with concern as well.
The Tyrant Wyrm flew into the air. Each of the enormous dragons were the size of a small mountain. The three Saint-level dragons flew in the air side by side, blocking out the sunlight. Their terrifying suppressive aura alone was enough to make one’s heart shudder.
“If he’s just fast, he’s not worth us using our combination attack,” a calm voice came out from the throat of the Saint-level Gold Dragon.
A hint of a smile was on Linley’s face. This battle was becoming more and more amusing.
Suddenly…
“Swish!” An enormous flash of lightning split the skies. The Thunder Lizard’s enormous body suddenly appeared in front of Linley, and it reached out with its sharp claws at such speed that Linley couldn’t dodge at all. It clawed viciously against Linley’s body.
Linley’s Pulseguard Defense was actually reduced by more than half in power, and Linley’s body was sent flying.
“Bang!” The Thunder Lizard’s eyes simultaneously shot out two bolts of lightning, striking against Linley’s body.
Linley’s body slammed against the wall, then slid down. “Bang!” The ground shook from the collision and began to crack, while a huge gouge appeared in the ground.
“This speed is monstrously fast, almost as fast as Bebe.” Linley, in the ground, was secretly startled. “However, the Thunder Lizard’s attack power is a good deal lower than the Tyrant Wyrm’s. My Pulseguard Defense was almost broken through, but in the end, it still managed to take the hit.”
High speed, but somewhat weaker attack.
After all, if a creature moved as fast as lightning but had an attack as powerful as the Tyrant Wyrm’s, then it would be invincible.
“Is father fine?” Sasha was nervous.
“He’s fine.” Bebe could clearly sense Linley’s current condition. Laughing, he said, “I bet the Boss is actually really excited right now.”
Right now, the three Saint-level dragons were circling in the air above, staring at the ground.
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