NOVEL NEXT Chapter 399: The Final Battle
The two of them rushed into the void of the Spirit Realm, one after the other.
The deeper they went.
The more profound the surrounding darkness became.
Countless whispers bombarded Brian's mind.
These magical sounds, like ants assaulting an elephant, couldn't affect him in the slightest.
But there were too many of them.
These whispering fragments were, unexpectedly, the broken dreams and thoughts of countless beings that had escaped into the Spirit Realm over the years, like the emotional impurities of punished individuals accumulated in Brian's Blissful Space, filled with pollution and distortion.
The deeper he went, the more abundant and dense these emotional impurities became.
Even Brian's flight speed was affected.
He realized that this place was like the Spirit Realm's terminal for processing distracting thoughts, and without sufficient soul strength, one could easily perish here.
Fortunately, this polluted area was not long.
Just a breath or two.
Brian and Long successively burst out of the swamp of distracting thoughts and arrived above a brilliant river that spanned the sky and the void.
Countless points of light formed the river before them.
Each point of light represented the imprint of a living being.
Brian understood in his heart.
This was the Time-Space River of the surrounding region!
..
Long stood over the Time-Space River, turned around, and locked eyes with Brian, his gaze cold: "I had already decided to accept this loss and return to the Inner World of the Blood Moon Relics, but then I encountered you, a mere ant, not knowing heaven's height and earth's depth, thinking to defy Fifth Rank against Seventh Rank, yet not realizing this is a path to death!"
The black hair covering its body spread rapidly, a half of a broken horn appeared above its head, its back skin and flesh split open, and a pair of bloody, damaged fleshy wings emerged, a half-broken tail extending behind it...
Long's form reversed, transforming in the blink of an eye into a dragon beast with half its skull cleaved, a single horn left, and its body covered with scars of a fierce battle.
Brian noticed that when Long transformed into this form, countless points of light on the Time-Space River below them began to stir, forming dancing crests that lifted Long, bearing battle scars, and adding a sense of sacred and profound time's marks to him.
At this moment, the feeling Long gave Brian was one of being observed, less illusory.
It seemed as though Long, at this moment, was no longer a soul form but truly had a body of its own.
Long's eyes turned dark gold, eyelids closing as he looked at his body with immense nostalgia.
After a moment, Long looked again at Brian, who made no extra movements: "To preserve my origin power, I haven't reverted to myself for a long time, so why do you force me?"
"There's no need for so many reasons!"
Brian twisted his neck, sneering: "You regard the entire planet as your hunting ground, view all living beings as food, darting around, wearing disguises, transforming into a dragon, guiding Mutants, and the rapid development of countries worldwide, treating countless people's fates as a game of nurturing food to pass the time, relying on nothing but strength!"
At these words, Long nodded: "Indeed, in the face of fists, reasons are superfluous!"
The next moment.
Countless star-like points surrounded Long's body, like a mighty wave crashing toward Brian.
A force of ancient time instantly enveloped Brian, making him feel as if he were mired in a swamp, each move turning into slow motion.
The beastly face full of black hair on Long revealed a ferocious smile: "Fool, I was wasting words with you to trigger the Time-Space beneath us, what are you waiting for?"
A savage beast claw, carrying the power of time, struck heavily upon Brian.
The beast claw enormous.
Impacting Brian's body was akin to a human finger crushing a small ant on the ground.
Rumble~
The surrounding Time-Space River rippled with waves from Long's full-force strike.
A wave of annihilating impact pierced through numerous Spirit Realm dimensional barriers, revealing a void within.
In a blink.
The area Brian was in turned into a void.
Within the void, one could still see tiny points of blood mist exploding.
"Hmm?"
Long retracted his claw, scanning the turbulent surroundings, finally focusing his gaze on the dispersing blood mist.
No..
Did I win just like this?
At this moment, Long felt an incredible sense of absurdity.
You're this weak, and yet you dared to challenge me, hinder me?
Isn't this a deliberate sacrifice?
Waiting a moment.
Seeing the blood mist completely dissipate, Long finally believed the opponent had indeed been eradicated by his single claw.
Realizing this, instead of feeling happy, Long felt deeply uncomfortable.
It felt like using a cannon to shoot a mosquito.
More so, there was regret.
What a show!
He thought it was some big shot!
Had he known the opponent was so fragile, he wouldn't have made such a powerful strike.
Now look.
The Blood Moon Favored delivered to his door, gone just like that.
The more Long thought, the more uncomfortable he felt.
He roared towards the sky: "Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!"
Twice!
Twice, the Blood Moon Favored was picked up for nothing!
Twice, the chance to escape the Blood Moon Prison!
All gone!
Long felt like he was going mad!
Its savage beast head came to where Brian's body had been annihilated, roaring in fury: "Come back! You come back to me!"
Long couldn't believe that the being bringing him a sense of crisis was so weak.
He furiously tried to manipulate the surrounding time power, attempting to reverse the time flow in this area!
Although Long could wield the Time Power as a Time-Space Dragon, his body was now broken, and most of his origin power scattered, long having lost the ability to reverse and traverse time.