Instantly Killing One

"Long Er, Zhuzhao, Youying…"

The dark green Great Demon trench coat spread like wings, snapping in the wind.

Bai Cangshu murmured the names of the three arrivals from the Primordial Dragon Court. He already had a grasp of their relative strength.

He slowly bent his knees. At this moment, the benefits of Stark Tech working with his army of Yin spirits to evacuate most of New York’s residents over the course of a day and a half became even more apparent.

Not only had that operation raised his reputation to the Respected level, it had also objectively spared Bai Cangshu from the effects of Super-Empathy.

The Kryptonians had used the Life Equation to forcibly grant Bai Cangshu this empathic ability. Though Bai Cangshu believed it would make it easier for him to enter the realm of Heart Light Pulse in the long run—

For now, it had indeed brought him considerable negative effects.

Humanity’s chaotic thoughts and excessive emotions all affected him. Those weaklings seemed to be plagued by unresolved anxiety and fear at every moment.

Bai Cangshu hovered in the air with his knees slightly bent. The luster of the Kirin Armor on his body lit up, and his aura rapidly swelled.

The restriction he had previously imposed on himself with Logic, suppressing his vital signs to those of an ordinary person, was also released.

His rushing blood pulsed along with his heart, while the power of thunder awakened within him.

Crack!

Thunderclouds surged across the sky in an instant. Without a word, Bai Cangshu changed his title. Mad Lightning had appeared.

The power of heaven and earth combined with the force of Magnetic Field Rotation, and a heavy oppressive force swept down directly from the sky.

At the same time, both Zhuzhao and Youying, who stood at the center of the explosion as black and white flowed around them like a world of their own, completely blocking the explosion of the Spear of Thunder—

And Long Er, whom Captain Marvel Danvers had already pushed beyond New York’s borders and into the skies above the Atlantic Ocean—

All turned at once and abruptly looked toward Bai Cangshu.

It was him!

The three of them understood at once. That overly weak fellow from before had clearly not been using Origin Substance. He had been taken down by nothing more than a Cursed Speech-type ability.

The Life Ladder—each step upward brought one closer to the ultimate limits of life. And the higher the lifeform’s rank, the more naturally immune it was to lower-level abilities!

That was the strength of their dragon race!

Roar!

Long Er threw back his head and roared. Danvers’s brows furrowed tightly. The next moment, terrifying physical strength erupted in front of her.

Long Er planted his feet in the air. A Blazing White force field twisted like waves, spreading outward in rings as the high-speed Captain Marvel rapidly came to a halt.

Brown light radiated from Long Er’s golden vertical pupils, bringing with it an appalling sense of oppression.

Captain Marvel felt that the creature before her had become incomparably terrifying, far more terrifying than any race she had encountered in the cosmos.

Like a high-level race born to be apex predators, merely coming into close contact with it brought enormous pressure.

Danvers glanced down and saw that they were already above the Atlantic Ocean, allowing her to relax slightly. The next moment, the space before her suddenly emptied.

She looked up and saw only a massive tail whipping toward her.

Captain Marvel raised both arms to block. With a boom, the air exploded, and she was sent crashing into the sea.

Because she was moving too fast, her body skipped across the surface several times before sliding thousands of meters away.

When Danvers raised her head, she saw the massive monster bend its knees, the air beneath it caving in like the surface of liquid.

She heard a clear creaking sound. When its muscles tensed, they sounded like the winches of a ten-thousand-ton cargo ship winding tight. The next moment, Captain Marvel felt the space before her empty again.

The air burst apart. Fragments of white cloud trails shot in every direction as the sunken layer of air instantly shattered.

The enormous dragon-man turned into an afterimage and shot toward New York.

Captain Marvel’s heart lurched. Just as she was about to act, a series of sonic booms exploded.

In the sky, Blazing White smoke clouds burst in succession like lotuses. The other party was too fast, continuously changing direction in midair.

Amid the churning dark thunderclouds, he had already appeared above New York.

Buzz!

The entire sky pressed downward. Danvers clutched her heart and suddenly felt her scalp tingle. She saw every strand of her golden hair standing on end.

Some immensely terrifying force seemed to have locked onto her from the sky.

Danvers’s expression changed drastically. She recalled the warning from the woman called Wanda.

"Mercenary Tao isn’t a hero. He’s the greatest demon."

At Iron Man and Nick Fury’s request, Captain Marvel had ultimately agreed to the plan to fight alongside that group.

But at this moment, she truly wondered whether she had made the wrong choice. Was Mercenary Tao’s target… her?!

The thunderclouds sank even lower. The waves across the sea became incomparably violent, and as the magnetic field changed, the ocean turned berserk.

Suddenly, heaven and earth darkened.

At that moment, Long Er, who was flying at extreme speed and constantly changing direction, also felt as though heaven and earth had frozen.

A vast power locked onto him from somewhere unseen.

He abruptly curled his entire body inward. Brown light spread across his dragon scales in ring after ring.

Intense gravity began erupting around him.

Both seawater and thunderclouds were involuntarily drawn toward him, spiraling together.

Yet Bai Cangshu, several kilometers away, merely grinned. He had never intended to lock onto anyone himself.

"This is… Heaven’s Will’s judgment~"

Thunder Arrow of Destiny!

Heaven and earth turned utterly black in an instant. The next moment, a bolt of lightning that seemed to illuminate the world exploded.

"Ha!"

Bai Cangshu felt incomparably refreshed. He let out a strange laugh, instantly switching his title back to Villain Savior. Then his bent knees suddenly straightened.

As the liquefied air exploded in an instant, Bai Cangshu let out a crazed roar.

His figure vanished from the air.

Instant: Eighth Stage, activate!

At the same time, Zhuzhao and Youying, who had remained standing in place in defensive stances, both opened their eyes.

The next moment, the two thrust their hands outward.

Satoru Gojo felt a powerful impact strike him head-on.

The silver-white long hair before his eyes was blown aside. The surprise on Satoru Gojo’s face lasted only an instant before turning ferocious.

"Domain Expansion: Unlimited Void!"

His voice nearly cracked as he deployed his domain.

The pitch-black domain completely enveloped Millennium Worm, the divine envoy Yun Wujiu, and Tree Herder, who had not yet had time to retreat. But in his exhilarated state, he no longer cared whether those people lived or died.

Terrifying information slammed into everyone.

Buzz~

Within the pitch-black domain, pure white light suddenly erupted. Satoru Gojo froze. The next moment, Tree Herder, whose fate was unknown, and Millennium Worm, who had been severely injured by self-destruction, both instantly sensed an immense surge of life force.

Their conditions rapidly improved.

Millennium Worm in particular felt, in that instant, that the negative energy—cursed energy—within his body had transformed into positive energy along with Satoru Gojo’s immense Reverse Cursed Technique.

His flesh rapidly healed and regenerated.

Bang!

Satoru Gojo’s pupils contracted. A streak of black light had pierced through his domain, which had gone out of control due to the reversal of his technique.

There was no time to stop it.

He lowered his head and looked at his hand. In that instant, he had deployed his domain, yet those two had directly reversed the nature of his cursed energy?!

The black flash rose directly from the streets of Manhattan, like a black fissure tearing open the sky above New York.

In an instant, it reached the sea.

But there, the two figures halted at the same time. They looked at Long Er, whose grayish-brown divine power had dimmed across his body, and their expressions darkened.

Long Er turned his head. His golden vertical pupils had dimmed, and large portions of the scales on his body had shattered, leaving behind the bluish-black discoloration of a terrible lightning strike. Countless marks of impact covered his entire body.

"Be careful… he has a Yellow Springs body…"

Then black radiance flowed around his body once. Bai Cangshu sneered and released his grip. The massive dragon-man immediately fell, crashing into the sea with a bang.

You killed Primordial Dragon Court · Long Er

You obtained A-rank Anomaly Point*1

You obtained Dimensional Points*30000

You obtained Merit (Level 2)*1