Chapter 425 – The Tragic Fall of the Disaster Beast, Deadbone Knocks on the Door

Several hundred kilometers away from Tianyuan City, a colossal entity pierced through the earth and tore apart mountains as it emerged.

Its massive form rivaled the scale of mountains.

Scorching, fiery clouds steamed from its body, spreading outward for kilometers—even over a dozen kilometers. Vegetation covered by these clouds rapidly dried and cracked before bursting into orange flames, burning until reduced to ashes.

Wherever the behemoth passed, the land began to parch, and brown-red fissures appeared and gradually spread.

Throughout the sky, wisps of Crimson Mist drifted, unnoticed until they began to multiply.

Inside the massive, bridge-like maw of the Great Weapon·Great Serpent, several Legendary Realm experts from the Great Serpent Clan and Black Crow Clan stood with their hands behind their backs.

Their perspective followed the Great Serpent as it overlooked the surroundings, witnessing all obstacles being crushed like decaying wood. An Elder from the Great Serpent Clan burst into a sinister, cackling laugh.

“Target: Tianyuan City! Full-speed Charge!”

Their goal had always been the human city of Tianyuan, not any human genius or Legendary Realm expert.

Humans possessed a fatal weakness: the core city of their territory.

By breaching the human city and destroying the Lord Altar, the entire Miracle Territory could be dismantled from its roots.

This weakness was common knowledge.

The strategy once employed by Jackal Fang was to launch a surprise, fierce, and forceful assault on Tianyuan City.

But they failed.

The Gnolls had underestimated the defensive capabilities of human-held Tianyuan City, but the Great Serpent Clan would not make the same mistake.

“Human firepower is fierce, and they possess multiple barrier protection methods. They may even have trump cards like the Skyfire Thunder Dragon. However, none of this matters before the Great Weapon bestowed by the Envoy.”

The Great Weapon had three characteristics: a massive size exceeding a kilometer, energy reserves hundreds of times greater than peers, and most importantly…

Near-invincible defensive capabilities.

The scales of the Great Weapon·Great Serpent were sufficient to withstand humanity’s strongest attacks, while other human firepower couldn’t even leave a mark on its body.

This was the Great Weapon·Great Serpent.

The Legendary Realm experts of the Great Serpent Clan had already tested it.

Even if they didn’t travel underground but set out directly from the Great Serpent Clan, the Elder believed Tianyuan City couldn’t possibly halt the ‘Great Serpent’s’ advance.

The High Priest had grown old.

The next High Priest should rightfully be him.

…

While an Elder of the Great Serpent Clan fantasized about the future, the Battle Armor General, stationed at a distant observation base, also received news of the Calamity Beast’s appearance.

The Calamity Beast was immensely large, and the disturbances it stirred easily affected dozens of miles around.

The reconnaissance teams he had dispatched detected it immediately and sent back visual information.

The Battle Armor General was absolutely certain this was a Calamity Beast.

He had seen Calamity Beasts before, more than once.

However…

His encounters with Calamity Beasts had always been in various Great Warzones, or even within the Land of Red Mist.

The Battle Armor General had personally clashed with Calamity Beasts and was well aware of their terror.

“Calamity Beasts are often active war weapons and are themselves unique forms of life.””The overwhelming majority of Calamity Beasts’ single-point destructive power limit isn’t much stronger than a full-force strike from a Legendary Heaven-Earth Realm expert. However, their sheer volume and area destruction capabilities surpass Legendary Realm experts by dozens of streets.”

“If Legendary Realm experts avoid direct confrontation with Calamity Beasts, they possess the ability to survive in their presence – but that’s merely survival capability, without any capacity for resistance, not even the slightest bit.”

An ordinary person trying to swat a fly is extremely difficult, almost impossible to achieve. Meanwhile, for a fly to attempt stopping an ordinary person’s advance, let alone killing them, is pure fantasy.

Compared to Calamity Beasts, Legendary Heaven-Earth Realm experts aren’t much different from flies.

Battle Armor General frowned deeply, continuously pondering.

Even if he personally intervened, he was far from capable of intercepting this Calamity Beast. Moreover, the Calamity Beast·Great Serpent was merely hundreds of kilometers from Tianyuan City, not thousands or tens of thousands.

Not just him – even Legendary God Soul Realm experts lacked the ability to directly intercept a Calamity Beast.

Soul Realm experts similarly found it difficult to injure Calamity Beasts with their vast energy reserves and incomparably powerful bodies.

Only Legendary Law Realm experts who had mastered conceptual killing techniques possessed the capability to rapidly inflict heavy damage on a Calamity Beast. Before conceptual killing techniques, all beings were equal, regardless of whether an individual’s defenses against physical, energy, or elemental attacks were strong or weak.

“Whether we can stop this Calamity Beast now depends on whether Tianyuan City possesses some special methods.”

“Such as transfer, restriction, or containment techniques.”

“Calamity Beasts consume enormous amounts of energy during operation – they cannot maintain it indefinitely.”

“After all, Tianyuan City’s lord has repeatedly created miracles and possesses numerous trump cards. He should be able to buy some time… right?”

Battle Armor General felt quite uncertain too.

But he was powerless to help. At most, he could intervene when Tianyuan City’s walls were breached, assisting Tianyuan Lord’s evacuation.

Beyond that, Tianyuan Lord could only rely on himself.

“This general… remains too powerless.”

……

In the mountainous regions near Tianyuan City.

Golden Grand Duke stared blankly for a long time at the steaming mist in the distance, and the terrifying giant serpent towering above the clouds.

“This is… a Calamity Beast!”

He had seen such Calamity Beasts during his expeditions with the Constellation Temple Knights.

But how could such a Calamity Beast appear in a remote Island Domain?

Such Calamity Beasts were far beyond what regional-level Monster Overlords were qualified to possess.

“What kind of enemy is Tianyuan City facing?”

By this point, Golden Grand Duke had no intention of figuring out the combat power comparison between Tianyuan City and the Monster Overlord.

He only hoped Tianyuan City could hold on, at least for a considerable duration.

Otherwise, the next time this Calamity Beast·Great Serpent appeared, it might well be in their Shenluo Great Domain, right before his own gates.

“Since Tianyuan City can contend with this domain’s overlord, presumably they have the capability to deal with Calamity Beasts… right?”

As he spoke, the Grand Duke’s voice gradually lowered.

……

Black Crow Clan.

Only when the Calamity Beast appeared did Black Crow High Priest learn about the Calamity Beast·Great Serpent’s movements.

“When did Great Serpent Clan become so cunning? They actually understood and possessed the capability to conceal a Calamity Beast, only revealing it when they reached Tianyuan City’s outskirts.”

“Surely these humans won’t be simply flattened by the Calamity Beast?”

“This… this shouldn’t be so straightforward.”

Though it wasn’t exactly simple either.The Calamity Beast, the Great Serpent, was undoubtedly a treasure temporarily bestowed upon the Great Serpent Clan by the Great Serpent Venerable.

Yet even so, if Tianyuan City were to fall here, the Black Crow High Priest would still consider it a loss.

He too had the ability to request temporary means from the Attendant, but he simply lacked the power to make the Attendant descend in person.

At this moment,

the Black Crow High Priest, the Golden Grand Duke, and the Battle Armor General were subtly aligned in thought.

“Let’s hope the humans hold out a little longer.”

…

“Is this the Calamity Beast?”

In the command center conference room of Tianyuan City,

one illusionary projection after another appeared, revealing the figures of Deadbone, Dolai, Lu Liu, and others.

The atmosphere in the conference room was somewhat tense but not heavy.

This was Mu Yuan’s first time seeing a Calamity Beast in person, but he had long been familiar with them through the Pioneer Group’s data, including visual records.

He couldn’t say he was unfamiliar with Calamity Beasts.

He knew their characteristics perfectly well.

“Hard to stop, hard to destroy, is that it?”

“Let’s test whether your body is harder than metal or my blades are sharper.”

Mu Yuan scanned the room.

Deadbone didn’t volunteer; it had reviewed the strategic plans, and the appearance of a Calamity Beast was one of the many scenarios the Lord had anticipated.

This wasn’t surprising.

It meant everything was still under the Lord’s control.

Steady~! (ω)b

This was indeed among the 108 unexpected situations Mu Someone had envisioned. Since he knew about the notorious weapon that was the Calamity Beast, how could he not have prepared?

And as it happened, he too had some means to deal with Calamity Beasts.

“Proceed with Tactics 13-B first.”

“As you command.”

…

Thirty seconds had passed since the Calamity Beast emerged.

On the path the Calamity Beast was taking stood one of Tianyuan City’s pre-designated positions for sniping the monster tide.

Azure Frost and Cold Frost, two Frost Lords, were leading a group of Frost Lords and Winter Maidens waiting there.

Below their mountain, monsters were already surging past.

In the distance, even more monsters were visible, like a tidal wave.

Further beyond was the terrifying Calamity Beast, advancing with billowing scorching mist. Wherever it passed, some monsters were swallowed by the mist and crushed to pieces.

“The Lord has given the order. He wants us to give this giant serpent a breeze.”

“Ah, this… Our first battle is way too tough, QAQ.”

“Stop the chatter. Focus on the mission.”

“Already on it~! Fort A energy injection complete.”

“Fort B energy injection complete… C… D… Amplification spell formation activated… Military Soul prototype resonance…”

“Large-scale spell, Frost Tide Funeral, go!”

Azure Frost pointed into the distance, and the ice elemental power between heaven and earth converged from the four temporary Snow Country forts surrounding them.

It merged with the spells cast by the Winter Maidens and Frost Lords, forming a frost-white cold current vaster than a Tianshan avalanche.

The white torrent rolled forth, effortlessly freezing the monsters below the mountain. The frozen monsters, turned into ice sculptures, shattered with loud cracks in the icy wind.

The extreme cold torrent continued forward.

Suddenly, a figure flew out from among the frozen monsters, a Domain spreading around him, brimming with immense energy.

This was a Legendary Realm expert hiding within the monster tide.

But even this Legendary expert hurriedly flew to the sides of the cold tide, not daring to linger or resist this soul-piercing icy flow.

The cold tide paid no mind to the Legendary, maintaining its rolling advance.Azure Frost, Cold Frost, and the others also lacked the ability to control this massive cold wave. Merely unleashing it was their limit.

The cold wave clashed with the scorching mist, exploding into a more diffuse white fog.

After a brief stalemate, the cold wave overwhelmed the steaming white mist and surged forward unimpeded, swiftly rising to envelop the colossal body of the Calamity Beast, the Great Serpent.

The Calamity Beast, the Great Serpent, transformed into an ice sculpture—a frozen serpent—within the extreme cold of the icy tide.

Amid the swirling mist, the Great Serpent was thoroughly frozen, its advance halted.

Azure Frost held a telescope-like tool, her gaze piercing through the clouds. “It seems frozen, but… uh, I knew it wouldn’t be that easy.”

Within the frosty mist, the thick layer of ice covering the Great Serpent cracked audibly, and the serpent began to move again, gradually picking up speed.

“As expected…”

Azure Frost and the others hurried down the mountain.

The next moment—

Hum—

High in the sky, the firmament appeared as if scorched red, covering an area of several miles.

An invisible, terrifying pressure radiated out, dispersing the clouds and mist between heaven and earth, revealing the Great Serpent, still coated in a layer of frost.

“It’s Tianyuan City’s trump card, the Skyfire Thunder Dragon!”

“Tianyuan City indeed still holds such a trump card!”

On the bridge of the Great Serpent, the Elder of the Great Serpent Clan narrowed his eyes.

The Great Serpent halted its movement once more, its gaping maw swiftly closing as its massive body gradually lowered, coiling into rings.

Nine Thunderflame Dragons, shimmering with blazing flames and thunderous radiance, descended from the heavens.

The earth sank, the surroundings rose into towering mountains, and the mountains shattered amidst endless light and heat.

A colossal mushroom cloud surged skyward, streaks of thunder and flames flickering as visible shockwaves swept outward, scouring the land again and again.

After a while,

as the smoke and flames gradually receded, the enormous form of the Great Serpent slowly emerged.

The scales of the Calamity Beast, the Great Serpent, showed numerous cracks, with half its body flesh torn open, resembling a charred, electrocuted dead snake.

For ordinary creatures, such injuries would be severe, but…

this was a Calamity Beast.

A being that sows disaster, born for war.

In the blink of an eye, the dead skin on the Calamity Beast sloughed off, and its scales regrew one by one.

The Calamity Beast gradually revived, its massive maw slightly parting.

Daylight streamed in.

The Elder of the Great Serpent Clan gazed out at the scenery and laughed heartily, “We are completely unscathed! This is the greatness of our weapon, the Great Serpent!”

The Great Serpent began to move.

Its defensive power astonished even Mu Someone.

“The title of Calamity Beast is no exaggeration.”

The descent of the Nine-Headed Roaring Thunderflame Dragon served both as a probe—Mu Yuan needed more precise information on the Calamity Beast—and as a delaying tactic.

They had stalled the Calamity Beast for a while.

Now, arriving at the battlefield was Tianyuan City’s top General, Dolai!

Dolai flew into the area where energy still raged and shockwaves had yet to fully dissipate.

Its Shapeshifting Badge transformed from wings into a staff, which it held in hand.

“Defeating the great boss and guarding Tianyuan City is my duty as General.”

It first launched a basic attack to test the waters.

A scorching red sun erupted within the clouds, striking the Calamity Beast, the Great Serpent.

Once again, terrifying light and heat erupted, along with violent shockwaves.

However, the Calamity Beast, the Great Serpent, merely swayed its head slightly. Dolai’s basic attack, imbued with immense energy no less powerful than an ordinary legendary-level strike, couldn’t even force the Great Serpent to retreat half a step.

The Great Serpent’s sheer size was too immense.It could walk upon the earth, and wherever it was, the geology would subtly change.

Having failed to achieve its goal with a single strike, Dolai was not discouraged.

In the very moment of its previous casual attack, it had already multitasked, embedding Space-Tearing Seals into the surrounding world.

Centered around it, two spatial fissures, like whips, rapidly extended to both sides.

The Elder of the Great Serpent Clan vaguely caught sight of these two spatial cracks.

An inexplicable unease stirred within him.

“No need to panic. Even if they are spatial cracks, they’re merely a stronger form of cutting force. These cracks may be dangerous to us, but to the great weapon, the Giant Serpent, they hold no signifi—”

Riiip—

The Elder seemed to hear the sound of something tearing.

“Must be my imagination.”

Riiip—

The Giant Serpent weapon swayed inexplicably, causing the distracted Elder to stumble unsteadily.

Riiip—

The Giant Serpent weapon’s shaking and trembling intensified.

“What’s going on?!”

They were inside the serpent’s mouth and couldn’t see that Dolai had already flown to the seven-inch position of the Calamity Beast—the Giant Serpent. The two spatial crack whips, now stretched to hundreds of meters, were striking directly at this vital spot.

The scales, tough enough to withstand the Nine-Headed Roaring Thunderflame Dragon, were torn apart as easily as cloth.

The spatial cracks continued to advance, almost unimpeded.

This, of course, was not merely the power of space.

The cutting force brought by shattered space was terrifying; a Legendary Realm expert could be effortlessly sliced apart with the slightest carelessness.

But if it were only spatial power, it could cut, yet not easily.

Like a blunt saber chopping pork.

Dolai possessed immense energy, dozens of times that of its peers, but it still couldn’t outlast a weapon of the Calamity Beast’s magnitude.

However, the space torn open by Dolai’s Space-Tearing Seal was no ordinary spatial rift—it carried the conceptual power of splitting and tearing.

In the face of conceptual power, the Calamity Beast Giant Serpent was, at best, just a thicker individual.

Tearing apart the Calamity Beast felt no different from tearing apart a goblin.

The above is General Dolai’s description.

The massive Giant Serpent was severed by the thread-like spatial tearing whips, its lower half crashing down with a thunderous roar.

Its flesh writhed but could not regenerate even half an inch.

This was a conceptual wound.

Not only was its body cut in two, but the entire operational and internal circulatory system of the Calamity Beast was also severed and torn apart.

Amid the spreading smoke and dust, the Calamity Beast struggled, unable to rise again.

The Legendary Realm Elders of the Great Serpent Clan crawled out of the serpent’s mouth and had just taken flight when they met Dolai’s blazingly bright gaze.

“Finally caught you all.”

“This time, I’m taking the lead merit!”

Space continued to tear.

The folds spread like a vast net, enveloping the sky in all directions.

…

When the Calamity Beast remained still in the smoke and dust for the first minute, the Battle Armor General, Golden Grand Duke, and Black Crow High Priest clenched their fists.

When it stayed motionless for several minutes, they relaxed slightly.

When it remained still for over ten minutes…

When it stayed halted for half an hour…

The Battle Armor General and Golden Grand Duke murmured, “Has Tianyuan City stopped the Calamity Beast?”

The Black Crow High Priest widened his eyes, a sudden foreboding rising in his heart.

Tianyuan City was effective, but perhaps too effective.

It couldn’t be this effective, could it?

“What’s wrong with the great weapon, the Giant Serpent? Move, hurry up and move!”

“Could it be that this High Priest’s crow’s mouth has actually come true?!”Within the Great Serpent Clan, the atmosphere was heavy and tense.

Unable to contact the Elder at the frontlines, the Great Serpent High Priest was uncertain about what had transpired.

But he knew very well that the great weapon, the Giant Serpent, had halted.

Whether it was trapped or something else, this was terrible news.

The Giant Serpent hadn’t even managed to approach Tianyuan City.

No—from its appearance to being stopped and immobilized, only thirty seconds had passed.

The Giant Serpent had only been majestic for thirty seconds?!

Could this be a fake great weapon?

The High Priest had no time to mourn the calamitous weapon, the Giant Serpent. Steeling himself, he prayed and reported to the Great Serpent.

At the same time,

Outside the Great Serpent Clan’s stronghold.

Rolling black mist transformed into a carpet covering the earth, while eerie winds howled like soldiers guarding both sides.

A figure cloaked in black strode upon the black mist, descending from the edge of the sky.

He held the Death Lament high.

The mournful toll of a bell echoed throughout the land.

Hum—

A black gate opened behind the newcomer—a portal hundreds of meters tall, engraved with mysterious patterns, from which black mist continuously poured forth. It seemed to lead to the netherworld of Hell.

The synchronized sound of marching footsteps emerged from within the Nether Gate.

Countless undead advanced in step.

Deadbone raised his sword high, its tip projecting the image of the Land of the Dead.

“Boom—!”

As if shattering glass, Deadbone shattered the Great Serpent Clan’s gate.

Behind him, the army of the dead swarmed in.

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