Chapter 551 – The Sun Wheel That Destroys the World, the Element That Grips It

A… Law Realm angel!

Firewing Grand Duke’s pupils contracted—another unexpected development had occurred.

He had anticipated such scenarios.

When Ice Burial Grand Duke attacked the human warzone, he had unexpectedly fallen at the hands of a Law Realm undead.

Although various clues suggested that undead was merely passing through—the Shattered Isle Region being indeed not far from that broken undead Great Domain shrouded in ‘Absolute Death’—it couldn’t be ruled out that the Law Realm undead was humanity’s long-prepared trump card, closely connected to Tianyuan who commanded the warzone.

Firewing Grand Duke believed the worst-case scenario would be encountering this Law Realm undead again while scheming against Tianyuan City.

“My objective is to destroy Tianyuan City, not to confront a powerful Law Realm existence.”

“As long as I can destroy the Lord Altar, I will achieve my goal.”

Thus, he had been waiting for the right moment.

Admittedly, entering the Ten Directions Island Region wasn’t easy for him—it required a sacrificial ritual to break through the world’s resistance—but more importantly, he didn’t want to repeat Ice Burial’s mistake. He descended directly above Tianyuan City and unleashed his destructive power without holding back.

The unexpected happened as expected.

However, the one who appeared wasn’t the Law Realm undead he had anticipated, but a Law Realm angel.

“First an undead, now an angel? Could it be this human possesses two Law Realm combatants?”

“No, no…”

Firewing prided himself on his considerable understanding of the Taixuan Alliance.

Within the entire Taixuan Alliance, there were only about ten to twenty territories worthy of attention from upper-tier Grand Dukes like himself. Tianyuan City wasn’t among them.

The Tianyuan City Lord was merely a rising star in the Taixuan Alliance.

Moreover, a high-tier undead and a high-tier angel couldn’t possibly serve the same master.

At least one of them must be a coincidence.

Compared to the undead that had suddenly appeared and disappeared in the Shattered Isle Region, this angel—if he wasn’t mistaken—had genuinely emerged from within Tianyuan City.

This was truly a Law Realm power originating from this human city.

Firewing Grand Duke narrowed his eyes, observing the faintly discernible concepts around him. Suddenly he understood, “So that’s it—an architectural lifeform, an architectural angel! This human city is indeed exceptionally favored by the world!”

His blazing eyes fixed on the city below.

At that moment—

“Hum—”

A magnificent radiance once again cleaved through the world’s darkness, eradicating all Filth and fear.

Compared to the light that had previously split the sky-obscuring sea of flames, this beam was more condensed and swift.

Without spurting blood, the majestic light pillar pierced through the crimson behemoth that had barely twisted aside but failed to completely evade, tearing a massive “inverted V-shaped” gap in its mountain-range-like feathered wings—as if an eraser had violently scraped across a red pencil drawing.

The glorious light pillar continued undiminished toward the higher heavens, its brilliant trajectory extending to the horizon before slowly dissipating in the clear blue sky after several moments.

Meanwhile, the Angel King with three pairs of wings was pointing his holy sword forward, its tip gathering swelling and contracting particles of light.

“A direct hit? No, it didn’t truly strike a vital point.”Sure enough, at the gap in the massive dragon wing, flames blazed fiercely, and in the next instant, the entire wing was restored to its original state.

“Is this some kind of conceptual power that transforms flames into flesh? As long as this concept remains unextinguished, the body can be eternally indestructible?”

Lapis pondered.

Her previous strike had not used her full power at all—she had only employed the power of ‘Conceptual Power · First Stage · Advanced Level.’ She had also only spread six wings instead of ten.

This was the Lord’s requirement.

“If the Dragon’s Slumber Valley expert attacking the territory is only at a level similar to the Ice Burial Grand Duke, then confronting them with First Stage conceptual power will suffice.”

“Since we border Dragon’s Slumber Valley and are unaware of what powerful methods they possess, we must retain more strength to mislead the enemy. Only then can we have a trump card to counter strong foes at critical moments.”

Lapis didn’t fully understand.

After all, she only needed to slay the invading enemies—her Lord had far more to consider.

“Purification Holy Verdict!”

Her wings spread dozens of meters long, and the particles of light swirling at the tip of her sword shot out like cannons piercing through heaven and earth.

Dozens, hundreds—only slightly smaller by a circle or two than before—these pillars of light erupted incessantly, whoosh whoosh whoosh, as if they cost nothing.

And indeed, they cost nothing!

Upon reaching the Law Realm, lethal moves could cover dozens of miles in an instant. Relying solely on the power of heaven and earth was no longer sufficient to sustain such consumption—the importance of one’s own energy reserves had greatly increased.

Lapis’s energy reserves == Tianyuan City’s energy reserves == ∞.

The flames were annihilated by the pillars of light, then pierced through.

The mountain-like massive dragon body became riddled with holes, like a mountain range collapsing under continuous bombardment.

Corpse chunks the size of small hills plummeted from the sky.

One after another, they frictioned with the air, igniting into flames. Wrapped in fire, these corpse chunks fell like enormous meteors.

“Did we take down this high-ranking Grand Duke?”

Yang Kong was astonished, but the next moment, he noticed that these falling fire meteors faintly outlined the shape of wings.

Flames + wings—the conceptual equation was fulfilled.

A crimson dragon, even larger than before and bigger than the entire Tianyuan City, molded its body from the flames.

It lowered its dragon head, and a giant claw large enough to cover an entire district descended toward the pale golden barrier.

Like a demon god tearing through thin gauze.

From beginning to end, the Firewing Grand Duke’s target was Tianyuan City.

Above Isloria, a dragon claw as vast as an endless mountain peak blazed with bright orange flames capable of scorching through space and annihilating all things.

The radiant barrier above zenith flashed rapidly, intense ripples spreading across it. The entire barrier dome sagged downward, as if on the verge of being torn apart.

—Though Lapis possessed the complete Legacy of the Angel King and combat experience ingrained to instinct, her time since birth was ultimately too short. Her combat wisdom remained insufficient, and she had been tricked by an old monster like the Firewing Grand Duke.

The Firewing Grand Duke’s massive body became ‘entangled’ with Tianyuan City.

Suddenly,

“Ah~ ah~ ah~”

A resounding hymn echoed through heaven and earth, and blazing white light once again illuminated all directions.

The Firewing Grand Duke pounded relentlessly at the barrier beneath him, but unbeknownst to him, the barrier had transformed into a milky-white expanse.

A space as if infinite;Hundreds and thousands of angelic figures with hands clasped in prayer, singing hymns;

The white structure that stands upon the earth yet towers above the heavens;

“Earthly Paradise!”

A paradise for believers, a hell for heretics.

Countless angels merge into one, forming a colossal angelic figure that connects heaven and earth, standing firm upon the land.

…

Simultaneously.

“As expected of an upper-rank Hunting Grand Duke, truly formidable.”

Isloria marveled, then shifted her gaze elsewhere.

With the arrival of the Firewing Grand Duke, drawing the majority of attention and firepower, the main forces of Dragon’s Slumber Valley also emerged silently.

They had already stepped into the territory of Tianyuan City.

One after another, terrifying dragons with bodies exceeding two hundred meters in length no longer concealed themselves, roaring as they rose, their ferocious maws clutching massive World-Breaking Stones!

At this moment, the ‘Six-Winged Angel’ Lapis had trapped the Firewing Grand Duke, but without a doubt, she too was pinned down elsewhere by this upper-rank Grand Duke.

The Firewing Grand Duke still had tricks up his sleeve.

Whoosh—

The earth shattered, thick, ink-green vines burst forth, spreading for thousands of meters like ink-green dragons, wildly dancing beyond the city walls.

The crimson dragon fled, the ink-green vines pursued, leaving the blood dragon with no escape!

“Thud—”

A thousand-meter-long vine pierced the dragon’s body, rapidly splitting within like countless branches sprouting, one after another, then yanking the impaled dragon down to the ground.

Boom!

Dust exploded as smaller vines broke through the soil, swiftly binding the fallen dragon.

“Slash!”

A black dragon’s head, resembling a massive saber, spiraled and shredded the incredibly resilient vines.

This was a Hunting Grand Duke.

The Sea of Trees suddenly boiled. Residents in the eastern districts adjacent to Tianyuan City could see the distant trees swaying, rustling, as if roaring.

Energy more turbulent than ocean tides rapidly gathered, channeled through some conceptual connection to the area outside Tianyuan City where the black dragon roamed.

A vast Sea of Trees manifested.

A thousand-meter-tall ancient giant tree seemed to have existed here since time immemorial, waiting for the tiny prey to plunge headlong into this boundless forest.

The tree shadows danced.

The tree shadows twisted eerily.

The tree shadows bared their fangs.

With a thousand times more vines, roots, and branches than before, they relentlessly grew and spread toward the black figure.

Shredded, yet continuing to grow.

In mere seconds, the black dragon was engulfed by the violently sprouting greenery, as if swallowed whole by the forest’s gaping maw.

The forest swayed, then fell completely silent after a while.

Elsewhere,

“Hum—”

The grand tower cast down vast rays of light, with restraining power rivaling the City Defense Barrier and sealing force comparable to the Undead Holy Mountain, enveloping two Hunting Grand Dukes.

This was an Epic Mage Tower!

Inside the tower,

Isloria, the Prime Unit, presided over the central hub, commanding and controlling the entire Mage Tower. Her incarnations, numbers eleven to nineteen, were stationed at key positions within the tower, enabling this Epic Mage Tower to operate at full capacity.

“Advanced Mage Tower Endless Stars!”

The starry sky enveloped everything except the Earthly Paradise.

Stars bloomed with stellar radiance, within which surged immense energy, rising to a terrifying degree.

The glittering stars began to detonate.

…

World Secret Realm.Outside the Opportunity Treasure Land ‘Tower of Gods’, Isloria sat sideways leaning against the wall, her eyes tightly closed as if in a faint, appearing extremely fragile.

And in reality, it was almost the case.

To maximize the power of the Epic Mage Tower, Isloria had to concentrate most of her mental energy and consciousness onto those ten Incarnations.

Having her true self, which originally occupied the primary consciousness, enter a dormant state made the transfer of mental energy more convenient.

Mu Yuan stood guard nearby.

He had long since emerged from the Tower of Gods and, while concerned about the war in his territory, remained steadfastly protecting the body of his capable Hero.

“Dragon’s Slumber Valley has indeed launched an attack. The faint sense of being watched I felt earlier was not an illusion.”

“Moreover, the one assaulting the territory this time is actually a terrifying upper-rank Hunting Grand Duke!”

His Tianyuan City was merely a weak and fledgling territory that had been operating for less than two years—how could it possibly provoke an invasion by an upper-rank Grand Duke?!

This was utterly chilling!

If it’s an upper-rank Grand Duke now, what about next time? Or the time after that?

Although even upper-rank Grand Dukes had to deploy numerous measures in advance to truly descend upon the Ten Directions Island Region, let alone stronger beings.

But Mu Yuan dared not gamble.

He did not want to bet on how much importance Dragon’s Slumber Valley placed on him, nor did he want to bet on whether Dragon’s Slumber Valley possessed even more unreasonable methods.

He could only make more thorough preparations to resist potentially even more terrifying impacts in the future.

His entire life was like treading on thin ice!

“Dragon’s Slumber Valley is truly too powerful, too dreadful!”

…

The shattered bodies of the two Hunting Grand Dukes were being suppressed and sealed into the earth by one massive celestial body after another.

Vines burst through the soil, tightly binding these two severely damaged dragon remains that had not yet had time to repair themselves.

Meanwhile,

Within the radiant Earthly Paradise of Holy Light, the crimson dragon’s body, larger than mountains, was covered with dozens of immense, indelible marks of light. These marks seemed like part of the dragon’s very flesh, eternally branded upon it. Surging powers of purification and Judgment continuously emanated from these light marks.

This was the Judgment.

Even the intact crimson dragon’s body was utterly shattered.

“Angel…”

Firewing Grand Duke was unaware of the situation outside; he only felt that this Law Realm Angel was even more powerful than he had imagined.

Or perhaps, his flame replacement could no longer repair his own body.

Whereas the Angel could continuously ‘resurrect,’ restoring her condition to its peak.

“Is this the troublesome nature of Angels? Truly worthy of being the pillar unit of the Sanctuary.”

“This Grand Duke admits defeat. However, this Grand Duke is merely one upper-rank Grand Duke under the Twilight Throne.”

He looked toward the Angel Lapis.

Or rather, toward the human Lord who had earned this Angel’s recognition and allegiance.

This human was indeed extraordinary.

Even if blessed by heaven and earth, even if he obtained this Angel structure, an Angel is still an Angel. Merely luckily possessing one does not mean just anyone can command the proud Angels.

Especially a Law Realm Angel.

“Lord of the Angel, this Grand Duke will give you one more gift, hahahaha—”

A glorious holy sword descended, its several-thousand-meter-long blade radiance piercing through the bright daylight.

Firewing Grand Duke’s Divine Soul, consciousness, and life were completely extinguished.

The Grand Duke, who should have been able to hold on a while longer, had thus fallen.The mountain-like form crumbled like sand, transforming back into the ritual flames of its descent. Just as it was about to dissipate, an inexplicable orange-red brilliance erupted from these fading flames, swelling uncontrollably.

In a single breath, the orange-red flames swelled ten-thousandfold, becoming a scorching Blazing Sun.

In two breaths, the orange-red flames expanded another ten-thousandfold, as if the true sun from the heavens had crashed upon the earth.

Its boundless light outshone even the radiance of Paradise, its endless heat warping the entire Paradise and the space between heaven and earth.

This was pure energy!

Perhaps a hundredfold! A thousandfold! Ten-thousandfold the energy Firewing Grand Duke possessed in life!

The orange-red flames pierced through the Earthly Paradise’s barriers. This Great Sun, seemingly larger than Tianyuan City, cast its blinding light across half the Ten Directions Island Region.

The surviving legendary monsters, their eyes no longer crimson, fled in terror toward the distance.

Yet the omen of Death pursued them at even greater speed.

None could doubt that should this Great Sun explode, the entire region—perhaps hundreds, even thousands of miles around—would become a dead land bathed in endless light and heat.

Self-destruction?

No! The force of self-destruction could never be this overwhelming.

Firewing Grand Duke had descended through sacrifice, but this ritual could also use himself as an offering to unleash the purest, most extreme blaze.

「Sunwheel of Destruction!」

Before the ultimate sunwheel, the tiny angel spread her wings and extended her fair hand, stirring the power that could protect all, embrace all.

Her palm contained a world, and that world enveloped the sunwheel.

In the blink of an eye,

she landed upon the sacred white ground of Paradise, lightly pinching a golden orb the size of a pebble between her thumb and forefinger—the very hand she had just extended.

It shimmered with the wondrous light of Treasures.

Sorry for the delay QaQ

(End of Chapter)