Chapter 47: Primordial Thunder Dragon-O cancelamento do noivado que você propôs, eu despertei o sangue do deus demônio, por que você chora?(Deus Fantasma)

In the tunnel where those five men in linen clothes had just perished, amidst hundreds of severed limbs and broken arms, hundreds of source beasts suddenly materialized, their blood-red eyes wide and their expressions utterly indifferent.

One of the source beasts hoisted a corpse and vanished abruptly. Simultaneously, the human corpse disappeared along with it.

Immediately following, the remaining source beasts each grabbed a corpse and dissipated with a soft pop.

About an hour later, every single human corpse in the tunnel had been carried away by the source beasts, leaving nothing behind except endless trails of blood pooled on the ground.

Roughly one thousand meters underground, within a dim and gloomy tunnel, a creature resembling a giant python suddenly snapped open its eyes, shooting out two beams of piercing light. Staring at the several thousand corpses gathered before it, the beast uttered an icy voice: "For thousands of years, it has been so long since I last tasted human blood!"

It widened its massive maw, sinking two rows of teeth into a corpse, and the crunching sound of the giant beast chewing echoed through the tunnel.

An hour later, every single corpse before it had vanished into its belly. It raised its head high, lightning dancing within its pupils.

Glancing upward toward the ceiling and listening quietly for a few seconds, it spoke with an excited expression: "These dead corpses are truly foul-tasting, tsk tsk tsk... I never expected there would be so many living humans!"

Its voice sounded exceptionally eerie and terrifying within the confines of the tunnel.

"Bring them all to me... I want to eat the living!!"

Seemingly unsatisfied with satisfying its appetite on mere corpses, it set its sights on the humans located five hundred meters above in the upper reaches of the tunnel.

As soon as it finished speaking, a hundred figures materialized before it. Resembling human shapes, they all possessed glaring blood-red eyes.

Upon closer inspection, the source energy fluctuations radiating from their bodies revealed them to be Earth-Realm source beasts.

"Oh? There is even a female brat at the Earth Realm!"

The creature looked surprised, then suddenly exhaled a breath that transformed into a dense mist of source energy.

The mist churned violently, and in an instant, another source beast materialized within the tunnel.

However, unlike all the other source beasts, this one was hovering mid-air.

The source beast lowered its head, awaiting its next command!

"Bring everyone here to Lord Dragon, not a single one must be left behind!!" Its voice exploded fiercely throughout the tunnel.

The hundred Earth-Realm source beasts and the single Heaven-Realm source beast vanished from the spot with loud pops.

The giant creature slowly closed its eyes and coiled into a resting position.

***

Three hundred meters underground, inside a tunnel, a third-layer, sixth-stage cultivation practitioner had just struck down a source beast, clutching a source crystal and basking in joy.

Immediately afterward, an Earth-Realm source beast materialized right before his eyes.

"No, impossible!!"

Sensing the tyrannical and terrifying source energy fluctuations emanating from the opposing source beast, he stared at it wide-eyed with horror.

He could not sense the realm of this source beast at all!

"Roar!!"

The source beast roared angrily. Amidst the practitioner's horrified gaze, it grabbed his arm and vanished from the tunnel.

Four hundred meters underground, Yang Qing was actively concealing her aura when a Spirit-Realm source beast suddenly appeared beside her. Before her shock-filled eyes, it grabbed her and disappeared instantly.

At the three-hundred-meter mark, an Earth-Realm source beast materialized, looking bewildered as it gazed at the hundreds of members of the Ye family, momentarily stunned.

Seeing nearly a hundred members of the Ye family before it, all of whom were mere mortals, a fascinating expression appeared on its face.

Ye Xie frowned, staring fixedly at the source beast. His source gate had been crippled, and at this moment, none of the Ye family members present possessed any cultivation.

With a source beast suddenly appearing before them, their complexions turned exceedingly grim.

"Protect the Young Master!!"

"Hurry, run! We are no match for them!"

Dozens of people surrounded Ye Xie, retreating deeper into the tunnel.

Just then, three more source beasts appeared behind them, completely cutting off the Ye family's path of survival and trapping them in the middle.

"Damn it, could it be that I, Ye Xie, am destined to die in this source vein today?"

"Ah ah ah... I am so unreconciled! I haven't even had the chance to take my revenge!!"

Ye Xie let out a roar, his entire body trembling violently.

Without hesitation, the source beast grabbed the arm of the nearest Ye family disciple.

A massive force surged forward, turning the Ye family disciple's face ashen.

Boom!

The source beast and the Ye family disciple vanished from before the crowd.

Boom, boom, boom!

Four source beasts vanished, and four Ye family disciples disappeared from the tunnel in an instant.

What is going on?!

Everyone present was utterly bewildered.

The gruesome scene of blood splattering everywhere did not occur; instead, the four captured Ye family disciples had simply vanished into thin air.

"Wh... Where did they go?" A Ye family disciple asked in sheer terror, constantly scanning his surroundings in an attempt to locate the missing individuals.

Boom!

In a flash, the four source beasts reappeared. Expressionless, they grabbed another four Ye family disciples and once again vanished into thin air.

This horrifying scene made everyone's hair stand on end!

Ye Xie widened his eyes, gripping his companion's arm tightly in terror, and stammered, "Where... where on earth did they go?!"

His companion replied, "Could they have been eaten?!"

"Damn it, what on earth is happening here? Looking at their expressions, they seem to possess spiritual intelligence!"

"You're right. Look at their eyes—they actually have blood-red pupils!!"

***

In less than a quarter of an hour, only a few dozen members of the Ye family remained.

This terrifying ordeal filled the remaining survivors with a suffocating sense of dread.

The four source beasts stared at the last few dozen people with their blood-red eyes.

Seeming to feel that this process was a bit too slow, they drove all the remaining Ye family members together into a single group.

Ye Xie was trapped in the middle, rolling his eyes, his face completely drained of color.

Boom!

The tunnel returned to tranquility as every single person vanished into thin air.

***

Throughout the entire source vein, everyone felt as though they had descended into hell.

They had all been dragged down by Earth-Realm source beasts to a depth of one thousand meters underground, including the ten men in linen clothes.

One of the men in linen clothes, named Xia Gang, looked around in utter bewilderment, freezing in place.

Within his field of vision, this tunnel was several thousand meters wide and ten meters high, forming a massive, cavernous space.

The sea of dense human heads filling his vision caused an excited expression to light up his face.

Dozens of men in linen clothes exchanged knowing smiles.

Their original objective had been every single person who entered the source vein, but now, these source beasts had unexpectedly brought everyone right to this spot, while those powerful source beasts had mysteriously vanished.

"Where on earth is this place?"

"Brother Li? Oh? Brother, you've ended up here too?"

"Sigh, don't ask. I had just killed an eighth-stage Primary-Realm source beast when I was suddenly dragged here!"

"Look, why is there not a single person from the Xiao family?"

"Strange, I remember several thousand people from the Xiao family entered the source vein. Why hasn't a single one arrived?"

"Young Master, your... your cultivation base?!"

The crowd erupted like a boiling cauldron, everyone chattering animatedly—some discussing the gains they had made in the source vein, others rejoicing at the reunion of friends, and enemies glaring at each other with swords drawn and bows strung!

Yet, amidst the commotion, no one noticed that of the nearly five thousand people who had entered over a dozen days ago, fewer than two thousand remained!

The ten men in linen clothes discussed quietly amongst themselves:

"This is truly a heaven-sent opportunity. It saves us the trouble of hunting them down one by one, since they've all gathered here. Shall we strike right now and kill them all?!"

"No. Don't you find this a bit suspicious?"

"The ones who dragged us here possessed the strength of Earth-Realm source beasts!"

"This place is out of the ordinary. Let's not make a move just yet; let's observe the situation first."

The others nodded and, like everyone else, waited quietly.

***

Five hundred meters underground, Bai Ling was running through a tunnel, hand in hand with Xuan Ningyue.

Boom!

Lightning flickered at Bai Ling's fingertips, and with a loud pop, a Spirit-Realm source beast was blasted into smithereens, transforming into a source crystal.

He immediately shoved the newly formed source crystal into his mouth, feeling the source energy within his body surge and thicken instantly.

Behind the two of them, countless source beasts glared with ferocious gazes, relentlessly pursuing the humans ahead.

Roar!!

Suddenly, all the Spirit-Realm source beasts stopped dead in their tracks, trembling all over as if they had laid eyes on some terrifying monster, watching the two figures rapidly distance themselves.

Bai Ling and Xuan Ningyue rounded a bend.

There, they spotted a source beast with blood-red pupils, unarmed, coldly watching the two figures heading in its direction.

"Brother Ling, wait!"

Xuan Ningyue sensed the anomaly first and instantly pulled Bai Ling to a halt.

"Yueyue, what is it?" Bai Ling turned to look at the grave expression on Xuan Ningyue's face, asking in confusion, "Wait, why did they stop chasing us?"

The tunnel had returned to absolute silence; the sound of pursuing Spirit-Realm beasts was completely gone.

Xuan Ningyue pointed behind Bai Ling.

A source beast was suspended in mid-air, gazing coldly down at the two of them.

Heav... Heaven-Realm!!

Bai Ling widened his eyes and gasped sharply.

"Awooo!!"

The Heaven-Realm source beast let out an angry roar, its body turning into a blur as it lunged toward them.

"Step back!" Xuan Ningyue produced a long sword. No longer concealing her true strength, she could no longer afford to worry about whether Bai Ling would discover her realm.

"Yueyue, no!!" A massive force suddenly struck Bai Ling's body, knocking him clear of the source beast's fierce assault.

At that moment, Bai Ling stared in utter astonishment as an immensely powerful wave of source energy erupted instantly from Xuan Ningyue's entire body.

This aura filled him with a suffocating terror, yet it was not directed at him in the slightest; instead, it targeted the Heaven-Realm source beast lunging at them from mid-air.

Bai Ling could not comprehend why a low-grade source vein would harbor a Heaven-Realm source beast capable of soaring through the void.

Nor could he comprehend the source energy currently erupting from Xuan Ningyue, nor the terrifying sword qi unleashed by the sweep of her blade.

Source energy materializing into form!

Spirit Realm?

Xuan Ningyue was actually at the Spirit Realm!

No, that's not right!

He had felt this kind of aura from Ji Kun before.

Furthermore, this aura far surpassed the Spirit-Realm energy pressure Xuan Ningyue had displayed a dozen days ago when battling Ji Jiuer.

Could it be... Xuan Ningyue was an Earth-Realm powerhouse?!

Boom!

Ignoring Xuan Ningyue's ferocious strike, the Heaven-Realm source beast threw a punch!

Xuan Ningyue let out a cold snort. Amidst falling rocks, she collided heavily against the wall before sliding down to the ground.

"Yueyue!"

Bai Ling cried out in alarm. Abandoning all thoughts of questioning the secret behind the Earth-Realm power bursting from Yueyue, he rushed to her side. Seeing the pain etched on her pretty face, his heart felt like it was bleeding.

"Brother Ling, watch out!"

Noticing the source beast hurtling through the air toward Bai Ling, Xuan Ningyue grabbed his arm.

"Courting death!!"

Xuan Ningyue let out a cold grunt, slashing her sword against the source beast's arm with a deafening crash.

Clang! The long sword instantly rebounded and flew off into the distance.

The source beast wore a sneer of mockery, completely ignoring the source energy that felt no more than a mosquito bite on its arm. With its other arm, it violently grabbed the arm Xuan Ningyue used to attack.

Boom!

The two of them vanished from the tunnel.

Bai Ling's vision blurred, and his figure instantly materialized inside a cavernous space.

Feeling a soft touch in his hand, his heart tightened. He spun around and took a deep breath.

Good, good.

Yueyue was there too.

"Yueyue, how are you?" Bai Ling turned to look at Xuan Ningyue, his heart aching as he saw the blood at the corner of her mouth.

Having clearly taken a direct blow from a Heaven-Realm powerhouse, Xuan Ningyue turned pale, yet she gently shook her head at him to indicate she was fine.

Bai Ling's heart ached even more; this girl had suffered such severe injuries, yet she maintained such a relaxed facade...

"Awooo!!!"

"Hehe... Thousands of years. For thousands of years, Lord Dragon has not tasted the flavor of humans. Having so many delicacies today truly makes Lord Dragon excited, Hahaha..."

Following an angry roar, a deafening sound echoed throughout the tunnel.

With a grim expression, Bai Ling stared at his surroundings and froze instantly.

This tunnel, a thousand meters wide, was packed densely with a sea of human heads.

Bai Ling realized instantly that, barring those killed by the men in linen clothes, practically everyone who had entered the source vein had now been gathered here.

When the Heaven-Realm source beast had appeared earlier, he thought it intended to kill them both.

He never expected it was merely bringing them here.

What on earth had happened within this mountain range?

Ji Kun had claimed that only Spirit-Realm source beasts would appear.

Yet a Heaven-Realm source beast had directly manifested just now?

As for the subsequently appearing source beasts with scarlet pupils, they must have undergone mutation after being slaughtered by those mysterious individuals.

Whose voice was that just now, proclaiming it hadn't tasted human flesh in thousands of years?

Could there be a powerful beast lurking here?

Did Ji Kun, lingering on the surface above ground, have any inkling of everything happening deep underground?

Bai Ling's heart tightened. Just like everyone else down here, he had no idea what consequences would follow this gathering.

Boom!

A harsh bolt of lightning flashed across above everyone's heads.

"What is that??"

"Is that lightning??"

"Isn't this a source vein? Why is there lightning?"

"Could it be that we've entered another dimension??"

Shocked expressions surfaced on everyone's faces as they stared up in disbelief at the ceiling.

Instantly, countless bolts of lightning crackled and converged above the crowd.

Boom!

A serpentine body dozens of meters long abruptly manifested above everyone, its massive tail lashing fiercely across the airspace overhead.

Boom!

The air seemed instantly evacuated, leaving everyone's eardrums buzzing and their brains feeling as though they had been struck by electricity.

Following that, its head emerged, shifting from the void into clear view.

"What is that?!"

"A dragon!!"

"Holy crap, I actually got to see a dragon!!"

"A legendary creature, I actually saw a dragon, ah ah ah..."

The gigantic dragon coiled its body, hovering in mid-air above the crowd as it let out a thunderous roar!

The sound exploded right beside everyone's ears, leaving their hearing ringing incessantly.

"Thunder Dragon!!" Bai Ling cried out in astonishment.

Xuan Ningyue followed his gaze toward the terrifying entity that had suddenly appeared.

Radiating crackling lightning bolts all over, its hard scales appearing as though forged from steel, the dragon raised its head proudly, glaring fiercely down at the terrified crowd below with a look of mockery:

"Awooo...

Lord Dragon has been trapped for ten thousand years. Damn it, ten thousand years!!!"