Extraordinary Pedigree.

Chapter 1016 [The Remains of the Time Dragon]

Xia Xiu raised his left hand, put his five fingers together, and slowly pressed down in the air.

hum-

The sky trembled for a moment, and the core of the [Leverage of Heaven] suddenly lit up.

The second seal is broken!

It was as if a layer of molten gold inscriptions was collapsing on its own in the flames, and hundreds of power circuits formed by knotted high-dimensional concepts fell like molten wires, each bearing the fiery imprint of burning ether, trailing a tail of light in the void.

"The Bull of Heaven, Second Phase!"

The next instant, the starry sky cracked open again.

A double circular gate, interwoven with amber and lapis lazuli, slowly opened high in the sky, its interior shimmering with a radiant light like collapsing stars. A waterfall of light cascaded down onto the orbital layer to the upper right of Unit 1.

Long——

Stepping out of the door was a colossal shadow identical to Unit 1. The divine bull's skeleton was forged from stars, its metal shell covered in divine runes, and its wings spread out diagonally, like celestial blades piercing the sky.

Its pupils burned with two amber-colored stars, and deep within them swirled orbital markings that were impossible to look directly at.

"Moo-!!!"

As the massive bull's hoof slammed down, the void seemed to be smashed open by a heavy hammer, and even the domain behind the wind trembled.

[Bull of the Sky Unit 2: Ready!]

Unit 1 on the left, Unit 2 on the right, forming a sharp, encircling formation. Electricity crackled from their horns, their wing spines sharpened, and they simultaneously locked onto the Titan's body behind the wind.

"Go ahead." Xia Xiu flicked his cane.

--boom.

The first aircraft started by hitting the thigh behind the wind.

The horn hooked onto the giant leg's popliteal fossa, and the entire divine bull used gravity as a rein, twisting half a turn to create an angle in the Titan's knee joint.

The second aircraft followed closely, cutting in from the right flank. Its wingtip, like an axe, cleaved a long, golden-blue crack along the flank. The mountain wind was forcefully squeezed and exploded, the air blast forming a wall.

The wind roared, its chest heaving, and the crown of wind swelled.

She raised her arm and swept it horizontally, unleashing a dozen or so wind-pressure blades layered upon each other, like an invisible chainsaw, aimed directly at Unit-2's cheek armor. A sharp, whistling sound filled the air, and sparks flew everywhere; Unit-2 took the hit head-on, a gash appearing on its helmet, but it didn't retreat. Instead, it lowered its jaw, using its horn as a hook to lock tightly onto her wrist bone.

"Shoulder lock." Xia Xiu said again.

Unit 1 immediately shifted its position, burying its hind hooves deep in the rock and pushing upwards with its forelimbs, forcefully lifting Feng Hou's right shoulder into an open space. Unit 2 followed suit, turning its head and slid its horn tip from the locked wrist bone to the collarbone, then suddenly flicked it upwards.

Click.

Titan's shoulder lock was misaligned, Feng Hou felt pain, her domain became unbalanced, and half of the tornado collapsed instantly.

She grabbed the horn with her backhand, her knuckles exploding with wind, trying to break the divine bull's horn with brute force. Xia Xiu's staff spun slightly, and lines of gravity fell from the void, completely dissipating the counter-torsional force from her fingers.

The force field is misaligned, and the force generated by twisting falls to the side, only scraping off a layer of the surrounding mountain skin.

The storm began.

She lowered her head and sucked, her chest bulging as she exhaled a jet of white air, carrying sand and metal fragments, the high-speed jet aimed directly at the chest armor of Unit 1; behind her, a hundred-meter-long wind curtain closed like hinges, and lightning chains dragged down from the bottom of the clouds, wrapping around the spine of Unit 2, attempting to tear it off its track.

The number one machine's chest armor was dented by the spray, and although the golden sparks were jumping wildly, it remained unusually stable and showed no signs of being blown away.

It dug its four hooves into the rock strata, forcefully pushing the column of air out of its proper angle. The jet of air scraped against the ridge, tearing off half of the mountain's skin, turning the stone forest into powder, and causing the gravel to fall like raindrops. The second machine was dragged dozens of feet by the lightning chain and was about to lose its balance when Xia Xiu flicked it upwards with the end of his staff.

Gravity reversal.

Unit 2 was lifted up as if by an invisible hand, the lightning chain instantly loosened, and electric fire flowed back along the chain, biting back at the shoulders and back of the back wind.

Her back flesh burst open, the laws of the wind surged forth, and dark clouds piled up on the top of the tower, whipping up even denser sand walls in an attempt to block the encirclement of the two bulls.

"Switching positions - projectile launch".

The second aircraft took a step back, lowered its head to gather momentum, and its dorsal wings closed into a wedge; the first aircraft followed suit and leaped half its body backward, its corner briefly touching the corner of the second aircraft, like a relay baton being passed.

The gravitational pulse was activated, and Unit 2 gained additional linear velocity, transforming the entire divine bull into a beam of golden-blue arrows.

boom!
A direct hit to the sternum behind the neck.

The Titan's breastplate caved in, the air seemed to have been ripped out, and after the loud bang came a brief vacuum of silence, followed by a belated roar from the valley.

With the combined efforts of the two [Heavenly Bulls] and Xia Xiu as the operator, they toyed with Feng Hou like walking a dog.

At this moment, Feng Hou's Titan body, under the commands of the two [Heavenly Bulls] and Xia Xiu, who acted as a central control unit, completely lost its previous earth-shattering posture. Its massive knees snapped, and it collapsed to its knees on the mountainside, its arms supporting it on the ground, but it could not rise again.

ding dong~ ding dong~
The halo of the Wind Queen behind her flickered erratically, like a broken sun, causing the surrounding storm to sway precariously.

As the saying goes, strike while the iron is hot. Seeing that Feng Hou was already like a candle flickering in the wind, the two bulls charged forward without hesitation—to give him another boost.

——Boom!
Unit 1 came from the front, Unit 2 from the rear, their massive horns extended simultaneously, and a gravity barrier suddenly rose, forcefully locking the colossal body behind the wind between the layers. The scene was like two moving mountains, tightly sandwiching her in the middle.

The skeleton in Feng Hou's chest cracked with a "crackling" sound, and the body of the wind element was twisted by the pressure, with tearing wind streaks bursting out in the air.

The divine bull's horns, carrying immense power, charged wildly, forcing the crown halo of the Wind Queen to crack inch by inch. Violent winds surged from the cracks, but were instantly crushed by the gravitational barrier of the two bulls.

The power that was once enough to shatter mountains and rivers is now being torn apart and pulverized, eventually turning into white dust that dissipates into the void.

The battle is decided.

As Feng Hou's body gradually shrank, her crown and halo were on the verge of shattering, and she was powerless to fight back.

However, Xia Xiu's gaze remained cold.

He didn't relax at all; instead, he gripped the [Lever of Heaven] tightly in his hand.

Deep down, a strange intuition grew clearer and clearer in his mind—the Fifth Truth could not possibly treat Feng Hou as its only pawn.

Even if this is just a test of localized necrosis, there are definitely deeper hidden tricks lurking behind it.

"The virus is highly contagious and will eventually spread."

The colossal body of the Wind Queen was nearly torn apart under the crushing weight of the two bulls. Her mask finally shattered completely with a "crack," scattering fragments into the void. But what appeared in the cracked void was not flesh and blood, but a face in the void branded with a pentagram magic array.

The lines of the magic circle writhed as if alive, and the deep red light spread out in concentric rings.

The next instant, an unprecedentedly terrifying aura soared into the sky, reaching the heavens, and the entire Far East City trembled under this oppressive force.

Xia Xiu's pupils suddenly contracted.

He was all too familiar with that aura.

That is the element that shares the same origin as [Vasak]—the element of time.

"...!"

A beam of light erupted, as if tearing open the riverbed of time from within the pentagram array, unleashing a pure and violent power. It wasn't aimed at Xia Xiu, but rather shot directly from Feng Hou's remains, traversing space and pointing in a direction outside Far East City.

Xia Xiu's thirty-six wings slowly unfurled, the light feathers trembling slightly, fluttering almost imperceptibly.

The booming beam of light was instantly cleaved in two, and the scattered aftershocks exploded in the void, turning into shattered ripples of time.

However, this did not put his mind at ease.

He stared at the fading trajectory of the pillar of light, his expression more grave than ever. "Such a massive amount of time element… Fifth Truth, what exactly are you plotting?"

Soon, Xia Xiu learned what Fifth Truth's next move was.

The red light, imbued with the element of time, burst forth from Feng Hou's body, transforming into a dazzling, blood-red rainbow.

It didn't stop, but went straight across the entire Far East City. Countless people in the city looked up and saw only a red line piercing through the sky, as if someone had carved a scar on the heavens with an iron pen.

The rainbow did not linger in the city; it bypassed the territory of most peaceful nations, like a precise scalpel, cutting straight towards the most important wonder of the first level of Abelio—the sphere of day and night.

The mountains where the day and night spheres were located suddenly trembled, and the earth was struck violently like a drumhead.

The mountain ranges began to crack, boulders collapsed from the mountain walls, and the entire foundation was pierced by the red light.

At the same time, the day and night sphere itself is also trembling, the flow of light and shadow on the surface is disordered, and the rhythm of day and night alternation is suddenly disrupted.

The mountains of Night Sphere trembled violently under the piercing red light, the earth like a taut membrane being torn apart. Debris and mud cascaded down, the deafening roar echoing throughout Abelio. The residents of Far East City, watching from afar, felt the ground pounding beneath their feet like a heartbeat, their breaths ragged from the shock.

From the crack, the first ray of cold moonlight shone down, illuminating an ancient and colossal silhouette.

First, there was that sharp horn protruding from the depths of the earth, curved and slender, its rhythmic trembling like the drumbeats of a ritual, connecting the night sky and the earth into a solemn stage.

Then, the elongated dragon head slowly rose, as if breaking free from the dust of time.

Xia Xiu's pupils suddenly contracted.

He saw a crown shining behind the dragon—a halo full of brilliant colors, wrapped with an explosively dense element of time.

"—Time Dragon!?" Xia Xiu's heart sank.

He never imagined that such a rare creature was buried beneath the day-night sphere.

They are the embodiment of time, wandering between the past and the future, witnessing the cycle of civilization, and belonging to a very few beings that even the crowned ones dare not easily touch.

But what shocked him even more was yet to come.

As the mountain continued to crumble, more enormous shadows emerged from the cracks.

Those were not living creatures, but countless dragon-shaped skeletons.

They lay sprawled and piled up, hundreds of them nestled beneath the base of the day and night sphere, each exuding a chilling aura etched by the passage of time. The mottled bones still emanated the remnants of time, each keel slowly counting the years.

Time Dragons... These creatures shouldn't die with the passing years. Their lives are bound to time itself; they don't age or decay in the long rings of time.

Even if killed, it will curl back into a dragon egg after death, and hatch again after a hundred years.

In other words, under normal circumstances, it is difficult to leave a complete time keel on the ground.

After they die, they either revolve back into eggs or disperse over time during the recirculation process.

But what about right now?

Rows of dragon bones lie silently deep within the mountain, nailed to the graveyard by some terrifying being, unable to return to the cycle of reincarnation.

The massive spines intertwined, and the dragon horns and wings were stacked like machine parts; the entire day and night sphere was built upon their corpses.

Therefore, when the mountains of the day and night planet split open, and the red light dissected the strata like a scalpel, exposing large sections of keel-like structures to the air, this scene made Xia Xiu's heart tighten—something was wrong, very wrong.

The Fifth Truth, this is going to be a big deal.

……

……

The unusual activity of the day and night spheres quickly attracted the attention of all the residents of Abelio.

It should be known that the day and night sphere is the most magnificent and stable wonder of the first layer of the Kingdom of Peace. It hangs on the mountain peak all year round, dividing day and night and regulating the order of time and the four seasons.

But at this moment, it actually trembled.

People subconsciously look up at the sky.

The mountains trembled and cracked, and the Time Dragon beneath the Day and Night Sphere let out a mournful howl, the sound of which shook the mountains and caused the entire temporal order to groan in response.

The next instant, the enormous dragon body suddenly surged forward.

boom--

The Time Dragon's forehead slammed directly into the Day/Night Sphere.

The crisp "snap" sound was like reality itself being twisted and broken.

The dragon's horns shattered, and its massive body instantly broke into countless specks of light, scattering into a sky full of flowing light and disappearing into the heavens.

But the Day/Night Sphere seemed to have been ignited by this attack.

The sphere, which had been hanging steadily, suddenly began to spin. At first, it trembled slowly, but then it accelerated, as if an irreversible force was pushing it from behind. When it reached its maximum spin, the day and night sphere abruptly detached from the mountain peak, as if breaking free from an ancient shackle.

"It moved! The day/night sphere... it moved!"

Countless cries of terror echoed throughout Far East City and every corner of Abelio.

People witnessed the magnificent sphere rising into the sky.
The moment the day and night sphere broke free from the mountain peak, it was as if a hole had been torn open in the entire sky of Abelio.

boom--!
It transformed into a burning comet, trailing a long, luminous tail, and circled wildly around the dome of the first plane.

Each passing by forcibly pulls day and night apart, making the alternation of day and night no longer gentle, but rather as if it is being brutally cut and disrupted.

The speed at which light and shadow intertwine is getting faster and faster.

A moment of daylight, a moment of darkness.

The blazing sun and the starry sky alternately twinkled on the same land, like a giant strobe light, distorting everything in its path.

Time has started to speed up!

The residents of Abelio simply could not bear such a sight.

When people look up, the first thing they see is a dazzling light that dazzles their eyes; the next second, when they look up again, they see an endless starry sky overhead, and coldness and darkness seep into their hearts.

Even more frightening is that this is just the beginning.

In the higher void, the trajectory of the day and night spheres resembled rings etched into the sky, growing faster and brighter.

Its radiance enveloped the entire Abelio, and no one could escape the ever-accelerating roulette wheel.

The clock tower in Far East City rang more than a dozen times simultaneously, only to return to zero within the same second.

Before the hourglass in the shop could even turn, the sand disappeared on its own, only to be filled up again in the next instant.

The street vendor had just ladled hot soup into a bowl, and before he could even hand it over, the soup cooled and solidified into a thick layer of oil; in the blink of an eye, the bowl cracked and shattered into pieces.

A mother was holding her baby and trying to lull the child to sleep. The child was still sucking on his fingers when, in the next instant, his milk teeth came in, his eyelids snapped open, and a cry ripped from his throat, as if years of crying had been compressed into a single burst.

The blacksmith's hammer went from reddish-brown to black and then to rusted in the blink of an eye, all in the time it took for the craftsman to lift his hand. The craftsman stared in disbelief; before he could even exert any force, the iron billet before him had already crumbled into dust.

At the tavern entrance, a drunkard collapsed to the ground. The onlookers watched as his beard grew and turned white in an instant, wrinkles etched across his forehead like knife cuts. When he finally struggled to his feet, he was nothing more than an old, frail body.

In the distant fields, the sound of wheat ears sprouting rose and fell, turning yellow, withered, and crumbling to ashes within seconds. The farmer threw down his hoe, trying to rush forward to protect them, but he couldn't even catch up with their shadows.

(End of this chapter)