Destiny is ashes

Chapter 956 The Big One is Coming! (13)

Apart from Anjing, most people didn't really pay much attention to the anomaly at the first moment. Celestial music filled the air, and everyone was clinking glasses, enjoying this rare feast in Huaixu.

Even Jin Yanhua didn't quite react. She chewed on a Five Elements Peach, looking at the divine light soaring into the sky from the Ancestral Dragon Palace, and raised an eyebrow in surprise, saying, "The Light of Guidance? The Scale Realm is about to open. The time for summoning the Ancestral Dragon Scale this time... chew... why so early?"

"Ah, these peaches are delicious... let me chew... who bred them? Ru Hui, have one too!"

"Mmm...it really tastes good!"

You Ruhui picked up a peach, took a small bite, and his eyes showed delight. This peach was indeed sweet and invigorating, and it was excellent for replenishing vital energy.

She was about to share the peach with An Jing when she saw An Jing's expression, which was a mixture of joy and sigh, and she was clearly on guard.

"Eat quickly, Ru Hui."

He squinted, staring at the ever-thickening beam of light: "Soon, soon..."

"The big one is coming."

At this moment, the Four Seasons Dragon Gods controlled their expressions very well. They looked at each other, and in the exchange of glances, all their astonishment disappeared.

Everyone!

The Dragon God, who was presiding over the grand banquet, announced loudly: "An unexpected incident has occurred. Please make way and leave the Ancestral Dragon Hall!"

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately raised their heads, looking at the dragon gods with some confusion and bewilderment. But soon, with a long and resounding dragon roar that seemed to come from the depths of everyone's soul and marrow without warning, the wine glasses in everyone's hands and on the table trembled and then shattered.

Not only the wine cups, but all the fine wines, spirit fruits and spirits present burst apart in an instant, turning into pure spiritual mist. This was true for both Jin Yanhua, who was about to finish the peach pit, and You Ruhui, who had only eaten half of it.

"What happened?!"

"Returning to the origin? The transformation of material phenomena and spiritual energy?"

"The aftershocks of Lingxiao's Great Dao Erosion? No, it's stronger, more ancient... It's the Ancestral Dragon Palace!"

—No, it's the scales of the Ancestral Dragon!
After all, they were the most elite martial artists of the younger generation in Huai Xu's era. Even though they were just raising their glasses and laughing, chatting with friends, and forming small groups to gossip in private, when they really sensed something was wrong, everyone quickly changed their expressions and became serious, and began to prepare to listen to the current Dragon God's words and leave the Ancestral Dragon Palace.

—What a joke! With the Dragon Clan's foundation and arrogance, they would never let their guests leave first if they had even the slightest bit of confidence. This is clearly an unexpected change!

At this moment, not only the fine wines and spiritual fruits, but even the jade steps that formed the balcony began to 'return to their original state,' transformed into pure spiritual energy by the erosion of the Great Dao. The entire banquet platform immediately lost its support and began to sway precariously.

Quick, check what's going on!

But just as the four dragon gods made their move at the same time, preparing to reveal their true forms to investigate the situation of the ancestral dragon scales, the biggest change occurred!
boom!
The heavens and earth trembled, and the invisible waves instantly dispersed all the clouds that surrounded the Ancestral Dragon Palace, turning them into a sky full of rain and mist. At the very center of the Ancestral Dragon Palace, the gray-black scales that originated from the 'Supreme Celestial Dragon God' instantly lit up with an incomparably dazzling cyan-purple light, as bright as the sun.

In an instant, it broke free from its restraints, or rather, shattered the offerings the dragons had made to it for hundreds of thousands of years, transforming into a dazzling brilliance that surpassed the sun and stars, tearing apart the main hall of the Ancestral Dragon Palace and piercing through the endless sea!
Wherever the light passed, spacetime shattered like glass, collapsing into a raging torrent of chaos. At the Ten Directions Heavenly Sea, endless spiritual energy flowed like rivers flowing into the sea, rushing to transform into ten incredibly thick streams of spiritual energy, heading towards the scales and the spacetime gate that the light had torn open in front of the scales, representing the 'Zhaolin Cave Heaven'!

The power of heaven and earth converged, and the gate to the Zhaolin Realm grew larger and larger, like a purple-blue scar in the sky, tearing the sky of Zhongheng Dao Continent apart!
"The Ancestral Dragon's scales are moving strangely?!"

"How could this happen?!"

"My God... this is... the Realm of Radiant Scales?!" "It's at least nine times, maybe even ten times, larger than before..."

Before, everyone could still fool themselves, saying things like, "The Ancestral Dragon Palace wants to give us a surprise," or "As expected, the Dragon Clan likes to do big things." But now, even the most humorous person can only silently shut their mouths and stare in shock at the "Entrance to the Scale Realm," which is still expanding and is about to swallow the entire Ancestral Dragon Palace.

"How can it be!"

Having mastered almost all the secrets of the world and done his homework beforehand, Hui Tianyu murmured, "The Ancestral Dragon Scale is a sacred object revered by all spirits, including the Huai Xu Dragon Clan, and even by all those who cultivate the True Spirit Path. To activate it, one needs not only the authority of cosmic causality held jointly by the four seasons' dragon gods of the [Past and Present Rise and Fall], but also the infusion of the boundless spiritual energy of the Huai Xu world at a specific time and through a ritual—"

"That's not all." Gu Yujing, who was standing to the side, also manifested his true form, a deep blue celestial dragon. His expression was extremely solemn at this moment: "The reason why the Ancestral Dragon Scale is as silent as an ancient rock is not because it is weak and therefore needs to accept the generations of offerings from the entire Heavenly Sea Dragon Court and the Ancestral Dragon Palace, but because... it is too strong!"

"It is so powerful that it needs offerings to appease it; so powerful that if it is fully activated, it can devour all the spiritual energy of a region of heaven and sea, and then 'return' all matter to its original state!"

At this moment, another invisible wave originating from the Zhaolin Realm swept across. This time, not only the banquet platform collapsed, but also the cloud vortexes that supported the palaces and buildings all collapsed, turning into primordial spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which was absorbed by the Zhaolin Realm, causing the ancient palaces and buildings to fall like meteorites towards the Heavenly Sea Dragon Court below!
"Wow! The Ancestral Dragon Palace! Why is there an Ancestral Dragon Palace?!"

At the Heavenly Sea Dragon Court, many dragons were equally astonished. They watched as the sky cracked open with a huge door, and saw the Ancestral Dragon Palace, the sacred ground of their clan, gradually collapse like a melting iceberg. They were both bewildered and uneasy.

And also...

"Interesting! Very interesting!" The dragons and snakes danced wildly, laughing as they caught the palace. They were not afraid of this incredible change at all, but instead looked up at the sky with anticipation.

[The Ancestral Dragon Scale, who activated it?!]

[Stop the unusual activity immediately!]

[No! The Ancestral Dragon Scale... has gone out of control!]

Although they are all dragons, the Four Seasons Dragon Gods are not like ordinary dragons who are keen on having fun. They manifest their true forms as deep blue as the sky, as pure gold as the years, as crimson as prosperity, and as mysterious as a long slumber.

Four colors and four symbols, four directions and four poles, four seasons and four times, four paths suppressing countless ages, the will that covers heaven and earth instantly appeared at the edge of the Zhaolin Realm, exerting its power to suppress!

[Damn it, this is even bigger than the one that brat Xuan Tianji participated in! What on earth is going on?!]

The Four Seasons Dragon God was equally surprised and uncertain at this moment, but he did not show it on his face.

However, the power that came from an unknown source and provided support to the Ancestral Dragon Scale was simply too immense!

They couldn't suppress it!

At this moment, the bluish-purple sun shines brightly in all directions above the sky.

The power of the Ancestral Dragon Scales returned to its peak with unstoppable force. Its purplish-blue light pierced through the years and illuminated the long river of time, gathering endless spiritual energy and forcibly converging the tributaries of the past and future here!
What's even more unsettling is that, through the wide-open door, the Dragon King of the Four Seasons, with his 'Authority of Time,' can clearly sense that time inside the Scale Realm is flowing backwards at an alarming rate!

Currently, in the near past, the middle ages, the ancient times, the prehistoric times, the archaic times, the dark ages... and even the very beginning, the primordial era!
In the beginning of time, the aura of the chaotic divine calamity burst forth, and countless phantoms of wild, desolate, ancient and majestic ancestral divine beasts and primordial behemoths roared in the ever-reversing phantoms of time.

This world is extremely dangerous, yet it also exudes a primordial spiritual aura that makes the hearts and souls of all the martial artists present tremble and cannot help but approach!

(End of this chapter)