Douluo Unrivaled: The Beginning Materializes the Black Abyss and White Flowers

Unlike Kong Deming and the others who were shocked, Lu Jingming looked at Xu Tianran with understanding in his eyes.

'Did they willingly throw themselves into destruction...?'

He saw through Xu Tianran's current state at a glance.

Unlike Shangguan Weier and Di Tian, ​​who desperately resisted the erosion of 'destruction', Xu Tianran, in this final moment, voluntarily gave up resisting and even opened his arms to embrace it.

He sacrificed his will, his soul, and even his very existence as the final fuel to the destructive power originating from the illusion.

In the universe where Huanlong resides, this behavior would be called 'embarking on one's destiny'.

He, with the body of a mortal, willingly embarked on a path of 'destruction'.

Of course, there is no destiny in this world, and Xu Tianran was simply responding to the power within him that originated from Huanlong.

Having figured this out, a faint smile appeared on Lu Jingming's face.

"Heh, is this the 'big gift' you left me?"

"I can only say that this perfectly matches my stereotype of you: even if you die, you will tear a piece of flesh from your enemy."

He had already realized that the moment "Xu Tianran" willingly threw himself into destruction, his own will had already died.

Now, he is just a madman driven by destructive instincts, who only knows how to destroy.

A destructive embodiment born from Xu Tianran's ambition, hatred, and resentment, and Huanlong's destructive power, possessing only power.

Lu Jingming shifted his gaze from the avatar of destruction to Meng Hongchen and the others behind him.

“Meng, take your brother and grandfather and leave the palace immediately, the farther the better.”

He gently instructed.

"Sister Lexuan, please protect them."

After he finished speaking, his gaze inadvertently swept over Kong Deming, who was not far away.

Kong Deming simply sighed and used the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield to teleport away from the palace.

Seeing this, Lu Jingming narrowed his eyes slightly and ignored him.

Instead, they focused all their attention back on Xu Tianran.

"Roar--!!!"

Seemingly sensing Lu Jingming's almost tangible fighting spirit, the avatar of destruction let out a roar that was not human-like, and the purple lightning around it suddenly exploded, turning into a purple lightning bolt that tore through space and rushed straight towards Lu Jingming.

"Well come."

Lu Jingming whispered something, then instead of retreating, he advanced, also soaring into the sky.

A bolt of dark red lightning instantly enveloped his entire body.

boom! ! !
Two bolts of lightning, each a completely different color but equally filled with destructive energy, collided violently in mid-air.

However, the next moment, something happened that made Jing Hongchen and the others' eyes almost pop out of their sockets.

The seemingly raging purple lightning, upon contact with the black and red electric light, was like ice and snow meeting a branding iron, easily, ruthlessly, and unreasonably pierced and torn apart.

The black and red lightning bolts advanced almost without any hindrance, instantly reaching the incarnation of destruction.

Lu Jingming's figure appeared in the lightning.

His hand, enveloped in black and red lightning, moved so fast it left afterimages as he grabbed Xu Tianran's head.

Then, with unparalleled force, he was violently slammed from mid-air to the ground below.

“Boom——!!!!!”

The entire palace, along with the earth below, let out a groan of unbearable strain.

A huge, human-shaped crater appeared on the ruins of the palace.

Centered on the pit, a massive, spiderweb-like crack spread wildly in all directions, as if the very foundation of the new Mingdu had been completely shaken by this attack.

In this world-destroying scene, Meng Hongchen did not hesitate for a moment.

"Grandpa, brother, let's go!"

She grabbed Jing Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen, who were still in a daze, and turned to run out of the palace.

Xiao Hongchen was pulled along by her. Before leaving, he took one last complicated look back at the figure that was suspended in mid-air, surrounded by black and red lightning, like a demon god.

'Is this...his current strength...?'

Xiao Hongchen's heart was filled with mixed feelings.

He recalled the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Academy Battle Tournament from back then.

At that time, although he lost, at least he could still see Lu Jingming's back and take him as a target to catch up with. He still had a sense of pride that he might be able to fight him in the future.

But now...

He no longer even had the right to look up at the other person's shadow.

That was no realm that mortals could reach; that was… God.

A deep sense of powerlessness welled up inside me.

But then, this feeling of powerlessness was replaced by a strange, relaxed feeling.

'Forget it... what's the point of chasing after it?'

Xiao Hongchen chuckled self-deprecatingly.

'I can't catch up, I'll never catch up in this lifetime, but...'

In his mind, Lu Jingming's face, which always carried a hint of a smile, appeared.

'No matter how strong he is, even if he becomes a god, isn't he still my sister's man? When they meet, won't he still have to respectfully call me 'brother'?'

Thinking of this, Xiao Hongchen's obsession with the difference in strength, his pride and resentment as a genius, seemed to be completely put down at this moment.

He felt an unprecedented sense of ease and clarity.

The bottleneck that had been holding back his cultivation for so long was showing signs of loosening in this moment of relief.

Zhang Lexuan's figure appeared beside the three members of the Hongchen family as if by teleportation. A layer of soft moonlight enveloped them, isolating them from the violent energy shockwaves from the outside world.

"Let's go."

Her voice was cold, but her eyes remained fixed on the bottomless pit below, filled with vigilance.

She led the three of them away from the palace, a place rife with trouble.

'strangeness?'

As the moon goddess, her divine sense can clearly perceive the levels of energy.

The power that Xu Tianran just unleashed, though violent, was essentially only at most at the threshold of demigod, still a long way from true godhood.

'With Ah Ming's strength, that attack just now was enough to completely obliterate any demigod, so why... would he make us leave on purpose?' A hint of doubt flashed through Zhang Lexuan's mind.

But she didn't ask any more questions.

This almost blind trust led her to believe Lu Jingming's judgment without hesitation.

His decision to let her leave meant that the battle that followed was no longer something they could interfere with.

And indeed, things turned out exactly as she had predicted.

"boom--!!!"

Xu Tianran, who was slammed deep into the earth by Lu Jingming, did not die as expected.

Not only did the life force not dissipate from that deep pit, but an even more violent, boiling life force, like a volcano about to erupt, was rising wildly at an alarming speed.

"Roar--!!!!"

The sound was not like a dragon's roar, but more like the roar of some ancient beast awakening, coming from the depths of the earth.

The entire palace, and indeed the entire new Ming capital, began to shake violently.

"Click... click click..."

On the ground, the huge cracks that had been smashed open began to widen further.

Blinding, ominous purple lightning bolts pierced through the depths of the crack, casting an eerie glow over the underground.

next moment.

An enormous dragon claw, covered in ferocious purplish-black scales, suddenly burst forth from the center of the palace ruins.

That dragon claw, just one claw, was larger than the entire original palace hall.

It slammed into the ground, and with a sickening cracking sound of rock breaking, an even larger, unimaginable head slowly rose from the earth.

It raised its head, opened its enormous mouth—enough to swallow a mountain—and let out a roar that shook the heavens and earth, proclaiming its existence.

"Awooo—!!!!!"

With this roar, a colossal, purplish-black dragon, hundreds of meters tall and with a wingspan that blotted out the sky, slowly rose from the ruins.

Its form is seven parts similar to Xu Tianran's martial soul, the Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon, but they are fundamentally different.

Its scales are no longer pure purple, but have taken on a deep purplish-black color that seems to absorb all light.

Its dragon horns were even more ferocious, like twisted, destructive lightning.

It possessed not a trace of life, only a pure, cold, and destructive will to drag all things to their end.

As soon as it appeared, the entire sky was instantly dyed an ominous purplish-black.

Thick, ink-black clouds gathered from all directions, forming a huge, slowly rotating vortex overhead.

Streaks of destructive purple lightning exploded and crisscrossed the clouds, as if the end of the world had arrived.

This terrifying, catastrophe-like phenomenon, centered on Xinmingdu, rapidly spread across the entire continent.

Whether on the frontier of the Star Luo Empire, in the icy plains of the far north, or in the Star Dou Great Forest.

At this moment, all living beings on the entire Douluo Continent subconsciously raised their heads and looked up at the sky.

They could all clearly sense a tremor and unease emanating from the depths of their souls, as if the end of the world was imminent.

Lu Jingming hovered in mid-air, facing the towering, purplish-black dragon from afar.

He looked at the living, breathing "Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon" made of destructive power before him, and instead of being solemn, he curled his lips into a cold smile that said, "I knew it."

"As expected, I knew that woman Huanlong wouldn't be so honest."

He whispered to himself.

Based on his understanding of Huanlong, although the two sides had reached a certain tacit understanding in the previous confrontation, and Huanlong and Xingxiao had chosen to acquiesce to being used by him, it would be too naive to expect that these annihilation lords and cosmic catastrophes who walk the path of "destruction" would really cooperate obediently and without reservation.

"So that's how it is... Is this the surprise you wanted to give me, Huanlong?"

A flash of understanding crossed Lu Jingming's eyes.

Huanlong planted a seed of pure destruction within Xu Tianran's body long ago, and all of Xu Tianran's actions over the years—his ambition, his killings, and his madness—have become the best nourishment for this seed to take root and sprout.

At that final moment, when Xu Tianran voluntarily sacrificed himself, this seed burst forth completely.

It not only devoured Xu Tianran's will, but also activated the ancient Purple Radiance Extinction Dragon bloodline within him, forcibly causing him to 'revert to his ancestral form' with the power of destruction at its core.

This caused Xu Tianran, a human with dragon blood, to revert to his ancestral form and become the true source of their bloodline—a living, breathing creature composed of pure destruction… the Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon.

Hovering above the razed palace, Lu Jingming calmly gazed at the colossal, purplish-black dragon that had crawled out from the depths of the earth, seemingly having the entire sky beneath its feet.

Purple Emperor Annihilates Heavenly Dragon...

The name, which only exists in the oldest and most secret texts, surfaced in his mind.

Legend has it that it was born alongside the Dragon God and is the embodiment of the concept of destruction.

It is the progenitor of all dragons, born with the purest power of destruction and thunder, and its very existence is meant to lead all things to their end.

Its destructiveness and lust for destruction were so pure and powerful that even the Dragon God who created the Dragon God Realm felt a deep sense of dread.

In the end, in order to protect the vibrant divine realm he had just created, the Dragon God had to take matters into his own hands and finally erase this ancestor of the accompanying dragons, along with its incredibly terrifying race that had just been born, from the river of time.

Throughout the entire mythological era, there was only one dragon clan that could inspire fear in the Dragon God and lead him to personally destroy it.

It is conceivable just how powerful the real Purple Emperor Annihilation Dragon truly was.

And now, on the ruins of this place called Xinmingdu, there appears a pure-blooded Purple Radiance Annihilation Dragon, forcibly created by Huanlong at the cost of Xu Tianran's ambition, hatred, life, and even bloodline.

Lu Jingming could clearly sense that the life level of the giant beast before him had far surpassed the limits of the mortal realm and reached the realm of gods.

No, it's not just a simple god...

His divine sense gently touched the almost tangible destructive domain that wrapped around the giant dragon.

In that brief moment of contact, his consciousness felt a sharp, stabbing pain, as if it were being assimilated and decomposed by that pure will to destroy.

This aura... is several times stronger than the Martial Soul Fusion Skill 'Netherworld White Tiger' that Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing used back then.

At that time, the Netherworld White Tiger already possessed the combat power of a true first-level god.

The Purple Radiance Annihilation Dragon before him seemed even more unfathomable and dangerous.

This is a genuine mythical beast.

Moreover, it is a first-level divine beast standing at the top of the divine beast pyramid.

That woman, Huanlong... really went to great lengths to prepare this surprise for me, putting a lot of effort into Xu Tianran.

Lu Jingming sneered inwardly.

(End of this chapter)