Chapter 250: Titan Beast! Flame True Dragon!
Chapter 250: Titan Beast! Flame True Dragon!
Entering the Fifth Layer, Wang Che’s first feeling was cold.
It was a bone-chilling cold.
Even Little Caterpillar shivered, and the red light on Magnetic Sword paused for a moment.
In the distant sky, a mass of icy-blue dark clouds loomed.
Looking ahead, there were only barren mountains.
Wang Che saw a corpse.
The corpse of a Giant Dragon.
To be precise, it was a skeleton, because it was all bones.
It must have died many years ago.
“Judging by its size, it should be a Giant Dragon.”
As a Giant Dragon, its strength was naturally very powerful, already a Transcendent Grade Soul Beast.
Having died so long ago, the color of its bones indicated it was infected by the Thunderous Soul Earth. The bones were a mix of crimson and light purple, and it was unclear what attribute the Giant Dragon had when alive.
What caught Wang Che’s attention was that on the Giant Dragon’s corpse, there was a giant bone bed made from the skeleton of a Giant Dragon!
In the air, wild lightning energy and frost energy drifted freely.
“Boom… boom…”
A sound like thunder continuously came from that bone bed.
“This sound…”
Wang Che looked towards the bone bed and could only vaguely see a figure from the back.
“Sii sii!”
Little Caterpillar pointed at the Giant Dragon skeleton ahead, seeming very curious.
However, the thunder-like sound was not very pleasant.
“That’s snoring.”
Wang Che said to it, “On that Giant Dragon’s bone bed, there lies a quite powerful Soul Beast. Look at its back; it’s like a big mountain.”
Little Caterpillar nodded.
Soul Lands were quite special. Some, like the Floating Forest, had a vast scope and were maintained by powerful Soul Beasts like the Empty God Dragon inside.
But some Soul Lands were different and might not have such powerful Soul Beasts as the Empty God Dragon.
Moreover, the Soul Beasts hidden in Soul Lands were very secretive, and most people outside didn’t know about them.
“Boom… boom…”
The thunder-like snoring continued to sound.
Not long after, the giant beast turned over, stretched out a meaty claw that gleamed with a cold light, and then… scratched its big, fat buttocks.
Only then did it fully turn around.
“…” Wang Che.
Wang Che saw the appearance of this giant beast.
It was a Soul Beast over twenty meters long.
It somewhat resembled an ape-like giant beast, but there were many differences.
Its body was covered in icy-purple fur, with two golden-purple fangs seven to eight meters long at the corners of its mouth. Mysterious lightning radiated around them, along with special patterns and markings. Its front paws were like sharp blades, gripping the soul!
Wang Che recognized it at a glance.
“Titan Beast.”
Wang Che observed.
Titan Beasts were an ancient race whose bloodline could rival that of Giant Dragons.
At the same time, they were Giant Dragon slayers, controlling the power of frost and lightning in the Ancient Era.
Their sharp claws could tear through the bodies of Giant Dragons. In those times, these giant beasts were rulers of the land.
Even the Giant Dragons soaring in the sky didn’t dare to challenge them lightly.
However, using the word “giant” to describe this Titan Beast seemed somewhat inappropriate.
It didn’t seem very big.
A height of over twenty meters was enough compared to other Soul Beasts, but for their Titan Beast clan,
this was very small.
According to Wang Che’s knowledge of Ancient Soul Beast history, Titan Beasts born in the Ancient Era were already twenty to thirty meters tall.
They could grow to over a hundred meters in their juvenile period, at least three to four hundred meters in their growth period, and even up to a thousand meters in maturity, like a moving mountain.
But the bloodline of Titan Beasts had become very thin by the Fallen Ancient Era.
Because this type of giant beast bloodline was very hard to pass down; simply put, it was difficult for them to have offspring.
Moreover, they made too many enemies in the Primordial Ancient Era. As rulers of the land, everyone wanted to challenge them.
Basically, from birth, they were always fighting, all the way until the Fallen Ancient Era.
“This is a Titan Beast from the Fallen Ancient Era. Naturally controlling frost and lightning power… No wonder the environment here is so strange. However, this Titan Beast’s strength isn’t particularly strong.”
“It seems to be restricted.”
“Thunderous Soul Land is only a small Soul Land. The Soul Power density here is even lower than that of the Floating Forest, and the actual situation is different from the Floating Forest too. This Titan Beast has been here for so long and doesn’t seem to have completely lost consciousness. It can still sleep peacefully now…”
Wang Che observed for a while and found that this Titan Beast had some rather ancient Soul Guiding Diagrams on its body.
“Sealing array diagrams. Was this Titan Beast sealed in the Thunderous Soul Land?”
Wang Che pondered, “It seems the earlier mutation in the Thunderous Soul Land must be related to this seal.”
With his knowledge, he naturally deduced some of the situation.
“It’s sleeping; we won’t disturb it.”
Wang Che said to Magnetic Sword and Little Caterpillar.
Little Caterpillar quickly nodded. It felt that this big guy was not to be trifled with, so it was better not to wake it up.
Although compared to the Empty God Dragon, this Titan Beast wasn’t much.
But the pressure from such a powerful Soul Beast was still present.
Naturally, it was hard for humans to study such Soul Beasts, so their grades couldn’t be determined.
Similar to the Empty God Dragon.
Wang Che looked around, his gaze falling on the masses of icy-purple dark clouds in the sky.
Within the dark clouds, lightning flashed.
“The lightning in those dark clouds doesn’t seem ordinary.”
He didn’t know how it formed.
Suddenly.
The dark clouds stirred, and a bolt of icy-purple lightning struck down.
Interestingly, that lightning bolt fell like a meteor, unlike the usual branching Heavenly Thunder.
However, the lightning was indeed extremely powerful, and its sound was deafening. When it struck the Barren Land, it directly blasted a pit several dozen meters deep.
The pit was still filled with an icy purple thunder, emitting continuous explosions, covering a very wide area.
Despite such a loud noise, it did not wake the slumbering Titan Beast at all.
“Is this the special thunder of the Fifth Layer?”
Wang Che suddenly looked at the Titan Beast, deep in thought.
He knew where this thunder came from.
In the distance, as the Titan Beast snored,
strands of icy purple mist drifted from its nose, rising into the sky and transforming into clusters of icy purple clouds.
The thunder energy surged, gathering above the clouds, which then unleashed bolts of special lightning.
“Snoring created this kind of heavenly thunder…”
This Titan Beast was quite interesting.
“Magnetic Sword, get ready. We’ll absorb this thunder to cultivate later,”
Wang Che said. “This thunder is very powerful and unique. It should be quite effective for cultivation.”
Just right to gather three types of thunder. For Magnetic Sword, the Three Thunder Primordial Sword Array would now be complete.
This thunder was likely Ice Thunder. Not only was it more powerful than Heavenly Thunder, but the explosive power formed by the combination of ice and thunder would cover an even wider area, belonging to a super large AOE thunder.
It was also an irregular spherical thunder.
Compared to the ordinary Heavenly Thunder absorbed normally, this Ice Thunder was quite special, even stronger than the Thunder Seed’s Cloud Burst Heavenly Thunder.
Magnetic Sword buzzed excitedly.
“This time, we’ll summon the thunder ourselves. Only that dark cloud will release the lightning,”
Wang Che said. “Little Caterpillar, keep an eye on things here.”
There was no need for the Thunder Crown Root King to summon the thunder anymore.
Magnetic Sword flew into the air, its body glowing red as it used the Divine Sword Thunder Control True Scripture, beginning to draw the rolling thunder from that dark cloud.
But just then,
that dark cloud suddenly drifted away.
Magnetic Sword hovered mid-air, confused. After summoning for so long, why did it drift away?
Magnetic Sword flew after it, glowing again to summon the thunder. The dark cloud rumbled with lightning, about to be summoned.
However, the dark cloud drifted away again, and the lightning struck without landing on Magnetic Sword.
Magnetic Sword: “…”
Wang Che understood at a glance.
Those dark clouds were controlled.
Clearly, they wouldn’t let Magnetic Sword absorb the thunder so easily.
“I originally didn’t want to ask the Thunder Crown Root King for help.”
Since that was the case, Wang Che didn’t hesitate. He released the twenty evolved Thunder Crown Root Kings.
The boss was still resting.
“Please lend a hand,”
Wang Che said to Thunder Message Seed. “Summon the thunder from that dark cloud.”
As he spoke, he pointed into the distance.
The evolved Thunder Crown Root Kings agreed without hesitation.
The Thunder Crown Root King was naturally different from Thunder Message Seed.
Their evolved strength far surpassed that of Thunder Message Seed.
The twenty Thunder Crown Root Kings floated in the air, each in a different position, their bodies radiating bright purple lightning.
No matter how the dark cloud moved, they paid no mind.
The dark cloud drifted back and forth until it could no longer escape and simply stopped moving.
The lightning struck, guided by the Thunder Crown Root Kings’ Thunder Summoning Soul Skill, directly landing on Magnetic Sword.
“Bzzzt…”
Magnetic Sword let out a series of pleased buzzing sounds.
Even its blade seemed dyed icy purple by the thunder.
However, less than a second after it struck, the thunder vanished.
Magnetic Sword: “???”
Magnetic Sword felt very displeased. The feeling of being interrupted made it uncomfortable.
At the same time, Little Caterpillar tugged at Wang Che, pointing behind them with its tail.
Wang Che turned around and saw a giant beast, as massive as a mountain, standing not far behind him.
Its bell-like eyes glared at Wang Che!
It looked like a majestic and formidable supreme beast!
A faint voice rang out:
“Human, you don’t know your limits. That kind of thunder is not something your Soul Pet can absorb!”
The Titan Beast spoke.
Wang Che looked at it and smiled.
Actually, the Titan Beast had known the moment Wang Che and Little Caterpillar entered the Fifth Layer.
After all, the Fifth Layer was its territory.
It just hadn’t bothered to intervene.
And that thunder was produced by it.
“Beneath this dragon bone, where I was sleeping just now, there are some small trinkets,”
the Titan Beast said authoritatively. “It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a young human come before me. Pick one and leave quickly!”
“I just want that thunder,” Wang Che said. “I don’t care about the rest.”
“You human, why are you so stubborn!” The Titan Beast sat down. “I just woke up, and I’m in a bad mood. Don’t provoke me. I told you, a little sword like that can’t absorb my Meteoric Star Ice Thunder. If you force it to absorb, it won’t be able to control it! You’re harming it.”
“It can absorb it,” Wang Che said.
The Titan Beast grew angry, snorting with thunderous sounds.
The icy purple dark clouds in the sky thickened.
“You managed to reach the Fifth Layer and face me so calmly, which shows your strength and potential are quite good,” the Titan Beast said, calming itself. “But don’t aim too high.”
“The last one who told me that was called Empty God Dragon, Sirius,” Wang Che said with a smile.
“Oh, you’ve met that guy?” The Titan Beast was slightly surprised, looking at Wang Che more carefully.
“We met once and had a pleasant conversation,” Wang Che said.
“Nonsense! With its arrogant nature, it would have a pleasant conversation with a human?” The Titan Beast let out rumbling laughter, as if it had heard a very funny joke.
Seeing this, Wang Che understood.
He fumbled around and pulled out a dragon scale.
“See?” said Wang Che.
It seemed this one recognized the Empty God Dragon too.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t have known about the Empty God Dragon’s personality.
They were probably old acquaintances.
That made things simpler.
“An Empty God Dragon scale!”
The Titan Beast was immediately stunned.
It sprang up in an instant.
Shocked beyond belief.
“How could you have this?”
The Titan Beast froze. “And this isn’t just any Spatial Dragon scale—it’s a Vital Spatial Dragon scale infused with its will! Why would it give this to a human?”
“Impossible. Absolutely impossible!”
It stared at the scale.
It could feel an overwhelming spatial willpower radiating from it!
It was real.
Despite saying it couldn’t be, the Titan Beast had no choice but to believe.
This type of dragon scale was special.
Unless willingly given by the Empty God Dragon, even if it fell into another’s hands…
the Spatial Power within would activate, making it vanish instantly and return to its true owner.
So it couldn’t have been found, stolen, or seized by force.
Wang Che stayed silent.
The Titan Beast should know whether it was genuine or not.
The Titan Beast fell quiet.
It was baffled—why would the Empty God Dragon give something so precious to a human youth?
Wait. That creature shouldn’t even be conscious.
The Soul Land it went to was the most chaotic and dangerous one.
After all these years, how could it possibly be sane enough to channel its will into a dragon scale?
Instantly, countless question marks flooded the Titan Beast’s mind.
“May I take a portion of these thunder energies now?” Wang Che asked.
Since they were old friends, this should be easy.
Yet the Titan Beast laughed coldly.
“Old friends? Who said they’re friends with it? Human youth, without showing this scale, I might’ve let you leave with a few things.”
“But now?” It smirked. “If you want anything from me, you’ll have to defeat me first.”
“Otherwise, you’ll be leaving here empty-handed.”
“……” Wang Che was speechless.
Seriously? So the Titan Beast wasn’t the Empty God Dragon’s friend?
Then why did it react so dramatically earlier?
Wang Che felt a twinge of frustration.
He recalled the Empty God Dragon mentioning “many friends” during their chats.
One of them was supposedly a Titan Beast.
But it never specified which Soul Land it went to, since the dragon itself had been among the earliest Soul Beasts to enter one for restoration.
“Many friends.”
He’d been tricked.
Seemed like the Empty God Dragon didn’t actually have that many allies.
Wang Che thought of the Super Illusion Dragon—the one the Empty God Dragon called its closest friend.
The kind that literally wore the same pants growing up.
If he ever went to Illusory Light Island and met it, would he face this same trouble?
“In that case, defeating you it is,” Wang Che said after a moment.
“???” The Titan Beast’s mind flooded with confusion.
This human youth was acting strange.
What did that tone mean?
As if defeating it would be effortless?
Noticing the Titan Beast’s bewilderment, Wang Che explained,
“Most of your strength should be sealed away. You have ten special Soul Guiding Diagrams etched into you. One is cracked, meaning only a sliver of your true power remains.”
“Though your aura is strong, your Soul Power Cultivation can’t exceed two thousand years right now.”
“My guess? The crack in that Soul Guiding Diagram let your sealed power gradually leak out, altering this Thunderous Soul Land with your aura.”
“This seal… a millennium ago, after you finished guarding and restoring this Soul Land, human masters placed it on you, right? And others maintained it over time to protect you from the Soul Land’s corruption—preventing you from losing control and causing destruction.”
“Thanks to that seal, the Soul Land’s influence weakened, which is why you’ve stayed conscious.”
The fact remained, though: this Titan Beast was less formidable than the Empty God Dragon.
Human masters of that era couldn’t have sealed the dragon anyway—its strength and Void God Power made that impossible.
But sealing a Titan Beast? Achievable.
The difference spoke for itself.
Of course, Wang Che kept that thought to himself.
“At just two thousand years of Soul Power Cultivation? Yeah, I can manage to beat you.”
The Titan Beast frowned slightly at his words.
This human youth was growing stranger by the second.
How could he possibly know all this?
And so accurately?
But that last comment? That stung.
The word “manage”?
Its eyes narrowed. “Then give it a try.”
“Win against me with those tiny Soul Beasts of yours,” it taunted, “and not only will I train them—you can even have my Meteoric Star Ice Thunder.”
“Lose? Then you’ll surrender that dragon scale. Don’t worry—I have ways to seal it permanently.”
“No problem,” Wang Che agreed without hesitation.
He roughly understood the Titan Beast’s thoughts.
“Take some time to prepare.”
After saying that, the Titan Beast closed its eyes.
“No need to prepare. Little Caterpillar, you attack. Magnetic Sword, support him.”
Wang Che’s Soul Power surged all around him, and his Myriad Vault Dao Palace Martial Soul appeared. A dragon shadow flew straight into the diamond-shaped inheritance mark on Little Caterpillar’s forehead.
In an instant, intense light enveloped Little Caterpillar completely.
The light shot straight into the sky.
Within this light, Little Caterpillar quickly began to change!
First-stage evolution of the True Dragon formation!!
Empty God… Caterpillar!
At that moment, Little Caterpillar was about five meters long. Its chubby, segmented body was full of power.
Special spatial patterns appeared all over its body. The bud-like limbs actually grew small fleshy feet this time!
Especially the V-shaped buds on its head—two shiny antennae sprouted right out of them.
At the same time, Little Caterpillar flew up!
Compared to the True Dragon Form it entered when facing the Empty God Dragon before, the changes were significant!
Because every time Little Caterpillar entered this form, it changed a little!
“Zzzz!” Magnetic Sword saw Little Caterpillar and immediately made a sound.
The real big brother was here!
“Aoo~ wo~”
Little Caterpillar let out a roar.
Seeing Little Caterpillar like this, the Titan Beast was greatly shocked.
The power of the Empty God Dragon!
It actually felt the Empty God Dragon’s power from a Greenworm!
What was this?
Did the Empty God Dragon give its power to a Greenworm?
The Titan Beast was even more shocked than before!
The aura bursting from this Green Caterpillar even affected it a little!
“The Spatial Power inside it is fully activated.”
Wang Che nodded with satisfaction.
At that moment, Little Caterpillar hovered in mid-air, truly suspended using Spatial Power.
Not with Sky Energy.
It seemed that it could learn Spatial Soul Skills once they got back!
Just then, Little Caterpillar moved.
It opened its mouth and let out an Insect Sound.
Now, the Insect Sound was almost no different from a Dragon’s Roar!
If it were facing that Cloud-Summit Thunder Dragon, just this Dragon’s Roar alone—the True Dragon aura would be enough to make that Cloud-Summit Thunder Dragon collapse on the ground!
However…
“Roar!”
The Titan Beast let out a sky-shaking roar.
Its momentum surged sharply. It was not afraid of the Dragon’s Roar at all. In fact, with one roar, its entire state seemed to improve greatly at a very fast speed!
Titan’s Roar: a special Soul Skill of the Titan Beast race. It uses a sky-shaking roar to stimulate the bloodline within, making itself immune to any intimidation effects, directly entering a battle stance. All physical attributes are greatly enhanced.
At the same time, layers of frost-like armor formed on its arms, chest, and limbs, appearing indestructible!
That was the Frost-type Soul Pet’s Thousand-Year Soul Skill, Frost Scale Armor.
Its Soul Power Cultivation was sealed, so it could only use Thousand-Year-level Soul Skills.
“As expected of a powerful Soul Beast from the Ancient Era that could slay Giant Dragons.” Wang Che sighed.
With its two-thousand-year Soul Power Cultivation, it could easily crush seven or eight-thousand-year Soul Beasts.
Little Caterpillar was under a lot of pressure!
But still…
Since one Insect Sound wasn’t effective, Little Caterpillar directly activated its Martial Spirit Armament, instantly entering Crimson Mode!
Little Caterpillar was stubborn. It swung its Rattler Tail Strike right at the Titan Beast, seemingly wanting to test its strength against the Titan Beast.
The Titan Beast laughed.
It clenched its claw into a fist and punched toward Little Caterpillar’s tail.
These Soul Beasts left behind from the Fallen Ancient Era had experienced countless battles.
Their combat experience was very rich. The only way to defeat them was through sheer strength.
The two collided.
Boom!
In an instant, space shook violently!
Little Caterpillar was sent flying backward with a whoosh.
The Titan Beast took one step back.
But that made it a little confused.
The Titan Beast looked at the footprints on the Barren Land, seemingly unable to believe they appeared because it stepped back.
Naturally, it had the upper hand in strength.
As a Titan Beast from the Fallen Ancient Era, it was at the top of the strength pyramid on land.
Only the upper hand?
How could that Green Caterpillar have such great strength?
“There’s still a big gap.”
Wang Che shook his head slightly.
Little Caterpillar’s strength was at its peak in that state.
True Dragon Form + Martial Spirit Armament + Crimson Mode + Rattler Tail Strike.
And the Titan Beast only threw a simple punch.
True Dragon Form provided two levels of overall enhancement, Crimson Mode boosted strength by two levels, and the Rattler Tail Strike Soul Skill also unleashed powerful strength.
Even then, it was still sent flying by this terrifying creature.
It couldn’t even shatter the Frost Scale Armor on the Titan Beast’s fist.
Even though it only had two-thousand-year Soul Power Cultivation, and ninety-nine percent of its power was sealed.
It could still easily send Little Caterpillar flying with one punch in terms of strength.
And it only took one step back.
The Titan Beast’s growth potential and physical strength at that time were terrifying.
In terms of pure strength alone, even the Empty God Dragon might not be its match.
But for Little Caterpillar.
Strength was no longer its greatest forte.
To be precise, since it started practicing the Great Freedom Visualization Method, Little Caterpillar’s strongest ability was controlling the five elements of nature.
Especially Little Caterpillar, who had already condensed a Flame Soul Essence!
The only way to defeat this Titan Beast, which controlled frost and thunder, was through the Flame Soul Essence.
Actually, if Little Caterpillar learned a few of the Empty God Dragon’s Spatial Soul Skills, it might also have a chance to win.
But right now, the Spatial Power inside Little Caterpillar wasn’t sufficient yet, and it hadn’t started mastering the Empty God Dragon’s Spatial Soul Skills.
So…
“Flame Awakening! Enter the Flame True Dragon Form!”
Through Telepathy, Little Caterpillar immediately activated the Flame Soul Essence inside its body, and the power of Flame Awakening burst out! A blazing light shot from its body straight into the sky.
In the intense fiery light, Little Caterpillar changed again…
Titan Beast: “???”
It could still change?