One more catty, one more attribute point

Bang!

Su Heng stamped heavily beneath his feet.

The air instantly burst, compressed into a solid and exploded.

Amidst the enormous recoil force, Su Heng's figure shot into the clouds.

Thunder roared within the clouds, accompanied by lightning, as he burst through the gloomy rain clouds.

The overcast thunderous clouds that had blocked out the sun suddenly vanished, replaced by bright beams of light and a clear azure sky. A fierce sun hung high, its light as pure as golden glass.

This altitude was the stratosphere, where commercial planes fly through the atmosphere.

Beneath him, the clouds were like a sea, with several mountain ranges visible in the distance.

This was Su Heng's first time at such an altitude.

He spread his arms wide, no longer exerting force.

Instead, he used the power field of the Kui Lang to maintain his form, hovering above the clouds.

The stratosphere contained little water vapor and few solid particles, so the wind here was very pure. The wind blew straight at him, causing Su Heng's long hair to whip behind him.

His expression gradually turned solemn as he looked towards a distant direction.

Tuo Long, Calamity, Great Tide.

Truth be told,

Su Heng actually didn't care much about the life and death of the mortals.

To him, those people were as insignificant as ants, but Baihua County was his territory.

The reckless actions of Tuo Long were clearly a disregard for him, which was the real reason Su Heng felt anger.

Fortunately…

Although he might not be able to teach these demons what fear is,

he could certainly show them how to "die."

Bang!

With this thought,

Su Heng gripped his five fingers tightly, creating a thunderous noise.

His eyes slowly reddened, and strength surged throughout his body. With one step forward, he had already vanished from his original spot.

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Upstream of Guan River, on the edge of an abandoned city.

Tuo Long slowly lifted his pitch-black hand, covered in Scale Armor, out of the river.

His palm had a long, narrow wound, oozing blood that emitted surging Demonic Qi.

The blood merged with the water, contaminating a large stretch of the river.

The color of the water turned into a sinister bloody red, also emitting a pungent and foul fishy smell.

Even the grasses and plants on both sides of the river began to wilt rapidly, and the usual summer sounds of insects and birds completely disappeared.

Gurgle!

The river water began to boil, stirring up ripples.

Various sized fish in the river struggled violently a couple of times before flipping belly-up, gradually perishing.

The surging river washed these dead fish ashore.

The corpses piled up like mountains, the stench overwhelming.

The now calm river surface began to bulge suddenly, and soon, gigantic crocodiles emerged one after another.

These crocodiles were covered in thick scale armor, some with spines growing on their vertebrae, looking extremely ferocious. They opened their mouths wide, devouring the corpses of the fish, drawing nutrients from the meal. Their bodies then further tore, grew, and transformed.

Within moments, hundreds of beastly crocodiles had been created.

Among them, two particularly large ones even emitted the powerful aura of genuine demons.

"This time's luck isn't too bad,"

said Tuo Long, his face revealing a satisfied expression as he observed the scene before him.

For demons below the level of death, only a few with special talents, like Yin Shi Taisui or the White Deer Demon King, could mass-produce demon minions.

But once one's strength broke through to the death level, this restriction no longer applied.

Any true death-level lord could cause the immediate environment to undergo transformations, thereby creating a massive number of demon minions.

"You say this lightly, but your actions are quite earnest," remarked Kui Lang mockingly.

"It's also preparation for what lies ahead," Tuo Long said noncommittally.

He suddenly narrowed his eyes and looked up, humming softly, "Here they come!"

Whoosh!

Kui Lang followed his gaze.

In the blood-red sky, a large tumbling mass suddenly appeared.

A crimson arc of light sliced through the sky, bringing turbulent winds and thunder due to intense friction with the clouds. One second it was on the horizon, the next it was right before them. The ferocious and exaggerated punch had not yet landed when the roaring pressure it brought caused the river to cave in and stones to fly around.

Bang!

Tuo Long's expression turned visibly more serious.

He raised his hand to block it overhead.

Two giants over three meters tall collided in mid-air, locked in a brief standstill.

Then Su Heng sneered, "Are you ready to embrace death?"

Thunder roared!

It was as if thunder exploded in the skies.

Su Heng's strength burst forth explosively, pressing down like mountains and tsunamis.

Tuo Long the Great's body, like a cannonball, was fiercely blasted to the ground, lifting a huge swirl of yellow dust and leaving behind trenches, until finally crashing against the broken city wall behind him with a loud noise—only then did he manage to barely stop.

In the collision just now, Su Heng had realized that Tuo Long the Great was much stronger than the previously faced Kui Lang the Star Lord.

The two were not even on the same level.

He then recalled the towering tidal wave from before, capable of destroying an entire city.

Su Heng instantly understood that Tuo Long the Great had not chosen an incarnate body but had directly chosen to descend in his true form.

Realizing this,

instead of feeling any fear, Su Heng felt a wild joy ignite within him.

Even though he could use the sealing power of the White Snake Demon Scale to completely kill the force harbored within the incarnate body,

doing so

would only cause a slight inconvenience to those Dead-level Lords.

Given time, those lost powers could always be recovered.

But it was different with a true form.

If Tuo Long the Great were to die at Su Heng's hands now, he would be truly finished.

With that thought, Su Heng immediately exerted all his strength. His body churned with energy, stirring up a fierce wind and thick smoke.

"Fiery Ember·Red Sun Search!"

"Thunder Shock·Sea of Suffering Thunder Sound!"

Su Heng used the two most powerful moves from the Domineering Dragon Secret Method.

On his left side, golden suns like those seen in sci-fi spearing through the darkness, hovered in mid-air. Beams of hot, bright light, like light spears from the suns, burst outward. In an instant, they pierced through the void, melted the ground, and the entire city district collapsed in a blast of firelight.

On his right side, thick arcs of electricity obscured the sky, weaving into a net.

Each thunderbolt had the thickness of an adult's waist. At that moment, hundreds of thousands of bolts of lightning struck down simultaneously, continuous booms emanated from the dust and smoke, magma spurted out accordingly, and the whole land trembled violently, fissures spreading outward continuously.

Bang!

Footsteps came from the reddish smoke.

Tuo Long the Great emerged, quite disheveled, step by step from within.

All his clothing had been completely evaporated and torn apart, his dark, fierce body exposed. The thick and extremely hard scale armor was melted, flowing down like magma along his undulating body. Yet, on his face was an excited smile.

"Seeing you this infuriated," Tuo Long the Great chuckled, "it seems your city has been utterly destroyed."

"No, it hasn't."

Before Su Heng could speak, Kui Lang the Star Lord's voice came from the side, "Although Baihua County was damaged, it was not destroyed."

"How is that possible!?" Tuo Long the Great was shocked.

If it had been Su Heng who said this, he could understand it as stubborn defiance.

But coming from Kui Lang the Star Lord himself, he couldn't help but believe it.

Swish!

A bright flash crossed Kui Lang the Star Lord's eyes.

He shared the scene he witnessed with Tuo Long the Great, whose smile gradually vanished, turning much darker.

"All this for mere ants?"

Tuo Long the Great looked up at Su Heng and coldly said, "But still, calming the tide must have severely drained your energy. You should not have challenged me now. Of course, whether now or in the future, your fate is already sealed."

"But at least, you could bring me some more amusement."

"You're just a slightly bigger reptile, yet you dare speak such arrogance in front of me!" Su Heng scoffed coldly.

Hearing this, Tuo Long the Great's expression turned even colder.

He was a crocodile and hated nothing more than being called a reptile by others.

With just an offhand comment, Su Heng had hit a sore spot for Tuo Long the Great.

"I originally wanted to have some fun with you, but since you wish for death—so be it!"

Bang!

Tuo Long the Great leaped up.

He bombarded Su Heng with one exaggeratedly furious punch after another.

Unexpectedly, the punch that collided exploded into a sky of blood rain—Tuo Long the Great exploded, and Su Heng held the upper hand, displaying no surprise on his face. He instantly realized something was off. "This isn't the real Tuo Long the Great, it's an incarnation!"

"Where is his true form?" Su Heng looked around, enhancing his perception to the utmost.

The surroundings were frighteningly quiet, only the wind sweeping the grass and stones from the ground. There were remains of river fish on the shore, with some crocodiles lying in the blood, watching him with a mocking expression.

Hiss!

Su Heng's eyes suddenly jumped.

He looked down and realized something was wrong; a vortex suddenly emerged and expanded beneath his feet.

A powerful suction came from it, turning a large area into a vacuum. Su Heng had nowhere to leverage, and even the Wolf King's control over the force field couldn't counter the Dead-level Lord's Sun Swallowing Divine Ability. His body fell, swallowed whole by the vortex.

Bang!

The river surface exploded with splashes, and a figure leaped out.

"Is it over?" Kui Lang the Star Lord folded his arms over his chest, his voice carrying from a distance.

"If it were his full strength, he might have struggled out of my Sun Swallowing Divine Ability. But having spent a substantial amount of energy earlier calming the flood, he now has no chance of survival, guaranteed!"

Tuo Long the Great spoke confidently, spreading his fingers and then suddenly clenching his hand forward!

Boom!

The entire river roiled violently, turning blood-red.

Countless torrents of blood-red water rose to the sky, forming huge, horn-like tornadoes, even driving the lead-gray clouds above. Blood-red lightning struck down, fierce winds arose, and the rumbling was incessant. Onlookers from mutant tribes on both sides displayed exaggerated expressions of awe on their faces.

Yet, as the instigator of it all, the smile on Tuo Long the Great's face slowly solidified.

"Roar!"

A long dragon chant burst from the blood-red heavens.

And within it, the profound and surging Dragon Power drastically changed his expression, "How is this possible!?"