Against The Heavens 161 Signal Flare Of Terror.

The bird made from golden flames, Jinwu, rested his head on Li Yang's right shoulder, an act that caused golden flames to spill onto Li Yang and run down his body. But these flames, which were infamous even in a major universe for how destructive they were, simply ran down Li Yang's body without even singeing his robes. They didn't harm him in the slightest, but the earth started melting the moment the flames finished running down Li Yang's body, allowing those watching to realize that these flames were far from harmless. Li Yang rested the side of his head against the side of Jinwu's head and raised his right arm, ruffling the flames on top of Jinwu's head.

"Good morning sleepyhead, you've been out for far too long. I'd love for a proper talk right now, but your brother and sister are still sleeping so I'd like for you to help me wake them. I made on earlier, but how about you show these people what a true sun and moon is?"

Jinwu, as well as the fusion of Huanglong and Shenlong, had given Li Yang a large portion of their Essence Blood so that he could turn his body into one made of both fire and ice, something that should be nearly impossible. Had it not been for his law of destruction automatically getting rid of any poison that entered his body, he guessed that he might have acquired Huanglong's poison at the same time.

It was an act that Li Yang had never forgotten and that had always hung heavily on him, waking them up again had been one of his main goals ever since. Having managed to wake up one of them and seeing the chance to wake up the two others as well, he felt like a heavy weight had been removed from his chest.

Jinwu raised his head and let out a piercing cry that was clearly audible even to the people hiding in the city, he then flapped his wings and shot into the sky. The flames that seemed to form his body were shed as he soared into the sky, turning into a trail behind him as his actual body was revealed. Having been fed so much lifeforce it was clear that Jinwu had grown stronger than previously, his increase in size was a sign of this, but his appearance had also changed slightly to reflect it.

His eyes were still golden and his feathers were still black, but the blue tint on his wings had spread to cover the entire outline of the wings, encircling them and causing the black feathers to be even more p.r.o.nounced. That also wasn't the only change, he now had golden and icy-blue veins running across his entire body, it almost looked like he actually had fire and ice flowing in his veins.

Jinwu stretched his wings out and stopped soaring higher when he reached an alt.i.tude of almost 10 kilometers, he was so high up that only the stronger cultivators present were able to spot him. But everyone was still able to hear him when he let out another piercing cry, the earth suddenly trembling as the frozen portions broke off and soared into the sky.

All the ice on the ground was drawn into the sky at such speeds that the fragments tore through any Deathcloud Warriors that were so unfortunate as to get in the way. Even three of the more solid Deathcloud Warriors ended up getting torn apart since they were so unlucky that their feet had been caught when Jinwu first froze the earth.

The ice was drawn into the sky and the curtain of fire already covering the sky started retracting, both elements gathering up next to Jinwu. The fire gathered on his right and the ice on his left, gathering together and compressing into two large orbs. When Li Yang created a moon from his ice, it only managed to reach a diameter of about one kilometer, but the orbs created by Jinwu covered an entire six kilometers, they truly resembled the moon and the sun as they hung in the sky.

While he was born with an affinity for fire and ice in this life, it would always be lightning and destruction that were Li Yang's true elements. He would need to spend a few hundred thousand years of studying if he wanted to raise his understanding of those two elements to the same standard as his lightning and destruction, and that was under the a.s.sumption that he didn't spend any time studying his lightning or destruction laws.

But Jinwu was a Divine Beast born with fire and ice, his mind was filled with the understanding that his ancestors had acquired through their lives. He stood amongst the ranks of the beings blessed by the multiverse, all he had to focus on was acquiring enough energy and lifeforce to grow up. By the time he reached his adult age, only some of the older monsters and more freakish existences would be able to rival his control over fire and ice.

Rain started to fall once the sun and the moon were fully formed, each drop filled with energy and a bit of warmth. The rain was actually the surrounding Qi that got frozen by Jinwu's ice element and then thawed by his flames, raining down and returning to the surroundings after it seeped into the earth. Jinwu let out a third clarion cry, the sun and moon descending to the earth and creating a scene reminiscent of the apocalypse.

The two orbs. .h.i.t the earth at the same time and exploded into fire and ice that moved like waves, washing over the Deathcloud Warriors and the surrounding area. The fire melted the ice and the ice froze the fire, the two conflicting elements continuing to move like water and swallowing nearly half the army of Deathcloud Warriors, the earth beneath their feet turning into lava.

Li Yang didn't even have to move, the continuously freezing and melting fire and ice completely covered his surroundings and swallowed any Deathcloud warrior that got close to him. Jinwu was clearly no longer the same youngling that he was in the past, he was starting to show the real splendor of a Divine Beast, before long he would be like a true sun in the sky.

Looking at the ocean of fire and ice that covered nearly 15 kilometers, the guards and cultivators in front of the city could only look on with slacked jaws, almost unable to process the information. Li Yang's actions alone were enough to leave them dumbfounded, but the appearance of Jinwu almost short-circuited their brains, none of them were able to figure out just what sort of being this crow was.
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But what none of them were expecting was that this wasn't even the end, Li Yang stretching out his right arm and making a grasping motion. Thousands of white hearts flew out of the ocean of fire and ice, rushing over to him and sinking into his body, vanishing into his dantian.

"The earth is already burning, won't you two come and tear apart the sky?"

Li Yang's robe started to rustle as if it was being blown around by the breeze once he finished his word, golden lightning tinted with a hint of purple crackling around his body. The sky above the area started to turn dark once the lightning started arcing around Li Yang, black clouds rapidly gathering and forming a thick layer that blotted out the sun.

The small arcs of lightning crackling around Li Yang shot into the sky and disappeared into the clouds, an earth-shattering rumbling sound coming from the clouds shortly afterward. The rumbling was so intense and thunderous that those standing on solid ground could feel it reverberate through the earth. And then came the roar, a heaven-shaking roar that shook even the large wall that surrounded the city. Coupled with the dark clouds and the ocean of fire and ice, it truly seemed like the end of the world had arrived.

A bolt of golden-purple lightning as thick as a grown tree descended from the black clouds and crashed into the earth, from the distance resembling a line that split the sky apart. This bolt was only the first, many more quickly following it, the black clouds lighting up with golden and purple flashes that replaced the sun that had been blotted out. Li Yang's head was tilted back somewhat, a soft and faint smile present on his face as he looked at the looming clouds.

"Really, all of you have grown so much since then."

As if responding to his words, the clouds released a thunderous roar, a section of a serpentine body covered in scales poking out through the clouds. The section of the body was as thick as an elephant and covered in golden-purple scales, more and more sections becoming visible as the creature in the clouds was moving around. First, he brought the fire and ice, then the lightning and poison. With all of them awakening, it served as the signal flare that Li Yang had brought true terror to this minor universe.

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While Li Yang was in the process of awakening Jinwu, Shenlong, and Huanglong, there was someone in the Earth Rendering Empire that was starting to get annoyed. The Earth Rendering Empire was actually a collection of underground cities, the deeper you went the grander your status was. And currently sitting in a training room made from a strange type of solid metal, located within the second deepest city, was a tall woman with a slim body packed with muscles, deep crimson hair that hung down to just above her ears, and deep black eyes that flickered around the room.

"Knew I shouldn't have trusted that old fart when he started spouting so much s.h.i.t about destiny and karma. 'Most likely place' my a.s.s, it's already been an entire f.u.c.king year."

The grumbling woman was sitting on the ground while leaning against the wall of the spa.r.s.ely decorated training room, a long and simple spear resting against her shoulder. Her left knee was pulled close to her chest, her foot tapping the cold floor while she continued to grumble. She turned her gaze onto one of the few decorations in the room, an amber crystal carved to look like a closed eye. Seeing that the eye was still closed, the woman clicked her tongue in annoyance and continued to grumble.

"Tch, I'll beat the s.h.i.t out of that old fart when I see him again. Three more months, I'll just leave if there's no news by then."

The woman, the reincarnated Spear Empress Bai Yawen, was already getting tired of waiting without getting any results. Soon it would be time to move on to the next place where there was supposed to be a chance for her to meet up with the others.