Against The Heavens 162 Li Yang's Mark.

Fire and ice covered the earth while lightning lit up the sky, it was a nearly perfect rendition of the apocalypse. But even with all this, Li Yang wasn't satisfied, it wasn't enough just yet. Jinwu, Shenlong, and Huanglong had all awakened once more, they had announced their arrival and might, showcased their fire, ice, and lightning. And now it was Li Yang's turn, his turn to make the declaration of the end, an end to the calmness and laws that ruled this universe.

That was the type of beings that he and his friends were, chaos followed in their wake, they were existences that upheaved the natural order and calm no matter where they went. But then again, such was the nature of all strong beings, they were waves that rushed forth without pause, their mere existence causing chaos. Li Yang raised his right hand towards the dark clouds and the thick-scaly body coiling around within them, his soft voice resonating with the roar of the thunder and fire.

"Jinwu, Shenlong, Huanglong, with the sky as your canvas, can you paint me a picture?"

A cut opened up on the palm of Li Yang's right hand as he spoke, blood gushing forth as it was carried into the sky by Li Yang's Qi. The ma.s.sive figure in the sky started twisting as it moved and roared, a thick bolt of lightning flashing down and colliding with the blood coming from Li Yang's hand. Jinwu also let out a loud caw and flapped his wings, some fire and ice shooting forth from his wings and colliding with the blood alongside the lightning.

The blood, ice, fire, and lightning merged together and formed a thick crimson paste, Jinwu and Shenlong sending over more and more of their elements to increase the amount of paste. Li Yang drained nearly half of all the blood in his body, enough to fill a 20-meter wide pool thanks to his body cultivation, before he lowered his arm again and closed up the cut in his hand. Hanging in the air above him now was a nearly 40-meter wide crimson orb that occasionally flashed with fire, ice, or lightning, as well as the rare violet flash of poison.

With the orb fully formed, the large figure within the clouds started twisting and turning again, quickly revealing its full body for the first time. Dragon, the third-largest type of beast in existence and the largest of all air-borne beasts, growing exponentially larger the stronger they got, the fusion of Shenlong and Huanglong was finally starting to bring justice to that name.

A nearly 150-meter long serpentine body as thick as an elephant and four barrel-thick limbs that ended in five razor-sharp claws. Glimmering golden scales tinged with a touch of purple that formed five long lines that ran down the entire body, deep violet spines running down the entire back of the beast and a ferocious dragon head with two sets of backward bent horns on each side of the head, the horns on the left were golden while the horns on the right were violet. The tail of the dragon was covered in long strands of silky hair that gave it a refined air and even made it seem graceful and dignified, a true ruler of airborne-beasts.

The fusion of the two was incomparable to how it was before, but then again, so was Jinwu. They were Divine Beasts, beings blessed and beloved by the multiverse itself, and now that they had gotten stronger that blessing was starting to show itself. Shenlong raised his head and let out a rumbling roar that even blew apart the black clouds around him, revealing a portion of the sky as he stretched his body and dipped his tail into the crimson orb.

His tail was quickly dyed red and he drew it back, the crimson paste splashing all around as he moved his tail and used it to spread out the crimson paste. At first, the crimson paste was just used to draw a few lines, but more and more lines were quickly painted in the sky and gathered together to form the outline of an array. Fang Ying, who was still seated on the edge of the wall surrounding the city, was very familiar with this array, it was the same one Li Yang had used inside the hidden realm so that they could escape from the Devil's Grasp Vine.

She didn't know as much about arrays as Li Yang, but she still knew enough about them to let her trace the core locations of the array. Unlike the array he drew back then, this one only had three core points, Li Yang himself, Jinwu, and Shenlong, meaning that the power of these three beings would be gathered within one of the core points. She could already imagine that when all that power was unleashed, it would be sure to create a stunning scene.

The array was finished before long, the ocean of fire and ice that Jinwu had unleashed on the earth holding the remaining Deathcloud Warriors at bay so that none of them could get close to disturb them. Three thin bolts of multicolored energy shot out from the array once it was finished, one latching onto Li Yang, one onto Jinwu, and one onto Shenlong, connecting the three through the array.

With the connection set up, the two Divine Beasts descended to the ground, Jinwu landing on the right of Li Yang and folding his wings. Shenlong had it a bit harder due to his ma.s.sive size, the best he could do was curl up as much as he could on Li Yang's left, the two beasts resembling guardian statues overlooking their emperor.

Li Yang stretched out his right arm, gathering all the power of him and his two beasts in the palm of his hand. An orb of energy rapidly started to form, at first ballooning into a shining drop that was almost 5-meters in diameter. But he quickly started to condense the energy, causing it to pulsate and shrink, its color turning darker and darker as he condensed it more and more while also adding more energy.

It didn't take long for a pitch-black grape-sized orb to appear in his palm, not a speck of power radiating from it. Li Yang raised his head slightly to look at the remnants of the Deathcloud Warriors, a mere 9000 after the carnage that Jinwu and Shenlong had caused when they awakened.

"It's not a toy, that's true, it's a splendid weapon."

Li Yang raised his outstretched arm slightly as he spoke, pushing the orb and causing it to fly into the air. The orb started to unleash a horrifying suction force the moment it left his palm, sucking in the surroundings at a terrifying pace. The earth, the air, the fire, the ice, the Deathcloud Warriors, everything was sucked into the orb as it rose into the sky and grew in size. It stopped rising after reaching one kilometer in height, by this point it had already reached 5-meters in diameter and was even sucking in the remaining clouds that covered the sky.

Everything that was sucked in by the black hole was twisted and crushed into nothingness. Jinwu had his fire and his ice, Shenlong had his lightning, and Huanglong had her poison, and while Li Yang had all these elements except for the poison, his core would always be destruction. He was no longer the Thunder Monarch of the past, he would no longer bother hiding his law of destruction. It was just as that Gluttonera had said, it wasn't a toy, it was one of the greatest weapons of the multiverse. It was a weapon, so he would use it as a weapon. He would use it to tear down those that tried to kill him, to crush his enemies, and even to tear down whoever it was that had tried to interfere with the reincarnations of Zhao Feng and the others.

The black hole continued to draw in everything around it until there was nothing left to destroy, it didn't stop the land in a 20-kilometer area had been completely erased. All that remained was a nearly 10-kilometer deep basin that had completely smooth edges, stopping only a few meters in front of the terrified onlookers. Within that basin, the only thing that still remained as before was the patch of land that Li Yang and the two others were standing on, the rest was unable to escape its fate.
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This empty basin and the black hole hovering above it was the mark of Li Yang. Not the mark of the exalted Thunder Monarch but the mark of Li Yang. The black hole started wavering and shimmering, dissipating and vanishing under Li Yang's control. He then reached out with his hands, placing one on Jinwu and one on Shenlong, whispering softly.

"Disperse."

The body of the two beasts suddenly exploded, one into fire and the other into lightning and poisonous mist. A small portion of these elements entered Li Yang's body, but the majority of it flew into the sky and dispersed with the wind, making it seem as if the two beasts had been nothing more than Li Yang giving form to his elements.

He was arrogant but not utterly r.e.t.a.r.ded, making such a public display of dispersing them made sure that others believed he was just highly skilled at shaping his elements, they wouldn't think that he actually had Divine Beasts with him. The black hole vanished, as did the two Divine Beasts, a strange silence descending over the area. One man had just single-handedly torn apart a disaster that might have threatened the entire city, people weren't quite sure how to react. But there were some among them that quickly managed to gather their thoughts, a few of them cupping their hands and bowing deeply to Li Yang.

"I am Soryuu Zheng of the Shadow Emperor sect, please follow me back to the sect, I am sure that we can offer you highly favorable terms!"

"I am Zhangyu Shin of the Heaven Devastator sect, I can a.s.sure you that we can fulfill almost any wish of yours if you are willing to join us!"

"I am Gang Lingqi of the Earth Rendering Empire, if you return with us then I can a.s.sure you that our lord himself will grace you with a visit!"