The Extreme Dragon Forbidden Zone.
Yu Xian had laid down numerous bubbles here long ago, and they remained to this day.
At that moment, a bubble nestled among the mountains rapidly expanded. The King of the Abyss Battle Armor teleported through, and from afar, the great lake where the Extreme Dragon made its lair was clearly visible.
The deep blue waters were serene and tranquil, without a single ripple. The closer to the lake's center, the darker the hue became, as though something terrifying lurked within, ready to emerge at any moment and devour anyone in its path.
To tell the truth, Yu Xian's heart beat a little faster right now. Seeing this familiar landscape and these familiar sights, his mind automatically replayed the scene of the Extreme Dragon opening its maw to unleash that dreadful blast of light.
That energy beam cannon had been truly thick and blindingly bright, and its power had been staggeringly immense.
"There's something off about this lake water," Niman remarked at that moment.
Yu Xian took a deep breath and nodded. "There really is. It seems to connect to some other space."
Perhaps it was because his strength had been lacking before; when he came here in the past, he hadn't noticed anything unusual about the water at all. This time, however, he could easily sense that the lake seemed linked to a certain space. In all likelihood, the Extreme Dragon had stayed in this lake not out of affection for the place, but to guard whatever lay on the other side of that spatial passage.
"Could this be Helick's Great Trove?" Nora guessed upon hearing this.
Niman frowned. "Helick shouldn't have ever been to Earth. Aside from the Abyss, his tracks have been thoroughly researched countless times. If he had ever set foot on Earth, those studying him would have searched this place long ago."
"Space in many parts of the Abyss is chaotic and disordered. Helick might not truly have never been to Earth," Yu Xian countered.
Earth possessed numerous Abyss rifts, each leading to a different part of the Abyss. In fact, even Crescent Bay was a spatial rift—it was just exceptionally colossal and situated at the opposite end of the universe rather than on Earth.
The Abyssal invasion had never begun from a single direction; it came from all sides.
In some unfortunate worlds, inhabited planets remained peaceful and safe, while uninhabited planets were corroded by the Abyss early on.
By the time the Abyss spread to those inhabited planets, the people living there would discover with shock and despair that they were far too late—they didn't even have time to save themselves.
"If the other side truly is Helick's Great Trove, I'm afraid we'll have to get past the Extreme Dragon to enter," Niman said somewhat helplessly after hearing Yu Xian's words.
Nora knew Yu Xian well and smiled. "Given the situation, whether it is or not, we probably can't afford to ignore it."
"Yeah. Regardless of whether the other side of the water is Helick's Great Trove, all we can do now is charge ahead," Yu Xian agreed with a nod. Even if there were only a one percent chance, they couldn't afford to gamble.
After all, Shui Yuetian was in Zhi'er's hands. If the lake led to Helick's Great Trove, Zhi'er might very well threaten Shui Yuetian's life next.
"We're... going to fight the Extreme Dragon?" Little Nora asked, thoroughly bewildered after hearing Yu Xian.
Yu Xian smiled. "It's not our turn to step in just yet. First, I'll let my summon test the waters and see how strong the Extreme Dragon is. Then we can decide whether we need to act."
Although Shui Yuetian was important and counted as their friend, Nora and the others were undoubtedly far more important to Yu Xian.
He wasn't foolish enough to disregard the lives of those he truly cherished for Shui Yuetian's sake.
Auntie Number Two was formidable, especially in her Free Form. In her Violent Auntie state, she was an exceptionally fierce fighter. Sending her to probe the Extreme Dragon ought to gauge its depths.
If the Extreme Dragon proved too powerful, they would find another way to slip past. If it was weak, there wouldn't even be any need for them to take the field.
Little Nora breathed an immediate sigh of relief upon hearing Yu Xian's explanation. It trusted Xiao Sensen immensely, and since Xiao Sensen had described the Extreme Dragon in such terrifying terms, it had no desire to face the beast head-on.
Yu Xian then summoned Auntie Number Two and had her enter the Violent Auntie form.
Because the Violent Auntie state lasted only three minutes, Yu Xian hastily commanded her to slay the Extreme Dragon. Receiving the order, Auntie Number Two took a step forward and instantly materialized high above the lake. Then, like a meteor crashing to earth, she slammed a fist onto the water's surface.
With that single strike, all the lake water was sent hurtling into the sky, leaving only the Extreme Dragon in the drained lakebed.
It looked up at Auntie Number Two, its deep blue eyes turning crimson in an instant. Its blue scales seemed to ignite, transforming in the blink of an eye into dragon scales radiating a scarlet gleam.
Yet before it could strike, and before the displaced lake water could fall, Auntie Number Two flashed directly above the dragon. A single punch smashed the Extreme Dragon into the bottom of the lake, carving out an immense crater. When the Extreme Dragon bounced back upward, Auntie Number Two struck it with another blow that sent it flying away to blast straight through a mountain. Flashing behind the beast, she grabbed its tail and slammed it violently into the earth.
"So strong, so violent!" Clinging like a koala, Little Nora stared at the spectacle in dumbfounded shock.
Yu Xian's mouth hung open as well. In his eyes, the overwhelmingly dangerous Extreme Dragon was being brutally thrashed by Auntie Number Two, left utterly incapable of fighting back.
Now the question arose: was Auntie Number Two too strong, or was the Extreme Dragon too weak?
"Do you think... could it be that the Extreme Dragon wasn't as powerful as we imagined, and we were just scaring ourselves?" Yu Xian asked with conflicted feelings in his voice.
After all, even after attaining Star Rank strength, he had gone out of his way to avoid the Extreme Dragon while traveling on Earth, never daring to clash with it.
Who would have thought that an opponent he had feared for so long would turn out to be nowhere near as formidable as he had imagined? It left a rather sour taste in his mouth.
"Perhaps the Extreme Dragon Xiao Sensen spoke of and the one we know aren't the same entity at all," Niman said with a wry smile after hearing Yu Xian.
Across the myriad worlds, sharing the same name was all too common.
Even an exceedingly obscure name was bound to be shared by countless individuals once expanded across the myriad realms.
For instance, on Earth there might only be a single Extreme Dragon, but across the myriad worlds, there could be countless beings bearing that name. The Extreme Dragon Xiao Sensen knew of was, in all likelihood, a supremely powerful entity from an entirely different world.
In just one short minute, the Extreme Dragon collapsed. The scales that had glowed with crimson light dimmed instantly, reverting to blue scales that had lost all their luster.
Only after Auntie Number Two ceased her assault did Yu Xian fly over, landing before the Extreme Dragon's corpse. Looking at its lifeless, dimmed eyes, his expression turned rather complicated.
He actually harbored no hatred toward the Extreme Dragon; in fact, he felt a measure of gratitude. Back then, he had truly been helpless against the Namo race, and in the end, it was by utilizing the Extreme Dragon that he had managed to wipe them out.
Although the Extreme Dragon had come to despise him afterward, he was the one who had provoked it first. From start to finish, he had never hated the beast.
Confronting it now had purely been for the sake of rescuing Shui Yuetian; he had never genuinely sought to kill the Extreme Dragon.
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