Chapter 317 - 51: Transforming into a Flood Dragon on a Rainy Night

Chapter 317: Chapter 51: Transforming into a Flood Dragon on a Rainy Night

The golden Sword Light stopped abruptly in mid-air, revealing a figure in a white robe with white hair and a beard.

It was Jian Jingchuan!

"Jian Jingchuan, you’ve come after all!"

Yuan Lan’s thunderous voice echoed between heaven and earth. Facing the formidable Jian Jingchuan, its voice held not a trace of fear. Instead, it was filled with a cold killing intent.

"A pity. You’re too late!"

Before its voice had even faded, the air around Yuan Lan’s massive body began to warp violently.

Immediately after, a vast number of Runes hidden throughout the valley suddenly lit up!

The Runes linked together, forming a massive Array dozens of miles wide in the blink of an eye.

Mist, illusions, gravity, lightning... Layer after layer, a total of nine Defense Arrays with different properties enveloped the entire valley.

This was the contingency plan Yuan Lan had prepared for centuries, meant for this very situation.

"Hmph! You think a mere Array can stop me?"

Jian Jingchuan let out a disdainful snort at the sight. He then transformed into a heaven-rending storm of Sword Qi and crashed violently into the layered Array!

BOOM!

The Sword Light instantly ripped a massive gash in the first layer, the Illusionary Array, wiping the dense fog clean.

Next, inside the second layer, the Illusion Array, countless menacing Ghost Shadows were annihilated by the overwhelming Sword Qi before they could even fully materialize.

One layer, then another...

Jian Jingchuan’s advance was unstoppable. Having already accepted his death, he was now unreservedly burning what little Life Force he had left, transforming it into the ultimate destructive power!

Though Yuan Lan’s Ninth Layer Linked Array was intricate, it still seemed fragile in the face of a Core Formation Great Cultivator’s suicidal assault.

In the span of just a dozen breaths, eight of the great Arrays were breached in succession!

"Yuan Lan! Die!"

Jian Jingchuan’s figure broke through the final Thunder Array and appeared before Yuan Lan. Simultaneously, a golden tiger made of pure Sword Intent roared into shape behind him and, with world-shattering momentum, lunged viciously at Yuan Lan’s head!

"ROAR!"

Yuan Lan let out an enraged roar of its own.

It opened its cavernous maw, and a torrent as black as ink, filled with an aura of corrosion and destruction, spewed forth!

KABOOM!!!

The golden Sword Qi tiger and the black torrent collided violently in mid-air!

For a moment, it was as if the world lost all sound and color.

An indescribably terrifying shockwave erupted from the point of impact, expanding wildly in every direction!

Before this shockwave, the cliffs on either side of the valley were like tofu, a massive portion of them cleanly sheared away.

The dark clouds in the sky were blown apart, leaving a gigantic hole.

As he dodged and weaved through the cataclysmic shockwave, Chen Ye was shaken to his core.

’So this is a battle between Core Formation Realm Cultivators... Truly incredible.’

Just then, the dark torrent and the Sword Qi annihilated each other in mid-air, both eventually dissipating.

Jian Jingchuan staggered back a few steps, his face growing even paler, but his eyes blazed with an even greater frenzy.

Meanwhile, the tyrannical Sword Qi had left a wound so deep the bone was visible on Yuan Lan’s massive body. Black blood gushed from it like a waterfall.

"Hahaha! Yuan Lan! See? Even with only half my life left, I’m still strong enough to stop your Ascension!" Jian Jingchuan cackled, raising his sword again.

A flicker of anxiety crossed Yuan Lan’s enormous eyes.

’I’m being held back. This madman Jian Jingchuan is fighting with a life-for-a-life tactic, making it impossible for me to escape.’

’And the Seven-Star in a Row is almost complete!’

’If this keeps up, I’ll miss this perfect opportunity, one that only comes once every several centuries!’

Just as Yuan Lan and Jian Jingchuan were locked in a fierce stalemate, another thunderous sound echoed out—not from their clash, but from the heavens above.

The hole in the clouds, blasted open by the terrifying Energy, did not close. Instead, it was being torn even wider by an unseen force.

A beam of pure, mysterious starlight pierced through the thick clouds, shining straight down like a miracle to envelop Yuan Lan’s massive body.

Chen Ye snapped his head up to look.

In the vast night sky, seven stars that were once barely visible now shone with unprecedented brilliance and... had aligned into a perfect straight line!

The Seven-Star in a Row was complete!

"Now!" Yuan Lan’s urgent and resolute roar exploded directly in Chen Ye’s mind!

The next second, it made a move that even Jian Jingchuan didn’t see coming.

It completely abandoned its defenses, allowing Jian Jingchuan’s strike—one powerful enough to cleave mountains and part seas—to land viciously upon its back!

PSCCHT!

Dragon blood splattered as massive scales were sent flying. The wound was unfathomably deep, nearly severing its spinal column.

But Yuan Lan, as if feeling no pain, used the momentum from the blow and the pull of the starlight. Its massive body shot upward, hurtling with all its might toward the brilliant river of stars above the clouds!

It was forcing its Ascension!

"Trying to flee? Not so easy!" Jian Jingchuan would never let Yuan Lan escape so easily. He prepared to burn his Divine Spirit to launch a final, mutually destructive pursuit.

"Chen Ye!" Yuan Lan’s urgent cry boomed like thunder in Chen Ye’s mind.

And in Chen Ye’s eyes, everything seemed to slow down.

The frenzied Jian Jingchuan, the Black Flood Dragon soaring toward the heavens, the splattering dragon blood, the torrential rain...

All of it became mere background in his vision.