Published: August 10, 2026
"What is going on?!"
Black Flood Dragon King stood rooted to the spot, countless question marks flashing through his mind. He had never expected to encounter such a situation.
But the attacks from Thunderstorm True Lord and the princess of the Fire Phoenix Clan did not stop because of that. Taking advantage of the brief moment when he was stunned, they had already blasted onto his demonic body at the same time.
Bang.
Bang bang~
After taking several attacks head-on, Black Flood Dragon King's hundred-zhang demonic body was directly sent flying into the distance by an irresistible force.
"Why?"
"Why!!"
In the next instant, Black Flood Dragon King circulated his demonic power and forcibly steadied himself in midair.
His eyes were bloodshot. Like a gambler who had lost everything, he muttered in disbelief.
At the same time, Thunderstorm True Lord and the two princesses of the Fire Phoenix Clan arrived one after another at the nine golden flood dragons, trying every possible method to retrieve the treasure, but all their efforts were in vain. Every technique passed straight through the golden flood dragons' bodies.
It was as if they were nothing more than an illusion.
"How is this possible?!"
The nine light clusters containing the treasure were clearly present to spiritual perception, divine consciousness, and the naked eye. Unlike the black archway at the entrance, the spiritual radiance and treasure aura they emitted were incomparably real.
By normal reasoning, they should have been directly collectable.
Yet all methods failed. Black Flood Dragon King, Thunderstorm True Lord, the princess of the Fire Phoenix Clan, and the other experts all lost the will to continue fighting and began using every means they could to probe the nine golden flood dragons and the nine light clusters.
But no matter how they looked, they could feel that the light clusters "really" existed, yet they could not be touched.
In the next moment, the nine golden dragons linked by black chains suddenly underwent a strange change, drawing the attention of all the experts present, causing them to temporarily cease fighting.
Liu Yu immediately looked over and saw that the nine golden flood dragons, along with the nine light clusters in their mouths, suddenly blurred.
Then they turned into countless golden specks of light and dissipated, and those specks in turn became wisps of spiritual power that vanished into nothing.
At the same time, within his spiritual perception and divine consciousness, the "treasure aura" belonging to a fifth stage treasure also abruptly disappeared.
That sense of certainty, which had made both races' experts believe without the slightest doubt, vanished in an instant.
In his field of vision, only the slowly scattering golden specks remained, like a silent mockery.
"A scam."
"A heaven-shaking scam!"
A thought flashed through Liu Yu's mind, and a sense of unease suddenly surged up within him.
In his spiritual consciousness and spiritual perception, the treasure aura emitted by the nine light clusters was incomparably real, almost the same as if he had touched it personally. This was not something a yuan ying cultivator could accomplish, and even a divine transformation cultivator could not do it.
To fully deceive the spiritual perception and divine consciousness of fourth stage beings, and make a spiritual-energy illusion be mistaken for a fifth stage treasure, not even a divine transformation cultivator could manage that.
Only an existence above the void refinement stage could do such a thing, but it definitely could not be the "unmelting ice" that had long since passed away.
"In that case, it can only be the terrifying existence sealed within the Ice Crystal Giant Coffin!"
In an instant, Liu Yu had many thoughts flash through his mind, and the unease in his heart grew stronger and stronger.
With the Spirit Clan's mighty figure "unmelting ice" having passed away, the "supreme clarity demon refinement formation" gradually collapsing, and a million years having gone by, he had guessed that the terrifying existence invading the Purple Morning Realm, although not yet fully free from its seal, had already begun to exert part of its power.