Chapter 523: The Behemoth Pries Open the Darkness Holy Dragon’s Mouth! A Brutal and Savage Battle (Side Story)

It could be seen that—

the dark dragon flames filling the void did not rush toward Huo Yuhao.

Instead, they reversed direction,

rolling back toward the Darkness Holy Dragon embedded in the mountains.

The moment the ghostly flames touched the dragon's body—

Sizzle!

Sizzle!

The pitch-black flames seemed almost alive, burrowing into every crack between the shattered dragon scales and spreading wildly along bones and meridians.

The dragon's body trembled violently.

Then—

the edges of its scales burst with molten crimson patterns.

The torn flesh writhed and reformed.

New scales covered the wounds.

Their color became darker.

Their texture stronger.

They shone with a deep crimson glow that looked nearly indestructible.

"ROAR!"

The Darkness Holy Dragon threw back its head and roared, the sound shaking the clouds.

Its weakened aura rapidly rose higher and higher.

Within its dragon eyes, two clusters of netherworld flames burned fiercely, as if drawing all the shadows of heaven and earth into its gaze.

Suddenly it struggled.

BOOM!

The shattered mountains collapsed instantly, huge rocks tumbling down like rain.

The dragon's massive body shot out from the dust with fierce momentum, moving even faster than before, leaving behind a fading black afterimage in the sky.

Before the Frostfall Behemoth could retract its arm, the sky-blotting dragon shadow had already coiled around it.

Crack!

Snap!

The dragon's body tightened like a gradually constricting netherworld shackle, locking around the Behemoth's mountain-like body.

Dark dragon flames burned wildly along the coils, scorching the Behemoth's frost-covered golden fur, producing the harsh cracking sound of shattering ice.

Rolling clouds of white mist rose ten thousand meters into the sky.

The Darkness Holy Dragon tightened its grip more and more.

Dragon bones and muscles twisted with ear-grinding force, as if trying to crush the Frostfall Behemoth alive.

The dragon's head extended from behind, hovering above the Behemoth's shoulder. Ghostly flames flickered between its fangs as its dragon eyes stared coldly into the Behemoth's.

The Behemoth's arms were restrained.

Frost and golden light flickered uncertainly.

Under the crushing force of the coils, it released a deep, muffled growl.

"ROAR!"

Suddenly it raised its head

and unleashed a roar that split the clouds apart.

The frost-covered golden fur across its body lit up all at once, as if countless veins of ice and flames of gold had erupted simultaneously.

Crack!

Crack!

Dragon bones and muscles were forcibly stretched apart under unimaginable force, producing dull explosive sounds.

The Behemoth's arms bulged like rising mountain ranges.

The dragon body wrapped around it was forcefully lifted apart.

Dark dragon scales and golden fur scraped violently against each other, scattering bursts of purple-gold sparks.

The Darkness Holy Dragon's body twisted frantically,

trying to tighten its grip once more.

But the explosive force bursting forth was already unstoppable.

BOOM!

The Behemoth's arms finally broke free of the restraint, violently spreading outward.

Rip!

Several sections of the dragon's tightly wrapped body were torn open with more than a dozen deep wounds exposing bone.

Molten-hot dragon blood gushed out like a waterfall.

It soaked the Behemoth's golden chest fur, dyeing it a terrifying dark red.

The blood instantly froze in the cold.

It hardened into thick blood crusts at the tips of the fur.

This only made the Behemoth look even more terrifying, standing bathed in blood like a primordial demon.

"Ugh..." With his Martial Soul True Body wounded again, Long Xiaoyao groaned, his face turning even paler.

The Darkness Holy Dragon spun rapidly and retreated. No longer engaging in close combat.

Instead it circled the Behemoth like a winding mountain range.

Its dragon head rose high, jaws wide open. Nether flames churned within its throat, distorting the surrounding light as if the unlaunched dragon fire had already burned holes in space itself.

Long Xiaoyao's black robe billowed as he poured Spirit Power into it frantically, roaring with eyes wide in fury:

"Dark Dragon Netherflame Burning the Heavens!"

Whoosh!

A thick stream of black dragon flame blasted out from the dragon's mouth.

Wherever the pillar of flame passed—

space shrieked.

The ground touched by the residual heat melted into red-hot lava, and vegetation turned to ash in an instant.

"Hmph!" Huo Yuhao snorted coldly, forming a seal with his hands.

Behind the Frostfall Behemoth—

the Ancient Golden Tree spread its canopy wide like the sky itself.

Boundless life energy poured into the Behemoth's body.

The Behemoth raised its head toward the sky, its enormous mouth opening in fury as golden light and icy brilliance gathered wildly within.

Buzz!

A sacred breath interwoven with gold and white burst forth.

Within that breath—

ice crystals sparkled like stars, while golden light flowed like a blazing sun. Wherever it passed, the void condensed into a dazzling frost rainbow bridge, and the air filled with a fresh scent like the first blooming of life.

Under the shocked gazes of the experts around them—

the dark dragon flames and the golden frost breath collided violently in midair.

Sizzle!

Sizzle!

Two completely opposite extremes of energy began madly annihilating each other.

At the center of the collision—

space twisted and tore as if gripped by invisible giant hands.

Countless web-like black cracks appeared.

Along the edges of the cracks flickered arcs of destructive light—purple-black intertwined with gold-white.

Then—

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The chaotic energy currents finally erupted completely.

They transformed into a ring-shaped shockwave that swept across heaven and earth from the point of collision.

The land below peeled upward in layers like brittle crackers.

The earth and stone did not merely shatter—they were directly annihilated into nothingness.

A gigantic crater more than a thousand meters wide suddenly collapsed inward. Its walls were smooth as mirrors.

One side boiled with molten lava, while the other was sealed in frozen frost.

The already ruined surrounding peaks—

were instantly flattened as the shockwave passed.

Their broken edges were either melted into glass-like surfaces or covered with ancient ice that would not melt for ten thousand years.

In the sky—

the clouds were torn to pieces, revealing a vast vacuum where only fragments of ice crystals and black flames drifted down.

"ROAR!"

The Behemoth threw its head back.

Along its neck—

muscles bulged like coiling dragons and serpents.

From its chest erupted a deep rumbling roar like thunder gathering power.

Its enormous mouth widened even further, and the golden-white divine light gathering in its throat suddenly swelled violently, erupting into a destructive torrent over a hundred meters in diameter.

The dark dragon flames that had previously been locked in stalemate—

instantly collapsed and disintegrated under this suddenly doubled divine power.

The golden-white torrent surged forward like unstoppable destruction.

"What?!"

Long Xiaoyao's pupils shrank sharply.

He frantically pushed his Spirit Power to its limit, trying to command the Darkness Holy Dragon to retreat and evade.

But—

it was too late.

Two bloodstained, sky-covering giant hands tore through the collapsing energy storm and reached forward savagely.

Thud!

Thud!

The left hand seized the dragon's lower jaw.

The right hand gripped the upper jaw.

The Darkness Holy Dragon roared in fury and pain, its body twisting violently as its tail lashed at the Behemoth—but it could not shake the grip.

In the Behemoth's beastly pupils was reflected Huo Yuhao's cold and ruthless face.

The Behemoth suddenly pulled its hands apart.

Creeeeak!

Bones screamed.

Dragon scales shattered.

A sound like cloth being torn echoed through the heavens.

The Darkness Holy Dragon's mouth was forcibly pried open.

The Behemoth's gigantic mouth—still pouring forth the golden-white divine light—slowly lowered, aiming directly into the depths of the forcibly opened dragon throat.

Then—

it poured in.

BOOOOOOM!!!!!

A golden-white torrent of light, dazzling to the extreme and violently destructive, rushed through the forced-open dragon mouth and flooded without restraint into the Darkness Holy Dragon's throat, chest cavity, and every inch of its organs and meridians.

The scales along the dragon's neck were illuminated until they appeared transparent.

Beneath the flesh—

golden light surged like molten lava.

"ROAR!"

The Darkness Holy Dragon's painful roar twisted into a distorted, miserable scream.

Its body convulsed, spasmed, and thrashed wildly.

From the gaps between every scale on its body burst golden-white beams of light.

As if the next moment—

it would explode from the inside out into countless fragments of light.