Chapter 431 - 116: Gathering Winds and Clouds

But committing suicide would be too wasteful.

So Shiji’s current task is to evacuate as many demons as possible before the Frost Floating Island arrives.

If conditions allow, he can also take the opportunity to quietly plant Void Seeds in some high-tier demons.

Low-level demons serve as food to bolster Void Power, while high-tier demons become future companions.

....Inside Black Castle, the enormous Black Dragon had its dragon eyes closed, feeling the continuous surge of power within.

Invisibly, the Black Dragon seemed to see streams of power pouring into its dragon body through the Void Passage, becoming seamlessly part of its strength.

For the Black Dragon, these trivial increments of power gathered like streams flowing into the sea.

The biological tier of the Black Dragon advanced in a near-linear progression from Level 22 Mid-tier to Level 22 High-tier and continued to climb.

When the two million mid-tier beloved warrior troops at the frontline were fully overwhelmed by the endless demon army, and Bone Demon Augura battled to the death with Ice-winged Demon Sears of Cold Frost City’s vanguard, the terrifying combat movements affecting hundreds of thousands of troops,

massive amounts of power, like a trickle, converged upon the Black Dragon Lord, finally pushing its tier to Level 23.

That is, Legendary Fourth Rank.

Udi didn’t even need to test his power at that moment to know he’d attained the strength of a peak Legendary Fifth Rank powerhouse.

However, even among Master Level peak powerhouses, some merely possess the combat power of an ordinary Master Level, while others have the strength to slay typical Master Level peak adversaries. The same logic holds for the peak of Legendary Fifth Rank.

Having just stepped into Legendary Fourth Rank, Udi was the former type.

"Ordinary Legendary Fifth Rank peak combat power wouldn’t stand a chance against the Dark Frost Giant Lord, let alone control the Floating Island’s Dark Frost Giant Lord." Udi thought to himself calmly.

Yet he wasn’t worried at all at that moment.

Because he had fifteen million Void Follower resources.

"Still, let’s play it safe and first ’consume’ the Void Followers stationed in the Ghost Race Plane."

With the rise in strength came a deeper mastery of the Void Origin, and Udi’s sense of danger grew stronger.

The matter with Void Gold demonstrated this.

Now, a perception from beyond instilled a sense of urgency in Udi.

To avoid failure, Udi contemplated briefly before using the Otherworld Teleportation Technique to transport to the Ghost Race Plane.

Absorbing the power of Void Followers en masse is most efficient on the same plane.

The massive Black Dragon, over a hundred meters long, hovered above the Ghost Race Plane high in the sky.

"Come, give me all your power!"

Through the supernatural Void Passage, the Black Dragon Lord’s consciousness reached into the minds of tens of millions of Void Followers across the Ghost Race Plane.

At that moment, regardless of what these Void Followers were doing, they stopped in unison and, with a look of frenzy, were consumed entirely, offering everything except their souls to the Black Dragon in the sky.

The torrent-like power transformed into an invisible great river, pouring into the enormous body of the Black Dragon.

Scales, bones, blood, tendons, organs, cells, at that moment, Udi’s life magnet field strength surged at a terrifying pace.

Moments later, the Black Dragon, steeped in the intoxication of power rise, opened its amber dragon eyes slowly.

Due to the immense power increase, maintaining a seal on its power became tenuous, and an intense sense of malice and a terrifying repulsion force from the consciousness of the Ghost Race Plane started pressing against the Black Dragon.

Before the repulsion could affect him, Udi used the Otherworld Teleportation Technique to return to the Tal Plane, inside Black Castle.

Here, Udi finally didn’t need to bind his strength, as the terrifying aura soared, the formidable life magnet field almost materializing into a towering pillar, majestically standing above Black Castle.

Far away, thousands of kilometers at the central hall of the Frost Floating Island, a giant supported its chin with one hand, sleeping, seemingly sensing the faint, shocking waves from afar, and the Dark Giant suddenly opened its eyes as large as houses.

"This direction, this unfamiliar power...." Thorne was somewhat surprised.

But it was merely surprise. Although this power was decent, it was no match for him.

After all, there’s a gap between this power and the Mother of Deep Red at full power in the Tal Plane, and the Mother of Deep Red at full power and Thorne at regular strength belong to the same level of strength.... If Thorne were to use Fallen Titan Divine Blood, he would have a decisive advantage over the Mother of Deep Red.

"Is this a challenge to the king?" Thorne laughed.

However, he made no move to rise and leave the hall, instead closing his eyes again, directly ignoring the ’provocation’ from the Black Dragon Lord to him.

He’s not foolish. What if this is a conspiracy by the Mother of Deep Red, Ancient Golden Dragon, and this Black Dragon together, just to lure him away from the Floating Island and then destroy the Gate of the Abyss?

Although staying near the Floating Island means the island’s power can instantly teleport Thorne back to it, there’s no need to take that risk.

As long as he’s stationed at Frost Floating Island, with his strength in control, even if a Divine Spirit descended, he would dare to fight it without any hesitation.

"Alexrela, if this is your scheme, then you are doomed to fail." sneered the Dark Frost Giant Lord.

Alexrela is the name of the Mother of Deep Red.

Thorne knew Alexrela’s personality very well; she was extremely arrogant, unlikely to allow him to rampage freely over the plane where she was born and would undoubtedly take action.

And Thorne’s assumptions were correct; at that moment, Alexrela was secretively hiding somewhere, spying on the war between Cold Frost City and Black Wing Nest in the Dark Forest.

Not just her, but the majority of the legendary powerhouses from the Tal Plane had their eyes on this war.

From the Metal Dragon Island led by high-level Ancient Golden Dragon ’Ignis’, the three emperors of the Deep Sea Empire leading their powerful sea forces, to the defeated and fleeing Pan-Continent Alliance Army powerhouses, to the secretive, low-profile legendary powerhouses, and so on.

It wasn’t because Black Wing Nest was so formidable as to engage in a monumental battle with Cold Frost City demons.

Black Wing Nest, in the eyes of these Tal legendary powerhouses, was certainly not weak, but in the face of this war, Black Wing Nest was insignificant. The reason nearly all powerhouses were focused on this war was that Black Wing Nest was the last stubborn ’nail’ on the Main Continent of Tal.

Once Cold Frost City pulled out this ’nail’ of Black Wing Nest, the vast Tal Main Continent would become the private plot of Cold Frost City demons.

This was something the strong of Tal absolutely could not tolerate.

The Mother of Deep Red, Alexrela, considered the Main Continent as her domain, so how could she let the Cold Frost City demons defile this expansive land?

The Metal Dragon Island was driven by extreme distaste for demons and had to expel them.

And the three empires of the deep sea didn’t want to leave such a massive hidden danger and tumor; once Cold Frost City completely took over the Tal Main Continent, turning it into the Abyss Continent, the next step would be targeting the Sea Race, wouldn’t it?

With the Gate of the Abyss, the Demon Lord equated to having endless troops, completely negating one of the Sea Race’s greatest advantages.

The Sea Race disregarded the races and forces of the Main Continent, occasionally even invading the continent to create playful war games, simply because the number of intelligent races on the Main Continent was small.

The citizens of any Deep Sea Empire outnumbered all intelligent races on the Main Continent, and compared to the fragmented Continent, they were far more unified.

But that was their previous way of thinking.

Now, the terrifying life magnet field’s power emanating from above Black Castle left the strong stunned.

"That Black Dragon’s power actually reached such heights?!" This thought flashed through the minds of almost all legendary powerhouses.

Nearly all, because there were a few who had long ’known’ about the Black Dragon Lord’s power.

For instance, the Third Princess of the Naga Empire had previously speculated on the Black Dragon Lord’s strength, suspecting he was Legendary Fifth Rank.