Chapter 2081: Chapter 48: Attempting to Break Through the Sixth Echelon... and Failure (12k-word Mega Chapter)_7

As long as they remember this feeling, in the future, they themselves can also try to gradually purify Aether, approaching that pure and space-transcending aura!

What the Dragon Kings see is such a dangerous yet extremely balanced scene, now even for them, it’s difficult to intervene on Ian’s behalf, let alone with the Four Great Dragon Kings being incomplete, only four of them present (Dead Mountain is the fifth of the Four Great Dragon Kings), it is even more challenging to exert full strength.

[Didn’t Gale see it? Why hasn’t he returned yet?!]

At this moment, even the most patient Dragon King Hongchao was a bit anxious, as it looked toward Starfall Sea already surrounded by a massive storm, unable to help but glance back at the edge of Terra Starfield: [Has he encountered some trouble?]

Indeed.

The Galewind Dragon King, the True Dragon King most closely connected to Ian, has indeed encountered trouble.

Moreover, it’s so enormous, so vast that even he is somewhat overwhelmed!

At the edge of Terra Starfield, at the ’Cradle’ opening.

Vast and mighty, space-transcending, superluminal Aether waves have long been transmitted here from Terra, layers of Aether circulation shaking not only the space-time surrounding Terra Planet but also affecting all celestial bodies within the Terra Starfield including stars, planets, and even the Comet Cloud Region.

The blue ripples were extremely regular, like the tides of the ocean, hitting the inside of the space-time condensing material of the ’Cradle,’ then shattering and being absorbed within. The Cradle’s essence will be reinforced due to the breakthrough of the ’Sixth Echelon’ and the appearance of the ’Star God Fetus,’ a program long prepared.

However, this cradle is not a normal cradle.

It is damaged, with an opening.

You can see the blue waves of Aether hitting the cradle’s opening, space-transcending True Aether fluctuations could penetrate even black holes, let alone simulate the peculiarity in space-time Black Domain?

It penetrated the opening.

Then...

The originally endless brilliance accumulated at the opening gradually got covered by dark shadows.

Chaos, indescribable, unnameable, difficult to observe dialectically with logic and thought, just thinking about it leads into dark shadows, gradually crawling upon the opening.

[Damn]

The Galewind Dragon King, originally planning to build a deflective mirror array here, watched all of this with icy chill all over its body, even though it didn’t care about its newly built base being scattered by Aether waves.

After a thousand years—or perhaps, after a moment.

For space-transcending beings, none of this matters.

Once again.

[The End] because of [Aether], began moving slowly.

It started approaching, intending to pass through the ’opening,’ entering the ’Cradle’!

[No!] The Dragon King emitted an extremely sharp electromagnetic scream, then quickly turned, beginning curvature navigation. Meanwhile, it used its Dragon Soul, transmitting its full power, sending messages to the distant space-time threshold, five light years away at Terra: [Whoever it may be—most likely that Ian kid! It must stop!]

[Stop the advancement! Absolutely cannot... absolutely cannot advance to the Sixth Echelon now!]

[And! Those other fools—damn! Hope they haven’t left Dragon Island!]

[Quickly reinforce the ’Black Hole Seal,’ absolutely cannot let the Fragment of Demise come out!]

The Galewind Dragon King’s words arrived very timely.

Before its message reached, the Dragon Kings, and even all the powerful beings of Whole Terra, all the Wise Life of Whole Terra, had already detected anomalies in Dragon Island’s seal.

In endless astonishment and under everyone’s watch, one side of the firmament, the Great Aether Circulation radiating orderly concentric circular tides suddenly caved in one section, that section of space-time twisted downward as if bitten by some beast or stomped by a monster.

The resonance of Aether was destroyed, the immense Aether waves seemed stimulated, began to layer and roll back, in the cosmic vacuum, unstoppable blue cloud tides pounded toward Dragon Island like a space-time tsunami.

It crashed onto Dragon Island, even shifting this creation with a planetary mass fraction—built by True Dragon from remnants of the past Fragment of Stars war, but not constructed by Ancestral True Dragon—all augmented structures violently shook and disassembled, swept away completely.

And all three Dragon Kings returned to their positions, even at Galewind Dragon King’s guard position, the Dragon Soul left there also radiated dazzling brilliance.

Gale’s soul howled, inheriting the Ancestral Pure Light True Dragon’s heritage, it never ceases, never decays.

[—The Resolve of Eternal Pure Light—] 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Hongchao’s soul flowed, inheriting the Ancestral Star-weaving True Dragon’s heritage, and is never agitated, never deviated.

[—The Calm Guidance of Destiny Weaving—]

True Flame’s soul burned, inheriting the Ancestral Martial Expedition True Dragon’s heritage, and never gives up, never stands aside.

[—The Undying Fighting Spirit of Martial Expedition—]

Star Calming’s soul adhered, inheriting the Ancestral Prime Axis True Dragon’s heritage, eternally watches, eternally waits.

[—The Awaiting Gaze of Prime Core—]

Four ancestral True Dragon heritages supporting human civilization stirred space-time, forcing the space-time that spilled from Dragon Island Black Hole, that sunk, shifted, began twisting, back down.

The massive spiral lines, layered gears slowly retracting bit by bit, it is spectacular, like endless paradox spirals; also resembling a ceremony of all shrinking to one, this is but a corner of the great seal maintained over Dragon Island for millennia.

Yet now, Terra—the entire Terra Planet’s orbit, was subtly drifting, shifting towards Dragon Island!

—Even if sealed in inherent space-time, it doesn’t matter, I can’t move toward you, but I can let you move toward me!

Even if Terra’s fifth energy level focuses on power and the future, it felt an intrinsic trepidation from the anomaly and danger transmitted from Dragon Island, a crisis absolutely insurmountable, a terror impossible to overcome.

But, even so, can’t it be directly faced?

[No way! Can’t suppress it!] From Dragon Island came True Flame Dragon King’s roar, this wasn’t giving up, but stating the facts: [Gale isn’t present, seal incomplete, Fragment of Demise is coming out!]

"I..." At this moment, Western Empire Emperor, Carlos Sertar who inherited the Top Seat’s Blood from his brother Michael, advanced the Fifth Energy Level, stepped forward.

In this most hazardous moment, the blue brilliance within him, the Top Seat’s Blood named [Heavenly Law Judgment of Questioning], also finally stopped questioning.

At the time before everything is about to overturn, [Heavenly True Dragon] no longer questions, but is about to deliver [Judgment].

Carlos realizes, he can go; although he isn’t a True Dragon, he’s a sufficiently powerful Sunbird, as long as he doesn’t mind burning himself, he can assist the absent Galewind Dragon King, guard the Dragon Island Seal.

Thus, he goes.

Upon understanding all this, the man steps forward without hesitation.

He is the son of Axel, grandson of Yinaiga. He is the elder brother of Michael, also the Sun, able to illuminate the world.

But... even for light, there are moments when it’s not the fastest.

Sigh.

A sigh resounded from the ’Cradle Circulation,’ transcending space-time, echoing in the ears of all beings.

Then, a hand of light not yet complete, only skeletal, constantly disintegrating and collapsing, reached out from the circulation supposed to cradle the Star God.

Followed by softly pressing on Dragon Island.