Chapter 1287 Love Among Thousands of Scars
Yuan Tiansi's attack on the Red of Disaster can be said to be extremely effective.
Calamity Red had never expected that a Pillar God-level enemy would sneak up on him from the cracks of the world—
The white dragon and the red dragon had fought and bitten each other for so long that it seemed that they had only suffered superficial injuries. Minor injuries such as peeling skin and bleeding, but the moment Yuan Tiansi's tentacles hit them, a scarlet fountain splashed and burst out!
Each tentacle was like a demonic serpent, devouring its prey, its scales as sharp as blades. The dragon scales' defense was completely useless against this level of piercing damage—and once activated, the tentacles possessed the power of a Pillar God, easily piercing the war energy used by Calamity Red's protective shield.
At this time, Yuan Tiansi, who had fully mobilized the remaining power of the Forbidden Pillar God, was completely equal to Red of Disaster in status.
Apart from the priority brought by the position of Pillar God, the actual strength gap between the two is as huge as the difference between heaven and earth.
Even the Silver Crown Dragon in its prime might not be able to fight against the completely enraged Yuan Tiansi.
This is the Fallen Empire in its truest state of awakening!
Even the former Silver Crown Dragon had to be extremely cautious against the greatly reduced Xiong Tiansi, requiring Aiwass's physical body to fish, and the assistance of the two Pillar Gods, to completely destroy it through the ritual. As a remnant of a fallen Pillar God, Yuan Tiansi possessed far greater power than Xiong Tiansi.
The current Red of Disaster was clearly less powerful than the Silver Crown Dragon, making it even more difficult for him to fight against Abyssal Heavenly Master.
It's ironic.
The Seventh River, Violence, symbolizes all power in the world—the very root of the differences that arise within an otherwise perfectly fair order: when differences in strength and weakness emerge in a previously balanced world, a new order, born of violence, emerges. In a sense, the Seventh River, born after the Snake Father's "refutation" of the Sand Clock's path, is a weapon used to attack this order.
However, each generation of the Pillar Gods of the River of Violence is weaker than the previous one, and each generation lacks more "violence" than the previous one.
From the Path of Food to the Path of Power, from the Path of Power to the Path of Authority, from the Path of Authority to the Path of War... the primitive concept of the law of the jungle gradually diluted, and the Seventh Source River was gradually influenced and assimilated by civilization and order. Just as social relations in the material world have developed from primitive tribes to modern civilization.
It still possessed the power to shake the order, but it was no longer able to rebuild a new order. Yuan Tiansi attacked with the ferocity of a wild beast, severely damaging the Red of Disaster almost instantly.
The red dragon's earth-shaking wail in the dream world directly penetrated into the material world - not only in the Holy Spring City or the ancient Parthian Empire, but even reached the neighboring Horus, and the distant Taichu and New Herasil!
The Red of Disaster screamed and tried to escape, but more tentacles chased after it, surrounding it from all directions, almost completely submerging the huge red dragon like a mountain into a sphere.
And Aiwass, who was observing secretly, knew...this was not actually because the Red of Disaster was too weak, but more of a restraint relationship between powers.
This can be explained in the knowledge of higher theurgy.
The Silver Crown Dragon controls authority and storms. He is also the god of stillness, rage, and order. He can wield the power of frost because power tends to solidify oneself; and he excels at using storms and lightning because power also tends to punish and intimidate others. A monarch's control over the celestial phenomena is a manifestation of authority.
The ability of Red Calamity restrains the Silver Crown Dragon to a certain extent.
The power of war symbolizes change and a more primal form of violence. It is a reversal of power, overturning the power solidified by authoritarianism and returning the world to a chaotic state where victory or defeat is determined by "strength."
However, it is still not the absolute, unquestionable survival of the fittest and the strong bullying the weak during the High Heaven period. Instead, it is a constantly changing, chaotic, "weaker" violence.
In other words, although its power is based on authority, its most restrained approach is the conservative and static authoritarian approach.
It is closer to the path of transcendence than the path of authority. This is precisely the proof of his past as an apostle of the Heaven Ring Division and the remnant of his past influence.
But in the same way...Yuan Tiansi also restrains the red of disaster.
Since it's war, there must be bloodshed. The power of war is inevitably connected to blood—thus, the fall of the Blood Sky Master also signifies the lifting of this concept, and the power of the Red of Calamity increases accordingly. And since He possesses blood, He will inevitably bleed from injury, just like the Supreme Sky in the past.
However, blood is also a liquid, and for Yuan Tiansi, the god of the sea, it can still be manipulated.
When the tentacles pierced the body, a huge amount of dragon blood spurted out like a fountain or a dam releasing floodwaters. This was the power that was plundered by the concept of Yuan Tiansi's invasion!
Just as the Moon Children of yesteryear feared the power of the Twilight Path, "blood," the pure, living concept of creation, whether petrified or lost to the sea, frozen or sacrificed, all meant a descent into nothingness. And the Calamity Red, strengthened by the concept of blood, was practically powerless against the onslaught of Abyssal Celestial's tentacles!
Even without considering this restraint, and considering only pure power, Red of Disaster was still a notch weaker than Abyssal Celestial Master—the Celestial Master of the strongest Pillar God, Amber. As Pillar God candidates, they were only slightly weaker than their own Pillar Gods, but that didn't mean they were necessarily weaker than Pillar Gods of other paths.
In this war between gods, as long as a god transforms into his or her own mythical form, the size of the god may not necessarily be directly regarded as the strength of the power, but it is also closely related to the degree of resonance with the source river... just like the giant eye of amber that covers the sky, or the silver-crowned dragon that can cover the mountains.
Just like in religious paintings, the artist would adjust the size according to the strength and holiness of the creature. So the dragon slayer would appear to be almost as big as the dragon, and the dragon would look like a dog.
And Yuan Tiansi's physique is more than two times larger than Disaster Red?
But from the perspective of Calamity Red, all of this is simply incomprehensible—
The former pillar god, his own clone, who was killed by his own hands, suddenly appeared inexplicably, with power that was not much inferior to his own, and looked like he was going to seize the territory.
Then Arthur knew that Vortigern must be unwilling to accept the defeat - so he transformed into a red dragon and started the most primitive hand-to-hand combat with the opponent again.
It’s not that they don’t have the ability to use other means, but this is a war between “themselves” and “themselves”. Whoever uses forces other than “themselves” first will be at a disadvantage.
But he inexplicably saw Vortigern exhale a dragon's breath into the void, and then charge towards him. He was naturally prepared to defend against the impact, but the next moment the white dragon suddenly disappeared, and then hundreds of tentacle spears completely pierced him.
——It’s just like being in a boxing match with someone in the ring, and suddenly the opponent jumps down, and then thirty bald strong men appear and shoot at you with Gatling guns.
If it weren't for the divine body constructed from spirits... if this attack had been taken by a red dragon from the material world, it would have instantly been pierced through all its internal organs and died. In other words, only the power of the Source River's water within the conceptual shells of these gods could survive this inexplicable attack.
Each blow drained a large amount of strength from him, and the Red of Disaster was continuously sucked of blood. And when he was stunned and wanted to escape, these tentacles still pursued him relentlessly.
Red of Disaster finally realized that this was not the new power that Vortigern had acquired, but a third party had entered the scene.
He immediately became angry.
"I am the beloved of a thousand wounds, the lord of all swords and generals! Who are you to dare to be my enemy?"
In an instant, countless swords, spears, and halberds flashed in the air, and countless cannons exploded simultaneously from the void.
Countless heroic afterimages appeared and instantly cut off thousands of tentacles.
Among them, one can even see Yi Tiansi in mortal form, or "Arthur" himself in the form of a white dragon.
Countless fiery red flames, mixed with a small amount of white beams, descended instantly, completely burning the remaining tentacles!
(End of this chapter)
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