The blazing heart was like a terrifying furnace, radiating scorching heat and hammering everything around it.
With every second that passed, Huang could feel his genes optimizing becoming more compatible with this world… no, with this universe itself. The limitations buried deep within the human genome were being blasted apart by the overwhelmingly blazing qi and blood.
Spirit, will, soul, body…
Everything was sublimating.
The body that had already been condensed into something like a humanoid ferocious beast grew even stronger so powerful that it felt almost omnipotent.
Even something like flying…
Shua !!
Golden qi and blood surged outward as Huang rose straight into the sky. He ignored gravity's pull and stood there smoothly steady, natural, effortless.
"Sure enough… I can even do this."
There wasn't much surprise in Huang's eyes. From the moment he broke through that final half-step and stepped into true extraordinariness, countless instincts had awakened within him.
For example how to offset Blue Star's gravity and fly freely.
And another…
Huang turned his head. His gaze locked onto the five-clawed Heavenly Dragon not far away. Killing intent began to boil.
"Slaughter my people. Invade my land. Turn the Xia Kingdom into a river of blood."
"Today… I will use the dragon's blood to honor all the heroes of Great Xia!"
Huang stood in the air. Two beams of cold light seemed to shoot from his sharp eyes. A torrent of momentum erupted from his body like a violent storm, sweeping over most of Blue Star.
It was like an abyss.
Like a prison.
It forced every creature that had never stepped into the transcendent realm to bow.
A tangible shockwave formed and rolled outward flattening vast stretches of forest within a hundred miles.
"Cut!"
Huang's body moved slightly. He took a single step forward.
Yet with that one step, he crossed several thousand meters in the air appearing directly before the five-clawed Heavenly Dragon. He swung a slash that looked like something born of gods and demons.
Too fast for space to capture.
Too heavy for any unit to measure.
Triple Hegemonic Sword Fiftyfold Force!
"No! No! No!"
"How can this be!!"
The five-clawed Heavenly Dragon roared madly. The moment it sensed the terrifying power riding that blade, it tried to force itself back.
But no matter how its body twisted, no matter how it tried to dodge, the slash was firmly locked onto its qi making escape impossible.
Its heart howled, swinging between madness and reason.
Even with intelligence far surpassing ordinary humans, it still could not understand why the human before it had suddenly erupted with power fifty times greater.
This wasn't strength that should exist in this realm!
Buzz !
Everything seemed to freeze at that instant.
A sharp, silver sword-light dropped from above, cleaving down as if it could pierce sky and earth.
The moment anyone saw it, the blade had already completed its mission.
Hiss!
Under the five-clawed Heavenly Dragon's desperate evasion, the strike failed to sever its neck but it sheared away half its dragon face. One horn was cut off as well.
Overwhelming golden dragon blood poured from the sky like a rain gifted by nature itself.
The moment severely wounded warriors touched it, an absurd vitality surged within them helping shattered limbs knit and recover.
On this day, the whole world was shaken.
A heavenly dragon rose from the eastern seas.
The myth stepped into reality… and was wounded by the Supreme Martial Ancestor!
"Damn humans!!"
The five-clawed Heavenly Dragon roared, twisting its massive body and whipping its tail trying to slap Huang from the sky.
"Is this all you have?" Huang said calmly. Beneath that calm, only the most violently suppressed rage remained.
It was this monster this monster without restraint that had slaughtered his people.
"Using dragon blood to honor the millions of heroes of Great Xia…"
Huang spoke in an eerily steady tone. He released the hilt of the blade in his hand and let it fall.
That previous slash had already reached the limit of what a weapon forged from ordinary materials could endure.
Next, Huang would use his martial body entering the most primitive, brutal fight of all.
His hand clenched into a fist.
And he drove it straight out.
BOOM!!!!!!
In an instant, it was as if most of Blue Star was engulfed in violent roars and deafening impact.
Terrifying shockwaves burst outward, separating land from sea. The entire planet seemed to riot.
All ferocious beasts and warriors raised their heads, staring blankly at the scene.
It was something beyond words.
Something impossible to forget.
The five-clawed Heavenly Dragon an unknown number of kilometers long was struck by a single punch from the tiny human Martial Ancestor.
One punch.
And the dragon's entire abdomen caved in, forming an unimaginably huge fist imprint proof of the terrifying force that had bombarded it.
In an instant, tendons, bones, membranes, blood, flesh everything inside was shaken into bloody foam by the impact.
A shockwave even passed clean through its body, punching out the other side and ripping apart the thick clouds overhead.
With that single blow, half of the five-clawed Heavenly Dragon's life was destroyed.
But Huang did not stop.
Because he had said
He would use dragon blood to honor the millions of heroes of Great Xia.
Under Jiang Yi's gaze, Huang placed both hands on the dragon's belly. His fingers countless times harder than steel alloy simply stabbed in.
Ten bloody holes opened in the dragon's abdomen.
From the center outward
He began to tear the dragon apart with his bare hands.
"Tear!!!"
A long, sharp sound rang out, like cloth being ripped open.
The entire upper body of the five-clawed Heavenly Dragon was brutally torn into two bloody halves.
The storm rose higher. The rain fell heavier.
Even the roaring thunder sounded like the world itself was mourning the death of a transcendent creature.
Crack! Crack!
Fragments of internal organs mixed with blood rained down from the sky, forming a dragon-blood downpour that blanketed the battlefield.
Huang stood bathed in dragon blood, half a dragon body in each hand. His expression was indifferent like an invincible god of war.
"Victory! The Martial Ancestor wins!"
"Humanity will not perish hahaha!!"
Across the battlefield, countless blood-soaked human warriors rose in ecstatic cheers, shouting toward the invincible figure in the sky.
This was mankind's Martial Ancestor.
Mankind's transcendent.
A living god of this world.