Chapter 303: The Nine Layers of Primordial Spirit

At this point, Chen Xiao could truly be described as unyielding when in the right. This matter had nothing to do with the Dragon Emperor at all—it was a feud between Chen Xiao and the Moonlight Sword Sect. Yet since the Dragon Emperor interfered, he had to pay the price for it.
Although the members of the Moonlight Sword Sect had been killed in the earlier clash, Chen Xiao wasn’t willing to let the Dragon Emperor off easy. Even if he couldn’t kill him, he would make sure the Dragon Emperor understood the consequences of offending him.
Chen Xiao’s complete destruction of the Wan Si clan and the killing of the Moonlight Sword Sect’s members must have spread throughout the world of supernatural abilities, causing a huge stir.
The guardians at this time could only describe their audacity as fearless. The Wan Si clan wasn’t much of a concern—in the eyes of these guardians, it was just a small family without even a Primordial Spirit God. But the Moonlight Sword Sect controlled its own realm, the Moonlight World, which was by no means a minor force.
This time, the Moonlight Sword Sect launched a massive attack under the guise of revenge, though everyone knew exactly what they really intended. With the opening of the Dragon Emperor’s Secret Treasury and the emergence of the guardian beasts, it was likely that some powerful treasure had already appeared within.
Moreover, even the strongest among those who entered were only at the peak of the Void God level, while the gods were restricted and unable to enter at all. This suggested that the treasure might still be in the Dragon Emperor’s Secret Treasury.
The Moonlight Sword Sect had come for this very reason.
The main purpose of the Dragon Emperor’s Secret Treasury on Earth was to consume the excessive number of supernatural beings on the planet. It was unearthed every thousand years to attract them and reduce their numbers.
Earth was different from other realms. The other 107 realms in the world of supernatural abilities were all enormous worlds, while Earth was merely a weak planet. Restrictions on Source Realm supernatural beings also existed only on Earth.
Although the guardians knew what the Moonlight Sword Sect intended, their power was too vast. Even among all the guardian forces and the entire world of supernatural abilities, they belonged to the upper echelons. The only one who dared to stop them was the Great Immortal.
But even the Great Immortal dared to block them, not to kill them.
Now, with Chen Xiao appearing and slaughtering the Moonlight Sword Sect’s members, the Earth’s guardians were both pleased and worried. After all, Chen Xiao wasn’t a true guardian. Though he had the Great Immortal backing him, killing the Moonlight Sword Sect’s members meant confronting them head-on, and even other major guardian forces would condemn him.
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Boom!
Chen Xiao’s Black Pearl Ship emitted another dazzling burst of black light, charging straight at the Dragon Emperor’s massive body.
“Chen Xiao, you’ve gone too far!”
Seeing Black Pearl Ship charging at him again, the Dragon Emperor was terrified. He didn’t have Chen Xiao’s abnormal recovery ability. His body was severely damaged and had no time to recover. Although Black Pearl Ship wasn’t strong enough to kill him yet, it could still knock him down several levels.

In a last resort, the Dragon Emperor gritted his teeth, turned around, and a faint blue glow emerged from his body. A pair of pale blue dragon horns replaced his original golden horns, and four pale blue dragon claws appeared out of thin air. Dragon wings also appeared on his back. With the dragon wings, horns, and claws, a brilliant light burst forth—golden and blue rays intertwining to form a huge cocoon around the Dragon Emperor’s body. “Chen Xiao, you’ve successfully angered me! Even if it means offending the supreme god behind you, I’ll kill you!” The Dragon Emperor looked up at the sky and let out a long dragon roar. The next moment, the giant cocoon burst open, and his original golden body had turned pale blue. By then, all his wounds had completely healed. Moreover, the halo behind his head had transformed into nine layers. In just a short while, the Dragon Emperor had risen from the fifth level of the Yuanling Divine to the ninth level—the pinnacle of the Yuanling Divine realm! When the nine layers of Yuanling merged into one, it would become a true spirit, a divine king beneath the supreme gods! The Dragon Emperor’s pale blue body trembled as he swung his tail at the Black Pearl. “Damn it! It turned out like this!” Seeing the Dragon Emperor become the ninth-level Yuanling Divine, Chen Xiao was shocked. He instinctively activated Dragon Movement to empower the Black Pearl. “The power of divine artifacts—escape!” Before the Dragon Emperor’s tail could reach them, Chen Xiao shouted, and the Black Pearl transformed into a blue dragon, diving into space. “Trying to run? Dragon claws—tear through space!” The Dragon Emperor was truly enraged. He was now determined to kill Chen Xiao at any cost, otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to survive in this world of supernatural powers. As his dragon claws appeared, space was shattered, and the Black Pearl, which had fled to deep space, now seemed to be right in front of the Dragon Emperor. “True Dragon Fire!” The Dragon Emperor opened his mouth, and streams of pale golden flames shot out, burning toward the Black Pearl. “Dragon Movement, Dragon Wings, Dragon Horns, Dragon Claws—seems like a set of divine artifacts originally belonging to the Free Heaven… I must obtain them all. Only then will the power of the Free Heaven be complete…” Seeing the True Dragon Fire approaching, Chen Xiao remained eerily calm. “Divine Master’s Shadow Clone—using it on a mere ninth-level Yuanling Divine? Even the Divine Master would think I’m wasteful…” “Trying to play with fire? True Water Realm! Ancestor of All Waters!” Chen Xiao narrowed his eyes, and the True Water Realm detached itself, turning into a raging torrent that rushed toward the True Dragon Fire. At the same time, the power of the water-based supreme god within Chen Xiao surged wildly into the True Water Realm. Nourished by the power of the supreme god, the True Water Realm exploded. Boom! Water and fire, two opposing forces, collided in space, creating a chaotic state akin to that before creation—nothing existing at all. “Crack!”

In that collision, Chen Xiao’s body shattered into pieces and scattered across the Black Pearl. But the next moment, that tiny Core Spirit Flame suddenly emitted trails of energy, pulling together the fragments of Chen Xiao’s body and reassembling them.

“Amazing… Against the Ninth Layer Yuanling God, I have no chance at all.”

Chen Xiao’s face turned pale, and his soul suffered severe damage. Yet, the vibrant power of the Supreme God within his core continuously repaired his wounded soul. Even the forces of the three great heavens—Zixiao Heaven, Zizai Heaven, and Lihen Heaven—combined to soothe his soul with all their might.

“Not even the Ninth Layer Yuanling God can kill me. Could I be the legendary indestructible pest?” Chen Xiao laughed self-mockingly before focusing his gaze on the Dragon Emperor.

“Core Spirit Flame… You actually possess the Core Spirit Flame… The common enemy of all gods in the universe…”

The Dragon Emperor stared at Chen Xiao in disbelief. At the exact moment Chen Xiao’s body shattered from the recoil, he had seen everything clearly. But the next moment, the pale blue glow around his body slowly disappeared, and his dragon horns, wings, and claws flew off his body.

“With the Core Spirit Flame, no wonder the Great Immortal treats you differently. These three items originally belonged to you.”

The Dragon Emperor shook his head and voluntarily handed over those three divine artifacts. His body had returned to its human form, and the five layers of glow behind his head were trembling, seemingly on the verge of extinguishing at any moment. Clearly, using these three artifacts simultaneously to elevate his power to the Ninth Layer Yuanling God came at a great cost to him as well.

“You…”

Seeing the Dragon Emperor’s behavior, Chen Xiao immediately became alert. With the Core Spirit Flame revealed, he would become the common enemy of every god in the universe, including those on the Source Continent, facing endless pursuit—a battle with no end in sight. The label of “common enemy of all gods” weighed heavily on Chen Xiao’s heart like a mountain.

Now that the Core Spirit Flame had been exposed and he had received such treatment from the Dragon Emperor, Chen Xiao couldn’t help but be wary. For a moment, he even thought of summoning his Divine Master Clone to kill the Dragon Emperor right away.

“Don’t worry. We’re not enemies.”

The Dragon Emperor shook his head. “You are the key to the revival of our dragon race. If you grow stronger, we dragons scattered across the universe will be able to return home.”

“Dragon race? Return home?”

Chen Xiao was confused, but then he realized that those dragon wings, horns, and claws were all the Dragon Emperor’s divine artifacts, deeply connected to Zizai Heaven. It seemed the Dragon Emperor’s identity was no ordinary one either.

“Don’t you want to seize my Core Spirit Flame for your own use?”

Chen Xiao didn’t take those three artifacts. Instead, he chuckled lightly. The black light on the Black Pearl grew stronger, and his wariness deepened. The environment in which he had grown up had made it difficult for him to trust anyone completely. Even the Great Immortal, who had always watched over his growth, had never earned his trust.

Chen Xiaoke would not let a few words from the Heavenly Dragon Emperor shake his resolve. In fact, he suspected that the old dragon had already tampered with these three divine artifacts.
“It seems you still don’t trust me,” said the Heavenly Dragon Emperor, shaking his head. “At first, I thought you were just a lucky kid who obtained the Nine Heavens Mysterious Spirit Seal and accidentally got three fragments of the Sky Map. But I never expected you to get even the Sky Map and the primordial spirit fire.”
“So, it was you who orchestrated everything the Dragon family did to my parents and my grandfather?” Chen Xiaoke’s heart suddenly stirred slightly.
Hearing Chen Xiaoke’s words, the Heavenly Dragon Emperor was stunned for a moment before helplessly nodding.
“The Nine Heavens Mysterious Spirit Seal and the fragments of the Sky Map are extremely important…”
“Then die!”
Chen Xiaoke didn’t even give the Heavenly Dragon Emperor a chance to finish speaking. With a loud shout, the boundless majesty of the Supreme God began to emerge from his body.