Chapter 019: The Flowing Star Nebula

As the black sphere rushed toward him, Du Fan was stunned. He quickly changed his fist into a finger, unleashing an energy resembling a nebula filled with countless stars, which slammed into the black sphere.
At the moment of collision, the black sphere exploded upon contact with that nebula-like energy, instantly turning into a cloud of black mist that enveloped Du Fan.
In an instant, Du Fan felt as if he were trapped in mud, his speed dropping to an unimaginable level!
By the time he managed to break free from that muddy-like situation, the expert from the Snake Kingdom had already returned to his own camp.
Faced with such a massive army, even Du Fan didn’t want to charge in alone so recklessly.
After a series of mutual challenges, the armies of the Northern Legion and the Frozen Alliance gathered all their experts together. If any of their opponents tried to attack alone, a large group of experts would immediately surround them.
With such a large-scale siege by experts, even a powerful figure like Du Fan wouldn’t dare to venture deep into enemy territory lightly.
“Are everyone in the Frozen Alliance cowards?” Seeing the four wind-elemental saints quickly return to their camp, Du Fan used a magic amplification spell to shout loudly. With his powerful cultivation, his voice carried far, covering almost the entire Frozen Alliance camp.
His shout instantly silenced the camp.
Originally, when fighting Moses, the Frozen Alliance had sent all four of their top experts. While this was perhaps inevitable, other armies might not have thought twice about it, but the Frozen Alliance’s soldiers did not.
Generally, people of the Frozen Alliance, even when aware they were at a disadvantage, would not resort to fighting in numbers—never attacking one opponent with many! In other words, this spirit was part of their martial ethos: to lose with dignity! It was one of the Frozen Alliance’s core values.

Four against one! The Frozen Alliance still hasn’t gained the upper hand, which already makes their soldiers feel humiliated and even a bit ashamed. On top of that, after being defeated by several top experts, they immediately fled back to their camp to hide—such behavior makes the people of the Frozen Alliance even more ashamed. And those who fled were the royal families of the great duchies, who were usually regarded as idols by the Frozen Alliance!

When Du Fan shouted this, it seemed casual to him, just like an ordinary person saying a catchphrase. Yet this single phrase turned the Frozen Alliance’s camp into utter silence. Clearly, Du Fan’s shout made those warriors extremely ashamed.

“Four against one! Run if you can’t win. Is this really the reputation of the Frozen Alliance, known for its bravery?” As the people of the Frozen Alliance hung their heads in silence, Du Fan shouted again.

With Du Fan’s words, the warriors of the Frozen Alliance lowered their heads even further.

The Frozen Alliance’s camp was completely silent—a terrifying silence!

“Kid, who are you? How dare you look down on the warriors of the Eighteen Frozen Duchies like this?” Amidst the terrifying silence, a deep male bass voice rang out. This voice was like continuous mountains hidden in the darkness, evoking an immovable sense of grandeur that was hard to resist. It was like a force that shook the soul.

The moment the voice reached Du Fan’s ears, even he was momentarily stunned. Of course, this feeling passed quickly. Thanks to his strong spiritual cultivation, he suppressed the force that affected his mind the instant his focus wavered.

“Kid! Not bad. You can even resist my Roar of the Dragon.” As the voice grew louder, a middle-aged man in a purple robe with thick beard appeared before Du Fan.

“Take another strike from me!” After the man in purple appeared, he shouted again and flew straight at Du Fan.

As the man got closer and closer, he transformed into a giant purple dragon, flying straight at Du Fan!

Its massive dragon head, flowing whiskers, and purple scales shone with an enticing purple glow under the sunlight.

This giant dragon was nearly fifty meters long, exuding an inexplicable sense of pressure! As the purple dragon flew over the armies of the Frozen Alliance, the soldiers below felt an extreme sense of tension—like facing an emperor, too afraid to even breathe in his presence.

Watching the purple dragon approaching, Du Fan’s lips curled into a slight smile. With his hands behind his back, he instantly became more focused, and his ultimate protective barrier transformed into a stream of light, adorned with shimmering nebulae, rushing toward the purple dragon.

Although Du Fan’s stream of light and nebulae appeared vast, their speed was actually extremely high. The massive purple dragon and the radiant stream of light collided swiftly. With this collision, the skies above Red Lake City and the armies of the Frozen Alliance began to shake violently.

Du Fan’s stream of light and nebulae struck the purple dragon, turning into meteors that fell toward the ground. Yet, as these lights fell, they didn’t land on solid ground but instead dissolved into streams of pure energy, disappearing into the air. Similarly, the giant purple dragon’s color faded under the continuous assault of the stream of light and nebulae.

By the time Du Fan exhausted his stream of light and nebulae, the purple dragon had completely turned transparent and vanished from sight.

After the purple dragon disappeared, it transformed into the middle-aged man in purple, who stretched out a fist and stood not far from Du Fan. It turned out that the purple dragon was merely an illusion created by the man’s energy, with his fist taking the form of a dragon head.

“What’s your name?” After exchanging a few blows with Du Fan, the man became very serious.

“Du Fan Green. The third son of the current head of the Green family,” Du Fan replied immediately when asked by the man in purple.

After fighting against this man, Du Fan could clearly sense that his cultivation level was on par with, if not surpassing, his own. Moreover, the man’s profound and enduring strength indicated that the cultivation method he practiced was by no means ordinary.

Seeing the form that the man transformed into—a dragon—Du Fan suddenly thought that perhaps this man, like Long Zhan, was from the royal family of the Divine Dragon Kingdom.
Within the Frozen Alliance, there was a kingdom that didn’t use a duchy name but was simply called the Dragon Kingdom! It was said that the royal family of this duchy had a very special relationship with Dragon Island, and its rulers, having reached the Holy Rank or above, could choose a Holy Rank dragon as their companion. This kingdom was the Dragon Kingdom!
Apart from a few types of magical beasts, dragons had an innate ability to suppress most other magical beasts. It seemed as though dragons held a position of supremacy among them.
Thinking of this, Du Fan asked with a smile, “Who are you, sir?”
“The Dragon Kingdom’s Long Aotian!” Hearing Du Fan’s question, the man in purple robes replied immediately.
“You’re Long Aotian!” Du Fan was so surprised that he almost shouted upon hearing the man’s words.
“That’s right, I am Long Aotian!” Seeming to sense Du Fan’s surprise, Long Aotian held his head even more proudly.
The Dragon Kingdom was the core nation of the eighteen duchies in the Frozen Alliance, and the capital of this alliance was Long City in the Dragon Kingdom.
Dragons, being one of the quasi-divine beasts, required at least a Holy Rank cultivation level to be considered an adult dragon.
Long Aotian was the current emperor of the Dragon Kingdom. The supreme rulers of the other eighteen duchies were called kings, while the supreme ruler of the Dragon Kingdom was called an emperor. In addition to being the emperor of his own country, the emperor of the Dragon Kingdom also served as the leader of the Frozen Alliance.
However, this leader of the Frozen Alliance couldn’t directly order the other kings. Internally, the Frozen Alliance was a rather loose coalition. The kings of the other duchies only needed to show respect to the emperor of the Frozen Alliance, without having to pay heavy taxes to the Pope’s Kingdom like in the Sacred Alliance.
Only in the face of external invasions would the Frozen Alliance truly unite and follow the orders of the Dragon Kingdom’s emperor.
With the Dragon Kingdom at its head, this had been an inevitable outcome over time! Among all magical beings, if dragons ranked second in strength, then no race dared claim to be number one!

With the Holy-Grade Dragons as their backing, these masters from the Dragon Kingdom were clearly superior in cultivation to those from other duchies. In the Frozen Alliance, strength determined everything, which allowed the Dragon Kingdom to immediately assume the position of alliance emperor. The royal families of the other duchies had no objections. That said, as the alliance emperor, the emperor of the Dragon Kingdom never abused his position to deliberately suppress any particular duchy. The Dragon Kingdom did not act like a superior nation holding dominion over others; rather, in the eyes of the royal families of the other duchies, it was like an elder brother, always ready to help without expecting anything in return when those duchies faced danger. “Lord Long Aotian, I’ve heard much of your fame. It’s an honor to meet you in person, especially on the battlefield,” Du Fan said. “Du Fan, you’re the one who scared Francis away. I didn’t expect you to have reached the level of a domain powerhouse so quickly,” Long Aotian said, looking at Du Fan with interest. “Also, Du Fan, I want to ask—by leading hundreds of thousands of troops to invade our Frozen Alliance’s territory, does your Green Family really intend to conquer all eighteen duchies?” Long Aotian continued.