Chapter 307: Chapter 303: Demon Elephant (2)

The sky hung low and grim.

It was like a heavy lead plate pressing down on the deserted city.

The entire space was shrouded in a suffocating and deathly stillness. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Just then, a beam of blood-red light suddenly tore through the thick, leaden sky.

Within the bloody light, a blood-red elephant, thousands of feet tall, slowly materialized.

Its mountain-sized body looked as if it could shatter the heavens. Black patterns flickered across its surface, exuding an ancient and weathered aura.

Intense golden flames coiled around its four limbs amidst a constant roil of blood-red mist, an overwhelming aura of majesty and slaughter washing over everything.

BELLOW!!

The giant elephant raised its enormous head, swung its mountain-range-like trunk, and opened its cavernous, blood-red maw to the sky.

Instantly, a world-shaking cry erupted, like rolling thunder exploding between heaven and earth. Sound waves radiated wildly in all directions with the giant elephant at their center.

In that instant, the crushing pressure of a higher life form surged forth.

Below, inside the skull of the White Bone Giant, Li Chengguang froze on the spot.

Goosebumps instantly erupted on his neck.

He could clearly feel an extremely intense sense of danger.

This sense of danger was several times more intense than what he had felt when he first entered a Nightmare and was hunted by a headless skeleton.

It even sparked an inexplicable urge in the depths of his heart to fall to his knees in devout worship.

He did not know that the true form of the Demon Elephant Hu Qi had just manifested was the sovereign of Hell in that powerful world.

It was the bane of all spiritual bodies. If the Demon Elephant’s true form were here, its power would be even more terrifying; its mere appearance would likely be enough to suppress him instantly.

Even in this state, it was enough to fill Li Chengguang with absolute horror.

He found himself seemingly paralyzed; the White Bone Giant could not move an inch.

The space around him seemed to have solidified. Every attempt to move required a thousand times the normal effort.

Unfortunately, the situation left him with almost no time to react.

The terrifying giant elephant roared, then violently raised its foreleg and stomped down.

The thick elephant leg, like a Celestial Pillar crashing down, was wrapped in a terrifying shadow that instantly blotted out Li Chengguang’s entire field of vision.

"—Aargh!"

Seeing this, Li Chengguang squeezed a roar full of defiance from his throat. His eyes felt like they were tearing as the pale white flames within his pupils flared violently.

Under these circumstances, he barely resisted the utterly terrifying pressure and began to move.

But it was already too late to escape.

Therefore, he desperately controlled the White Bone Giant to raise its long spear and meet the descending leg.

But the several-hundred-meter-tall White Bone Giant was simply too minuscule compared to the elephant’s leg.

This resistance caused not a single ripple; in the blink of an eye, it was completely engulfed by the massive leg.

Immediately after, the ground trembled. A vast, gray curtain that seemed capable of annihilating everything appeared and spread outwards.

Wherever it went, buildings, streets, trees—everything—was devoured, destroyed, covered, and swept away.

The light distorted.

All around was a deathly gray stillness.

There was not a single sound, not a glimmer of light—only a bleak expanse of gray and black remained.

But the next moment, a colossal explosion that seemed capable of shattering the entire space suddenly rang out.

BOOM!!!!

With that sound, as if heaven and earth were collapsing, the ground began to tremble violently from the center of the impact.

Huge cracks spread out rapidly in all directions like a spider’s web.

The surrounding buildings could no longer withstand such a violent impact.

They collapsed and crumbled one after another, kicking up vast clouds of dust.

This world seemed to be truly shattering. The cracks continued to spread as vast swathes of scorching Crimson Flame Yang Fire raged.

Everything in their path was mercilessly destroyed and devoured.

Then, this Nightmare Space, like a popped bubble, instantly burst and vanished.

...

「In a deserted mountain forest in the suburbs of Chenxi City.」

It seemed to be tightly shrouded in a hazy veil.

The sky was as dark as ink. Heavy, lead-gray clouds pressed down on the mountaintops, stingily refusing to let even a sliver of light through.

A cold rain drizzled down, pattering on the withered and mottled leaves of the forest, making a rustling sound.

On a dead tree on a hillside, a small, grayish-brown hedgehog was slowly moving its body.

The rain-soaked spines on its back looked especially dark and shiny. It crawled cautiously along a branch, constantly sniffing with its tiny nose, trying to find some fallen wild fruit or insects to fill its stomach in this season of withering vegetation.

Just then, a dazzling white light flashed deep within the forest.

The intense light instantly pierced the surrounding gloom, appearing exceptionally abrupt and startling in the somber environment.

The little hedgehog trembled in fright, quickly curling into a ball with every spine standing on end.

After a moment, it seemed to recover its senses and tumbled frantically down the tree trunk.

It dove headfirst into the nearby undergrowth, quickly scurrying toward a more hidden spot and vanishing in the blink of an eye.

Meanwhile, in this part of the forest, all sorts of animals and insects vanished in an instant.

It was as if all living creatures had simultaneously sensed the arrival of something utterly terrifying.

The entire forest fell into a deathly silence.

The sound of raindrops hitting the leaves and the ground became increasingly clear, but this monotonous sound only made the forest’s silence feel all the more eerie.

—CRACK!

A branch on the ground snapped, sending water droplets flying.

A terrifyingly muscular man, stark naked and over three meters tall like an iron tower, had appeared in the forest at some unknown point.

—HUFF!

The muscular man’s chest heaved violently as he gasped for breath. His body was covered in countless small cuts of varying sizes.

However, the deepest ones had only just broken the skin; they were nothing more than ordinary flesh wounds.

At this moment, his muscles bulged like coiling dragons. Every breath he took drove a frenzied surge of Qi and Blood throughout his body, so dense it was almost tangible.

It glowed a deep, scorching red, and the wounds were actually healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The cold rain fell on his body as if landing on a red-hot branding iron.

It evaporated instantly, rising as wisps of steam.

After about ten seconds, the muscular man’s body gradually shrank back to its normal size.

At the same time, a flash of light covered him in a black raincoat.

’To think he could teleport me directly here at the last moment!’

Hu Qi’s gaze swept over his surroundings. Clearly, this was no longer the Security Bureau from before.

The reason for this situation was, of course, Li Chengguang’s doing.

The Demon Elephant that appeared at the end was a Blood Soul he had manifested using the Elephant Heart.

It was far more powerful and terrifying than a Martial Arts Family’s Blood Soul.

With a single strike, it had heavily wounded Li Chengguang and destroyed the Nightmare Space along with him.

Of course, Hu Qi had also paid a considerable price for this. The injuries on his body were a secondary concern.

The key issue was that his originally abundant and terrifying Qi and Blood, as well as his Crimson Flame Yang Fire, were almost completely depleted.

He had even used a special Secret Technique recorded in the Crimson Sun Demon Elephant Flame Prison Skill to burn a small portion of his Demon Elephant Blood.

Only then was he able to execute that final move.

’This Controller Level Dream Master is in a completely different Realm compared to ordinary Dream Masters and Dreamwalkers. Their true strength is comparable to a Refining God Venerable. Plus, with the enhancements from various bizarre Dream Eyes, they can even wield a sliver of the Power of Space. In some respects, they’re even more formidable than a Refining God Venerable. If my Crimson Sun Demon Elephant Flame Prison Skill wasn’t created specifically to counter the power of Dream Eyes, and if he hadn’t been caught completely off guard by such a bizarre technique, it would have been impossible for me to win so easily.’

With this in mind, he bent his knees slightly and transformed into a black shadow. He leaped high into the air, landing lightly on a branch of a distant tree—one over ten meters tall and so thick it would take two people to encircle it.

His gaze scanned the horizon, and after getting a rough idea of his location, Hu Qi’s figure flickered and vanished on the spot.

The forest fell silent once more.

Only the faintly trembling branches remained.