Tatyana's aura inflated again and exploded outwards, destroying every defense around her and sending the demon monarchs flying. This energy explosion revealed her current cultivation level. Horux opened his eyes, stunned, and incredulously said, "Huh…? A level two Law Creator? A level two demigoddess!?"
Horux came to a harsh realization while Tatyana's last verse was heard, carrying the strength of the world's laws.
'She could have killed us from the start… She is trying to capture us!'
"I call you, my eternal companion, my eternal partner, [Sovereign of the Underworld: Progenitor King, Abyssal Dragon]!"
And at that moment. Tatyana's voice made everything come to a stop, forcing everyone to focus on the 100km vortex very high up in the sky. No one could move; the only thing they could do was look with horror at the following events.
With an aura that made everyone present feel insignificant, a dragon claw pierced the vortex, and every single finger of that titanic claw had 20km in length!
Of all the present living beings, the ones with dragon bloodline had it the worst, and Yasenia's reaction showed it. Even after only feeling the creature's aura across the countless defensive layers of Anna, Eve, and Feng Guoshi, she still felt like a mountain pressed on her shoulders, and she kneeled on the ground with a bang, her tail curling around her with fear.
That giant claw moved, grabbing the side of the vortex and opening it, opening enough space for its other hand to grab one side of the vortex. When there was enough space, the other hand of the enormous creature held the other side of the vortex, and it ripped open the space around as it stretched it.
The crack in the sky kept widening under the absurd strength of the creature until it reached an absurd 1000 km wide. Then, with a roar that shook the heavens, the head of the enormous dragon passed the spatial crack. He had dense black miasma covering his body, and his mountain-sized eyes glowed like two red Suns in that ominous darkness.
The dragon descended, carrying with him the bone-chilling atmosphere of the underworld and that black miasma. All the high-level demons and phoenixes fighting in the air wanted to move away, not wanting to touch that miasma, but they were still locked in place, unable to move!
The miasma covered them, but it didn't do anything but limit their vision.
The enormous western dragon passed through the spatial crack, seemingly without end. Until his 1600km (1000miles) long body made an appearance, shrouding the sky with his silhouette.
The dragon unfurled its wings with a wingspan as wide as his body length, making a powerful wind wave to blow the clouds and ash away. His titanic body cast a shadow on everything below him, leaving only his glowing red underside and the two red suns.
His maw opened as if a red hole opened in the sky, showing that the red glow went out from his insides. Then, his voice rumbled, "The living never learn, they never change, repeating their errors through the eras, as I did… as you will… Injudicious demons, antagonizing us is your doom, as it always was… as it always will… [Spatial Lock]."
The black miasma that covered everything dispersed around, getting very thin yet solidifying space to the point that it was impossible to use spatial treasures.
With this, the miasma disappeared, revealing the majestic creature behind it. He had ashen scales covering his body and a red glow inside his maw as if it was the entrance to Hell.
His body had crevices that ran along his body, exuding that red glow to the outside. Most of them were in his underside, which was covered with glowing red cracks, giving his entire being an ominous appearance.
Its body was rough as if it was made of rocks, giving him a fierce look. With his size, he seemed made of mountains instead of scales.
Tatyana said, annoyed, "Little Long, I know you wanted to make an entrance since you weren't out for a long time… But can you stop using your aura? You are making my little treasure kneel!"
The mountain-sized red eyes moved and quickly located the kneeling and trembling Yasenia. He instantly stopped using his aura and said, impressed, "Your daughter's bloodline is impressive… A shame that I can't reproduce anymore. I would have liked her as my mate when she grew up…."
Tatyana snapped at the dragon, "Oy! She is mine."
Tatyana looked at Horux and the rest of the demons that were sneakily trying to run out of here, "Do not move, or I swear that-"
Suddenly, the dragon's tail flashed at speeds that made the solidified space tremble around it, aiming toward Yasenia. Yasenia didn't even know what happened when a grey-colored tail tip appeared beside her, impaling something. She looked at the side and gasped.
Even with his gargantuan size, his tail ended in a normal pointed form that wasn't thicker than one meter. Right now, that tail tip was piercing a Demon King that tried to sneak across the defensive skills toward Yasenia when everyone was distracted by the dragon in the sky.
Yasenia looked at the grey tail that extended up into the sky incredulously. 'What is this body control!? He can impale a thing that is basically cell-sized for him!?'
Tian Long moved the tail again and launched the Demon King toward his maw. The throwing strength was so high that the Demon King didn't even know what happened! The Demon King first felt a pain in his chest, and then the world shifted around for a short moment, finally becoming red, disappearing inside the giant dragon's maw.
"Wanting to hurt the little princess in front of me? I see that you had a death wish. What do I do with the low-level demons and birds, Tatyana?"
Tatyana said, "Tian Long, the phoenixes are our allies, just kill-"
Horux interrupted with a shout, completely crazed, "HOW THE HELL ARE YOU IN THE LAW CREATION REALM!? WORSE, HOW CAN YOU SUMMON A SEVENTH-RANKED DRAGON!? ONLY 1000 YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE OUR LAST REPORT ABOUT YOU!"
Tatyana was annoyed at being interrupted twice, and the dragon was confused. Tian long asked, "Aren't two zeros missing in that statement?"
'What do you mean by two zeros!?' Were the thoughts of a lot of the creatures present.
Tatyana said, completely glossing over what Tian Long said. "I had a fortuitous encounter; you can just blame yourselves. Little Long, forget about killing; they've annoyed me too much. Incapacitate and capture the Demon Monarchs. Let Ying Yue and Hui Zhong deal with the rest."
All the demon Monarchs widened their eyes with fear, turned tail, and ran! 'Captured!? They wouldn't mind being killed, but if that devil captures them, what horrors will they suffer are uncertain!'
Tian Long looked at them and flapped his sky-shrouding wings once, moving the air and creating countless hurricanes and tornados just because of the wings' movement. Then, his rumbling voice followed, "[Death-law: Eternal Chains]."
Ninety-three, five-kilometer-wide black chains shot out of his body with a space-cracking shockwave! The chains chased after the remaining Demon Monarchs.
Seconds later, one of the chains tensed and began sinking into his body. At the other end of the chain, a Demon Queen was tangled onto the chain by smaller chains, shouting with a shrill. "I don't want to die!"
Tatyana said with a smirk, "That's the best part; even if you die, you live! Well... Sort of."
Ying Yue and Hui Zhong summoned their legions again and guided them toward the lower-level demons. Normally a senior wouldn't attack mortal realm cultivators. However, that was while the top cultivators were somewhat balanced in strength.
For the record, Tatyana's summons could only be a level above Tatyana's cultivation. However, normally this wouldn't be possible since their cultivation speed is slower than Tatyana's. But Tatyana had been lazy with her cultivation these last millennia while her summons never stopped cultivating.
Tian Long was above Tatyana's level, unable to advance further. Ying Yue and Hui Zhong were at Tatyana's current level, nearing the next.
The rest of her army also cultivated without stop, and she had a lot of her generals at the half-step of the Transcendence realm, Alysa being the weakest general, at just the half-step of the Unification Realm.
Now that Tian Long had appeared, the only end for the demons was complete annihilation.
Yasenia saw how the mass of demons was beaten back by the summons and the phoenixes.
With Tian Long above them, the moral of the battle was overwhelmingly in their favor.
Boreas chased a demon king and hit him once with his wing. The strike was enough to slow it down and let the chain reach him, dragging him toward Tian Long. Eira appeared at his side and said, "Who would have thought that Tian Long would become so big… He is twenty times bigger than he was the last time we saw him."
Boreas chuckled and said, "He was already quite a big guy before with his 80km long body, but now…."
Boreas shook his phoenix head and chased after the fastest Demon Queen. Eira accompanied him. They activated a combination skill, and their speed soared, reaching beside that Demon Queen. With a nicely placed ice wave, they stopped her in her tracks for some seconds, which was enough for the chains to reach.
Meanwhile, while this chasing game happened, Tatyana moved beside Yasenia. Yasenia looked at her mother and didn't know how to react.
After witnessing her mother basically single-handedly beating back the demons, our young dragoness's normally confident face was full of doubts. 'Will I be able to reach her strength before I can help her meaningfully.'
Tatyana approached Yasenia and stopped before her with the same smile she always carried beside her, a smile full of tender feelings for her dearest daughter. Then, she looked into her eyes and saw her normally determined golden slit eyes full of doubt, insecurities, and fear. Even her pupils were dilatated because of her current feelings.
Yasenia looked at her smiling mother and honestly poured her feelings, "I-I'm scared, mom."
Tatyana hugged her big trembling girl, tiptoeing to kiss her cheek, and asked with the gentle tone she used when she was a child, "Scared of what, little treasure? Of Tian Long?"
Yasenia shook her head but then nodded. She hugged Tatyana and lowered her head, burying it in the crook of her neck, feeling safe there. "Well, not that, but why did I kneel to him?"
Tatyana caressed her silky long black hair and answered, still with the same gentle tone. "I will talk about that later with you, little treasure. Now, you have to tell me why you are afraid. Do not worry; between my arms, nothing can hurt you, little treasure."
Yasenia lifted her head and looked around. She looked at the apocalyptic landscape, the demons being massacred almost single-handedly by Tatyana's undead and the Demon Monarchs being chained to the colossal Tian Long. Then she said. "I-I can't see myself reaching this level and being able to help you…."
Tatyana looked up at her young, insecure daughter and smiled tenderly. Tatyana ignored the surroundings, not caring about anything else other than her daughter, and spoke to her. "Little treasure, it is normal feeling the way you are feeling right now. You've just seen what you are going to fight against and what kind of power is above the mortal realms. This is why I've never told you about the realms above the mortal realms. You feel small, right? Look at your dears."
Yasenia looked at them and saw that, besides Andrea and Cecile. Evelyn, Angel, and Kali were worse than she was.
Angel had a pale face and trembling legs, Evelyn was sweating, her eyes darting everywhere, and Kali was frozen in place; sadly, Yasenia couldn't see her face and know how she was.
Andrea had more years behind her back and had been lucky enough to see a battle like this before, so the shock factor was smaller. She was holding Evelyn's and Angel's hands, giving support.
On the other side, Cecile had been followed by similar level cultivators when she was little since her father was a strong, level two, transcendent cultivator. Moreover, her recent transformation had been quite a shocking event for her. Therefore, she could take this with a stronger heart. She was beside Kali, trying to give her reassurance with her presence.
Yasenia began trying to relax her wildly beating heart.