The Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Soldier, a majestic figure, stood in the sky, a blend of Moon and Sun energies. His complex draconic helmet concealed a pair of radiant, heterochromatic orbs. The galaxy-blue energies that swirled around his form were a stark contrast to anything Yasenia had encountered, showcasing immense power.
It was holding two swords, each imbued with the unique powers of one of the attributes. Behind him, a long, slender draconic tail extended, a shift from the bulkier forms of the previous draconic soldiers. Just one look was enough to understand that the tail was not just decoration.
In a display of her true might, Yasenia activated her dragon transformation. She became a formidable dragon, her presence commanding and all-powerful.
Her body, covered with beautiful blue scales that shimmered with starlight, looked slender yet imposing. Her golden claws and horns added incredible charm to her body, while the large Moon and Sun on her wings revealed the dragon's Celestial nature.
A creature born to roam the Universe.
A dragon born to rule the firmament.
Any creature who looked at that gorgeous creature would think of similar lines.
Yasenia raised her long neck, looking at the Tribulation Soldier, and challenged it as she activated [Celestial Dragon Body].
"ROAAAR!"
The air burst in shockwaves as the dragon's cry spread far beyond the sect, filling the atmosphere with profound energy and pressure.
The body of the dragon was not immaculate. After all, her previous fight had left several wounds that didn't disappear when sifting to her dragon form.
So, even with her imposing nature, she currently made for a sorry sight. Her body, filled with burns and cuts, oozed blood in more than one place. Her regeneration factor was ridiculous, and she managed to close many of her wounds. However, Tribulation Energies were notorious for their anti-healing qualities.
Wounds that would typically not kill a cultivator could be lethal if they were caused by a Heavenly Tribulation. Only having medical cultivators around with much higher proficiency than the tribulation level could save one from the heavy injuries created by the tribulations.
Answering Yasenia's dragon cry, the Heavenly Tribulation Soldier raised and crossed his sword. Then, his body grew in size to match Yasenia's transformed body. As mentioned before, these soldiers could match up to their opponents when it came to size.
With a height reaching 250 meters, the hill-sized Heavenly soldier started moving.
Yasenia's pupils thinned to vertical lines as she focused on it with every single fiber of her body.
The Sun and Moon Soldier fell forward slowly as if letting gravity take control. When it was horizontal with the ground, the soldier uncrossed his sword and lifted one of its legs.
Yasenia prepared, and every muscle on her body was tensed and ready to react.
The soldier stomped the air, creating a sonorous booming sound, and disappeared.
Even with its incredible size, the speed was so great that most people lost sight of it. This sent a chill up everyone's spine; seeing a giant skyscraper suddenly disappear because it was moving too fast was a terrifying prospect.
CLANG!
The next thing they knew, the soldier's sword was clashing with Yasenia's claw. However, the position of the dragon was clearly awkward, as she probably failed to react to its speed.
For Yasenia, the only reason she could reach it in the first place was the sensation of danger coming from deep within her dragon instincts. 'Why is it so fast?!'
Yasenia was not slower in the dragon form. On the contrary, she was faster and more agile. It was just that her body was so large that her humanoid body was more maneuverable in general.
As she almost failed to react, her position was slightly awkward. So, when the second sword came almost instantly after she blocked the first, the dragon had to flap her enormous wings to jump away.
However, the Moon and Sun soldier was not going to give her time to recover.
Using its ridiculous speed, it followed right after Yasenia and began releasing a maniacal barrage.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
The two swords of the giant Tribulation Soldier blurred as both of them moved around the Tribulation Plaza. However, Yasenia was feeling constricted. 'The Tribulation Plaza feels small!'
It was a massive arena, 50 kilometers from side to side, however, for a one-kilometer-long dragon, that otherwise enormous expanse was like a human fighting in a 50-meter arena.
Of course, the maids and Tatyana were quick to notice. Tatyana didn't care about anything, but Yasenia's safety, so her Empress Intent Level 9 exploded from her as she ordered everyone. "LEAVE! I'M OPENING THE SHIELDS!"
The coercive voice struck everyone's soul like a hammer, and everyone quickly fled the place. Those who were stronger helped the weaker people, while the maids joined that.
Tatyana didn't even wait a single second after ordering. After all, the fight could be decided in an instant. She only bothered to shout because she didn't want Yasenia's hard work to go down the drain because of her miscalculation. 'I should've made the arena larger, fuck!'
Tatyana, who almost never cursed, couldn't help but do so as she unraveled the powerful defensive formation.
Once it was undone, the auras that were contained by the formation spilled outside as if the floodgates had been opened.
In just an instant, the entire sect was covered by the pressure released by Yasenia's Heavenly Tribulation, aura, and the strength of the continuous clashes between them.
Every disciple close enough and weaker than the third realm couldn't help but cough a mouthful of blood as their inner energy flow was distorted by Yasenia's battle.
Feeling the barrier coming down, Yasenia was quick to take flight and move backward, trying to escape the constant onslaught of the Moon and Sun Soldier.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As Yasenia flew across the sect's skies while barely resisting, the entire place was filled with the powerful clashing shockwaves that were previously contained.
The people who could now feel what they were looking at before couldn't help but have their legs weakening.
A person muttered. "H-How is she alive?"
The senior carrying that young disciple answered with a similarly solemn voice. "I don't know. In seconds, that thing could slaughter me, a middle-level Epoch Core."
Yasenia felt cornered. The attack barrage coming from this Tribulation Soldier was nothing like she had faced before. The pure raw speed of attacks that were strong enough to injure her heavily if they landed severely constricted her options.
She was using every single skill to defend, leaving with no means of counterattack. Her large skills couldn't be used because the time they needed felt too long.
Full Moon, her defensive skill, was similarly unusable thanks to its activation time. She had tried to use it around seven times. Yet, the second her energy began changing in that direction, the Heavenly Soldier would increase its attack pace with random and powerful attacks.
The barrage was not as lethal as the attacking method it used before that, but because Yasenia needed to focus on moving her inner energy and focus on casting Full Moon, her own body would slow down enough for that quick barrage to be too dangerous.
Sunset, Sunrise, Crescent Moon, Dragon Claw, Dragon Breath, and every other skill used was parried by the creature with incredible mastery. Yasenia felt as if she were fighting a senior instead of a Tribulation Soldier.
Until now, while they were skillful, their mastery was limited to somewhere around her level. However, Yasenia felt that the tribulation soldier was at least as strong as a Transcendent Level cultivator who had lowered their strength to her level. Not even that, as the overall strength of this Tribulation Soldier perhaps overcame her.
Yasenia's powerful mind was constantly thinking of ways to fight it, but no ideas came to mind. 'Do I use the Nova skills? Their explosive nature can perhaps push it for a moment-.'
Out of frustration, she thought too long and became slightly distracted, failing to see the Tribulation Soldier's eyes gaining a cold glow.
Its swords flew toward Yasenia's neck, and the dragoness quickly used her claws, reinforced by Sunrise, to block the two attacks. However, as she did that, Yasenia's body bent sideways as something heavy landed on the side of her torso.
The Tribulation Soldier's tail was digging deep into the skin, bending the enormous dragon's body with its ridiculous strength and making blood explode outward.
BOOOOM!
The attack's pure, raw strength blasted the dragoness flying across the sect like a shooting star, demolishing several houses on the ground and destroying many buildings as she pierced through them.
Not spending a single instant standing still, the Tribulation soldier had followed right after the flying Yasenia. However, this attack was actually something that Yasenia wanted.
As the Tribulation soldier was about to enter the dust cloud, his swords met with a massive silver sphere.
CLANG!
The swords rebounded as they hit [Full Moon], stopping the imposing Tribulation Soldier for the first time.
Yasenia's voice spread around like the judgment of the skies as she used another Celestial skill over the [Celestial Dragon Body] already enveloping her. "[INTERNAL COSMOS IGNITION]!"
Celestial Dragon Body, an incredibly powerful boosting ability of her Spiritual Path, combined with [Internal Cosmos Ignition], a berserk skill of her Body Path. The two energies mixed in her body, creating another aura explosion accompanied by her dragon roar.
Not done yet, Yasenia forced her energy to work further and took seven ethereal steps. "[HEAVENLY CONSTELLATION STEPS, SECOND SKY: URSA'S GRASP]!"
The image of a titanic bear that dwarfed mountains appeared in the middle of the sect, being visible from hundreds of kilometers away, and then it was absorbed by the dragoness.
Finally, her only skill related to her Beast Path was unleashed. "[COSMOS DRAGON IMPERIAL SUPPRESSION]."
All four of her skills—her body path, spiritual path, beast path, and movement skill—merged into her sturdy dragon body and created a hurricane of primal force.
The Moon and Sun Soldier was not still during all this time, his two swords and tail striking Full Moon with a barrage of attacks that made its sword blur.
BANG!
The shield was destroyed, and the Heavenly Tribulation Soldier rushed toward Yasenia. However, what it saw was the dragon's massive claw, which appeared right before its face and grabbed it.
A terrible bodily strength dragged his body backward, making its mountain-sized body become horizontal with the ground as the dragon lifted it.
Right after, the appalling strength of the dragon pushed the Soldier down, head first, cratering like a meteor into a catastrophic explosion.
"DIE!"
BOOOOOM!!!