Iron-Blood World.
Ant Queen's Lair.
The sky was clear, and the sun was blazing.
The Sixteenth-Order Ant Queen's massive body, like a moving mountain range, was lying at the entrance of her lair.
Suddenly!
In the sky above the plain less than ten kilometers from the lair, space was violently torn apart as if by an invisible giant hand!
A pitch-black spatial rift, a thousand meters in diameter, suddenly opened!
Immediately after, a colossal ice mountain, exuding extreme cold, was thrown out as if by an unseen hand, crashing down onto the earth!
Rumble—!!!
The ground shook and mountains swayed! Smoke and dust rose into the sky, instantly obscuring the sunlight!
A terrifying shockwave, carrying ice shards and gravel, spread outwards like a tsunami!
Wherever it passed, the ground was plowed over as if by a giant plow, cracking open into gullies dozens of meters deep!
Almost at the moment the ice mountain landed—
“Roar—!!!”
An ancient, majestic Dragon roar, filled with the fury of being disturbed, erupted from within the ice mountain like a billion bronze bells ringing simultaneously!
The sound waves transformed into visible golden ripples, instantly sweeping out!
The just-raised smoke and dust were instantly dispersed and annihilated!
Space, like fragile glass, emitted an unbearable “cracking” sound, splitting into countless spiderweb-like black fissures!
Dragon Might!
Pure, ancient, terrifying pressure originating from the apex of Bloodline swept out like a cosmic storm!
Within a hundred-mile radius, all Bug Clan Family members whose life strength was less than that of a demigod, no matter what they were doing, instantly stiffened!
As if struck in the Soul by an invisible giant hammer, their consciousness went blank, and they instinctively knelt down, trembling!
Beyond a hundred miles, countless more low-rank Family members were directly knocked unconscious!
Even Zhou Qi hadn't expected this Golden Three-Headed Dragon to suddenly awaken.
Fortunately, he was prepared.
Buzz!
The Sixteenth-Order Ant Queen's mountain-like head suddenly lifted, and the faint light in her compound eyes flared!
A pale golden Mental Power barrier, condensed to the extreme, like a solid crystal wall, instantly unfolded a hundred miles in front of the ice mountain!
The terrifying Dragon roar shockwave violently crashed against the barrier, producing a deafening clang of metal!
The barrier fluctuated violently, ripples spreading across its entire surface, but it ultimately held steady!
Almost simultaneously with the barrier's rise, the sky suddenly darkened!
“Rip—!!!”
A piercing sound of tearing cloth ripped through the sky!
The Five Hundred-meter-long massive body of the Fifteenth-Order Flying Thunder Centipede, wrapped in dark blue electric snakes capable of tearing space, descended like a doomsday Thunder God!
It did not circle but hovered directly less than a hundred meters above the ice mountain!
The hundreds of blue-white circular thunder lights on its back glowed with unprecedented intensity, like hundreds of supernovas about to explode, their destructive energy firmly locking onto the terrifying existence awakening beneath the ice!
Its huge compound eyes stared coldly downwards, issuing a silent warning: Dare to move, and I will destroy you!
The combined pressure of the two planetary-level Family members, like two invisible mountains, pressed down firmly on the ice-sealed Dragon, forcibly suppressing the violent Aura it had just unleashed!
The smoke and dust dissipated.
Zhou Qi's figure hovered directly in front of the ice mountain, tiny, yet like a sea-stabilizing needle.
He looked at the core of the ice mountain, which was covered in cracks from the Dragon roar impact and was rapidly melting, his eyes calm and unperturbed.
“Ant Queen, lock it down!” Zhou Qi’s Mental Power command was like a cold decree.
“As you command, Dominator!” The Ant Queen’s Mental Power response carried the gravitas of a planetary level.
Invisible Mental Power filaments, numbering a terrifying trillion, instantly penetrated the remaining ice and the Dragon's sturdy scales.
They precisely wrapped around its every inch of muscle, every nerve node, every energy pathway!
Forming an indestructible shackle composed of pure Mental Power will!
No matter how the Golden Three-Headed Dragon's Internal Energy surged and roared, it could not shake it in the slightest!
After all, even among planetary levels, there were differences in strength, and the Sixteenth-Order Ant Queen's 150 points of life strength were definitely far ahead.
Zhou Qi took a step.
Space beneath his feet was like stairs.
In an instant.
He already stood before the largest, central Golden Dragon head!
That Dragon head was as big as a mountain peak, and Zhou Qi was as tiny as dust before it.
He slowly raised his right hand, fingers spread, and gently, yet with an unquestionable will, pressed it against the cold, hard Dragon scale on the brow, which flowed with a molten golden luster.
“Begin strengthening!” Zhou Qi silently chanted in his mind.
Buzz!
There was no pillar of light descending from the sky.
The power of enhancement erupted from Zhou Qi's palm as its Origin!
It was no longer a gentle light, but a golden torrent as viscous as a liquid star, so dazzling it could burn the sight of a star!
It carried the absolute command of a planetary-level will, like a cosmic river unleashed, forcefully and precisely pouring into every cell, every gene chain, every wisp of Soul Origin of the Golden Three-Headed Dragon!
【Ding! Consumed 10 Origin Points, Golden Three-Headed Dragon strengthened to Elementary Golden Three-Headed Dragon, gained Elementary intimacy.】
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【Ding! Consumed 160 Origin Points, Golden Three-Headed Dragon strengthened to Second-Order Golden Three-Headed Dragon, congratulations to the host for gaining the Golden Three-Headed Dragon's sworn loyalty.】
Enhancement information rapidly flashed through Zhou Qi's consciousness.
The moment the enhancement reached the Fifth-Order—
“Roar Ooh Ooh Ooh—!!!”
The Golden Dragon, firmly bound by the Ant Queen's Mental Power shackles, let out a roar of pain and fury a hundred times more intense than before!
This time, the sound was confined within the remnants of the ice mountain, but the energy level it contained geometrically surged!
Sizzle—!
From the gaps in its golden scales covering its entire body, billions of dazzling golden flames suddenly shot out!
Each flame contained terrifying high temperatures and energy, instantly vaporizing the remaining ten-thousand-year-old profound ice!
The earth beneath it silently melted, forming a rolling lake of golden-red lava!
The three massive Dragon heads twisted and struggled frantically, trying to lift, and the six tightly shut Dragon eyes twitched violently, their slits emitting scorching golden light capable of melting through stars!
The six tightly shut colossal Dragon eyes, at this moment, slowly opened!
Buzz—!!!
Six beams of pure destructive will, condensed like solid golden pillars, burst forth from the Dragon's pupils!
Wherever the gaze fell, space, like fragile thin paper, was silently pierced and annihilated!
Its form underwent a world-shaking transformation:
Its length stabilized at one thousand meters, its winding Dragon body like a horizontal golden mountain range, its muscles bulging like coiling galaxies, containing the mighty power to tear apart stars.
The scales covering its entire body became thicker and deeper, with mysterious silver runes flowing along their edges.
The scales were no longer merely physical defense; their very existence subtly warped the surrounding space, forming a natural barrier that isolated all Daos.
Its Dragon claws became even larger and more ferocious, their tips gleaming with cold light; simply hanging naturally, they plowed bottomless gullies into the solidified lava lake below.