A Dragon against the Whole World

Its movement came to a sudden halt.

The next second, from the very center of its enormous mushroom head, a straight and smooth silver line rapidly extended downward, passing through its broad chest, sturdy waist, and abdomen, until it reached below!

However, this wasn’t the end.

There was no blood at the incision on the Spore Giant’s body, only the wriggling mycelium frantically extending, merging back into one in the blink of an eye.

It suddenly leapt up, its right arm covered by mycelium transformed and elongated, rapidly spinning into a sharp fungal spear, emitting a piercing sound of slicing through the air as it fiercely stabbed towards Kairos again.

The result was the same as before.

The Ten Thousand Flowers Sword Domain remained unbreakable, and the fungal spear was shattered into pieces by an invisible blade light upon touching the domain.

At the same time, Kairos merely waved his hand casually.

Sword light swept across the Spore Giant’s body again.

This time, it wasn’t a single silver line.

A silver line appeared on its body, then ten, a hundred... innumerable intersecting sword lights exploded simultaneously, completely enveloping the Spore Giant’s body.

The enormous body of the Spore Giant suddenly shattered, turning into fragments of various sizes, scattered all over the ground.

Yet it still had not died.

The scattered fragments writhed frantically on the ground, and more mycelium surged out of the fragments, as if possessed with life, searching, connecting, entangling with each other, while the remaining mycelial mat around it seemed summoned, converging like waves towards it, the fragments absorbing the energy transmitted by the mat, rapidly expanding.

In the blink of an eye.

Three Spore Giants of equally formidable aura, reaching the 20th level tier, stood up at the original spot.

They surrounded the Sword Saint in a triangular formation.

Their bodies morphed into various weapons.

Their attacks covered all angles.

At the storm’s center, the Sword Saint merely raised the corner of his mouth, smiling gently.

The Ten Thousand Flowers Sword Domain’s radiance rotated, securely blocking all frenzied attacks from all directions, without even expanding a ripple.

"Let me see, how many times you can split."

With his indifferent words, the sword light drew in the air again like a brush of death.

The bodies of the three Spore Giants were covered in intersecting sword marks almost simultaneously, and then collapsed and shattered with an unwilling roar.

But just at the very moment their bodies were about to completely collapse and disintegrate.

The remaining consciousnesses of the three Spore Giants seemed to reach a consensus, they bellowed deafeningly simultaneously, and fiercely slammed into each other.

The sword-scarred, near-shattered bodies fused upon impact.

Countless mycelium interwove, compressed, and transmuted frenziedly.

An aura far more powerful than any previous time, reaching nearly the peak beneath Legendary, erupted from the fusion body.

"Die!!!"

After the fusion body again expanded in size, the grotesquely twisted Spore Giant let out a final roar.

A pair of arms, with shapes hard to discern, entwined together, transformed into an enormous fungal blade, concentrating all its current power, and fiercely struck down towards Sword Saint Kairos.

Clang——!!!

This time, it was no longer silent.

Accompanied by a crisp and heavy impact sound, the Sword Saint’s Ten Thousand Flowers Sword Domain finally rippled like waves for the first time! Despite the domain remaining solid, Kairos’ eyes instantly became serious and piercing, brimming with killing intent.

He stepped forward.

His Sun-Chasing Sword, in an instant, completed a double cross before him, drawing a perfect ’cross’.

At the same moment, a ’cross’ shaped sword mark appeared out of thin air on the Spore Giant’s massive body.

Next, its body split along that Cross Sword mark, neatly into four large pieces, collapsing with a boom.

At the fracture points, countless mycelium still desperately proliferated, attempting to reconnect.

However, this time, a layer of unwavering destructive sword light lingered, resolutely suppressing its regeneration.

Kairos no longer gave his opponent any chance.

With a thought, the Ten Thousand Flowers Sword Domain suddenly expanded, completely enveloping all the remains of the Spore Giant.

Simultaneously, he flicked his wrist, and the Sun-Chasing Sword swung out again.

In an instant, an intense and fiery flame rose from his domain, transforming into countless scarlet sword lights, passing through all the remains of the Spore Giant, further slicing and shattering them, and ignited by the terrifying flames, emitting crackling sounds, rapidly turning into charcoal, and ultimately reduced to ashes.

This Spore Giant, which had briefly sparred with the Legendary Sword Saint, met its true end here.

Almost in the same moment it turned completely to ashes.

All the writhing mycelium mats lost vitality, their color dimmed, and visibly dried up.

The remaining fungal monsters, whether pouncing towards soldiers or emerging from the mycelial mats, their movements also stalled simultaneously, then collapsed limply like their souls had been sucked away, turning into ordinary corpses and withered fungal bodies.

An officer stepped forward to inspect the remains of the Spore Giant Lord and respectfully addressed Kairos: "Sir, all monsters have lost vitality! It appears this giant monster was the body or core of the ’Fungus King’! You have slain it!"

Kairos nodded lightly, then sheathed his sword.

"It seems so."

"Clean up the battlefield, collect all valuable samples, especially the remains of that giant, then send word back to the Royal Capital to inform the Exotic Territory Strategy Department, that the ’Fungus King’ in the Southern Region of Sel Wilderness has been purged."

His tone was calm, as if he had merely accomplished a trivial task.

The soldiers erupted in cheers, beginning to efficiently clean the aftermath, burning the remaining fungal corpses, while Kairos leisurely returned to the camp where the army was stationed.

He only concerned himself with killing, not burying.

Battlefield cleanup, sample collection, and subsequent defense arrangements, these intricate affairs were naturally handled by the troops under his command, sparing the Legendary Powerhouses from the hassle.

"Next is the Central, Northwest, and Northeast... the so-called King of Molten Iron and that Mountain King."

In the main tent, Kairos stood before a gigantic military map of Sel Wilderness, his finger slowly moving across the map, finally gently pinpointing the Central Region.

"So, let’s choose this ’King of Molten Iron’ as the next target for cleansing."

The reason for his choice was straightforward.

The territory of the King of Molten Iron was closest to his current location, making it the most convenient to clear, allowing time-saving to the fullest extent.

The Fungus King being dealt with first was also because of this reason.

Meanwhile.

Shortly after Kairos departed, in an extremely hidden, utterly inconspicuous corner.

A small mushroom, dark gray, the size of a fingernail, seemingly ordinary and ubiquitous, silently emerged from the scorched earth, slightly shaking its cap, as if confirming something, then swiftly retreated underground, vanishing without a trace, unnoticed by anyone.

Evidently, the previously deceased Spore Giant was merely a puppet.

The Fungus King decisively abandoned its territory, making a tail-cutting escape.

Elsewhere.

In the Northwestern part of Sel Wilderness, under the jurisdiction of Phoenix Angela’s domain.

Galos arrived here, accepting from the forepaw of Golden Dragon Nasha, the peculiarly named ’Only I am Venerable Dragon Emperor Armor’.