Bloodline Evolution System: Reign of the Dragon Snake

The voice was a thunderclap in the silence, shaking the very essence of the forbidden lands. Tang Yue's head snapped up, her sharp eyes scanning for the source of the oppressive aura. The air thickened, pressing down on her like an invisible hand.

Her draconic senses screamed in warning, every instinct urging her to flee. But she was no stranger to fear—it was a fuel she had mastered, turning it into strength.

From the sky, a figure began to descend. It was not a beast, nor a shadow—it was a mere piece of rock, and yet from within it profound power emanated, a power that Tang Yue couldn't understand. A power that felt so distant and yet within her grasp. It baffled her. Experience tales at empire

The rock hovered in the air, spinning slowly, its surface smooth and unblemished except for faint, glowing sigils etched in patterns.

Tang Yue's gaze locked onto it, her breath catching in her throat. It wasn't just a rock—it was alive, pulsating with an enigmatic energy that resonated with something deep within her. For all her power and all she had conquered, she had never felt this kind of force before.

She took a cautious step forward, the earth cracking beneath her feet as if protesting her defiance. The rock's glow intensified, its sigils brightening and rearranging themselves into symbols she couldn't decipher.

"You should have stayed in your puny prison, far away from us. You dared to step in my territory and now there is no more mercy. Die!"n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

A shockwave erupted with the force of an unbound tempest, sending ripples through the air that tore at the landscape. Trees splintered, rocks shattered, and the ground itself seemed to buckle beneath its power.

Tang Yue braced herself, digging her claws into the earth as her wings spread wide, stabilizing her against the onslaught. Her draconic fire flared instinctively, forming a protective shield of searing heat and raw energy around her.

Through the deafening roar, the voice spoke again, reverberating through her mind like a hammer on steel. "You are unworthy of this power. You defile these lands with your greed, and for that, you shall be obliterated."

Tang Yue gritted her teeth, her golden eyes narrowing as she stared down the floating rock. The glowing sigils had rearranged into a singular, ominous pattern—a spiral that seemed to draw her gaze into its depths, threatening to consume her will.

But she was no stranger to intimidation. Fear was not an opponent—it was a tool she wielded to sharpen her resolve. "You talk big for a piece of debris," she snarled, her voice laced with defiance.

Flames licked at the corners of her mouth as she summoned her strength, her aura intensifying until the ground beneath her cracked further. The rock pulsed again, its glow reaching an almost blinding intensity. This time the very ground underneath shattered and an abyss of unending darkness appeared.

Tang Yue instantly shot up with full force. Something told her that if she got caught right here then there was no more paths left for her.

Her entire body tingled with unease. Her danger senses screamed. She didn't have what it took to face this monster. For the first time, she was truly out of her depths. She couldn't fathom what power was even needed to stand in front of something like this.

She shot up with everything she could muster but the gravity shifted unnaturally, pulling her downward like an invisible hand gripping her entire being.

No matter how hard she beat her wings, the oppressive force dragged her closer to the gaping abyss. Her draconic fire flared brighter, an inferno against the consuming darkness, but the gravity of the rock was relentless, it was willpower manifest.

"You cannot escape the truth of your insignificance," the voice thundered again, an unrelenting storm in her mind.

The spiraling sigils on the rock pulsed with greater intensity, and from the depths of the abyss, rocky tendrils began to rise, writhing like earthen golem serpents. They reached for her, hungry and relentless, seeking to drag her into the void.

Tang Yue snarled, her defiance igniting a ferocious energy within her. "Insignificant?" she roared, her voice vibrating with raw power. "You think this will break me? I've walked through fire and blood, and I've risen every time!"

Tang Yue's roar reverberated through the suffocating void, her golden eyes blazing with defiance as she unleashed a torrent of draconic fire. The tendrils recoiled momentarily, hissing and twisting as the searing flames licked at their stony forms.

But the abyss was unrelenting. For every tendril she burned away, two more rose in its place. "You rise, but you rise to nothing," the voice intoned, cold and implacable. "You are merely a frog in a well. A pest that needs to be crushed. Now die."

Tang Yue clenched her fists, her entire body trembling as the crushing force of the rock's gravity threatened to drag her down. It was as if she wasn't just fighting an enemy, she was fighting against the land itself. There was no point in keeping any more hidden cards left. She needed to fight this one with everything she had.

Tang Yue grimaced as she awakened the last bloodline skill she had gained. The next instant, another one of her appeared and she was no longer running away from the abyss. The two Tang Yues turned toward the black hole and let rip a blast of draconic fire, her strongest attack.

The twin streams of draconic fire roared as they collided with the abyss, their intensity unmatched by anything Tang Yue had unleashed before.

The flames burned with a darkness, infused with every ounce of her power, will, and defiance. It almost matched the darkness of the power threatening to swallow her. The writhing tendrils recoiled, hissing violently as the fire consumed them, and the very air around the abyss trembled under the force of her attack.

For a moment, it seemed as though her onslaught was enough.

Then the abyss retaliated.