The Twin God Battle Dragon King

The once-lush forested landscape of Minlin had been turned into a barren plain by a single devastating strike from the Azhdaha Dragon King.

Amidst this flattened terrain, Zhongli's true form continued to clash with the Dragon King in a relentless battle.

Every collision between the Geo Archon and the Dragon King sent tremors through the earth, shattering mountains and rivers.

At that moment, Felina and Furina joined the fray.

Felina, the more adept in combat, controlled the body, while Furina, within the sea of consciousness, used her will to manipulate Hydro energy for the offensive.

At Furina's command, an immense surge of Hydro energy roared into existence, taking shape as three massive Hydro Phantasms.

They were: the Hydro General, wielding a colossal sword; the Hydro Knight, armed with a shield; and a water-blue octopus wearing a top hat.

However, unlike the versions summoned during the battle with Scaramouche, these three Hydro Phantasms now towered over the battlefield, each standing over a hundred meters tall—so massive that even the Azhdaha Dragon King's spine was dwarfed by their sheer height.

Furina was elated. In the past, she had always relied entirely on Felina in battles. But after the incident with Scaramouche, through gradually mastering her power and building her courage, she could finally assist Felina in combat.

With a single thought, Furina commanded all three Hydro Phantasms to launch an attack on the Azhdaha Dragon King!

The Hydro General raised its enormous sword high and brought it down in a thunderous slash, slicing off part of the jagged, mountainous ridges on the Dragon King's back.

The Hydro Knight, meanwhile, charged forward with its shield, slamming into the Dragon King's right side with a deafening crash!

The sheer force of the impact caused the massive Dragon King to lift one of its feet off the ground, nearly toppling over.

Zhongli, also known as the God of War, had unparalleled battle experience.

Seizing the opportunity, he swept his dragon claw downward, summoning immense Geo energy. A golden geo spike burst from the ground beneath the Dragon King like a bamboo shoot after the rain!

The sudden spike, combined with the Hydro Knight's shield charge, flipped the Azhdaha Dragon King onto its back, like a turtle overturned on its shell.

With its belly exposed to the sky, the Dragon King's defenses were completely vulnerable!

Such an opportunity could not be wasted.

The first to strike was Zhongli, who was closest to the Dragon King. Summoning his Geo energy, he conjured an enormous stone spear glowing with golden light.

Grasping the spear with his dragon claw, Zhongli drove it straight toward the Dragon King's exposed abdomen!

Quick to react, Furina commanded the Hydro General to swing its massive sword toward the Dragon King's belly.

At the same time, Felina unleashed her full power. Raising both hands, she gathered a vast amount of Hydro energy in the sky. With a decisive motion, she pressed her hands downward, activating her newly acquired ability, Essence of Water.

This was the essence of water—swift, unrelenting, and torrential.

At that moment, torrents of Hydro energy rained down upon the Azhdaha Dragon King like a tempest.

However, these were no ordinary raindrops. Each droplet was imbued with immense power, capable of piercing through steel and shattering stone!

Faced with such an assault, the Azhdaha Dragon King was both enraged and alarmed. It hastily summoned Geo energy to form a protective shield over its abdomen in an attempt to block the attacks.

Though the Dragon King's defenses were formidable, the hastily conjured shield could not withstand such overwhelming force.

A cacophony of explosions rang out as the Dragon King's shield absorbed about half of the attacks before shattering. The remaining barrage struck its body with devastating impact.

Zhongli's stone spear pierced deeply into the Dragon King's abdomen, while the Hydro General's sword carved a deep gash into its belly.

Felina's torrential rain of Hydro energy left countless small but devastating holes across the Dragon King's exposed underside.

After just the first round of combat, the Azhdaha Dragon King was already severely wounded.

At first glance, one might wonder: for a creature hailed as the Dragon King of Geo, wasn't this performance unexpectedly underwhelming?

But you must understand who the Dragon King is fighting against right now.

Felina excels at manipulating Hydro energy for direct attacks. Furina wields two-thirds of Felina's power and specializes in commanding Hydro Phantasms in battle. Add to this Zhongli, the Geo Archon himself.

Strictly speaking, Azhdaha is being besieged by three god-level combatants. To be overwhelmed so quickly in the opening moments of the fight is, in truth, far from unjust.

Having scored a successful opening strike, Felina raised her hand again, summoning several massive water blades to slash toward the Azhdaha Dragon King.

But the Dragon King, now writhing in pain, had already erupted into a furious rage!

"How dare you!!!"

With an earth-shaking roar, the ground trembled violently as countless massive spikes, towering like mountains, erupted from the earth. They shot upward with terrifying speed, aiming to pierce the Hydro General, Zhongli, and everyone else surrounding it.

Faced with such an onslaught, both the Hydro General and Zhongli knew better than to meet it head-on. They immediately retreated, and Felina's cascading water blades dissipated upon colliding with the enormous, towering spikes.

With a mighty roll, Azhdaha flipped itself back onto its feet. Already consumed by madness, its injuries only heightened its savage brutality!

"Morax! You would truly seek to annihilate me?!"

Its words dripped with rage and hatred. Upon hearing this, a bitter expression briefly flickered across Zhongli's face, but it quickly gave way to resolute determination.

"You betrayed me! And now you have even summoned foreign gods to join forces against me, seeking my death!"

"Today will mark the day of your end—and the end of Liyue!"

With a roar of fury, the Ley Lines surged, and an immense flow of elemental energy poured from the ground into Azhdaha. Slowly, its scales began to radiate a thunderous violet hue.

Azhdaha, an elemental lifeform born of the Ley Lines, possessed the ability to absorb elemental energy directly from them. Now, it had successfully drawn upon the power of Electro!

As its words fell, Azhdaha's tree-like dragon tail rose high into the air. In an instant, the Electro energy around it became chaotic!

The once-clear skies above suddenly darkened as dense thunderclouds gathered, blotting out the sun.

"Turn to dust!!"

With a deafening roar, Azhdaha stomped its massive foot heavily onto the ground!

At that moment, the thunderclouds above thickened into an ominous, electric violet. Then, the heavens themselves seemed to crack as a thunderous bolt tore through the skies!

The scene that unfolded was beyond description—a vision of pure devastation. The thunderclouds, spanning hundreds of kilometers, resembled a colossal basin filled to the brim with raging lightning.

As Azhdaha stomped the ground, it was as though the basin tipped over. A massive purple lightning pillar, tens of kilometers in diameter, shot down from the sky at near-lightning speed, striking the earth!

The area within a radius of tens of kilometers was instantly engulfed by the catastrophic lightning strike. The sheer ferocity of the attack left Felina and Furina deeply shaken.

Reacting swiftly, Furina summoned back her three Hydro Phantasms. The Hydro General raised its enormous sword to block, while the Hydro Knight positioned its shield for defense.

Simultaneously, Felina unleashed an upward Hydro blast to counter the descending lightning strike.

Meanwhile, Zhongli swept his dragon claw, conjuring more than twenty layers of Jade Shield around himself in mere moments. With an effortless motion, he extended two additional protective layers to Felina as well.

But the speed of the descending lightning was far too fast. Despite their efforts, the colossal lightning pillar struck with an earth-shattering crash, triggering a cataclysmic explosion!

No, to call it merely "colossal" would be an understatement.

The shockwave of the explosion swept outward in all directions, obliterating everything in its path.

When the devastation finally subsided, what remained of Minlin was unrecognizable. A massive crater, tens of kilometers in diameter and rivaling the scale of the Chasm itself, had been carved into the earth. The ground within was scorched black, and arcs of residual electricity continued to dance across the desolate surface.

This thunderous strike of retribution was truly horrifying.

When the lightning pillar descended, it directly blasted a massive crater into the earth, a chasm comparable in scale to the Chasm itself.

But that was not all. The shockwave from the explosion swept outward like a tsunami, engulfing everything in its path with apocalyptic force.

Huaguang Stone Forest, Qingyun Peak, Tianqiu Valley, Aozang Mountain, Jueyun Karst—all these regions, originally defined by their towering peaks and intricate terrain, were completely leveled by the shockwave, transformed into an endless plain.

Dust billowed through the air, and storm winds howled.

The earthquake triggered by the explosion was so powerful that it could be felt even in Liyue Harbor, sending strong tremors through the city.

This was the power of the legendary Azhdaha Dragon King, a being capable of shaking the heavens and the earth. With a single attack, it had carved a chasm into Liyue's landscape, reducing nearly a third of its territory to flattened plains.

One might wonder: amidst such an apocalyptic battle, what were Liyue's adepti doing?

The answer was clear: long before the battle began, the adepti had already dispersed to various locations across Liyue.

Their task this time was to mitigate the destruction and minimize the impact of the battle on the people.

Were it not for the adepti's full efforts in halting the outward spread of the shockwave, the damage caused by Azhdaha Dragon King's strike would have been far greater.

Even densely populated areas such as Wangshu Inn, Qingce Village, and Shenyu Valley would have been obliterated by the shockwave.

Even regions in the neighboring nation of Sumeru, like the Vanarana Forest and the Palace of Alcazarzaray, would not have been spared.

The Hydro Archon and Geo Archon focused on the fight, while the adepti gave their all to reduce the collateral damage from the battle's aftermath.

This is the terrifying reality of a battle involving gods.

It was unimaginable how the people of future Liyue would face an opponent like the Azhdaha Dragon King if it had been allowed to roam freely.

After the devastating lightning strike, Zhongli's shields had all been shattered, and he appeared to have suffered some injuries.

Furina's three Hydro Phantasms, which had shielded Felina from harm, were all destroyed in the lightning onslaught. Felina herself bore blood at the corners of her lips, evidently having sustained internal injuries.

The principle of following up on a successful attack held true, and the Azhdaha Dragon King had no intention of giving Felina or Zhongli a moment's respite. It immediately launched another assault.

"Felina, are you alright?!" Furina asked, her concern evident.

"I'm fine. Against an attack this terrifying, it's only natural to take some internal damage," Felina replied while channeling her divine power to heal herself. She also took a moment to cast a soothing water-blue light toward Zhongli, mending his wounds as well.

"Perish!!!"

With a furious roar, the Azhdaha Dragon King raised its massive tail high. Instantly, countless lightning orbs rained down like hailstones from the sky. At the same time, it stomped heavily on the ground, generating a shockwave that surged outward, infused with Electro energy, like a vast purple tsunami engulfing everything in its path.

One strike from above, one from below—this was power at its most overwhelming.

As the shockwave and lightning spheres sped toward her, Felina furrowed her brows. Transforming into a streak of blue light, she retreated a kilometer in an instant. There, she began to emanate a radiant water-blue glow.

Her eyes and hair shimmered with blue luminescence, a phenomenon that only occurred when she summoned massive amounts of elemental power.

She raised her hands and, with a motion as if flipping a blanket, forcefully swept upward.

"Rise, tides!"

Like a tsunami imbued with the force of ten thousand storms, it surged forward, obliterating everything in its path. This was yet another manifestation of her Essence of Water!

At her command, an enormous tidal wave, a kilometer wide and a hundred meters tall, erupted from the surge of Hydro energy.

The scene was apocalyptic, as if a natural disaster had descended upon the battlefield.

The tsunami, carrying an unstoppable momentum, collided directly with the Azhdaha Dragon King's shockwave!

Such was the overwhelming power of the tidal wave that the Dragon King's shockwave only managed to halt it for a fleeting second before being completely overwhelmed. The tsunami then continued its crushing advance, hurtling toward the Dragon King.

Wherever the tsunami passed, whether it was the shockwave or the lightning spheres, all were swept away and obliterated. Nothing could withstand its force.

With unstoppable momentum, the massive wave surged toward the Azhdaha Dragon King.

But then, something incredible happened.

Just as the tsunami neared the Dragon King, it began to twist and distort. In an instant, the surging waters transformed into an army of spectral soldiers, each armed with razor-sharp blades!

The tsunami had, in the blink of an eye, turned into a host of countless warriors, a tidal wave of vengeful spirits.

Their battle cries converged into a deafening roar, the sound of the ocean itself thundering with a force that shook the heavens and the earth.

With fearless determination, the spectral soldiers crashed into the Azhdaha Dragon King!

Water erupted in all directions as the Dragon King was forcefully knocked back several hundred meters by the impact, barely managing to stabilize its massive form.

Yet its once-mighty body was now riddled with wounds. It looked as though it had been slashed millions of times in an instant, leaving it battered and in a sorry state.

But it wasn't over yet!

The moment the tsunami subsided, Felina's body radiated with a dazzling water-blue light once more. She extended her hand toward the Azhdaha Dragon King and pressed downward with immense force.

"Essence of Water: Abyssal Pressure!"

This was the crushing pressure of the deep sea, another manifestation of her elemental mastery!

As Felina's hand pressed down, divine power erupted. In the next instant, a field of intense water pressure enveloped the Azhdaha Dragon King.

The moment the field of water pressure encased it, the Dragon King felt as if it had been transported to the bottom of a sea nearly twenty thousand meters deep.

The unimaginable weight bore down on its entire body at once. It felt as though countless mountains had been stacked upon its back, leaving it gasping for breath, its leg bones nearly snapping under the strain!

Its massive form, unable to withstand such crushing pressure, was forced down with a resounding crash, flattening it against the ground and causing the earth itself to quake.

"Now's the time!!"

Felina shouted at the top of her lungs.

With the Dragon King immobilized by the Abyssal Pressure, this was the perfect moment to strike. Her words needed no further explanation—both Furina and Zhongli immediately understood her intent!

This time, the Dragon King was not lying on its back with its softer underbelly exposed; instead, its heavily armored back was facing the sky.

The scales on its back were thick and incredibly durable, providing immense defense. Thus, both Furina and Zhongli made a swift decision.

They abandoned the idea of piercing it with a stone spear or slashing it with a greatsword.

On the battlefield, the blue glow of Hydro intertwined with the golden light of Geo.

Furina summoned the Hydro General once more, this time wielding a colossal Hydro warhammer. Zhongli, in his dragon form, gripped an equally massive golden Geo warhammer in his claw.

The two warhammers, one on the left and one on the right, glimmered with immense power as they descended upon the Azhdaha Dragon King with devastating force.

At that exact moment, Felina withdrew the Abyssal Pressure field, ensuring that the warhammers could strike unimpeded.

Boom!

Boom!

Two thunderous impacts rang out like divine thunder crashing from the heavens. Each strike sent tremors rippling through the earth!

Both warhammers landed squarely on the Dragon King's back, shattering its once-impervious scales and leaving deep, sunken cracks.

"Arghhh!!"

The blunt force of the dual hammer strikes inflicted severe damage on the Azhdaha Dragon King, causing massive internal injuries and forcing a pained roar from its maw.

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