chsdbacks Chapter 232 Awakening the Candle Dragon: One thought is Yang, one thought is Yin!
Chapter 232 Awakening the Candle Dragon: One thought is Yang, one thought is Yin!
Yuan Qingsheng looked over and saw a huge, dragon-shaped statue of a Chinese deity appear before them.
It was entirely red, a full hundred meters long, with two vertically oriented eyes, one black and one white, both wide open.
Yuan Qingsheng was stunned by its terrifying and ancient aura after just one glance, and stood frozen in place.
Su Fan, on the other hand, was not affected in any way.
After all, he had seen this statue of the Candle Dragon God countless times.
"Elder Yuan, it's about to begin. Please retreat to a distance of 100 li."
Su Fan calmly woke Yuan Qingsheng up.
Yuan Qingsheng came to his senses and looked at the statue of the Chinese deity with lingering fear.
This was the first time he had ever been so captivated by this statue of a Chinese deity; just from that, he knew how terrifying this Chinese deity was.
Su Fan was right; these Chinese gods are indeed more powerful than all the gods he has ever awakened combined!
Yuan Qingsheng gave Su Fan a deep look, said nothing, and his figure transformed into a streak of light and retreated swiftly.
He knew that the commotion that followed was beyond the reach of even a ninth-tier Divine Master.
Su Fan took a deep breath, stepped forward three times, faced the Candle Dragon statue, and bowed respectfully!
Next, Su Fan took out the rare and precious materials needed to awaken the Candle Dragon God from the system space.
The first element, Yin Water and Yang Fire, symbolize Yin and Yang, representing night and day!
Su Fan had asked Yuan Qingsheng and Ma Tao for a copy before he arrived.
The Chinese deities that Yuan Qingsheng and Ma Tao contracted with were Gonggong, the water god, and Zhurong, the fire god. The Yin Water and the Sun Fire were relatively easy to obtain.
Secondly, Su Fan received a piece of Jianmu wood as a reward from the Mythical Arena, which was used to balance the Yin and Yang of the Candle Dragon God and prevent the Yin and Yang forces from going berserk!
The third item is the True Dragon's Blood and the True Dragon's Reverse Scale. These two items represent the true form of the Candle Dragon!
The fourth item is not a rare and precious treasure, but a divine summoning array rewarded by the system, which can be used to awaken Zhujiuyin!
Su Fan arranged the five rare and precious materials according to the four directions.
The waters of the moon hang in the north, deep and dark blue, with a chilling aura that congeals into frost.
The sun's true fire hangs in the south, blazing fiercely, with scorching waves rolling.
The Jianmu tree lies horizontally to the east, full of vitality, its green light flowing.
The true dragon's blood and the true dragon's reverse scale are placed in the west, the dragon's might is vast, and golden light is emitted.
Finally, Su Fan took out an ancient array plate.
This is the God-Summoning Array bestowed by the system!
The array plate is neither gold nor jade, but has a cool touch, and its surface is engraved with endless stars and ancient divine runes.
Su Fan bit his fingertip and used his own blood to write five ancient divine seal characters, "Candle Dragon and Candle Nine Yin," in the center of the array plate.
As the blood-red characters fell, the array plate suddenly shone brightly!
"Buzz—"
The array plate detached from Su Fan's palm, hovered in front of the Candle Dragon statue's brow, and slowly rotated.
With each rotation, it grew larger, the array patterns spreading like a living thing, instantly covering an area of a hundred feet in radius.
Four beams of light—cyan, red, gold, and blue—surged into the sky from the four treasures and poured into the grand formation.
The divine power of heaven and earth began to boil!
The clear sky over the northern grasslands darkened at a visible speed.
It wasn't that dark clouds were obscuring the sun; rather, the light itself was fading, as if swallowed by something invisible, and the entire world fell into a deathly silence!
A hundred miles away, Yuan Qingsheng stood in mid-air, his face extremely solemn.
Yuan Qingsheng felt the laws of heaven and earth around him trembling and twisting, and an ancient will far beyond his comprehension was being drawn and awakened.
Without hesitation, Yuan Qingsheng retreated another two hundred miles until the palpitations in his heart subsided before he stopped.
He looked at Su Fan with worried eyes and muttered to himself:
"Su boy, you absolutely can't get hurt!"
Grassland Center.
Su Fan stood at the center of the formation, his robes fluttering even without wind.
He formed hand seals and chanted the ancient ritual text to awaken the God of Candle Dragon:
"In the beginning, chaos reigned, and the universe was shrouded in darkness!"
"A god dwells there, appearing as a star in the eye!"
As the first syllable of the incantation was uttered, the four pillars of light suddenly twisted, transforming into four thick chains of energy that plunged violently into the Candle Dragon statue!
"The left eye is the sun, the right eye is the moon!"
"Breath is the wind, voice is thunder!"
The chains tightened, producing a loud clang like metal striking metal.
The tightly closed vertical eyes of the statue of the God of Candle Dragon twitched slightly.
In that instant, the sky suddenly split open!
With the statue as the dividing line, the left half of the sky is as bright as day, while the right half is as dark as midnight!
Day and night are in the same sky, yin and yang are reversed!
At the same time, this influence is spreading at a visible speed to the periphery of the northern steppe.
I believe it won't be long before it spreads to the entire Earth!
At that time, day and night will be reversed across the entire planet Earth.
Su Fan's bones cracked and popped, and blood began to seep from his seven orifices.
Awakening such a creation-level Chinese deity would require enduring a backlash far greater than ever before.
But Su Fan's gaze was as calm as an abyss, and his chanting grew ever louder, each word carrying immense weight, stirring up ripples of the laws of nature:
"Open your eyes and it's daytime; close your eyes and it's nighttime!"
"Blowing brings winter, exhaling brings summer!"
"Neither drink, nor eat, nor rest!"
At this point, Su Fan paused for a long time. It wasn't that he didn't want to continue, but rather that Zhulong's true name was too difficult to pronounce, as if some invisible force was blocking his way.
Su Fan gritted his teeth, and all the Chinese gods he had contracted appeared behind him.
The Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong; Erlang Shen, the Manifestation Saint, Yang Jian; and the Great God of the Three Altars and Seas, Nezha…
Qin Shi Huang, Ying Zheng; the Great Emperor of Fengdu; Laozi...
By channeling the power of these deities into his body, Su Fan finally managed to utter the last line of the sacrificial inscription with great difficulty.
"Junior Su Fan respectfully welcomes Zhulong..."
"Zhu Jiuyin!!!"
As the eulogy ended, the two vertical eyes of the Zhulong deity statue, one black and one white, suddenly opened!
"boom--!!!"
An indescribable roar exploded in the deepest part of everyone's soul.
Yuan Qingsheng, a hundred miles away, felt as if he had been struck by a heavy blow. He groaned, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, and the look of horror in his eyes reached its peak.
Fortunately, Su Fan was protected by the contracted deity, which prevented him from being harmed.
The moment the statue of the God of Candle Dragon opened its eyes, time and space suddenly changed.
Su Fan saw that in the black eye of the Candle Dragon, there was an endless, cold night, where stars were born and died, and the river of time was frozen into glaciers.
Within the white of his right eye, there was an eternally burning, intensely bright daylight, with solar storms sweeping through and scorching the space into wrinkles.
One glance at the past, one glance at the future!
The divine shadow of Zhulong began to stroll out from the statue of the god.
He merely glanced at the sky, and instantly, day and night on the entire blue planet were reversed.
Kyoto, China, the Imperial Guard Bureau.
All monitoring screens simultaneously emitted a blinding red light.
"Light intensity in North China, Northeast China, and Northwest China has abnormally increased, exceeding normal levels by 3000%!"
"The laws of physics are exhibiting localized disruptions; the speed of light... the measured speed of light is inconsistent in those regions!"
"The most serious issue is the rate of time travel; in some parts of the Western Hills, time is 1.3 times faster than normal, while on the grassland border, it's 0.7 times slower!"
The director of the monitoring center was covered in sweat:
"Quickly, report this to Elder Mo!"
……
Across the Pacific Ocean, in the beautiful United States, at the Black House.
The beautiful country, which should have been in darkness, was instantly transformed into daylight.
The leader of the United States immediately summoned all the people of the United States.
"My God..." the American leader slumped in his chair, "What level of divine power is this?"
After slumping down for a moment, he suddenly raised his head and asked, "Did they detect anything wrong?"
General Smith, the chief of staff, stared intently at the satellite cloud image.
At this moment, a chaotic, seven-colored vortex exists deep within the vast grasslands of China.
Smith nodded: "In the direction of China..."
Upon hearing this, the American leader's eyes flashed with ruthlessness: "Project Ragnarok, start it ahead of schedule. We absolutely cannot let China gain control of this power!"
……
Europa League, Temple Observatory.
The twelve cardinals stared solemnly at the chaotic scene in the crystal ball.
"The power of the gods of time and light, this is an authority on the level of Tyr or Apollo, or even... higher."
"How many more monsters like these still slumber in that land of the East?"
"Contact the Vatican immediately; we need to reassess our relationship with China..."
……
After Zhulong reversed the timeline on Blue Star, he said indifferently:
"The Divine Race of China! Zhulong, Zhujiuyin!!!"
The sound wasn't loud, but it reached the ears of everyone on Earth.
Everyone on Blue Star was stunned!
The world was already in chaos due to the strange changes in nature, and foreigners who were not Chinese became even more terrified.
After experiencing fear, the Chinese people breathed a sigh of relief and became excited upon hearing the familiar Chinese language.
"Holy crap, what level of god is this? Time has changed across the entire planet Earth!"
"I don't understand, but it must be an unprecedented Chinese deity!"
"That goes without saying, I bet it was Su Fan who woke him up!"
"Nonsense! Besides Su Fan, who else in China has that ability!"
"The world is about to change! China is finally about to rise!"
"..."
The people of China were discussing it animatedly, their faces beaming with joy.
At the same time, after Zhulong finished speaking, he looked at Su Fan.
Then a grand, indifferent thought descended directly upon Su Fan's sea of consciousness:
"Did you awaken me?"
Each word was like a star exploding in Su Fan's soul.
Su Fan, enduring excruciating pain that felt like his soul was about to dissipate, responded with his mind:
"This junior, Su Fan, respectfully invites the God of Zhongshan, Venerable Zhulong!"
"Now, with dragon's blood as the catalyst, the reverse scale as the guarantee, yin and yang as the foundation, and the Jianmu tree as the bridge, let us awaken the divine image of Your Majesty to descend upon this world!"
"China is in peril, surrounded by evil spirits. We beseech Your Majesty's divine power to regulate day and night, control the four seasons, pacify the eight directions, and protect our people's bloodline from extinction!"
At the same time, the drop of true dragon blood and the reverse scale flew up and merged into the heart of the Candle Dragon God Shadow.
In an instant, the divine figure solidified by a third!
The will of the Candle Dragon arrived again, less ethereal, more scrutinizing, and...
A faint, almost imperceptible fluctuation, as if disturbed after countless eons of slumber:
"Chinese...bloodline..."
"It's been so long since I've encountered a mortal of Chinese blood..."
Zhulong glanced again at the Chinese deity's image in the contract behind Su Fan, and looked on with great interest.
"Oh? You've actually made contracts with so many powerful gods? Not bad..."
Zhulong's eyes, which govern day and night, saw right through Su Fan!
Su Fan felt a little nervous after hearing this.
After a long while, the will of the Candle Dragon trembled once more:
"I promise you."
"My divine shadow, I will fight for you, for China!"
"However, my divine power is beyond the reach of this world. The divine power left in this statue of the god is only enough for one strike."
"After the strike, the divine shadow will vanish."
Su Fan felt a chill run down his spine, but he was overjoyed even more.
One strike!
Zhulong's attack!
Although it wasn't a full-force attack, it was enough!
Su Fan had no doubt that this strike was enough to change the fate of China and eliminate all threats from the enemy!
"This junior understands! Thank you for your kindness, Your Excellency!"
Zhulong said again, "After you have used one of my attacks, I will form a contract with you!"
Upon hearing this, Su Fan was overjoyed.
His original intention in awakening the Candle Dragon God was to form a contract with the Candle Dragon God.
This is the first creation-level Chinese deity he is about to contract with!
Those are Chinese deities comparable to Pangu and Nuwa!
Zhulong fell silent.
His enormous divine shadow, stretching across heaven and earth, began to shrink and condense.
In the end, the Candle Dragon's divine shadow transformed into a dragon-shaped stream of light, only ten feet long, yet solid as crimson crystal, coiling around Su Fan's side.
Within the flowing light, a miniature anomaly could be vaguely seen: a black sun in the left eye and a white moon in the right.
The sky returned to normal, and the strange phenomenon of day and night being the same disappeared.
The light of the Summoning God Array faded, and the array plate cracked with a "crack" before turning into dust.
The energy of the four treasures was exhausted, the Yin water evaporated, the true fire of the sun was extinguished, the Jianmu tree withered and decayed, and the dragon blood and reverse scales dissipated.
Su Fan breathed a sigh of relief after successfully waking up.
Then he suddenly staggered, almost collapsing from exhaustion, and the divine image of China behind him also dissipated.
Su Fan's divine power was almost completely depleted, and he was extremely exhausted.
Yuan Qingsheng's figure transformed into a streak of light and sped over, stopping abruptly ten feet in front of Su Fan. He dared not approach the crimson streak of light, his face filled with shock and awe.
"Su...Su Fan...This, this is..."
Su Fan's voice was hoarse:
"The attack of the Candle Dragon Divine Shadow".
Yuan Qingsheng took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down:
"Great! Excellent! Let's return to Kyoto immediately and visit Elder Mo..."
Before Yuan Qingsheng could finish speaking, Su Fan shook his head.
"No, Elder Yuan." Su Fan looked eastward, towards the direction of the Chinese coastline. "We're not going back to Kyoto."
"What?" Yuan Qingsheng was taken aback.
A cold and resolute smile curved at the corners of Su Fan's lips.
"Hasn't the United States been conducting exercises near our waters, seemingly plotting something?"
"Hasn't their fleet been circling around China all along?"
"Instead of waiting for them to prepare and then launching an attack at any time or place... let's take the initiative."
Yuan Qingsheng's pupils contracted sharply: "You mean...?"
"Invite them to see a movie..."
Su Fan gently raised his hand, and the crimson light swirling around him slightly raised its head, while the black sun in his left eye seemed to shift for a moment.
"A spectacular fireworks display!"
"Now, immediately, to the East China Sea!"
Yuan Qingsheng felt a surge of hot blood rush to his head, a mixture of heroic spirit and awe.
Without any hesitation, he nodded emphatically:
"Alright! I'll go crazy with you this time! Let those demons and monsters know that China is not to be trifled with!"
"When the enemy comes, China also has hunting rifles!"
"China must not be humiliated!"