Shin’s Celestial Dragon Avatar was the apex ability that the Spirit Emperor had created. Much like Saint Geom’s Sword Avatar, the Celestial Dragon Avatar took Shin’s spirit and amplified it to the next level. Through pure mana itself, Shin could quadruple his Celestial Dragon’s size and quintuple the raw damage that the impossibly powerful Spirit. With the Celestial Dragon Avatar in hand, in terms of pure power, Shin was unquestionably at the peak of all Spirit Emperors. No, even Spirit Venerates who had surpassed their barrier of mortality twice would take issue with resisting a blow from Shin’s avatar. Only Spirit Saints, with their innate ability to lock down space, could possibly take a hit or two from Shin’s Celestial Dragon Avatar and even then… There was no guarantee that they wouldn’t sustain an injury.

Fortunately for them though… Shin wasn’t interested in aiming for their lives. All he wanted to do was to take down the Black Masks and the Umbras that came from the aftermath of the Worldquake.

The Tier 7 Raptor that took to the skies froze instantly after feeling the deadly aura being emitted by the Celestial Dragon avatar. In terms of power, it was at the higher tip end of all the Umbras that came out from the dark crevice, and yet… It felt so small against the colossal powerhouse.

ROARRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

Shin didn’t even need to move a muscle. The Celestial Dragon, who was lovingly coiled around Shin’s body, took control of its own avatar and unleashed an innate roar. All of a sudden, the Raptor’s vision blurred as if it had been pulled into an endless mirage with no escape route. Elements danced with endless joy as Shin pulled off yet another one of his miracles. With just a simple roar from his avatar, the entire atmosphere changed once again.

Instead of being filled with Water-elements due to the snow that he’d created, Time-elements took over the stage. Anyone looking into the mountain range from the outside would only see a patch of a blur as everything seemed to be shrouded in an elusive shroud of mist. And that was what Zishen, Lady Seph, Bingbing and Shin’s three children were witnessing.

The Tier 7 Raptor was in a terrible state. Its body was slowed down to just a fraction than it was before and its vision of the colossal avatar had been impeded. There was no way for it to see what attack was coming next, and due to its slowed speed, it couldn’t even take any evasive measures. In the end, all the Raptor could do was agonisingly wait for its end to come.

And to come, it did…

BOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!

A beautiful ray of light burst forth from the Celestial Dragon’s mouth and engulfed the Raptor in an assortment of elements. Unable to withstand the immense mana surge, the Tier 7 Umbra could only meltdown like an ice cube on a hot summer’s day.

“Yip yip! Shin’s mastery of the Time-Element has improved!” Bingbing exclaimed, her voice laced with endless joy.

“Yes, it did get more powerful...” Lady Seph thoughtfully nodded. “I’m sure Longyu Tian must have drilled him quite hard during their training sessions...” The Divine Healer didn’t know whether she was happy or disappointed. Yes, she was delighted that Shin had grown far stronger than he was before, but most of his new abilities were learnt from entities such as Longyu Tian or the Himmel Ancestor. There were little skills that Lady Seph could impart onto the Rank 79 Spirit Emperor, even though she was still his master-in-name.

“Hmmm, I guess I’ll teach him a little more about my healing arts… I can’t let the others take a step ahead of me...” Lady Seph seriously stroked her chin in contemplation.

The three children that were watching the battle didn’t have the same thoughts though. They were witnessing their father putting on a one-sided display of dominance, and they thoroughly enjoyed every second of it.

“Father is so powerful...” Cassiel said, clasping both her hands together. Without realising, her One-Horned Hippocamp emerged from her small spiritual body and wrapped its mermaid tail around her waist. Ever since it was awakened, the Spirit possessed an air of nobility and always seemed high and mighty. Even when faced with the Eight Scions of Water, the One-Horned Hippocamp didn’t put down its chin for a single second, staring them down like equals on a tennis court.

However, against the Celestial Dragon and Shin’s overall power, the One-Horned Hippocamp willingly bent its neck down in submission. How could it be prideful over its father? Luciel’s Two-Headed Furry Dragon was the same. It bent both its heads down, ready to submit to Shin’s Celestial Dragon at any given moment. However, the Celestial Dragon avatar didn’t even bother to look down at its children. It was fully engrossed in dispatching the enemy that dared to challenge its master and only after it was annihilated, did it divert its attention elsewhere.

“Father he… He’s the hero of the world...” Errol gritted his teeth, completely taken aback by the overwhelming power that Shin was displaying. How much longer did he have to train to reach that amazing level? Fifty years? A hundred years? His entire lifespan? Errol didn’t know. However, deep within him, a flame started to ignite. A spark of passion… A torch that would continuously grow… A fire that would stick with him for the rest of his life.

Shin didn’t know it yet, but he’d already succeeded in Errol’s Rite of Passage. Shin wanted to show his children the power that they could reach as well as the enemies that plagued the world. He wanted them to realise that the world wasn’t as flowery as they’d thought and they could only affect it by increasing their own personal strength.

“Let’s clear up...”

Removing the Time-Elements in the atmosphere, Shin continued his relentless assault. As Zishen had mentioned, he could have ordered the Primordial Beast to send a potent beam to utterly destroy the dark crevice. However, Shin wanted to show his children the Umbras and how to beat an array of them. Thus, the immortal water army did their thing and launch an inquisition against the intruders of the island.

For flying Umbras, the water soldiers used projectiles to shoot them down. For massive Umbras, the soldiers poked for weak points and used counter-elements against it. For speedy enemies, the soldiers made traps that would neutralise their speed. For Umbras with impressive armour, the soldiers sealed their movements and ground them down with consistent attacks.

An assortment of attack methods were placed on display for the three children to learn from, particularly against the weaker Umbras that the children would primarily face from now on. It was questionable if the children were able to absorb such a dense amount of information in such a short period of time, but at least they would have the memory of it to review later on.

Shin’s Celestial Dragon never seemed to run out of mana as countless waves of immortal soldiers burst forth from the flooded ground. The Umbras tried desperately to cut down the numbers from Shin’s immortal army and had even attempted to evaporate the submerged lands. However, it didn’t help that the weather was still working against them.

In the end…

“Mmmm, My Prince… Don’t you think that it’s time to end it?” Zishen’s voice sounded out next to Shin’s ear. Turning back to his human form, the Primordial Beast yawned lazily. “Mmmm… The young princes and princess must have learnt plenty by now. There’re more pressing things for you to do as well...”

“You have a point...” Shin smiled and turned back to Bingbing and Lady Seph to give the thumbs up.

Taking heed of the signal, the Tier 9 Kamaitachi flew back a few kilometres, much to the confusion of Shin’s three children.

“Sister Bingying?”

“Yip, you guys don’t have to be too close for the next attack,” the Kamaitachi replied Cassiel curious cry. “Also, please brace yourselves… What’s coming next might be a little too powerful for your feeble bodies to endure.”

Hearing that statement, the children universally gulped and tightened their grip on Bingbing’s smooth fur. Their eyes moved traced the Celestial Dragon avatar that was moving around in pure bliss above Shin’s head. Closing his eyes, Shin raised up his left hand and suddenly…

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!

A familiar siren’s wail screeched through the mountain range, bursting the eardrums of any who were unprepared. A simple shard broke free from within Shin’s spiritual body and rose up just above the Celestial Dragon’s crown, forcing an intense spiritual pressure upon the poor earth. With no fear in the world, Shin channelled all of his mana into the shard, and the mountains shook disgracefully in dismay. The Umbras were the same. Many of them were brainless dark beasts that were created through the Allfather’s mana and a relic from Spirit Immortal Dream. Therefore, they never had to fear death in the first place.

However, at that moment, all of the Umbras uniformly fled the scene. There was no point staying to face the attack that was about to arrive. Alas, how could Shin let them run amok? The immortal water army tied down many of the fleeing Umrbas, piercing their bodies with created water weapons that were as powerful as any steel.

Until finally…

“Ignite.”

That word was the last thing the Umbras heard. The shard that Shin held onto burst forth with all the mana it accumulated, speeding down towards the world with a vengeance. For the Umbras, they felt as if the world was engulfed in light… No, they felt as if the sun had been sent crashing down upon their poor souls.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!

The earth trembled, and the skies roared. In one explosive reaction, the dark crevice that created the Umbras ceased to exist. No… The entire mountain range had been completely devastated and was turned into a wasteland…

“Father he...”

“... destroyed so many mountains...”

Cassiel eyes were now seeing stars. There were many stories of experts levelling mountains and causing tsunamis, but to actually see it in person… Cassiel was now starstruck.

“Too powerful...” Bingbing was also behaving like a teenage girl who was looking at her idol from afar. Shin had simply grown far too powerful in the ten years that they Allfather was absent. As he was right now, he could easily contend with Spirit Saints and other Saint-level experts.

And well…

Shin would soon have the chance to do just that...