"Crack!" The sky above the Titan Archipelago began to shatter, with transparent shards falling down! But through the gaps in the falling fragments, the sky remained blue, unchanged. It wasn't a pitch-black void.

"Hmm?" Muria was initially puzzled. According to his understanding, the sky was supposed to be infinite and couldn't have a physical presence. He thought the cracks in the sky were caused by the spatial fissure created by the sun-like presence.

But when actual fragments started falling from the sky, Muria realized that it wasn't a spatial fissure. The falling fragments weren't spatial debris. The continuously dissipating, faintly glowing, semi-transparent fragments were a type of energy crystal.

"A super-large-scale lock." Seeing this situation, Muria immediately identified what was falling from the sky based on the books he had read over the years. These years of reading were not in vain.

Those were shattered fragments of the defensive barrier, and they belonged to a super-large-scale lock covering the entire Titan Archipelago. The defense area of this lock was so vast that it was simply incredible.

"This lock must have a screening function! Ordinary creatures have no qualifications to trigger this lock. Otherwise, with so many foreign giants coming to my place, the lock would have been triggered and discovered by me long ago. It wouldn't have waited until now." Muria looked up at the sky.

"Dimos, you've got some nerve, daring to come here and cause trouble!" Just then, a thunderous voice echoed through the sky. At the same time, a blue wind and purple thunder pervaded the sky, converging into a cyan-purple hand.

This hand, formed by wind and thunder, was so large that it covered the sky, making Muria feel awe-inspiring. It was a power he couldn't reach at the moment.

Then, with a majestic momentum, this wind and thunder hand directly slammed into the entity that shattered the defense lock of the Titan Archipelago, its power no less than that emitted by the entity emitting endless golden light.

"Hey, who says I'm not bold?" The sun-like entity emitted a majestic voice, and then, unsurprisingly to Muria, from within the golden "sun," a dragon claw covered in golden scales extended, colliding with the wind and thunder hand without showing weakness.

"Boom!" After a moment of slight silence in the world, a loud rumbling sound erupted. Then, a visible shockwave spread from the collision between the two, and the sky above the Titan Archipelago seemed to be swept by a Category 12 hurricane.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!" Strong winds blew, waves as high as ten meters rose on the sea surface, countless "slender" trees on the islands were snapped in half, and broken branches and leaves flew everywhere. Beasts crawled on the ground, hiding in their dens, emitting fearful cries.

With just a single aftermath of the confrontation between two entities, many islands in the Titan Archipelago became a mess, looking like they had been razed, bare and unsightly.

"Dimos!" A low growl full of anger echoed from somewhere in the Titan Archipelago.

"Heh, why are you angry? It's not like I struck first." Emitting endless golden brilliance, the ancient golden dragon Dimos said indifferently, as if he hadn't been the one to smash the defense lock of the Titan Archipelago.

"…Huh!" The voice fell silent for a while before a figure with uncertain surprise sounded, "Dimos, have you broken through the barrier?"

"Do you really need to be so surprised? Do you look down on me?" Dimos replied with disdain, paying no attention to the questions below. "You've broken through a few hundred years earlier than me, so I'm not allowed to break through now?"

"I thought you were going to ascend to godhood."

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"Heh!" Dimos chuckled coldly, paying no attention, but the golden light emanating from him became even more dazzling, obscuring his already blurry figure.

"Boom!" The super-large lock covering the sky above the Titan Archipelago was directly shattered by Dimos, leaving a huge gap. Then, he charged in, flying rapidly towards Taiji Island where Muria was located.

"Dimos, breaking through the barrier and becoming the Dragon King, you're so arrogant? How dare you casually destroy the warning lock of our Titan clan." Hearing Dimos' disdainful laughter, the voice first fell silent, but seeing Dimos' actions, the owner of the voice began to get angry. "Do you want to fight?"

"Do you think I'm afraid of you Titans?" Dimos retorted directly. "I'm just causing trouble because I'm bored. I came to see my grandson. If it weren't for this broken thing blocking my way, I wouldn't have come."

"Since when does the Titan Archipelago have the blood relatives of your golden dragons?" A voice tinged with doubt sounded.

"Osiris, are you confused?" Dimos scoffed without paying attention, completely ignoring the question.

"Hmm?" The will of Titan Osiris followed Dimos' forward direction, then saw Muria standing on the Five-Colored Dragon Castle, and exclaimed in amazement, "The Son of Titan and Dragon!"

"So that's how it is. Life is truly incredible. It seems like I've slept too long." Named Osiris, the Titan sighed after discovering Muria's presence, then fell silent again.

On the castle, Muria initially felt a vast and oppressive consciousness sweep over his body, like facing an ocean storm.

But Muria didn't feel uncomfortable at all. Instead, after the consciousness swept over his body, his blood boiled even more fiercely, and another power began to revive. There were no abnormalities, and the dragonization phenomenon on his body was even suppressed and stopped by this power.

Then, Muria looked forward and saw a "sun" descending onto Taiji Island. The entire island was bathed in the golden light emitted by the "sun," turning Taiji Island into a golden island.

Finally, the "sun" landed in front of Muria, and the golden light scattered on the Five-Colored Dragon Castle. The storm giants standing with Muria on the castle couldn't bear the seemingly infinite pressure and all knelt down as the "sun" approached, and many even fainted.

Even the strongest storm giants were like this. All the creatures on the Five-Colored Dragon Castle and even the entire Taiji Island were no exception. Under the instinctive emergency response of living beings, they fell unconscious in droves, "The sun" was an existence they couldn't directly face.

On Taiji Island now, only Muria remained conscious. When facing "the sun," his feelings were different from those of other creatures. He felt warm and comfortable. This was his feeling, without any oppression, just like facing the warm sun in winter.

"Hey, hey, hey, Dad. You've broken through, but don't be so arrogant, can you tone it down a bit?" Just then, a spatial portal appeared on Muria's shoulder, and a stunningly beautiful girl stepped out from it, then plopped down on Muria's shoulder.

Golden Dragon Princess Atreus, in human girl form.

As the Golden Dragon Princess spoke, the golden light began to fade slowly, gradually disappearing, and the ancient golden dragon, previously obscured by the golden light, gradually revealed his true form.

When Muria saw the ancient golden dragon standing before the Five-Colored Dragon Castle, a look of astonishment appeared on his face. This huge golden dragon seemed like a towering golden mountain.

The golden Dragon King stood on the ground in front of the Five-Colored Dragon Castle, yet his line of sight was parallel to Muria's standing on the top of the castle. His body was so massive.

You see, Muria's castle was built proportionally according to the height of an adult Titan, and it was already an incredible architectural miracle in itself.

Therefore, the position where Muria stood was more than three hundred meters above the ground. Compared to ordinary golden dragons with slender and elongated bodies, the physique of Muria's grandfather, Dimos Elonsath, was unimaginable.

"Are you kidding me?" Muria looked at his grandfather's colossal true form, murmuring to himself. Although he had read few books, he still had some basic common sense. This was not a size a typical ancient dragon could possess, not even the largest of the ancient red dragons could have this size.

"Wow! Dad, it's been a while, and you've grown so much bigger." Golden Dragon Princess Atreus saw her father's true form and also exclaimed, clearly indicating that Dimos, Muria's grandfather, hadn't been like this before. It was a recent change, resulting in a massive increase in size.

"I took a time-space trip, got lucky, and broke through." Dimos described casually.

"Are you kidding me? You broke through just by taking a time-space trip?" Golden Dragon Princess Atreus looked disdainful. "Next time, take me with you. If I don't break through and become a Dragon King, it's your responsibility, okay?"

"Get out of here, becoming a Dragon King isn't so easy. Can't you see, in the whole of Eurasia, how many Dragon Kings are there?" The Golden Dragon King sneered, "You reach the legendary peak first, then think about breaking through to become a Dragon King!"

"Hmph!" Golden Dragon Princess snorted, then looked up and down at Dimos. "Hmm, Dad, not only have you grown bigger, but your form has also changed a lot."

"Nonsense." Dimos really couldn't be bothered with his playful daughter. Each Dragon King was unique, with powers and forms surpassing those of ordinary dragons.

Hearing Golden Dragon Princess Atreus' words, Muria finally reacted. At first, he was overwhelmed by his grandfather's size, but now that he had regained his senses, he carefully observed his grandfather's appearance. He then realized Dimos' unique form.

Dimos' true form was significantly different from that of an ordinary golden dragon. Firstly, his dragon horns were not the typical pair found on a golden dragon. Instead, Dimos had eight dragon horns on his head, with four pairs extending backward at different angles, resembling a crown. This was one of the symbols of a Dragon King.

Dimos' Dragon King body, though massive, allowed Muria, standing on the castle's top, to see a part of it due to the favorable terrain. Compared to the slender and elongated body of an ordinary golden dragon, Dimos' body could be described as muscular. This form seemed to be possessed only by red dragons.

The most significant difference was that Dimos' golden dragon body was covered with golden bone scales of various sizes, obscuring most of his body. At the junctions of these scales were "dense" dragon scales relative to his true form.

Dimos' entire dragon body looked like he was wearing a set of heavy golden dragon-shaped full-body armor, majestic and domineering. Except for the color, which was the same as that of a golden dragon, Dimos, compared to the golden dragon, had no similarities whatsoever. He was a completely new dragon species.