Zheng Dong forced himself to remain calm, constantly sensing the laws of fate, the changes in his own power, and the connection between his divinehead, soul, and divine kingdom.
Facing the East Sea Dragon King's attack, Zheng Dong chose to continuously evade, using illusory realms of time and space to confuse the East Sea Dragon King.
Although the other dominators saw the East Sea Dragon King gaining the upper hand, they still dared not attack Zheng Dong with their full strength.
They feared being the next to fall.
Because of this, most of them chose to activate the formation and attack Zheng Dong.
Countless water chains, like tentacles, lashed out at Zheng Dong.
Zheng Dong's bloodline clones were numerous, but their strength was still lacking, making it difficult to resist.
Many water chains struck Zheng Dong's body.
These water chains were condensed from countless seawater, each possessing immense power.
Zheng Dong's divine body could hardly withstand them, and he was torn and bleeding.
If this continued, his injuries would only worsen.
Zheng Dong had to find a solution as quickly as possible.
Otherwise, he would have to seek help from the Undying Dragon God.
At this moment, the East Sea Dragon King also saw through the illusory realm of time and space.
It bypassed the illusory realm, appeared behind Zheng Dong, activated its dragon pearl, and smashed it towards Zheng Dong's head.
Sensing a life-or-death crisis, Zheng Dong was about to dodge.
Suddenly, his phantom within the illusory realm of time and space overlapped with him.
This gave him an idea, a way to cope.
Immediately, he acted according to his thoughts, activating the power of fate and time-space laws.
The next moment, the phantom within the illusory realm of time and space actually stepped forward to block the dragon pearl activated by the East Sea Dragon King.
However, it did not hold for long before the phantom completely collapsed.
But this also bought Zheng Dong time, allowing him to avoid the East Sea Dragon King's attack.
This also surprised the East Sea Dragon King.
How could a phantom within an illusory realm of time and space block its attack?
It had not fallen into the illusory realm.
Zheng Dong was also somewhat surprised, not expecting his attempt to succeed so quickly.
He had merged his past self, mastered the power of the past, and by using the power of fate and time-space laws, he could manifest his past self.
In other words, the phantom within the illusory realm of time and space had suddenly attacked because Zheng Dong had transformed it into his past self.
In theory, as long as he could mobilize enough law power, Zheng Dong could manifest countless past selves.
Even the him from a second ago could be manifested.
These past selves could temporarily block attacks and serve as substitutes for Zheng Dong.
However, counterattacking was still difficult.
It required Zheng Dong to go further, to merge with his future self, or to fuse his beast-taming space with his divine kingdom, or to reach a deeper level of understanding of the laws of fate.
Zheng Dong did not rush or panic.
As long as he could stabilize, he had hope of comprehending more skills.
Then, Zheng Dong's figure disappeared into the illusory realms of time and space.
Moreover, the past selves he manifested continuously appeared, making it difficult for the East Sea Dragon King to distinguish which was Zheng Dong's true body.
This led to the East Sea Dragon King's attacks repeatedly failing.
However, the East Sea Dragon King was not in a hurry.
This was its territory, and it had set up a formation barrier. Zheng Dong could not escape at all; falling was only a matter of time.
On the contrary, the stronger Zheng Dong became, the more curious it was about the laws of fate.
The battle continued, with both sides exchanging blows. They fought dozens of times, and Zheng Dong's consumption grew larger. If not for Ling'er being able to obtain energy elements from the dimensional space, he would have been unable to hold on long ago.
At a disadvantage, Zheng Dong still had not found a way to escape.
The grand formation was activated by multiple dominators, showing no flaws.
Coupled with the East Sea Dragon King's continuous attacks, he did not have much time to break the formation and escape.
The only solution now might be to ask the Undying Dragon God for help.
But Zheng Dong still wanted to persevere.
He attempted to fuse his beast-taming space with his divine kingdom, aiming to break through to become a mythical beast-tamer.
However, the fusion quickly encountered problems.
He wanted to fuse his beast-taming space with his divine kingdom, but a collision occurred. The beast-taming space struck the divine kingdom, causing the beast-taming space to vibrate continuously and almost collapse.
Not only did it fail to fuse, but he also injured himself.
This made Zheng Dong realize that his beast-taming space was still relatively fragile and could not be used to upgrade its level by fusing with his divine kingdom.
What to do?
He still needed to further enhance his beast-taming space.
For his beast-taming space to fuse with his divine kingdom, it needed to possess its own law power.
A beast-taming space without law power was like a concrete building without steel bars, very fragile.
But how could his beast-taming space also possess law power?
Zheng Dong frowned.
As he was pondering, the East Sea Dragon King swiped its claw.
The East Sea Dragon King could not be sure if the person in front of it was Zheng Dong's true body or a past self, but attacking ten times meant one of them would hit.
As long as this one attack heavily injured Zheng Dong, it would win.
Sensing the East Sea Dragon King's attack, Zheng Dong swung his Blade of the Past.
But he was still sent flying by the East Sea Dragon King's immense power.
"Stop struggling. You're doomed. No one can save you!" the East Sea Dragon King sneered.
Zheng Dong frowned.
He swung the Blade of the Past again.
This time was different from before. The divine skill, Curse of Annihilation, erupted.
This was the first time Zheng Dong had used the power of curses from the previous era after becoming a dominator.
The strange power instantly surged towards the East Sea Dragon King.
The East Sea Dragon King's eyes widened in shock. It hadn't expected Zheng Dong to master the power of curses. Under the influence of the curses, its body began to decay and dissolve.
In an instant, it seemed to have aged decades.
If it hadn't encountered curse spirits with the Undying Dragon God, it would not have been able to deal with the Curse of Annihilation.
It hastily mobilized its power to resist the effects of the Curse of Annihilation, trying to expel the strange curse power from its body.
Zheng Dong also seized this opportunity to increase the intensity of his attack.
Although the Curse of Annihilation could affect the East Sea Dragon King, it was not enough to escape with it.
He still needed to find a way to break through.
Fortunately, as he gained the upper hand, he also gained inspiration for strengthening his beast-taming space.
His divinehead and soul merged, entering his beast-taming space and transforming into the Heavenly Dao of the beast-taming space, mobilizing various laws to strengthen it.
He needed to construct a river of laws to form the foundation of laws within his beast-taming space, providing law power to it.
This required a lot of time.
Zheng Dong could not complete it in a short period.
It seemed that breaking through the grand formation and escaping with his own strength was still difficult.
Unfortunately, Xiao Zi and Ling'er's power was still too weak to participate in dominator-level combat.
Even the Chaos Divine Phoenix, which had not recovered its memories, could not help.
Even so, Zheng Dong did not ask the Undying Dragon God for help.
He had come to this异兽界 (Yi Shou Jie - Exotic Beast World) to temper himself.
He would not seek help from the Undying Dragon God until the very last moment.
His current weakness was still insufficient strength, unable to withstand the consumption of prolonged combat.
If he had enough strength, he could use the divine skill of Deprivation multiple times, eliminate the other dominators, and then face the East Sea Dragon King.
Even if he couldn't defeat the East Sea Dragon King in the end, he would have a way to escape.
How could he gain more strength to use the divine skill of Deprivation with ease?
Zheng Dong did not get stuck in the dead end of fusing his beast-taming space and divine kingdom; he changed his approach.
After all, fusion was not something that could be achieved overnight.
Ling'er could obtain power from the dimensional space.
Why couldn't he?
Zheng Dong suddenly remembered that Ling'er's quasi-divine skill, Elemental Dimensional Sea, had also been imprinted by him, but he had never used it.
Why not construct his own Elemental Dimensional Sea?
A flash of inspiration struck Zheng Dong, and he decided to construct the Elemental Dimensional Sea within his divine kingdom.
This would allow him to obtain a large amount of elemental energy, giving him an inexhaustible reserve of power.
With his current strength, using a quasi-divine level Elemental Dimensional Sea was not difficult.
Immediately, he constructed Elemental Dimensional Seas one after another within his divine kingdom.
Each Elemental Dimensional Sea was connected to countless dimensional spaces, allowing for continuous storage of elemental energy.
Before long, as each Elemental Dimensional Sea was successfully constructed, he felt that his power expenditure had reached a balance point.
Thus, he could remain in the formation barrier indefinitely without fear of exhausting his strength and being defeated by the East Sea Dragon King.
However, he felt it was still not enough, so he opened up an Elemental Dimensional Sea in his beast-taming space.
This not only balanced his income and expenditure but also allowed him to store some power, which could be accumulated to unleash the divine skill of Deprivation more times.
Therefore, Zheng Dong became increasingly at ease within the formation barrier.
The East Sea Dragon King was very surprised by Zheng Dong's change.
He had clearly been on the offensive, so why couldn't he defeat Zheng Dong?
It refused to believe it and continued to unleash various divine skills, attacking desperately.
But all of them were resolved by Zheng Dong.
Moreover, the Curse of Annihilation used by Zheng Dong was a headache for the East Sea Dragon King. Each time it had to expel the curse power, it consumed a lot of its strength.
This also made the East Sea Dragon King a little anxious. It continuously ordered other dominators to attack Zheng Dong.
Seeing that Zheng Dong had not used the divine skill of Deprivation for a long time, these dominators gradually relaxed their vigilance and cooperated with the East Sea Dragon King to increase the intensity of their attacks on Zheng Dong.
Zheng Dong was not in a hurry to deal with these dominators, planning to wait until his strength recovered a bit more before using the divine skill of Deprivation.
He continued to use skills like illusory realms of time and space and past selves to evade, and occasionally counterattacked with skills like the Blade of the Past and the Curse of Annihilation.
However, his focus remained on constructing the river of laws within his beast-taming space.
His divinehead and soul merged, constantly within his beast-taming space, constructing the river of laws.
As the river of laws appeared, he could mobilize law power, shape the framework of laws, weave the network of laws, and strengthen his beast-taming space.
In the blink of an eye, more than half a year had passed.
Zheng Dong was still within the formation barrier, in a stalemate with the East Sea Dragon King and other dominators.
The East Sea Dragon King did not expect that it had not defeated Zheng Dong after such a long time.
Zheng Dong did not show any signs of fatigue or weakness.
This made it very anxious, wondering if it could still defeat Zheng Dong if this continued.
"Stop hiding anything. Use all your strength and kill him with me!" the East Sea Dragon King said.
The other dominators also did not want to continue the stalemate. They took out their divine artifacts, intending to go all out. If they still couldn't defeat Zheng Dong, they would have to give up.
Just as they were about to make their move, Zheng Dong also prepared to use the divine skill of Deprivation again.
His divine soul and divinehead returned to his body, he mobilized the power of fate, and once again unleashed the divine skill of Deprivation.
The river of fate appeared, and Zheng Dong quickly stripped away a thread of fate.
This time, it was not the weakest one, but the dominator closest to Zheng Dong, who had been the most vocal and had shown no mercy to Zheng Dong.
After Zheng Dong stripped away its thread of fate, it stood frozen in place like a puppet with its strings cut.
Seeing this, the other dominators, including the East Sea Dragon King, retreated in fear.
Damn it, why this move again!
The East Sea Dragon King was filled with rage but also feared that Zheng Dong would suddenly do the same to it.
By then, it wouldn't even know how it died.
Of course, Zheng Dong also wanted to strip away the East Sea Dragon King's thread of fate.
Unfortunately, the stronger the target of deprivation, the greater the consumption.
Zheng Dong worried that if he couldn't strip away the East Sea Dragon King's thread of fate, he would exhaust his own strength.
After eliminating another dominator, Zheng Dong decided to counterattack.
The river of laws within his beast-taming space had been completed after more than half a year of construction, and his beast-taming space had been further strengthened. As long as he could fuse his beast-taming space with his divine kingdom, his strength would become even greater.
Taking advantage of the East Sea Dragon King and the other dominators' retreat, Zheng Dong summoned his beast-taming space and attempted to fuse it with his divine kingdom again.
This time was different from the last. It was no longer a forced fusion.
His divine soul and divinehead merged into one, becoming the Heavenly Dao within his beast-taming space. He mobilized the power of laws and the power of laws within his divine kingdom to intermingle, forming threads of laws, and migrating his beast-taming space to fuse with his divine kingdom.
The entire fusion process was smoother than Zheng Dong had anticipated.
And the fusion was fast, with no accidents.
The constructed Elemental Dimensional Seas also fused with each other, becoming larger.
After fusion, it further accelerated the fusion of Zheng Dong's beast-taming space and divine kingdom.
Xiao Zi and other spirit beasts also unleashed their power within the beast-taming space, stabilizing it so that it would not vibrate and collapse due to the fusion.
As the fusion was completed, Zheng Dong's beast-taming space became even more perfect, meeting the conditions for an upgrade.
However, at this moment, the East Sea Dragon King and the other dominators came to their senses.
They did not expect Zheng Dong to break through under their siege, and even become stronger right under their noses.
This made the East Sea Dragon King unable to accept it.
It felt as if Zheng Dong had completely ignored it.
Filled with rage, the East Sea Dragon King unleashed the divine skill, Wrathful Sea Divine Annihilation.
The other five dominators also unleashed their strongest attacks one after another.
Facing the attacks of the East Sea Dragon King and the other dominators, Zheng Dong showed no fear; instead, he felt a bit excited.
His strength had just improved, and he could test his power.
His beast-taming space unfolded, transforming into a vast world, crushing towards the East Sea Dragon King and the other dominators.
The East Sea Dragon King and the other dominators did not care, intending to tear apart Zheng Dong's beast-taming space and kill him.
But when the two forces collided, the East Sea Dragon King regretted it.
Zheng Dong's beast-taming space was incredibly sturdy, like a starship roaming the starry sky, capable of easily shattering wandering meteoroids and pushing them aside.
Next, it was about to tear through the formation barrier and escape.
Zheng Dong's beast-taming space was not only extremely stable but also contained terrifying power, even comparable to this异世界 (Yi Shou Jie - Exotic Beast World).
Such power was no longer something the East Sea Dragon King and the other dominators could block.
Zheng Dong could be considered to have the foundation to become a Supreme.
But it was not enough. If his beast-taming space upgraded and he became a mythical beast-tamer, his strength would become even greater.