It is midnight on October 15th, 267 of the lunar calendar.
There was a bright moon in the sky, and the cold moonlight illuminated the earth in crystal white.
The land of the far west.
At the foot of Liupan Mountain, a red torrent splashed down from the mountain with flashing red light.
Downstream, the Chishui River that used to flow quietly is now surging violently like a boil.
Thousands of orcs, dwarfs, dwarves, giants, and cavemen frantically poured bags of gems, spiritual plants, minerals, and the blood of various creatures into the Chishui River.
After each dumping, there would be waves in the water immediately, as if there were some creatures fighting for it underwater.
Jiuluo and hundreds of his fellow tribesmen stood by the Chishui River, waiting quietly.
As time went by, the river surged more and more violently, and countless bubbles rolled and burst with the undulating river water.
From time to time, there will be a heavy dark wave under the river, as if there is something huge swimming in the water.
Not long after, when another wave was set off, the boiling river surface suddenly burst upward, splashing countless tiny water droplets.
And in the water droplets flying, a blood-colored flying dragon more than fifty feet long rose up from the river surface with its body dancing in a winding motion.
"Groan——!"
A high-pitched, distant, yet somewhat crazy scream resounded across the sky.
The bloody flying dragon flew into the air and let out a roar, then suddenly stretched out its body.
‘Shua——!’
A pair of blood-colored bone wings spread out to a size of twenty feet spread out from the neck of the blood-colored long worm.
High in the sky, the full moon is cold and bright.
Looking up from where Jiuluo and the others were, they could see a bloody flying dragon with spread wings flying in the bright moon. Its triangular tail like a chain cone could be drawn out at will to draw white streaks in the air.
The blood-red body is covered with diamond-shaped blood scales, and the whole body is smeared with a layer of purple-red flame mist, swaying in the wind.
Jiuluo and the other 'celestial demons' waited quietly despite the bloody flying dragons flying wildly in the sky.
After a few breaths, another thirty-five bloody flying dragons emerged from the Chishui River.
"Groan——!"
"Groan——!"
Thirty-six bloody flying dragons flew across the sky, making extremely violent screams. Through the layers of gauze-like red clouds, a blood moon shone in the sky.
Jiuluo looked at the flying dragon flying in the sky, the corners of his mouth gradually turned up, and he murmured to himself.
"It took eight hundred years of accumulation to create these thirty-six blood flame dragons.
True Lord Ruyi, let me see how your tribe survives this disaster this time!"
After the words fell from his mouth, he laughed softly at first, and then the laughter got louder and louder, and in the end it sounded like countless muffled thunders.
"Hahahaha~~hahahaha~~~"
...
ancestral land.
early morning.
Zhang Ke sat cross-legged on top of the Suzaku statue, his eyes slightly closed, and his spirit had already left his body.
Seventeen years ago, Zhang Ke discovered that the soul of Wanxiang occasionally trembled in the Suzaku statue.
He guessed that Wanxiang's remaining soul might have recovered slightly after being nourished by the power of faith in the Suzaku Kingdom.
In order to ensure that the spirituality of Wanxiang would not be disillusioned, from then on, Zhang Ke would use the power of his own soul to stimulate the spirituality of Wanxiang's soul every few days.
After nearly twenty years of stimulation, the spirit of Wanxiang is no longer as silent and numb as it was at the beginning, but is responding mischievously like a cheerful elf.
Although I still don’t recognize who Zhang Ke is, I am full of nostalgia for him.
According to Zhang Ke's estimation, in another sixty years, the damage to Wanxiang Three Souls and Seven Souls can be recovered, and the memory can naturally be restored by then.
What troubles Zhang Ke now is whether he should reshape his body for Wanxiang.
‘Xu~~’
A stream of white air spurted out from Zhang Ke's mouth, and then he slowly opened his eyes.
"Seize the body? Derive from flesh and blood? Endow spirits? Or condense the true body of the elements?"
Zhang Ke frowned and muttered one word after another.
Wanxiang was originally transformed into a Taoist soldier. Later, by chance, it was integrated with the 'Twelve Yuan Chen Dharma Pillars' and became the true form of Suzaku.
Then, through the power of merit and virtue, he obtained a human body, so he can change at will between the human body and the real Suzaku body.
Originally, this was an existence somewhere between an immortal body, but the power of the Dao Rules of [Qi Banner] was too powerful, and its soul was almost destroyed, and even its physical body was solidified into a statue.
In this case, Zhang Ke didn't know whether to let the soul of all things leave the body and reshape the body, or to continue refining the statue to restore itself.
Both options have their own advantages and disadvantages, and Zhang Ke didn't know how to choose for a while.
...
The morning of October 27, 267 of the lunar calendar.
Flame Bay City.
After decades of vigorous development, the original country can no longer accommodate the increasing number of residents.
After two expansions, Yanwan City is now three times its size, with nearly 30 million residents living in the capital all year round.
Chessboard Street was just built in the past twenty years. The overall shape looks like a Go board when viewed from above.
Nineteen-way long streets extend in all directions, and the convenient transportation conditions make this area gradually become the most prosperous area in the capital.
It has also become the most concentrated place for merchants, with various shops lined up in rows and a dazzling array of goods attracting a large number of residents.
At this moment, the crowds of people were surging slowly along the long street like water waves.
The sounds of hawking, quarreling, and laughter are endless.
The neighing of animals and the rolling of wheels come and go. Against the background of all these noisy sounds, Qipan Street appears to be a bustling scene.
A few sluts deliberately twisted their bodies to squeeze through a group of women in the street market, causing a burst of yelling and some bad laughter from the crowd.
Suddenly, a prodigal accidentally caught a glimpse of two red clouds in the distance that seemed to be moving rapidly in the direction of the capital.
"Strange, why are there red clouds?"
The prodigal murmured to himself, building an awning with his hands, squinting his eyes and looking up at the red clouds.
But when he took a closer look, what he saw made his eyes widen bit by bit, and he froze in place without moving.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! I saw two blood-red flying dragons flapping their wings in the high sky and flying quickly.
Although the flying dragon doesn't look very big due to the long distance, the fierce aura rushes towards you just by looking at it.
As the two flying dragons approached quickly, some other people on the ground noticed something strange, and repeated screams came from the crowd.
"Look, there is a dragon in the sky~~!"
"Oh my god, what a big flying dragon~~!"
"No, everyone, leave quickly, it's dangerous!"
"It...how...how did it fly towards us!!!"
"Run! Run for your life!"
"..."
As the blood flame dragon flew downwards from the sky with its blood-red eyes wide open, the blood clouds swaying around its body emitted the aura of fierceness, evil, resentment, and poison, rolling downwards.
Even though it was known that it would take some time for the bloody flying dragon to reach the sky above the capital, the city of Flame Bay was already in chaos.
Countless people were crying, howling, and screaming on the streets and fled in all directions. Viewed from above, the whole city was boiling like water boiled by fire.
Every advantage has a disadvantage.
In the past, humans in this world were at the bottom of the food chain, struggling for survival all the time.
At that time, the human race had a tenacious character. Even if there were ferocious beasts or monsters attacking, the whole clan would fight against them.
When the Xiawan tribe encountered the swallow-tailed hornet, everyone in the tribe knew they were outmatched, but they still fought desperately.
Even in death, no one cries.
However, as their living habits shifted from the hunting era to the farming era, the stable life of more than two hundred years made the citizens of the Suzaku Kingdom forget what danger was.
Especially the citizens in the capital. They have not encountered any threats since they were born. Now, just two flying dragons hovering in the sky have caused a city to become extremely chaotic.
Of course, this is not only caused by people's minds becoming fragile, but also by the unique psychological pressure of the bloody flying dragon.
Outside the door of the Suzaku Hall, King Shan Xing and a dozen of the kingdom's top officials looked at the blood-red flying dragon that was approaching quickly with ugly expressions.
The location of the Suzaku Hall was originally the middle peak, one of the five peaks.
Later, because the five peaks blocked the construction of the city, the remaining four peaks were bulldozed by their roots, but only the upper part of the middle peak was cut off and was used to build the Vermillion Bird Hall.
Therefore, as long as you stand outside the Suzaku Hall, you can clearly see the entire capital below.
Hundreds of imperial guards were guarding everyone, and other court officials were sent to quell the chaos in the city.
Yanwan City has 30 million people. Once chaos occurs, the harm caused is unimaginable.
After two hundred years of development, the current location of the capital is basically at the center of the Suzaku Kingdom, with nearly two thousand cities surrounding the capital from all directions.
In the view of Shan Xing and others, if one day the enemy can break through the many cities guarding the outside, then it will be meaningless no matter how strong the defense of the capital is.
Therefore, the city wall of Yanwan City is not very high, and there are not many city defense weapons.
The most important thing is that the purpose of these urban defense weapons is to attack the ground. It has never been considered that one day there will be an attack from the air.
When there was great chaos in the city, golden drums were beating, chimes were ringing continuously, and tens of thousands of soldiers quickly came to their respective posts according to the orders of the chief officers.
From the weapon depots at the highest points such as city towers, watchtowers, city walls, and arrow towers, large and giant city defense weapons were rolled out one after another.
A giant city defense crossbow operated by ten people, a large continuous fire cannon operated by a group of twenty people, a super large catapult that can only be operated by fifty people...
Hundreds of city defense weapons were put into operation.
But whether these weapons can be effective, no one can give a definite answer.
At this moment, two blood-flame dragons had already flown over the capital. Although there were only two of them, they had spread hundreds of feet of blood clouds like blood waves in the sky.
The two blood flame dragons arrived in the sky above the capital without any hesitation. They opened their mouths and two purple-red blood flames sprayed out.
As soon as the blood flames exited, they exploded into hundreds of purple-red sparks. After being activated by the vitality of heaven and earth, these sparks instantly exploded into hundreds of fist-sized fireballs.
The fire ball grew larger every time it flew downward, and at the same time, traces of sparks exploded from the fire ball.
At this moment, the sky filled with fireballs carrying countless sparks flew downwards like countless exploding fireworks in the night sky.
But this was only the first movement made by the two blood flame dragons. After a mouthful of blood flames was sprayed out, the bodies of the two blood flame dragons shrank and shook again.
The endless blood cloud spread instantly, spreading thousands of feet in size in an instant, and then shrouded downwards like a thin blood-colored gauze.
A terrible blood poison miasma. Once it is inhaled into the mouth and nose of a creature, the blood in the body will become viscous under the catalysis of the blood poison, thus blocking the blood vessels and causing death.
After Jiuluo entered the 'mountain and sea realm', while exploring the terrain, he discovered a dragon cave at the Chishui River.
Among them were thirty-six dragon eggs that were almost lifeless. Jiuluo spent all his efforts to hatch thirty-six blood-flame dragons full of resentment and malice.
After hundreds of years of uncontrolled gestation, these blood flame dragons were catalyzed to maturity at this time.
Although their lifespan has been greatly reduced, the strength of these blood flame dragons is no less than that of practitioners in the Yuanshen realm.
The key is that these dragons can fly and possess the power of blood poison that is extremely knowable on living creatures.
After decades of war, many forces supported by the ‘Devils’ have been defeated by the Suzaku Kingdom.
Although these defeated 'Heavenly Demons' were imprisoned in the [Contract Banner], relying on the spiritual dialogue ability of the third-grade innate spiritual treasure [Heavenly Demon Concentric Gong], Jiuluo still had a preliminary understanding of the strength of the Suzaku Kingdom.
Jiuluo discovered that the greatest advantage of the Suzaku Kingdom was its population.
If there are no restrictions on the population of the Suzaku Kingdom, the population of the Suzaku Kingdom will increase with more attacks.
After some deductions, Jiuluo came to a conclusion that he found unbelievable.
Even if he can finally integrate many forces of his own clan, whether he can defeat the Suzaku Kingdom is still in doubt.
This couldn't help but surprise him. Thinking of Zhenjun Ruyi's terrifying methods, Jiuluo decided to dig deep into the matter and solve the problem from the root.
So he quickly matured the thirty-six blood flame dragons that would play a huge role in the future, and ordered them to fly to the Suzaku Kingdom to carry out a devastating blow.
At this moment, these blood flame dragons revealed their terrifying side.
As long as this blood cloud and poisonous miasma spreads over Flame Bay City, not even one ten thousandth of the thirty million residents will survive.
What's even more frightening is that the remaining thirty-four blood flame dragons are also rushing towards other cities in the Suzaku Kingdom at the same time.
If Jiuluo's plan can succeed, the two-hundred-year-old "Tao-Demon War" will be brought to an end early in the Suzaku Kingdom.
Nowadays, the spreading blood cloud is enough to cover most of the country's capital. Although they don't know what harm this blood cloud has, Shan Xing and others have an ominous premonition in their hearts.
Two blood flame dragons were writhing in the blood cloud, causing the blood cloud to descend bit by bit.
It is not easy to keep such a large blood cloud from spreading.
Outside the Suzaku Hall, the commander of the inner court guards looked at the rain of fire falling from above and immediately came to Shan Ling.
"Your Majesty! This flame seems to be unusual. Your Majesty, please move it into the palace."
Shan Xing shook his head and said in a deep voice:
"My people are still in danger, how can I leave first?
I am standing here, and I want my people to see that even if danger comes, their king will always be with them."
Prime Minister Zuo Yuan Jiang on the side said:
"Although this flame is terrifying, it can't hurt us, but there is something wrong with the blood cloud.
Send the order, wait until the dragon reaches within range, and attack immediately, trying not to let it drop the blood cloud.
In addition, let the officials quickly calm down the panicked people and hide them to avoid the blood cloud."
Several imperial guards went down to spread the message, and Yuan Jiang looked at Shan Xing.
"Your Majesty, although there are some people in the country who rely on their natural abilities to fly, they are probably no match for these two dragons.
Do you want to invite people to go to the ancestral land and ask the national master to take action?"
Hearing this, Shan Xing turned his head to the east, remained silent for a moment, and then said slowly:
"The Imperial Master has the power to reach heaven and earth. I'm afraid he has already discovered the abnormality. If he is willing to take action, we don't need to ask for it. If he is not willing to take action, then there is no point in asking."
Yuan Jiang shook his head and said:
"No, even if he doesn't want to do some things, we still have to do what we should do.
future..."
Yuan Jiang didn't say anything clearly, but Shan Xing's eyes lit up.
‘Yes! If I go to ask him and he is unwilling to help, some historians will record the matter and spread it to the outside world.
At that time, not only can the resentment of the people be channeled, but his prestige in the hearts of the people can also be weakened.'
After thinking about it, he immediately said:
"Immediately write a note asking for help. The words must be sincere and humble, stamped with my private seal and the national seal, and go quickly!"
"Here!"
Shan Xing raised his head, looked at the fire rain in the sky a hundred feet above, and murmured to himself:
"National Master! Don't let me down!"
Wei Wei Lu Chong listened to the meaningful words from the monarch's mouth and sneered secretly in his heart.
‘Isn’t it the Imperial Master who once refuted your face in public? It’s been decades and you are still so fussy about it, huh~~~’
Hundreds of imperial guards unleashed their innate magical powers, and colorful light curtains appeared above the heads of the monarch Shan Xing and everyone else.
A moment later, purple-red fire rained down from the sky, causing no harm to anyone except a few sparks in the light curtain above everyone's heads.
But this rain of fire falling on the capital was different.
Endless fire rain fell from the sky, and fireballs flew onto various buildings and human bodies with gravity.
"Boom - boom - boom -"
Fire exploded all over the sky, and countless roars sounded everywhere.
Holes were blown open in the stone buildings, rubble flew in all directions, and smoke and dust rose in all directions.
The wooden structure houses were directly penetrated by the purple-red flames, and each house was set on fire. Fires and thick smoke ignited everywhere in the city.
At the same time, more figures were hit by fireballs and sparks. The ones hit by the fireballs were okay, but they were blown into ashes in an instant.
But those who were ignited by the sparks found that no matter how hard they beat and rolled, they could not extinguish the sparks on their bodies. They could only scream in vain and were burned to charcoal in the clusters of fire.
At this moment, the entire Yanwan City became a hell, with countless creatures screaming and wailing in the flames.
...
ancestral land.
The land in the far west is due west, and the blood flame dragon comes from west to east, and the ancestral land is east of Su City, so when the blood flame dragon appeared, Zhang Ke did not notice it immediately.
At that time, he was in an out-of-body state.
This state is very beneficial for him to understand the laws of heaven and earth and the changes in vitality. Therefore, every once in a while, Zhang Ke will make the soul leave the body.
Suddenly, in the state of his soul, he felt an abnormal vibration in the vitality of heaven and earth. Zhang Ke was alert, and in the blink of an eye, his soul had entered his body.
When he opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the fluctuations in vitality, he saw streaks of blood rushing through the sky in the distance.