Embers of Sword

Chapter 249: Dragon Slaying War, Unfinished War

"Young Prince, where are my fellow disciples from Qiantian Palace?"

In Dayue City, dozens of figures flew through the air and stopped above a ruined building.

Yuwen Zhong said in a deep voice: "Are you sure you saw a cultivator from Qiantian Palace here?"

"It should be here..."

Qin Wanyang frowned slightly and said, "Maybe it's further east?"

"We are heading north and are almost reaching the main city!"

Yuwen Zhong's patience ran out, and he said coldly, "I haven't seen any aura of Qiantian Palace magic along the way! Mr. Qin... have you seen my fellow apprentices?"

"Son Yuwen, don't be angry."

Qin Wanyang smiled and said in a voice transmission: "There are many restrictions inside this ancient city, and the cavalry is circumventing it. Maybe I was wrong at that time. Even if I didn't find it, you can't blame me, right?"

"you?"

Yuwen Zhong’s eyes widened with anger.

He grabbed Qin Wanyang by the collar.

The latter looked calm, as if he would not fight back.

At this moment.

The token on Yuwen Zhong's waist suddenly trembled. His pupils contracted and he quickly used the Panxuan Mirror to empower his divine sense and connect it with the token... This secret realm isolated the external divine sense information. The trembling of the token at this moment meant that his fellow disciples had already stepped into the ancient city!
"Brother, where are you?"

Intermittent sounds of divine thoughts came from the token.

It was Chen Li’s message.

Immediately afterwards, a blurry scene was also sent into the order.

"My fellow apprentices and I are in the western part of the secret realm, in the barren mountains outside the city... We will be waiting for you here..."

This sound was transmitted countless times before it was successfully transmitted into the token.

"My junior brother is still here, they are all safe!"

Hearing this familiar voice, Yuwen Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, and the stone in his heart finally fell.

"You've been lying to me..."

The next moment, Yuwen Zhong grabbed Qin Wanyang's collar and lifted him up.

His eyes were full of anger, but more of confusion.

"My fellow apprentices never entered the city, so it was impossible for you to see them... Why did you lie to me like this? What's the benefit?"

"It seems that they have sent you a message?"

Qin Wanyang raised his eyebrows and said calmly, "Congratulations, Brother Yuwen, my fellow apprentice is safe and sound. I said before... I might have seen it wrong. Saint, you are wrong. Qin is kind enough to accompany you. Even if there is no gain, how can you blame me?"

"..."

These words left Yuwen Zhong speechless.

He stared at Qin Wanyang, and after a moment he suddenly said, "You just want to come back here? Is there the fortune you want here?"

If I follow Wu Zong and Yu Qing Zhai, I won’t have the chance to return to the city…

"Yuwen Shengzi, you are smart for once."

Qin Wanyang stopped pretending and said frankly: "To be honest, when I was sent to this city, I saw a piece of good fortune, shining with golden light. Now I have come all the way and am almost there... That good fortune is not far from here. How about you and I go together, take the good fortune, and then go find your fellow apprentices?"

"Qin Wanyang."

Yuwen Zhong said coldly: "Do you think I will still believe what you said? Even if there is a chance, this Saint Son is not interested!"

Say it.

He loosened his grip on Qin Wanyang's hand, turned around, and faced the casual cultivators: "Everyone, I'm going to the west of the city... This city is dangerous. If any of you want to live, leave with me."

A silence.

Yuwen Zhong frowned slightly.

He could see that these casual cultivators were evasive in their gazes.

It was obvious that they were not interested in their proposed "departure".

They want to ask for help from God!

"In that case, we'll see each other later."

Yuwen Zhong did not hesitate, he controlled his Qi and left, turning into a long rainbow and flying towards the north.

the other side.

Qin Wanyang watched Yuwen Zhong leave, and the colors in the depths of his pupils changed.

Strands of golden light swayed in it, exuding the breath of Tao.

He turned around, looked at the people behind him, and said in a cold tone: "Let's continue."

Those independent cultivators who left with Qin Wanyang.

After looking into his eyes.

There were also wisps of dreamy golden light of the Tao in his eyes.

The group of people headed towards the main city.

I don't know.

Just above their heads, a snow-white demonic shadow was suspended in the air.

"Your Majesty."

Frost Moth spread his wings and hung high in the shadows. He clutched the Blazing Feather Order and slowly transmitted his voice: "Those human cultivators don't seem to be in the ancient city... I patrolled the north of the city and only found a dozen of them. They just separated. One is the Saint of Qiantian Palace, one is the young prince of the Qin family, and the others are just some low-ranking casual cultivators. What should we do with them?"

After a brief silence.

An impatient voice came from the Chiling Order's side.

"Kill them all."

……

……

Lord Jiu was suspended in the sky above Dayue Well. The dark bottom of the well was like an abyss, emitting an invisible pulling force.

But if you look down.

You will see endless golden glow, like a dream, covering the well water.

"Thanks to the five-colored magic lamp, I am not obsessed with it."

Prince Jiu had a serious expression on his face, staring at the dark wellhead, with beads of sweat on his forehead.

The moment looking towards the ancient well.

He saw his future self, sitting on the great throne, looking down upon the nine heavens and ten earths. The true phoenixes and true dragons were trampled under his feet, and all the creatures in the demon kingdom prostrated themselves before him.

This kind of scene, even if it is just an illusion, even if it only lasts for a moment.

It still makes people addicted and unable to extricate themselves.

Fortunately, the five-colored magic lamp woke him up in time and he escaped from this dream.

"This well contains extremely terrifying power of the avenue..."

Prince Jiu looked hesitant.

According to the Dragon Yuan's sensing, Ao Ying has already jumped into the well!

The green aura of Tiesuo Lane also lingered nearby... It is very likely that Xie Xuanyi also jumped into the bottom of the well!

These two people's lives are cheap and they don't value them.

But I am different from them!
"I guess this is the greatest fortune of Dayue Nation."

Prince Jiu took a deep breath and made a decision. When he was hunting down the human cultivators, he sent a message with his divine mind to inform Peacock Grand Venerable to come here. Now that the hunting was coming to an end, Peacock Grand Venerable should also be arriving at the snow mountain soon. If he jumped into the well, even if he encountered an accident, Peacock Grand Venerable should be able to "cover the bottom"!
"Jump……"

“You must jump!”

Just as Prince Jiu was about to enter the well.

The Dayuejing trembled slightly.

Rumble.

A low roar rose from the well water, the false calm was shattered, and the extremely powerful force of the Tao suddenly burst out!

"???"

Prince Jiu was completely stunned and he quickly stepped back.

But the eruption of this power was like a volcano, and it all happened too fast, even a peak Yin God couldn't dodge in time -

Emperor Qi's natal cave was originally blocked by the Ruyi Dao Rule.

The Tao is broken.

Divine mist penetrated out.

"Hiss!" A crisp cracking sound came from the light column. Lord Jiu, who was originally hanging above the Dayue Well, retreated dozens of feet and was still hit by the light column. He watched helplessly as one of his arms was hit and swallowed by the Dao light column... Just like that, it turned into nothingness in an instant.

It is nothingness in the true sense.

Did not become flesh and blood, or break into ashes.

"Ah..."

The veins on Prince Jiu's forehead bulged, and the excruciating pain surged into his heart. He fell heavily to the ground, and quickly sealed the wound with the Dao, and sacrificed the five-colored magic lamp. The tall figure above his head also bent down and enveloped him...

But after the divine thought passed by, Prince Jiu was completely disheartened.

For the demon clan’s Yin Shen realm.

It’s not too difficult to be reborn after losing an arm.

In the Yin God realm, one is above the mundane world and it doesn’t matter if the flesh and blood body is slightly damaged. As long as the natal cave is still there and the Tao is still there, it can be slowly “repaired”.

In this respect, humans are slightly inferior.

However, there are ways to "repair" it. For example, Qing Falcon, whose arm was forced to be broken by the sword energy injected by Zhao Chunyang, could be repaired and grow back slowly if the Holy Queen took action to remove the sword energy and then took some elixirs.

But now, Prince Jiu’s severed arm has completely turned into nothingness.

An unprecedented force of the Tao hit him and peeled his "arm" off from his body!

this means……

Even if the Great Master took action, it would be impossible to repair this piece of flesh and blood.

He never existed in the first place, so how could he be born?

"What is this law?"

His face was pale as he looked at the terrifying column of light rising into the sky.

One of his arms was cut off, and the divine shadow behind him that was condensed by his natal cave also had one arm "cut off".

This moment.

The ancient country that had been extinct seemed to have come back to life again.

Flying sand swept past and surrounded him.

The sounds of countless cavalry charging and killing came from all directions.

Prince Jiu's pupils contracted. This scene was so familiar to him... It was the ancient battlefield where he personally paced and wandered before stepping into the ancient country!

Dragon-killing battle!

At that time, he even laughed and said that he hoped the void barrier in the ancient battlefield had never existed.

If possible.

He wanted to personally enter the battlefield light column to see the truth of the dragon-slaying battle... maybe he could even recognize the "real dragon". After all, as a fellow demon, he had the noble blood of the Phoenix and could be on equal footing with the "Dragon Clan".

I never thought that my joke would come true.

The Dayue Well Path was shattered, and a beam of light shot up into the sky, covering the entire ancient battlefield.

"boom!"

A loud dragon roar resounded between heaven and earth.

Prince Jiu fell to the ground, looking at the majestic real dragon leaping out of the Dayue Well with a pale face. This real dragon was just a manifestation of the Dharma image, a condensation of illusion, and because of the erosion of thousands of years, the aura of this Dharma image had almost fallen to the bottom... But even so, the divine power it exuded still made the entire ancient city deeply trapped in it.

Prince Jiu found that he couldn't even move a finger!
The blood of the Phoenix demon at the peak of Yin God is indeed extraordinary, but in front of a true dragon it is no different from an ant... As for the previous "chatting and recognition", it was even more of a joke.

The true dragon image soared into the sky, and never even glanced at him!
Just by touching the image of the true dragon emerging from the abyss, he committed the crime of "blasphemy" and had one of his arms cut off by the Dao Rule.

Prince Jiu couldn't imagine it.

What would happen if you really touched a real dragon?
next moment.

The shocked expression on his face froze completely, because on the back of the real dragon that came out of the abyss, there seemed to be several familiar figures sitting.

Yes...more than one.

Thank you, Zhen.

Ao Ying.

And... the ragged girl standing at the dragon head, with her hands behind her back and her clothes and hair flying.

The one I despise the most.

The little mute girl from Tiesuo Lane who I was too lazy to even take a second look at.

……

……

[Phoenix Eyes] The moment when it absorbs the essence and blood of the person on the throne.

The shackles of the Ruyi Dao are broken.

But what was also broken along with it... were the shackles that "Qingli" had placed on himself.

Thousands of years ago, Emperor Qi used this natal cave to hunt and kill the "real dragon".

Finally, before the real dragon died, it spilled its dragon blood and drew a prison on the ground... She trapped the remnant of Emperor Qi in this throne, and at the same time cast her own consciousness and will into the void along with the dragon blood.

For a long time, Emperor Qi patched up his natal cave, waiting for the shackles to break.

And she spent her own "rebirth" in this deceased country.

For a Yin God to be promoted to a Yang God, he needs to examine his conscience and ask the Way.

Promotion after that will naturally be more difficult.

It is said that to become a true immortal... one needs to see through the worldly affairs and survive the "reincarnation calamity".

In the Dasui Sword Palace, there are ways to overcome the tribulations of self-examination and the tribulations of asking the way. One can either go down the mountain to gain experience, or go into seclusion in the cave in the back mountain to practice.

But no one knows what the reincarnation calamity is.

This level of disaster is too far away from the mundane world.

Only those who have truly ascended to heaven, and are close to that step, can see their own "reincarnation calamity".

Shanman took one hundred and twenty years.

Come and explore the secrets of “Him”.

In her opinion, the reason why Qingli became blind, lost his voice, and suffered all these disasters... was because of the "Five Deteriorations of Heaven and Man" and because his end was approaching.

But there is another explanation.

This is Qingli’s “reincarnation calamity”.

It took Qingli a thousand years to survive this disaster.

Before Shanman was born, He had been wandering in the void. Apart from blindness and loss of voice, the greatest disaster was the loss of memory and loss of self.

When I stepped into the Great Moon Well and saw the "self" sitting on the throne that had been shattered a thousand years ago...

Qingli regained his lost memories.

She became Him again.

The mighty dragon roar enveloped the entire main city, and the surging glory turned into an ocean, flooding the entire sky.

The moment the throne was shattered.

The remnant body of Emperor Qi began to accept the majestic divine power that had been sealed for thousands of years and was as vast as mountains and seas.

But there was no trace of joy on his face.

The ancient battlefield from a thousand years ago was recreated in the first place under the cover of Ruyi Dao.

The battle to slay the dragon has not yet ended.

Now that the two have escaped, they immediately resume the war!
Countless sword energies fell, turning into a cage, locking the "True Dragon" tightly—

Emperor Qi stared at the little girl standing at the dragon head, his voice extremely cold: "In the past thousand years... you have been crossing the reincarnation calamity? It's a pity that even if you succeed, it will be useless. You have missed the right era. Even if you succeed in crossing the calamity, you are destined to turn into ashes."

Qingli looked at Emperor Qi, who was high in the sky and had millions of soldiers under his command.

She whispered, "What's the joy of living, what's the fear of death? I don't care about death, what about you?"

After these words were spoken, Emperor Qi's expression changed.

This war lasted for a thousand years...

Didn't he also miss the right era?

The whole country was silent, and the sacrifices he had prepared had all turned to bones.

Nowadays, is there still any talk of ascension?
At the end of this war, all that is left is ashes, residue and embers.

finally.

All that remains is "war" itself!
"I have nothing left."

Emperor Qi looked down at the broken city below him and smiled contemptuously: "But... I still have a chance to 'try again'. If I can kill you, the 'real dragon' who has survived the reincarnation calamity, the Ruyi Dao may be completely perfected. Even if the whole country is destroyed, so what? If the Heavenly Dao collapses, I will become the Heavenly Dao!"

(End of this chapter)