Zhongshan Shenzhu Chi

Chapter 73 Battle

The dark clouds, covering a hundred miles, were crushed into a single mass by the mountain winds. Heavy and gloomy, they hung in the sky, no more than ten miles in diameter, like a fallen black sun.

At the border of Zhongshan, the spies planted by various forces were simultaneously shaken.

The talismans exploded, and the communication jade talismans even became hot.

One divine thought after another exploded in their minds.

"What happened in Zhongshan?!"

"Why did that dragon suddenly disappear without any warning?!"

Why did the thunder turn into a drizzle?!

"Investigate! Investigate thoroughly!"

Even more extreme, their divine sense surged forth, sweeping across the sky, attempting to investigate that "black sun."

It can be swallowed up the moment it touches you, or even be pulled back by an extremely strong suction force, which will drag your spirit away without any warning.

Upon seeing this, the giant alligator turned and tried to run away.

But as soon as it turned around, a water wall hundreds of feet high rose up around it from the Luo River.

Like a cage, it tightly confines it.

The water surged, and one after another, fierce creatures emerged from the water wall.

Tiger, ape, dog, wolf, bear.

Five malevolent shadows stood on the water's surface, their auras merging together.

Two of them, brimming with demonic energy and unrestrained by any being, were already great demons who had broken free of all shackles.

The remaining three paths, though not fully broken through, are just one step away from completion.

Five great demons in total.

They still have no grudges and are united against the great demon!

The giant crocodile was horrified.

Zhongshan, though small, is actually more powerful than the East China Sea, which was once dominated by the Mirage Dragon!

It opened its mouth as if to roar, wanting to summon the alligator-like demons that had been hiding in the water to come with it.

Before a sound could be made, one corpse after another suddenly surfaced from beneath the water.

Broken scales covered the water's surface, the skull was dented, and the spine was torn.

Blood spread, washing over the walls with the flowing water, staining the water-covered walls a bright red.

"Zhu ordered the five of us to surround you, so he instructed Luoshui to shred those lesser demons." Shanjun stood in front of the giant crocodile.

Its entire body was engulfed in azure flames, and its tiger-like form was reflected on the water's surface, creating a resolute yet ferocious silhouette.

Even though it was less than a third the size of the giant alligator, the "king" character on its forehead seemed to come alive, baring its teeth and claws, rising and falling with its breath, as if trying to break free of its fur.

His apricot-yellow pupils remained clear, brimming with fighting spirit.

"You're having a lot of bad luck," Shan Jun said slowly. "Zhu is in a very bad mood today."

The giant alligator let out a low growl, the water exploded, and its tail swept fiercely towards the mountain lord, creating a ten-zhang-high wall of waves.

The golden ape took a step forward.

The water surface collapsed!

Its forearm pressed down like a mountain, and it punched the center of the wave wall.

boom-!

The water wall shattered into mist.

Five menacing figures simultaneously approached from the dense mist, engaging the giant crocodile in fierce combat.

And in the sky.

The giant snake couldn't remember the last time it had properly hunted.

All the emotions that had been building up inside it were now being poured out onto the frantically struggling dragon.

One green and one red.

Two colossal figures were locked in a fierce struggle and entanglement within the dark clouds.

The evil dragon raised its blue scales, each one like a knife, and slashed at the red snake scales, sparks flying everywhere.

Fragments of scales fell like rain.

It is blue.

The agony of having its scales peeled away inch by inch completely overwhelmed the evil dragon's reason.

It let out a muffled roar and climbed upwards desperately, trying to pin the red snake down.

The red serpent's body resembled an endless ladder to heaven.

It climbs higher and higher, entangles more and more tightly, yet it can never reach the end.

It was as if he wasn't clinging to a snake.

Instead, it is a majestic mountain that stretches across Yongning and Yunxi, single-handedly dividing the two continents.

"Why—why isn't it over yet?" The evil dragon's heart trembled.

It had lost count of how many times it had wrapped itself up, and it didn't know how much time had passed.

All I know is that...

It has very few scales left.

Its entire body was a deep red, as if it had been boiled.

Like the torture device invented by humankind—

"Do you dragons of the East Sea really enjoy climbing upwards?" the red serpent asked in a low voice, its voice causing the clouds to ripple.

Countless hands pressed the evil dragon against its already radiating heat body.

It looked as if hot oil was poured directly onto raw meat slices, making a sizzling sound.

"But you've forgotten."

The giant snake slowly tightened its body, not by suddenly strangling, but by methodically and steadily pressing its force onto every inch of the evil dragon's spine.

"The height of the Xuan Snake God is something you can only look up to."

"It's not meant to be climbed."

As soon as the words were spoken, the snake's body suddenly collapsed.

A series of crisp explosions, like firecrackers lit during the Spring Festival.

The evil dragon twisted its body and struggled frantically, but it only added a few more crisp sounds.

The light in his scarlet eyes went out.

The dark clouds dispersed.

The giant snake hung in the air, its body winding like a great river.

This was the first time that any of the various factions had witnessed such a massive serpent.

Its scales seemed to be forged from fresh blood, its eyes shone with gold and silver as brightly as the sun and moon, and its body meandered as if it were endless.

Everyone was horrified to see it.

The corpse of the evil dragon was thrown to the ground like trash by this being who resembled a ferocious god.

All the blue scales on its body were peeled off, and all the wounds were sealed by flesh and blood scorched by the high temperature.

"mysterious----"

"The Red Serpent God!"

"When did such a calamity appear in Zhongshan?!"

"Could it be the offspring of the Black Serpent God? Wasn't it subjected to the Tribulation of the Black Stone? How could it give birth to offspring?"

In their horror, the group fled far away, not daring to even approach the border of Zhongshan.

The divine messages that had once bombarded their minds were now replaced by those eyes that seemed to imprint the sun and moon in their hearts.

They all remained silent.

In the Far East, a deafening dragon's roar suddenly resounded, filled with sorrow and rage, mixed with towering water vapor, as if it would tear the heavens and earth apart.

Seeing this, the crowd was forced to retreat.

The red serpent stood still in the air, its body winding like a mountain range stretching across the sky, its scales gleaming like blood, and its long horns pointing skyward.

The water rushed towards it, and in its eyes, it saw a majestic dragon with wings on its back.

"Just a shadow, who are you going to scare?" Thunder rumbled from the red serpent's throat, the sound piercing through the dark clouds and merging into the water veins, echoing throughout Zhongshan.

Suddenly, the entire mountain range shimmered with a verdant light.

Rocks, trees, streams, and even the water vapor floating in the air all reflected the verdant light, as if connected by invisible threads, all merging into the aura of the red serpent.

Mountains and waters surged and rolled, pressing the silhouette of the red serpent toward the ocean in the Far East.

The roar of the dragon in the Far East came to an abrupt end.

Guess.

"You can try to guess who I am."

A red serpent flicks its tongue, while dark clouds gather above the summit of Zhongshan Mountain.

The rain swept across the entire area, and a white blanket obscured all outside vision.

Turn your head downwards.

The great battle continues in the water prison formed by the confluence of the Luo River.

The five ferocious beasts were all wounded, but the fighting spirit in their eyes grew ever stronger.

The black bear has already broken through to the level of a great demon in the battle.

The bloodhound's blood energy solidified, and with each breath, rain clouds formed, and blood-red raindrops fell, scorching pits into the giant crocodile's body.

The prison wolf merged with the darkness, its shadow transforming into several afterimages, specifically targeting the corroded pits and holes it burrowed into.

The golden ape and the green tiger, two great demons, one in front and one behind, pulled the giant crocodile, making it spin like a fan.

"You don't need me anymore."

The red serpent turned and flew into Zhongshan.

It wants to take another look.

The sun, which once terrified it so much that it became paralyzed and unable to move.