At the top of Cloud Sail mountain, Ji Changfeng stood against the wind. The mountain breeze ruffled his robes. He stared at the "Silver Dragon King" floating in the air, completely unaware of it. Actually, he did not directly turn down the King of Southern Yue's invitation. Instead, he agreed to provide a certain amount of resources and support, but who knew whether the King of Southern Yue would make an example out of him and destroy the Cloud Sail sect first.
Before they knew it, the storm had eased up slightly. Gongyuan held a black and a white Divination Token in her hand. Her eyes were as deep as the sea as she thought, King of Southern Yue, oh King of Southern Yue, if you take action right now, you won't have the chance to obtain the two Lost Amulets of the King of Yue anymore.
Yes, one of the main reasons why she agreed to give most of the Lost Stalks of the King of Yue to Ru Xin was because she wanted to give the King of Southern Yue a certain amount of hope. She did not want any unexpected problems to arise when they were about to declare war against the fire devourers. However, she had no idea there were so many twists and turns involved.
Only Ye Duanhai was not too worried. As a sword cultivator, he was not afraid of being sucked into war like Ji Changfeng. However, even if he wanted to join the King of Southern Yue's estate, he would have to wait for an appropriate time. The South Sea Sword pavilion had always been isolated overseas. They did not have much contact with the cultivation community of the Mist province. Instead, their grievances with the Myriad Poison cult ran deep.
Most importantly, the South Sea Sword Pavilion was not a demonic sect. If they joined from the very beginning, they would easily be ostracized or even reduced to cannon fodder. It was better to wait until a critical moment to make a decision. Sending charcoal in snowy weather was better than icing on the cake. Mister Ram should be able to understand this.
This was the might of a king's estate that guarded a province. Although mister Ram's persuasion was a complete failure, every single person who turned him down had made a certain level of preparation, afraid of actually falling out with the King of Southern Yue. Even Li Qingshan was no exception.
Finally, the Silver Dragon King slowly set off, parting the rain clouds and heading to the distant north, leaving behind a Starry Heavens trail.
As a result, everyone let out a sigh of relief. In particular, as the host, Ji Changfeng was the happiest. "Phew, we've passed another obstacle. I knew the King of Southern Yue wouldn't be so unwise. Though, there seems to be fire at the bow of the ship?"
The clouds closed up, and the rain poured down.
Li Qingshan watched the Silver Dragon King leave, but he felt a little uneasy. He couldn't get anything even with the Spirit Tortoise's divination. He said to Little Ann, "Let's get ready to retreat too!"
"Are you not going to wait for the auction tomorrow?"
"I won't wait any longer. It's not very useful to me anyway. I'll go back and prepare to cooperate with Ru Xin's operation." Li Qingshan muttered "Ru Xin" and frowned as if he had overlooked something. He thought, With the Myriad Poison Ancestor watching over her, she should be fine!
Ji Changfeng was about to return to the Feilian Hall when he suddenly sensed something and turned around. "Hmm, what's that?"
The instant the clouds were about to close, he saw several dazzling scarlet stars appear in the resplendent river of stars. Radiance radiated in all directions like fire!
"Your Majesty!" The Myriad Poison Ancestor took a step forward. Right when he was about to say something, the King of Southern Yue raised his hand and stared straight at Ru Xin. "I'm not talking to your disciple!"
This was already a warning. The Myriad Poison Ancestor furrowed his brows firmly as he rapidly thought of a countermeasure. Li Qingshan had ordered him to protect Ru Xin no matter the cost, but if he took action here, he had no confidence at all.
"Alright."
Ru Xin bowed slightly. Even when the King of Southern Yue had exposed her identity, she did not panic at all. She slowly took off her mask with both hands. Zhu Yan, who was about to cross the covered bridge, suddenly looked back, but all he saw were two doors that had closed one after another.
"Ru Xin? I've never heard of that name before! "
The old, lion-like fire devourer asked through his soul sense, "What's wrong?"
Zhu Yan said, "Nothing!"
"Then prepare to do it! With these three Divine Fire tablets, we can definitely burn that bitch Gongyuan to a crisp! "
"King Fen, the Divine Fire tablets really are the divine artifacts of the kingdom passed down from ancient times. We've searched for them for so many years, yet we still couldn't find them. I didn't think they'd been hiding them in the King of Southern Yue's estate the entire time. But are we really going to help the King of Southern Yue fight?"
Zhu Yan asked. In order to obtain the heirlooms of the fire devourers, they had paid a considerable price, becoming honoured guests of the King of Southern Yue's estate and setting foot on the Mist province's war chariot. However, there were no "godfolk" who were willing to submit to humans, especially the violent fire devourers.
Zhu Fen said, "That's right. We fire devourers aren't as hypocritical as humans. Since we've agreed to it, we won't go back on our word. However, don't even think about sending us to our deaths. We, the Three Gods, are attacking together. If we want to fight, we'll fight. If we want to leave, we'll leave. Who in the world can stop us? We can use this opportunity to burn more humans to death. Once they've run out of internal strife, hmph, the world is in chaos right now. It's a heaven-sent opportunity for us to rise up again! "
As they spoke, the three of them stepped onto the deck of the Silver Dragon King. Their gazes pierced through the sea of clouds, gazing at Giant Ship island below.
The three of them glanced at one another and raised the Divine Fire tablets at the same time. With a clang, they struck each other.
The Divine Fire tablets were around a foot long and scarlet-red, like three pieces of red-hot branding iron. At the top were three balls of flames that merged together. The tablets were engraved with the words "heaven, earth, and man". They possessed the power to incinerate everything. The scorching heat dispersed the thick clouds.
In the moment they struck each other, there were bright sparks that rose extremely high into the sky. However, they seemed to have become much larger, as if many dazzling scarlet stars had lit up in the sky.
"Heavenly Fire, Meteors Fall!"
Zhu Fen held the Fire Medallion of Heaven in his hand and pointed at Giant Ship Island. Star after star flew downwards and grew larger and larger, dragging long tails of fire behind it. It whistled through the clouds and illuminated the dark and rainy night as well as everyone's eyes.
"Meteors of the Heavenly Fire, kill the Merfolk! Unrelated people, die quickly!" Zhu Fen laughed madly. He actually wanted to wipe out the entire cultivation community of the South sea in a single stroke.
"My Cloud Sail sect has no grievances with your Fire Melt mountain, so why are you attacking our headquarters? Aren't you afraid I'll come for revenge?"
Ji Changfeng called out in a hurry. At the same time, he powered the protective formation of the island. A faint, green barrier of light enveloped the entire island, blocking the Meteors of the Heavenly Fire.
However, before he had even finished speaking, there were three great rumbles. The meteors had blasted through the protective formation of the island.
The surface area of Giant Ship island was just too large. The outermost formation was only used to block the wind and rain of the sea and protect the mortals on the island. Its defences were very limited. Boom!
Boom! Boom!
Boom! The endless explosions were deafening. The entire island was covered in flowers, immediately reduced to a sea of fire.
A meteor landed in Three Sails city. The human and livestock residences in the centre were directly vaporized, not even leaving behind ashes. Scorching waves of heat whistled past, reducing the city to burning ruins. There was not a single survivor.
The residences of Li Qingshan and the other esteemed guests happened to be on the large cloud sail. They watched as a meteor smashed over. The terrifying aura made all the powerful cultivators close their eyes subconsciously. It was like the end of the world had arrived.
Li Qingshan frowned and widened his eyes, watching as the meteor smashed into the protective formation. Flames flooded the surroundings, filling his vision and basically enveloping most of the mountain. They stuck to the mountain and burned for a long time. They would not stop until everything was reduced to ashes.
The waves of heat swept over through the formation, and the cultivators all retreated. When they opened their eyes and discovered they were actually still alive, they did not feel any joy at all. There was only fear. They, who had always been particular about cultivating in seclusion, had finally become embroiled in a war, and it was a war they had absolutely no control over.
Li Qingshan was extremely surprised as well. Fire devourers really are a fighting race renowned for their destructive power. This power is simply terrifying. These flames aren't regular flames either. Even with my phoenix bloodline, I'm not bold enough to take it head-on!
Suddenly, a huge ball of ice burst through the sea of fire, passing through the protective formation and landing on Main-mast mountain.
The cultivators basically cursed aloud. Li Qingshan frowned too. Now, this really was troublesome!
"Your majesty, why have you come?"
As it turned out, the ball of ice was Gongyuan and the merpeople. The moment the meteor struck the protective formation on the outskirts, Gongyuan immediately took action, condensing the entire residence and lake into a huge ball of ice and rushing towards Main-mast mountain. Only after dodging a few meteors did she finally arrive. Boom!
Boom! Boom!
The moment the ball of ice landed, three meteors struck Main-mast mountain consecutively. The protective formation shook violently, demonstrating the fire devourers' determination to kill them all. It made people doubt just how long the formation could last.
Gongyuan glanced at Li Qingshan and was in no mood to pay any attention to him. She raised her head and gazed at the horizon.
Three tremendous, scorching auras rushed into the clouds. They were the three kings of the fire devourers, Zhu Fen, Zhu Zai, and Zhu Yan. What was even more shocking was that the flames on them were connected, forming the simplest formation of the three in the sky. However, their auras enveloped the entire island, gazing down like gods.
In the sky even further away, the Silver Dragon King was about to cross the sea. Gongyuan ground her teeth. "The King of Southern Yue!"
Fire devourers were known for their ability in battle, but they were not skilled in hiding their auras, let alone obscuring the heavenly secrets. Only by hiding in the Silver Dragon King that prevented all detection could they venture deep into the South sea silently.
Originally, even if they ventured deep into the South sea and launched a surprise attack, Gongyuan would never have taken them seriously. The ocean was her home ground. Even if she was not their opponent, she could still escape easily. However, just the protective formation of Main-mast mountain was very difficult for them to breach. Their wild bombardment would only push Ji Changfeng over to her side. As long as they could last a little longer and request reinforcements from the Crystal palace, they would be able to surround or even kill them instead.
However, the "Divine Fire Insignia" in their hands had destroyed her last sliver of hope. They had come to take her life!
Giant Ship island burned, dispersing the clouds and rain and illuminating the sea and sky. Even from fifty kilometers away, the surging flames could be seen.
Only the three peaks on the island stood in the sea of fire, enduring the bombardment of the meteors through the protective formation!
"Ji Changfeng, you're tangled up with the merfolk. Just how many sea fairs have you held? Do you still want to hide away until now? Just watch. You and your Cloud Sail sect will all be reduced to ashes! "
Only now did Zhu Fen respond to Ji Changfeng's questions and threats. His voice was filled with contempt.
The Merfolk of the South sea constantly used the sea fairs to communicate with humans in exchange for resources that the sea did not possess. The temperaments of fire devourers were not suited for interacting with humans, so as a result, the Cloud Sail sect had become a great problem for the fire devourers a long time ago. However, they were not confident in killing Ji Changfeng in the past, so they gained a powerful enemy, which was why they had held it in until now.
Now, this hatred had completely erupted, blazing like fire!
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