239: Three-party convergence

The crimson firelight in the northern horizon grew stronger and stronger, and with a roar that shook the earth and mountains, the trapping formation of the Flower Burial Plain was finally torn apart completely!

A hundred-zhang-long crimson figure soared into the sky, its entire body burning with raging poisonous flames, dyeing the sky a bloody hue—it was Lord Chilian, who had just escaped his confinement!

“Purple Lightning—!!!!”

The furious roar shook the surroundings. Even from hundreds of miles away, all living beings on the Qianjiao Cliff battlefield felt their eardrums sting and their Divine Souls tremble.

Lord Chilian's vertical pupils, burning with rage, locked onto the direction of Qianjiao Cliff. Clearly, he had perceived the situation of the battle in the west through some secret technique—Lord Mo Yuan's Clone had been slain, and the Black Water Pool army was on the verge of annihilation.

“Members of Red Scale Cave, follow me and kill!”

He did not choose to continue attacking the fortress on the Flower Burial Plain, but instead directly led the remaining one thousand eight hundred Demon Soldiers, turning into a crimson fire cloud and racing toward Qianjiao Cliff!

For a Fourth-Tier Demon King traveling at full speed, a distance of hundreds of miles was covered in less than half a quarter-hour!

“Just in time.” A cold light flashed in Gao De's eyes. “Turtle Three Thousand, pass the order: the Mysterious Crocodile Guards are to form the ‘Thunder-Fire Sea-Overturning Formation,’ and the Shadow Snake Guard is to hide on the flanks, ready to meet the Red Scale Cave army. The Iron Pincer unit will continue to surround and annihilate the remaining enemies from the Black Water Pool; finish them quickly!”

“Yes!”

The Qianjiao Cliff forces quickly adjusted their formation.

And just at this moment—

“Rumble...”

The waters to the east suddenly surged violently!

A black dragon might, deeper and more terrifying than Lord Mo Yuan's Clone, swept in like a tsunami!

Deep within the waters, a shadow so massive it was suffocating was rapidly approaching. Wherever it passed, the water currents automatically parted, forming a wide vacuum passage.

“Purple Lightning... you are looking for death!!!”

Lord Mo Yuan's true body had finally appeared!

It was a black flood dragon, a hundred and fifty zhang long, its scales cast like dark iron, its dragon horns as craggy as mountain Peaks, and its eyes like two bottomless black holes, emitting a frigid aura that swallowed everything.

His Middle Stage Fourth-Tier cultivation was released without reservation, and the entire water region wailed under his pressure!

“The true body has arrived in person?” Gao De's brow furrowed slightly, but his expression remained calm. “It seems you don't intend to keep these subordinates from the Black Water Pool.”

“Subordinates? As long as I am here, the Black Water Pool will never perish!” Lord Mo Yuan opened his dragon mouth and spat out a sky full of black ice shards. “And you, today you must die!”

“Then let's try it.”

Gao De once again performed the Dharma Body Manifestation, transforming into a thirty-zhang-tall purple-gold dragon-man, meeting the enemy with the thunder calamity law-breaking halberd in hand.

Meanwhile, in the northern sky, Lord Chilian had also reached the edge of the battlefield!

“Lord Mo Yuan, join forces with me to kill him!” Although Lord Chilian had a long-standing grudge against Lord Mo Yuan, at this moment both understood that if they didn't first eliminate this Purple Lightning Flood Dragon, neither could hope to swallow Qianjiao Cliff.

“Just what I wanted!” Lord Mo Yuan roared.

Two great Fourth-Tier Demon Kings—one at the Peak of the Middle Stage and one at the Early Stage—actually reached a temporary alliance at this moment to launch a simultaneous siege on Gao De!

“Good timing!” Battle Intent boiled in Gao De's eyes. He did not dodge or evade, sweeping his halberd across to meet both attacks at once!

“Boom—!!!”

At the center where the three terrifying forces collided, even space showed slight distortions!

Gao De fought one against two. Although he barely managed to hold them off by relying on the power of the Dharma Body Manifestation and the thunder calamity law-breaking halberd, he was still knocked back hundreds of zhang, a trace of pale-gold dragon blood leaking from the corner of his mouth.

Ultimately, the gap in cultivation was too large. Lord Mo Yuan's true body was more than a level stronger than his Clone, and with Lord Chilian supporting from the side, the pressure was far greater than before.

“Hahahaha! Purple Lightning, your end has come!” Lord Mo Yuan laughed wildly, his dragon claw reaching out and transforming into a black giant claw that blotted out the sun, lunging fiercely toward Gao De's head!

Lord Chilian spat out poisonous flames, sealing off all of Gao De's paths of retreat.

At the critical moment, Purple Lightning flashed violently in Gao De's eyes!

“Cloud Restriction—Thousand Silks, Ten Thousand Cages!”

He pressed his hands into the air, and the water vapor and mist within a thirty-mile radius instantly rioted!

It was no longer the simple Cloud-Locking Mist Formation, but the advanced Restriction recorded in the first diagram of the Cloud Restriction Art—Thousand Silks, Ten Thousand Cages!

Countless silver threads condensed from the void. They didn't just interweave into a net, but grew and entwined frantically like living things. In the blink of an eye, they formed a giant cloud-mist cage a thousand zhang in diameter, enveloping Lord Mo Yuan, Lord Chilian, and some of the elite Demon Soldiers they had brought!

Inside the cage, the clouds and mist churned, and silver threads were everywhere. Each one contained the Law power of binding, slowing, and weakening.

The enemies within found their movements hindered, their Demonic Power flow sluggish, and even their Divine Sense perception was severely interfered with.

“What the hell is this?!” Lord Chilian was both shocked and furious, frantically spitting poisonous flames to burn the threads, only to find that as soon as they were burned away, they regenerated instantly, appearing endless.

Lord Mo Yuan also found it troublesome. He tried to wash them away with Profound Water Divine Abilities, but the mist was formless and the water left no trace; the Restriction threads still firmly locked down the entire space.

This move, “Thousand Silks, Ten Thousand Cages,” was the true result of Gao De's three days of contemplating the Cloud Restriction Art!

Although it was far from Major Achievement and consumed a massive amount of energy, it was more than enough to trap the two Demon Kings for dozens of breaths!

“Now—dark thunder, calamity blood cannon, maximum power, suppressive fire!” Gao De shouted sharply.

“Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!”

On the outskirts of the Qianjiao Cliff Water Mansion, thirty-six dark thunder, calamity blood cannons roared simultaneously with ear-splitting thunder!

This time, it was no longer precision sniping, but an unreserved full-coverage bombardment!

Thirty-six blood-colored light pillars wove into a net of destruction, smashing fiercely into the Thousand Silks, Ten Thousand Cages!

Carpet bombing!

“Aaaaaah—!!!”

The cloud cage instantly turned into an asura field!

Blood fiend pollution, yin fiend erosion, and Calamity Dragon Evil Qi raged... The three major negative energies overlapped and exploded within the enclosed space, their power more than doubled.

The elite Demon Soldiers who had charged into the cage following the two Demon Kings suffered more than fifty percent casualties in the first round of carpet bombing! The survivors were all injured, their Demonic Power in disarray, and their combat strength greatly reduced.

Lord Mo Yuan and Lord Chilian held on with their powerful cultivation, but even they were blasted until their scales shattered and their auras became unstable. Lord Chilian, in particular, who excelled at offense rather than defense, was now charred in many places, and his poisonous flames had dimmed significantly.

“Damn it! Break this ghostly cage!” Lord Mo Yuan roared, his hundred-and-fifty-zhang dragon body frantically slamming against the edges of the cage.

Lord Chilian also spat out poisonous flames with all his might to burn the Restriction threads.

Under the combined assault of the two Demon Kings, the Thousand Silks, Ten Thousand Cages began to vibrate violently, and the silver threads snapped and dissipated at a visible rate.

Gao De knew he couldn't trap them for long.

He took a deep breath and suspended the yimu azure dragon pearl above his head, and a massive amount of vitality poured into his body, quickly restoring his consumed dragon essence.

At the same time, his mind communicated with the prison dragon talisman in his Sea of Consciousness.

“Ao Xue... if you have awakened, now is the time for you to choose.”

Inside the prison dragon talisman, within that isolated space.

The dense blood mist surrounding Ao Xue was now churning frantically.

In the center of the blood mist, that slender dragon shadow struggled more and more intensely. The Blood Dragon Mark on her brow had already spread across her entire body, and the outline of the Blood Jade Dragon Wings on her back grew clearer.

The fluctuations of the battle outside, along with the thoughts Gao De transmitted through the soul mark, acted as catalysts, accelerating her final transformation.

“Crack—”

The sound was like an eggshell shattering.

The blood mist suddenly contracted inward, all of it merging into the dragon shadow's body.

A pair of eyes, crimson as blood yet clear and cold, slowly opened... Outside, the battlefield.

“Bang—!!!”

Thousand Silks, Ten Thousand Cages was finally shattered by the combined efforts of the two Demon Kings!

The mist dissipated, and the silver threads snapped inch by inch.

Lord Mo Yuan and Lord Chilian escaped. Though they were in a pathetic state, their killing intent was even stronger.

“Purple Lightning, let's see what other tricks you have!” Lord Mo Yuan opened his dragon mouth wide, and a Profound Nether Void-Breaking Arrow, ten times more solid than before, was condensing.

Lord Chilian also circled into the air, his poisonous flames compressed to the extreme, transforming into nine giant fire serpents that sealed off all of Gao De's space to dodge.

Just at this critical moment—

“Buzz!”

The void behind Gao De suddenly rippled.

A crimson figure emerged silently.

It was a young girl dressed in a blood-colored palace dress, appearing to be about sixteen years old. Her face was exquisitely beautiful but cold as frost. There was a strange Blood Dragon Mark on her brow, and a pair of Blood Jade Dragon Wings as thin as cicada wings spread out behind her.

Most striking were her eyes—crimson as blood, yet in their depths, there seemed to be a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood churning. One look was enough to freeze a person's Divine Soul.

Ao Xue had awakened.

Furthermore, her aura... had actually reached the Early Stage Fourth-Tier!

“This is... a Blood Dragon?!” Lord Mo Yuan's pupils shrank, and his voice carried a hint of unbelievable horror.

Lord Chilian also sucked in a breath of cold air. “The Twenty-First Princess of the Dragon Palace? Didn't she disappear with most of the dragon children during the Disaster of the Dragon Palace?!”

Ao Xue ignored their shock.

She slowly looked up, her crimson eyes sweeping over Lord Mo Yuan and Lord Chilian, and finally her gaze landed on Gao De.

Her eyes were complex for a moment, showing confusion and struggle, but eventually, they turned into a cold resolve.

Her cherry lips parted slightly, and her voice was ethereal yet carried a bone-chilling coldness:

“Die.”

Before her voice even faded, the Blood Jade Dragon Wings on her back flapped gently.

“Whoosh—!”

Her figure vanished instantly.

In the next instant, she appeared above Lord Chilian's head!

“What speed?!” Lord Chilian was horrified and hastily spat out poisonous flames to defend himself.

However, Ao Xue did not dodge or evade, her crimson dragon wings slicing through like the edge of a blade—

“Rip!”

The poisonous flames spat out by Lord Chilian were actually split down the middle by force! The dragon wings' momentum didn't slow as they slashed fiercely onto Lord Chilian's head!

“Pfft—!”

Blood splattered!

The unicorn horn on Lord Chilian's head was actually severed at the root! Blood gushed from the wound, and a strange blood fiend power frantically eroded his flesh and Divine Soul!

“Roar—!!!” Lord Chilian let out an agonizing howl. His massive body rolled frantically as he no longer dared to stay and fight, turning into a streak of fire and fleeing for his life!

One strike, heavily wounding a Fourth-Tier Demon King!

The entire field was dead silent.

Lord Mo Yuan's half-condensed Profound Nether Void-Breaking Arrow froze.

He stared fixedly at Ao Xue, then looked at Gao De, finally understanding what a fatal mistake he had made.

This Purple Lightning Flood Dragon not only had formidable strength himself, but he was also hiding an extremely rare Blood Dragon behind him!

A Blood Dragon! That was the most ferocious, most battle-hardened Bloodline mutation with the most terrifying growth potential in the Dragon Clan! Among those of the same tier, they were nearly invincible!

“Retreat... Retreat!!!” Lord Mo Yuan had no more will to fight. He roared sharply and turned to flee.

“Want to leave?” Gao De sneered and exchanged a glance with Ao Xue.

No words were needed; their understanding was natural.

Gao De used Cloud Restriction to delay Lord Mo Yuan's movements, while Ao Xue transformed into a streak of blood light and gave chase. Her dragon wings were like blades, and every flash left a deep, bone-exposing wound on Lord Mo Yuan's massive dragon body!

Two Fourth-Tier experts joined forces in pursuit, and Lord Mo Yuan fled in a pathetic state, scattering black blood all along the way.

And on the battlefield, the remnants of the Black Water Pool and Red Scale Cave saw their lords fleeing. Their morale collapsed, and they scattered in all directions.

The Qianjiao Cliff forces took the opportunity to slaughter them, and the battle became completely one-sided.

In the distance, those hidden third-party forces finally couldn't sit still.

Several figures emerged from the darkness, their auras all at the Fourth-Tier level!

There were Human Cultivators, demon race powerhouses, and even a strange existence shrouded in black robes.

They looked at each other, their eyes filled with gravity and wariness.

“A Blood Dragon has appeared... the Qianjiang River Basin is about to change.”

“This Purple Lightning Flood Dragon cannot be allowed to remain.”

“But now is not the time. That Blood Dragon is too fierce. We'll wait until they are both wounded, or... wait for the higher-ups to decide.”

After a brief exchange, these figures hid themselves once again and quietly retreated.

They chose to wait and see for now.

The battlefield gradually calmed down.

Lord Mo Yuan paid the price of having nearly half his dragon body shredded before finally managing to escape, his whereabouts unknown.

Lord Chilian, with his horn severed and heavily wounded, also fled far away.

The coalition of the two major forces was almost completely wiped out.

Qianjiao Cliff had won a great victory.

Gao De withdrew his gaze and looked at Ao Xue, who was standing in the air beside him.

The girl was also looking at him, the coldness in her crimson eyes gradually melting into a complex emotion.

“Thank you... for saving me,” she said softly.

“You saved me too.” Gao De smiled. “Now, we are even.”

Ao Xue shook her head, her Blood Jade Dragon Wings gently folding. “No. From the moment you took me out of that sea of blood, the Karma between us can never be cleared.”

She paused, her gaze sweeping over the cheering Qianjiao Cliff forces below, then looked toward the vast waters in the distance:

“I have nowhere to go. Are you... willing to take me in?”

Gao De looked at this beautiful face filled with loneliness and hatred, thinking of everything she had experienced in the Dragon Transformation Pool, and sighed inwardly.

“Qianjiao Cliff welcomes you.”

He reached out his hand.

Ao Xue was slightly startled, and then a very faint but genuine smile appeared on her lips.

She reached out her cold hand and gently shook Gao De's hand.

The Blood Dragon had found her place.

Qianjiao Cliff now had one more god of slaughter who would make the entire Qianjiang River Basin tremble.

And the victory of this war was merely the starting point of a new era's prologue.

A broader world, more powerful enemies, and older secrets... all were waiting ahead.