Chapter 525 - 451: One for One

Chapter 525: Chapter 451: One for One

In the Hidden Dragon Stream, the Jade Flood Dragon let out a mournful cry. Its body was covered in wounds, curling cuts everywhere, blood gushing, and more than half of its scale armor shattered, no longer as beautiful and formidable as it once was.

Master Fengfeng swung the fan once more, and the waves quickly raised by the Jade Flood Dragon were shattered by a dense swarm of wind blades. The powerful wind pressure swept the flood dragon up, slamming it heavily against the stone wall, causing blood to splatter once again.

It roared in pain, too severely injured, and a frantic urge to escape surged within it. Ji Yunrou could no longer guide it and had to let it fall into the stream water, fleeing towards the deep, bottomless underground river.

Ji Yunrou was both startled and furious, shaking off the Jade Flood Dragon, transforming into a small white snake as thick as a child’s arm, hiding in the cracks of the rocks, her vertical pupils scanning the battlefield.

In the mere time it takes for a cup of tea to cool, her greatest trump card proved so vulnerable before the Golden Core. Ji Yunrou indeed overestimated herself.

Without the Jade Flood Dragon controlling the Water Element, the stream water continuously receded, filling the deep gorge with countless snake corpses, dense and numerous, numbering well over a million.

The once emerald-green stream water had turned into a sticky, foul-smelling blood river, saturated with the blood of myriads of snakes and the blood of cultivators continuously falling from mid-air.

Just as Ji Yunrou was guiding the Jade Flood Dragon to resist Master Fengfeng, the cultivators on both sides were already locked in fierce battle.

Despite the Xuanguang Sect having fewer cultivators in terms of numbers, they had geographical advantage, with poisonous snakes aiding them. In addition, the cultivators had merged with the Snake Spirit, their techniques bizarre, while most of the Xuanguang Sect’s side were loose cultivators with varying cultivation levels and lack of coordination. Thus, upon contact, the Xuanguang Sect cultivators gained the upper hand.

However, Master Fengfeng achieved an overwhelming advantage here. Even without using divine techniques, he effortlessly blocked the Jade Flood Dragon’s attacks, while still having the capacity to support various areas, summoning roaring storms with a casual gesture.

The Celestial Cyan Fan reversed Yin and Yang, the Wind Blade Tornado and the Bone-Scraping Wind Net mass-slaughtering the Xuanguang Sect cultivators. Limbs and blood from cultivators on both sides fell into the snake tide, stirring a crimson blood mist.

Master Fengfeng’s intervention brought significant casualties to the Xuanguang Sect. After sustaining serious injuries, the Second Elder seized the opportunity. Dao Patterns were cast, a fiery lava flow like dragons and pythons, engulfed the Second Elder, melting him completely. The Third Elder Ling Xuzi’s Double-Headed Snake Spirit had also lost one head, and the remaining head was on the brink of death, severely wounded.

Nearly a hundred Xuanguang Sect cultivators had died, a third fell in battle!

And now, with the Jade Flood Dragon having fled, even the only force capable of constraining Master Fengfeng had vanished. If they continued to fight head-on, the Xuanguang Sect would surely face annihilation!

Ji Yunrou instantly made a decision, and with a flicker, plunged into the viscous blood water. Her body moved through the countless serpent corpses, even Master Fengfeng’s Divine Sense overlooked her.

"Retreat!"

With her hiss, the remaining poisonous snakes on the rock walls fell like raindrops, forcing the Xuanguang Sect cultivators into disorder. Seizing this opportunity, the Xuanguang Sect cultivators turned and fled, some diving into the deep gorge, others squeezing into the large and small holes in the rock walls.

By the time Master Fengfeng’s Qinghong Treasure Mirror unfurled, sweeping the encroaching snake tide away, the Xuanguang Sect cultivators had already dispersed, their whereabouts unknown.

His Divine Sense moved, and he sensed that all the Xuanguang Sect’s buildings were scattered, hidden in various stone chambers within the hard stone mountain’s belly. The Xuanguang Sect cultivators must have fled into these. Yet, the paths connecting the stone chambers in the mountain’s belly, densely packed and meandering like a labyrinth, made him frown.

"Tsk, truly a bunch of burrowing little snakes."

He turned his head. Despite his involvement in the battle, more than a hundred of their recruited loose cultivators had died, and he couldn’t help but curse them as a disjointed mob. However, he still said with a straight face, "The enemy has fled in panic. The Xuanguang Sect has lost! If you want wealth, go seize it yourself!"

These loose cultivators cheered and surged forward into the various stone caverns.

Meanwhile, under Master Fengfeng’s eye signal, Kong Lingde restrained their own cultivators, trailing far behind them.

This ragtag assembly had little combat ability, so let them tread the Thunder Peak Saber for us.

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"Raise all Divine Ships, line up in the specified formation. Teams Jia One to Yi Three, assemble the thirteen inner sect cultivator teams’ three floating battleships into formation!"

"Seal all treasuries completely. Double-check if all precious items from Treasury ’Heaven’ have been moved into the shelter?"

"Have all non-combat personnel been transferred? Are the managers of the two shelters in place?"

"Keep the evacuation passage of the shelter clear at all times, double-check the array at the passage entrance, absolutely no negligence! Otherwise, if a major battle erupts and the whole city shakes, any damage to the array could lead to the Lingsha River flooding into the shelter, which would be troublesome!"

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Reinvigorated, Lu Qian stood in the large square, issuing one command after another. The entire Lingsha City entered its final stage of battle preparation, bustling and tense, even the previous sense of cold despair had been significantly alleviated.

The general is the soldiers’ courage! Now the main commander had shed his despondent air, focusing solely on a desperate fight against an unprecedented strong enemy. Observing Lu Qian’s upright stance, courage in the crowd surged continuously.

The truth was, they didn’t know Lu Qian had no certainty of victory. He had merely set aside concerns, put life and death behind, and was prepared to go all out in a desperate gamble.