Chapter 549 - 364: Land Immortal! A Surprise from the Old Emperor!

Chapter 549: Chapter 364: Land Immortal! A Surprise from the Old Emperor!

"Help... save me, Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

A piercing wail suddenly shattered the deathly silence.

An old man with hair and beard all white appeared, his upper body wrapped in a blood-stained light blue tattered cloth,

Dragging his only remaining leg, leaving a glaring trail of blood on the cobblestones.

His bony fingers clawed desperately at the ground, nails splintering, yet he was oblivious, still clawing desperately towards Lu Xuan.

"You are the Crown Prince of the Wen Jing Dynasty!"

In mid-air, an old woman with only half a skull floated eerily, her decaying face contorted into a spiteful expression, "The future emperor... Your Majesty... How can you stand by and do nothing?"

"We are your subjects..."

"Your Majesty, please do not leave your people, come and face the darkness with us..."

"I don’t want to die... there are evil things here... help!"

Countless wails and resentful voices echoed, as if being in a hell of despair.

In an instant, all of Qianfu Town boiled over.

Thick black blood seeped from the cracks in the bricks on either side of buildings, countless twisted human faces emerged from the window frames.

Those faces either cried, laughed, or showed anger or resentment, but all were fixated on Lu Xuan in the middle of the street.

The lanterns under the eaves suddenly ignited themselves, eerie green flames making the ghostly faces appear even more sinister.

"Heh... hehe..."

Creepy laughter echoed from all directions. From the crevices between the stones emerged numerous skeletal hands, and from the shadows at the corners crawled terrifying "townsfolk."

Some had their bellies ripped open, intestines spilling out, others were charred black all over, yet all exuded a bone-chilling malice, closing in on Lu Xuan.

The most horrifying were the buildings—the once intact brick walls began to writhe, revealing dense outlines of human forms.

It was as if the entire town’s souls had merged with the bricks and stones!

Faced with such a horrifying scene, Lu Xuan smiled.

He slowly spread his arms, his eyes shining with a light as brilliant as the sun.

The more of these ghostly entities there were, the more thrilled Lu Xuan became.

They were not the filthy things people feared, but the System Points he needed.

In an instant, the void behind Lu Xuan cracked open, and hundreds of phantom golden dragons roared out!

Dragon roars shook the heavens, causing the entire ghost town to tremble...

Outside Qianfu Town!

Wei Yuanlang and the officials and troops froze like blocks of wood, staring at the sight before them as if in an absurd dream.

The state governor’s robe was soaked with cold sweat, his legs trembling uncontrollably.

He had witnessed with his own eyes how the Crown Prince, with a mere flick of his hand, wiped out three imperial guards.

He then beheld the spectacle of hundreds of dragon phantoms rending the sky, cloaking the entire Qianfu Town in divine golden light.

As to why the Crown Prince would slay the guards meant to protect him, Wei Yuanlang dared not even think.

Such imperial matters, even a single careless word from them meant certain death.

"This... this..."

Wei Yuanlang’s lips quivered, yet no sound came out coherently.

Behind him, the soldiers were pale as ash, some even collapsed on the ground.

That eerie, terrifying ghost town was now cleansed by the majestic dragon’s might, looking like a celestial paradise.

Boom—!

Another ground-shaking roar erupted.

Everyone looked up, only to see that the number of golden dragon phantoms above Qianfu Town had increased to over a thousand.

Each one vividly lifelike, with scales and claws in motion.

The dazzling golden light illuminated the surrounding ten miles as if it were broad daylight, even tinting the clouds golden.

"Your... Your Highness the Crown Prince possesses unmatched divine power!"

It was unclear who first shouted this,

but soon the entire group knelt down like wheat waves.

Wei Yuanlang bowed heavily, his forehead pressed against the scorching stone pavement.

At this moment, all imperial majesty and court laws seemed laughable in the face of such earth-shattering power.

They could only kneel, trembling, gazing up at the figure shrouded in ten thousand fathoms of golden light...

For that was no longer a mere mortal, but... the True Dragon!

After half an hour of bloody slaughter, Lu Xuan still stood proudly at the center of Qianfu Town.

Hundreds of golden dragon phantoms swirled around him, the eerie black aura on the dragon scales being slowly cleansed by the golden light.

The entire ghost town was in ruins.

A thick layer of ashes piled up on the streets, the remnants of ghostly entities destroyed by the dragon phantoms.

Both sides of the buildings were filled with cracks, countless agonized, twisted faces fleetingly visible on the walls.

Yet bizarrely, even after exterminating thousands of ghostly entities, the dark aura in the air didn’t decrease but instead grew stronger.

Thick, tangible black mist continued to seep from the ground, seemingly beginning to suppress Lu Xuan’s terrifying astral power.

Suddenly, Lu Xuan looked in a certain direction, the golden light in his eyes flaring up once again.

He sensed a bone-chilling coldness awakening not far away.

"Finally willing to show itself?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Xuan turned into a brilliant golden light and shot into the sky.

Hundreds of golden dragons roared upward, intertwining high in the sky to form a vast golden net blocking out the sky and sun.

And in that flash—

Boom!!!

The ground at the center of Qianfu Town suddenly burst open, creating a giant pit hundreds of feet wide.

"So it was hiding here all along!"

Lu Xuan’s voice thundered like heavenly lightning across the boundless sky.

He stood on golden dragon shadows, slowly descending into the center of Qianfu Town, within an abandoned mansion.

This once majestic estate now consisted only of broken walls and ruins, except for the central courtyard’s ancient well that remained intact.

The Evil Suppressing Talisman carved on the well’s edge had long been corroded beyond recognition by some force.

"Interesting..."