ATPnovel #445 - Golden wind flowers bloom
#445 - Golden wind flowers bloom
However, the Pingbian King's plan to flood the Inspection Office's 50,000 troops did startle Zhang Chen. The old fox was truly cunning, leaving no chance for others, and his attack was deadly.
The intention behind flooding the Inspection Office's 50,000 troops was definitely not just to flood them. Once the troops were submerged, there would inevitably be a large army to encircle and annihilate them, taking the opportunity to strike the drowning dogs.
"Seven or eight days? I need to inform Xie Lingyun earlier, lest she be caught off guard. No one would have thought that the Pingbian King would be so insane, willing to sacrifice his own territory, flooding it without hesitation!"
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen took out a letter incense, quietly lit it, and waited for Xie Lingyun to appear. This letter incense was a unique item of the Inspection Office, blessed with mysterious and unpredictable power, so that even from thousands of miles away, lighting it would trigger a response.
Zhang Chen didn't have to wait long before Xie Lingyun's Yin spirit appeared in the arena: "You actually lit the letter incense to summon me, it seems the matter is significant."
"The Pingbian King is going to breach the lake in front of us, flooding the Inspection Office's 50,000 troops. I wonder if this news is significant or not?" Zhang Chen said with a solemn expression.
Xie Lingyun's expression changed upon hearing this: "Really? How dare the Pingbian King be so audacious? Once the water is breached, wouldn't his Northern Territory be ravaged by floods and become a swamp? Moreover, now that the True Dragon has fallen and the rain is torrential, coupled with this hundred-mile Tianchi Lake, I'm afraid the flood will be unstoppable!"
"Aren't there gods? The Northern Territory shouldn't lack gods, right?" Zhang Chen felt that Xie Lingyun's worries were somewhat unfounded. There were many gods in the Northern Territory, so the situation shouldn't deteriorate to this extent, right?
"You probably misunderstand the gods. The gods in this world are divided into two types: those with divine authority and those without. For example, the flood you mentioned, only a god with the authority of the Water God has the ability to control water! And as far as I know, there is no Water God in the Northern Territory. The only one who had hoped to become a natural Water God, the Miluo River God, also fell in the previous calamity," Xie Lingyun explained to Zhang Chen.
A Water God with authority and a Water God without authority were essentially two different species, and the power between them was also incredible.
However, compared to Water Gods without authority, Water Gods with authority lacked freedom and could only operate within their own jurisdiction, while gods without authority could roam everywhere.
"He's flooding his own people, depleting his own fortune, what does it matter to us? When his fortune is exhausted, I'll take action to kill him, which will solve a major problem," Zhang Chen said dismissively.
"They are all subjects of the Dasheng Dynasty, and they are all innocent people..." Xie Lingyun's voice was full of compassion.
Seeing Xie Lingyun's expression, Zhang Chen knew that Xie Lingyun's inner demons had been stirred up by him, making her pure and kind, so she couldn't bear to see countless people in the Northern Territory suffer.
But this kind of thing was purely a natural disaster, and even the King of Hell couldn't do anything about it. After all, Zhang Shicheng was the king of the Northern Territory, possessing absolute authority there. If he wanted to cause trouble, no one could stop him.
"I'm going to prepare boats, and if we can do our best to rescue some people, that would be good. Be careful here, don't get involved in the distant battlefield, and don't act rashly again, lest you attract disaster," Xie Lingyun instructed Zhang Chen like an older sister.
"Don't you know my methods? If we're talking about killing people, maybe I can't, but if I want to run, there are few in this world who can catch up with me," Zhang Chen replied.
Xie Lingyun nodded upon hearing this. She was very relieved about Zhang Chen's life-saving methods, so she turned and disappeared into the mountains.
After Xie Lingyun left, Zhang Chen still stood quietly on the mountain peak, watching the battle in the lake. Fortunately, he had a magic eye, otherwise he would not have been able to see the truth of the battlefield from the dazzling light.
About an hour later, Zhang Chen saw a figure in the arena finally unable to restrain his restlessness, his body like a bolt of lightning, rushing towards the dragon's head.
Then, he came directly to the dragon's lower jaw, a divine light flashing in his hand, and he actually cut open the dragon skin under the True Dragon's jaw. A bead flashing with purple light rolled out from under the jaw.
"That's the Fox Clan's Old Ancestor Bai Cang! He actually dared to be the first to attack the Dragon Pearl, isn't he afraid of attracting the suppression of Yang God Immortals?" Zhang Chen's heart couldn't help but move when he saw Bai Cang's actions, and a hint of curiosity appeared in his eyes:
"Interesting!"
The Dragon Pearl was the size of a basketball, and as soon as it appeared, it was like a small sun, bursting out with brilliant light, rendering the entire lake surface purple.
"Dragon Pearl!"
As soon as the gorgeous purple light appeared, it immediately attracted everyone's attention. The Yang God Immortals and Gods who were fighting at the time abandoned their opponents without saying a word and rushed towards Bai Cang.
However, Bai Cang was not a pushover either. Seven tails flickered behind him, emitting a powerful charm, which actually caused the approaching crowd to pause.
Even the Yang God-level Immortals and Ninth-Order Gods who attacked couldn't help but pause, being bewitched by the power of his mind. Bai Cang took the opportunity to flash his figure and jumped into the group of great demons, protected by various great demons.
“When did Bai Cang become so strong! It must be because he absorbed the blood of the Bashe before, which led to the evolution of his bloodline. Coupled with the flesh and blood of an eleventh-order True Dragon here, it's normal for Bai Cang's strength to undergo a transformation and have such methods. If he swallows the entire Dragon Pearl, he might be able to grow his eighth tail. If a twelfth-order being doesn't appear, I'm afraid no one can do anything to him!” Zhang Zhen looked at Bai Cang's seven tails and thought of the fox spirit Nannan. This little fox was lurking beside Zhang Xiaohua, going to Qingcheng Mountain as an undercover agent. He doesn't know how she is doing now.
What followed was a free-for-all, with human experts and demon experts fighting together, all unwilling to give up for the sake of the Dragon Pearl.
The Dragon Pearl was the most crucial thing, the essence of a dragon. It could be said that most of the essence was in that Dragon Pearl. Whoever obtained the Dragon Pearl would have the opportunity to break through from the ninth order to the tenth order, taking their cultivation to the next level.
Moreover, the Dragon Pearl would not decay for ten thousand years. If it could be kept as a family heirloom, that would be a great benefit, benefiting future generations and ensuring the family's prosperity.
At this time, everyone was fighting with bloodshot eyes, unleashing their true power. The lake was turned upside down, and experts from all sides displayed their abilities.
Although the Dragon Pearl fell into Bai Cang's hands, he was surrounded by experts from all sides, and no one was willing to give up.
For a time, shouts of killing and supernatural powers intertwined, constantly fighting back and forth, causing the void's energy to become chaotic.
As time passed, the demon experts were also separated. Some ninth-order gods had already approached Bai Cang, and Bai Cang kept using illusions to deal with the experts.
But now Bai Cang was a sitting duck, targeted by all the human experts. In the end, he was no match for so many hands, and the Dragon Pearl slipped out of his grasp, constantly passing back and forth among the crowd as they fought over it.
And those with lower cultivation had very clear goals, directly abandoning the Dragon Pearl and focusing all their attention on the dragon's head.
Although the dragon's head was not as precious as the Dragon Pearl, the dragon teeth and dragon whiskers were all precious items, possessing the blessing of the True Dragon's characteristics. Once obtained, they could possess incredible power.
In short, the entire lake was in chaos at this time, with blood flowing like a river.
Zhang Zhen shook his head as he watched the chaos in the field. He dared not approach such chaos. He was still self-aware. If he rashly approached, he would only end up being killed.
Moreover, although the Dragon Pearl was precious, it was only an eleventh-order Dragon Pearl and not something he valued. He had seven Dragon Pearls above the twelfth order.
He stayed here just to see who would ultimately benefit from the dragon slaying.
“But why are there so many experts now? Didn't they say there weren't many mysterious experts before? It's all because of the incense divinity! The incense divinity is the root of the chaotic world.” Zhang Zhen secretly counted the people fighting in the field and found that there were more divine experts, 99% of whom were divine experts. Moreover, not only were there divine experts from King Pingbian's territory, but also experts from other adjacent territories who took the opportunity to come and fish in troubled waters.
Just as Zhang Zhen's thoughts were flashing through his mind, a change occurred in the field. Chai Chuanxin appeared in the field at some point, and the Dragon Pearl somehow fell into Chai Chuanxin's hands.
“Gambling Fox, he dares to get involved in this muddy water?” Zhang Zhen looked at the Gambling Fox's figure, a thoughtful look in his eyes: “This kid is always cunning, I'm afraid it's not that simple.”
Sure enough, the Gambling Fox held the Dragon Pearl in his left hand and took out a strange flower from his sleeve with his right hand. He looked at the battlefield in front of him without any panic, but crushed the Golden Wind Flower and scattered it towards the demon experts.
The Jade Dew Flower can increase the battle power of one's own experts by 30%!
Don't underestimate this 30% increase in battle power. Suddenly increasing battle power by 30% in a fight is equivalent to a big increase.
It's like a sprint. Everyone runs ten meters. If someone can be 30% faster, it's simply leaving everyone in the dust. There's no comparability between the two sides. It's an almost qualitative difference.
“It's over! The demons have screwed themselves over!” Zhang Zhen muttered to himself.
He had secretly switched the Golden Wind Flower and the Jade Dew Flower before. What he left for the Gambling Fox was a Golden Wind Flower. Once hit by the Golden Wind Flower, battle power would immediately drop by 30%.
“You demon ants, since you dare to come to the Northern Territory to join in the fun, then stay here today. We will wipe you all out and let you know that my human race is not to be trifled with.” The Gambling Fox frantically scattered the Golden Wind Flower while shouting wildly, his voice full of pride and arrogance:
“You think dragon slaying is an opportunity and good fortune? But you don't know that it's also a big game set up by my human race for you demons.”
The Gambling Fox was very steady. Even if he helped the demons, he had to maintain his persona as a human, unwilling to expose his identity, and had to maintain his human identity.
In case there were any human survivors who exposed his identity, wouldn't that be a big loss? Therefore, the Gambling Fox still glared at the demons as a human cultivator.
Even if the human race settled accounts in the future, he could push the blame by saying that he mixed up the Golden Wind Flower and the Jade Dew Flower, absolving himself of all responsibility, and no one could blame him.