Volume 1, Chapter 69 – Dragon-Slaying

In the distance, the herd of beasts blotted out the sky, with no end in sight—there were not just tens of thousands. It was obvious the demonic beasts had gathered all their strength and meant to smash Twin Moon City completely.

The battle formation and the beast herd crashed together like a drop of water falling into a pot of oil, blasting up a wave of blood!

This time, the beasts were not affected in the slightest by the aura of slaughter radiating from the platform. They were still just as vicious. The ten towering figures on the Demon-Slaying Platform didn’t move either, as if they were waiting for something.

Huangfu Yun and the other centurions galloped at the very front of the formation, like the tip of a spear driving into the depths of the herd.

In the face of the Demon-Suppressing Army’s formation as it was now, not to mention Body Tempering Realm demonic beasts—even Innate Realm demonic beasts might as well have been ants. They couldn’t even block a single breath before being torn to shreds.

Several hulking Earth Fiend Realm demonic beasts prowled back and forth beside the formation, but didn’t dare test its edge.

Innate Realm demonic beasts already had awakened intelligence; Earth Fiend Realm demonic beasts were no different from ordinary people in that regard. They understood very well what would happen if they tried to take that formation head-on.

For a while, the formation treated the countless beasts as if they were nothing, like a black dagger weaving left and right inside the churning beast tide, unstoppable.

The beast tide surged in like a collapsing mountain, but its advance was actually pinned down.

“Roar——”

A high, ringing dragon’s cry sounded, shaking the land in all directions. For a moment, even the thunder of ten thousand beasts’ hooves seemed to grow faint.

A massive figure a hundred zhang long appeared in everyone’s field of vision. Its scales were a dark blue-black, a single horn several zhang long jutted from its head, and four giant claws with four toes each hung beneath its belly.

“A flood dragon…” Jiang Li said in a trembling voice.

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Shi Lan stared, wide-eyed with shock. Just from the sheer size of that flood dragon, she could tell how terrifying its strength must be.

The Earth Fiend Realm demonic beasts prowling near the formation all lowered their heads and backed away a few steps.

Huangfu Yun looked up at the flood dragon in the sky, not surprised in the slightest. A feral grin flashed across his blood-smeared face.

He slashed out a streak of blade qi, cutting dozens of beasts to pieces along with several Innate Realm demonic beasts, then raised the saber in his hand and let out a long howl toward the heavens:

“I beg the Demon-Slaying Platform to strike!”

The smoke above everyone’s heads grew even thicker. The ten figures standing on the Demon-Slaying Platform moved at the sound, leaping into the air and charging toward the flood dragon.

The Demon-Slaying Platform rose as it followed the ten figures upward.

“Roar——”

The flood dragon twisted its body, its thick tail lashing out like rolling thunder toward the ten figures. Even the air didn’t have time to get out of the way and was smashed apart, a string of sonic booms exploding all at once!

“Boom——”

Five of the figures were struck and blown hundreds of zhang back, but they looked almost unhurt as they lunged at the flood dragon again.

The other five figures dodged the tail swipe and in an instant closed in on the flood dragon’s body. Using all four limbs, they wound themselves tightly around it, fingers locking into the gaps of its scales. No matter how the flood dragon struggled, they didn’t let go.

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“Roar——”

The flood dragon’s body rolled in the air as it tried to fling off the figures clinging to it. It writhed for quite a while, but it was all in vain.

At this moment, the five figures that had been knocked away also dove toward the flood dragon’s side.

A trace of irritation flashed in the flood dragon’s eyes. It opened its mouth and spat out a bolt of cyan lightning as thick as a water barrel, which shot straight into one of the figures.

“Bang!”

That figure was blasted away, a great cloud of blood mist blooming around it. Its body shrank rapidly from several dozen zhang tall to less than five zhang. The blood mist steaming from it condensed into a crimson cloud overhead!

At the same time, the flood dragon’s two claws reached out, tearing through space, grabbing two of the figures and crushing down on them.

The two remaining figures seized the opportunity to throw themselves onto the flood dragon, while the Demon-Slaying Platform had already drifted directly beneath it.

Suddenly, as if it sensed something, the flood dragon started struggling wildly. Urgent, piercing dragon cries echoed across the land.

The Earth Fiend Realm demonic beasts around the formation seemed to have received an order. They stopped prowling for openings and started ramming the formation head-on!

Seven or eight Earth Fiend Realm demonic beasts moved at once, barreling across the formation. After sacrificing nearly half their number, they finally tore a gap in it.

Seeing the flaw in the formation, a trace of grim resolve flashed through Huangfu Yun’s eyes. He ignored it for the moment, instead looking up at the Demon-Slaying Platform in the sky. He pointed his long blade at the heavens, his voice like thunder:

“Slay the demon!”

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The figures clinging to the flood dragon’s body exploded into blood mist, which then condensed again into bloody chains nearly a zhang thick, binding themselves around the flood dragon’s body!

The two figures clasped in the flood dragon’s claws also detonated at the same time, becoming two more chains that bound its front claws.

The chains stretched downward and finally anchored themselves firmly to the left and right sides of the guillotine blade on the Demon-Slaying Platform.

“Rumble——”

“Crack——”

Bolt after bolt of lightning as thick as barrels kept shooting from the flood dragon’s mouth, hammering into the chains. The deafening roar of thunder was nonstop. Blood mist rose steaming from the chains; they grew a bit thinner, but never broke.

Once the chains were locked in place, they began to tighten slowly. The flood dragon’s massive body started to sink toward the giant guillotine blade.

“Roar——”

The flood dragon’s roars were full of panic, one after another.

As its body sank, the guillotine blade slowly rose, the edge lifting from the block. The aura of slaughter spilling from it grew several times thicker, and mysterious spirit patterns surfaced on its blood-red surface, radiating a sense of peerless sharpness.

Even Shi Lan and the others atop the distant city wall felt an illusion like their faces were being cut by blades.

The flood dragon thrashed even more violently, bolt after bolt of lightning crashing toward the guillotine. Under the bombardment, waves of blood mist poured off the platform and its size began to shrink.

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It was having some effect, but the descent of its body didn’t stop. It kept sinking, neither fast nor slow, until the chains bound it layer by layer onto the block beneath the guillotine.

The high-hanging blade did not pause in the slightest. It came crashing down, its edge gleaming with an eerie red light.

“Buzz——”

A single, shrill arc of blade light flashed, as if cleaving through heaven and earth. The high, ringing dragon cries cut off in an instant.

Once the blade fell, it was as if the Demon-Slaying Platform had exhausted all its strength. Its size collapsed, shrinking from several hundred zhang across to less than thirty.

The flood dragon’s massive corpse dropped from the sky, dragon blood pouring down like a torrential rain and drenching the Demon-Suppressing Army beneath the platform.

Bathed in dragon’s blood, the Demon-Suppressing Army’s auras grew even more terrifying, more savage than the beasts themselves, like grim specters crawling out of an endless hell.

With the flood dragon’s death, the beast tide instantly broke apart into chaos. Some beasts scrambled to fight over its flesh and blood; others were cowed by the Demon-Slaying Platform’s aura of slaughter, freezing in place and stretching out their necks to be cut down.

The Earth Fiend Realm demonic beasts howled madly, trying to quell the chaos in the herd, but it was clearly beyond them. A herd of tens of thousands was far beyond their control.

Looking at the flood dragon’s massive head not far away, Huangfu Yun threw back his head and laughed, then raised his blade and began reforming the battle formation, seeking to squeeze the greatest possible carnage out of it.