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However, gazing into the distance, Yan Nanlai saw that Xiling City was still standing tall on the Divine Lands.

“Oh? Why would this be…” Yan Nanlai was somewhat puzzled. “Having lost the Immortal Dragon City, how did the Great Qin Empire survive the previous backblast?”

Regarding this, back to that moment, everyone in the Great Qin Empire was in a state of panic as despair rose in their hearts.

The new Emperor of the Great Qin, Shi Zongtang, was already mentally prepared to become the Emperor with the shortest-lived reign in the history of the Great Qin Empire.

Meanwhile, at that moment, all of the Great Qin Empire cultivators in Xiling City have gloomy looks on their faces as well. However, led by Shi Zongtang, they still ramped up the power of Xiling City’s defensive formations to the maximum.

At this instant, the massive city was covered by unthinkably complex formation patterns. Every single street within Xiling City lit up, like ribbons of light that together, formed the colossal formation.

Many markets, squares, and buildings in the city lit up with light as well, forming many small formation patterns that merged with the entire huge formation.

Thousands of streaks of radiance rocketed up into the air. Soon, light patterns started to emerge on the tall, mighty walls of Xiling City as well.

The entire Xiling City has become a massive formation. At the center of the formation – the Great Qin Imperial Palace – light dragons of five different colors, formed by the congregation of Draconic Energy, ceaselessly flew and danced.

The face of the new Emperor of the Great Qin, Shi Zongtang, was solemn. As he controlled the formation, his hand waved, and a talisman shot up into the air, blazing with light. Soon, it became a light door, with lots of red light within that can be seen from outside.

This light door connects to one of the most important secret areas controlled by the Great Qin Empire, the Heavenly Dragon Ancient Land.

Within the light door, red light flashed. Looking through the light door, the scene within was strange and peculiar – the sky was a deep red.

Black, White, Yellow, Red, Blue. The five colors flowed and danced inside, causing the entire Heavenly Dragon Ancient Land to resonate and seemingly let out a roar.

Shi Zongtang’s hands switched through a series of gestures, closing together in front of him. Under the attraction of the Mana, huge amounts of intangible energy roared out of the Heavenly Dragon Ancient Land, adding themselves to the formation of Xiling City.

With the Imperial Palace at the center, the power of the defensive formation of Xiling City grew even stronger.

However, it wasn’t able to free the new Emperor of the Great Qin Empire, Shi Zongtang, and the Great Qin Empire masters in the Imperial Palace from worry.

Feeling the immense power surging along the Draconic Energy trace, each and every person felt bitterness in his or her heart. Their faces were grave; whatever they were doing now, they were just doing the best they can and leaving the rest up to Heaven’s will.

The moment the violent force came into contact, it bore on Xiling City and caused it to vibrate ceaselessly. The gigantic and majestic City, at this instant, resembled a pile of sand that might collapse at any moment.

The flashing runes on the city walls were shattering constantly. Streaks of stray light fell downwards like tens of thousands of crumbs; the entire city seemed to be shaking from fear.

Within the massive ancient city, the light ribbons on the streets were twisting together as distinct cracks appeared.

The buildings in Xiling City started to shake as well, as if an earthquake was happening. Those buildings shielded by the formation patterns endured the initial pressure, protecting the other, ordinary buildings in Xiling City.

However, at this moment, the enemy’s immense strength bore down crushingly and decisively. One building after another disintegrated thoroughly annihilated.

There were many temporary hostels or chateaus of other major powers in this City; however, at this moment, all of them were shattered as well, transformed into piles of rubble.

As the formation patterns on the streets and building shattered, at this moment, the defensive formation of the entire Xiling City was growing weaker and weaker as well. The radiance of the formation was growing duller and darker.

At this instant, at the center of the formation, the Imperial Palace of the Great Qin Empire was trembling constantly as well.

The halls and palaces, which used to be majestic and lavish, all became extraordinarily fragile at this moment, like thatched cottages that might be destroyed by a storm at any moment.

For the Great Qin Empire, this was one of the few momentous crises in its tens of thousands of years of history, since the founding of the Empire.

The immense power, transmitted through the Draconic Energy, sat atop Xiling City and, through the Qi connection, started to spread towards the Heavenly Dragon Ancient Land.

The savage destructiveness swept across the entire Heavenly Dragon Ancient Land, flooding that distant dimension and turned it into a massive mess.

The red light from the light door was shaking constantly as it flashed at a rapid speed. Meanwhile, the Imperial Palace of the Great Qin was tittering and tottering as well.

Not only were large blocks of buildings within Xiling City annihilated, even in the Imperial Palace, buildings were disintegrating and exploding.

The scenery, which used to be so beautiful and intricate, was like a painting that was being ripped apart roughly now.

Inside the Imperial Palace, the bodies of the Great Qin Empire cultivators supporting the formation were all shaking incessantly.

It was not fear, but the appearance of not being able to bear the massive load. Their bodies were like chinaware as well; under the immense pressure, they seemed to be ready to shatter.

Shi Zongtang’s face was ashen. “Liang Pan, great technique!”

Although he did not have the Immortal Dragon City, but through the link of Draconic Energy, Shi Zongtang could vaguely sense that something seemed to be happening at the Imperial Palace of Emperor Tai, causing the backblast forces assaulting Tianjing City and Xiling City to be not exactly equal. Indistinctly, he sensed that Xiling City seemed to be enduring greater pressure.

However, there was nothing Shi Zongtang could do about that. Under the suppression of the immense, monstrous force, even him, who was already at the Way of virtual entity stage, could feel his Immortal Soul shaking, almost as if it was becoming incapable of maintaining human form.

After the most core part of the Xiling City formation, the Imperial Palace, started to tremble, the entire formation was on the verge of collapse. Within the City, apart from the collapsing buildings, even the streets and pavement were starting to waver and crack as trenches and canals started to appear in the ground, crisscrossing each other.

Above the city and the formation, the clouds have dispersed and the sun grew dark. It was as if the sky was masked by a layer of fog.

Amidst the space, massive cracks appeared as well, instantly covering the entire sky and shrouding Xiling City.

At this instant, the world around Xiling City was like an intricate piece of chinaware, shattered by a strike and covered in thin and dense cracks.

At this moment, the Void in the south shattered completely as a figure strode into this patch of space, which seemed to be on the verge of destruction.

This figure was tall and his face handsome – none other than Shi Tianhao.

Looking at the terrifying scene in front of him now, his face was solemn too. “Late by a little…they are actually in distress.”

Behind him, there was a huge beast standing on two legs. He has the head of a tiger and the body of an ape, and his eyes resembled the sun and the moon – none other than the Lu Yuan Grand Sage. He shook his head repeatedly. “Do not go any closer. With just you and me, even if we go in, we will just be crushed together.”

He was brought to heel by Lin Feng and helped to run errands for the Celestial Sect of Wonders. In recent years, his savagery has gradually decreased; when he followed Shi Tianhao to the Barren Expanses previously, he followed orders as well and even slew some Demons.

But if you wanted him to proactively sacrifice himself for the Celestial Sect of Wonders or other people, then the Lu Yuan Grand Sage would definitely refuse.

Shi Tianhao did not have time to argue with him now. “You stay here, I’ll go in myself.” He said.

Seeing this, the Lu Yuan Grand Sage paled visibly and said, in a low voice, “You little brat, have you gone mad? Are you going to perish together with everyone in that city?”

“Even if the Hades Tribe still has scruples for your master, they might not know that you are here. Even if they do know, it would be difficult to stop the transmitted energy. If you go now, it would just be dying in vain.”

Previously, the Lu Yuan Grand Sage was infamous throughout the Barren Expanses as he went around challenging and provoking other Demon masters, and he has been called a madman any number of times. However, the Lu Yuan Grand Sage was not actually crazy; rather, he was using the battles to sustain himself and increase his strength, imitating that monkey of yore.

Although he has experienced numerous treacherous, near-death battles, the Lu Yuan Grand Sage will never go into a situation of certain death.

He stared at Shi Tianhao. “Aren’t you still unable to control that thing?”

The Lu Yuan Grand Sage suddenly recalled that previously, they went deep into the Barren Expanses and afterwards, during the return trip, they were abruptly trapped in an illusory area.

It wasn’t a natural illusory area, but it wasn’t man-made either; rather, it was a special place created by chance.

Harking back to a legendary tale in the history of the Grand Celestial World, which has been blazing bright, but then went down rapidly like a shooting star.

When Shi Tianhao, Zhuge Zhan, the Lu Yuan Grand Sage, and the others neutralized the illusory area and saw the truth within, even the experienced Zhuge Zhan and the Lu Yuan Grand Sage were taken aback.

The Lu Yuan Grand Sage knew that the reason Shi Tianhao dared to come over to Xiling City was that he was hinging on what he obtained from that illusory area. However, he also knew that Shi Tianhao was unable to control its power freely, and very likely, in the end, it will be all for nothing.

To go close to Xiling City in this sort of circumstances was no different from dancing on the tip of knives.

This caused the Lu Yuan Grand Sage quite a bit of a dilemma. He did not care if Shi Tianhao died; however, he do have to care about Lin Feng’s fury that it would possibly trigger.

However, Shi Tianhao did not pay any more attention to the Lu Yuan Grand Stage. Stepping atop the Void, his entire body blazed with light as the terrifying power of his martial body, of his blood, radiated outwards, like a human-shaped fortress that strode amidst the fragmented sky, earth, and Void, towards Xiling City.

Although his expression was grave, his gaze was calm and composed as always. Although he was always lawless and detested restraints, at this moment, he appeared solemn without losing his confidence.

As Shi Tianhao strode forward, he cried, “Xian! Xu! Yi! Shuo! Chen! Yi! Jun! Tian! Zhu! Luan! Jie! Fu!”

The twelve words jumped out of Shi Tianhao’s mouth. With each word, the world seemed to jerk once; with each word, a huge ball of light flickered above Shi Tianhao’s head.

After the twelve obtuse syllables were enunciated, twelve balls of light flashed above Shi Tianhao’s head.

Within each ball of light, a massive rune glowed, corresponding to the twelve words Shi Tianhao enunciated just now.

As Shi Tianhao strode forward, the light balls gradually changed form. There appeared to be figures standing within the light; the twelve light balls stood there, like twelve deities that reached up to the sky, who have descended on the mortal world!