Chapter 149: Where Verdant Growth Lies, There Should Be Warriors Guarding All Sides

Outside the mirror.

The gathered cultivators stared at the scene on the screen.

“This battle should be brutal, right?”

“Perhaps the Dragon Clan’s destruction was precisely because of this battle.”

By now, no one doubted whether the Heavenly Emperor had slaughtered the Dragon Clan.

Because that was clearly slander!

In the hearts of all beings, the Heavenly Emperor was thoroughly wicked. Thus when the Justice Alliance rose against heaven, many accusations were thrown at the Heavenly Emperor.

Some were true, some were baseless rumors.

And without doubt, the so-called Heavenly Emperor slaying the Dragons was a rumor.

At this moment, everyone could feel the ferocity and terror of the upcoming fight to the death.

From the later absence of Dragons it was clear: this battle was most likely the reason for the Dragon Clan’s annihilation.

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Inside the mirror.

The cultivators gradually gathered beneath Dragon City, their gazes turning to the man on the city wall.

Even Mu Nanzhi, who had always been proud and looked down on Gu Changqing, was among them.

“Big Brother Gu, you tell us! What should we do next?”

A Dragon Clan cultivator looked up at the man on the wall and spoke.

From the beginning, Gu Changqing had been insignificant in the Dragon Palace, but now he had an irreplaceable position in everyone’s hearts!

Unknowingly, he had become the backbone of both the Dragon Clan and the Heavenly Palace forces.

Gu Changqing did not speak and looked toward Long Kui.

But she too was waiting for his decision, staring at him.

Gu Changqing took a deep breath, looked at the gathered cultivators, and simply said softly, “Fight.”

And fight all the way beyond the realm!

The Youming Clan’s foundation was immense. In this battle the Dragon Clan and the Heavenly Palace suffered huge losses, and if the Youming were given time to recover, the Dragon Clan would have no strength left to resist them in the future.

And now was the only chance to wipe out the Youming Clan.

The gathered cultivators’ eyes flickered, their expressions moved.

The moment Gu Changqing uttered that single word ‘fight’, the blood boiling in everyone’s hearts was ignited.

Clan members and friends had mostly died, resulting in endless grief, endless sorrow.

Now they no longer feared the Youming. Their hearts brimmed with towering hatred, and they sought only a fight to the death.

Long Kui stepped forward, her face calm, eyes shining, and loudly proclaimed, “Do you not see, as mountains and rivers turn, there are always heroic laments. Where verdant growth lies, there should be warriors guarding all sides!”

“Our bodies might be buried in heaven, our bones burned into mounds, blood overflowing like rivers. We may not return, but even in death, what does it matter!”

Long Kui’s words stirred the cultivators’ resolve to the utmost.

However, the crowd had not completely erupted. They were waiting for Gu Changqing to speak.

Gu Changqing had never been one for stirring rhetoric. He merely forced out a single word, “Fight!”

One word ‘fight’ was enough!

“Fight!”

“Fight!”

A towering roar rose, trembling the heavens. The waters of the four seas boiled, waves crashing the shore, stretching for ten thousand miles.

…

“Kill!”

As the earth-shattering cries of slaughter rang out, Dragon Clan and Heavenly Palace cultivators rallied again, charging back into this old ground where comrades were buried.

The Youming Clan responded quickly.

Soon the two armies crashed together. The earth-shattering battle cries shattered time and space.

Rumble!

The void was torn open.

Gu Changqing charged first, wielding the Heaven Burying Bell and plunging into the endless abyss.

Several terrifying figures surged out from that boundless abyss.

Four Great Emperors!

Gu Changqing said nothing. His methods were ruthlessly severe.

The Heaven Burying Bell unleashed terrifying divine might and crashed down.

At that moment, boundless space-time collapsed and myriad heavenly towers were annihilated.

Under a single bell.

Four Great Emperors bled profusely!

The Heaven Burying Bell whirled, imperial blood stained the sky, and terrifying divine might suppressed the heavens.

“Die!”

Nine Half-Step to Immortals burst forth from the abyss.

The terrifying immortal divine might enveloped Gu Changqing.

It was hard to imagine that even after nearly ten Half-Step to Immortals had fallen, the Youming Clan still had such deep reserves!

Gu Changqing took on six of them first.

The dark sparrow transformed at this moment, divine radiance flashing around, taking on three of the foes for Gu Changqing.

The others likewise confronted their own great enemies.

Even now, the Youming Clan’s foundation still surpassed the combined two sides, far exceeding the Dragon Clan and Heavenly Palace by several times, even dozens of times!

“Break for me!”

A booming shout echoed through the firmament as Gu Changqing smashed the bell open, shattering the world-ending array woven by the six Half-Step to Immortal terrors.

Gu Changqing threw a punch. Demonic flames like a dragon burned a Half-Step to Immortal to death.

Demonic runes flashed around him and two Heavenly Books floated up behind him, tiny characters spewing forth like thousands of troops, surging to overwhelm those Half-Step to Immortals.

“Hum…”

Five Half-Step to Immortals stood firm in the void, chanting a chilling sutra from their mouths.

Endless Youming dead surged from the void, tearing at Gu Changqing. The battle cries were like ten thousand ghosts wailing, shaking souls with dread.

Clang!

Clang!

Gu Changqing kept striking the Heaven Burying Bell, sending out towering shockwaves that blasted forth and annihilated everything.

Countless Youming were obliterated.

Yet countless Youming surged again, endless and unceasing, pouring forward and in an instant engulfing Gu Changqing!

“Get away from me!”

Gu Changqing suddenly slapped the Heaven Burying Bell away. As it spun, it shattered boundless space-time and annihilated thousands of heavenly foes.

The ancient bell swelled with the wind, suddenly expanding by hundreds of meters.

Gu Changqing tore open the void and landed on the bell’s surface, stepping on the Heaven Burying Bell and pressing down directly toward the five Half-Step to Immortals.

The two sides were locked in stalemate.

The ancient bell could not fall at all, and the divine might unleashed by the five Half-Step to Immortals could not wound Gu Changqing in the slightest.

But Gu Changqing did not want a stalemate.

Because he saw the dark sparrow stained with blood, battered and wounded by the divine might of three Half-Step to Immortals.

He saw Long Kui besieged by four Great Emperors, unable to break free, fighting like a trapped beast.

He saw that woman, Mu Nanzhi, stained the firmament with blood, about to be swallowed by the Youming army’s assault.

The scene was even more devastating than expected.

By now, the Heavenly Palace’s celestial soldiers and generals had been decimated. No more than three survived out of ten.

Countless Dragon Clan warriors transformed into their dragon bodies but could not suppress the powerful enemies, only howled in the void.

Their bodies were crawling with Youming, gnawing at their dragon scales and flesh.

“Die!”
Gu Changqing stared at the five Half-Step to Immortals and roared explosively!