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The vast and barren Celestial Palace Mountain was rapidly deflating at a visible speed.
Yes, it was deflating!
The entire long ridge was quickly sinking, folding, and compressing before everyone's eyes, reducing in height by half in an instant. It was as if an invisible hand beneath the ground was treating this great mountain like a toy, twisting and squeezing it.
It was difficult to explain the scene before them; everyone was dumbfounded. By the time they regained their senses, the mountain had already vanished from its original spot. All that remained was a patch of smooth, mirror-like sand.
Next, the flowerbeds at the foot of the mountain began to disappear one after another. The disappearance of the flowerbeds was slightly different from that of the mountain. It seemed as if a hand was continuously wiping away, causing the flowers and trees to wither rapidly wherever it touched. A wave of dead yellow earth spread relentlessly, and in the blink of an eye, all the flowerbeds had vanished. What remained was still a pristine patch of smooth, mirror-like sand, seamlessly connecting with the sand where the mountain once stood.
In just under ten breaths of time, the entire Celestial Palace had transformed into a brand-new desert indistinguishable from the Blood Sea outside. All remnants of the Celestial Palace—ruins, flowers, trees, and even the remains of hundreds of thousands of local immortals—had completely disappeared.
Li Hong was the first to snap back to reality. Remembering how he had destroyed the Demon Dragon beneath the Celestial Palace of Leisure, he immediately realized that it was indeed that Demon Dragon underground causing all this chaos! It was the mastermind behind everything! Not only was there a Demon Dragon beneath the Celestial Palace of Leisure, but there was also one beneath Xu Yang Immortal Palace!
He had always thought that it was his breaking of Restrictions that caused Xiaoyao City and Celestial Essence to leak out, turning Xiaoyao City into a desert where mortals could not survive. He had felt quite guilty about it. Now Li Hong understood that everything had been orchestrated by that Demon Dragon underground!
The destruction of Xiaoyao City had nothing to do with him. If he guessed correctly, that Demon Dragon beneath Xiaoyao City had not perished under his final strike of Five Elements Transformation; it must still be alive! That explained why it had the strength to break Restrictions and remove all remaining Celestial Essence surrounding Xiaoyao City—even draining away the great river that sustained mortal life.
It seemed that every Demon Dragon lurking beneath each immortal palace was not only a hidden hand but also the true master of each palace.
As for those hundreds of thousands of similar-looking local immortals, Li Hong was now quite certain they were not true immortals but rather a form of puppet clone technique created by this Demon Dragon below. Only those like Xu Da and Xu Er were crafted with more care at first, which granted them higher intelligence and independent thought. The rest were mass-produced entities infused with simple thoughts; they could only fight and directly followed orders from the Demon Dragon. Due to their overwhelming numbers, they reacted very sluggishly. A typical example would be those tens of thousands of local immortals who were wiped out at last; when the Demon Dragon itself was injured by Yue Que, those tens of thousands became dazed and were easily slaughtered.
Though it seemed like he pondered for a long time, it actually took only an instant. In a flash, Li Hong connected all the dots together; deep sparks flashed in his eyes as he sternly shouted: "Everyone, don't just stand there! The main culprit is underground right now causing trouble! If we don't kill it, it will definitely reclaim Restrictions and take back that great river outside, turning Sunrise City into another Xiaoyao City! It will throw us into chaos and make it impossible for mortals to survive! We must kill it!"
A fiery blade of light stretching for thousands of feet reappeared, resembling the only sun in heaven and earth, radiating scorching and dazzling red light.
"Slay Dragon!"
With a thunderous roar, the newly formed desert soared into the sky. Inside the transparent Restrictions of the celestial palace, swirling grains of sand rushed about, stinging the face. The fiery blade light resembled a giant dragon dancing in the air, its head continuously extending downward, reaching ten zhang, a hundred zhang, a thousand zhang...
The ground beneath the desert was fully revealed, appearing as a smooth, mirror-like expanse of yellowish hard stone. In the very center of this Strange yellowish hard ground lay a deep black chasm. At its deepest point, it measured only about a foot in diameter, and an eerie malevolent aura began to rise again. Upon closer inspection, a strange dark red glow flickered within the foot-wide crack.
At that moment, Li Hong was exhausted; the massive blade light conjured by the Vermilion Bird Nine Li Blade vanished abruptly. A small flame appeared in Li Hong's Palm, which was the true form of the Vermilion Bird Nine Li Blade. Li Hong felt completely drained, his body pale and withered. He hurriedly took out an Eternal Herb and swallowed it hastily, feeling it wasn't enough, so he stuffed another one into his mouth.
Two immortal herbs aged over ten thousand years allowed Li Hong to regain some strength.
Li Hong began to feel the benefits of Five Elements Transformation. This technique drew upon the natural spiritual energy of heaven and earth, while that last move had consumed all of Li Hong's own life force. That single strike had nearly drained him completely!
In that brief moment, the entire desert that had risen into the sky began to descend, falling like a torrential sandstorm. It seemed poised to bury that chasm, but Heavenly Torch, Ling Yanzi, Fuxi, Xuan Yuan, Pure Yang Master, Tianqi Zi, and even the timid Aurora acted simultaneously!
With a furious roar, Heavenly Torch unleashed a massive dragon form stretching thousands of feet long, rolling through the sea of sand. Wherever it went, the sand silently transformed into azure smoke. Fuxi summoned an unassuming jade flute, transforming it into a beam of crystal light stretching thousands of feet; Xuan Yuan wielded a broad bright yellow sword; Pure Yang Master summoned his golden-white celestial sword; Ling Yanzi tossed out a Youxian Pillow; Tianqi Zi transformed into his original form as a flower qilin; and Aurora became a towering transparent pillar of light.
Everyone unleashed their unique treasures with all their might. Multicolored lights intertwined to form a transparent barrier that finally supported the heavy layer of sand about to fall.
All their spiritual energy was rapidly depleting. Fuxi shouted, "Li Hong, hurry down!"
At this point, Li Hong had consumed ten Eternal Herbs. Under the influence of the herbs' power and Five Elements Spiritual Energy, he felt as if he were boiling over. Without hesitation, he let out a roar and charged downward.
Immediately, Heavenly Torch followed closely behind him, shrinking in size while retaining its treasure-laden form, resembling a porcupine dragon as it dove into the deep chasm along with Li Hong.
Just as everyone was exhausted, Fuxi shouted, "Retreat!"
With a thunderous sound, the sand fell, and dust surged into the sky, turning the celestial palace back into a desert.
Fuxi did not linger and called out, "Quickly go outside and direct the mortals to collect river water!"
His words reminded those in a daze, and everyone immediately turned to rush towards Sunrise City. Fuxi Xuanyuan's Rebels had already lost half their number in battle, and the remaining ones were almost all severely injured. However, they could not afford to care at this point; while flying, they hastily grabbed some last bits of celestial herbs to swallow without healing their wounds and hurried towards the outer city.
Xi He was very worried and began to fly slower and slower until she finally stopped.
Fuxi quickly noticed and flew over to ask, "Why aren't you leaving?"
Xi He firmly replied, "Brother-in-law entered this dangerous place for all of us. I know he has high cultivation and many treasures to protect himself, but as a daughter, I just can't feel at ease. You all go ahead with your tasks; I will wait here. If anything happens, just call for me."
Fuxi touched his daughter's disheveled black hair and noticed a deep wound on her right arm that nearly exposed the bone; it was just a bit away from breaking completely. The other injuries on her body were countless. As a father, Fuxi felt a sharp pain in his heart. He took the last celestial herb he had been carefully keeping and stuffed it into his daughter's hand, saying, "You heal first. Remember to stay alert and don't touch the ground. Call for us if anything happens."
"Dad, I'm not a child anymore!" Xi He pouted playfully, breaking the herb in half and returning the other half to her father's hand. "You use it or give it to someone else."
"Good girl," Fuxi said, not having time for more conversation as he already heard the bustling voices from the outer city; it seemed everyone had indeed discovered that there was a problem with the river.
He hurriedly flew towards the outer city while thinking that his daughter still cared deeply for Li Hong; this should be a good match. However, Li Hong already had a fiancée.
Thinking about this made Fuxi uneasy. When he spoke to Li Hong before, he had said that as long as there was confidence, he could find Chu Xi. In truth, he was downplaying the situation. The divination indicated that the relationship between Li Hong and Chu Xi would face numerous obstacles; the final outcome was truly hard to predict.
Li Hong swiftly entered the Underground rift, closely followed by Heavenly Torch.
In an instant, everything before him turned pitch black, as dark as thick ink. But in just a moment, Li Hong switched to using Divine Consciousness to "see" his surroundings, which turned out to be clearer than using his eyes. Once he discerned everything around him, Li Hong was once again dumbfounded; even the roaring and shouting Heavenly Torch fell silent.
If the Demon Dragon were ferocious, massive, and terrifying in appearance, Li Hong would not have been surprised. What astonished him was that this "behind-the-scenes mastermind" turned out to be an unadulterated prisoner.
The pitch-black Underground space was square-shaped, with walls including the ceiling and floor made of a vast expanse of smooth, hard yellow earth, just like the ground beneath the desert. This hard earth layer was extremely tough and thick; he had no idea how deep it extended into the False Immortal Realm underground. Li Hong had already tested it earlier with a full-force strike from the Vermilion Bird Nine Li Blade, barely managing to carve a deep trench into the surface.
This space had been forcibly dug out of the yellow hard earth layer, showing that it had been created in one breath without any signs of being cut or chopped. The area was roughly a thousand feet square, with a hundred-foot square Black Jade Platform at its center; apart from this platform, there was nothing else.
On that platform, countless thick metal chains tightly bound an object on its surface, preventing it from even turning over.
This was a strange evil beast: it had a dragon's head but only one long horn protruding from its forehead. Its body resembled that of a flood dragon, with thick limbs and a stout torso. Its four sharp claws were firmly gripping the Black Jade Platform's surface; these claws were like bear claws, with long tips that glimmered like jade. Even the world's hardest Black Jade Platform bore deep five claw marks from those claws. Its tail was flat and dragged behind it, somewhat resembling a duck. Its entire body was covered in hard scales the size of wine cups. Along its back, from head to tail, three incredibly sharp bony spikes protruded.
In summary, this creature was a combination of Divine Dragon, Pig Dragon, flood dragon, and Duck.
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