"Clan leader!"
"Clan leader, the defenses have been breached... the Great Han Sky-Splitting Rhinoceros Legion, a total of 300,000 troops, are rushing towards my Blood Feather Palace!"
"And... and..."
"And what?"
Xue Ranhe stood up, his expression dazed. The Great Han army's offensive was too swift. In just a few days, the Blood Feather Crane clan had suffered defeat after defeat, their territory gradually lost, and they were at the end of their rope. Coupled with the recent news of their ancestor's demise, they had no will to fight.
"And... and another human army of 400,000 has been discovered in the southwest, encircling an area within a hundred miles of my Blood Feather Palace!"
"What?"
"What did you say?"
Xue Ranhe grabbed the clansman, "Are you fools? Defeated again and again. Even if my Blood Feather Crane clan survives this crisis, can we still establish ourselves in the Blood Spring Wasteland?"
"Ah!"
"Useless, all of you are useless!"
"Go, gather all the clansmen. This Blood Feather Palace is the last territory of my Blood Feather Crane clan. We will live and die with Blood Feather Palace!"
"Go, quickly!"
"Yes!"
The soldier hastily replied. As Xue Ranhe slightly loosened his grip, he hurried out of the great hall.
"Ling Yu, my son, alas!"
Xue Ranhe looked at Xue Ling Yu beside him. This was the pride of their Blood Feather Crane clan. At such a young age, he had already reached the Creation Realm, with great hope for the future to inherit the ancestor's legacy and achieve the peak of the Creation Realm.
What a pity!
Xue Ranhe smiled bitterly, patting Xue Ling Yu's head. "Son, you must live well. As long as you live, the Blood Feather Crane clan has hope. This time, the humans are plundering our clan. You must stay in this great hall and find an opportunity. Your father will send you through the siege!"
"Father!"
Xue Ling Yu's eyes welled up with tears.
...
"Boom~~"
In the far north, before the Emperor's palace, He Yuanqing and Liang Shitai frowned, looking at the golden vortex.
After they had killed the six great demon ancestors, they were blocked by this golden vortex and could not move an inch.
"It seems we cannot enter this Emperor's Secret Treasure!"
Liang Shitai frowned, looking at the golden vortex with a bitter smile.
"We can only wait. There is no other way now."
He Yuanqing shook his head and sat down not far from the golden vortex. After waiting for about several hours, a strong wind suddenly swept through the entire basin, "Whoosh... whoosh..."
"Boom~~"
The surrounding mountain peaks suddenly erupted in fierce flames, engulfing the entire basin in a sea of fire.
The raging flames spread for tens of miles, scaring away the surrounding demon beasts. The blazing fire was enough to incinerate any martial artist below the Creation Realm.
"What happened?"
"What is going on?"
"Where did this fierce fire come from?"
Liang Shitai looked at the flames on the surrounding mountains. How could the mountain peaks suddenly catch fire? The flames obscured the surrounding peaks, and clusters of fire dragons shot into the sky, reaching heights far exceeding that of the mountains.
Strangely, the fierce fire did not extend into the basin but only towards the outer territories, endlessly consuming. The raging fire turned half of the territory of the far north into a sea of flames.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Suddenly, the golden vortex channel emitted dull booming sounds, each one more intense than the last.
He Yuanqing and Liang Shitai exchanged glances and immediately retreated several hundred feet, watching the palace, from which the booming sounds continuously emanated, from afar.
"Whoosh..."
"Whoosh..."
Suddenly, the golden vortex lit up with blood-red light. The blood-red light grew darker and more luminous, and the booming sounds became more violent.
"Gulp, gulp~~"
Streams of black blood flowed out from the golden vortex, rushing out like small streams.
"Run, quickly, watch your back!"
"Ah!"
Suddenly, a mournful scream came from the golden channel, making Liang Shitai and He Yuanqing's scalps tingle.
"No..."
"Run quickly..."
"Clang~~"
At the golden vortex, a massive serpent's head emerged, opening its cavernous mouth and roaring in grief and terror. Its eyes were filled with fear. Suddenly, its forward momentum faltered, and it was dragged into the golden channel.
"Of the Three Great Wastelands and the Twelve Demon Ancestors, only three were of the serpent race. Was it the Flame Python Demon Ancestor or the Titan Giant Serpent Demon Ancestor?"
Liang Shitai, witnessing the tragic scene, could not help but ask.
"I don't know. I didn't even see what the great serpent looked like before it was dragged into the Emperor's Secret Treasure. I'm afraid something tremendous has happened inside!"
He Yuanqing clenched his silver hammer. What immense power could drag a top-tier Creation Realm demon ancestor? Judging by the force, it could easily suppress a peak Creation Realm expert.
"Boom!!"
"Roar!"
With a rumble, a serpent's head hundreds of feet long again emerged from the golden vortex. Immediately, a fierce wind howled, and the ground cracked under the immense force.
"Roar!"
The massive serpent's head was hundreds of times larger than the head of the previous serpent. It resembled an ancient ship.
"Run, run quickly!"
The great serpent's eyes scanned its surroundings. Upon seeing He Yuanqing and Liang Shitai, it spoke in human tongue, its voice urgent and desperate: "Run, inside... inside... No!"
"Riiip!"
The sound of flesh tearing pierced Liang Shitai and He Yuanqing's ears. The giant serpent's head suddenly split open, a layer of snake skin torn away, revealing the raw, bloody flesh beneath!
"Boom!"
A colossal serpent's body, hundreds of feet long, shot out from within as if propelled by a force, like a fired arrow, directly into the distant sea of flames.
"Ah!"
Under their gaze, the moment the thousands of feet long serpent's body touched the flames, it instantly turned to ashes, leaving not a trace.
"Huh?"
Liang Shitai's face turned ashen. His eyes were filled with disbelief. "What is that fire? That is the flesh of a peak Creation Realm expert. It had no chance to struggle. A body thousands of feet long was annihilated in an instant."
"This fire is extremely bizarre. We must be careful!"
Cold sweat streamed down He Yuanqing's forehead. While they had easily defeated the six great demon ancestors, they had not held back. Looking at this fire, even a momentary touch turned them to ashes. This was not something a Creation Realm expert could contend with.
"Careful!"
Just then, Liang Shitai suddenly turned around, looking at a colossal blood-red object that shot out from the golden vortex. The intense blood energy darkened the entire world.
"Not good!"
"Dodge!"
He Yuanqing immediately turned, and the two unleashed a palm strike. The immense impact sent them flying backward. In the span of a breath, they had separated by thousands of feet.
"Is that?"
He Yuanqing, having slightly stabilized himself, stared at the golden channel with bulging eyes and terror.