The soldiers looked at each other. One of them said, "We don't know, Great General. With such a huge commotion here, they should have heard it and come over long ago."
Jiang Tiankuo's heart sank at those words.
The Heaven-Seizing Dragon Emperor hovered high in the sky, looking down at the battered Jiang Tiankuo below as he let out an earth-shaking, ferocious laugh. "Hahaha! So the Profound Division abandoned you! Jiang Tiankuo, you are doomed to die today!"
He opened his massive jaws once more, and a second stream of black dragon breath, carrying even more violent power, poured down directly toward Jiang Tiankuo.
"I'll stake it all!!"
Jiang Tiankuo gritted his teeth and roared. Ignoring the agonizing pain throughout his body, he swept his long halberd out fiercely. A beam of halberd light shot into the heavens and collided head-on with the dragon breath.
"BOOM!!!"
A thunderous blast resounded as the two forces tangled together once more. The violent shockwaves shattered the enormous boulders along the lakeshore.
"Thud! Thud! Thud!!!"
"Pfft!!!"
In the next instant, Jiang Tiankuo was blasted back dozens of steps by the impact. Blood gushed from his mouth, and his face turned as pale as paper.
He did not dare continue fighting. Whirling around, he roared at the soldiers behind him, "Move! Retreat!"
The soldiers hurriedly supported him by the arms and sprinted into the distance.
The Heaven-Seizing Dragon Emperor roared wildly, "Where do you think you're going?!"
His thousand-zhang dragon body suddenly dove downward, its sky-covering shadow engulfing the entire lakeshore.
He was about to give chase and kill Jiang Tiankuo for good.
Yet at that very moment, his body abruptly halted.
His gaze swept across the surrounding lakeshore and mountains, and his expression grew grave.
"Wait... How could those three Great Generals of the