Today was the day the Dragon Scale Sword emerged. All the strange phenomena before them had surely been caused by the Dragon Scale Sword.
The phenomena grew more numerous and more violent.
Golden light surged into the sky, illuminating nearly half of Wind Cloud City. The ground shook and split apart. The Red Flower Pavilion was affected as well, gaining several cracks, while the surrounding walls teetered on the verge of collapse.
"Finally, I've been waiting for you!" Fan Lang's eyes gleamed as he waved his hand. "Get farther away. Don't get hurt."
"What's going on?" Li Yunyan asked in alarm.
"Don't ask. Everything is under my control. Just trust me."
"All right."
Li Yunyan pulled Cheng Naixin out of the Red Flower Pavilion.
The ground continued to quake. A beam of light burst out from underground, piercing through the earth from within and forming an opening roughly five meters across. The tunnel led straight down, its depths impossible to see.
Fan Lang knew what lay below. Without the slightest hesitation, he jumped directly into the hole.
The disturbance here was so enormous that it alerted everyone inside and outside the city.
Three li north of the city, the Azure Mist Valley party fell into commotion.
Ye Buqun, who led the group, looked up at the beam that pierced heaven and earth and guessed, "Could some treasure have emerged?"
Some treasures naturally nurtured by heaven and earth could trigger strange phenomena. High-grade treasures could also cause such phenomena when they had just been forged.
Greed stirred within Ye Buqun. He leaped into the air, stepped through the void, and rushed toward Wind Cloud City, intending to investigate.
A bloody shadow suddenly tore through the air, slashing out a crimson crescent in midair and blocking Ye Buqun's path.
Ye Buqun flew