At the Immortal Volcano in the south, lava that had erupted year-round gathered at the mountain's foot into a crimson river.
Heat waves rising from the river twisted the air, and even the atmosphere crackled faintly from the scorching heat.
Flame-red Phoenix Clan members stood atop the lava. When they spread their wings, golden patterns of Southern Bright Leaving Fire glimmered across them. Every fallen feather could ignite a stretch of lava.
Primordial Phoenix wore a robe of fiery feathers, the vertical eye between her brows tightly shut. The Flame Law swirling around her body moved like living creatures, leaving faint scorch marks in the surrounding space.
Behind her, Bi Fang, Chongming Bird, and the other subordinate races formed ranks. Sparks spewed from Bi Fang's beak.
The Chongming Bird's eyes shone with destructive golden light, its shriek resounding through the clouds.
The Phoenix Clan had mobilized in full force. Even ancient phoenixes who had slumbered for hundreds of millions of years had been awakened, their auras carrying the resolve to perish together with their enemies.
Meanwhile, atop Qilin Cliff on the Central Continent, earth-yellow Qilin Clan members clustered like mountains, their scales gleaming with a mysterious yellow luster beneath the sunlight.
First Qilin wore mysterious yellow scale armor, and heavy Earth Law gathered beneath his hooves. Every step made Qilin Cliff tremble slightly.
At his side, subordinate creatures such as Jiao and Zheng all radiated savage auras. Wind and sand coiled around Jiao's tail tip, while baleful energy flickered from Zheng's single horn.
He raised his head toward the east, a trace of gravity flashing through his eyes. "The Dragon Clan moved quickly. It seems we must prepare for war as well."
As soon as he finished speaking, he raised a hoof and gave the order. "The entire army moves out! Join forces with the Phoenix Clan and resist the Dragon Clan!"
Before his words had faded, Qilin Cliff beneath him split apart with a thunderous roar. Countless streams of earth-yellow spiritual energy transformed into a surging beast tide, following the clan toward Cangwu Plain.
In only a few short years, the armies of the Three Clans had gathered here and faced one another.
To the east, the Dragon Clan force led by Ancestral Dragon was the most vast and imposing.
The waters of the Four Seas gathered before their formation into a towering water wall. Faintly visible within it were the swimming shadows of countless Dragon Clan members, while the Golden Dragon's figure flickered in and out of sight behind the wall.
The Water Law around Ancestral Dragon had grown dense beyond measure. Even the distant starry sky glowed faint blue; he had drawn upon the stellar power of the Heavenly River Water Star.
Zhu Rong, Ying Long, and other high-ranking members stood at the front. Zhu Rong had a human body and a serpent's tail, with a faint Time Law swirling around him that made the space around him seem exceptionally sluggish.
When Ying Long spread his wings, countless water arrows fell from the clouds. The Dragon Clan and subordinate race cultivators within the formation radiated overwhelming auras.
There were several thousand Grand Unity Golden Immortals alone, two million Grand Unity Golden Immortals, and hundreds of millions of Golden Immortals.
Such an enormous force, merely through the overlapping pressure of its auras, forced the land of Cangwu Plain to sink several zhang.
To the west, the Phoenix Clan and Qilin Clan allied army stood side by side.
Primordial Phoenix's Southern Bright Leaving Fire intertwined with First Qilin's Earth Law, forming a barrier where fire and earth merged.
Flames burned across the earthen wall, while the wall supported the flames. The two complemented one another perfectly.
Within the allied formation, the number of cultivators above the Golden Immortal realm matched that of the Dragon Clan. Though they had slightly fewer Grand Unity Golden Immortals, they had the Phoenix Clan's fire-domain laws bolstering them, and their number of Grand Unity Golden Immortals had likewise reached several thousand.
Experts from subordinate races such as Bi Fang and Chongming Bird were interspersed among them, their momentum not the least bit weaker.
"Primordial Phoenix, First Qilin!"
Ancestral Dragon's voice exploded like thunder. The Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon soared into the air, and with a swipe of his dragon claw, he tore five pitch-black marks through the void.
"You actually indulged your subordinates in hunting my Dragon Clan's young and destroying the spirit veins of the Four Seas. Do you truly think that by joining forces, you can bully the aquatic races of my Four Seas?"
"Ancestral Dragon, you have no shame!" First Qilin stepped forward first, and spiderweb-like cracks spread across the ground beneath his hooves as his mysterious yellow scales gleamed.
"Your Dragon Clan clearly sent people first to infiltrate my Qilin Clan territory, steal the Primordial Qilin Fruit, and severely wound an elder of my clan who was a Grand Unity Golden Immortal!"
"And now you dare to turn the accusations around? I fear you have long wanted to start a war and unify the Primordial Wilderness!"
Primordial Phoenix slowly spoke as well, her voice carrying the searing heat of flames. The vertical eye between her brows suddenly opened, and a streak of fire shot into the void.
"Ancestral Dragon, Dragon Clan scales were found outside my Phoenix Clan's sacred ground, still stained with the blood of young phoenixes from my clan. If you want war, then my Phoenix Clan accepts!"
Before her words had faded, the Southern Bright Leaving Fire around her surged explosively, transforming into the phantom of a colossal Fire Phoenix. As it spread its wings, even the distant Sun Star seemed to brighten by several degrees.
A faint unease swept through Ancestral Dragon's heart. This evidence seemed to have appeared far too conveniently.
But with the armies facing one another, the Dragon Clan's dignity could not yield. He snorted coldly. "Words are useless. Let our hands decide the truth!"
Before his words had faded, he brought forth the fist-sized supreme treasure, the Zu Long Pearl.
The instant the pearl left his body, it expanded to over a zhang wide. Dark blue waterlight shimmered across its entire surface, and the phantoms of the Four Sea Dragon Kings emerged upon it.
Water Law surged forth like a tsunami. It not only drew upon the waters of the Four Seas, but also tugged at the Heavenly River Water Star in the sky. A pillar of waterlight as thick as a barrel crashed down from the heavens toward First Qilin!
"Good!" Rather than retreat, First Qilin advanced and brought forth the Qilin Seal.
This seal had been forged from Primordial Xuanhuang Stone, its surface engraved with the veins of mountains and rivers. The moment it struck the ground, it transformed into a massive boulder ten thousand zhang tall.
The veins on the boulder came alive, turning into countless small mountain peaks that slammed into the water pillar.
Boom! The two treasures collided, shaking Cangwu Plain violently as countless fissures a thousand zhang deep spread at tremendous speed.
Scorching Earth Fire erupted from the fissures, colliding with the water pillar and producing steam that filled the sky.
More terrifyingly, the shockwave from the collision shot directly into the starry sky.
A distant star was swept by the shockwave and instantly shattered into countless fragments, turning into meteors that fell toward the battlefield.
When they struck the ground, they triggered secondary explosions, blasting entire swaths of subordinate races into ash.
Seizing the opportunity, Primordial Phoenix brought forth the Phoenix Bell. Its silver chime carried piercing soundwaves.
The soundwaves transformed into countless flaming blades, leaving pale red traces as they cut through space and struck toward Ancestral Dragon's weakness.
"Hmph!" Ancestral Dragon twisted aside to evade them, then violently swept his dragon tail. Space split open into a scar hundreds of zhang long, leaking Chaos Airflow.
The black currents carried a devouring force and nearly sucked in the nearby Phoenix Clan Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
The dragon scales around him swelled as Water Law formed layer upon layer of water shields. At the same time, he controlled the Zu Long Pearl and turned it around.
The waterlight on the pearl's surface transformed into countless water arrows, colliding with the Phoenix Bell's flaming blades. Water and fire intertwined, producing a vast blanket of white mist.
The white mist contained chaotic Law Power. Death awaited at a touch, and even Grand Unity Golden Immortals would have their primordial spirits scorched if they were caught in it.
The clash of three peak Primordial Origin Golden Immortals instantly stirred the winds and clouds of heaven and earth.
The Water Law of the Zu Long Pearl drew the waters of the Four Seas backward into Cangwu Plain, flooding the lands of the Primordial Wilderness.
Water-attributed laws within the flood condensed into ice crystals, freezing vast stretches of living beings.
The Southern Bright Leaving Fire of the Phoenix Bell burned along Space Rifts toward the starry sky, igniting numerous fire-attributed stars.
The stars' flames turned into a rain of fire that fell from the sky, boiling the floodwaters into vapor hundreds of li high.
First Qilin's Earth Law was even more domineering. Cangwu Plain beneath his hooves suddenly rose.
Countless mountain peaks erupted from the ground, then crashed toward Ancestral Dragon under his control.
As the mountains shattered, their fragments were rapidly tempered by Earth Law into sharp stone spears, which shot densely into the Dragon Clan formation.
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