Outside the demon domain, fine steeds galloped. Horsemen on their backs hurled one grand banner after another.
Each grand banner cracked sharply as it drove into the ground. The banner faces unfurled, dragon-shaped patterns fluttering.
Strange characters were written around the patterns, a combination of talisman scripts and seal scripts.
Every hundred paces, there was a banner like this.
When all the banners were planted, the horsemen wheeled their horses around and galloped toward a distant encampment.
The encampment was newly built, near the provincial highway. The Three Judicial Offices of Xinxiang Province, the Provincial Administration Commission, the Provincial Surveillance Commission, the Commander's Office, and the Xinxiang Governor were all in the encampment, gazing afar at this demon domain.
With an order given, each grand banner was activated. One saw golden dragons thrusting their sharp claws out from within the banners, struggling to climb outward. Their claws hooked into the red curtain, climbing upward.
After a moment, the golden dragons in all the banners climbed out completely, prostrating themselves atop the red curtain.
Each grand banner fluttered, shooting searing golden light from within the banners into the bodies of the golden dragons, maintaining the dragon shapes without dispersing.
"The Heavenly Dragon Demon Locking Array can hold for a hundred days. After a hundred days, the true gods will gaze down, and the demon domain will vanish into nothingness, without endangering the subjects outside."
Xinxiang Governor Zhao Tianbao sighed and said, "My nephew Zhao Yanlong heard that a demonic upheaval had erupted at Ganyang Mountain, and led four thousand elites of Xuan Ying Mansion, bringing even his own progeny along to charge into the demon domain in an attempt to stop the demonic upheaval. Foolish child, truly a foolish child!"
He shook his head repeatedly, tears streaming down his old face,