Ultimate Deterrence

After flying through the night, they reached the edge of the Mist Hidden Forbidden Zone before dawn.

This would allow them to launch their attack during the day, when temperatures were highest and lighting conditions were best.

Standing in the nearly 360-degree transparent spherical observation room at the front of the Kunpeng Number, Meng Chao gazed into the distance and saw rolling mountains shrouded in clouds and mist.

The peaks were steep, sharp, and perilous, like reefs amid Stormy Waves.

They also resembled an incomparably massive Primordial Ferocious Beast lying dormant in the depths of the clouds. Every mountain peak was one of its fangs, while the mountains encircling one another formed its gaping, bloody maw.

When fierce winds scattered the clouds and faintly revealed the forests beneath the mist, two surging rivers could be seen winding, tangling, and colliding from deep within the mountains.

At times, they split into hundreds of tributaries, tearing the already labyrinthine terrain into even more fragmented pieces. At other times, they merged together, multiplying both their width and flow severalfold.

Their earthshaking roar was like an endless carpet bombing, tormenting human eardrums.

These were the Crimson Dragon River from Earth and the native Otherworld Tiger's Fury River.

Like a black dragon and a red dragon, they had savagely bitten down on each other's throats while their tails remained tightly entwined, inseparable as though mating.

With the impact of these two great rivers, floods, roaring mudslides, swamps, and ghost lakes everywhere were hardly surprising.

Despite such a harsh environment, the Crimson Dragon Army's engineering forces had braved the extreme weather and the ravages of the two rivers to establish several military bases and heavy artillery positions on relatively safe high ground. They had even laid railways capable of supporting Train Cannons all the way to