Summoning a Great Sage Flood Dragon

(Day 1, Noon)

Roar!

Another cry, filled with pain and savagery, echoed. She saw dense, incomplete Imperial Formation rune chains, like venomous snakes, piercing into the dark clouds. A thick black blood mist permeated the clouds.

Jiang Tingting could feel that the sky-filling dark clouds were actually black, cold fog condensed from extremely high concentrations of Yin Sha energy.

She suspected that even if she emptied a thousand, ten thousand Yin Sha earth veins beneath her current cold pond, it wouldn't even amount to one ten-thousandth of the dark clouds condensed in the sky!

Simultaneously, accompanying the pained dragon roar, a snake-like body writhed and struggled within. Just the movement of its body was so fast that Jiang Tingting, a powerful cultivator at the second level of the Immortal Platform, couldn't even follow it with her eyes.

How enormous was that figure?

From what could be vaguely seen within the dark clouds, it resembled a colossal, dark pillar that blotted out the sky.

Its diameter alone appeared to be a terrifying tens of kilometers, and with her Divine Sense, its length reached a staggering over a thousand kilometers!

Her Divine Sense confirmed, this was definitely not a secret technique to enlarge its body like a Dharma Image, but its actual, physical body!

It was simply too massive!

The colossal figure seemed to have pulled a star from beyond the heavens down to earth, completely engulfing the entire visible sky from her perspective on the ground.

Its long, black, snake-like body was covered in sharp scales, like countless mountains of blades.

On its enormous back, sharp sword-like ridges, as terrifying as mountains, stood erect. The aura emanating from them tore through the clouds and even ripped through the Void, slicing the golden rune chains derived from the Jiang Family's defensive formation, causing them to burst into sparks.

It had to be known that this was an incomplete Imperial Formation left behind by the Jiang Family's Great Emperor, Emperor Hengyu, from countless eons ago!

Even without its full power activated, it was a formation capable of suppressing cultivators at the Great Sage level!

However, this powerful, incomplete Imperial Formation, despite having inflicted damage on the terrifying giant dragon, with rune chains piercing its flesh, causing a colossal black river of blood to pour down like the Milky Way, was already on the verge of collapse. Harsh, grating sounds emanated from the rune chains, as if they were about to snap under the immense force of the colossal dragon's struggle.

The next moment, a vast pressure descended from the sky, accompanied by a focused gaze, making Jiang Tingting feel a deadly sense of threat.

She saw, along with the pressure, an extremely large head emerge from the black clouds. Its two eyes, as black as the abyss of a deep, cold pool, revealed emotions of pain and savagery.

The sheer size of its head was so exaggerated that if one gathered a thousand, ten thousand giant monsters like Godzilla, each a hundred meters tall, from the monster movies Fang Zheng had watched, they wouldn't be enough to fill its gaping maw, let alone be a mere snack.

Its colossal body, stretching over a thousand kilometers, would require a combined, new form of Ultraman to defeat, making it a movie boss even within the Ultraman series.

At this moment, the trembling of her physical body and Primordial Spirit in the face of crisis, the feeling of being less than an ant, told Jiang Tingting.

It told her that this was definitely a powerhouse beyond the Saint realm!

Under the oppression of this intense sense of crisis, she couldn't even immediately recall the two Emperor Weapons on her person—the Taiyin Moon Blade and the Human Emperor Seal.

Her pupils merely constricted, shocked and bewildered by the current situation. "How is this possible?"

"The Jiang Family's Emperor Weapon, the Hengyu Furnace, is currently in a state of full revival! How could a demon race invade the Jiang Family?"

"Could this be a Supreme Being from a Forbidden Zone? No! Although this Flood Dragon is powerful, it's still too weak compared to the lords of those life Forbidden Zones!"

"Wait!" Jiang Tingting sensed something was off. "Why does this Flood Dragon look so much like..."

"A monster-catching cage? Could it be?!" Jiang Tingting seemed to have thought of something.

Her pupils contracted, and she swept her Divine Sense over, glancing at the small, slowly rotating Flood Dragon in the monster-catching cage beside her.

"Exactly the same!"

Jiang Tingting was utterly shocked by her own conjecture.

She managed to utter with some difficulty, "Is this what Senior Fang Zheng meant by 'catching monsters'?!"

Just as Jiang Tingting was too stunned to speak by her own guess.

Roar...

A dragon's roar, carrying pain and savagery, came from the heavens, accompanied by the sound of rune chains being forcibly broken.

The incomplete Imperial Formation that enveloped the entire Jiang Family ultimately could not be maintained and fully activated by anyone.

If it were an external enemy invading, it would be more than sufficient.

But with an enemy inexplicably appearing within the formation, its maximum capability was to instantly trigger its defenses autonomously and temporarily seal a Great Sage-level being, without anyone to command it.

At this moment, the rune chains covering the sky snapped rapidly, torn apart by the terrifying, cold Flood Dragon's body, stretching for thousands of kilometers—a monstrous force capable of dragging dozens of stars at near light speed purely through physical strength.

If not for the incomplete Imperial Formation still taking effect, even a slight sway of the terrifying Flood Dragon's body, the residual shockwave from striking the air, would have been enough to turn the entire Jiang Family territory into a purgatory.

And the Jiang Family's Hengyu Furnace, though in a state of full revival recently, with the Deity within the weapon supposedly awake, inexplicably did not intervene immediately.

If this situation continued, the Jiang Family might truly be finished.

"Hmph!"

Just as the formation pattern chains in the sky were about to completely break, a cold snort emanated from a hidden secret realm within the Jiang Family, causing the Flood Dragon to tremble all over.

"Insignificant loach, how dare you be so presumptuous!"

An elder, his face a mass of wrinkles deep enough to trap flies, hunched and stooped, exuding an aura of decay, so ancient that he could instantly cosplay a zombie if he lay down, suddenly shattered the Divine Source that had sealed him.

His name was Jiang Wen. He was the tenth-generation descendant of the Jiang Family's Great Emperor, Jiang Hengyu. He was a cultivator who had reached the third level of the Quasi-Emperor realm countless eons ago.

When his attempts at breakthrough proved hopeless and his lifespan neared its end, he sealed himself within a Divine Source and was stored in a Jiang Family secret realm.

Only when the Jiang Family faced a life-or-death crisis could they summon the ancestor-level figure needed to resolve the issue.

Jiang Wen first bowed respectfully towards the Jiang Family Ancestral Hall, toward the Hengyu Furnace that had inexplicably fully awakened.

Then, he attempted to communicate with the Hengyu Furnace's deity using his Divine Sense, but received no response.

This caused his brow to furrow. He turned to the old man beside him and asked, "What's going on? Why has the Hengyu Furnace revived? You woke me up because there's a crisis, and you need me to manage the Hengyu Furnace?"

He didn't have a good expression upon being awakened by his descendants, because waking up meant there was inevitably some thorny problem to solve, and his face was extremely serious.

The old man looked at the ancestor before him and chuckled bitterly, lowering his head. "Ancestor, we don't know why the Hengyu Furnace has fully revived. A few days ago, after disturbances arose in the major forbidden zones, the Hengyu Furnace suddenly became like this."

"As for the specific reason, I'm afraid only the Family Head knows."

"Forbidden zone riots..." Jiang Wen fell silent for a moment.

He sighed softly, recalling past events. "Is another Dark Turmoil about to begin? How many people will have to die this time..."

Then, before he could dwell in his sorrow, the old man bowed again. "Ancestor, we woke you this time to deal with that Great Sage-level Demon Dragon outside."

"Although the Hengyu Furnace revived on its own, it inexplicably hasn't taken action. The Jiang Family has no one strong enough to contend with a Great Sage-level Demon Dragon. If you don't act, the Jiang Family will likely face utter destruction."