"Are you all right?" Li Mu Yang placed Qian Du atop the city wall and asked urgently.
"I'm fine." Qian Du looked at the star-filled sky overhead and said with an ugly expression, "They've begun attacking the city."
"They aren't attacking the city—they're destroying it." Li Mu Yang gritted his teeth. "To kill me, they're willing to use all the soldiers and civilians in this city to be buried with me."
"These people will stop at nothing. You must be careful." Qian Du grabbed Li Mu Yang's sleeve and urged him.
"I'll defend the city from the wall. Go take care of my parents and family. If possible, move them out as soon as you can."
"Don't worry. I won't let anything happen to them," Qian Du said.
The two gazed into each other's eyes, unwilling to part for a long, long time. Above them, flames filled the sky, carrying divine might capable of destroying heaven and earth.
"You have to stay alive!" Qian Du shouted before her body shot into the air and flew toward the center of the city.
"I will," Li Mu Yang said softly.
His expression twisted ferociously, and his pitch-black pupils became two clouds of blood mist.
At the center of his sea of consciousness, a black crystal floated in suspension, strands of black aura spreading toward his body.
Dark, gloomy scales surfaced on the back of Li Mu Yang's hand, then spread along his body toward its other parts.
"Roar!"
Li Mu Yang let out a howl, and a gigantic black dragon surged toward the sky.
"Roar!"
The black dragon opened its maw and spewed a dense breath of dragonfire toward the boundless sky.
Crack!
As the dragon breath flew skyward, it scattered in all directions before colliding with the countless fireballs descending upon