Black flames swept across the earth.
The soldiers groaning on the ground were either unconscious or wracked with unbearable pain.
They had no way to resist such an attack.
Wherever the black fire passed, it burned away every scrap of flesh from the soldiers' bodies, leaving only skeletons. The skeletons were then utterly consumed, and the power of their souls and bodies turned once more into drifting clouds of black mist.
In an instant, cloud after cloud of black mist peeled away from the corpses and rose into the sky.
They flew toward Gu Qingshan.
Gu Qingshan stood motionless, allowing the clouds of black mist to surge toward him from every direction and sink back into his body.
"Mm..."
Gu Qingshan let out a soft groan.
The soldiers numbered in the tens of thousands, forming a vast and mighty force. An ordinary person could never withstand it; they would be blasted apart.
Wave after wave of pain coursed through Gu Qingshan's body, making him furrow his brow.
—But he had the body of a magic dragon. He had once absorbed the power of an entire Azure Dragon, and he had even taken in the Twin Dragon Power at the same time. This was nothing to him.
In the blink of an eye,
all the black mist had been absorbed.
Gu Qingshan closed his eyes. A giant dragon, formed entirely of black mist, appeared behind him.
A line of tiny characters in blazing flames appeared before him—
"There's one last soldier, hiding underground 3,900 meters to the southeast."
Gu Qingshan murmured, "Mm."
The dragon behind him suddenly swooped down, merging completely with his body.
In the next instant, he transformed into a several-hundred-meter-long dragon and soared into the sky.
The dragon, its entire body covered in razor-sharp black scales, flew southeast