This should have been the end of the late ten days of the lunar month, and there should not have been a moon. Even if there had been a moon, it would have been blocked by the scorching fire clouds overhead!
This entire fire cloud could be seen all over Nan Zheng city, and it also caused the temperature near South Lake to be quite high. Ordinary people stepping into it would certainly not have survived for more than a few minutes, and even practitioners had to weigh it carefully, as the slightest carelessness would burn them to cinders!
At the same time, the fire cloud illuminated the area below as bright as day!
After South Lake dried up, it left a smooth crater resembling the aftermath of a meteorite impact. On the far west side stood a ten-meter-tall boulder, next to which sat a man in white cloth garments cross-legged, occasionally making contact with the boulder, casting spells or probing it.
At midnight, the imperial court sent people.
An Yang had long since arranged his defenses in the surroundings, so the moment these people stepped into the edge of South Lake, they intruded into his sight.
It was a team composed of a group of practitioners in brocade and embroidered garments and a group of heavily armed ranged elite soldiers. The average standard of this group of practitioners was slightly higher than that of the motley crew by the lake earlier, and they were using methods to protect this elite force from the invasion of the high temperature, while this elite force possessed the distinct style of the Great Tang army—
Superb equipment!
At that time, the equipment of the Great Tang Empire's army was the American Empire of that era! Everyone wore twelve-link chain armor, covered outside with