These wyverns were no less intelligent than humans. Their destruction within Hess City was not blind; they specifically targeted places where humans were gathered.
Liewen stood atop a roof and was quickly spotted by them.
There were more than a dozen Red Dragons in the group. The leader was nearly a hundred meters long, its fiery-red scales radiating a terrifying pressure.
It was a ninth-level Red Dragon.
Liewen held Laina in his left arm as Light Element gathered behind him, condensing into a pair of white wings.
With a flap of his wings, Liewen soared into the sky.
Generally speaking, aside from wind mages who could fly using wind magic, other warriors and mages could not fly on their own before reaching the Saint Realm.
But that was only under normal circumstances. Ordinary warriors and mages, even those at the ninth level, might not necessarily comprehend the realm of Draw Heaven and Earth.
Liewen, however, had already begun comprehending the profound mysteries of the Light Element. His realm far surpassed that of an ordinary ninth-level warrior.
By wielding the profound mysteries of the Light Element, Liewen could condense elemental wings and fly.
More than a dozen Red Dragons spewed dragon breath at Liewen.
The Red Dragons' fiery breath radiated astonishing heat. More than a dozen streams of dragon breath painted half the sky crimson.
Liewen flapped his elemental wings, nimbly dodging the fiery dragon breath as he charged toward the leading ninth-level Red Dragon.
White light radiated from his body, covering him completely as Liewen transformed into a sphere of white light.
It was the profound mystery of Purification.
The white light blocked the heat of the fiery dragon breath. Sheltered within it, Laina was completely unaffected by the battle. Flying through the air even made her so excited that she waved her arms and legs.
The white sphere charged toward the ninth-level Red Dragon. Before a Red Dragon nearly a hundred meters long, the white sphere, barely three meters in diameter, was utterly inconspicuous.
The Red Dragon spewed dragon breath at Liewen.
When the fiery dragon breath struck the white sphere, it split to either side. It could not burn its way inside at all, like a river divided by a reef.
Liewen charged straight ahead, passing directly through the ninth-level Red Dragon's body.
Its hard dragon scales were like paper, effortlessly torn apart by the white sphere.
Like a pebble piercing through tofu, the white sphere emerged from the ninth-level Red Dragon's body. The dragon let out a mournful cry and fell downward.
The other eighth-level wyverns were terrified. Liewen flew into the flock of Red Dragons, and the white light around him expanded violently. Parts of three Red Dragons' bodies were engulfed by the white light and immediately burned to ashes, their remaining bodies falling from the sky.
Over the past month, Liewen had figured out two ways to use the profound mystery of Purification. One was to compress it into a sphere of light, reducing its range but concentrating its power.
The other was to spread the light outward, greatly expanding its range but reducing its power.
Liewen had used the first method to kill the ninth-level Red Dragon, while he chose the second against the weaker eighth-level Red Dragons.
Was there a method that was both powerful and wide-ranging?
Liewen had considered it before, but he had yet to find any clue.
Seeing Liewen's terrifying strength, the surviving Red Dragons no longer dared to linger and fled in panic.
Watching the Red Dragons scatter in all directions, Liewen extended his right hand. Light Element condensed into a white spear.
He hurled the spear fiercely. It transformed into a streak of white light and pierced through a Red Dragon's body.
This was a Light Element profound-mystery technique he had developed by drawing inspiration from the light-element forbidden spell, Holy Light Spear.
Of course, its power was far inferior to the Holy Light Spear, but it was more than enough to deal with an eighth-level magical beast.
Liewen descended and collected the Magical Crystal Cores and Essence Blood from those Red Dragons.
The Bo Lei Clan's body-tempering secret art required a considerable amount of Magical Crystal Cores and magical beast Essence Blood.
A seventh-level magical beast's Magical Crystal Core was worth fifty thousand gold coins, an eighth-level one's was worth five hundred thousand, and a ninth-level one's was worth five million.
Although Liewen now had more than a hundred million gold coins, he could not afford to squander them.
From this battle, Liewen gained one ninth-level Magical Crystal Core, four eighth-level Magical Crystal Cores, and the corresponding Essence Blood.
After putting away the Magical Crystal Cores and Essence Blood, he looked up at the flying magical beasts wreaking havoc elsewhere in Hess City, his eyes gleaming.
This was an excellent opportunity to obtain Magical Crystal Cores and Essence Blood.
Hess City was vast, and flying magical beasts were attacking everywhere.
The Holy See had also prepared for this, arranging wind mages and Holy Knights with flying magical-beast mounts to meet them in battle ahead of time.
Fighting raged everywhere. The battle between Liewen and the Red Dragons had not drawn much attention.
Above Hess City, battle aura of every color and magical light flashed through the air. Blood occasionally rained down, followed by magical beasts or humans falling to the ground.
The residence where Liewen lived was not in the central area of Hess City, merely a small corner of it. After landing, he ran toward the fallen magical beast corpses to collect their Magical Crystal Cores and Essence Blood.
Elsewhere, the battle outside the city walls was even more brutal.
The magical beast horde had already surged beneath the city walls. Earth-Walking Dragons, Velociraptors, Bloodthirsty Iron Bulls, and other magical beasts slammed furiously into the city gates.
Some magical beasts were also climbing up the city walls.
There were many magical beast races, and quite a few possessed climbing abilities.
Roar!
With a thunderous roar, a ninth-level Earth-Splitting Black Bear nearly twenty meters tall charged to the city gate. With a full-force ram, Hess City's towering gate immediately began to totter.
At this rate, the gate would collapse after only a few more hits.
Just then, countless figures leaped down from the city walls.
There were tens of thousands of them. Every one of them moved with agility and possessed at least the strength of a seventh-level warrior.
They were members of the Radiant Church's eight ace knight orders. To stop the magical beast assault at Hess City, the Radiant Church had dispatched four of its eight ace knight orders.
The Glory Knights Order, Holy Knights Order, Radiant Knights Order, and Holy Light Knights Order—each order had ten thousand members, all at least seventh-level warriors and skilled in combined battle formations.
Besides the four great knight orders, there were also deacons from the Religious Inquisition.
These experts, skilled at operating in the shadows, wore purple robes and moved in groups of six.
Blazing white light erupted from their bodies, connecting together to form the shape of a six-pointed star.
These Religious Inquisition experts formed battle formations and launched surprise attacks on the ninth-level magical beasts.
The Earth-Splitting Black Bear at the city gate was killed by six elite deacons who had formed a battle formation.
With the addition of these four great knight orders and the Religious Inquisition experts, the tide of battle changed. The magical beasts beneath the city walls were cleared out.
However, the magical beasts soon launched another counterattack.
Battles were raging both outside the city and in the skies above it.
The battle lasted for three full days, yet the magical beasts could not break through.
Over those three days, Liewen took the opportunity to collect many high-level magical beasts' Magical Crystal Cores and Essence Blood, enough to last him a long time.
Hm?
While resting in the residence, Liewen suddenly sensed something. He glanced at Laina, who was sleeping soundly in her cradle, then left the residence and headed toward the southern city gate.
Above Hess City's southern gate, three gigantic magical beasts appeared.
One was a giant lion with blood-red eyes, one was a giant ape with golden fur and purple eyes, and one was a dragon as black as stone, yet without wings.
All three magical beasts stood suspended in midair.
The Blood-Eyed Mane Lion, Purple-Eyed Golden Ape, and Tyrannosaurus Rex were all Saint Realm magical beasts.
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