We'd talk about that later.
Sooner or later, he would lead an army and flatten Clear Sky Castle.
Kill all the men, and send the women to the Music Conservatory. Tsk, why did that sound so villainous?
Xu Lanqing looked away from Niu Tian and the others as they fled. He chose not to pursue them.
It wasn't just that he'd used up all his strength; his body could no longer withstand him expending any more power.
He could use the Dragon God's power only because the energy inside the Dragon Pearls left behind by the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings sustained him. If he had truly summoned the Dragon God, there'd have been no need to drag things out—one slash would have ended it. Simple and straightforward.
All the light and heat withdrew into his body. The nine-colored dragon scales that had shone so brilliantly before were now dull and lifeless.
With the blazing sun and the sea no longer suspended high in the sky, the night above the battlefield was pitch-black and utterly still.
As Xu Lanqing's gaze swept over the Sunset Forest below, he paused.
The forest, once dark and dense, was now even darker—but charred black.
The devastated earth was dotted with sizzling flames, and roiling black smoke billowed upward and spread, merging into one vast cloud. For a moment, it looked like a tribulation cloud heralding the end of the world, covering the forest.
Only the area around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Snow Empress and the others were, had escaped the worst of the destruction. Their strength, along with the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well controlled by the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, had allowed that area to survive.
The Sunset Forest was utterly destroyed from this day forward. It