"Dong! Dong! Dong!!!"
A deep, powerful bell toll rang out again and again over Flame Emperor City, rapid, mournful, and solemn.
This was the Spirit Grade Peerless Sacred Object the Endless Fire Territory had purchased from the Spirit Gathering Clan—the Heaven-Asking Bell. It had been placed atop the tallest structure in Flame Emperor City, the very summit of Flame Emperor Palace. Once its tolling fully resounded, it could even cover the entire continent.
Once the Heaven-Asking Bell rang, it meant war had begun!
It was an early warning for war, with the alarm divided into one to nine tolls according to the severity of the situation. If nine tolls rang out in succession, it meant the Endless Fire Territory had encountered a large-scale enemy invasion—and enemies they could not withstand by force.
And today, the Heaven-Asking Bell had rung exactly nine times!
At that moment, countless powerful figures within Flame Emperor City changed expression. Their faces grave, they swiftly rushed toward the nearest assembly points according to the emergency plan, and countless powerful fluctuations of Spiritual Energy soared into the sky.
"Buzz!"
High above Flame Emperor City, ten thousand feet in the air, an incomparably enormous spirit array transformed into a light barrier and descended, firmly covering Flame Emperor City, which spanned tens of thousands of miles. A terrifying fluctuation of Spiritual Energy quietly rippled outward, and space began to twist rapidly.
This Immortal Grade defensive spirit array, set up by an Immortal Grade Spirit Array Great Grandmaster of the True Dragon Clan, had finally been fully activated!
"Boom!"
The next second, a thunderous explosion suddenly erupted above Flame Emperor City, and a huge spatial rift was rapidly torn open. An army whose figures blotted out the sky and covered the earth swiftly howled out from the depths of the