Swallowing Fire

Crash!

The sky turned blue-black, then dissolved into a torrential downpour.

Confluence Water surged, but it could only sweep up one or two Shaman Gods as it retreated from the Chu Capital.

Worse still, that blue-black expanse could claim only a distant corner of the sky. Over the Chu Capital, columns of flame soared upward like Fire Phoenixes setting the plains ablaze, engulfing the entire city!

Above the crimson sky, Purple Tenuity wavered!

[Wing Fire], [Tail Fire], and [Shi Fire] appeared as three stars blazing with light. A smaller star became [Rahu], manifesting a fearsome form whose aura surged toward Purple Tenuity!

Within Confluence Water, a pair of eyes like black suns appeared.

Under the gaze of [Water-Merging Moon Bane True Lord], Heavenly Chu's vast national fortune had long since fractured. The Demon Race had invested in the Chu Kingdom from its founding, and the two had later become inseparable. Half its national fortune had belonged to the Demon Race all along.

And now, far more than half had been taken away.

The imperial star wavered and the whole city burned. Heavenly Chu's reign would collapse at a speed that left no time to blink...

Suddenly!

Deep within the burning city, an immense figure appeared, clad entirely in red, wearing an emperor's twelve-tasseled ceremonial robes and a flat-topped crown.

[Rahu] roared, transformed into a hideous beast, and lunged...

"Elder brother..."

Shi Tianfeng was powerless.

He was only at early Golden Core. Against Golden Core Perfection, he was simply too weak.

If that was true of him, there was even less to say about the other Shaman Gods.

Fortunately, Shi Tianfeng remembered his elder brother's earlier instructions. Rivers appeared around the Chu Capital, barely managing to rescue scattered Chu refugees.

"Magu..."

Shi Taiyi fled the Chu Capital on his Dao