While Ao Huang argued with Ao Wo and Lei Wu, the survivors among the million demon barbarians and Water Race troops landed safely and soon assembled into two armies.
Most of the Water Race moved sluggishly after leaving the Raging Waves Battle Platform and fell in behind. Only a few kept up with the demon barbarian army ahead, which numbered nearly forty thousand.
A blood-red military banner appeared above these forty thousand demon barbarians. This was one of the demon barbarians' core powers: as long as the Demon Barbarian Army Banner remained, the wounds of the demon barbarians beneath it would heal extremely quickly, provided they were still alive.
Once the Demon Barbarian Army Banner formed again, every demon barbarian's wounds healed completely within three breaths!
An Elephant Demon Marquis clad entirely in black armor raised his trunk and trumpeted loudly. Black mist streamed upward around his body, then gathered above his head into a savage, colossal elephant whose four feet trod the eight wildernesses and whose tusks pierced the vault of heaven. It stood a full ten stories tall.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill Fang Yun!"
The fifty thousand demon barbarians and Water Race troops quickened their pace. They could reach Ning'an City in less than half a quarter-hour.
Atop the city wall, the conflict between the two sides had reached its breaking point.
Dragon King Ao Wo flew into a towering rage and snapped, "Fang Yun, you brat! You refuse the wine of courtesy only to drink the wine of punishment! Today, I shall display the might of the Dragon Race and cripple you in Ning'an City, so you learn that a dragon's dignity cannot be affronted!"
Just as Ao Wo was about to strike, the Black Dragon Marquis beside him hurried to stop him. "Before we came, His Majesty