Scouts rode Flood Dragon Horses at full gallop toward the Three-Linked War Fortresses.
Fang Yun gazed toward the distant horizon, where three enormous black fortresses stood linked together. Farther beyond them, hundreds of Eagle Demons circled in the sky.
"Hmph!"
Fang Yun gave a cold snort. Clouds sprang into being in the clear sky where the Eagle Demons circled. Black clouds churned, lightning flashed, and thunder roared, instantly killing every Eagle Demon below the rank of Demon King. Even the Eagle Demon Kings hastily descended.
Just as a torrential downpour was about to fall in the distance, a strange red light shot into the sky and dispersed all the dark clouds.
It was the power of the Heaven-Burning Furnace, a Barbarian Race Half-Sage treasure.
Afterward, dark clouds continually gathered above the barbarians, only to be dispersed again and again by the Heaven-Burning Furnace's power, in an endless cycle.
The weather this August was actually more fickle than it had been in June and July.
Only after traveling a full two hundred li did Fang Yun stop probing the Heaven-Burning Furnace's power.
The scholars and private soldiers behind Fang Yun looked at him with eyes full of respect. A Great Scholar could also use dark clouds and thunder to slaughter demons from hundreds of li away, but never with such effortless ease.
Chen Youdao said, "Void Sage Fang, it looks as though the barbarians will let us enter the Three-Linked War Fortresses, then surround us on all sides within three days. As far as I know, after you reached Ning'an, the Wolf Sage Army guarding Wolf Sage Mountain set out. They should reach the Three-Linked War Fortresses within three days. Once they arrive, the barbarians will stop at nothing to breach the fortresses."
"The Wolf Sage Army is the Grass Barbarians'