As the Black Firestone sphere was annihilated by a single sword strike, the houses behind the city wall collapsed. The illusion shattered, revealing four enormous dragon-shaped mechanisms, fiery red from end to end, a hundred zhang long and ten zhang tall-several times higher than the city wall.
Xi Shi cried out in shock, "What are those?"
Zhang Poyue, who had just wielded his Lip Spear and Tongue Sword, stepped onto the city wall, stripped away his disguise, and declared loudly, "You may never have seen them, but surely you have heard of them-the Dragonfire War Engines!"
The scholars of high Literary Rank paled in horror. These were treasures found only in legends, mechanisms whose destructive power far surpassed that of human Great Scholars.
"I don't believe you dare use such forbidden weapons! You would be making an enemy of the entire Human Race!" Xi Shi blustered, fierce in appearance but fearful within.
Zhang Poyue chuckled. "Is there anything I, Zhang Poyue, wouldn't dare do?"
Xi Shi continued, "Stop bluffing. How could treasures that existed only in the era of the Ancient Dragon Race fall into your Jing Kingdom's hands? Fang Yun must have borrowed them from the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan to frighten us!"
Zhang Poyue smiled. "The treasures Void Sage Fang obtained from Burial Saint Valley far exceed your imagination."
With that, Zhang Poyue raised his right arm high.
Xi Shi immediately shouted, "Everyone, retreat! Zhang Poyue, don't act rashly. Today was a misunderstanding..."
Zhang Poyue swung his arm sharply downward.
The dragon heads of the Dragon Might War Gear slowly opened their great mouths, and four dragon roars rang through the clouds.
An instant later, boundless divine flames blotted out the sky and blanketed the earth.
Outside Ding County, the blazing flames became a sea.
The Qing Kingdom