Zhang Jingzhou stood on high ground, flinging talismans from his hand one after another. Each talisman landed among the Gold-Eater Clan and unleashed a burst of lightning and fire. The Celestial Master Mansion's lightning arts were astonishingly effective on a battlefield of this scale.
The battle line was advancing.
But Chen Siyao felt no joy.
Because she was watching the sky.
Summers hovered ten thousand meters above them, those two eerie green lights coldly surveying everything below.
It had not moved.
It was waiting.
Waiting for everyone to arrive, then wiping them all out in one fell swoop.
Two clear bird cries pierced the din of battle.
Everyone looked up.
Two enormous flying creatures were approaching through the sky. The first was blue-green, its entire body covered in three shades of the color. With a wingspan of over fifty meters, it was a gigantic Three Blue Birds.
Its feathers gleamed like metal in the sunlight, and every beat of its wings stirred up a storm of psionic energy.
The second...
Around the world, everyone watching their screens rose to their feet.
It was a divine bird, scarlet from head to tail. Its wingspan exceeded two hundred meters, and golden-red flames trailed from its tail feathers. Every beat of its wings left a bank of fiery clouds in the sky.
The Vermilion Bird.
One of the Four Divine Beasts of Huaxia legend.
The scarlet divine bird circled once above the battlefield, then plunged downward.
Thirty meters from Chen Siyao, its body rapidly shrank. Scarlet feathers transformed into a red dress, and its enormous wings folded into two slender arms.
A woman stood before Chen Siyao.
She looked about thirty, with cascading hair and striking beauty. Her red dress snapped in the wind, and faint flames wreathed her body.
Cai Jingwen.
"Jingwen."