On a hill, Jiang Lang and Hui Mian stood staring blankly into the distance, surrounded by refugees and local people.
Everyone gazed numbly at the city that had now been swallowed entirely by the flood. Who knew how many of those who had refused to leave had perished in the water at that very moment?
"Aooo-"
A dragon's cry came from the raging waters far away. There was no telling how the brave men of the Flood Dragon-Slaying Camp were faring now.
Rumble!
Thunderbolts struck where the flood raged, tinged with blood-red light. There, more than four hundred soldiers of the Flood Dragon-Slaying Camp held long spears in teams of four.
Boom!
The floodgates and Dragon-Repelling Spike Formation set in the river channel had some effect, and iron chains as thick as arms pulled taut.
"Brothers, today we die for our cause-"
A burly man roared and leaped into the flood with his teammates, all gripping their spear. The four moved in perfect harmony, pouring every ounce of strength into the weapon and maintaining a thread of stability even amid the raging current. Behind them, another eight teams jumped almost simultaneously.
They could no longer hear anything underwater, yet these thirty-six men seemed able to sense one another. They had long since cast life and death aside.
Turn the stars, tread water as solid ground-Heavenly Gang Formation, Heavenly River Water stance!
As though an ancient memory had awakened, as though a dream born with them had become clear, nine long spears thrust out together underwater, catching the precise moment the flood dragon passed.
"Aooo-roar!"
As the flood dragon roared, blood spread through the water, and fragments of wood and human bodies were hurled into the air.
Many soldiers of the Flood Dragon-Slaying Camp on shore had been scared out of