With a flurry of "Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" astonishing spiritual light surged, and the bald cultivator and his seven or eight companions fled a thousand miles in an instant. Far ahead, they could already vaguely make out the enormous Giant City...
Suddenly!
"Hm?" The bald cultivator's expression shifted, and he abruptly stopped. The others reacted just as quickly, stopping in an instant and looking back...
In that instant!
"Boom!!!" Astonishing orange light erupted into the distant sky. Within it, an enormous stone fist shot upward, sending ring after ring of orange light rippling across the heavens, as though it had punched a gigantic crater into the sky...
Then...
"Rumble!!" The earth shook violently, seemingly trembling for thousands of miles around...
"!!!" The terrifying sight on the horizon made the bald cultivator and his companions' expressions change drastically. Suddenly, two muffled cracks came from his hand. Two beads on the strand of spirit beads he held had shattered outright... The Bald Burly Man cried out in alarm, "This is bad! The clansmen we left behind are dead!" He paused, glanced toward Giant City, and said grimly, "Teach those damned humans a lesson! Attack their city with everything you have, then withdraw immediately! Attack!" As he bellowed, his hands rapidly formed seals, and his body began swelling...
"Yes!" the others answered grimly. Each unleashed a tremendous surge of magic power, their bodies expanding violently...
Then!
"Crack, crack, crack!" Their foreheads rapidly bulged, sprouting pairs of dragon horns. Their red robes burst apart, revealing bodies covered entirely in blood-red scale armor. Their faces began transforming as well, their jaws jutting sharply outward...
The Dragon Race!
These apparent human cultivators had clearly all been Dragon Cultivators in disguise!
Each Dragon Cultivator unleashed astonishing astral winds, their bodies growing as if swelling with the wind. Figures