"It seems someone's coming."
Just as the fires amid Divine Tree Island's lush trees were gradually dying down, the little girl who had been darting back and forth splashing water on the flames suddenly skimmed over from the sea to Xing Yan and blurted out this puzzling remark.
"Who? What sort of person?"
Before the bewildered youth had finished speaking, an aquatic scout with fins on his flanks and an armored tail burst from the southern waters and swam through the air toward him, reporting breathlessly, "Report! There's a whole sea of fire to the southeast, burning its way toward us-"
Almost as the scout spoke, the dark southeastern sky suddenly looked as though it had caught fire. First came a faint, dusky red, with great masses of night clouds glowing crimson across the heavens. In an instant, deepest midnight seemed to have become a dusk ablaze with brilliant clouds!
At this sight, Xing Yan needed no further explanation to understand what had happened. Glancing at the crimson clouds filling the southeastern sky, he asked curtly, "How many are coming?"
"I don't know. The fire was too fast."
"Very well. Go aside and rest."
Seeing that the armor on the scout's tail had already been scorched red, Xing Yan thought, What a swiftly spreading fire!
With half the sky burning like fiery sunset clouds, almost every soldier knew a new enemy had arrived without anyone having to warn them. The monster and divine troops immediately dropped their various tasks and hurried to regroup behind their commander south of Divine Tree Island.
Yet swift as they were, when that southeastern fire reached Divine Tree Island, many soldiers were still shouting and scrambling out from the tree-covered islands and duckweed islets. As the Water-Repelling Azure Wolf Cavalry raced desperately toward the open