Chapter 2914: The Great Wind Rises

A divine ability shot up from the Heavenly Demons below, and Ling Jinbao barely managed to block it: "Hah?"

"It is..." the little stone man scratched his head, "it was pried open by a power of unmatched might, even I couldn't resist! I just wanted to slice through Panlongcheng and escape, but it pinned me down dead tight!"

It did want to oil its soles and slip away quickly, but no matter how much strength to move mountains it exerted, this Earth Mother Plain and Panlongcheng both remained frozen in place, utterly motionless.

"!!" Bao Chihai was shocked. What power could pin the Earth Mother down on her own territory, yet leave her without any power to fight back?

Ling Jinbao said in a trembling voice, "C-could it be the Emperor Lord?"

Speaking of unmatched might, the first one he would think of was the Nine Nether Great Emperor, even though the old man had already passed away.

"This... yes..."

The Earth Mother had just opened her mouth when she was interrupted by several miserable screams coming from above.

Then three corpses fell from a height, but they did not land in front of the city gate; instead, they fell on the opposite side of the Heavenly Moat, and precisely at Jialou Tian's feet!

Ling Jinbao recognized at a glance that they were the three Heavenly Demons who had just broken through the defense line and rushed onto the Panlongcheng walls.

The defending soldiers were all outside the city fighting bloody battles; there was no one inside the city, except the Earth Mother and the Emperor Lord's remains.

The Earth Mother herself was also exhausted to the limit; to still kill three Heavenly Demons in a row, I'm afraid it wouldn't be so clean and neat.

If it wasn't the Earth Mother who acted, then who else killed these three Heavenly Demons?

Jialou Tian across the Heavenly Moat looked at the corpses under his feet, then raised his head to gaze at the Panlongcheng gate. Watching the expression on his face, Ling Jinbao guessed that he and himself were both pondering the same question.

But in fact, Jialou Tian's state of mind was far more complex, because as Panlongcheng rose, He distinctly sensed a powerful force gush out and crash into the world with a bang!

Its immensity, vastness, and vigor made even Jialou Tian shudder with cold, even causing the spacetime here to undergo major distortion!

In the dark and unseen, it seemed as if something between heaven and earth was being changed, converted, reshaped! Though hard to see with the naked eye, the panic and terror it brought Jialou Tian were real and tangible.

Ordinary cultivators might not yet be able to perceive this kind of change, but Jialou Tian's Dao cultivation could be called the second in the Heavenly Realm beneath the Lingxu Saint Venerable, therefore he could all the more keenly perceive the immensity and righteous grandeur of this mighty power!

Only two words could describe it:

Heavenly Change!

This absolutely was not power an individual could possess; He could not, the Lingxu Saint Venerable could not either, and its source was a mystery.

Could it be, could it be the Great Fanghu?!

"Heavenly Venerable, look!" The Heavenly Demons' gazes all converged on the Panlongcheng wall again, because right above the heavy main gate, a huge, ferocious dragon head was protruding from the stone wall!

Those dragon horns were as tall as coral trees, dragon whiskers gently fluttered, the long dragon body also faintly visible within the city wall, gathering power, not yet emerging.

The dragon carving glowed with red light, its mouth seemingly still holding a precious pearl.

The Heavenly Demons cried out in alarm: "How is this possible! The Panlong Secret Realm was clearly broken by us!"

Only inside the Secret Realm could the black dragon stone carving come alive.

Could it be that in just this short while, they fell into a new Secret Realm again?

"This wall... seems like it can auto-repair again?"

After the Panlong Secret Realm disappeared, immortals and demons had struck the Panlong Ancient City walls with several divine abilities; although they didn't immediately topple it, they left deep marks.

After all, it was just a broken wall; it was indeed a bit sturdy, but had no special protection!

But now those dents and deep pits were all gone, the wall surface had become smooth as before again. This made one feel exceptionally powerless, because previously when they bombarded the Secret Realm walls, they just couldn't smash them no matter how they struck!

It makes no sense, unless this city wall itself has a formation, and it has reactivated.

Then, they heard a creaking sound like metal striking from the depths of the thick fog, and the heavy Chengnan Gate actually slowly opened!

Historically, after Panlong Ancient City was breached, the South City Gate was damaged, one leaf fell. But the Earth Mother moved the ruins to her own back and did many repairs on it, one of which was fixing the South City Gate, and it was restored exactly as old, completely faithful to antiquity.

Panlongcheng uses a double capstan to open and close its gates, this point is already different from most contemporary architecture, so opening and closing the gates produces a unique sound of metal pressing and rolling.

In the land where red mist permeated, visibility wasn't that clear either; scenery was shadowy and indistinct.

Both enemy and friendly sides saw what seemed to be one person and one mount appear inside the city gate, within the red mist.

Neither person nor horse moved, like statues.

Bao Chihai was overjoyed: "Emperor Lord!"

Who else could walk out of Panlongcheng at this moment?

He rushed to the front of the city gate in a single arrow-step, fixed his eyes for a look, and then froze:

"Eh?"

At this moment, over ten soldiers also ran over, but likewise stopped their steps, faces full of bewilderment.

The mist inside the city gate thinned slightly, and so everyone saw that the mounted knight's armor was red, fresh red like blood!

This style and color, it seems, perhaps, is not the Nine Nether Great Emperor's Qianglong Battle Armor?

Another gust of strong wind blew past, the mist inside the gate retreated, and Bao Chihai saw that inside the gate, shadowy and indistinct, there were actually all cavalry!

How could there be people?

Cangyan people plus Shen State army, the city originally had three hundred defending soldiers total, all went out to fight/die; Panlong Ancient City's interior should be empty and deserted.

These right now... where did these living people come from?

Ling Jinbao asked the Earth Mother: "Hey, didn't you say it was the Emperor Lord?"

"Wasn't I just interrupted? What I wanted to say was 'Yes, but not entirely.'" The Earth Mother had limited vocabulary, so she simply pointed at the city gate, "I don't know how to put it, why don't you look for yourself?"

At this time, a Heavenly Demons also pointed upward: "Look at the city top!"

The red mist on the city top dispersed earliest, so everyone saw that the city top was somehow filled with soldiers — there were Cangyan soldiers, Shen State soldiers, but the most numerous were warriors in red armor, military bearing strict, eyes bright and piercing!

Under everyone's watchful eyes, a soldier carrying a flag rushed up the gate tower and planted a large red flag next to the original Cangyan banner.

With a "shua" sound, it unfurled in the wind, revealing its true appearance:

A huge "Wind" character!

Blood-red like blood, biting cold like blood!

In this instant, the four wildernesses fell silent.

Neither enemy nor friend could utter a single word.

Ling Jinbao stared blankly at the fluttering banners, at that flamboyant and arrogant "Wind" character, and subconsciously shouted out its full name:

"The Great Wind Army!"

Having lived in Pingyuan Ancient City these years, he naturally knew the history of this city like the back of his hand.

This armor, this military bearing, these banners — in history, only one army ever possessed them.

After two hundred years, the Great Wind Army's military flag has finally been raised again atop Panlongcheng's walls, fluttering in the wind!

"The Emperor Lord, the Emperor Lord succeeded!"

The Nine Nether Great Emperor entered the pool in seclusion with a heavily wounded body, just to seek a turnaround from defeat to victory in the Panlong World, just to win a sliver of survival for them all, for all living beings under heaven.

He actually truly did it!

This is precisely the turnaround the Earth Mother Plain needs most right now!

Thanks to Book Friend 20231027182753587 and Wo Yu Jia He for the rewards~~