Chapter 2019

Great Ming World.

Inside the Imperial Palace.

Zhu Youjian felt a sense of heart-pounding dread. He suddenly stood up, wanting to find the cause, but then felt that he was being inexplicable.

After all, nothing had happened; how could one go looking for the cause of something based on a mere feeling!

Although he thought this, the sense of urgency in his heart grew even stronger.

He sat down and looked at the memorials, but for a time, he could no longer calm his mind.

"Could it be that something major has happened?"

Zhu Youjian felt a headache.

Land annexation, years of drought, plus the harassment of bandits outside the passes—he already had a headache.

If more trouble were added, the Great Ming would likely perish in his hands in the blink of an eye.

And at this moment.

Outside the passes.

On the earth, veins of the land rose up, transforming into living creatures, some in the shape of true dragons, others as Bi'an...

They were all different in form, and all had extraordinary qualities.

However, unlike the legendary divine beasts, these beasts now had black scales and blood-red eyes, like ferocious beasts.

As soon as they emerged, a black dragon opened its mouth and swallowed thousands of people from a tribe, turning them into blood food.

"Eternal Heaven is angry!"

"What are we to do now!"

The various tribes outside the passes had originally developed vigorously because of Chongzhen's ascension and his various speechless operations, and their lives had become much better.

Yet they never expected that many ferocious beasts would crawl out from under the earth and swallow a tribe in one gulp.

This was simply too brutal.

If they had a choice, they would rather face the Ming army at its peak than face these terrifying things.

Facing the Ming army, they could still fight or surrender.

Facing these ghost things, there was truly no way to survive.

The people of the tribe looked toward the sky and saw that the giant dragons and Bi'an were like mountains, incomparably huge, their mouths like hell, swallowing thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people with a casual gulp.

The black dragon just now only swallowed thousands of people, not because it couldn't swallow more, but because that was all the people the tribe had.

Just as they were terrified, they saw the Bi'an also lower its head and open its mouth toward a tribe.

Instantly, black dots flew into the sky and then disappeared.

At this moment, everyone outside the passes was scared silly.

Anyone with a functioning brain knew that those black dots must be cattle, horses, or human beings.

These things that appeared suddenly were clearly meant to exterminate all living beings in this world!

"Run!"

At this moment, nobles and herdsmen alike could not care about their foundations; they leaped onto their horses and fled in panic.

For a time, the entire area outside the passes was in chaos.

The Capital.

Above the sky, mysterious yellow energy appeared. The next moment, a light gate connecting heaven and earth appeared, and an imperial carriage pulled by several flood dragons entered the sky above the capital.

The might of the flood dragons was terrifying; as soon as they appeared, they made the commoners of the imperial capital kneel and look at the sky in horror.

This was actually the result of Zhu Yuanzhang intentionally restraining them.

Otherwise, these beings with strength above Golden Immortal could never be endured by ordinary people.

On the imperial carriage was naturally Zhu Yuanzhang.

Behind the imperial carriage, Zhu Youjian and Zhu Wushi followed, surveying the world.

Suddenly.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed, "Indeed, many changes have occurred. In the land outside the passes, there are actually many ferocious beasts at the Quasi-Saint realm."

Zhu Youjian was somewhat puzzled, "Since they are Quasi-Saints, even swallowing this world in one gulp would be an easy task; why have they not taken action yet?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's expression was serious, and he sneered, "Naturally, they are waiting for us to appear. The target of these ferocious beasts is likely us. Look carefully; they have clearly placed their true bodies outside the world and sealed it."

Zhu Youjian and Zhu Wushi were startled.

They never expected that just by receiving an ordinary small thousand-world, they would encounter a killing intent laid down by a World-Destroying Demon God.

PS: Thanks to Wang Guangyu for the tip, thanks to the big boss for the support. ===== CHAPTER 2020 =====