Chapter 811: Going Home

Time passed slowly.

Less than two hours had passed.

The Golden Dragon had already launched a surprise attack to the border between Yunmeng City and Xiaoyang City.

Above the vast earth.

Rows upon rows of dense, dark masses of the Five-Clan Alliance Army stood.

At the very front, a person clad in golden armor stood.

"Fire!"

Following their order.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

The front row of the Alliance Army instantly pulled their triggers.

In an instant, the dense artillery fire wove into a great web of fire, rushing toward the Golden Dragon.

Inside the dragon's head, Li Zhiyi clasped their hands together, channeling their own power of will to begin controlling the Golden Dragon.

"It's coming!"

At the dragon's eyes, Jidao Wu and Mu Zigui's expressions changed instantly; with a *slap*, they pressed their palms together, erupting with all their Qi and blood, injecting it into the dragon's eyes.

The next moment.

The Golden Dragon's eyes suddenly flashed with light, the golden radiance shining as intensely as a molten sun.

Roar!

Accompanied by a dragon's roar, two laser beams shot out, piercing through clouds and mist, penetrating the sky and rushing toward the heavens, instantly striking the incoming web of artillery fire.

Rumble!

A series of dense flashes of fire exploded in the high sky, like a cluster of stars bursting, the flames threatening to outshine the sun itself.

"Second round!"

At the very front of the Jizhou Army, the golden-armored man's expression changed drastically, and he roared out.

Seeing the Golden Dragon break through their web of artillery fire so easily, the forty thousand soldiers all turned grave.

The next moment.

Nearly one hundred thousand soldiers raised the long guns in their hands in unison, injecting their own Qi and blood into the gun bodies, which was then solidified and further solidified by the arrays engraved within the guns.

The golden-armored man spread his arms and slowly rose into the air, his physical body erupting with a powerful magnetic field.

"Fire!"

Following the golden-armored man's roar.

Boom, boom, boom!

One hundred thousand laser beams instantly sprayed out, dense and thick, like a sea of fire, endless and boundless.

"Gather the power of heaven and man, unite the blood of a hundred armies!"

The golden-armored man waved his arms wildly, the power of the magnetic field acting like an invisible giant hand, wrapping around all the artillery fire and condensing it into rivers of fire.

As he threw a punch.

Boom!

A river of fire, condensed from countless artillery blasts, surged toward the Golden Dragon.

Li Zhiyi controlled the Golden Dragon, the dragon's eyes flashing with light.

Boom!

Firelight covered the firmament.

"Go to hell!"

The golden-armored man growled, his palms pushing forward instantly.

In an instant.

River after river of artillery fire struck.

Li Zhiyi controlled the Golden Dragon, which instantly turned, its golden scales reflecting light as it flipped.

Seeing the rivers of fire falling and scorching the sky ahead, it hurriedly turned to scatter patches of clouds to avoid the flames, then swung its tail to pierce through the layers of mist and dodge the flowing fire, maneuvering like lightning!

Boom!

A river of fire slammed into the dragon's body, and a hole was instantly torn into the dragon's form.

"Ah!!!"

Screams rang out immediately; at the spot that was hit, hundreds of people were instantly annihilated by the river of fire.

"Adjust!"

Li Zhiyi shouted in a low voice, controlling the Qi, blood, and strength of the twenty thousand soldiers to patch the hole in the dragon's body.

However, more than a dozen rivers of fire were still surging, continuously attacking the Golden Dragon.

Above the firmament.

Chen Youqing watched coldly.

To deal with the Great Xia's 【Great Xia Dragon-Crushing Array】, she only needed one move: attrition.

Once the strength of the twenty thousand Great Xia guards was exhausted, this great array would collapse on its own.

And Li Zhiyi would lose the protection of the array, forced to fight alone.

"Continue!"

Seeing the Golden Dragon heavily damaged, the golden-armored man spoke hurriedly.

The morale of the forty thousand Jizhou soldiers increased instantly.

Boom, boom, boom!!!

Sounds of artillery fire rang out one after another, with almost no gaps between the flashes of light, aiming to completely slaughter the Golden Dragon.

Boom, boom, boom!

High in the firmament, the surging Golden Dragon was struck in many places, and after several rounds, over a thousand Great Xia military guards had already been caught in the crossfire.

Suddenly, the twenty thousand military guards all wore expressions of hardship, with despair and fury erupting in the depths of their eyes.

Li Zhiyi's eyes were cold to the extreme as he growled:

"Dragon Scale Strangling!"

"Yes!" the Extreme Dao Martial Artists roared in response.

The next instant.

Li Zhiyi's brain felt a sudden sharp pain, and all the information of the entire Golden Dragon rushed into the depths of his mind like a torrent.

"Kill!"

Li Zhiyi growled.

Roar!

In a split second.

Clatter, clatter!!!

The Golden Dragon's body erupted with brilliant golden light, and countless dragon scales detached from its body, shimmering like shattered gold.

"This..."

The Golden-Armored Man's eyes widened; this was the third form of the 【Great Xia Dragon Grinding Array】, 【Dragon Scale Strangling】, which was extremely famous.

But the person acting as the array core needed to control all the golden scales simultaneously.

If one could not control them, their head would explode!

He stared fixedly, and sure enough, streaks of blood appeared on Li Zhiyi's head.

But what he saw next were Li Zhiyi's eyes, which were filled with killing intent.

"Defen—"

The Golden-Armored Man growled instantly.

However, it was too late.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!

One could see thousands of golden scales streaking across the firmament like falling stars, blooming into a sea of golden flowers; countless blade auras bloomed upon the golden scales, sharp and astonishing.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!!!

The golden scales fell with a rustle, instantly shredding the bodies of the soldiers; blood splattered across the sky, and screams intertwined with the roaring sounds.

The rivers of fire that had intertwined across the firmament were also scattered by the golden scales, turning into fragments of fire filling the sky.

"Ahhh!"

"Save me!"

"No!"

Hearing the successive screams, the Golden-Armored Man looked toward the rear with trembling eyes.

He saw that the earth was covered in blood and shredded flesh.

This single strike had shredded three thousand Jizhou military guards.

The Golden-Armored Man's eyes turned blood-red in an instant, and he roared:

"Form the array!"

As his voice resounded.

The Jizhou army, which had originally been thrown into chaos, suddenly heard the order.

The next moment, the battle armor on their bodies flashed suddenly, and blue-purple patterns spread and flickered across their armor.

The light intertwined, instantly transforming into a purple array disc that enveloped the army.

Rumble!

The earth trembled, and thousands of green vines burst from the ground, twisting like swords pointing toward the firmament, intertwining to cover the front of the array and blocking the sky and sun to stop the golden scale blade auras.

This was the Five-Clan Alliance Army array.

Giant walls of vines appeared, spanning across heaven and earth, with sharp blades hidden between the vines; if anyone tried to force their way through, they would surely have their bodies shredded by these blades.

Roar!

Facing the suddenly appearing giant vine walls, the Golden Dragon controlled by Li Zhiyi came to a sudden stop in the void.

The next moment.

Li Zhiyi looked behind him and saw the ten thousand military guards within the dragon's body, each with eyes full of determination.

"Hahaha!"

Li Zhiyi laughed loudly:

"So many people who do not fear death!"

The next moment, his eyes narrowed, and he raised the blood blade in his hand, slashing out violently.

Hum!

A blood-colored streak fell, instantly cutting through the vines, and the shattered vine fragments fell with a rustle.

But immediately after, new vines regenerated where the original ones had been cut.

Li Zhiyi narrowed his eyes, and the long blade in his hand slashed out in an instant, striking multiple times in succession.

Before the blade light could strike the vines.

Roar!

A dragon roar that shook the heavens and earth rang out, carrying a touch of determination.

The surging golden dragon instantly rushed toward the massive vine wall spanning heaven and earth like a golden sharp sword.

Hum, hum, hum!

Several streaks of blood-branded saber light fell first, slashing through the vines.

Before the vines could regenerate, the dragon head instantly slammed into the massive vine wall.

A thunderous roar shook the heavens, the massive vine wall shattered like a collapsing mountain, and cyan-brown fragments carrying sharp blades scattered across the sky.

Blades hidden within the vines instantly pierced the dragon's body, and even Li Zhiyi's physical body was cut with streaks of wounds by the sharp blades.

As the dragon body crashed in.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

The golden dragon's body was torn open in many places, yet it still pushed against the momentum to charge forward.

The resistance from the massive vine wall was like waves upon a vast, mighty sea.

But the golden dragon was more like a sharp blade; from the moment it charged into the vines, there was no turning back, only the charge forward.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Inside the dragon body, roars of those who viewed death as a homecoming rang out.

The sharp blades hidden in the vines rose suddenly, like a rainstorm piercing armor, instantly puncturing the bodies of the military guards, fresh blood staining the golden dragon.

"Charge!!!"

"Advance!"

"Ahhh!"

They were mad.

Everyone had gone mad; even the military guards who had their dragon bodies pierced and their own bodies stabbed by the blades had eyes turned red at this moment.

Pfft!

A military guard had their body sliced in two by a sharp blade, and enduring the excruciating pain, they laughed loudly:

"I, Luo Ran of Tui Province, will not live today!"

They laughed wildly, and under the astonished gaze of their comrades beside them, they rushed out of the golden dragon and instantly self-detonated.

Boom!

The firelight of the self-detonation shattered like morning stars, pushing away the tissue within the massive vine wall that was about to regenerate.

Seeing this scene, everyone's eyes turned red.

"I, Zhang Nu of Tie Province, go first; you all... must survive!"

A youth not yet twenty, with hair standing on end in fury, rushed out of the golden dragon, self-detonated their physical body, and turned into a sky full of fire rain, blasting a new path for the advancing golden dragon.

"Children, go home, go home!"

An old veteran over fifty years of age had a withered aura, yet their eyes erupted with brilliant light as they rushed out of the golden dragon and into the vine thicket filled with countless sharp blades.

A youth wearing glasses, who had long since lost the air of a scholar, cupped their hands to the sky and laughed aloud:

"Magnificent, magnificent, I, Wang Xin of Pu Province, follow the Heavenly God General now!"

"In life, I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Heavenly God General; in death, I have no regrets!"

"I, Qi Qiuxue of Xu Province..."

"I, He Qingyue of Pu Province, am off, hahaha, a great man's life is not measured between life and death!"

"I, Chang Yishui of Yun Province, will never kneel!"

Shouts rang out one after another, and figures rushed out of the golden dragon, heading toward a dead end, using their self-detonating bodies to clear a path for the golden dragon.

Chen Min's eyes were wide open, staring fixedly at the military guards rushing out to self-detonate, and he laughed in fury:

"Hahahahaha!"

He threw his head back and roared:

"I, Chen Min, have struggled for half a lifetime, how did it come to this, how did it come to this?!"

He was like a mad demon, blood vessels on his eyeballs bursting, his muscles bulging and knotting, popping with bang, bang, bang sounds, only to be repaired by his undying will.

"Where did I not do enough, when was I lucky, when was I lazy?"

He gritted his teeth:

"Bing Yi, Chen Yan, you tell me, you tell me!?"

Extreme Dao Martial was covered in blood, yet their eyes were tightly shut, and their whole body was trembling.

Tears flowed from Mu Zigui's eyes.

Li Zhiyi was silent, his eyes flickering incessantly from the light of those self-detonations.

Why did he have to see these things?

He only wanted to bring Zhang Yu to survive.

Inside the dragon body, the surviving soldiers had knuckles turned white, their eye sockets red but no tears falling.

Looking at the remains of their teammates and the blood-stained vines, they gritted their teeth, grief frozen between their brows.

Someone opened their mouth wide and roared with all their might:

"Go home!"

The next moment.

"Go home!"

Boom!

"Go home!"

Boom!

"Go home!"

"Go home!"

"Go home!"

Boom, boom, boom!!!

Roar!

On the other side of the giant vine wall, the golden-armored man's eyes widened, watching in utter disbelief as the vines continuously bulged toward his side.

"Use your strength!"

"Give me everything you've got!"

"Give me your all, even if it kills you!"

Unable to contain himself, he roared at the army of over thirty thousand behind him:

"How can forty thousand men not hold back twenty thousand!?"

The nearly forty thousand Jizhou Army soldiers all had flushed faces, using every ounce of their strength to maintain the military formation, with some even fainting from exhaustion.

They watched the giant vine wall ahead in disbelief, listening in disbelief to the sounds of one self-detonation after another.

Chen Youqing's slender hand hovered in mid-air by her skirt, watching this scene; her eyelashes trembled, and her lips parted slightly as if to speak, but no words came out.

The far north of Xiaoyang.

Two military guards were lurking there, monitoring the events occurring in the southern part of Yixian City through communication array discs installed in multiple locations.

"Go report to headquarters!" The one-eyed man in the lead opened his mouth wide, his eyes already bloodshot:

"Go!"

He clenched his fists, his body trembling uncontrollably.

"Yes!"

The other military guard also had a flushed face and hurriedly activated the communication array.

"Go home!"

The one-eyed man gritted his teeth and growled:

"Go home!"

He could not see it, but he could hear it through the communication array disc.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!

The dense, thunderous roars were enough to shatter eardrums, yet the one-eyed man did not move away at all, instead listening intently.

Until a certain moment.

Roar!

A dragon's roar that shook the nine heavens erupted from the communication array disc!