Chapter 214: The Ancient Dragon Appears, a Flame in the Darkness

"Roar—!!!"

A sky-shaking dragon roar rang out across the heavens. At this moment, the entire Di Du finally knew the dragon had come!

Instantly, countless fully armed soldiers took flight from beneath the entire Di Du.

However, before they could get close, they were blocked outside by the dense explosive dust billowing around the ancient dragon, unable to approach at all.

And the countless lethal weapons that shot forth were as nothing beneath the ancient dragon's highly maneuverable Flight speed.

The few weapons that could get close were ultimately stopped by the ancient dragon's scorching flames and its incomparably hard outer scales.

This was a crushing defeat of ancient land warfare by what seemed like a new-era high-tech aerial battle!

For a time, the entire Great Qin Empire's Di Du hung in peril.

Great Qin Imperial Palace.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Boom! Boom! Boom!!

Terrifying explosions rang out from afar, mingled within them were lofty dragon roars.

"So they've finally come?"

In a certain research chamber within the imperial palace, listening to the explosions coming from afar, Zhou Qingqing, whose face was still somewhat pale, raised her head and said softly.

"Good thing I barely managed to transfer all the important things."

Saying so, she also glanced with some regret at the various large pieces of equipment around her that she couldn't take, and finally slowly ignited a ball of flame and tossed it among them.

In an instant, the entire research chamber was engulfed in raging flames.

Afterwards, within the great fire, she disappeared along with that Tiger General and some of her important subordinates.

It was clear she had completely abandoned the entire Great Qin.

Of course, even if she wanted not to abandon it, she couldn't do it. Such a vast imperial Empire was not something she alone could do anything to obstruct.

At first, when she had just returned, she still had the mind to manage this dynasty for a while, thinking to evacuate those ordinary citizens of Di Du.

To avoid them being caught up and killed in case a true dragon came to attack in the future. Unfortunately, by the time she began trying to issue orders.

She only then discovered that after her husband Zhang Rang died, even though she was the current Empress, she couldn't get a single word in. The orders she issued couldn't even get out of the imperial palace.

Those usually amiable officials had all begun to put on different faces, busy scrambling to carve up every bit of benefit from this vast dynasty.

If not for the fact that she still had by her side Xiao Hu, now the strongest in Great Qin after the deceased General Wang, and the fact that they couldn't figure out her current situation.

Zhou Qingqing estimated that she wouldn't even have been able to transfer the crystallization of Great Qin's wisdom that her husband had entrusted to her.

This discovery caused her, who had already been somewhat disheartened after her husband's death, to no longer bother with any court affairs. For half a year she had been carefully, without leaking any word, transferring those things, as well as looking after the families of the various comrades-in-arms who had died for them in the past.

Now, since everything was more or less handled, it was Time for her to leave this vortex.

……

Half a month later, a shocking piece of news spread throughout all of Great Qin—

Di Du had fallen!

And there was more than one "true dragon"!

On that day, a full three true dragons had appeared in Di Du… no, perhaps they shouldn't be called true dragons anymore.

Because the specific circumstances of that day, under the various investigations of those factions that had long since transferred in advance, also yielded information inadvertently leaked when those "true dragons" communicated with each other.

Their true origins belonged to a race called "Ancient Dragons"!

From this moment on, the leaders of those factions throughout the Great Qin region truly understood.

That in this world, there actually existed such a terrifying existence like a natural disaster, standing above all living races—the Ancient Dragon!

And the "true dragon" was merely one of them! The entire Great Qin Empire's Di Du had been destroyed by just three Ancient Dragons of this one race, and they were still searching for something.

This discovery immediately caused the leaders of the various factions to recall the Great Qin Empress they hadn't paid much attention to in the past, who seemed to have been carefully making some little moves during that half year.

Back then, because it hadn't been long since His Majesty died, and because they couldn't see through the strength she still possessed, they hadn't paid much attention.

Who knew that this very point would cause them to miss out on a treasure that even the lofty Ancient Dragons were searching for.

Yes! It couldn't be wrong!

Although that dragon-slaying battle failed that day, it didn't mean that the group returning to Di Du hadn't brought back some important treasure!

Unfortunately, it seemed they had realized it a bit too late. That Zhou Qingqing had long since vanished.

For a time, countless people, upon learning this news, beat their chests and stamped their feet, regretting it bitterly!

From this moment on, even though Zhou Qingqing had vanished, there were still countless people searching for her trail, solely to seize that mysterious and precious treasure.

As for those ordinary Great Qin subjects who had fled out of Di Du?

Where would those faction leaders find the Time to bother with these? If they could escape and flee into their territory, they would simply take them in.

At this Time, these faction leaders still didn't understand the severity of the matter, still seeming to think that these Ancient Dragons were like the true dragon of old that destroyed Great Zhou's Tiandu—merely destroying the capital of a dynasty and symbolically crushing the dignity of an entire dynasty, and that was the end of it.

What awaited them next was for a new dynasty's ruler to emerge from among all the noble clans of the former Great Qin region, and then pay tribute to those Ancient Dragons.

Unfortunately, what they encountered was not the Baichuan of old, but three second-generation Ancient Dragons who only knew to search for the treasure their "father" had entrusted them with, and to destroy all humans they encountered along the way, thinking with a beastly bias!

What awaited the Great Qin region next would be that every human settlement of any significant size would be destroyed in an instant by the Ancient Dragons, and they would have to endure the bitter days of incomparably powerful Ancient Dragons roaming the world.

At the same time, this day was also recorded by later generations as the "Day the Ancient Dragons Appeared!"

……

At the same Time, on the other side.

"Run! Run as far away as possible!"

The black-robed existence, whose mind was still immersed in the fear of the past, was also spending day after day in constant flight.

On this day, having crossed yet another ocean, he also arrived at a basin-like great rift valley emanating a dense negative aura.

"Hah~ hah~"

Feeling the increasingly empty magic power within his body, even though his mind was still gripped by fear, the black-robed existence had no choice but to halt his fleeing steps.

He landed somewhat wearily at the edge of this great rift valley, then after roughly scanning the surrounding environment to confirm it was safe, he cautiously sat cross-legged and took out the Magic Stones, already few in number, to absorb once more.

At the same time, below the great rift valley.

In a patch of darkness, as if sensing the aura that had suddenly appeared above, two wisps of black-purple flame actually ignited out of thin air, swaying with an eerie trace within the darkness.

……

(End of this chapter)