Chapter 617

Ga...

A shrill, eerie shriek rang out, and the next moment, amid the sky-filling volcanic ash, a monstrous beast suddenly appeared—vast enough to blot out the sky, something like a bird.

This beast's wings were bald, without a single feather.

With wings spread, it must have measured a hundred zhang across.

As it flapped into the wind, the horizon seemed to whip up a gale, sweeping the volcanic ash toward the two Divine Envoys.

That ordinary Divine Envoy had always been of mediocre cultivation.

Caught by this volcanic ash tornado, he was actually blown straight into ashes.

The captain of the Divine Envoys was horrified. He barely managed to circulate the true qi throughout his body to resist this volcanic ash tornado.

Whoooosh...

In the end, the volcanic ash tornado failed to breach his true qi barrier—he was, after all, a Heavenly Being Realm expert—but it blew him tumbling wildly through the sky, nearly making him vomit.

When the tornado briefly subsided, he was about to use his movement art to flee the place.

He had not expected a shadow to descend over his head, followed by a piercing cry. The captain of the Divine Envoys felt himself swallowed whole by a giant beast.

428 Dragons! So many dragons

"Vile beast, how dare you..."

The commotion here had already alerted the people of the Soul-Searching Palace.

The first to arrive on the scene was the Left Divine Official on duty.

When he arrived, he saw this bird-like monstrous beast swallow the captain of the Divine Envoys in a single gulp.

A Heavenly Being Realm expert—whether in the Soul-Searching Palace or the Three Great Imperial Dynasties—was an incomparably precious asset.

Who could have expected him to be swallowed whole by this giant bird beast?

The Left Divine Official was furious. Without waiting for the main force to arrive, he rode the wind upward, gathered his true qi, and struck the giant bird beast's spine with a palm.

Clang!

With a tremendous crash, the Left Divine Official was also a great expert at the mid-stage of the Heavenly Being Realm. Yet under his full-force strike, only the sound of metal on metal rang out.

The giant bird beast acted as if nothing had happened. With one flap of its massive wings, another gale suddenly descended, blowing the Left Divine Official flying backward several hundred zhang.

"Be careful..."

By now, the main Soul-Searching Palace force sent to slay the dragon had arrived.

Seeing the Left Divine Official blown away, Miss Xue Yuan could not bear it. She leapt into the air and caught him.

"Thank you, thank you, Divine Maiden..."

The Left Divine Official was still shaken. Had Liu Ruofei not intervened, he would very likely have been injured just now.

"This beast—is this a dragon?"

At this moment, the Right Divine Official had already led a hundred Divine Envoys forward to temporarily hold off this giant bird beast.

The Undying God sat inside his palanquin, watching this great battle in the sky, and could not help feeling it was all rather absurd.

He had clearly come here to hunt and kill a divine dragon—how had such a thing appeared instead?

Although this creature resembled a dragon in some ways, in more ways it was probably just a bird, wasn't it?

"God! This is not a divine dragon..."

Old Fahai examined it carefully, shook his head, and said,

"But strangely, this giant bird beast carries a trace of a dragon's aura. Could it be related to dragons?"

"Then let us, along with God, take down this clumsy bird first."

The Undying God gave the order directly.

The six martial artists who had come to slay the dragon, along with Miss Xue Yuan, exchanged a glance, then all leapt into the air together and flew toward the giant bird beast.

This giant bird beast was not only immensely huge, but the toughness of its flesh was even several degrees harder than that of an ordinary late-stage Heavenly Being Realm expert.

Yet these seven martial artists were each and every one at the supreme Mythical Realm.

Add to that the divine weapons in their hands, and the fact that the seven were cooperating.

Although the giant bird beast struggled desperately, before long fresh blood was raining across the sky.

In the end, Mysterious Yin Jian Chen pierced the top of its skull with a single thrust of the Hero Sword.

With this, the giant bird beast naturally perished, plummeting from high above and crashing heavily onto Haidao, kicking up countless clouds of dust.

With the giant bird beast's death, a murky aura rose from its body, then shot rapidly toward the Fire Lake and plunged into it.

"Too weak! If dragons are this weak too, then I think we've come for nothing."

Di Er Daohuang sheathed his blade, returned once more to the side of the palanquin, and said to the Undying God,

"If the dragons are this weak later, I won't be striking again."

"Same here..."

Ning Daoqi had only managed to unleash a single blade qi before the battle was already over, and he was deeply dissatisfied.

The other martial artists returned one after another.

The five hundred Divine Envoys looked at these few with a touch of worship in their eyes.

After all, a hundred Divine Envoys going up had only managed to hold back that giant bird beast.

Yet the moment these seven great martial artists stepped in, how long had it taken before the giant bird beast fell?

Roar!

Just as they were grumbling here, another roar came from the Fire Lake.

Then the ground shook and the mountains trembled.

The next moment, it felt as though thousands of troops were charging toward them.

A Divine Envoy, still patrolling and keeping watch in the sky, happened to see something emerge from the Fire Lake and could not help letting out a strange cry,

"Not good! Dragons! So many dragons…"

When the crowd heard that dragons had come, they were still full of spirit, ready for a great battle.

But once the second half of the sentence—those many dragons—came out, these six top-tier martial artists understood it was not the dragon they themselves were supposed to deal with.

Without prior arrangement, they all pretended they hadn't seen anything.

"Hmph! Divine General, Divine Official, go take a look! If it's not that divine dragon, then lead the divine envoys and finish it off."

The Undying God gave a displeased cold snort, then ordered.

The Divine General accepted the command, immediately took a hundred divine envoys, and headed toward that direction on the ground.

They had not gone half a li when the earth ahead began to shake and the mountains swayed.

The next moment, countless dragon-shaped monsters, two men tall and hideous of face, came howling toward them.

The reason he called them dragon-shaped monsters was simply that the Divine General did not know what else to call them.

After all, they ran on two legs, had a pair of claws on their chests, and in their bronze-headed, iron-brained mouths were two rows of steel teeth like sharp swords.

The Divine General felt that these dragon-shaped monsters, rather than being dragons, might as well be called lizards!

Clearly, these were not the divine dragon the Undying God wanted!

"Kill them!"

The Divine General waved a great hand, casually firing two balls of fire Lei Gang Qi; the two dragon-shaped monsters at the very front immediately burst into flames all over.

It was just that the willpower of these dragon-shaped monsters was clearly far greater than that of ordinary people.

Even while burning all over, they still shrieked and ran another ten or so steps before finally turning to ash in unwillingness.

"Kill!"

Seeing the Divine General had already slain two, the hundred divine envoys' morale soared, and they immediately charged toward the dragon-shaped monster horde.

It was just that while the Divine General killed them with seemingly no effort, the divine envoys found these dragon-shaped monsters somewhat difficult to handle.

Divine envoys whose cultivation was below late-stage Earthly Celestial Immortal, the moment they made contact, felt they could not hold on and were all knocked back several steps together.

Those divine envoys who barely withstood the charge of these dragon-shaped monsters were about to use their weapons to slay the beasts.

Unexpectedly, these beasts were extremely agile; some swept with their tails and, catching the envoys off guard, sent them sprawling.

Some, heedless of everything, opened their mouths and bit.

In the first round of engagement, the divine envoys were unfamiliar with the details of the dragon-shaped monsters.

At least ten died outright, and nearly every one of the rest was wounded.

Those who could directly counter-kill the dragon-shaped monsters were no more than a mere handful!

429 Which one is a divine dragon?