Chapter 473 - 635 : Wentian had Moyue
For the sake of hurrying,
Wentian had Moyue carry them for part of the journey.
Only when they approached the imperial city did they switch to flying through the air by themselves.
The entire imperial city was protected by a third-rank grand formation. If they forced an attack, it would be very difficult for them to enter.
Thus, Wentian and the others entered openly through the city gate, then flew directly to the eastern district of the imperial city, toward the imperial palace where the Cao clan was located.
This place also had a third-rank grand formation.
It showed the depth of the Cao clan’s foundation. They were absolutely not comparable to families like the Xue family.
"Who goes there!"
Before the formation, eight Qi Refining completion guards all held magic artifacts and pointed their swords toward Wentian and the others.
The Black Cloud Spirit Leopard beside Wentian suddenly erupted. Its body transformed to four or five zhang, its fur standing up like steel needles, and black light coiled around it.
"Aow—"
With a furious howl raised to the sky, sound waves rolled over the plaza like thunder. The green bricks on the ground actually cracked into fine lines.
The Cao clan guards were caught off guard. They only felt their eardrums ache as if pierced, and their qi and blood surged uncontrollably. They were all shaken until blood spurted from their seven orifices, their bodies flying backward.
With a series of bangs, they crashed into the formation light curtain before the palace. Their magic artifacts left their hands, and they collapsed limply to the ground, their life and death unknown.
Immediately afterward,
The spirit beast pouch at Wentian’s waist suddenly shone brightly. Amid a sudden burst of cyan light, Moyue the flood dragon flew out!
His figure rapidly expanded to a body over twenty zhang long, coiling above the formation.
His dragon head rose more than a zhang, his blue-green scales like condensed water, his dragon horns rugged and carrying cold light. As soon as he appeared, he opened his jaws and roared.
At first, the dragon roar sounded like tearing silk. In the next instant, it turned into a great bell piercing the ears, spreading straight through the streets, alleys, towers, pavilions, and the mansions of the various aristocratic families in the imperial city.
Within the palace walls, birds startled and flew. On the streets, pedestrians stopped. Everyone heard the sound and turned their heads.
"A flood dragon roar?!"
"How could a demonic beast like a flood dragon appear in the imperial city?"
"Could it be someone’s spirit beast?!"
"Impossible!" A cultivator said with a solemn expression. "This dragon might is absolutely not something an ordinary rank flood dragon can release. Even from so far away, it still has such pressure. It should possibly be a third-rank flood dragon!"
"Third rank!" That person’s eyes immediately widened, his mouth open, not knowing what to say.
The elders of the Foundation Establishment aristocratic families in the eastern district of the imperial city all had drastic changes in expression.
They were close, so they could naturally clearly sense this pressure that belonged to a third-rank flood dragon.
"That is the direction of the Cao imperial palace. Is a third-rank demonic beast attacking the Cao clan?!"
"Go, quickly go take a look!"
No few aristocratic families had Foundation Establishment cultivators fly out from their clans and hurry toward the Cao imperial palace.
Before long, they saw the enormous flood dragon coiling above the imperial palace.
The Jiang family, Lin family, and Lei family also sent many people over.
Lei Hekong of the Lei family said in confusion, "Among those in Great Wei who have flood dragons, I have only heard of the Jianyi family. It could not be the Jianyi family attacking the Cao clan, could it?"
Lei family head Lei Yunchao pondered. "We will know once we take a look."
After arriving, when they saw Wentian and his children below the flood dragon, Lei Yunchao and Lei Hekong looked at each other.
It really was the Jianyi family!
Immediately, they looked at the flood dragon in the air again.
That dense third-rank pressure was like a thousand-jin boulder pressing against their hearts.
"The one beside the Jianyi family is also a third-rank demonic beast. It seems somewhat like the Zhao family’s rumored clan-protecting spirit beast."
Lei Yunchao had gone to the Zhao family’s Golden Core Grand Ceremony before and had heard that the Zhao family’s clan-protecting spirit beast was a black leopard.
In just a short while,
No few aristocratic families had already gathered outside the Cao imperial palace to watch.
The Cao clan also had dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators and over a hundred Qi Refining disciples flying toward this place.
In the underground palace below the imperial palace,
Cao Jiyi slowly opened his eyes from cultivation. Two crimson lights shot out as he murmured, "What should come will come in the end!
"Let this old man meet you, Wentian, and see what kind of person you truly are!"
His body moved and vanished from where he stood.
In the blink of an eye, he arrived outside. He flew out of the grand formation and stood before Moyue.
His body looked frail, yet it erupted with astonishing pressure not much inferior to Moyue’s, standing against him as an equal.
After staying with Wentian for a long time,
Moyue also liked to keep a hand hidden.
Therefore, right now, he only revealed the aura of peak early third rank.
When Cao Defeng saw Wentian, he looked at the Black Cloud Spirit Leopard beside him, then raised his head to look at the third-rank flood dragon confronting his own ancestor.
Those blue-green dragon scales shone with cold light beneath the sunlight, and the dragon pressure descended like Mount Tai, making his breathing stop for a moment.
"Wentian, what is the meaning of this?" Cao Defeng shouted angrily. His sleeves fluttered as fury erupted. "Are you bringing third-rank demonic beasts here to attack my Cao family?!"