I Only Marry Widows-Chapter 245 - 13: Earth Fire Soaring, Seven Cities Flooded
Xiang Qingchi was very patient, she was gradually amassing power, manipulating the earth veins, making the lava that had flowed beneath the ground for countless ages increasingly fierce and lively.
When winter ends and spring returns to the earth, the restless underground fire veins will grow more active with the changing weather, ultimately erupting with the guidance of these thirty-six thousand green years, shattering the earth and soaring into the sky, turning the entire Yuncang mountain range into a sea of fire.
The undulating mountain ridges will be submerged in endless magma, becoming a dead land that buries all living things.
As for her mother suppressed under Trapped Dragon Abyss, she possessed a piece of her reverse scale. When the heavens crumble and the earth splits, and magma erupts, the grand array will inevitably show a flaw, giving her the chance to rescue her.
After all, the stronger the array, the more it relies on the Power of Heaven and Earth.
The Great Five Elements Extinction Sword Array, though possessing might capable of destroying heaven and earth, inherently contains endless Five Elements Law, but it still has to borrow the power of the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi and earth veins; this is also why there are one hundred and eight outer peaks as the grand array’s periphery.
If a Celestial Human skilled in Earth Vein Magic or a Seventh Transformation of the Primordial Spirit expert, the sensitivity of the Primordial Spirit allows for more meticulous perception of all minute changes in the world.
But Lu Chengfeng was neither, so he was completely unaware of everything happening in front of him, watching helplessly as Xiang Qingchi linked to the earth fire right under their noses.
Soon, the first snow arrived.
The weather grew colder, concealing all the subtle changes Xiang Qingchi had induced in the ten-thousand-foot earth veins.
She sat cross-legged on the Cyan Lotus, guarding the Yuncang Sword Sect’s gate, letting the wind, rain, and frost-snow fall, remaining unmoved and silent.
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As the overlord of the entire Northern Lands, the changes in the Yuncang Sword Sect naturally drew the attention of the entire North and even the whole Martial World.
However, the turmoil in the South attracted everyone’s attention.
The Chu Kingdom was left with only the last seven cities, after a short period of recuperation, King Han conferred Liu Wu as the Crown Prince, leading an army of three hundred thousand for the final battle to extinguish Chu.
Once victorious, the entire South would essentially be pacified, unifying the world was within reach.
When Xiang Qingchi sat on Cyan Lotus, blocking the Yuncang Sword Sect’s gate, Han Crown Prince Liu Wu personally led the army of three hundred thousand, advancing both by land and water, heading towards what is now the capital of the Chu Kingdom, Danyang.
The seven cities remaining in the Chu Kingdom were situated along the Dan River in Chuzhou, the entire Dan River wrapped around the front of the seven cities like a belt, while behind the cities lay the vast expanse of Dongting Lake.
South of Dongting Lake and north of Dan River, the Danyang prefecture, where the seven cities were located, became a piece of land surrounded by water.
It’s said that in the distant past, the Danyang prefecture was submerged by the vast waters of Dongting Lake, until an immortal fought there, killed the Dragon Monarch of Dongting, and suppressed its corpse in the lake.
As time passed and things changed, the waters where the Dragon Monarch’s body lay gradually dried up, forming an immense swamp, which has now become a piece of exposed land where humans began to live, build cities, and evolved into today’s Danyang prefecture through the changes of time.
All the past events have long been impossible to trace.
Han Crown Prince Liu Wu now led an army of three hundred thousand across the Dan River, to conquer the seven cities in a single battle, completely annihilate the Chu Kingdom, and lay the foundation for a unified South, paving the way for the unification of the world.
The gaze of everyone in the entire world was on the South, this was to be a historic moment.
For this world-famous battle, Liu Wu was already determined to win, regardless of whatever trump card or schemes King Chu had, they all only led to defeat in the face of absolute power.
The army easily crossed the Dan River, the Chu Kingdom didn’t even send people to obstruct their crossing, once ashore, the cities surrendered at the sight of the army, there was no resistance worth mentioning.
Until the army surrounded the Dan River, the three hundred thousand strong army besieged this three-year-old capital of the Chu Kingdom, sealing it off completely. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖
King Chu voluntarily appeared to battle with Han Crown Prince Liu Wu.
The two sides clashed outside Bowang Slope of Danyang city, as the world’s former number one, King Chu had reached the Celestial Human Sixth Layer in cultivation. He practiced the Immortal Scripture Fragment: Celestial Phoenix Undying Body obtained from a fortuitous encounter, wielding the Phoenix Blood Golden Halberd, with formidable survival abilities and peerless offense and defense, he had previously suffocated the Han and Wu Kingdoms.
But now this former king, had already reached the end of the road, besieged by the army, Han Crown Prince Liu Wu clad in Golden Armor, wielding a Divine Spear, appeared as if a Celestial God descended to earth with great might.
The battle between the two lasted for seven days and nights, shaking heaven and earth, with countless martial world spectators left in awe.
Such a level of combat between experts was almost indistinguishable from those legendary immortals.
The two fought from the ground to the sky, from the sky to the water.
The survival ability of the Celestial Phoenix Undying Body was indeed formidable, Liu Wu pierced its body thirteen times with the Divine Spear, severed its arms nine times, and shattered its internal organs three times, yet King Chu remained undying and indestructible.
"The Celestial Phoenix Undying Body is indeed mysterious and unfathomable, but it’s a pity it’s only a fragment," Liu Wu said as he looked at King Chu before him, exhausted of mana, covered in blood, unable even to stand, "These past days fighting you, I’ve only used the strength of the Celestial Human Sixth Layer, without employing divine techniques."
