Jinling City, inside Spring Palace, in front of Chengtian Palace.
At this time, fifty or sixty figures were standing on the square outside Chengtian Hall.
All members of the Seven Immortals Alliance in Jinling City have arrived.
In addition, most of the other practitioners in Jinling City came here because of the call of the Seven Immortals Alliance.
However, because the Seven Immortals Alliance used to have too strict control over the actions of practitioners in Jinling City.
Therefore, except for the disciples of the Seven Immortals Alliance, the number of other practitioners in Jinling City is very small.
Most practitioners prefer to live in the neighboring city of Shen, because the Seven Immortals Alliance's presence in Shen City is relatively weak and they can have more freedom in their actions.
At this time, in the square outside Chengtian Hall, scorching heat waves hit us in waves. The surface of the bluestones on the ground has turned slightly white. That is because the high temperature has begun to carbonize these hard bluestones. .
If an egg fell on the ground, it would be cooked instantly, and the same would be true for people.
However, practitioners can still persist in this environment for a while.
At this time, Master Chang Qing, Master Huisheng, and Gu Ximing had already retreated to a place thirty meters away from Chengtian Hall. If they were close, even they would be a little unbearable.
The other disciples and practitioners of the Seven Immortals Alliance stood further away according to their respective cultivation levels. Everyone's energy was radiated out of the body, and the three giants of the Seven Immortals Alliance were connected together with secret techniques to resist Chengtian. The hot air in the temple.
Of course they can't stop all the fire energy, but they can at least slow down the fire energy and buy as much time as possible for ordinary mortals to escape from Jinling City.
At this time, the President of the Republic of China, half persuaded and half forced by the disciples of the Seven Immortals Sect, had issued an order to evacuate the entire city.
The entire Jinling City is now in chaos. Although most people don't understand why the President issued such a weird order in the early morning, the weather is getting hotter and hotter than in previous summers. The high temperature also made ordinary people in the city realize that something was wrong, so many ordinary people began to pack their luggage, drag their families and flee out of the city.
It's just that only a few people can actually escape from the city. Most of the people are basically congested in the streets and alleys of Jinling City at this time, and there have been many stampedes.
Due to the haste of the incident, it was difficult for the Jinling City Government to organize an effective evacuation method and could only allow people to flee outside the city on their own.
Changqing Zhenren, Master Huisheng and Gu Ximing, although they are in the Spring Palace, but with the strength of their spiritual consciousness, they are still very clear about the situation in Jinling City at this moment.
But there is nothing they can do.
Because at the current rate at which the power of fire in Chengtian Hall is released, even if practitioners like them resist and delay, by tonight's evening, Jinling City will no longer be suitable for ordinary people to live, and a large number of deaths will inevitably occur by then.
So as much as you can escape is as much as you can!
The morning sun rose.
The sun shone into the square.
Being surrounded by the large formation of these practitioners on the square, the extremely rich power of fire energy suddenly seemed to be ignited, and violently surged to the ground.
An invisible but real wave of scorching air shook the cultivators surrounding the Chengtian Temple to the ground, swaying left and right, and retreating continuously.
Even Master Changqing and the land gods couldn't help but take a few steps back, and a few sparks appeared on the white beard under Master Huisheng's chin.
The three people tried hard to maintain their spiritual power array from being overwhelmed by the extremely active power of the fire element. However, as the sun rose, the Yang energy between heaven and earth revived. Under the stimulation of the Yang energy, the Fire element The force will also become more and more active and difficult to control.
Practitioners like them can't hold on for long.
Practitioners with slightly lower cultivation levels are still sweating profusely, their faces are red, and their bodies are swaying slightly.
"Let those under the First Awareness Realm leave here first. If they stay any longer, their meridians may be permanently damaged by the power of the Fire Element. Moreover, those under the First Awareness Realm cannot be of much help here. busy."
Master Huisheng raised his hand to wipe out the sparks on his beard and sighed.
Master Changqing nodded. At this time, the Taoist land god's face was already covered with beads of sweat, and he shouted loudly.
"Under the first acquaintance state, leave this place immediately!"
"Go to the city and help ordinary people evacuate, especially women and children. Send out as many as you can."
And with his loud shout, Chengtian Palace slowly collapsed.
Of course, this palace that had stood for five thousand years was not knocked down by the immortal Changqing, but the masonry began to loosen and deform under the high temperature, and finally collapsed.
Amidst the smoke and dust in the sky, a red light was vaguely visible floating in the air.
That was the little red seal that caused all of this.
It's just that the small red seal seems to have melted, as if endless fire energy poured out from it, turning into that eye-burning red light.
And with the collapse of Chengtian Hall, the temperature in the square began to soar again.
The clothes on many practitioners began to burn. Originally, they used spiritual power to protect their clothes, but at this time, the spiritual power gradually dried up, and the power of the fire element became more and more intense. Finally, they could no longer protect their clothes. Protect your clothes.
Master Changqing, who had just asked the practitioners under the First Awareness Realm to evacuate, shouted helplessly again.
"Even if you are in the fetal movement state, leave immediately."
Soon after, there were only about twenty figures left in the square.
However, it turns out that these practitioners above the Fetal Movement Realm were the main force resisting the power of Fire Element, so the spiritual power formation still maintained its operation, and the power of Fire Element did not spread immediately.
Of course, it won’t be long before the practitioners in the Fetal Movement Realm will also leave.
Then there are the practitioners of Nascent Soul Realm.
As for Master Chang Qing, Master Huisheng and Gu Ximing, they have already made plans to die here.
At the last moment, the three of them will completely burn their physical bodies, essence and even soul power, and imprison the power of fire essence in this square for a while.
Because that means that tens of thousands more mortals may be able to escape.
The three of them looked at each other, understanding what the other was thinking, and then each smiled.
Gu Ximing lowered his head and looked at the hilt of the sword in his hand, thinking that before he died, he had to slash out at the red light, so that he could die without regrets.
As he lowered his head, beads of sweat dripped down his cheeks and fell to the ground, making a sizzling sound and instantly turning into wisps of white smoke.
Beads of sweat kept dripping.
Click, click, click, and then the sound of sizzling kept sounding.
Of course, these were not just the sweat of Gu Ximing alone, there was no one standing in the square who was not sweating like rain.
Gu Ximing moved his eyes away from the hilt of the sword and looked at the drops of sweat under his feet, turning into wisps of rising white smoke. He felt that this scene was inexplicably beautiful.
...Unfortunately, this is not real rain...
Just when Gu Ximing was thinking so regretfully, the beads of sweat dripping down in front of his feet suddenly became denser, and beads of sweat as big as soybeans fell to the ground and turned into white smoke. Gets smoky.
...No, these are not beads of sweat!
Gu Ximing suddenly raised his head.
The moment he raised his head, many water drops fell on his cheeks, bringing a slight chill to his forehead.
It's raining!
A flash of enlightenment flashed through Gu Ximing's heart.
Gu Ximing looked at the sky, and countless water drops fell from the sky.
The water drops slowly formed lines, and the vision became blurry.
It's a heavy rain.
But at this moment and here, this rain comes out of nowhere, comes so unbelievably, and comes so shockingly.
Everyone in the square raised their heads and stared at the sky in a daze.
In the entire Jinling City, when the heavy rain fell, the chaos stopped for a moment. People who were running away in a hurry, people who were crowding and pushing, people who had just walked out of their homes carrying luggage, and people who were dragging their children and daughters, all stopped in unison. He stopped his movements and looked up blankly at the sky.
Above the sky, the scorching sun hung high, and there was not a single cloud.
So where does the rain come from?
Countless ordinary people, while rejoicing at the nectar falling from heaven, are also extremely confused.
But the practitioners standing in the erotic palace were not confused in their hearts, but only shocked. They were shocked by the rain and the thing that brought the rain.
Practitioners, whose eyesight is much better than ordinary people, can naturally see that there are still clouds in the high sky at this time.
That cloud was very high above the ground, so it looked very small.
Even practitioners can only see it vaguely, including the three land gods.
The only thing that was different from other practitioners was that the three masters of Changqing also saw something vaguely in the clouds.
That thing had a slender body like a snake, looming in the clouds.
"what is that?"
Gu Ximing squinted his eyes. The heavy rain that covered the sky and the earth affected his vision, so he still couldn't tell what the thing was after looking at it for a long time.
"……dragon."
At this time, a faint sigh from Master Changqing came from beside him.
"Although I can't see clearly, I guess it's a dragon."
"dragon?"
Gu Ximing's face showed a look of shock, and he asked again in disbelief.
"Are there any dragons in this world?"
"Five hundred years ago, wasn't there another one? Just over there in Jingcheng, he disappeared with Qixia, the traitor from our Taoist sect."
"Since it existed five hundred years ago, maybe it still exists now."
"The wind follows the tiger, the clouds follow the dragon, and when a real dragon soars in the sky, there must be clouds following it. But originally, there would be no clouds in this land of a hundred miles around Jinling."
"I just said that except for immortals or real dragons, it can't rain here at all."
"...Then...what should we do now?"
"Don't disturb it, but help it!"
Master Changqing said decisively, then he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, as if he was sensing something.
A few seconds later, Master Changqing suddenly opened his eyes.
"I feel that the power of water a hundred miles away is flowing towards Jinling City again."
Then he said this.
"Because this rain has melted a lot of the fire element power in the air, it's like a pool that was suddenly emptied. The surrounding water element power is flowing here to fill it up. Plus, with the real dragon here, It also attracts the power of the surrounding water sources to gather here."
There was a sense of great surprise in Master Changqing's voice.
Then his eyes flashed, and he jumped up from the ground, standing in the air about ten meters above the ground. He quickly formed the Taoist formula with both hands and shouted loudly.
"Call the wind and rain!"
Master Changqing once again performed the art of summoning wind and rain.
Last night, he also used this Taoist technique, but unfortunately it didn't bring even a ray of wind or a drop of rain.
But this time, as he shouted, a breeze suddenly blew over the square.
The light breeze did not dissipate the heat, but it gave people some hope out of thin air.
Then the light breeze quickly turned into a gale.
High in the sky, there were groups of dark clouds that began to gather over Jinling City.
The wind rises and the clouds arrive.
Then the rain got a little heavier.
…
"I'm almost done."
Among the clouds, Ao Tiantian panted and said this.
"The power of water element in my body is almost used up."
"Okay, I'm ready."
Shu Guan, whose waist was grabbed by Ao Tian's pair of dragon claws, gritted his teeth and nodded, and he glanced down.
The huge Jinling City seemed to him like a small square grid at this time.
Shu Guan suddenly felt dizzy.
He had never found that he was afraid of heights before, but this time maybe it was because the height was too high.
His heart couldn't beat faster.
I don’t know if I can do it.
Just when this thought flashed through Shu Guan's mind, Ao Tian finally exhausted the last trace of water energy in his body.
Then one person and one dragon fell straight down from an altitude of more than 3,000 meters.
Just now Ao Tian seemed to be flying among the clouds, but in fact he was not flying in the clouds.
In this era, most practitioners are no longer able to fly in the clouds, and even immortals may find it difficult to do so. Shu Guan only saw that the senior brother had used it once.
And just now Ao Tian was able to soar into the sky because he had used the art of moving clouds and spreading rain, which was unique to their dragon clan.
Flying in the clouds is just the effect of this Taoist technique. Once they stop performing this Taoist technique, they will no longer be able to maintain flying in the sky.
His body fell sharply downwards, and the strong wind roared in his ears. Shu Guan took a deep breath and put his hands on Ao Tian's belly.
Then he glanced down again.
A mountain peak grew larger and larger before his eyes.
...It seems that this is how I came to this world in this life...
An inexplicable thought flashed through Shu Guan's mind.
Then he also shouted loudly.
"Take the mountain!"
As soon as he shouted, his feet landed on the top of the mountain.
A huge impact came from the soles of his feet, and of course Ao Tian on his shoulders seemed to be as powerful as a giant.
The rocks under his feet shattered instantly, and Shu Guan's entire body burrowed straight into the rubble. A burst of pain from broken bones and tendons surged through his body.
But in the end, Shu Guan's pair of palms were still raised high, exposed above the ground.
Fortunately, Ao Tian, who was extremely weak at this time, was not allowed to fall directly to the top of the mountain.
…
A heavy rain slightly relieved the heat in Jinling City.
But it was only a slight relief.
After the rain stopped, the temperature began to slowly rise again.
In the sky above the Chengtian Temple Square, the red light was still suspended, constantly emitting the power of fire energy in all directions.
The ground in the square became extremely dry again, as if it had never rained at all.
"A rain can't really extinguish it after all."
Gu Ximing let out a long sigh, but the worry in his eyebrows did not dissipate much.
"Actually, the power of water brought by the heavy rain just now has neutralized and dissolved a lot of the power of fire. Unfortunately, there is still a lot missing."
Master Changqing said in a deep voice:
"I can feel that the power of the fire element has become much thinner, so the temperature rise of the entire Jinling City will be much slower."
"How long will it take before it reaches the limit that mortals can't bear?"
Master Huisheng asked with compassion on his face.
"Originally, by this evening, Jinling City would no longer be able to allow mortals to survive, but because of the rain, this time can now be postponed to the early morning of tomorrow."
Then the three of them were silent for a while.
"There is still not enough time. Although the incident in Jinling has been reported to the ancestral court, it will be at least until the early morning of the day after tomorrow that the immortals in the ancestral court deal with the matter."
"But it allowed many more people to escape."
"Let's do our best and let fate dictate."
"With the lives and cultivation of the three of us, we might be able to delay that time for another half day. It depends on whether the immortals in the ancestral court can arrive earlier."
The voices of the three land gods gradually became calmer and calmer, and then they slowly closed their eyes again, using their remaining spiritual power to slow down the dispersion of the power of fire.
Not long after they closed their eyes, they suddenly opened them again.
The first one to open his eyes was Gu Ximing, then Master Chang Qing and Master Huisheng, after a moment of pause, they also opened their eyes.
As for the reason why Gu Ximing opened his eyes first, it was because he felt the sword energy first.
Then the three giants of the Seven Immortals Alliance in Jinling City saw a sword not far in front of them.
It was a six-foot long sword with a black handle, a white blade, and a simple shape.
The long sword appeared inexplicably, hovering ten meters in front of the three people, and the tip of the sword tapped the three of them three times.
For some unknown reason, the three land gods felt like they were being praised by this long sword at the same time.
Then the long sword turned around and flew towards the red light in the air.
The next moment, the tip of the long sword pierced into the red light, but the red was condensed but not dispersed.
Then the long sword soared straight into the sky, reaching an altitude of 10,000 meters in the blink of an eye, and then flew towards the western sky.
Above the sky, an extremely bright sword light cut through the sea of clouds, as if cutting the entire sky in half.
The three land gods, Master Changqing, Master Huisheng, and Gu Ximing, all stared at this scene with their mouths wide open. The shock in their hearts was countless times stronger than when the real dragon appeared just now.
"That seems to be... that seems to be..."
After a long time, Gu Ximing was stunned and waved his arms, as if he wanted to say something, but couldn't say it for a while.
Master Changqing knew what he wanted to say. At this time, Master Changqing's expression had become extremely surprised. He nodded and said:
"Yes, that's the Yin Yang Sword!"
"Lu Zu's Yin Yang Sword!"
When Master Huisheng heard this, his body suddenly shook, and he said with some hesitation:
"But even Lu Zu couldn't have rushed here from the Taoist ancestral court so quickly."
"Yes, even Lu Zu can't do it."
"Then there is only one possibility, and that is that old man Lu Zu is currently in the world!"
"Perhaps it was from Wanli away. After he learned about Jinling, Yu Jian Wanli came here to take away the power of the fire element."
Master Changqing said leisurely with a look of great reverence on his face.
(End of chapter)
