Chapter 706: The Might of the Dragon

The violent wind howled piercingly in his ears.

Zhou Huai sat steadily on the broad back of Magic Dragon Xiao Hei, and with a thought, he summoned Xiao Hei's current attribute panel.

At this glance, he couldn't help but exclaim "Good grief!" in his heart.

The attribute panel showed Health Points: 103,500,000 / 103,500,000.

It broke 100 million!

Originally, as an Abyssal Magic Dragon that had just reached Rank 30, even as a Hell-level boss, its HP at most would only be in the millions.

But at this moment, under the abnormal Ancestral Dragon Blood Pact blessing of the top-tier Imperial Heaven Ancestral Dragon Rider, its grade was forcibly raised to Quasi-God Level.

Man and Dragon shared their lives completely, and their attributes stacked perfectly!

"With this amount of health, even if I stood still and let a high-tier Professional hack away at me for a day and a night, they wouldn't even be able to scrape off a layer of skin, right?" Zhou Huai smiled.

Controlling Arthur's body, he patted Xiao Hei's obsidian dragon scales.

"Xiao Hei, full speed ahead!"

"Roar——!"

Xiao Hei let out a dragon roar, its dragon wings vibrating behind its back.

The airflow burst open!

A deafening sonic boom rang out in the air.

Xiao Hei's body size had now skyrocketed to more than sixty meters, and its speed in the sky was extremely fast!

It transformed into a stream of light, piercing through the clouds!

Galloping high above the sky, the aura of the Quasi-God Level Dragon poured down.

The alien beasts in the wilderness and deep mountains below prostrated on the ground, trembling in fear.

Just like that, riding Xiao Hei, Arthur cut through the air all the way with unstoppable momentum toward the direction of the former site of Ximeng City.

This speed was by no means inferior to the Shrinking the Earth to an Inch technique of Great Sage Li Er that ignored spatial distances.

In less than an hour's time.

That land of death swallowed by endless green had already appeared at the end of the horizon.

Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the former site of Ximeng City.

On a high ground three kilometers away.

Tightly connected rows of temporarily erected military tents formed a sea, and several fully armed Daxia troops were stationed here.

Outside the command post, the atmosphere was oppressive.

Li Zhenyuan, the Corps Commander of the 3rd Corps of the Daxia Western Frontier Garrison, pressed both hands in front of the telescope, staring ahead.

At the end of his line of sight, not a shred of the outline of the former Ximeng City's ruins could be seen anymore.

Ahead was a dense primeval forest.

The forest appeared dark green, with trees towering into the clouds and thick vines writhing among the trees.

What made people even more chilled was that this forest… was alive!

"General Li, are we really just going to sit and watch like this? Are we really not going to care about anything at all?!"

Beside him, the young Chief of Staff Zhang He had red eyes and a jittery voice, "As early as a day ago, this forest was still far away three kilometers out!"

"But look at it now!"

Chief of Staff Zhang He pointed at the continuously expanding green magic sea, "At this rate of spread, those poisonous vines and mutated tree roots will completely engulf Xiling City in the rear within three days at most!"

"That place has a permanent population of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people!"

"Could it be that we are going to watch with our own eyes as those hundreds of thousands of people turn into fertilizer for this devil forest?!"

Facing Chief of Staff Zhang He's questioning, Li Zhenyuan, who was close to sixty years old, turned around.

His weathered face was full of exhaustion, and he let out a heavy sigh.

"What are you yelling for?! Do you think I don't want to care?!"

Li Zhenyuan's eyes were bloodshot, and his voice was low, "Behind this is our Daxia territory, our people; I feel even more heartache than you do!"

"However, care? What can we use to care?!"

He grabbed Chief of Staff Zhang He by the collar and roared while pointing at the forest: "Did you not see the fate of the advance team that went in to investigate the situation earlier?!"

"A full three squads of a hundred people each!"

"There were even two high-tier Professionals urgently dispatched from the Imperial Capital leading the teams!"

"And the result?"

Li Zhenyuan's fingers trembled violently, his eye sockets turning red, "They only sent back a three-second scream audio clip, and then… total annihilation! Not even a single person came back alive to report the news!"

"Those mutated vegetations simply cannot be killed; once chopped off, they can regenerate immediately, and they even devour the mana and flesh of Professionals!"

"Even high-tier big shots went in without a sound and were helpless!"

"Just relying on our regular troops under our command whose average Rank is under forty, what method would we have if we rushed in? Besides acting as rations for those trees, what else could we change?!"

Grabbed by the collar, the anger in Chief of Staff Zhang He's eyes dimmed, filled with powerlessness and despair.

He closed his eyes in pain, tears sliding down his rough cheeks.

"However… could it be that we can only wait here to die…"

"The Imperial Capital has already sent down the highest directive."

Li Zhenyuan let go of his hand, straightened Chief of Staff Zhang He's messy collar, and softened his tone slightly, "Marshal Zhao personally issued a strict order, only asking us to evacuate the residents near Xiling City as much as possible and build isolation zones."

"Without an order, no one is allowed to act rashly under any circumstances."

"The higher-ups said someone will come to deal with this relic."

"Someone will come to deal with it?" Chief of Staff Zhang He opened his eyes and let out a bitter laugh, "General Li, at a time like this, do you still believe such words used to appease the army's morale?"

"Who can come to deal with it?"

"Could it be Marshal Zhao Qingcang personally leading the expedition in command?!"

Chief of Staff Zhang He shook his head, looking hollowly at the relentlessly approaching dark green, "This kind of terrifying mutation that can devour a city overnight and cause high-tier powerhouses to fall silently is something I have never seen in my life!"

"Pardon my frankness, even if the legendary Marshal Zhao who returned to his Peak personally came here, facing this weird Law that cannot be killed and cut endlessly, he might not necessarily be able to handle it!"

Li Zhenyuan fell silent.

Because he knew clearly in his heart that what Chief of Staff Zhang He said was the truth.

This was no longer a conventional monster siege; this was the descent of an ancient Law beyond all human cognition!

Just as the two of them were speechless facing each other and the atmosphere was oppressive to the extreme.

"Hum——!"

Without any warning, the air between heaven and earth stopped flowing!

A powerful pressure smashed down onto the sky above the entire encampment!

"Thump!"

"Ah——!"

That was a shudder originating from the depths of the Soul!

Even though this pressure was not deliberately targeting anyone, nearly a hundred Daxia soldiers on the defense line below, upon contacting this aura, were directly frightened until their faces turned pale!

Many soldiers with lower Ranks had their legs go weak uncontrollably, kneeling straight onto the ground.

What's more, their eyes rolled back, and before they even had time to let out a scream, they fainted on the spot!

"An… An enemy attack?!"

Li Zhenyuan and Chief of Staff Zhang He were high-tier Professionals who had experienced many battles after all, but they could only grind their teeth and desperately urge the mana in their bodies, barely managing to support themselves without kneeling.

The bones of the two made cracking sounds under the pressure, unable to bear the load.

"Roar——!!!"

Following that, a soaring dragon roar resounded across the firmament above their heads!

This sound was mixed with tyranny, nobility, and the supreme Divine Might of looking down on all living beings!

It shook everyone's eardrums below with a stinging pain, causing their internal organs to roll violently!