Chapter 480: All-Out War with the Sun-Piercing Heavenly Court
–Ten Sacred Domains, Black Tide Ancient City
The Black Tide Ancient City was shrouded in a perpetual twilight, a realm of shadows where even public displays of affection went unnoticed.
It was always night here, the atmosphere charged.
At this moment, within a temporary lodging near the Heavenly Scale Palace, a blue-haired woman in a bathrobe, examining a certain tentacled appendage, frowned slightly, then looked out the window, a puzzled expression on her face.
“What is that… unsettling feeling…?”
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“Um… are my tentacles… disgusting?” Luo Kuxin, the green-haired girl lying beneath her, asked softly, tears welling up in her eyes.
Gong Lianyue shook her head, gently squeezing the soft, supple vine, causing Luo Kuxin to shudder.
“Not you.”
“This is the first time I’ve felt such a repulsive, nauseating heat.”
To facilitate her research of the tentacles, Gong Lianyue had sent her spirit beasts out earlier.
Now, sensing the source of the disturbance, she mentally summoned them, ordering them to converge on that location.
If this was the danger that Water Element had warned her about, then she couldn’t afford to expose her true strength just yet…
Just as she finished sending the message, Gong Lianyue was suddenly engulfed by a mass of tentacles, her muffled protests silenced as she was dragged away.
–Black Tide Ancient City, Heavenly Scale Palace
Within the Heavenly Scale Palace, in a designated herb-gathering area within the mountains, a faint flicker of light appeared in the darkness.
The small flame grew, tracing an arc in the air, gradually forming a burning gateway.
A few seconds later, a massive hand, wreathed in flames, emerged from the gate, its scorching aura instantly dispelling the shadowy gloom of the Black Tide Ancient City.
Boom~~~~~~~
A wave of intense heat, a blinding light.
At this moment, although most within the Black Tide Ancient City were oblivious, the water-type beings, including the Jade Concubine of the Waterfall Lake, felt a sudden, inexplicable unease.
Such a repulsive, disgusting, scorching, irritating aura… it could only belong to a fire-type spirit beast…!!!
But the Black Tide Ancient City and the Sun-Piercing Heavenly Court were enemies. Why would a fire-type spirit beast appear here?
Meanwhile, the nearest legendary being, the black, water-based elemental figure, rushed towards the source of the disturbance.
Its face was grim, a sense of weary resignation. What had it done to deserve this?
It had just sent away that terrifying blue-haired woman and now this, a sudden surge of fire-type spirit energy, and within the Heavenly Scale Palace’s territory, no less!
Xuan Mo Tianchi was not only the lowest-ranked of the Ten Palace Ghost Concubines, but the Heavenly Scale Palace itself was also the lowest-ranked of the nine academies. Why was it always her dealing with these problems?
By the time it arrived, several students and instructors from the Heavenly Scale Palace had gathered, their gazes fixed on the strange object that had emerged from the fiery gate.
A beautifully patterned, fiery red orb, floating in the air, rotating slowly.
Its presence turned the surrounding area into a furnace, the dim twilight replaced by a hellish crimson glow.
“So hot…”
“What is that? I feel like I’m melting!!!”
“Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp?” A small, pink and white fox, perched on the head of a human-fox hybrid Spirit Master, tilted its head curiously.
And seeing this fiery orb, the black, watery figure trembled, its face paling.
How was this possible…?
This was the Black Tide Ancient City! How dare it trespass?
Wasn’t it afraid of angering the Dark Night Concubine and having the Sun-Piercing Heavenly Court removed from the Ten Sacred Domains?!
As the legendary Water Element stared in disbelief, the fiery orb’s heat intensified, spreading rapidly, engulfing the Heavenly Scale Palace.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
A deafening explosion, like a million nukes detonating simultaneously, the shockwave tearing through the sky, a massive mushroom cloud erupting, scattering dust and debris everywhere.
In an instant, the entire Heavenly Scale Palace, its buildings and the surrounding mountains, were leveled, reduced to a smoldering wasteland.
The area around the fiery orb, the epicenter of the blast, twisted and distorted, the scorching heat instantly incinerating countless lives, even the legendary Water Element was sent flying, tumbling across the ground, carving a deep chasm.
And the flames continued to spread, a terrifying inferno. The Water Element, its face pale with despair, stared at the approaching fire.
“Chirp!”
Just then, a vine, shaped like a fox tail, wrapped around the Water Element’s core.
The Nine-Colored Cloud Dream Flower, transformed into a massive, nine-tailed fox, grabbed the Water Element and fled, scrambling over the ruined landscape, away from the inferno.
Although the beautiful fox woman it had just met had been incinerated, there was no time for grief…
Just before the scorching heat consumed them, the little fox leaped, escaping the fiery hell.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
A second explosion, and the Heavenly Scale Palace was completely obliterated, all life within a radius of hundreds of millions of kilometers extinguished.
The Nine-Colored Cloud Dream Flower and the legendary Water Element, exchanging glances, stared at the inferno, their expressions a mix of shock and relief.
The Heavenly Scale Palace, reduced to ashes.
Swish!
The next second, a black, ink-like elemental figure, its aura swirling, materialized, its gaze fixed on the being at the heart of the inferno.
The legendary Water Element, its previously despairing expression now replaced by a flicker of hope.
Xuan Mo Tianchi, Tenth Seat of the Ten Palace Ghost Concubines!!!
“Sun-Piercing Heavenly Court scum! You dare commit such an act! Do you know the consequences?!”
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[Wuwuwu, if breathing is a sin, then I am surely the most sinful being in existence.]
A mocking, sarcastic voice echoed from the fiery orb, a small, beautifully patterned sphere, radiating an aura of death and decay, emerging from the flames.
The Sun-Piercing Heavenly Court, Nu Yan Huoshan, one of the Four Flame Demons!!!
At the same time, having received a message from the little fox, Gong Lianyue finally understood the danger in the Black Tide Ancient City that the Water Element had warned her about.
She had come here for a wedding, only to stumble into an all-out war between the Sun-Piercing Heavenly Court and the Black Tide Ancient City!
