Chapter 370 – Holding Up Tianyuan City, Unrivaled in This World

Mu Yuan held the pure white feather in his hand, its vast, majestic power radiating outwards.

The might of this Epic Treasure, the Pure White Feather, was not tied to the user’s own Rank or Realm. Even when wielded and used by Mu Yuan, the feather’s full, immense power could be unleashed completely.

The pure white shelter enveloped Tianyuan City, instantly stabilizing the city’s teetering defensive lines.

However, the pure white shelter alone could not save Tianyuan City. Under the bombardment of numerous war engines and Legendary beings, the massive wings encasing the city gradually dimmed.

Time was running out.

This was indeed merely a slow death—if there were no other trump cards.

“Take action? No need to rush just yet.”

He looked towards Deadbone.

Deadbone had returned to the western city defenses not long ago, but his gaze was not confined solely to the western defensive sector.

His bony hand rested on his sword hilt, and he cast an inquiring look.

Deadbone had already experienced several battles, large and small, out in the wilds, yet he still maintained a ‘passable’ condition.

Deadbone could still command the Undead Legion and unleash the ‘Emperor’s Sword’.

However…

The Emperor’s Sword possessed a conceptual slaying ability, but it could only target a single foe.

Even if Deadbone took action and managed to confront, or even slay, the distant crimson dragon, he still could not defend the vast Tianyuan City.

The city was indeed their weakness.

At this moment, Deadbone had not truly taken action. He was merely controlling the Bone Dragon to soar about, putting out fires everywhere, and exerting half of the sealing power of the Undead Holy Mountain.

Mu Yuan was waiting.

Waiting for the enemies to draw closer.

If Deadbone unleashed his power now, it would only make the enemies more cautious.

Currently, there were over twenty monster Legends outside Tianyuan City. Among them, it seemed there were a few far stronger than the Goblin Prince of years past.

However, not all of these Legendary Realm beings had joined the fray.

The crimson dragon still stood high in the sky, dozens of kilometers away from Tianyuan City, coldly watching and looking down.

A Snakeman Legend with a terrifying Aura was seated atop a 120-meter-tall giant Snakeman statue, slowly advancing. He was still eleven kilometers from the city.

This distance was still outside the territorial range of Tianyuan Territory.

Other monster Legends also remained several kilometers away, continuously gathering the power of heaven and earth to launch long-range assaults.

Compared to the suicidal minion monsters, these Legends seemed deeply versed in the art of slacking off… or rather, the art of survival.

Otherwise, if over twenty Legends swarmed forward all at once, even with several Legendary Realm defenders in Tianyuan City, Large Electromagnetic Coil Towers, the Tree World Giant Buddha, multiple legions, large-scale magic, and the Pure White Feather… the city would have long since fallen and its people perished.

Yet, for Mu Yuan…

What he wanted was to slay more Legendary Realm monsters. This had always been his primary strategic objective.

Merely defending the city and repelling the enemy? That was far from enough.

As long as these Legendary Realm monsters existed, Tianyuan City would never be truly safe, forever in danger, and exploration teams venturing outside would always face the risk of annihilation.

To inflict large-scale, significant casualties on Legendary Realm enemies, he had to rely on the super large-scale spell, ‘Nine-Headed Roaring Thunderflame Dragon’.

But, this spell alone was far from sufficient.During the previous battle at Wolfhead Mountain, if the enemies hadn’t fallen through the shattered space, the Nine-Headed Roaring Thunderflame Dragon wouldn’t have been able to annihilate all the Legendary Realm foes in one strike. Being able to eliminate two or three would have been considered a decent outcome.

Near Tianyuan City, Mirena stood alongside another elven Legendary Realm expert.

They gazed into the distance.

The world stretched vast and endless, with ceaseless tides.

From their vantage point, they couldn’t discern exactly how many war machines or monstrous Legendary Realm beings there were—only that there were many, far too many.

“Tianyuan Territory might still possess a trump card like the one used in the Wolfhead Mountain battle—the kind rumored to scorch the sky, tear the earth asunder, and create the Thunderflame Canyon,” the elven Legendary Realm expert, the Windchaser Ranger, remarked. “However, the enemy seems prepared for it, spreading out widely. Even if such a super-weapon were unleashed, it would likely only take out one or two at most.”

“The outcome is already decided, and we’ve done all we can.”

They couldn’t perish alongside Tianyuan City.

They had already sacrificed many Elites in this battle, and one Legendary Realm expert had fallen—they had given much.

Mirena nodded slightly, then shook her head. “In this war, we aren’t fighting for humanity. We’re fighting for ourselves.”

If anything, Tianyuan City was forced to bear the brunt of the pressure, compelled to exhaust all its forces and hidden resources.

She had just witnessed numerous black-armored skeletons and shadowy ghosts from Tianyuan City fighting on the front lines, falling in battle.

A few of them, in her eyes, even had the potential to reach the Legendary Realm. Their deaths here were a great pity.

But such is war.

Inside and outside Tianyuan City, countless defensive structures lay in ruins.

The vibrant Tree Realm, the awe-inspiring colossal Buddha, the mountain of white bones barricading the city walls, the shimmering light barrier enveloping the city, the pure white wings blotting out the sky…

And so much more.

Tianyuan City had no choice but to painfully deploy these astonishing trump cards one after another.

The city’s strongest expert seemed to have been ambushed by powerful enemies in the wilds, unable to return. The enemy forces were far greater than what met the eye.

In comparison, their Nature’s Garden had only committed the majority of its main forces and rarely ventured beyond the defensive lines to charge into the tidal waves of enemies, suffering far fewer losses.

“Let’s hold out a little longer, at least until the city falls.”

When that time came, as the Windchaser Ranger had said, they truly couldn’t perish with Tianyuan City.

They still had a Nature’s Garden behind them.

They couldn’t afford to fall outside.

Mirena took out the Epic Treasure she had brought with her, the ‘Flower Tree Realm,’ and handed it to the Windchaser Ranger.

“When the time is right, gather our Nature’s Garden Elites into the Flower Tree Realm. Save as many as you can.”

…

Over ten kilometers east of the city.

The Dragon Slumber Emissary stared at the distant pure white wings and concluded, “The scent of an Old God. It seems this human settlement has exhausted all its means. They have no Legendary Realm experts beyond our expectations.”

The Tree Realm Buddha, the pure white wings, and other such methods had actually somewhat exceeded the Emissary’s initial estimates.

However, compared to the multitude of Fourth-Order Experts as dense as clouds and rain, these few trump cards seemed insignificant in his eyes.

What he had worried about earlier was that the number of Legendary Realm experts in Tianyuan City had been underestimated too conservatively by the Jackal Emperor.

Now it appeared that the humans truly had only one Legendary Realm expert.Whether it was one, two, or three Legendary Realm experts, it ultimately made little difference to the overall situation—unless each and every one of them was a peak Heaven-Earth Realm Legendary.

The Dragon Slumber Emissary glanced around once more, his gaze briefly lingering on the sluggish Legendary Realm figures nearby.

He snorted coldly, then flapped his massive crimson wings, soaring toward Tianyuan City.

In the end, it still required an Emissary like him to take matters into his own hands.

The reason Dragon’s Slumber Valley had specifically assisted Jackal Fang was not merely due to their annual tributes.

Rather, it was because Jackal Fang—this Great Domain of Blackpeak Island—likely harbored a ‘Realm Passage’ that led directly to the territory of the Taixuan Alliance.

The existence of the human territory… Miracle Territory further confirmed his suspicions.

Eradicating the human forces, completely seizing control of the Blackpeak Island Great Domain, and uncovering the secret passage to the Taixuan Alliance—this was his true mission.

With the Emissary himself taking action, the other Legendary Realm experts no longer dared to merely unleash their Heaven-Earth Realm powers from a distance. They began to advance.

“Now that the human city is on the verge of collapse, it is time for our Blood Serpent Embrace to shine.”

The Blood Serpent Emperor spoke, steering a massive war machine as they charged forward at high speed.

He held a scepter, and in the next moment, a rustling sea of Ten Thousand Snakes materialized before the war machine.

The other Legendary Realm experts of Blood Serpent Embrace grew fervent.

Indeed, the living beings were at the end of their rope. It was time to display their valor before the Emissary.

“All forces of Jackal Fang, follow this Emperor… kill!”

Unwilling to be outdone by the serpents, the Jackal Emperor roared as well.

However,

if one were to observe from the highest point in the sky, they would notice that the fiercely charging Jackal Emperor, despite his blazing aura, was not moving particularly fast. He merely appeared swift and brave.

Further away, a Legendary Realm figure shrouded in white mist, their form indistinct, emerged.

They gazed toward the human city, then glanced behind them.

“That terrifying skeletal undead probably hasn’t pursued us.”

In truth, the Mirage Armor Legend had believed they had shaken off the pursuer an hour or two ago, but out of caution, they had lingered in the wilderness.

Otherwise, how could they possibly approach the Emissary and admit that several Legendary Realm experts had been ambushed and slain by a single living Legendary, with only them managing to escape?

They couldn’t possibly say that!

It was better not to return at all, waiting until the battle concluded before reappearing.

By then, they could simply claim to have been ambushed, barely escaped, and been delayed on the journey.

A flawless plan.

The figure within the white mist slowly drifted toward Tianyuan City.

…

Rip—

One by one, the arms of the Tree Realm Colossal Buddha were torn off by giant hands formed from condensed Heaven-Earth Realm power, and its body cracked with fissures.

It had already been cracked before, but it had been continuously healing.

Now, however, as the Legendary monsters gradually exerted their full strength, the rate of healing could no longer keep up with the speed of the fractures.

Outside Tianyuan City, the lush forest of the Tree Realm had been nearly cleared.

New trees sprouted, but before they could grow and flourish, they were trampled and crushed by the monsters.

Deep within the Treant Forest, Tree Spirit Grandma and the other treants were gradually weakening, with withered yellow leaves drifting down.

The nascent military spirit hovering above the forest began to blur, as if struggling to maintain its form.

“It’s time to act.”

Mu Yuan shifted into the Lord’s perspective, surveying the surroundings from above.At this moment, the Legendary Realm monsters remained scattered, each maintaining distances of hundreds or thousands of meters. Some Legendary beings weren’t close enough to Tianyuan City to enter his planned area where he could eliminate all enemies at once.

But truly, he could delay no longer.

Casualties had begun appearing sporadically among the elite forces at the frontlines.

While Tianyuan’s elites could withstand pressure, those from Nature’s Garden and Boulder Mountain Ridge might not endure such intense strain. They were like tightly drawn bowstrings, ready to snap at any moment.

Mu Yuan held the Pure White Feather in his left hand while slowly raising his right palm upward.

In his palm gathered golden territory energy visible only to him, slowly brewing.

He seemed to sense the emotions within the territory energy.

The emotions of Tianyuan Territory.

The sentiments of Tianyuan’s citizens.

There was confusion and panic, but also determination, unwavering faith, and blazing battle intent.

“Territory Power, activate!”

Thump! Thump! Thump!

His heart pounded, his Willpower Light burned, his energy and blood gradually boiling.

In an instant, Mu Yuan seemed to merge with the entire territory.

No, not merely seemed.

At this moment, he stood upon the land of Tianyuan Territory, drawing upon the power of the entire domain for his use.

Hundreds upon thousands of Miracle Buildings within Tianyuan Territory resonated with invisible ripples – this was his power;

Countless citizens and intelligent troop types within Tianyuan City resonated with intangible belief – this was his power;

The vast territory of Tianyuan Territory, along with the massive Secret Realms extending from it – these too were his power.

Infinite might poured into his body, his soul seeming to ascend.

To be precise, this was the first time Mu Yuan had expended territory power without reservation. Since territory energy recovered slowly and war was imminent, he hadn’t dared to experiment extensively before.

However,

He felt no excitement, thrill, or burning passion now. He remained as calm as the Sage, all distracting thoughts cast aside, every thought and intention focused solely on the fundamental objective.

He looked down upon the vast land.

Eight hundred twenty-nine defensive structures, three thousand one hundred twenty-four garrison soldiers fighting desperately – every detail imprinted clearly in his mind.

“Suppress.”

Two thousand six hundred forty-two meters away, a Legendary Jackalwere lunged toward Asun who was conducting guerrilla operations outside.

Its sharp claws were merely half a meter from Asun.

Its entire body froze rigid. It crashed violently into the ground.

The earth bulged outward like rising waves.

Even the Gnoll Legend’s Domain began to fracture.

This strike was powerful.

A normal Level 5 Lord wielding territory power couldn’t confront Legendary beings head-on, at most barely managing to evade or briefly resist, let alone suppress an enemy with a single blow.

This demonstrated the true value of LV5 Tianyuan Territory!

The value brought by the three major regions: Treant Forest, Ice Spirit Land, and Skull Graveyard!

Yet, this alone was far from sufficient to suppress and eliminate the powerful enemies surrounding Tianyuan City.

His territory power poured out like floodwaters through an opened sluice gate, and his Lord Mode couldn’t maintain for long.

Territory power could only primarily “assist,” not primarily “attack.”

“Scepter of Heavenly Authority, deploy large-scale spell ‘Nine-Headed Roaring Thunderflame Dragon’.”

“Coordinates (56322, 863)!”

「Ding!」

「Prompt: Large-scale spell ‘Nine…’」

As the prompt tone just began to sound, the sky east of Tianyuan City turned scorching red, crimson, as if the entire firmament had been pierced by endless flames.

From the blazing red sky emerged ferocious, massive heads of the Thunderflame Dragon.”It’s here!”

“It’s the hidden trump card of the human faction.”

“They indeed had one last trump card remaining!”

“Legend says the Blackwing King fell to this very trump card, not even leaving behind a single scrap.”

Among the more than twenty Legendary Realm experts surrounding Tianyuan City, some were exerting themselves to the fullest to prove their worth, but many had remained vigilant all along, guarding against the possible emergence of this hidden trump card.

Humanity’s trump card possessed an extremely destructive capability.

This trump card couldn’t change the outcome of the battle—the human city was destined to become history today.

But this hidden trump card was very likely to take one or two of their Legendary Realm experts with it.

Whether it was the Gnoll Legend, the Blood Serpent Legend, or the legends from Dragon’s Slumber Valley, none wanted to be that one or two claimed by the trump card.

They still wanted to enjoy the post-battle revelry.

“This trajectory… it seems aimed at the Emissary!”

“Emissary, be careful!”

The Jackal Emperor shouted while maintaining his forward charge posture as he swiftly retreated backward.

The Dragon Slumber Emissary glanced at the sky.

“So they’ve chosen this Emissary.”

He wasn’t surprised.

He knew perfectly well how conspicuous he was.

However…

“This Emissary would never fall to such a clumsy trump card!”

His gaze turned ferocious as the flesh on his body continuously writhed, his entire dragon form swelling up again and again.

Blazing crimson light and flames erupted around him.

With a beat of his wings, his massive form transformed into a streak of blood-red light shooting forward.

In the sky, the dragon heads had already emerged, followed by slender yet enormous dragon bodies.

Nine Thunderflame Dragons intertwined at their tails descended at unimaginable speeds, straddling the space above this land.

They didn’t directly crash down, nor did they transform into endless light and heat upon impact.

The intertwined Thunderflame Dragons separated into nine entities, the massive dragon shadows scattering and flying in different directions.

Mu Yuan’s thoughts remained perfectly calm as he firmly controlled each of these wildly raging Thunderflame Dragons.

He precisely manipulated this destructive large-scale spell, calculating the optimal attack paths.

“Go.”

The retreating Serpentfolk Legend’s pupils dilated in horror.

The Domain around him twisted and cracked under the destructive energy.

In his vision, red and blue continuously expanded, devouring everything.

Domain, physical form—everything was incinerated in these ultimate flames of thunder and fire, leaving only ashes scattering down.

“Not enough!”

“Still not enough!”

Golden light shone from Mu Yuan’s pupils as sweat began beading on his forehead again.

The falling sweat droplets instantly evaporated, vanishing without trace.

“Deploy the second Nine-Headed Roaring Thunderflame Dragon!”

In the southwestern corner of the territory, the sky abruptly turned scorching red as Thunderflame Dragons descended upon the world, sowing destructive power.

Some Thunderflame Dragons intercepted two Gnoll Legends, tracing semicircular arcs before exploding violently near the monster legends. The destructive force shredded and annihilated all living beings in the vicinity, reducing them to pure nothingness.

One destructive pillar of flame after another shot up into the clouds.

Beside Shen Linglong, a Thunderflame Dragon swooped past, catching up with the retreating monster legend and carrying it high into the air.

A blazing sun erupted at high altitude, the violent winds uprooting the very earth.

“What what what kind of move is this, oh my god!”

The elven legend Windchaser Ranger had just taken out the Epic Treasure ‘Flowering Tree Realm’ when he froze in place, the crimson light dyeing his entire body red. As waves of fire rolled toward him, he even forgot to evade, only snapping back to reality when the flames caught his clothing.The Legendary Giant stared into the distance at the endless light and heat blooming forth, and at the charred figure tumbling out from within the blazing flames.

Half a second later, he roared, “The time for counterattack has come! Warriors, follow me into battle!”

Boom—!

Boom—!

Dazzling flames erupted continuously, filling the entire field of vision with blinding white light.

Monsters outside the city were torn apart by the wave-like shockwaves, shredded into tatters, minced flesh, and ultimately into nothingness.

The shockwaves, like colossal tidal waves, swept countless shattered corpses and rolling stones as they surged toward Tianyuan City.

The Water Mirror Barrier appeared.

The Water Mirror Barrier wavered precariously.

The Water Mirror Barrier shattered with a thunderous crash.

Pure white wings extended once more, piercing into the earth, firmly shielding the City of Tianyuan.

The entire city still shook violently, as if struck by a magnitude seven or eight earthquake.

Cracks spread continuously across the roads, and dust rained down from the ceilings. Fortunately, the materials in the Eternal World were quite advanced, and Mu Yuan had placed great emphasis on quality during construction, which prevented buildings from collapsing one after another.

He paid it little mind.

He still controlled the last four Thunderflame Dragons, clamping down on the crimson dragon that had transformed into a bloody light.

The Dragon Slumber Emissary no longer fled. Instead, he wrapped his wings around himself, his entire body morphing into a massive crimson cocoon.

The next moment,

the four Thunderflame Dragons converged, pressing tightly against the giant crimson cocoon. A brilliant Great Sun hung high in the sky outside Tianyuan City.

The blinding radiance obscured everything.

Energy surged like tidal waves.

Yet, beneath the glaring light and vast energy tides, the crimson cocoon still remained. It was severely damaged, and the Dragon Slumber Emissary protected within had shrunk by a full six sizes.

Destructive forces of thunder and fire still crackled and surged over him. His wings were shattered, his aura feeble, and he could barely maintain his Domain.

But he was, after all, alive.

As long as he lived, there was a future.

“Human, this Emissary will remember…”

Thud—

A silent Bone Spike suddenly pierced out, effortlessly tearing through the dragon’s tough scales and solid flesh, piercing the thumping heart and emerging from the chest.

Over ten meters long.

The white bone was translucent and crystalline.

Yet it carried a destructive power even more terrifying and chilling than the Thunderflame Dragons from before.

The power of desolate silence.

His life force rapidly drained away.

Faintly, he saw a Legendary Realm figure with a billowing cloak appear not far from him, as if he had always been there.

In the hands of this Legendary, an Urn Treasure swirled with black light. This black-cloaked Legendary was stepping out from the crevices of space.

“No wonder… I didn’t… detect…”Two teleportation artifacts within the Dragon Slumber Emissary’s flesh activated, but under the influence of the raging energy and shattered space, they failed to activate.”

His life force continued to drain, his flesh losing all ability to regenerate and continuously rotting. His chest cavity was already hollow.

A life-substitution treasure buried deep within his flesh activated autonomously.

Bang—

The life-substitution treasure failed and turned to ashes.

The Dragon Slumber Emissary completely lost all signs of life.

Deadbone stored the Epic Treasure Space Urn in his hand, then glanced at the still raging energy around him, unable to resist clicking his tongue in amazement. “This crimson dragon Legendary is truly terrifying.”

Even severely injured, under the desolate silence of the Desolate Kingbone, he had stubbornly held on for a full… full three seconds.

Truly, fearsome to the extreme.

…

Several minutes later, the energy tides outside Tianyuan City gradually subsided.The pure white wings had long since vanished.

The city walls and defensive lines of Tianyuan City were already shattered and broken. Even some uninhabited buildings on the outskirts of the city had collapsed in great numbers.

The entire Tianyuan City presented a scene of devastation.

Yet the defenders showed no signs of despair. Even the elven allies, the elite giants, and those severely wounded could not conceal their excitement, fervor, and fanatical expressions on their faces.

This was a great victory!

A triumphant turnaround achieved by the Tianyuan Lord’s heroic efforts!

In the heart of Tianyuan City, a magnificent Tower hovered mid-air. Upon it stood a tall, slender figure, one hand slightly raised as if holding up the city like a deity, shielding its people and cleansing the world.

“Notification: Territory’s Popularity Index has increased.”

“Notification: Territory’s Popularity Index has increased.”

“Notification: …”

Mu Yuan maintained his smile, letting his invincible presence shine brightly.

“Isloria, quick, support me—I can barely stand steady.”

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