Chapter 609
Chapter 609: The Arrival of Immortal King
Translator: StackThatCoin Editor: Hitesh_
Wu Qi arrived at Blue Phoenix Rock along with dozens of his personal guards .
The place was once surrounded by beautiful sceneries, with Luans [1] flying and singing in the sky . But now, it was in a complete mess . Eighteen layers of defensive barriers that protected the main peak as well as the area thousands of miles around it had been breached and brought down by Bo Yunting's army . Whenever a layer of barrier was destroyed, it was as if a major catastrophe had struck . The surrounding mountains and hills were razed to the ground; the land was dotted with countless hundreds of miles deep sinkholes, ripped with numerous massive cracks . Dark smoke and poisonous gases sprayed out endlessly from under the ground . The main peak of Blue Phoenix Rock was the only mountain that was still standing, and it looked like hell .
The one hundred thousand feet tall Blue Phoenix Rock was the only piece of green that had been preserved within thousands of miles around it . However, hundreds of ornate pavilions and bridges on the mountain had collapsed for the most part, and dozens of palaces seemed to have been captured and burned by the soldiers . Although the fire had been put out, plumes of black smoke were still rising high in the sky .
The sky rang with deep and depressing sounds of war drums . Nearly one hundred large flying ships were wheeling in the clouds across the distance, with squads of soldiers sitting cross-legged on the decks, all ready to strike again . The siege was joined by Feathermen as well; there were about fifty thousand of them, flying in groups across the sky near Blue Phoenix Rock, forming a tight defense to prevent any Immortals and itinerant cultivators from escaping .
Above Blue Phoenix Rock, a slim female Immortal clad in a blue dress with a blue veil covering her face was standing on a cloud . Flocks of blue light shaped like feathers circled rapidly around her, filling the air with piercing whistles . She was accompanied by dozens of Immortals and itinerant cultivators whose faces were all unsightly; some with blood stains, some with holes in their bodies, and some missing an arm . Apart from her, no one was in a perfect shape .
A square cloud platform was suspended in the air several miles in front of Blue Phoenix Rock, and ten thousand feet above the ground . A large gold-gilded tent stood loftily on the platform, with neatly arranged military camps to its left and right . By the looks of it, the camps could accommodate some five thousand soldiers . Outside the large tent stood two rows of twenty-four stone pillars, each measuring thirty feet in diameter and three hundred feet in height . A large fire bowl was sitting atop them, where green flames danced and towered into the sky, smearing the entire Blue Phoenix Rock green and filling the atmosphere with a menacing chill .
Under each pillar stood three Long Bo men; one hundred feet tall, clad in heavy golden armor, and holding giant axes; with pale golden fiend symbols covering their entire bodies . Their cultivation bases were as strong as Wu Qi; in other words, their actual combat strength was strong enough to fight against lower-tier Gold Immortals .
As Wu Qi and his personal guards set foot on the cloud platform, they were immediately greeted by a Long Bo man . The giant lowered his head to stare at Wu Qi and demanded in a deep voice, "Who are you?"
Pulling out the silver token that represented his military rank, Wu Qi held it up in the air and cried, "I am the Military Minister of Hai Province's Military Court, Colonel Tan Lang!"
Two beams of golden light shot out of the giant's eyes and rested on the token, generating silvery ripples that spread across the void . Suddenly, the Qilin on the token turned into a ball of light, about the size of a human head, and rushed out . It threw its head back and roared, while the six clouds beside it turned into six colorful balls of light and wheeled around it . In the next moment, a fine thread of silver light darted out of the Qilin's mouth, drawing out Wu Qi's facial appearance in the air before leaping toward him .
A splendid gleam radiated from Wu Qi's body as the image created by the silver light merged perfectly with him, and a crisp voice rang out, "The Military Minister of Hai Province's Military Court, Colonel Tan Lang!"
The strange displays of the token were parts of the means employed by Great Yu's military to verify the identity of military officers, and to prevent Immortals from using illusions to spy on the military . The spell on the token was so inscrutable that Wu Qi had failed to determine its origin even with his present cultivation base and experiences . In short, no one could fool this security check except a Primordial Immortal who was shameless enough .
"Welcome, Your Excellency!" The Long Bo man then said as he smiled affably, cupped his fists, and stepped out of the way . Wu Qi ordered his personal guards to stay of the tent while he strode inside . They would soon be attended to by some military officers stationed here .
Looking from the outside, the gold-gilded tent was only about one thousand feet in both width and length; but, it was a whole different world inside . Not only did it serve as Bo Yunting's command post, but it was also the army's rear supply camp and workshop . After entering the tent, there were two entrances to each side, one leading to the rear supply camp and the other to the workshop . And, then there was the third entrance, right in the middle but ten miles away, which led to Bo Yunting's tent .
In fact, the gold-gilded tent was a spatial treasure with an internal space of about one hundred miles circumference . The various supplies stored in it could support an army of two hundred thousand soldiers to undertake more than three years of uninterrupted war . On top of that, its defensive strength was extremely powerful, and basically impregnable unless it was attacked by more than ten Gold Immortals together, all using Gold Immortal items .
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