manynovel Chapter 247 Steaming Ghost Gate
Chapter 247 Steaming Ghost Gate
Chapter 247 Steaming Ghost Gate
The raging torrent of the Angry River, forcibly diverted by Huo Yuhao using the essence of Tianmeng spiritual power, swept away the collapsed boulders of Dragon Throat Gorge, the broken remains of the Soul Guiding Cannon, and the severed limbs of countless Fighting Spirit soldiers, crashing towards the majestic pass where Ghost Gate was located like a furious, earthen-yellow dragon.
At first, it was just a gurgling stream that appeared extremely abruptly, and seemed particularly insignificant.
Among the soldiers guarding the Ghost Gate Pass behind the city wall, some were drawn to the unusual stream.
A vague unease swept through their hearts.
Where does this water come from?
However, before their brief confusion could turn into an effective alarm, a dull rumble came from the ground beneath their feet!
The rumbling sound grew louder as it approached, spreading rapidly, as if a vast army of horses was galloping across the land!
Immediately afterwards, the stream began to surge violently, like a terrifying roar of ten thousand beasts stampeding and mountains collapsing, crashing down from the direction of Dragon Throat Gorge!
The sound arrived, followed by a suffocating, damp, cold wind carrying a strong smell of blood and earth, crashing like waves against the towering city walls of Ghost Gate Pass!
Behind the battlements, the hearts of all the Douling defenders felt as if something was gripping them tightly.
They instinctively looked in the direction from which the sound was coming from.
At the edge of their vision, a massive, turbid, almost viscous, yellowish-brown wave surged forth with overwhelming force, crushing everything in its path as it hurtled toward the Gate of Hell!
The soul-guided ray gun in the hand of an old soldier clattered to the ground, and he was instantly terrified.
"Dragon's Throat Gorge—this water comes from Dragon's Throat Gorge! Dragon's Throat Gorge is finished!"
The officer, realizing what was happening, roared hysterically, "Quick! Raise all soul-guided shields!"
However, before the city guards could carry out those soul-guided shields, a streak of cyan-gold light appeared from the horizon at a speed faster than a flood!
This cyan-gold light almost tore through space, arriving before the enemy and without pausing at all!
Behind this cyan-gold light, dozens of beams of light of different colors rose into the sky one after another!
Huo Yuhao transformed into a ten-zhang-long azure dragon that soared through the sky, its roar and thunderous sound resounding, reaching the ultimate speed!
All the support-type soul skills of the Heavenly Soul Empire's support-type soul masters had already been added to Huo Yuhao when they arrived.
He was like lightning tearing through the sky, his target aimed directly at the weak point where the gate and the city wall of the Ghost Gate Pass met!
"Stop this soul beast! At all costs!"
The guardian spirit's eyes were bloodshot, and his voice was shrill and distorted with fear.
He dared not even imagine what the consequences would be if this azure dragon crashed into the city gate!
Behind the crenellations of the city wall, the fastest-reacting Soul Masters suppressed their shock and quickly turned their Soul Guidance Cannons around.
In an instant, beams of energy of various colors shot towards the cyan-gold stream of light like a torrential rain!
But Huo Yuhao's speed was just too fast!
What's more, he also possesses the terrifying talent of having a thousand years in an instant, which allows him to transform the domain of the Demon King into a martial soul ability!
Boom boom boom!
Dense beams of soul-guided light grazed the Azure Dragon's scales as they flew past, weaving a destructive net of light behind him!
The speed-enhancing soul skills, amplified by the support soul masters of the Heavenly Soul Empire, made him a true lightning bolt in the air, surpassing the limits of visual perception!
After that brief pause, Huo Yuhao was already very close to the massive, heavy city gate of the Ghost Gate Pass, which was reinforced with metal.
The commander's pupils suddenly dilated with fear, and even his roar was caught in his throat!
He saw the dark golden light shining from Huo Yuhao's dragon claw, a light that seemed capable of piercing the soul!
Azure Dragon Collision!
Dark Gold Terror Claw!
Azure Dragon Tears the Sky Hand!
The earth trembled in Longyuan!
The Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon!
Second Awakening!
The ten-zhang-long azure dragon's body swung out huge claw shadows in the air, tearing at the weak point of the joint with the speed and ferocity of a hot knife through butter!
Tsk! ! !
Five huge, deep claw marks appeared, revealing countless terrified eyes within the city!
Then, Huo Yuhao's enormous dragon body, carrying an indomitable and resolute will to crush everything, crashed into the enemy!
boom!!!
The indescribable, terrifying impact sound was like a million giant bells being struck simultaneously!
The incredibly sturdy walls of the Ghost Gate Pass trembled violently!
Under the terrifying shockwave of the Dragon Abyss Earth Rumble, the defenders on the city wall were directly blasted to pieces!
The city wall was instantly stained with a dazzling crimson!
A huge and menacing gap appeared in the city wall!
The city gate of the Ghost Gate Pass was smashed to pieces by Huo Yuhao!
Through the gap, Huo Yuhao could even see the horrified faces of the city's defenders behind him.
However, Huo Yuhao's light only lingered on them for a moment before crashing into the gap again!
The enormous crack, like a ferocious black lightning bolt, spread wildly from the breach to both sides of the city wall!
Its speed is so fast that it is difficult to detect with the naked eye!
Smoke and dust billowed into the sky, obscuring half of it!
The city wall of Ghost Gate City was actually knocked down by Huo Yuhao!
Just then, the raging floodwaters behind Huo Yuhao arrived!
The floodwaters crashed violently against the ruins of the collapsed city walls, producing a deafening roar more terrifying than thunder.
The breach in the city wall was instantly filled with a torrent of muddy yellow water, and then it tore and expanded!
When the accumulated power reached its peak, the flood finally broke through the barrier at the breach, and with the force to crush everything, it surged into the interior of the fortress!
"Flood! Floodwaters are coming in!"
"Run!"
"The city wall has collapsed! We can't hold them off any longer!"
Inside the city walls, the defending troops, who were still hastily assembling, completely collapsed at this moment, their last shred of will to resist completely broken!
"All Soul Saints, seize the pass! Leave no survivors!"
The dozens of Soul Saints hovering above the raging floodwaters were soaring to their peak after witnessing Huo Yuhao's immense power as he smashed through the city wall. Their battle cries even drowned out the roar of the floodwaters at one point.
The only Soul Saint at the Ghost Gate Pass has been killed by Huo Yuhao on the city wall.
At this moment, these Soul Saints, who could no longer restrain themselves, rushed into the breach in the mighty pass ravaged by the flood, like birds of prey swooping down to hunt, their Soul Rings glowing with dazzling light!
Huo Yuhao hovered above the gap, and after calming his breathing slightly, he headed straight for the depths of the pass.
The floodwaters are still surging, but they have lost their initial ferocity.
Just as Huo Yuhao had predicted, the floodwaters had already weakened by the time they reached this point.
It tore through the defenses of the western district and flooded many low-lying areas, but failed to cover the entire fortified pass in an instant.
This is, after all, just a tributary of the Nutao River, and to have achieved this much is already quite remarkable.
The Dongcheng District and the area where the core fortress is located are on higher ground. Although they were also affected by the shock wave and the spread of panic, they were not completely submerged by the flood.
These areas, with their fixed soul-guided artillery emplacements and traditional defensive crossbow arrays, still pose a significant threat to the Soul Saints behind Huo Yuhao.
"Lock on that Azure Dragon!"
"Fire! Fire!"
A lieutenant shouted at the top of his lungs, trying to take over command from the garrison commander who had been killed by the shockwave.
Several heavy soul-guided cannons, radiating powerful soul energy fluctuations, began charging, their thick barrels aimed at Huo Yuhao.
However, to their surprise, the Azure Dragon that Huo Yuhao had transformed into actually disappeared directly into the gradually slowing torrent.
The Azure Dragon deftly swung its tail amidst the turbid torrent, seemingly merging with the towering waves.
Huo Yuhao was not swept away by the torrent; instead, he swam like a fish, using the current to his advantage and increasing his speed by another three points!
His objective was extremely clear: to paralyze all heavy soul tools that could pose a threat to his own Soul Saints.
"He's in the water! He's rushing towards us!"
"Never mind where he is! Charged up! Fire!"
Several incredibly thick soul-guided beams of light, accompanied by a piercing shriek, shot fiercely toward the waters where Huo Yuhao had just been!
The scorching beam of light instantly evaporated a large area of floodwater, triggering a violent explosion and a surge of water vapor!
However, the Azure Dragon was no longer in the same place.
"He's here! Lock onto the water ripples!"
The lieutenant's roar was filled with panic; he had never seen anything that could maintain such agility and speed in such a raging flood.
But it was too late.
Whoosh—!
A colossal dragon shadow suddenly shot into the sky from the turbid waves closest to the core fortress!
Then, under Huo Yuhao's control of the water power and his understanding of the Snow Empress's temperature changes, four great dragons roared in!
Ice, murky water, boiling water, steam!
Five dragons soar into the sky!
Huo Yuhao grasped the dragon claws in the air, precisely controlling the four long dragons formed from different forms of water with his mental intent.
Like Huo Yuhao charging through a pass, the ice dragon roared and crashed into the area where the fortress's foundation met the floodwaters!
The ice layer is spreading and thickening upwards at an alarming rate!
The extreme low temperature instantly froze the floodwaters in a large area below the fortress, and the fortress itself trembled slightly due to the drastic temperature change and the expansion and compression of the ice layer!
The turbid water dragon is formed from the most primal torrents, its body heavy and viscous, like a giant battering ram, crashing against the thick stone walls of the fortress!
The soul-guided turrets placed outside the fortress were instantly submerged in mud, their charging lights flickering erratically.
The boiling water dragon, on the other hand, was covered in bubbling hot water.
It did not collide directly, but hovered in the air like a giant watering can, pouring boiling water like a torrential downpour onto the point where the ice dragon would strike.
Click!
The alternation of cold and heat can make solid rocks instantly become incredibly fragile.
The large, visible cracks spread rapidly upwards and to both sides, as if cleaved by an invisible giant axe!
The last and most bizarrely shaped, ethereal steam dragon, tumbling and twisting like a ghost, silently slipped into the huge crack created by the impact of the ice dragon and the scouring of boiling water.
Immediately afterwards, scalding hot steam, filled with terrifying pressure, erupted like a torrent of lava bursting its banks, gushing wildly from the cracks in the fortress walls, the vents, and even the firing ports!
A heart-wrenching scream instantly filled the entire interior of the fortress!
The sturdy fortress instantly transformed into a gigantic, high-pressure steamer spewing out deathly steam!
Huo Yuhao's face showed a surprised expression.
He had never imagined that steam could unleash such terrifying and bizarre destructive power.
The chain reaction triggered by the steam dragon drilling into the crack had an effect far exceeding his initial expectations.
If that's the case, when we attack the Eight Columns in the future—
The agonizing screams, mingled with the hissing of steam, seeped through the cracks in the walls, sending chills down one's spine.
High-temperature, high-pressure white columns of gas violently spewed out from every crevice, instantly burning and scalding the defenders who came into contact with them!
Seeing this tragic scene, Huo Yuhao shook his head, rejecting his earlier thought.
There is no need to torture the fighting spirit army like this.
This method of sterilization, unprecedented in military history, is truly a nerve-wracking experience.
Moreover, the Eight Vertical and Horizontal Passes are not like the Ten Perilous Passes; there were indeed a large number of civilians living inside them.
When the main forces of the Heavenly Soul Eastern Army and the Heavenly River Wuchen cleared Dragon Throat Gorge and arrived at Ghost Gate Path, they were shocked to find that Huo Yuhao had already transformed back into human form, hovering high in the air with the Azure Dragon Wings in motion.
A series of obscure and difficult-to-understand incantations were recited from Huo Yuhao's mouth.
Then, the Heavenly Soul Eastern Army, who had only heard of it but had never entered the undead demiplane, looked at the corpses floating on the flood in horror and suddenly opened their eyes!
Necromancy!
Li Kongming muttered, "This...this...the more I fight, the more people there are?!"
He expressed the sentiments shared by all the Heavenly Soul warriors present.
Even knowing that these undead soldiers would eventually be deployed to the other two continents as garrison troops, the shock of witnessing the corpses come back to life still sent chills down the spines of these battle-hardened soldiers.
If these undead creatures hadn't possessed a strong power of light, the Heavenly Soul Eastern Army would likely have been even more terrified.
When news of the Heavenly Soul Empire flooding two strategic passes overnight reached Lingdou City, the high-ranking officials of the Douling Sect were collectively shocked.
In just over ten days, half of the ten dangerous passes have already been lost!