Dragon's Nest

"You all, stay clear of this area! We will handle the war chariots!" Zheng Dong Lin declared, spinning his Ba Wang Spear.
The long spear was enveloped by Tai Xuan True Qi, burning like fire, its tip blazing and scorching the air.
As the Tai Xuan True Qi burned fiercely, an eye that had been closed on the battlefield suddenly opened.
"I smell the scent of an Immortal sprout!" This person, clad in a green Daoist robe, with hair casually tied back, spoke while sitting cross-legged.
The Daoist slowly rose, not forgetting to grasp the whisk by his side, and shot towards Zheng Dong Lin's position like an arrow.
The Xishan soldiers, seeing that the war chariots had been blocked by Zheng Dong Lin and Li Ge, felt relieved and gripped their weapons, fighting the Da Li army.
"Quartermaster corps, flank the Xishan army from behind!" Within the Da Li army, Ren Mo gave the order.
Over five thousand soldiers, led by a Fifth Heavenly General, circled around to the rear, raising clouds of dust.
"Lord Wang Bi!" An intelligence officer knelt and reported.
Wang Bi pondered carefully, his hands clasped behind his back, saying nothing, meticulously formulating the enemy's strategy in his mind.
"Wang Bi, no need to overthink; the enemy will order their generals to lead their soldiers to attack us from behind!" Wang Ben said at this moment.
"How do you know?" Wang Bi was surprised.
"That is the instinct of a general!" Wang Ben said. Wang Bi understood some of it, but not all.
"If the enemy has sent a wing of their army to flank us, I will use their scheme against them. Have ten thousand troops ready, prepared to fight at any moment!" Wang Bi said.
"Yes, sir!" The intelligence officer acknowledged the order.
"Furthermore, the time has come; prepare the archers for battle!" Wang Bi roared.
"Yes, Lord!" The officer said loudly.
"This time, we will be deployed!" The archers clenched their fists and said.
Wang Bi smiled. The archers' sortie at this moment would catch the Da Li quartermaster corps by surprise.
The deeper one penetrated the enemy's army, the greater their strength. Zheng Dong Lin had to admit this; even now, almost every Da Li soldier's cultivation level was not much inferior to his own.
"Bring it out!" Da Li soldiers, seeing the war chariots rendered useless, heard the Third Heavenly General say.
"Yes, sir!" The soldiers respectfully replied, and a group retreated.
Then, an enormous machine was brought out: a gigantic crossbow, with a massive arrow already loaded.
"This is the secret heavy weapon our army has prepared until now!" Da Li soldiers looked at the colossal crossbow being brought out, shaken.
"One shot from it will rival a full-power strike from an Eighth Stage expert!" The Third Heavenly General smiled.
"Fire!" He cupped his hands in the shape of an arrow, pointing forward, and commanded.
"Fire!" Da Li soldiers received the order, swung their arms, pulled the bowstring, and shouted.
The gigantic arrow was fired like a cannonball, exploding and creating a raging whirlwind. It pierced through a massive layer of Xishan soldiers, flying for nearly fifty meters before stopping.
The colossal arrow plunged into the ground, standing upright, digging up a large amount of earth that covered its head. Nearby, Xishan soldiers were reduced to nothing but pools of blood.
"How terrifying!" A Xishan soldier, with only one arm remaining, said with a pale face.
"Keep firing!" Da Li soldiers shouted.
Four colossal crossbows were brought out, occupying a large space on the battlefield. Their bowstrings were as thick as ropes. When released, they launched four terrifying arrows towards the entire Xishan army.
*Rumble!* The ground was torn apart by the colossal arrows, and a sandstorm rose, blinding both armies.
"Dead!" A Xishan soldier looked at a person who had just been standing beside him, now missing his upper half. He only saw a colossal silver arrow flash past him at high speed, raising a gust of wind that blew his hair.
"Ah!" Xishan soldiers panicked. Just four arrows fired had caused massive losses across all Xishan fronts.
"If we cannot defeat the arrows, then kill the people controlling the crossbows!" Li Ge said.
Suddenly, he saw an enemy Third Heavenly General standing before the colossal crossbow array, his brows furrowed, feeling that it would be difficult to deal with.
A Third Heavenly General implied that his cultivation level would be the Seventh Stage, one stage higher than Li Ge.
"I will handle that Third Heavenly General!" Zheng Dong Lin, realizing Li Ge's difficulty, spoke up.
The Green Ox transformed into a streak of green light, rushing towards the Third Heavenly General at extreme speed. The Green Ox also had to be extremely careful this time, for even its sturdy body could not withstand an arrow from the divine crossbow.
However, because the divine crossbow was colossal, it was very difficult to adjust its direction to follow the Green Ox; it could only attack in a fixed direction.
"Leave him to me; you all continue to control the divine crossbows!" The Third Heavenly General, seeing Zheng Dong Lin charging, commanded.
The Third Heavenly General's long sword shone brightly as it attacked Zheng Dong Lin. He slightly twirled his sword to add a spiral force to its trajectory.
"A small matter!" Zheng Dong Lin meticulously observed all of his opponent's trajectories. He no longer used his spear, but the Green Ox increased its speed, approaching the Third Heavenly General to within less than a meter. At this distance, using a long weapon would be too inconvenient for him.
"Take my Jiang Long Shi Ba Zhang!" Zheng Dong Lin declared, gripping his Ba Wang Spear in his right hand, while his left hand unleashed a palm strike.
A golden-brown dragon, formed by Tai Xuan True Qi, appeared, its wide mouth roaring.
"That's a dragon!" Soldiers from both Da Li and Xishan looked at the scene before them in astonishment, their eyes wide with disbelief.
"What is that person? How can he have a divine dragon assisting him?" A Da Li soldier cried out in alarm.
"What's so strange? It's just a dragon-shaped martial skill!" The Third Heavenly General said, unfazed. Some strange martial skills could take on myriad forms, so a dragon-shaped martial skill was not unusual, merely a bit more visually appealing.
However, the Da Li Third Heavenly General was completely mistaken. The Jiang Long Shi Ba Zhang was not only visually appealing, but its power, after being enhanced by Tai Xuan True Qi, became absolutely formidable.
The dragon-shaped True Qi opened its mouth wide, intending to bite off the Third Heavenly General's head. At this moment, he finally felt something was amiss. He bit his tongue, a mouthful of vital blood gushed out, and his body moved even faster to parry the attack.
His long sword, perhaps more precise due to this, struck the eye of the dragon-shaped True Qi, and in an instant, the dragon-shaped True Qi vanished.
"It's only for show!" The Third Heavenly General, though he had almost taken the full force of the attack, still sneered in disdain.
Zheng Dong Lin raised an eyebrow, feeling that this person was perhaps a bit too deceitful. He had clearly even spat out vital blood from his tongue, yet still boasted so loudly.
"Hmph!" The more Zheng Dong Lin looked at the Third Heavenly General's face, the more hateful it became. He flipped his hand; if one palm wasn't enough, then more palms.
The Third Heavenly General saw another dragon made of True Qi approaching. He flipped his hand, his long sword continuously striking the dragon's eyes, and in an instant, it dissolved into nothingness.
"Come again!" The Third Heavenly General said.
Suddenly, he was stunned. He saw Zheng Dong Lin, with his Ba Wang Spear strapped to his back, both hands transformed into palm strikes. He soared into the air, continuously unleashing techniques with both hands.
A swarm of dragon-shaped True Qi, transformed into a chaotic frenzy of dragons, roared deafeningly.
Soldiers on both sides looked up in a daze, seeing a swarm of dragons entwined together, strangely realistic, with five-clawed golden dragons soaring through the sky.
The dragons flew one after another towards the Third Heavenly General, their mouths wide open, devouring everything in their path. A large banner of the Da Li army was coincidentally swallowed by them, turning into dust and vanishing.
"Long Chao!" Zheng Dong Lin murmured. This was a technique he had suddenly conceived, which could only be successfully used when combined with Tai Xuan True Qi.
Because Tai Xuan True Qi had the characteristic of providing an abundant and continuous supply of True Qi, he was able to freely execute Long Chao.
Long Chao, meaning a swarm of dragons.
"Ah!" The Third Heavenly General, with three heads and four arms, struck at the dragons' eyes, but the swarm of dragons was too numerous for him. His long sword slipped from his hand, and a swarm of dragon-shaped True Qi swept past his body.
The result was that the Third Heavenly General collapsed to the ground, his long sword suddenly snapping in two. He struggled to raise his head and look at Zheng Dong Lin. His armor was rotten, disintegrating from head to toe, turning into dust and blowing away, leaving the Third Heavenly General's tattered body lying on the cold ground.
"Just as I thought, a Seventh Stage expert is still not enough to contend with me!" Zheng Dong Lin shook his head. He had partly used Long Chao to test the power of this technique, and he hadn't expected its power to be so immense. Long Chao seemed to possess a corrosive ability, devouring everything in its path. It was only because the Third Heavenly General's body had been tempered a thousand times that he hadn't been reduced to nothingness.
Long Chao was powerful whether attacking groups or single targets. Currently, Zheng Dong Lin could unleash ten dragons at once. If Long Chao were to break through, it would transform into twenty dragons, and perhaps, if he continued to advance, one day it might even become Wan Long Guo Jiang.
"Dreaming too much!" Zheng Dong Lin shook his head. Currently, there were only ten dragons; who knew when he would reach ten thousand dragons.
"Get away from him!" Da Li soldiers, seeing the swarm of dragons display divine power, devouring their Third Heavenly General in one go, cried out in fear as if seeing a divine being.