As Lin Feng's voice faded, the ground suddenly trembled violently, and the decaying soil churned like boiling water. Su Yao's Ice-Polar Shadowless Sword hummed on its own, its blue light flaring so intensely that everyone's faces turned pale. Staring at the expanding crimson cloud on the distant horizon—beneath which a massive draconic beast could be faintly seen hurtling toward them through the mountain forest—Zhang Yujie asked with a tight throat, "What... is that?"
Xuance's expression changed drastically, his voice carrying unmistakable terror: "Oh no, it's an Ancient Blood-Bat Dragon! Legend says they live in colonies, with wingspans reaching a hundred zhang. Wherever they pass, nothing is left but bare bones!"
Before his voice died away, a screech that tore through the clouds rang out, and tens of thousands of crimson light points poured down from the sky. Drawing closer, those light points turned out to be giant Ancient Blood-Bat Dragons, each the size of a carriage, with sticky black blood dripping from the edges of their wings. The lead Ancient Blood-Bat Dragon slowly emerged from the clouds. Its body stood ten stories tall, its scales a mesh of dark red and pitch black covered in sharp bone spurs. As it spread its dragon wings, the lines of blood hanging between its membranes looked like bead curtains, and the blood dripping from them turned into toxic mist mid-air. Most terrifying of all were the three giant mouths on its head: the middle mouth dripped a long tong…
Chapter 249