<h4>Chapter 2149: Shift in the World! The ck Dragon Manifests!</h4>


    Tranted by: Hypersheep325


    Edited by: Michyrr


    As Li Heng stepped out, the earth beneath him shuddered. Cries of rm came from the depths of the pce, from many of the pce maids and consorts who were frightened by this disturbance. Li Heng could even hear the shattering of porcin tiles.


    The Imperial Pce had fallen into chaos.


    “Your Majesty, the pce is in turmoil. Why don’t we...”


    Li Jingzhong looked hesitantly at Li Heng.


    “There’s no need!”


    Li Heng confidently waved his hand in refusal.


    “We are the sovereign of the country. We will never leave so easily!”


    Li Heng slowly raised his eyes to the sky. As the Son of Heaven of the Great Tang and the master of its Dragon Qi, Li Heng was extremely sensitive to shifts in Dragon Qi. When the heavens had shifted, Li Heng had felt his Dragon Qi pulse.


    “Imperial Father, is this the moment you spoke of?


    “We are not the sovereign of a vanquished country, and the Great Tang is not showing signs of being conquered. No matter what danger ising, We will stop it and protect the country for the sake of its people!”


    Li Heng’s robes danced around him, his eyes exploding with dazzling light.


    To the southwest of the Imperial Pce, in the King of Foreign Lands Residence, Wang Chong’s original body was also observing the shift in the heavens.


    Has the foundation of the world been shaken? Wang Chong asked himself as he looked up at the dark skies.


    For Wang Chong, this was not some heavenly phenomenon. To the astrologers, there were many potential reasons for this massive shift in the Central ins, including the drying up of Dragon Qi, but Wang Chong knew that all this had a very simple exnation.


    The incessant surging of the cold wave in the north was due to the constant umtion of energy from another world in this one. Once this energy hit a certain threshold, it would experience a qualitative transformation and begin to shake and eat away at the foundation of this world, resulting in all these shifts.


    And all this was closely connected to Heaven and the men in ck.


    You won’t have it easy for much longer. One day, I’ll expose your true face and utterly destroy you. But before that...


    Wang Chong slowly looked toward Youzhou.


    Let’s kill your so-called Child of the World and end this war. An Yaluoshan, are you ready?


    Rumble!


    A lightning bolt zed down from the heavens, streaking from the capital toward the distant northeast.


    At this time, an entirely different scene was ying out in Youzhou.


    Dark clouds obscured the sky, stretching all the way from the border with the Eastern Turks to the very tip of Goguryeo, a roiling sea of darkness. These seething dark clouds gathered around Youzhou, bringing Dragon Qi with them.


    And if one looked carefully, one could see that the dark clouds had vaguely taken the form of a massive ck dragon, coiling in the air with its ws bared in the direction of the capital as if it was cheering on An Yaluoshan.


    Kacrack!


    Lighting crackled within the clouds, making the ck dragon seem even more savage and terrifying.


    All the soldiers of Youzhou looked up at the sky in shock and awe.


    All of them could see that the ck clouds were most concentrated, the lightning the most dazzling, right above the Andong Protectorate headquarters, and that was also where the dragon’s head was.


    There were even slender tendrils of lightninging down from the ‘ck dragon’ andnding on the Andong Protectorate headquarters, as if the two shared some mysterious connection.


    As more and more dark clouds gathered, the ck dragon grewrger andrger, exerting more and more pressure on those below.


    It’s about time...


    In front of the Andong Protectorate headquarters, Gao Shang slowly raised his eyes to the sky, a bright glint within them.


    The world had shifted, and the ck dragon had manifested!


    Although Gao Shang had seen those records in his ancient texts, this was his first time seeing it with his own eyes.


    This was not simply a congregation of ck clouds. This ck dragon contained the Dragon Qi that they had stolen from the capital, and also the Dragon Qi that came from Youzhou being the future den of the dragon. Their fusion had brought forth this ck dragon.


    Even though it was pitch-ck, Gao Shang did not care. There was no strict difference between a ck dragon and a true dragon.


    This was because when the true dragon dominated the realm, only the ck dragon had a chance of overturning the dynasty, clearing out the old and bringing in the new.


    And once the ck dragon devoured the true dragon, it would transform into the true dragon!


    The difference between sess and failure had never been a matter of destiny!


    Gao Shang waved his sleeve and firmly ordered, “Pass on my order! Prepare to activate the formation!”


    The manifestation of the ck dragon was an extremely rare opportunity. If they missed out on this day, they could put aside any thought of strengthening Youzhou.


    “Yes!”


    Below Gao Shang, a Youzhou horseman swiftly mounted his horse and rode into the distance.


    A few momentster, thends of Youzhou began to tremble. On the borders of Youzhou, to the south, east, west, and north, ck streams of energy shot into the air and connected to the savage ck dragon.


    Each pir of ck energy was created through the work of seven or eight ck-robed sorcerers who were performing a ritualistic dance.


    In their center was either arge handled cauldron, or a copper cauldron, or the sculpture of a monster, or a copper goblet... Though these items were in different shapes and sizes, they all shared one thing inmon. They were all pitch-ck.


    Gao Shang had gathered these ck-robed sorcerers and collected these strange, ck ritual tools to create this formation.


    As the formation was set into motion, the ck ritual tools resonated with the ck dragon in the sky and finally produced a subtle change.


    Bang!


    After a moment that seemed to drag on for an eternity, the ck dragon finished absorbing the fortune of the world, and the event that Gao Shang had long anticipated finally took ce.


    Boom! The giant ck dragon opened its maw and spewed out a ck torrent of energy riddled with lightning. With thunderous speed, the ck torrent crashed into the Andong Protectorate headquarters.


    The world fell silent.


    A momentter, as if the earth had sundered apart, a massive shockwave of energy swept out from the Andong Protectorate headquarters.


    The formless ck energy suddenly became like dense ocean waves!


    “Ah!”


    The ck energy passed through a Youzhou soldier standing guard on the wall. His body went stiff, and his helmet exploded, his hair scattering apart as he raised his head and howled like a wolf.


    Crackck! A momentter, the Youzhou soldier’s body cracked and groaned. He had originally been at the first tier of the True Martial realm, but a momentter, he broke into Tier 2, Tier 3, Tier 4... in the end, he went all the way Tier 7 of the True Martial realm.


    Such progress was truly bbergasting.


    And the same transformation happened to all the other Youzhou soldiers.


    All the way from the lowly soldiers to the generals, all the soldiers of Youzhou were strengthened by the ck dragon, growing stronger at an astonishing pace.


    Atop the roof of the Andong Protectorate headquarters, Cui Qianyou and Tian Chengsi were bbergasted by the sight.


    Although Gao Shang had said that this was what would happen, none of them had imagined that the ck Dragon Formation would have such a huge effect.


    Youzhou had an army of six hundred thousand soldiers!


    At the minimum, the soldiers received a boost of two to three tiers, with some even growing stronger by six or seven tiers.


    Even Cui Qianyou and Tian Chengsi, who already had extremely high levels of cultivation and had not expected much of a boost from the ck dragon, felt themselves getting significantly stronger.


    And this was only the beginning! Crack! As if the heavens themselves had split open, a massive vortex appeared next to the ck dragon. A momentter, another ck pir of energy crashed down, further strengthening the Youzhou army.


    On the roof, An Yaluoshan was taken aback by this sight, but as he came to understand what it was, he heartilyughed.


    The Power of the World!


    At this crucial moment, the familiar Power of the World had once more appeared to strengthen his army.


    At this moment, even the world was helping him!


    “Wang Chong, do you see it? Do you see it? The entire world stands on my side, so why are you still trying to fight me?”


    An Yaluoshan spread out his arms andughed, his eyes bright.


    “Your Excellency, get ready!”


    Gao Shang’s voice rang out.


    Surprised, An Yaluoshan followed Gao Shang’s gaze and looked up. High in the sky, the ck dragon’s crimson eyes had erupted with a light countless times brighter than the sun, and that enormous dragon head was looking straight at him.


    “This is—”


    Before An Yaluoshan could react, the ck dragon’s eyes unleashed two beams of light that fused together into a thick, red lightning bolt that shed through space and mmed into An Yaluoshan.


    At the same time, another ck pir of energy descended on An Yaluoshan.


    “Ah!”


    An Yaluoshan’s clothes blew apart as he let out a cry that could rm the heavens. But unlike the others, An Yaluoshan’s cry contained no pain, only boundless ecstasy.