Adults Wage War, Children Migrate

The Four Symbols Chasm.

The Green Dragon Tomb.

A mountain peak, sharp as a sword, plunged into the earth.

Deep underground, a massive true dragon skeleton was pinned through its midsection by this very peak.

The thousand-meter-high mountain had only several hundred meters exposed above ground.

Over time, the rocky peak became covered in vegetation.

And around the location of the true dragon skeleton underground, countless intricate, winding caverns had formed.

This was precisely the lair of the Flood Serpent.

The true dragon skeleton emitted a ghastly green phosphorescence, illuminating what should have been pitch-black serpent caves.

Zhang Bowen, having lost all his limbs, lay within the serpent cave, staring at the colossal skeleton with an excited smile.

"For thousands of years, I must be the only person who has ever made it to the Flood Serpent's lair in the Green Dragon Tomb!"

A huge vertical pupil suddenly snapped open.

The Flood Serpent slithered its body over to Zhang Bowen's side.

A single scale on its body was larger than Zhang Bowen was now.

Then, from the serpent's mouth came a hoarse, somewhat halting speech.

"You did not keep your promise, and you consumed much of my vital essence."

"You once said this time, you would secure enough vital essence for me to support my transformation into a flood dragon."

Zhang Bowen chuckled and said:

"As you can see, I did my best."

"I almost lost my own life. What more do you want?"

"How about you give me a bit of Dragon Essence first? I promise that once I get out this time, I'll get you enough vital essence."

Hearing "Dragon Essence,"

the Flood Serpent immediately became agitated.

Its massive body circled around Zhang Bowen once.

A hissing warning sound came from its mouth.

"You have not fulfilled your promise. You are not yet qualified to demand Dragon Essence from me."

Zhang Bowen shook his head with a wry smile.

"So stingy. For three hundred years, if it weren't for me constantly creating death,"

"how could you have possibly reached your current state?"

"With your current power, you could already charge straight into the Jade Mountain's Jasper Pool and devour the Mountain Soul and Water Spirit."

The Flood Serpent's enormous eyes narrowed slightly.

"I have waited a millennium. I can wait a little longer."

Zhang Bowen said with a chuckle:

"Are you perhaps afraid of that Mysterious Turtle by the Jasper Pool?"

"It's just older than you, but its strength is inferior."

The Flood Serpent did not believe Zhang Bowen's words.

Transforming into a flood dragon was far too important for it.

And equally dangerous.

Success meant it would become a dragon-kin, peerless in the world.

Failure meant certain death!

For this moment, the Flood Serpent had prepared for over a thousand years.

A millennium of effort made it unwilling to take any risks.

Zhang Bowen hadn't expected the strongest spirit beast in the Kunlun Mountains to be so timid.

If it were him, he would have long since stormed the Jade Mountain's Jasper Pool.

He could only say helplessly:

"Even if you won't give me Dragon Essence,"

"could you at least get me a Vermilion Fruit?"

"Otherwise, if I keep lying here, how can I keep working for you?"

The Flood Serpent slithered around irritably.

It wasn't that it didn't want to give Zhang Bowen a Vermilion Fruit.

It truly didn't have any.

And its enormous body made it very difficult to pick such fruit.

A single Vermilion Fruit was like a grain of sand before it.

Zhang Bowen also realized this.

So he thought of another method.

"Just send me back to the Ancient Clan. They will use Vermilion Fruits to heal me."

"You don't need to worry about the outside world either. I have contingencies in place."

"No one can stop you from transforming into a dragon, and no one can stop Kunlun from fully opening its mountains."

After circling Zhang Bowen several more times, the Flood Serpent, for the sake of transforming sooner, ultimately had no choice but to compromise.

It swallowed Zhang Bowen whole and once again left the Green Dragon Tomb.

As the Flood Serpent departed the Four Symbols Chasm once more,

the Kunlun Mountains boiled over again.

Countless dinosaurs fled in all directions.

Chen Feng, who had originally been running outward,

suddenly felt many more dinosaurs running alongside him.

At first, he thought some foolish dinosaur herd had taken a liking to his muscular frame.

But he soon realized something was wrong.

A long time passed, and no dinosaur attacked him.

However, Chen Feng didn't dwell on it.

This time, he didn't try to catch a dinosaur either.

He wanted to quickly relay this important news to the people outside.

Yet, he was unaware that the great battle outside had already begun.

Holy Capital Martial Arts Guild.

Grandmaster Ye Wujiang listened to Yang Honghui's report and couldn't help but frown.

"Those people from the Western Continent have gone mad."

"They are actually forcing some children to cross the border into Great Xia territory."

"Grandmaster, how should we respond?"

Ye Wujiang and the branch masters from other cities hadn't anticipated such a situation either.

For the moment, they were at a loss for how to handle it.

He couldn't help but ask:

"What are these children doing after they arrive?"

Yang Honghui said, somewhat exasperated:

"They say they're here to surrender, to immigrate to Great Xia."

A branch master complained:

"This is utter nonsense. Great Xia has its own next generation to nurture."

"Where do we find the time to raise the Western Continent's children?"

"Besides, who immigrates while a war is going on?"

Ye Wujiang was also speechless.

He completely failed to understand the Western Continent's maneuver.

"Adults wage war, children immigrate."

"What the hell kind of strategy is that?"

"Great Xia has never encountered this before?"

But they couldn't bring themselves to kill unarmed children.

They could only detain them first.

Then they had to feed them at least one meal a day,

fearing they might starve to death.

Ye Wujiang truly hadn't expected the war to take such a turn.

In the conference room,

representatives from the Seven Great Families were present.

A representative from the Li family now said with a furrowed brow:

"Right now, it's not just the external war; our internal strife is also quite troublesome."

"The Devouring Heaven Club has practically got us all pinned down."

"Whenever our people leave the Holy Capital, they almost always face assassination attempts from the Devouring Heaven Club."

"It's impossible to guard against, endlessly vexing!"

Ye Wujiang had originally wanted to organize a campaign to encircle and suppress the Devouring Heaven Club.

But just at this moment, the other three continents launched their attack.

Internal troubles and external threats erupted simultaneously.

However, the Devouring Heaven Club didn't dare act too brazenly either.

Their legendary Club Leader, according to intelligence reports, had already achieved the Martial Saint realm.

He no longer dared to enter or leave the Holy Capital freely.

Once one becomes a Martial Saint, stepping into the Holy Capital

makes it highly likely to be detected by the Martial Saint stationed there.

Thus, they only dared to operate outside the Holy Capital, and for now, couldn't threaten the foundations of the great families.

The representative of the Liu family spoke up:

"The attacks from the other three continents are practically suicidal."

"They lose a hundred, we lose eight thousand."

"Why don't we seize this opportunity to annex all three continents in one fell swoop?"

"Once we conquer their territories, we can investigate the whereabouts of those two traitorous Martial Saints."

"Then we could invite the Dugu family's patriarch to take action, eliminating the threat for Great Xia once and for all."

His words made the other families eager.

Previously, the Wei family's swift conquest of the Koreans and the Japanese

had filled them with envy.

If their own family could also acquire a territory,

the immeasurable resources would undoubtedly make their family even more powerful.