Obviously, the middle-aged man in green with a long sword strapped to his back was named Di Long, while the grey-robed man was named Ludi.
From the mouth of the black dragon beneath Ludi's feet, dark flames erupted like smoke, engulfing the green-clad middle-aged man in an instant. A blinding emerald light suddenly blazed across the man's body, enveloping him in a protective glow that allowed not a lick of the black flames to touch him. At the same time, a sharp sword cry rang out.
That sword cry was louder than a dragon's roar, resounding between heaven and earth.
The green-clad man gripped his longsword and slashed out a single strike. A colossal, shimmering blade of sword energy dozens of meters long tore through the sky and cleaved straight toward the grey-robed man. Ludi watched the massive blade of light with cold indifference, utterly motionless, his lips continuously murmuring magical incantations.
"So that's sword energy? Such a massive blade of it?" Lin Lei muttered, glancing back toward the east even as he ran toward the storehouse. "How is that grey-robed man going to block it? With the black dragon?"
Boom!
The black dragon made no move to intercept. The enormous blade of sword energy struck Ludi squarely. The grey robe he wore exploded and tore apart, but beneath it was revealed a suit of body armor that shimmered with brilliant light, blinding to behold, like a thousand diamonds.
The colossal sword energy cleaved into that armor — and didn't wound the grey-robed man in the slightest.
"How is that possible?" Lin Lei was truly stunned.
Eyes fixed on the sky, Lin Lei failed to watch where he was going. His foot caught a stone, and he tumbled head over heels. But even as he fell, he craned his neck to look eastward. "What kind of armor is that? How can its defense be so powerful?"
"Lin Lei, move! Stop gawking!" Hogg saw his son frozen in place and roared in frustration.
"Yes, Father." Lin Lei snapped back to his senses, scrambled to his feet, and sprinted toward the storehouse.
Rumble~! Suddenly, a terrifying sound tore through the heavens and earth. Then the entire Wushan Town was filled with screams of panic. Lin Lei couldn't help but look up at the sky again — and what he saw froze his blood.
Dense clusters of massive boulders hung suspended in the eastern sky. Each one was the size of an entire house.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Every house-sized boulder shimmered with an earthy yellow glow as it streaked across the sky like a meteor, hurtling toward the green-clad middle-aged man. Each stone had to weigh close to a hundred thousand jin. Boulders of that magnitude dwarfed anything a wartime catapult could hurl many times over.
Even a city's walls would crumble under such an impact.
One such boulder was terrifying enough — and now there were countless of them, filling the sky. House-sized boulders rained down on the green-clad man one after another in a scene that left the people of Wushan Town utterly transfixed with horror.
Boom!
The first boulder smashed into the green-clad man. His emerald radiance erupted violently, and in an instant he resembled a green sun, blazing with blinding light.
Dense waves of boulders swarmed toward him.
In the blink of an eye, the green-clad man was completely surrounded by a storm of stone. Only glimpses of emerald light could be seen poking through the gaps.
Boom!
A deafening roar erupted as boulder after boulder shattered and exploded, blasted apart by that terrifying emerald-colored battle qi. Each house-sized stone disintegrated into dozens or hundreds of fragments that scattered in every direction.
Falling from heights of several hundred meters and propelled by the explosive force of battle qi, those fragments flew with tremendous power across great distances.
"This is bad!" Hogg's face went deathly pale. Hillman, still on the streets of Wushan Town, had gone just as white the moment he saw what was happening. They both understood the same thing — disaster had descended upon Wushan Town.
Countless stone fragments — the largest nearly two meters across, the smallest roughly the size of a human head — rained down from hundreds of meters above, scattering in every direction without order. Every boulder had burst into dozens or hundreds of pieces, and nearly a fifth of those fragments were hurtling straight toward Wushan Town.
"Father!" Lin Lei watched the barrage of stones plummet from the sky and shouted toward Hogg in the distance.
"Quick — get inside!" Hogg roared, frantic with urgency.