activa-t Chapter 2259 Dragon God's Night Patrol
Chapter 2259 Dragon God's Night Patrol
Chapter 2259 Dragon God's Night Patrol
Sun Hongye was assigned to the guest hall on the back mountain, where she was reading at the moment.
When the palace servants brought him here, the mode of transportation was a large cart with four sheep. The sheep were taller and stronger than horses, and when they ran, they seemed to fly through the clouds and walk on cliffs as if they were flat ground, with hardly any bumps, which was quite strange.
After the rain stopped, he opened the door and saw a sky full of stars, and could hear the gurgling of a clear spring and the croaking of frogs in the distance.
The spore lamps in the forest emit a warm light, illuminating the path up and down the mountain.
He had finally arrived in Jucheng, and even now, sitting here, it still felt unreal.
Sun Hongye read two more pages of the book, then suddenly sensed something was amiss and looked up.
The bells on the eaves of the palace have stopped ringing, the croaking of the frogs in the spring has also fallen silent, and all around is quiet; you can't even hear the sound of the wind rustling through the leaves.
Everything outside the window was still.
The air suddenly became heavy, as if a storm was about to break, making people feel a heavy weight on their hearts.
Sun Hongye looked down and noticed goosebumps on her arms.
The world is different.
Something seemed to be approaching, invisible and intangible, yet incredibly oppressive. Outside the window, the thick layer of fallen leaves on the ground suddenly stirred without any wind, curling up on their own.
The thing was very close, yet its oppressive aura was extremely strong, causing Sun Hongye to fall silent in fear.
The faint moonlight shone on the screen wall opposite. His gaze swept over it, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
There used to be a black dragon statue on the screen wall, which was a masterpiece, but it only had the dragon's head and not its body.
Under his gaze, the black dragon statue suddenly came to life. It braced its two front paws against the screen wall, and its slender dragon body leaped out and soared into the sky!
Sun Hongye was startled and quickly rubbed her eyes, only to find that what had sprung out of the screen wall was just a gray, smoky shadow; the real dragon sculpture was still on the wall.
The flying dragon shadow appeared and disappeared in mid-air, sometimes clear and sometimes blurry, but its eyes shone with a red light, making it extremely fierce.
Sun Hongye's back was drenched in sweat. This was the Crimson Heaven Golden Palace, the safest place in the entire Gold Plains, yet at this moment he felt immense terror.
The dragon's shadow headed down the mountain towards the center of the palace, with other gray shadows joining it along the way, making the dragon's body appear even larger. Furthermore, the dragon's mane, mane, and armor patterns became increasingly realistic, and its sharp, broad horns resembled two small trees.
After the dragon shadow flew more than a hundred feet away, the oppressive feeling gradually faded away. Sun Hongye chased after it and stood on the edge of the cliff, just in time to see several palace servants prostrating themselves in the direction the gray shadow had left.
The gray shadows swept swiftly across the sky above the Crimson Heaven Golden Palace, then split into dozens of smaller ones, patrolling the streets and alleys of Ju City!
Today, Jucheng is a world-renowned city that never sleeps. Looking down from the mountaintop, the entire city is lit up all night long. Even after nightfall, there are still pedestrians coming and going on the main street.
Sun Hongye watched helplessly as the gray shadow moved through the streets and alleys, seemingly without causing any damage. Often, it traveled in the opposite direction from the city's residents and merchants, passing right past them like an evening breeze.
He walked down the mountain path and soon encountered a palace servant who had stood up. He quickly stopped the servant.
"Excuse me, what is that?"
The palace attendant said with a reverent expression, "That must be the Emperor."
"?!"
Seeing Sun Hongye's blank expression, the palace servant explained, "The Emperor occasionally transforms back into the Dragon God and tours the capital! The common people who have settled in Ju City all know this, so it does not cause any panic."
Everyone could feel the Dragon God's oppressive aura. Furthermore, the black dragon statues and totems scattered throughout the city were also exhibiting unusual behavior, which the people could also see.
Over time, the story spread that the Dragon God was patrolling the city.
Sun Hongye exclaimed in surprise, "So that's how it is!"
After all, he was a cultivator himself, and after pondering the palace servant's answer, he understood:
The so-called "Dragon God's Patrol of the City" is actually the Nine Nether Emperor's primordial spirit leaving his body!
In the past, when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was weak, cultivators could only leave their bodies by a few feet or tens of feet at most when practicing astral projection. Once they drifted too far away, they might not be able to return.
However, as the spiritual environment of Cangyan returned to that of the early Middle Ages, the difficulty of cultivation decreased dramatically. Sun Hongye had heard that some cultivators' primordial spirits could travel twenty or thirty miles out of their bodies to neighboring mountains and counties.
It sounds impressive at first glance, but Ju City is so big that the Nine Nether Emperor's primordial spirit could travel several 20 or 30 miles across the entire city.
What level of cultivation has his former employer reached now?
Two quarters of an hour later, the "Dragon God" had toured the entire city and then went outside the city; no one knew how far it had gone.
Fifteen minutes later, the gray shadows flew back and regrouped in the sky above Jucheng.
From Sun Hongye's perspective, she can see its entirety:
A black dragon shadow, its head and tail stretching for miles, coiled above the city, its scales and armor clearly visible, its eyes gleaming red.
In the city, countless civilians knelt before it, murmuring prayers.
Soon after, the dragon's shadow flew back to the Crimson Heaven Golden Palace and vanished into nothingness.
The night sky is clear and deep, with the moon dim and the stars shining brightly.
Sun Hongye then saw a gray shadow fly down from the sky, disappear into the screen wall in front of her, and return to its place.
He couldn't help but bow to the screen wall, feeling both surprised and respectful.
Could it be that my former employer was truly the reincarnation of a dragon god?
……
At dawn, He Lingchuan stood on the roof ridge of the main hall, absorbing the purple aura coming from the east.
After the sun rose, he even refined some of the true fire of the sun.
He didn't stop until he was covered in sweat. He stretched in front of the rising sun, and his spine crackled a dozen times, like a string of small firecrackers exploding.
The mirror asked him, "Did you fall asleep again at the end of your practice last night?"
"Hmm, I also had a strange dream. I dreamt that I was talking to someone I knew, but I can't remember what happened when I woke up."
Dreaming used to be a rare thing for him, but not anymore.
The mirror asked in surprise, "This is the Crimson Heaven Golden Palace, the territory of you, the Nine Nether Emperor. What kind of nightmare could infiltrate your dream and harm you?"
Trying to extract information in a dream—isn't that a nightmare's specialty?
"It's not a nightmare."
Last night, he channeled his inner energy, his spirit leaving his body and traveling to a place a hundred miles east of Ju City, where he rang the wind chimes hanging outside the Wind Demon's lair.
When Fengmo emerged looking completely bewildered, his primordial spirit returned to the city.
For He Lingchuan, this long distance represents a milestone leap forward.
The people of Ju City called the strange phenomena that occurred when he practiced his primordial spirit "the dragon god patrolling the city," and he naturally didn't bother to clarify. But in fact, it wasn't his primordial spirit leaving his body and transforming into a dragon shadow, but rather the Great Evolution Heavenly Pearl, the Haoyuan Golden Mirror, and the Crimson Cloud Golden Palace, which were deeply integrated with the entire Ju City. Therefore, when He Lingchuan's primordial spirit passed over the sky above Ju City, it would cause the black dragon mark to resonate.
Perhaps only a few people understand this principle, but they won't spread it around.
After his primordial spirit traveled hundreds of miles to return to his body, He Lingchuan felt exhausted and fell asleep immediately, even having a dream. For some reason, he dreamt of the long-absent Great Shaman Zhaomandu.
After many years, the great shaman still retains his charm, with not a single gray hair at his temples, and remains as kind and approachable as ever.
(End of this chapter)