The head‑wrapped man withdrew his divine power, and the body of the House Marsh goddess tumbled down. He smiled, "Children—always dreaming impossible dreams, just like the last Human Emperor."
Three pearls blazed in the sky, clashing with the azure radiance of the Azure Dragon Pearl. In Kira Bear’s hands, the Azure Dragon Pearl shuddered violently. The dragon’s roar soared, and a colossal azure dragon burst forth from the pearl. As soon as it emerged, its body swelled to an immense size, coiling and weaving around the towering mountains, awe-inspiring beyond measure.
Before True Heaven Palace, the light of the three great spirit pearls grew ever brighter. White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise surged forth from their pearls—White Tiger crouched atop a mountain, roaring skyward; Vermilion Bird cried out, scattering a sea of fire with its wings; Black Tortoise strode upon the ocean, its waves thundering, the sea floating above the sky as the coiled serpent darted through the waters.
The three True Heaven Palace women drove the other three spirit pearls, joining forces against Kira Bear. United, the three pearls suppressed the power of the Azure Dragon Pearl.
The Bronze-Mask Strategist’s woodification swiftly faded from his body. With a faint smile, his flying swords returned to their sheaths behind him, and his figure vanished into True Heaven Palace.
"Eliminate them." His voice echoed out.
On the heads of the mountain giants, the True Heaven Palace disciples shed the traces of woodification. With the Azure Dragon Pearl’s power suppressed, they broke free from its hold.
The azure glow faded from the mountain giants, who began to move their massive bodies, swinging sword-like peaks as weapons, charging toward the great houses of the Western Lands.
Ivy He shouted orders. Massive trebuchets whirled into motion, their long arms swinging, hurling smaller stone men across the field. Though tiny compared to the mountain giants, these stone men unfurled mid-flight, lunging toward their towering foes.
Fire erupted in midair; the stone men shattered before they could land, destroyed by the mountain giants’ colossal weapons.
These were the clan’s sacred treasures. Wielded by the mountain giants, they unleashed terrifying power, pulverizing stone men into dust and filling the air with swirling clouds of ash.
Yet many stone men still landed atop the mountain giants, scrambling upward at speed, racing toward their heads.
On the giants’ heads, True Heaven Palace disciples braced for battle, unleashing their arts and divine powers to the utmost, ripping the spirit from each stone man that leapt at them. Stone men collapsed one after another, crumbling into heaps of rolling rocks.
Crash—
A torrential downpour swept the battlefield—emerald-green rain lashed down amid thunder and lightning. It was the toxic rain conjured by the Marsh and Fortune clans’ cultivators, flooding the mountains.
Within the poisonous rain, even the crackling lightning was green, each bolt saturated with venom. Lightning and rain surged toward the mountain giants’ peaks!
More women of True Heaven Palace surged out, unleashing countless spiritual weapons—golden and silver rings of every size, spinning through the mountains.
The spinning rings drew in lightning and rain, binding the elements within, channeling them harmlessly down the mountainsides.
Dark clouds churned overhead as tornadoes plummeted from the sky, writhing like dragons and sweeping toward the spinning rings.
Within True Heaven Palace, the woman controlling the Black Tortoise Pearl activated its power. The ocean reversed course, crashing into the storm clouds, swallowing thunder, lightning, and tornadoes in one overwhelming surge!
"Kill!"
Fierce shouts rang out from the women around Quinn Shepherd. Massive trebuchets strode forward with thunderous steps, then squatted down. Many women leaped into the giant baskets, and the siege engines hurled them howling into the fray.
Mountain giants surged from the rear, crashing into the palace’s defenders in a deafening collision. Thousands of Fang clan disciples stood atop the giants’ heads, unleashing waves of spiritual weapons to battle the True Heaven Palace disciples above.
Countless vines stretched down from the sky, wrapping around the mountain giants. Hinton clan women sprinted along the vines, weaving through the peaks to confront the palace women atop the mountains, the vines coiling around each summit.
Boom—
A tower-shaped peak crashed down, grinding countless Hinton women to dust. Yet there was no time for sorrow—Fang clan women rode rivers like dragons, surging between the mountains and colliding with waterfalls and torrents pouring from the peaks. Water giants rose from the rivers, wielding blades and swords of black ice, charging at the invaders.
True Heaven Palace had become a colossal Asura battlefield, its warriors the fierce and beautiful women of the West.
"Bruno, guard Kira!"
Quinn Shepherd sprang into motion, leaping onto the stone block Ivy He was guiding through the sky. Junwood City fully disassembled, transforming into a torrent of massive boulders that bore them upward toward the heavens.
Ivy He's formation hadn't closed before he sliced a path straight through. Mountain giants' pillars were severed by his sword light, thunderbolts in midair were intercepted and split, and the golden coffin's chains were tapped and recoiled.
"What sword arts! Purely by sword technique, no one in the West can match him! Incredible swordsmanship!"
Quinn's expression grew grave. The head‑wrapped man's sword arts truly bordered on the supernatural—his sword dao was unfathomable, and ordinary formations or sword techniques could barely slow him.
"Kira, activate the Azure Dragon Pearl!"
Kira Bear unleashed the Azure Dragon Pearl. Instantly, green light erupted, a dragon's roar echoed, and waves of emerald radiance surged toward True Heaven Palace.
Wherever that emerald light swept, everything turned to wood—even the mountain giants encircling True Heaven Palace froze, their bodies suffused with green, countless vines bursting forth.
The True Heaven Palace women atop the giants were instantly seized by the Azure Dragon Pearl—sprouting shoots and blossoms on their heads and faces with a pop!
Of True Heaven Palace's four great spirit treasures, the Azure Dragon Pearl unleashed astonishing power in Kira Bear's little hands. Even the head‑wrapped man was caught in its emerald glow, suddenly stiffening, his body on the verge of turning to wood!
The Azure Dragon Pearl's might was beyond imagination!
Just then, out of the drifting cloud‑sea, several women stepped from the palace and stood atop the clouds, each raising a shining pearl.
Three pearls rose into the air, growing ever brighter. One held the soul of a tortoise and serpent, another a white tiger spirit, and the last glowed with fire—a divine bird soaring within.