Legend of the Great Sage

d her child lit up with the first speck of light.
Compared to her hatred, she wanted to protect her child more.

Specks of light lit up throughout the city.
All of the featherfolk, regardless of their strength, shone with white light.
It merged with the roaring river of light, gathering in the main palace.

Boom!

Clouded city shook violently, like a lone boat in a turbulent flood.
The towers and palaces collapsed one by one.

Li Fengyuan stood on the palace ceiling and sensed the unprecedented power gathering in him.
This was a condensation of all the will and power of the featherfolk.
He gazed at the sky sternly.
Was this enough to block it or not?

The featherfolk looked at him as well.
The flowing white light seemed to unfurl as a pair of pure-white wings.
They seemed to see Bai Chen again.

Time moved extremely slowly.
Every second was elongated, turning into a form of torture.

If the formation fell, all would go to waste.

However, while the thin barrier of light did shake around, on the verge of destruction, it never shattered.
It was far sturdier than anyone had imagined it to be.

A smile spread across Li Fengyuan’s face.
He swung his hand again, and the pillars around the city and in front of the main palace all lit up.
The humanoid statues with faces of birds crouching on there suddenly sprang alive, flapping their wings and receiving the King of Eastern Lu’s army.
There were almost a hundred of them, and every single one of them was equivalent to a Puppet King.

As soon as the statues left Clouded city, several of them were smashed to pieces by the flow of energy, but they also managed to nullify most of the attack.

The barrier of light stabilised and gradually thickened.

Li Fengyuan controlled the statues, modifying their formations to hold back the King of Eastern Lu’s army as he ordered the featherfolk cultivators, “Don’t just stand there! Go and fight back!”

The featherfolk cultivators were reluctant to follow his orders, but they could only pull together in the face of trouble now.
They were never skilled in close combat, so they stood in Clouded city and unleashed their attacks to their fullest extent.

Light whistled through the air as lightning split across the sky, working with the statues to fend off the King of Eastern Lu.

Li Fengyan looked at the sky.
The black mass of tribulation clouds slowly dispersed.
The beautiful light from the sun accelerated the recovery of the barrier of light.
That was the true source of energy for Clouded city’s main formation.
The more time they bought, the stronger the formation would become.

A figure suddenly blotted out the sun.
The Cloud Shadow Crane King loomed over the entire place, meeting Li Fengyuan’s eyes and sending sparks flying.

“Give up, phoenix!”

“Rise, Clouded city!”

Li Fengyuan raised his hand, and Clouded city rose up into the air, hurtling towards the Cloud Shadow Crane King.

The Cloud Shadow Crane King extended a foot, standing on Clouded city gently and stopping its rise.
He continued to blot out the sun with his colossal wings.

With a phoenix cry, Li Fengyuan rushed into the air and launched a palm strike at the foot through the barrier of light.

“Even if you’re a phoenix, you’ve only just undergone the third heavenly tribulation, so how can you…”

The Cloud Shadow Crane King suddenly sensed an overwhelmingly great power flow out beneath his foot.
He was actually unable to contend with it.
He glanced inside the city and immediately understood that Li Fengyuan had gathered all the power from the featherfolk.
That was something only the Featherfolk King could achieve.

Ripples appeared on the barrier, and the two forces collided violently.
Clouded city continued to rise up stubbornly, rising until it reached the atmospheric wind layer.

The higher it climbed, the sharper the atmospheric winds became, whistling as they slashed at the barrier of light.
The barrier immediately dimmed slightly, but the atmospheric winds diluted the constant attacks from the King of Eastern Lu as well, greatly diminishing their power.

Through Bai Chen’s memories, Li Fengyuan understood that this had always been the most ordinary way that Clouded city functioned.

The formation possessed the function to fend off the atmospheric winds.
If any enemies attacked, they could raise the city into the atmospheric cloud layer, and the enemy would struggle to do anything.

The formation’s defences were limited, so it could not reach too high of an altitude, but it was enough to ensure that no enemy could climb higher than Clouded city.
Otherwise, if any random person could cut off its energy source, would the city not just be a joke?

It is no wonder that even the Great Xia empire is powerless against the featherfolk.
This Clouded city is basically made for war, well beyond anything that some White Dragon King or Scarlet Dragon King can compare to.
It’s a pity that it’s been weakened far too much by the heavenly tribulation in the beginning, preventing the use of its various attacks, or why would they fear a measly King of Eastern Lu?

A few crane feathers drifted down, but they were all sliced apart by the atmospheric winds before long.
Even the Ten Daemon Kings could not reside so high up in the atmospheric wind layer for long.
The Cloud Shadow Crane King descended helplessly.

Before the light could even shine on the city properly, there was a great rumble and the Cloud Province cauldron crushed down on the city.

Seeing how they were actually about to slip away, the King of Eastern Lu ran out of patience, unleashing the Cloud Province cauldron at full strength.

The cauldron that gathered the power from the Cloud province’s landscape was extremely heavy.
Clouded city began to sink again.
The atmospheric winds left marks on the cauldron, but they struggled to cause any actual damage in such a short period of time.

If this continued, Clouded city would fall to the ground before the Cloud Province cauldron was destroyed.

Li Fengyuan made up his mind.
He opened the barrier of light, and the Cloud Province cauldron whistled down with the atmospheric winds.

Li Fengyuan rushed straight at it.

Boom!

The palace was reduced to ruins, and Li Fengyuan vanished too.

The featherfolk all paled in fright.
Before they knew it, he had already become their backbone.
If even he fell in battle, then the featherfolk would be in danger of devastation.

The Cloud Province cauldron weighed down on Clouded city and continued to sink, but a bellow rang out from the ruins below the tripod, “Close!”

The barrier of light closed up again, forcefully swallowing the Cloud Province cauldron.

Li Fengyuan supported the cauldron with both hands as blood flowed down his face, turning into flames.
He called out, “You don’t want this anymore? Then give it to me!”

At that moment, he was a spitting image of Li Qingshan.