Chapter 1691: When The Flood Dragon Roars, The Living Is Butchered

“You still haven’t answered my question.”

Blood Plum looked down on the man menacingly. When he didn’t answer, she slowly bent down and extended a hand toward him.

Recalling his earlier experience, the man subconsciously tried to dodge out of the way. However, he immediately felt a spine-chilling killing intent locking onto him and froze in place.

It was because he understood that the mad woman before his eyes would actually kill him if he defied her anymore than he already did.

Slowly, Blood Plum grabbed his chin and turned his face toward her. “What’s wrong? Won’t you answer me? If you won’t, then you may never say another word. Is that what you wish for?”

“I... I understand.”

Humiliated as he was, the middle-aged man understood that defending his pride wasn’t worth losing his life. He could always plot to kill this bitch and repay this humiliation many fold after he got away from her.

“Good boy.” Blood Plum gently slapped the middle-aged man’s face. She noticed the hatred and killing intent residing behind his eyes as a matter of course, but she didn’t care. Ants like him could not do anything no matter how much they dreamed.

“Now get up. The ground’s pretty cold, you know?”

Blood Plum rose back to full height and set her sights on the distant caravans once more.

The man followed suit and stared at her with his mouth half-open. It was clear he wanted to say something, but didn’t dare to.

“Speak your thoughts. It’s unhealthy to keep your thoughts to yourself,” Blood Plum said indifferently.

The man hesitated but ultimately obeyed her order. He said, “The consort... I mean, His Highness wants them dead. Not just dead, but dead in a way that leaves no traces behind.”

“I know.”

Blood Plum replied indifferently, “I would not have used the Blood Sun Yin Riders otherwise. Do you know that the Blood Sun Yin Riders can only be used once every few years? If not for His Highness’ orders, I would not have wasted it on such a trivial task!”

“Is that all? And here I thought you have something worthwhile to say.”

The middle-aged man opened his mouth but ultimately did not voice his thoughts.

“Good. You have learned.”

Seemingly satisfied with the man’s “performance”, Blood Plum cracked a beautiful smile and said, “You were going to say that my Blood Sun Yin Riders do not look very impressive, weren’t you?”

So you do know that your Blood Sun Yin Riders seem useless! The man mentally ranted but kept quiet on the outside.

“Haha...” Blood Plum paid his silent admission no heed and said, “Oh well. I guess it’s time I show you the true power of the Blood Sun Yin Riders.”

Blood Plum looked behind her and asked lazily, “Is it ready?”

“It’s ready, boss.”

A man with a handsome face but venomous, viper-like eyes appeared behind Blood Plum. He was dressed like a scholar and waving a folding fan.

As soon as the scholar finished speaking, a troop of soldiers were brought over to Blood Plum.

“Mm! Mm!”

The soldiers looked furious and kept opening and closing their mouths. And yet, none of them could say a single discernible word.

A second later, the middle-aged man realized it was because their tongues were cut out.

“I cut out their tongues because they were too noisy,” Blood Plum explained after noticing his puzzled gaze.

The middle-aged man would have been better off not knowing. His scalp crawled as he instinctively clamped his mouth tight. He was afraid that he would lose his tongue if he responded.

Blood Plum ignored the middle-aged man and raised her left hand. She then cut open her palm with her right finger.

Blood poured out of the wound profusely, but they floated into the air instead of dripping onto the ground. Then, they formed an old, tattered banner.

The banner looked exactly the same as the draconic banner carried by the yin riders. However, this one had the word “Commander” sewn at the center.

The banner was normally called a commander’s banner or a general’s banner. It was the banner commanders and generals used to command an army.

The commander’s banner looked tattered, but it gave off a terrible aura as soon as it appeared.

Next, Blood Plum grabbed the commander’s banner and gave it a little wave.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

The banner fluttered, and yin wind howled. The sounds of countless soldiers and warhorses charging in battle, screaming and fighting and clashing could be heard from within the wind. It was terrifying.

Slowly, the flood dragon on the banner slowly opened its mouth as if it had come alive.

“Hah! Hah! Hah!”

A bunch of strange noises came from behind the middle-aged man, so he turned to see what was going on. He realized then that it came from the three hundred or so soldiers whose tongues had been cut out. Right now, their eyes and mouths were wide open as they made this hoarse, suffering noise.

The next moment, blood flowed out of their eyes and mouths and into the flood dragon’s mouth.

The soldiers turned into corpses in the blink of an eye. On the other hand, the flood dragon was now brimming with life and bloodthirst after killing their blood. It swam here and there on the banner.

“Yin riders, heed my call! Kill them all!”

Blood Plum waved her banner and commanded solemnly.

The next moment, the flood dragon let out a soundless roar and flew out of the banner. It became one with the blood sun when it reached the top of the sky.

“... What are you doing?”

However, nothing happened for a long time after the flood dragon merged with the blood sun. It took so long that the middle-aged man could not help but voice his puzzlement.

“Patience. It’s going to appear any moment now...”

As if on cue, the blood sun in the sky shone brightly, and bloody rays poured out like a broken dam.

The bloody rays that combined into a bloody flood dragon that soared through the sky.

Blood Plum stretched her arms wide open with a look of utter pleasure. “The blood sun rises, the flood dragon roars. The yin riders ride, and the living is butchered... do enjoy the last moments of your lives, people!”

......

“Flood dragon... bloody flood dragon...”

Back on the Golden Road, when Old Guan and the others noticed that the bloody sun was growing redder by the second, they immediately had a bad feeling about this.

Now, their evil premonition had turned into reality.

Those ignorant about the bloody flood dragon only felt confused, but the ones who knew the truth were already drowning in despair.

Old Guan was one such example.

Right now, Old Guan was staring at the bloody flood dragon in the sky with wide open eyes. He was shaking hard and did not even realize that his smoking pipe had slipped out of his hand and fallen to the ground.

“Roar!”

The next moment, the flood dragon stretched its long body and let out a resounding roar. It was so loud that it seemed to permeate across the cosmos. At the same time, the blood sun shone brightly, and a dark, anomalous aura enveloped the land.

“The flood dragon roars... the flood dragon roars... how can this be... why is this happening...”

Old Guan mumbled incessantly with listless, hopeless eyes.

“Neigh!”

It was at this moment the neighs of horses came from the distance once more.

“The yin riders have returned. We’re dead... dead...”

Old Guan shuddered and subconsciously looked at the direction of the noise. His eyes were full of despair.

“What are you blanking out for? Flee! Flee now!”

At the same time, keeper Zhou’s voice boomed across the entire area. It was full of panic and terror. Not a moment too soon, a figure shot into the air and sped off in the opposite direction of the yin riders.

“Flee and pray! It is up to the heavens whether we will live or die now!”

A couple more figures followed closely behind him.