Li Yuanqing quickly left after confirming how to deal with the Ba Serpent. However, when he left, he saw Cow being forced around by a group of vicious beasts. Although it did resist, its efforts were useless.
At the bottom of the canyon, the vicious beasts were too ferocious!
Cow was covered in injuries. Just as he was about to be devoured by these vicious beasts, Li Yuanqing appeared and slashed at the vicious beasts surrounding it. Cow was overjoyed and shouted at Li Yuanqing.
“Send us up the canyon!”
This canyon was really too high, but it was much easier with the Little Ba Serpent. Li Yuanqing simply let the Cow shrink and stand on the back of the Little Ba Serpent. The man and the vicious beast went up directly.
The Qilin Beast was still looking around. When it saw Li Yuanqing, it was overjoyed.
The Little Ba Serpent sent Li Yuanqing up, scaring the Qilin Beast. This was because the Little Ba Serpent’s body was really huge. Although it was not a hundred meters long, it was still very shocking.
It seemed that the bottom of the Grand Canyon was much more dangerous than the top.
“Restrain those vicious beasts under you. Don’t let them approach this place. It’s too dangerous…”
As soon as Li Yuanqing said that, the Qilin Beast kept nodding. Even if Li Yuanqing did not remind it, as a Beast King of the Wilderness, it could also sense the danger at the bottom of the canyon, so it would definitely not approach.
After leaving the Grand Canyon, Li Yuanqing was escorted by Cow and the Qilin Beast.
When Li Yuanqing returned to the Wilderness Valley, he went to the Imperial City without packing.
At this moment, everyone in the Imperial City was uneasy.
All the commoners and ministers of the Imperial Court were talking about the Ba-Serpent clan. They were talking about the Ba-Serpent that devoured millions of people every year.
The reason why the Ba-Serpent Clan was feared by everyone was actually because of their guardian, the Ba-Serpent.
After Li Yuanqing arrived at the Imperial City, he went straight to see Princess Zhaoyang. Li Yuanqing was accompanied by Princess Zhaoyang and walked around the city wall of the Imperial City a few times every day.
There were fifty million citizens in the Imperial City. This was the most popular place in the Northern Kingdom. Almost half of the entire Northern Kingdom’s people were gathered in the Imperial City.
If the Imperial City was really occupied by the Ba-Serpent Clan, these fifty million commoners would be food for the Ba-Serpent.
Zhaoyang had not slept well for many days and was a little listless. However, when she saw Li Yuanqing, her eyes were filled with surprise and hope. She was exceptionally happy like a little follower as she accompanied Li Yuanqing to patrol the city.
Although there were no obvious markings on the carriage, many commoners looked at them when they patrolled the city wall because it was a specially customized carriage.
Some people even recognized that this was Princess Zhaoyang’s carriage.
“Look, the princess hasn’t given up on us? The princess must be thinking of a way!”
“May the heavens bless us. If the Ba-Serpent doesn’t come, none of us will die!”
“I really don’t want to become food for the Ba Serpent, but what can we do? We can only wait for death!”
…
Li Yuanqing, who was sitting in the carriage, heard the discussions of many commoners under the city walls of the Imperial City.
There were so many commoners. Some believed that the Northern Kingdom had a way to resolve the Ba-Serpent disaster, while others were pessimistic and afraid that they would become food for the Ba-Serpent.
There was more fear and panic among the innocent citizens.
The Imperial City was originally the rich and prosperous capital of the Northern Kingdom. However, the citizens living inside could not wait to escape from this place.
Li Yuanqing even saw many people secretly leaving the Imperial City with their families. everyone would become the Ba-Serpent’s food once this prosperous and rich place became a place of worship for the Ba-Serpent.
Therefore, it would be good if they could survive and escape!
“Big Brother, I’ve prepared everything you want. When do you need it? Do you need some martial artists to help?
“Our negotiations with the Ba Serpent Clan are about to collapse. Once they sense that we’re patronizing them, they might let the Ba Serpent charge into the Imperial City at any time. At that time, no one will be able to escape!”
Although Princess Zhaoyang was very confident in her brother, she was not dealing with a Martial Saint this time, but the Ba Serpent.
And it was a Ba-Serpent that had been worshiped for thousands of years.
“Three days. Stall for another three days at most. After I set up the Heavenly Cycle Demon Extinguishing Array, the Ba Serpent won’t dare to enter the Imperial City. I’ll think of a way to lure the Ba Serpent to the bottom of the Wilderness Canyon…”
Actually, Li Yuanqing had another way to resolve the Ba-Serpent disaster. However, there were too many uncertain factors, so he did not say it out loud.
At this moment, he could only calm Zhaoyang down and let her buy him three days of time.
In three days, he would be able to complete this huge Heavenly Cycle Demon Extinguishing Array and protect the entire Imperial City.
Originally, he had been studying the Heavenly Cycle Demon Extinguishing Array for all these years and had long reached the Proficiency level. That was why he could reduce the time needed to set up the array to just three days.
It would take about half a year to set up such a huge array formation if it was only at the Rudimentary Understanding level.
“Alright, three days. I’ll definitely buy three days for Big Brother. No matter what method I use, I reckon it’ll only be three days at most. The envoy over there is already starting to get angry!”
Zhaoyang smiled bitterly. The officials who received the Ba Serpent Clan had already been insulted and beaten up by the envoys of the Ba Serpent Clan, but they endured it.
Before the Ba-Serpent disaster was completely resolved, they could only endure it, but they could not resist. This was because the lives of fifty million citizens in the Imperial City could not be treated as a joke.
As soon as Princess Zhaoyang returned to the residence, she was invited over because the Ba-Serpent Clan had already started killing!
When Zhaoyang went over, she saw that the ground was covered in blood. The official in charge of entertaining the envoy was already covered in flesh and blood. His body was writhing on the ground, but he was not dead.
The envoy of the Ba-Serpent Clan was laughing loudly at this moment. When he saw the princess, he did not stop. Instead, he deliberately kicked the envoy in front of everyone and looked at Princess Zhaoyang disdainfully.
“Princess, our sacred artifact is already very impatient. It’s hungry, so we have to fulfill our conditions immediately. The Northern Kingdom will become a vassal of the Ba Serpent Clan, and the Li clan will immediately get out of the Imperial City and send over a million living people for the sacred artifact to enjoy…”
The envoy felt that the Northern Kingdom was stalling for time, so he was very angry and felt that he should kill the officials of the Northern Kingdom to let them realize a fact.
And that is the Northern Kingdom could not resist them at all now. The sacred artifact wanted to eat people. They wanted to turn the Imperial City into a place to worship the sacred artifact. These people had to obey immediately. This is not a negotiation.
They would ask the sacred artifact to devour it.
Zhaoyang suppressed her disgust and said coldly, “We’ve made such a huge sacrifice. Even if we agree to move out of the Imperial City, it will take more than ten days to clean up. Moreover, you have to give me some time to capture and transport a million citizens. We really can’t rush…”
