Against The Heavens 13 Golden Crow Versus Torch Dragon.

Thanks to the time he spent with Liang Zhou and Liang Xinyi, Li Yang knew most of the herbs that he spotted as he was traveling. Of course, he would occasionally spot a herb or plant that he did not recognize. Whenever he encountered a plant like this, he would make sure to keep a good distance, in case the plant was toxic or a Demonic beast in disguise.

He took several detours, traversing a wide variety of different terrains, but he knew that he was on the right track, he could feel it in his chest. As he kept walking, he noticed that the air started getting hotter and hotter, some plants even starting to wilt.

After four days of continuous traveling, only stopping when he needed to eat, drink, or take a quick nap, he reached a vast plain. The plain was completely barren, not a single plant in sight. There were mountains and hills dotting the entire plain, but the thing that caught Li Yang's attention was a ma.s.sive valley that split the entire plain in half.

The valley went straight down into the ground like someone had sliced the plain in half with a ma.s.sive sword. He stood far away from the valley, but Li Yang could still feel an icy wind reach out from the valley and onto the plain.

After reaching this plain, the heat in the air had turned sweltering, beads of sweat constantly running down Li Yang's face. Li Yang slowly made his way onto the plain, using all the rocks and hills he could find as cover. He could not see the t.i.tanic figure or the soaring figure, but he could feel in his chest that they were here.

After he spent almost two hours moving a measly two kilometers closer, a loud roar resounded over the plains. When the roar sounded out, it was like the earth itself was cracking apart, even the sky was trembling.

After the roar sounded out, the heat in the air started intensifying even more. A whoos.h.i.+ng sound came from the valley, two figures flying out from the valley and stopping in the air above it, staring at each other.

One of the figures was the t.i.tanic figure Li Yang had seen four days ago. It had a snake-like body, with a ma.s.sive dragon head, it's entire body stretching for several kilometers. Two leathery wings extended from it's back, almost covering the sky. Its body was clad in crimson scales, it's two ma.s.sive eyes glowing with a red light. Its body was riddled with wounds, large amounts of blood dripping into the valley beneath it.

The other figure was much smaller than the t.i.tanic dragon, only being around 40 meters in length, Li Yang recognized this as the soaring figure he had seen twice, he could feel it. But despite it being much smaller than the t.i.tanic dragon, Li Yang was no less shocked upon seeing this figure than he was upon seeing the t.i.tanic dragon.

Its body was in the shape of a crow, but it had a third leg sprouting out from its chest. Its entire body was covered in beautiful golden feathers that shone under the light of the sun. its entire body was wreathed in ferocious golden flames that destroyed anything that came in contact with them.

Its body was also covered in wounds, one of its legs almost completely torn off. Blood that was a mixture of crimson and gold dripped down from its wounds, falling into the valley beneath them. Despite living in a small tribe, Li Yang had still heard about these two beasts. The Golden Crow and the Torch Dragon, two divine beasts.

"Yangwu! I simply wish to retrieve Bing Di's body! Why must you fight so hard to stop me?!"

The Torch Dragon opened it's ma.s.sive maw and spoke out in the common tongue of this world. It's masculine and powerful voice resounded out over the plain, even reaching places far away from the plain. Li Yang did not know who this Bing Di was, but since a Torch Dragon was trying to acquire his body, he must have been someone extraordinary.

"Zhulong, Bing Di's body is not for someone like you to desecrate. Even if I must drag you with me to death, I will never let you lay your hand on his body."

The Golden Crow opened her beak, her voice calm and soothing. Hearing this voice, Li Yang felt like his body had been surrounded by a s.h.i.+eld, protected from the sweltering heat.

"Then you leave me no choice, Yangwu!"

The Torch Dragon opened it's maw once more, it's voice cold and merciless. It spread out its wings, crimson flames appearing in the air around it. It flapped its wings, and the flames shot out, heading straight for the Golden Crow. The Torch Dragon followed right after the flames, it's ma.s.sive body shooting at the Golden Crow like a bolt of lightning.

The Golden Crow did not back away from the fight, spreading its wings and unleas.h.i.+ng its golden flames. When the two flames came into contact, they immediately rejected each other, shooting away from the plain at high speeds, vanis.h.i.+ng into the distance.

Li Yang was slightly worried about the flames that had shot away from the plain, after all, the tribe where he had lived was not too far away from this plain, at most ten days march. At the speed those flames had traveled, such a short distance counted for nothing.

But now was not the time to worry about that, the Torch Dragon had reached The Golden crow. The Torch Dragon opened it's ma.s.sive maw and tried to bite down on the Golden Crow, who surprisingly enough, chose not to completely dodge the attack.

The Golden Crow allowed the Torch Dragon to bite down on its wing, but the moment the Torch Dragon bit down on its wing, the Golden Crow sprung into action. It used its two undamaged legs to grab onto the head of the Torch Dragon, golden flames blooming forth from its body and flooding into the Torch Dragon.

"Yangwu, are you insane?! Do you truly wish for the both of us to die here?! Just so Bing Di's body can remain undisturbed?!"

The slightly panicked and pained voice of the Torch Dragon rang out, it seemed like the golden flames caused more than just a little pain to it. The Golden Crow completely ignored the cries of the Torch Dragon, only bursting forth with even more Golden Flames.

The Torch Dragon let out a pained roar and opened it's maw, letting go of the Golden Crow's wing. But the moment it let go of the wing, it moved it's head sideways at full speed, sinking its teeth into the actual body of the Golden Crow.

"Since you are so intent on dragging me to h.e.l.l with you, then so be it! Let me reunite you with Bing Di by the yellow springs!"

After the voice of the Torch Dragon rang out, crimson flames spewed out from its maw, covering the body of the Golden Crow. Both divine monsters covered in flames, the temperature of the area rose dramatically, yet Li Yang still found himself covered by that s.h.i.+eld that protected him from the sweltering heat.

The two divine monsters kept scorching each other for around an hour, neither willing to let go of the other. After an hour pa.s.sed, the flames surrounding the both of them started dimming, allowing Li Yang to see their bodies once more.

Both of their bodies were completely scorched, the Golden Crow's beautiful feathers now a deep black. The crimson scales of the Torch Dragon had cracked and shattered, large drops of blood dripping into the valley beneath them.

The light in the eyes of the two divine monsters dimmed and they started dropping from the sky, falling towards the valley beneath them. Just as Li Yang thought that their bodies would vanish into the valley, the Golden Crow turned it's head, staring straight at him.

"You who was born again. My child, please protect him."

The calm voice of the Golden Crow rang out in his mind, shocking him immensely. It knew that he had been reborn into this world? Before he had a chance to think about it further, the Golden Crow exerted the last of its strength to tear off a piece from its stomach, sending it towards Li Yang.