I Arrived At Wizard World While Cultivating Immortality Chapter 718: Disaster That Devours the World

**Chapter 718 Disaster That Devours the World**

Jie Ming casually tossed these Dragonmen into his internal grotto-heaven, then turned to gaze down at the earth below.

Rumble…

The first crack appeared.

Immediately after, continuous fissures spread rapidly outward with the small town at the center. The entire mountain range began to shake violently.

“I didn’t expect you to locate the target so quickly.”

At that moment, Wizard Broadleaf’s voice suddenly rang out beside Jie Ming. His tone was calm, yet it easily overshadowed the thunderous sound of the collapsing mountain range below. Jie Ming turned his head and saw the veteran wizard stepping out slowly from the void.

Amber-colored law light spread beneath his feet, forming a semi-transparent path of light that seemed to slice a seam through the night itself. The restless elements around him rose and fell gently with his breathing, as if bowing to a true master.

Wizard Broadleaf first glanced at the violently trembling mountain range below, then withdrew his gaze indifferently and turned to look at Jie Ming. “It seems you have grasped some knowledge related to fate.” He spoke slowly, a trace of emotion in his voice. “Resisting the dimensional disparity during the activation of a Reflection Dimension channel at your level is already astonishing enough. I never imagined you would also have achievements in fate-related knowledge.” As he said this, a flicker of envy and a complex emotion passed through his deep brown eyes.

“Truly enviable wisdom,” he said softly.

Jie Ming bowed slightly.

He was not surprised at all that Wizard Broadleaf had appeared here.

In fact, he had anticipated it.

He suspected that this veteran True Name Wizard had long since located the old Dragonman’s hiding place.

With Wizard Broadleaf’s control over the Dragonman Plane, how could a former elder hiding in an underground cave covered in arrays and attempting to conceal his aura truly escape his notice?

The reason Wizard Broadleaf had not acted earlier was probably that he had been waiting—waiting for the old Dragonman to be driven into a desperate situation and activate this so-called final means himself.

As for why he had not used soul-manipulation wizardry, Jie Ming could understand that as well. No matter how one looked at it, the so-called bloodline inheritance of the ten great elders among the Dragonmen was suspicious.

If those bloodline inheritances could affect the soul, using soul-manipulation wizardry might cause unpredictable changes. Moreover, not only the old Dragonman—Wizard Broadleaf most likely had full view of the resistance army’s schemes but had simply never intervened. Jie Ming even suspected that the reason the old Dragonman’s area had been marked as a safe zone was deliberately arranged by Wizard Broadleaf.

“You flatter me.”

Jie Ming’s tone was steady, his attitude neither humble nor arrogant.

“I was simply lucky and happened to stumble upon a breakthrough.”

He casually returned the compliment, his expression natural as if the praise had nothing to do with him.

“Lucky, huh…” Wizard Broadleaf smiled. “In the world of wizards, there is no such thing as luck.”

Jie Ming let out a gentle laugh and did not pursue the topic. “What do we do next?”

“No rush.”

Wizard Broadleaf placed his hands behind his back. Amber law light slowly circulated along the edges of his sleeves.

“We’ll wait until everyone arrives.”

Jie Ming followed his gaze and looked around.

Soon, the night sky grew lively.

Sensing the sudden intense energy fluctuations here, figures streaked in from different directions.

Some came from deep within the Iron Spine Mountains, still dragging guards from a resistance stronghold they had just subdued. Others flew in from the plains, residual elemental waves still lingering around them, clearly having just finished tasks tens of thousands of kilometers away.

Still others rose directly from the direction of the towns, most likely stationed there originally and rushing over immediately upon hearing the commotion.

In mere moments, more than a dozen wizards had gathered in the sky above the mountain range.

Every one of them had an unrestrained aura, with the lowest being sixth-rank.

They hovered behind Wizard Broadleaf in small groups. Some conversed quietly about their recent gains, some curiously observed the mutating mountain range below, and others directly released their spiritual power, attempting to capture the source of the terrifying force beneath their feet.

Jie Ming silently withdrew his gaze and looked back at the ground.

After a brief period of brewing, red light had begun surging out from deep within the mountain range.

These lights converged into a strange substance that existed between liquid and luminous states.

It sprayed out from the cracks in the earth’s crust like blood, then spread madly in all directions at an exaggerated speed.

Where the red light passed, ordinary objects seemed largely unharmed.

However, moss and lichen on the rock surfaces, along with all creatures possessing Dragon bloodline, emitted miserable shrieks the instant they touched the red light. It was as if a higher-level power forcibly dismantled their life structures.

The disintegrated biomass transformed into strands of dark red smoke that, in turn, merged back into the red light, becoming part of its expansion and continuing to spread further.

Jie Ming first activated his True-False Void-Piercing Pupil. A silver-white star vortex lit up in his vertical eye at the center of his brow as he scanned the red light below.

The result made him frown slightly: Sacrifice Light.

What followed was a string of information about the effects of Sacrifice Light and methods to resist it. According to the intelligence, this force specifically targeted beings with Creator bloodline. Any lifeform holding Creator bloodline that came into contact with the red light would suffer backlash from their own bloodline and be converted into nourishment.

“Nourishment, huh… Not particularly surprising.”

Jie Ming blinked and switched from the True-False Void-Piercing Pupil to the All-Purpose Eye.

As the Fate Subsystem operated, he recorded the red light’s diffusion speed, energy frequency bands, and its resonance patterns with the Dragon bloodline one by one into his spiritual sea.

Data accumulated rapidly.

The red light spread extremely fast. In just a few breaths, half of the entire mountain range was already enveloped in red light.

Further away, several towns on the edge of the mountain range could already see the faint red glow approaching in the night sky.

This life-devouring catastrophe was rapidly advancing along the earth veins.

If this continued, all Dragonmen across the entire Dragonman Plane would likely be purged.

Jie Ming raised his head and looked toward Wizard Broadleaf.

Traces of unhidden analytical data streams still lingered in the vertical eye between his brows.

The current situation was obvious. If it continued spreading like this, the Dragonman Plane that Wizard Broadleaf had only recently acquired would turn into a dead land. Given how much Wizard Broadleaf valued Dragonman materials previously, this would be no small loss.

Wizard Broadleaf met his gaze and smiled faintly. “I naturally made preparations long ago.”

The moment his words fell, his spiritual power spread outward.

Amber law ripples flashed through the void and vanished, like a giant hand pressing a certain switch across the entire plane.

Jie Ming’s mind stirred. He adjusted his vision focus to the extreme.

His transcendent sight pierced through the rolling clouds in the night sky and landed directly on a distant town about to be swallowed by the red light.

The town was roughly the same scale as the old town where the iron-gray Dragonman had been hiding.

Emergency lights had already lit up on the streets. One could vaguely see Dragonmen rushing out of their houses in panic, their faces filled with fear and unease. But in the next instant, the entire town was enveloped by a massive array.

It was a vast rune array that had long been buried deep beneath the town’s foundations, dormant for who knows how many years.

The array’s light rose from underground, rapidly spreading along the patterns of the streets and covering every building and road in a pale golden protective layer. Then the earth trembled.

The land at the town’s edge split neatly along the boundaries defined by the array. The entire town, along with its foundations, was slowly peeled away from the ground. It was lifted by the array and gradually rose into the air.

Once it reached a certain height, the array’s light bent and closed around it, ultimately wrapping the entire floating city into a complete spherical protective shield. At this point, the town had become a sanctuary floating above the sea of red light.

And this town was not the only one undergoing such changes. In other directions across the Dragonman Plane, similar array lights were lighting up one after another. The towns originally scattered across the land rose slowly into the sky at the same time, like stone eggs peeled from the ground, hovering above the sea of red calamity and becoming the final refuges of Dragonman civilization.

While watching those floating cities, Jie Ming shifted his attention back to the iron-gray Dragonman in his possession.

In his spiritual sea, he was rapidly searching through the fellow’s memory fragments.

As one of the resistance army’s core liaisons, this Dragonman’s mind contained far richer intelligence than he had imagined.

Soon, he found the relevant information.

The resistance army’s upper echelons did indeed possess a certain secret art capable of resisting this red light.

It was a countermeasure developed by reverse-engineering the previous array’s technology.

Once cast, it would allow the caster to survive within the red light.

This secret art was quite widely circulated among the resistance army’s leadership.

Jie Ming quickly pieced this information together with other fragmented intelligence in his spiritual sea and soon outlined the complete plan of the resistance army.

These resistance forces had never intended to simply confront the wizards from the beginning.

What they wanted was to use this purge to completely rebuild the order of the Dragonman Plane.

First, one of the Ten Elders would sacrifice themselves to activate this final means, releasing the red light to cleanse the entire plane.

Then, the resistance army’s upper echelons would survive within the red light using the secret art.

After the purge ended, all low-grade Dragonmen and mixed-blood Dragonmen without the secret art would perish. Only the high-grade bloodline Dragonmen who possessed the secret art would remain.

At that time, the shattered bloodline hierarchy system would naturally reestablish itself across the plane.

It would even be purer than in the old era.

As for how many ordinary Dragonmen would die in the process…

For those bloodline supremacists, it had probably never been within their considerations.

Perhaps in their view, whether using this as leverage to threaten the wizards and regain their original ruling status, or directly carrying out the purge to make themselves the sole remaining Dragonman bloodline and a higher-value bargaining chip, both were quite acceptable outcomes.