Chapter 969: Operation Shimen

"What happened?"

Song Gong was shocked and hurried to the Imperial Garden with Zhou Ran.

The entire Imperial Garden was in a mess. The lake in the center of the Imperial Garden was turbulent due to the explosion. The lake water flew to the sky and fell like raindrops.

What was even more shocking was that a water hole appeared in the center of the lake.

"Oh no! The Shura Pillar is under that!"

Song Gong shouted and ignored his own safety and steered the spirit boat towards the water hole.

As soon as he approached the water hole, four huge monsters jumped out. They were none other than the water dragons guarding the secret room at the bottom of the lake.

The water dragons were extremely ferocious and Song Gong could not handle them. One of them opened its bloody mouth and was about to swallow Song Gong in one gulp.

Song Gong was unable to escape and was waiting to die with his eyes closed when a gust of wind blew by.

One person rescued Song Gong and brought him to the shore.

This person was Zhou Ran. After Zhou Ran rescued Song Gong, he said, "Lord, these four beasts have been contaminated by the turbid breath. They are no longer the spirit beasts guarding the bottom of the lake. If they are allowed to run wild here, the entire palace will be destroyed."

"Marquis Guanjun, please kill them!" Song Gong begged.

Zhou Ran was not vague and flew directly to the front of the four water dragons.

The servants and maids in the palace were all stunned when they saw this scene in the lake of the Imperial Garden.

Why would there be such a ferocious monster in the lake of Song Gong's Imperial Garden? What is the hole in the center of the lake?

Seeing this, Song Gong immediately ordered everyone to leave the Imperial Garden and no one could stay.

After everyone left, Song Gong was the only one left in the Imperial Garden to witness the battle between Zhou Ran and the water dragon.

Although the power of the water dragon is not as good as that of a divine beast like Qiongqi, it is also an extremely ferocious monster. In addition, it is disturbed by the turbid breath, and its strength has increased.

Song Gong couldn't help but worry about Zhou Ran.

Zhou Ran faced four water dragons. When he first saw them, they were probably only in the middle stage of Hedao. But now, each water dragon has the strength of Hedao peak.

If it were an ordinary strong man, it would be extremely difficult to deal with these four beasts, but Zhou Ran didn't take it seriously.

The Jade Blood Sword flew out of the Qiankun Ring.

There were bursts of cold light on the sword, and the cold light was dazzling. It was the time when the sword energy burst out.

A stream of sword energy went towards the four water dragons. The tails of the four water dragons swung violently, forming a water wall in front of their bodies.

The water wall carried dense spiritual energy, which actually blocked Zhou Ran's sword energy.

"Huh?"

Zhou Ran was stunned. He didn't expect that these four beasts were quite smart and used water walls to dissolve his sword energy.

The four water dragons blocked Zhou Ran's sword energy attack and started to counterattack immediately.

The four heads bit Zhou Ran, with sharp teeth, anyone who was bitten would be shattered.

Zhou Ran dodged the water dragon's attack with his agile body, leaving the four water dragons empty-handed.

After avoiding the sharp edge, Zhou Ran immediately swung the Jade Blood Sword.

Since the sword energy is useless against water dragons, he used the indestructible sword edge of the Jade Blood Sword to deal with it.

He swung the sword and went to one of the water dragons.

The scales on the water dragon's body are strong and can be compared to high-level defensive magic weapons, but under Zhou Ran's Jade Blood Sword, it seems vulnerable.

The head of a water dragon was chopped off by Zhou Ran in a moment.

The remaining three water dragons were all terrified and rushed towards Zhou Ran in a hurry.

Facing the three angry water dragons,

Zhou Ran didn't care and swung the Jade Blood Sword again.

After three swords were swung, the heads of the other three water dragons were also chopped off by Zhou Ran.

The huge water dragon corpse floated on the lake, and the blood of the water dragon dyed the entire lake red, giving people a shuddering feeling.

Not only that, the originally bright red blood turned black like ink, polluting the entire lake.

Song Gong came to Zhou Ran tremblingly and said, "Marquis Guanjun, is this lake ruined?"

Zhou Ran sighed and said, "Don't let anyone get close to this lake for the time being, and completely close the Imperial Garden."

"Okay!"

Song Gong nodded heavily, then controlled the spirit boat and came to the secret room at the bottom of the lake with Zhou Ran.

The thing that the King of Song State least wanted to see happened. The core of the Shura Pillar of Song State was empty and had disappeared.

Song Gong softened, her eyes were full of tears.

"Without the pillar core, how can I explain to the ancestors of Song?"

Zhou Ran's face sank, and he said: "Shimen has been planning for a long time, so he is naturally fearless. It's not that Shimen can't steal the pillar cores of the Shura Pillars of Jing, Qing, and Song, but the time has not come yet. It was not until the divine beast Qiongqi awakened and Shi Ji stole the turbid breath in Qiongqi's body that Shimen began to act with the power of the two divine beasts. Now the pillar cores of the Shura Pillars of the three countries have all fallen into Shimen's hands, and with the power of the turbid breath in Qiongqi and Taotie, it is not easy for Shimen and Shi Ji to deal with them now."

"What should I do? What should I do?" Song Gong was anxious like an ant on a hot pot. "The three countries in the western border are about to be destroyed, why hasn't Qing made any statement yet? Is the king of Qing really as hard-hearted as the rumors say? What good will it do for Qing if the three countries are destroyed together?"

Song Gong hoped that the three countries would share the same hatred, but unfortunately, things were far from that simple.

Zhou Ran had a bitter look on his face. The King of Qing might not have recovered yet. How could he participate in the plan to resist Shimen?

"Lord, don't count on Qing, just wish for the best! The most urgent thing is to make a long-term plan and resist the invasion of the turbid breath."

"Yes, yes, yes! How could I forget this?"

Song Gong was already panicking, and she did whatever Zhou Ran said.

The two left the secret room and came to the lake.

But what appeared in front of them was an astonishing scene.

The sky above their heads had become gray. It was obviously noon, but it seemed like dusk.

The air was filled with an unpleasant smell, not something else, but the turbid breath.

"How could this happen? It was not like this just now!"

Song Gong wanted to die, but Zhou Ran asked him to make a long-term plan, but how could he make a long-term plan in this case?

Zhou Ran's face was gloomy, and he did not expect Shimen to act so quickly.

He had just stolen the core of the Shura Pillar of Song State, and he started his plan.

The turbid breath was spreading. It seemed that not only Tianfeng City was affected, but the entire Song Kingdom and the three kingdoms in the western border had been eroded by the turbid breath.

The stone gate had already started to move, and a battle with the stone gate was inevitable. .

Zhou Ran calmed down and finally found the location of the stone gate.

"It turns out that the stone gate has been hidden in the palace of the Song Kingdom. No wonder we haven't found it for so long. Things under our noses are often the hardest to find!"