Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 141 Lop Nur - The Sun Disk That Fell From the Sky

Now that she had arrived in Lop Nur, Qin Xiaonan decided to take this opportunity to investigate the mysterious death of the Viper Lord.

The monarch whom Azir sent from Africa to support the original body mysteriously perished while crossing this desert.

He stood atop the sand dunes, gazing into the vast, desolate desert.

Now that the situation in Africa has stabilized, it is time for the glory of the Shurima Empire to shine upon other desert regions.

This ancient Taklamakan Desert may become a new territory for the empire.

After Qingning and the other person left, Qin Xiaonan rested for a night.

At dawn the next day, a rainbow suddenly appeared on the horizon—

"Cry——"

A clear, melodious cry pierced the sky, and the seven-colored peacock king descended from the heavens.

Azir kept it because of its flying ability.

“Take me to that desert over there,” he commanded in a deep voice.

When Qin Xiaonan mounted its back, a seven-colored halo instantly formed a protective shield, keeping out the desert's heat and sandstorms.

With a long cry, the Peacock King spread its wings and soared into the depths of the desert.

From this vantage point, the entire Taklamakan Desert resembles a flowing golden scroll, shimmering dazzlingly under the midday sun.

The rolling sand dunes resemble giant waves frozen in place, each ripple bearing the marks of ancient winds.

In the distance, a few stubborn poplar trees twisted and deformed in the heatwave, like the last guardians in the desert.

Qin Xiaonan sat upright on the back of the Peacock King, her blue robe fluttering in the wind.

"Young master, this desert is rather strange."

Just as Qin Xiaonan was about to respond, the Peacock King suddenly let out a sharp cry: "Young Master, be careful!"

Suddenly, the calm sand below exploded, and several sharp arrows formed from sand grains pierced the air.

These sand arrows glowed with an eerie, ghostly green light, and their shafts were wreathed in visible black malevolent energy, whistling through the air.

The Seven-Colored Peacock King reacted extremely quickly, its wings flapping suddenly, bringing with them a dazzling burst of light.

Its body instantly rose hundreds of meters high, and the deadly sand arrows barely grazed beneath its magnificent tail feathers.

A few peacock feathers, lifted by the shockwave, drifted down slowly, instantly turning to ashes upon contact with the residual malevolent energy of the sand arrow.

The Peacock King circled in the air, warily watching the now calm sands below: "My lord, this attack was suspicious. We didn't alert anyone."

Before he finished speaking, the entire desert suddenly began to shake violently.

The sand dunes in the distance began to writhe as if they were alive, and a huge vortex was forming directly beneath them.

At the center of the vortex, a pair of scarlet eyes could be vaguely seen staring at them from the depths of the earth.

The Peacock King's seven-colored wings were fully unfurled, and a defensive magic array began to circulate around his body.

It whispered, "Young master, this aura... is somewhat dangerous."

"Interesting." Qin Xiaonan narrowed her eyes, not expecting the demons in this desert to be so violent, being attacked simply by flying through the air.

He suspected that the Viper Lord had most likely met his demise here.

At that moment, the world seemed to fall silent.

Qin Xiaonan's previously restrained aura suddenly erupted, like a dormant volcano suddenly awakening, or an ancient dragon opening its eyes.

A dazzling golden light began to surge around him.

Qin Xiaonan invoked the power of Tsar Azir, unleashing the ancient imperial might directly.

The Seven-Colored Peacock King's feathers instantly bristled, and under this sudden pressure, it involuntarily lowered its head. "Since you're so enthusiastic..."

Qin Xiaonan's voice changed, becoming deep and majestic, as if thousands of voices overlapped together, each syllable carrying a power that could shake heaven and earth.

His eyes turned completely golden, and deep within his pupils seemed to burn like a blazing sun.

He slowly raised his hands; the movement seemed slow, yet it was as if it moved the entire world.

"Then I'll play with you."

Before the words were even finished, the entire sky suddenly changed color!
The once cloudless sky was now as if stirred by an invisible giant hand, with the clouds churning wildly and retreating to both sides.

Immediately afterwards, a golden disc with a diameter of over a kilometer appeared out of thin air, hanging majestically above Lop Nur, casting a shadow that covered the desert for dozens of miles around.

—The solar disk!
Azir's signature power, the supreme symbol of the Shurima Empire!

The disc was formed entirely of pure light energy, and its surface was engraved with countless ancient and mysterious Shurima runes. Each rune was filled with the essence of the sun and exuded a suffocating sense of oppression.

The edge of the disc was surrounded by blazing golden flames, the intense heat distorting the air below, and many grains of sand silently melted into crystalline glass.

In the center of the disc, a giant pointer slowly rotates, each movement seemingly measuring the heavens and earth, its tip brimming with terrifying energy capable of incinerating mountains and boiling seas.

"Buzz——"

With a hum, the solar disk suddenly burst into dazzling light, illuminating the entire desert as if it were cast in gold.

A golden wave of light emanated from the center of the disc and spread outwards in a ring shape.

Wherever the light waves passed, the desert surface was scorched with black marks, and the demons hidden underground had nowhere to hide!

"roar--"

Then the entire desert erupted in chaos! Countless demons burst forth from beneath the dunes, roaring in fury.

There were enormous sandworms, scorpion kings covered in bone armor, and demons that were half-human and half-snake. They all looked up angrily at the sun disc in the sky, their eyes filled with rage and fear.

"Despicable invaders!" A giant sandstorm lizard, its body as large as a small mountain, stood upright, its forepaws forming massive sand balls which it slammed into the sun disk. "Get out of our territory!"

Dozens of demons launched an attack simultaneously.

Sand blades, poison stings, bone spears—all sorts of attacks rained down on the golden disc in the air.

however--

"Bang! Boom! Boom!"

Every attack was deflected by an invisible barrier the moment it touched the disc!

Even more terrifying, these rebounded attacks were actually accompanied by the golden flames of the solar disk, increasing their power several times over!
"what!"

The Sandstorm Giant Lizard was hit by the fireball it had thrown, and half of its body instantly carbonized; the Bone Armor Scorpion King's stinger flew back and pierced directly through its own skull.
The pointer on the sun disk began to slowly rotate, scattering countless golden points of light with each rotation.

When these points of light landed on the demons, they immediately ignited into an inextinguishable flame.

Immediately afterwards, Qin Xiaonan raised her right hand, and a silver light flashed in her palm—it was the space prism she had just obtained!

Without hesitation, he threw it high into the sky, aiming it directly at the sun's disk that blotted out the sky.

"Buzz——"

The moment the space prism made contact with the solar disk, it burst forth with a dazzling silver light.

The originally pure golden light energy began to intertwine with the power of space. The two completely different energies did not annihilate each other in the collision, but instead strangely merged and differentiated.

The pointer at the center of the solar disk suddenly accelerated its rotation, intertwined with intense golden light and silver spatial power.

Immediately afterwards, space began to tremble, and a pitch-black crack slowly tore open beneath the disc—

"Tear."

(End of this chapter)