Nine Dragon Blood War Banner

Carried by General Li during the Battle of Talas. The Nine Dragon Blood War Banner was one of the most powerful ritual artifacts from Taizong’s era, a supreme treasure produced in an era of war and chaos. It existed purely for war, and it required gathering together nine elite armies. These nine armies combined and empowered by the Nine Dragon Blood War Banner created one of the finest fighting forces on the continent.

It is an extremely powerful war banner, capable of releasing immense energy, capable of increasing the strength of any army that comes into possession of that military banner, it and the military banner of the "Nine Dragon Army", formed by nine best armies of the Great Tang Empire.

Wang Chong’s mind was whirring as he gazed at the old and mottled banner. Back then, he had spent enormous amounts of time and energy in search of this banner, but his efforts had turned up nothing. When the Sage Emperor passed, the most legendary war banner of the Central Plains had vanished with him, and no one else was able to find it. This was a tremendous loss for both Wang Chong and the entire Central Plains.

This time around, Wang Chong had wanted nothing more than to find this war banner. But the Central Plains was as vast as the sea and Wang Chong had no idea where to start. Finding it was far easier said than done. But Wang Chong had never expected that at the crucial moment of this war, the banner that he had so longed for would appear before his eyes.

The Nine Dragon Blood War Banner!

This was one of the strongest war banners of the Central Plains. This war banner was rumored to have originated more than one thousand years ago in the era of the Great Han Emperor Wu. At the time, the renowned Champion Marquis Huo Qubing1 had used this banner in a formation as he led the army in conquering the Xiongnu to the north. Over a thousand years, this formation had been modified through the generations, growing stronger and stronger. In the era of Emperor Taizong, it became the world-famous formation known as the Dragonspear Tiger Leopard Cavalry.

The Nine Dragon Blood War Banner was the core of this formation. In Taizong’s era, it was the most powerful ritual tool of the Central Plains and the highest symbol of the Great Tang army’s power. These were the reasons Wang Chong had so tirelessly sought out this war banner. (Ch. 1093)

In the Great Tang, more than one hundred years ago, in Taizong’s era, there was a Tang war banner forged from Deep Sea Xuan Metal and the cores of meteors. This war banner can control nine top-class armies and also layer their halos over each other, allowing a single army to possess nine powerful halos at once. It was precisely because of this war banner that the Great Tang was invincible on the battlefield, allowing it to defeat the Turkic Khaganate and divide it into two. At the same time, it was also able to defeat the Goguryeo Empire, Mengshe Zhao, the Xi, the Khitans, and even U-Tsang. Thus, the earliest legends of the Great Tang’s golden age were formed. It was also in that era that the Great Tang became acknowledged as the strongest country on the continent.

## Appearance

The pole was the height of two people and as thick as a wrist. It was made from some mix of Deep Sea Xuan Metal and another unknown metal, but even more striking was the banner itself. The banner was red on black, a red so vivid that it seemed like dripping blood. The banner was somewhat tattered and threadbare, clearly extremely ancient. Most unbelievable of all was that one could sense a pure and vigorous Stellar Energy flowing within this banner.