“It’s coming.”
Li Xiaoran’s figure appeared at some point, standing behind Li Hao, staring at the pitch-black area a hundred miles outside the city.
Gradually, the figures of demons became visible there. Rushing out of the darkness, they seemed to be crawling out from the abyss.
“Really fast.”
Li Hao hadn’t expected that the main quest to defend Dragon City would encounter demons so soon. It was the break of dawn, and they had to hold on until dawn ten days later!
During this time, he couldn’t rest.
Both of them were gazing outside the city where dry grass swirled in the air, and the demons on the horizon rushed forward, getting closer and closer.
Up in the command tower on the city wall, Li Tianzong’s figure emerged, clad in battle armor, exuding a majestic aura.
He gave the order to pass commands. The deputy beside him signaled with various colored flags, relaying orders in all directions. Above them, beacons of different colors were launched into the sky to transmit commands to other parts of the city.
Soon, the demons were near.
In an instant, following Li Tianzong’s orders, countless fire arrows shot from the city walls, and many Celestial Master Realm warriors also controlled their weapons, soaring out to meet the enemy outside the city gates.
Li Xiaoran and Li Hao took action as well, raising their hands to send forth beams of sword and blade light, their weapons flying dozens of miles into the demon flood.
The Green Frost Sword had the tails of nine demon souls attached to its blade, with their enormous upper bodies clawing ferociously, preying within the demon flood. In moments, many demons perished, including those from the Heavenly Human Realm and even the Great Demons of the Three Immortal Realms.
Li Hao watched the progress’s decimal points behind the Mo River pass jump rapidly, and his heart steadied. He controlled the Green Frost Sword to sweep across swiftly.
His breath surged, stirring up a tide of swords, like a cyan river of blades, sweeping across the demon flood and clearing a large swath instantly.
Li Xiaoran’s blade light darted among them, specializing in slaying Great Demons with a momentum like thunderbolts.
“You take this side; I’ll head to the other.”
Li Xiaoran said to Li Hao, “Watch out for those two sneaking attacks in the demon tide.”
“Understood.”
Li Hao nodded. The two split up but didn’t go far from each other, staying close enough to help if needed.
With their intervention, the onslaught of the demon tide was greatly relieved.
But before long, earth-shaking roars came from within the demon tide, and two ferocious silhouettes of Demon Kings pounced from within, heading straight for the Green Frost Sword.
Li Hao’s expression turned icy, his spiritual thought in motion, controlling the Green Frost Sword to counter-attack.
The tide of blades rose, piercing countless demons, among them condensed two dazzling beams of sword light, aimed right at the two Demon Kings.
To Li Hao’s regret, he hadn’t managed to collect the Yellow Sparrow Diagram during this time, and currently, his panel attributes lacked the lethal attack property.
The Yellow Sparrow Diagram was obtained in Liangzhou, and despite Li Tianzong sending people to search for it on behalf of Li Hao, perhaps because of a fixation on cognition, they were unable to find it.
Without this attribute, Li Hao clearly felt that his offensive means seemed somewhat weakened in such a chaotic group battle.
Otherwise, just by stirring up an endless tide of blades, he would have had a chance to slay the Demon Kings, but now, he needs to exert his real power to pose a threat to them, and this significantly increases his consumption.
Boom! Boom!
Both Demon Kings were repelled by Li Hao’s sword light, heavily wounded. Li Hao controlled the Green Frost Sword to chase after them quickly. The demon souls roared, swiftly biting and entangling the two Demon Kings’ bodies, followed by beheading from the flying sword that cleaved open their immense bodies, spilling their guts.
The sword light swirled, annihilating the escaping divine souls as well.
Two Demon Kings of the Tao Heart Realm perished under Li Hao’s hands within three rounds.
Cheers erupted from the soldiers on the city walls, as a deluge of fire arrows and many grandmasters’ weapons continued to fly out, assisting Li Hao in slaying the demon tide and killing those that slipped through.
While Li Hao stood guard on the city walls, in the depths of the demon tide, three figures sat atop a mountain, surrounded by countless demons howling as they surged forward.
“That kid has actually cultivated to such a level so quickly.”
“Feels almost no different than the outside. No wonder he reached the Three Immortal Realms at fifteen.”
“This kid must have a big secret, or possesses some mystic artifact, or it’s possible that a saint has reincarnated through the bloodline of the Divine General Mansion!”
The three cold and gloomy figures, watching the unceasing cyan sword light in front, were none other than the Candle Flame God and Lu Yuan.
Ms. Yin was also there, not guarding outside the Mo River as Li Xiaoran anticipated.
At this moment, all three had the same cultivation level as they had outside.
The Candle Flame God managed to maintain his and his wife’s original cultivation level by opening up the Dao Domain to isolate their rules.
Lu Yuan, on the other hand, had relied on the bloodline of the Dragon Clan to grow rapidly among the demons, restoring his former cultivation level.
“Saint reincarnating, hmph, it’s just a legend,” scoffed the Candle Flame God, showing no respect for Lu Yuan’s words, knowing he said this to escalate the killing intent towards Li Hao in his heart.
“Just wait. Today is only the first day. Even without our intervention, they won’t last. The real big guns haven’t even taken action yet,” Lu Yuan retorted without argument, his eyes coldly fixed on the city walls.
He dared to come because the Dragon Clan Demon King had entered the Mo River before and had some understanding of its special rules.
Ten days to besiege the city, and this was only the first day.
They sat watching the battle, not planning to take action immediately, but waiting for the opportunity and the loophole to appear.
“That Li Xiaoran has tried repeatedly here and has always managed to retreat unscathed, so he must have found a way to escape with his life. As soon as he prepares to withdraw, we’ll take action,” the Candle Flame God declared.