His handsome face had turned as pale as paper, having continuously operated the Xuanyu Heavy Tower, a treasure of immense power which greatly exhausted its wielder. He was now slightly overextended.
By the time he quickly swallowed a Divine Medicine to suppress his injuries, Li Tian Gang had already escaped from his Dao Domain, rushing toward the Divine General Mansion with Ji Qingqing.
“Damn it!”
Feng Lingxiao’s face looked terrible; he couldn’t determine whether the sudden outbreak of his injury was due to consecutive depletion or the enigmatic power of Heavenly Dao drawing it out.
Once the Life-Defying Power was utilized, unpredictable “accidents” could occur, which could rescue him.
Yet, these accidents seemed to subtly conform to the laws of nature, like foreshadowing buried long ago, only triggered by the Life-Defying Power and not by any overtly felt formidable strength.
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This was why the Heavenly Dao was inscrutable.
Feng Lingxiao dared not pursue Li Tian Gang further; currently enveloped in the Life-Defying Power, he worried that continuing the chase might bring other unexpected events upon himself. Even though he was now at the Grand Tao of Peace Realm, he couldn’t sever the Life-Defying Power and could only watch helplessly as Li Tian Gang fled.
Fortunately, the opportunity to defy fate came only once. It was still possible to ambush later unless the other party directly fled from Qingzhou City.
“You had your fun killing before; now, it’s my turn!”
Feng Lingxiao turned to face Li Xiaoran and Li Qingzheng, who had been slaughtering the Demon King and massacring numerous demons, which had already filled him with a surge of furious blood.
Li Xiaoran’s face suddenly changed; Li Qingzheng also looked dismayed, unable to understand why the Array had suddenly shattered when it seemed it could have held out a bit longer.
“Die!”
Feng Lingxiao immediately chased after the two to kill them.
“Run!”
Li Xiaoran shouted, with no intention of facing him head-on, confronting someone wielding the Saint Heart Heavenly Treasure while in the Grand Tao of Peace Realm would be akin to seeking death.
They could only escape!
The process of escaping was to stall, to vie for time.
The brothers, in perfect unison without any need for communication, quickly scattered in opposite directions, east and west.
Meanwhile, inside the city, as the Array shattered, a massive wave of demons immediately swept in, clashing with the soldiers on the city walls.
And the Demon Kings charged into the city, spreading death.
He Jianlan, Gao Qingqing, Li Xuanli, and others, all clad in the lingering spirits of their ancestors, fought against the tide of demons.
When faced with Demon Kings, they could barely engage, but they were not of the Four Stands Realm themselves. Although they could briefly erupt with extreme power with the help of their ancestral spirits, they were still significantly inferior compared to the true Demon Kings.
Bang!
Chased by a Demon King of the Defying Fate Realm, Li Xuanli was slapped away, crashing into buildings, the devastating power of the impact directly killing the hiding residents.
Li Xuanli spat out blood, his face flushed, roaring as he invoked the Unwithering Strength and fought as one with 妖魔 the spirit of his ancestor, managing to hold his ground, but steadily being pushed back.
All over the city, it was instantly aflame with battles and clashes.
“Demons have breached the city…”
“The city has fallen!!”
Hidden citizens within their homes, witnessing the giant figures of Demon Kings fighting fiercely above in the sky, the fear they had forgotten over a millennium now plastered over their faces.
Inside the city, the Li Family Army fought chaotically against the demon tide but without the Array to hold them, and with only the army’s combat effort, the number of demons was too great. Many took advantage of the chaos to scale the military’s barricades, breaching the city and wreaking havoc everywhere.
Li Wushuang and Li Yuanzhao, among others, seeing this, swiftly divided their forces to combat the rampaging demons within the city.
But as the battle continued, increasingly more demons poured into the city, sloppily tearing through the military lines. The elite soldiers of Yuan Camp fought valiantly, but they couldn’t withstand the demons clearing the way.
Atop the mountain of Tan Palace Academy, Song Yufeng watched the city fall, his expression somber; behind him stood many masters and disciples of Tan Palace Academy.
“I at Tan Palace teach martial arts, but I also” teach humanity!”
Song Yufeng turned his head, looking at the numerous Tan Palace masters and disciples behind him, including his granddaughter. The sorrow in his eyes had receded, replaced by a resolute glare:
“Demons assault the city, civilians suffer; disciples of Tan Palace, are you willing to fight for all living beings before you?!”
“Fight!”
“Fight!!!”
The many disciples roared in unison.
Song Yufeng’s gaze turned gratified; he nodded and then firmly said, “Then follow me – downstairs to exorcise demons!”
As he spoke, leading with hands behind his back, he charged towards the bustling mortal world.
Many masters of Tan Palace flew after him, while the disciples either soared through the skies or ran down the mountain.
Among them were many Outer Court disciples of the Power Passage Realm; with some frightened ones secretly hiding away, but far more were undeterred, rushing into the battlefield below.
In a pond atop the mountain in Emerald Pond, the water suddenly stirred into a thousand layers of waves; a blue Water Qilin leapt out, carrying the icy waters down the mountain.
Before the Divine General Mansion, Li Tian Gang, along with Ji Qingqing who had fled with him, looked back and saw that the myriad of demons that had previously crowded outside the city, were now swarming over the city walls, clashing fiercely with the soldiers.
In the crowded mass of demons, many took the chaos as a chance to rush into the city, spreading destruction everywhere.
The entire Qingzhou City, prosperous for a thousand years, now, with the Array torn apart, fell into conflagration, giving a sense of collapse.
Li Tian Gang’s gaze momentarily blurred. Never had he imagined that Qingzhou City, where he grew from childhood, always witnessed as bustling and prosperous, would also encounter 현재 the scenes before him – where fires of war raged, demons filled the skies, and civilians fled in panic on the streets.