In the sky.
Church Governor Xiao Rui was enveloped in a ball of golden light.
Faintly visible within the golden light, Governor Xiao Rui, wielding a battle-axe, was fighting Zhu Yan to a standstill.
He even seemed to have a slight edge over Zhu Yan.
Below, the Church members were invigorated.
They felt they could already see Governor Xiao achieving a great victory.
They looked at the restless forces and organizations that refused to follow orders.
Their eyes held a murderous glint, and they pondered how they would report these people to Governor Xiao for punishment later.
Boom!
A thunderous roar came from the sky.
Xiao Rui raised his battle-axe high and brought it down on Zhu Yan.
As the battle-axe cleaved down.
A bloody gash appeared on Zhu Yan's fists, followed by a gush of blood.
A frenzied, enraged roar erupted from Zhu Yan's mouth.
Upon seeing this, the Church members burst into exclamations.
But just as the exclamations began.
A black line shot up from the ground, directly slicing diagonally into the sky, splitting the golden light enveloping Xiao Rui in two.
At first glance, it looked like a golden wheel suspended in mid-air had been cut in half by a black line.
And within the golden light, Xiao Rui stumbled.
He activated his instant flash skill to dodge and weave.
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But it was still a little too late.
He only felt a warmth on his cheek.
He raised his hand to touch it.
Blood flowed from his cheek.
The flesh was torn open, and even the stark white bone within was visible.
Xiao Rui's expression solidified as never before.
Below, the Church members, who had been exclaiming just a second ago, fell silent instantly.
The black line circled around, landing on Zhu Yan's shoulder, coiling on the shoulder of the massive Zhu Yan; if one didn't look closely, they wouldn't see that a strange little snake with one head and two bodies was coiled there.
Xiao Rui's pupils constricted when he saw the strange little snake, and he uttered two words: "Feiyi!"
Hiss! Hiss!
The little snake's forked tongue flicked out.
The little fellow tilted its head.
It gave a human-like, provocative look.
Its tail slapped Zhu Yan's shoulder with a 'pah' sound.
Zhu Yan fiercely pounded his chest with both fists, instantly becoming a chest-beater.
A massive sound echoed, and Zhu Yan's figure suddenly grew taller, his already enormous body becoming even more colossal.
His giant claws swiped down at Xiao Rui.
Xiao Rui's expression was grave.
He raised his battle-axe high with both hands.
Behind him, a brilliant golden orb of light suddenly burst forth.
Then, a golden-armored figure appeared within the orb of light.
It was so intense that he was forced to manifest his Dharma Aspect.
Zhu Yan bared his fangs, brought his two claws together, loosely cupped them, and then stretched his claws horizontally.
Visibly, from both inside and outside the city, the aura emanating from many people's bodies converged into Zhu Yan's hands.
Some of the higher-level Awakened immediately realized that Zhu Yan was extracting the aura tainted with evil thoughts from everyone's bodies, directly condensing it into a giant staff in his palms.
The staff was almost transparent; Zhu Yan, holding the staff of evil thoughts, leaped up, his massive body soaring high, blotting out the sky and sun, and the staff of evil thoughts held in his two claws smashed down towards Xiao Rui's head.
Meanwhile, the two bodies of the little snake on his shoulder continuously compressed, like a spring being squeezed and loaded.
Once the spring-like body compressed to a certain extent, Feiyi's body directly shot out, drawing a black line through the void, seemingly splitting the void in two.
The staff of evil thoughts smashed down.
Xiao Rui held up his battle-axe to block, and the Dharma Aspect behind him also held up its battle-axe to block.
But after all, it was one against two.
A ball of golden light, like a scorching sun, rose up.
Xiao Rui roared.
"Blazing Sun Burning the Heavens!"
A gigantic orb of light ascended, like a second sun in the heavens and earth, its high temperature scorching the earth; visibly, the beast tide on the ground, those with lower cultivation who touched the golden light, instantly evaporated, and the ground also dried up and cracked, irregular dry soil chunks curling up.
Zhu Yan's long fur also began to smoke from the golden light's scorching, but the giant ape seemed completely oblivious, the staff in his hand already smashing down.
The staff, condensed from evil thoughts, solidly struck the golden light.
Visibly, the golden light and the staff fiercely collided, mutually annihilating each other.
Heat waves rolled, forming a gigantic concentric circle of air current in mid-air.
At this very moment.
A black line directly cut through the gigantic concentric circle of energy waves.
The black line, by unfortunate coincidence, swept across Xiao Rui's body.
Xiao Rui's expression showed shock and panic for the first time; without a word, he turned and activated instant flash, darting towards Yun Cang City.
He flashed into the city and landed on the ground in a disheveled state, tumbling and rolling.
Kicking up countless dust.
He landed squarely at Palace Master Shang's feet.
Palace Master Shang crouched down, supporting Xiao Rui; Xiao Rui's face was as pale as paper, blood gushing from his mouth, his body unable to move.
"Palace Master Shang, my lower body hurts; quickly give me your Ten Thousand Beasts Palace's medicine for leg injuries!"
Palace Master Shang said, "Governor Xiao, your two legs are fine, you don't need medicine!"
Xiao Rui glared at Palace Master Shang, angrily reprimanding him, "Palace Master Shang, I feel like my two legs hurt terribly! I order you! Give me the medicine!"
Palace Master Shang looked at Xiao Rui helplessly, "Governor Xiao, the medicine wouldn't help you anyway; your lower body is outside the city!"
Xiao Rui coughed up blood.
He struggled desperately, wanting to take a look, but half of his body had already fallen apart; Palace Master Shang supported Xiao Rui's head and lifted it slightly.
Only then did Xiao Rui see that everything below his stomach had been severed by that strange little snake and left outside the city.
His long intestines had also been severed and left outside the city.
Xiao Rui's mouth opened wide, gasping for air, but he couldn't catch his breath; his face grew paler and paler, his pupils gradually dilated, and his breathing became more and more rapid, finally, with his mouth agape, he completely died.
Everyone from the Church stared at Xiao Rui's corpse; for a moment, everyone was speechless.
Just a moment ago, they were arrogantly planning to punish these people, but in the blink of an eye, their Governor Xiao had died just like that.
Outside the city.
Zhu Yan fiercely pounded his chest with both fists, letting out another deafening roar.
Below, the beast tide launched another attack, a massive, dark army surging towards Yun Cang City.
The void vibrated, and Bai Mao Zai and Lu Dingjia appeared from a distance.
In almost a blink of an eye, the two had already reached the city wall.
The two looked at Xiao Rui, who was now cut in half, with no extra emotion on their faces.
"Old Xing, Old Zheng, Sect Master Liu, Palace Master Shang, you all are responsible for blocking the beast tide; Old Lu, let's go meet these two fierce beasts!"
After he finished speaking, the two figures had already flashed out of the city.
Sky Shield Bureau's Deputy Director Xing Longshu, Lao Se Pi Palace Master Shang, and two other people with the most authority here, all summoned their respective forces to block the beast tide.
After Xiao Rui died, those bastards from the Church all tucked their tails between their legs and dared not act arrogantly; now that their backbone was dead, if they continued to act arrogantly, they wouldn't even need the Eternal Night Army to act, the other people here would surely make them die a miserable death.
Palace Master Shang rinsed his bone flute and disinfected it again.
He stood on the city wall with his people, pouting and blowing his small bone flute.
But within the beast tide, with Zhu Yan and Feiyi in command, Palace Master Shang's bone flute alone, even if he blew it until it broke, would be useless.
Fang Xin's small team huddled together at one spot on the city wall.
The beast tide continuously rushed onto the city wall along the huge earthen slope created by the earth-attribute Awakened.
Even with a barrier blocking them, the barrier couldn't hold out indefinitely, so human intervention was still needed to attack the beast tide from the inside.
Shi Tailang continuously launched attacks, "Damn it, Palace Master Shang's bone flute can only block a portion! It can't fundamentally solve the problem at all! Is there any way to make these beast tides just retreat!"
"Fatty, are you still half-asleep? Unless someone of Old Master Ye's level from our Ninth Division comes, forget about it; we can only hold on."
"Damn it, if this continues, I feel like I'm going crazy."
"Endure it, that's all we can do!"
Fang Xin suddenly raised his hand, pointing directly at the beast tide beyond the barrier.
"Retreat!"
Shi Tailang turned his head to look at Fang Xin, grinning, "Alright! Another one gone crazy!"
But unexpectedly, just as he finished speaking.