White Emperor City, outside the Prefecture.
The wind howled furiously, drums sounded rhythmically, and battles erupted from all sides.
On the battlefield, a burly Great Han with curly beards bellowed, his blade tearing through the night, suddenly bursting with light, and a two-meter tall Second Realm Demon with a body covered in fine green snake scales, vertical slit pupils, and a fierce gaze, had a fine line of blood appear on its neck, followed by its head soaring into the air.
Qin Hu grabbed the beast’s head, then hurled it towards a crowd of Demon Cult followers who were mindlessly attacking, the whistling of the air piercing through two low-level believers instantly.
Immediately after, with a shout, he flicked his sleeves, and from within them, a dozen golden talismans flew out.
The golden talismans shot out with the streams of light, tinkling as they landed on the ground around him, followed by a surge in brilliance, and paper-men appeared, then inflated like being pumped with air, turning into two-zhang-tall Yellow Turban Warriors.
As soon as they appeared, like ferocious beasts, they charged into the dense shadows, their fists thundering, breaking through the enemy lines.
Soon, a Profound Body Demon was startled and howled as it charged back towards this side.
And this was just the tip of the iceberg in the battle.
Across the wilderness, a procession of fierce exotic beasts, those flying in the sky and running on the ground, surged towards the Prefecture following the Demon Cult’s banners’ movements, with Demonic Qi billowing out, the rumbling seemed to shake the very earth.
Led by the Azure Dragon Division, the Black Gold Rhinoceros with its thick black armor and long, sharp horns.
Led by the White Tiger Department, the Leopard Tiger Beast with leopard-spotted tiger heads, swift as the wind with razor-sharp claws.
And the Vermilion Bird Tribe’s Scarlet Beak Birds, one zhang in size, flapping into the sky, spewing flames from their mouths.
While from the Xuanwu Department, the Crocodile Ghosts with crocodile heads and turtle-shell bodies, this beast would tuck its head, and its four sturdy and powerful limbs would suddenly thrust it midair, then retract into its shell.
After that, the beast would fall to the ground from the air, then bounce up violently, jumping and bouncing faster and higher, rapidly approaching the high walls of the Prefecture.
Atop the city walls, a cry rang out.
Soon, gusts of wind started to howl in the night sky.
Initially, the flags flapping to the northwest on the city walls suddenly tightened and turned southward.
Then, a gale arose, howling out towards the borders, blowing the mystic fog spread by the Demon Cult to roll back, gradually exposing the fierce exotic beasts hidden within.
"Gongtian Bureau, fire!"
With that command, the sound of arrows tearing through the air thundered.
Blood-red streaks as thick as tree trunks flashed from atop the city walls, aiming at the screaming exotic beasts charging from several miles away.
Exotic beasts were hit one after another by the arrows.
The Black Gold Rhinoceros, with their thick skins and tough flesh, often had to be hit with several arrows before they thunderously fell, while the Scarlet Beak Birds in the sky spewing flames posed the least threat; when struck by long arrows their feathers exploded off, and the Demon riding atop them fell from high.
Only the remarkably fast Leopard Tiger Beast and jumping Alligator Turtle, bounding and springing like antelopes dangling from horns, caused many of the arrows to miss their mark.
"Heavenly Mechanism Department!"
Immediately, the sound of clacking intensified.
Then, one after another, armored soldiers rushed into the Mechanical Puppets and leaped down from the city walls.
There were more than twenty of them, each three to four zhang tall, their bodies glistening with a metallic sheen, forged from metal, some in animal shapes, some humanoid.
This was the work of the Mo Family’s Mechanical Techniques, driven by Qi, with cleverly designed internals, enhanced with many Qimen Arrays.
Upon the appearance of these Mechanical Puppets, Qimen Mechanisms triggered, some casting a net-like Spirit Light that ensnared the exotic beasts, while others bizarrely fast, intercepted the beasts.
And yet, the Demon Cult forces’ momentum did not diminish, with a rattle, they reached the front of the Prefecture.
The Demons hidden inside revealed their fierce appearances one after another, pouncing towards the city walls.
For a time, the city walls were filled with shouts and cries, Divine Skills and magic flying all around, the slaughter was fierce.
And high above at this moment,
The Four Symbols of Demon Sect, Heavenly Pass’s Colonels, the Dragon Sect Master, and Three Military Officers wielding the Treasury’s Taoist Soldiers were divided into three battlefronts, in a deadlock.
And somewhere below in the night, a pair of sinister and fierce blood-red eyes watched all this unfold.
First, they glanced down at the dense brawl below, a trace of disdain flickering in those orbs.
Then they gazed upon the three battlefronts above, the eyes slowly rolling, gleaming with cold cunning.
It was the gaze of a predator selecting its prey!
Finally, those eyes settled on one spot.
A white-browed guy, flourishing Dual Swords, roaring commands and curses, truly noisy.
In the next second, a rush of blood-red rose swiftly within those fierce eyes, and then two streaks of blood-light shot out at incredible speed, striking Dragon Sect’s Long Cang!
Following that, a pitiful and shrill scream eerily pierced the sky.
All at once, silence fell.
All the soldiers looked up, then couldn’t help but cry out in shock.
"Dragon Sect Master!"
The Dragon Sect Master who had boasted prestige in White Emperor for dozens of years was impaled through the chest by an unseen fierce Demon.
That Demon, with a human face and goat body, with two blood-red eyes open on its breasts, though only five to six zhang in size, just a look at those fierce, blood-red Demon Eyes, a chill would rise in one’s heart.
Next, before anyone could react, the fierce Demon opened its crisscrossed sharp-teethed mouth and ripped Long Cang’s half body to shreds.
The Fourth Heavenly Barrier, in a flash, blood scattered across the sky!
Xiang Qingtian, witnessing this scene, his pupils constricted.
Then, with his brows furrowed and eyes wide in rage, he swung the Scarlet Gold Hammer in his hands, igniting a burst of fire, driving back Vermilion Bird and Xuanwu.
Then, his body plummeted sharply downwards.
The Mountain Patrol Military Officers below, seeing this change, also changed expression, not following Xiang Qingtian together.
Xiang Qingtian caught Long Cang’s blood-soaked, remaining half body.