Chapter 148 - Cheers (1/2)

Green Mountain Prefecture City was in chaos.

Although the various human cities had been drilled for such situations—where all citizens below the Marrow Cleansing realm were to escape into the deep tunnels when the demons invaded—it was currently the middle of the night. Most people were sleeping soundly! Despite the din in the city, 30 to 40 percent of the city remained asleep.

Some people didn’t care about others. They led their own families into the tunnels first! Some went around, shouting and waking people up.

“Quick, quick! Ergou, stop sleeping.” A middle-aged, one-armed man kicked open his neighbor’s door. He entered the yard and kicked open another door that was locked from the inside. The wooden door was shattered. Only then did Ergou and his family wake up. They heard the urgent bell-clanging and the commotion outside.

“The demons are here. Hurry up and enter the tunnel. Quick, quick!”

The commotion outside and the man’s frantic shouting jolted Ergou and his family out of their reveries.

“Thank you, Uncle Zhang!” One of the youths from Ergou’s family shouted immediately.

The one-armed man left immediately once he saw Ergou’s family awake. He rushed around the neighborhood, kicking open every door that was locked from the inside. As a Marrow Cleansing veteran, he could kick down wooden doors easily.

He woke up all the families that were still asleep. He wasn’t the only one. Others were waking up their neighbors as well.

Everyone knew that when ordinary people faced demons, they would be slaughtered. Only by reaching the Marrow Cleansing realm would they be able to put up a fight.

…

The six demon monarchs charged towards the two Godfiends. Wherever they passed, ruins were left in their wake.

Fortunately, most people had left their residences and rushed to the deep tunnels. The demon monarchs had slaughtered quite a lot of mortals during the early stages of the invasion. Although they began destroying buildings later, the casualties incurred were significantly lower than expected.

The demon monarchs didn’t care about the mortals. They were staring at the two Godfiends that

had rushed over from afar.

Six demon monarchs? One of them is a third Firmament demon monarch? Wang Fucheng and Hu Xiao were alarmed when they saw the six demon monarchs charging towards them.

“Let’s go to Crescent Lake and fight there,” said Wang Fucheng with a voice transmission.

“Alright.” Hu Xiao immediately agreed.

They had two reasons for choosing Crescent Lake as their battlefield. Firstly, fighting above the lake would result in reduced casualties. Secondly, Palace Lord Wang Fucheng was stronger when fighting around water.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

The two dashed towards Crescent Lake.

“Do both of you think you can escape?” Jumo sneered when he saw them fleeing to another location.

“What a joke.”

“One of them is Wang Fucheng, an Archean Mountain disciple. The other is an ordinary Godfiend. They are both Indestructible Godfiends.” The other demon monarchs smiled hideously. They had intelligence on the various prefectures in the world. Of course, it would be difficult for them to gather information on Godfiends that were living in seclusion. Unfortunately for the humans, Godfiends needed to guard various locations in the world. There were few Godfiends that were unknown to the demons.

The six demon monarchs quickly chased after them. Jumo was the fastest, far exceeding Wang Fucheng and Hu Xiao’s speed.

“I hope we can hold on for a little longer. It’ll be great if we can hold out until a Marquis Godfiend arrives.”

“Perhaps, there are powerful Godfiends around Green Mountain Prefecture.”

Wang Fucheng and Hu Xiao hoped for a miracle to happen. They understood if a miracle didn’t occur, a huge calamity would befall Green Mountain Prefecture City.

…

At Green Mountain Prefecture City’s northern city wall, soldiers from all over the city had rushed over—even if they had been off-duty. Over 10,000 soldiers were gathered at the northern wall, and more soldiers were still coming.

Most of the soldiers were ordinary in strength. Many of them had not reached the Marrow Cleansing realm and were still in the Internal Tempering realm. However, they weren’t serving in the military. They were just protecting their city. Such a job had low strength requirements. Most soldiers operated the alarms or defensive mechanisms.

“Brace yourselves.”

Defensive machinery was being transported from various buildings and being placed into specific positions on the city walls.