- Chapter 173 (1/2)
Get Lost!
Quwo City, Pingyuan City, Meng City, Linzi City…
Under Jie Xiu’s lead, Ning Fan passed by the cities through the short-ranged transportation portals.
As both of them were Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, the treatment they received was undoubtedly different from that of Gold Core Realm cultivators.
For Gold Core Realm cultivators, the portal would only be activated when a certain number of people gathered together. The reason behind it was to avoid wasting immortal jade. As such, a lot of time was wasted while waiting for the others.
Since Ning Fan and Jie Xiu had renowned identities, they were able to demand to activate the portals whenever they reached a city. The controller of the formations didn’t dare to disobey their orders even though there were only a few Gold Core Realm cultivators with them.
In just six days, the two of them had already travelled for millions of li through hundreds of transportation portals and reached the northwestern border –Ju Shan Guan!
Along the journey, the scenes coming into sight were getting more and more horrendous as they got closer to the northwestern region.
Thousands of li outside Ju Shan Guan lied corpses of both cultivators and demons as well as shattered magical treasures. The air was also filled with a thick bloody stench. As for the villages of ordinary people within thousands li of Ju Shan Guan, they were already annihilated when the demon tide just started. Not even a single corpse of a mortal was left behind.
Just within that area, the casualties caused by the demon tide amounted to hundreds of thousands of mortals and thousands of cultivators.
If that amount was added up with the casualties in the lands that had fallen into the demons’ hands, there would be tens of thousands of cultivators slain while tens of millions of mortals lost their lives in just the northwestern region of Great Jin.
Even though Ning Fan had been through a lot of bloodshed, he couldn’t keep his composure when he saw the scenes of gore in front of him.
He could treat the death of the cultivators indifferently because fighting and killing were the fate of a cultivator.
Why do mortals also have to die? All they ever wanted was a full meal, a warm bed, a harmony family and a peaceful life. But all of those became wishful thoughts when the demon tide rose.
Jie Xiu had a different attitude from Ning Fan.
When Jie Xiu heard of the deaths of ordinary people, he was emotionless. His expression only became uneasy when he knew about the severe casualties of cultivators.
Their Dao were different…
It was absolutely unexpected for Ning Fan to see that multiple high-rank cultivation cities were occupied by the demons. They trampled upon the cities and turned them into wastelands.
Six days ago, Jie Xiu informed him that three cities had been destroyed.
Today, the total number of cities that had fallen now increased to seven.
Therefore, Ju Shan Guan, which originally wasn’t the outermost city in the border, became a high-rank city and faced a high level of threat after the destruction of the cities at the frontlines. Revered Snow who returned from battle with injuries was enraged and summoned all the Nascent Soul Realm experts to this city. He intended to set this city as the stronghold and launch a counter-attack on the demon tide!
Coincidentally, Jing Zhuo and Yin Suqiu were guarding the same city.
Are they safe? I should have advised Yin Suqiu not to select this city.
When Ning Fan and Jie Xiu were right outside the city, the demon tide was still in full force. A weak spirit sense at Early Spirit Severing Realm swept through both of them. After identifying them as part of the human race, the owner of the spirit sense no longer cared about them.
That person was Revered Snow!
Since the person is in such a level alertness, it means that the situation is in truly urgent!
Jie Xiu hoped that they could hurry into the city but Ning Fan shook his head.
“Fellow Daoist Jie, you go and join with the other Nascent Soul Realm cultivators. I want to go to the top of the city wall and meet my friends.”
“Fellow Daoist Zhou, there’s no time to waste in such urgent circumstances…”
Jie Xiu’s words fell on deaf ears. Ning Fan made a step forward and turned into an ice rainbow, heading towards the city wall of Ju Shan Guan.
Upon seeing that, Jie Xiu shook his head gently as he also knew that Zhou Ming’s companions were guarding this city as well.
In that case, he went to report his arrival to Revered Snow himself.
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Each and every one of the demons rushed to the city like ocean waves, unafraid of death. Among them, there were Vein Opening Realm and Harmonious Spirit Realm demons too. The amount of demons was so many that there was no end to them.
Some bird-like demons and Harmonious Spirit Realm demons flew above the city wall and attacked the cultivators who were guarding the wall.
When the demons reached the bottom of the city wall, they would try to gnaw at the Grand Defensive Formation, corroding its power. Some demons that were killed by cultivators would explode themselves before dying to perish together with the cultivators while weakening the formation. The cultivators could only prevent the demons from self-exploding by killing them in one blow.
The Grand Defensive Formation of Ju Shan Guan had already started to fall apart under the fierce attacks of the demon tide. Although immortal jade could be used to replenish the power of the formation, but nearly one third of the formation’s vital areas were crushed under the impact of the attacks with no way of repairing them.
Some Gold Core Realm demons shapeshifted into humans while some kept their beast bodies. When they rushed towards the top of the city wall and slaughtered the cultivators, not a single normal guard could resist them. Only Gold Core Realm cultivators were able to withstand them for a little while.
Yin Suqiu was also involved in a desperate fight on the city wall.
Her moves were calm and unhurried. When she was floating in the air, she looked like a celestial being from heavens. The crystal ring in her hands was already stained with fresh blood.
With just a strike using that crystal ring, a Gold Core Realm demon would surely die. There were even a few Peak Gold Core Realm demons killed by her attacks.
However, the number of demons were way too much.
Anxiety began to fill Suqiu’s eyes.
The demon tide was getting more difficult to endure. Is Great Jin going to be annihilated?
As a matter fact, the worries she had now was much lesser compared to who she used to be.
When she recalled that Ning Fan got hurt by the cultivators of Great Jin, she was no longer concerned about this country.
“Since the cultivators of Great Jin don’t have a Dao, it would be reasonable for the country to be eliminated.”
In the past, she won’t bear these thoughts in her mind. But after what she had been through, it was inevitable for her to think of them.
With the Heaven and Earth Ring in her hand, she seemed to be like a secluded orchid in a deserted valley, walking in the sea of blood. Thus, she became even more noticeable to the demons.
Four human-shaped demons at Peak Gold Core Realm surrounded her in the center. There were male and female demons among them.
Wielding her powerful ring, she severely injured one of the demons in just a blink of an eye. However, she had already exhausted her magic power earlier while attacking the groups of demons.
Suddenly, she let down her guard for just a while and a brawny male demon approached her from the back. He unsheathed his bloody claws and slashed wildy at Suqiu.
“This is bad!”
Her eyes widened with surprise. At that very moment, she couldn’t activate her Butterfly Wings to teleport away because her magic power was fully depleted. There’s no way that she would be able to escape from that attack!
At that moment, the area of a thousand zhang of heaven and earth around her became frozen. Immediately, all the weak demons turned into fragments of shattered ice and vanished after a powerful quake!
“Ice Smash!”
All four of the Peak Gold Core Realm demons spat out mouthfuls of blood. Each of them expressed astonishment and flew away to retreat!
Without having the time to recover from her fright, she found herself in someone’s embrace.
She was familiar with this aura. She knew that smile. She recognized that pair of eyes which were like thousand-year-old ice.
“Sorry that I came late!”
He gave a simple apology and instantly vanished in a blink of darkness.