chsdbacks Chapter 118: The Demon's Scheme?
Chapter 118: The Demon's Scheme?
A pillar of black flames descended from the sky! The scorching heat caused the surrounding air to tremble slightly.
Miao Caixin's expression changed slightly, and she used her sword shadows to defend herself.
But in doing so, He Changhong seized the opportunity and his spear burst forth with energy!
The suppressive sword shadows struck in an instant!
Seeing this, Miao Caixin gritted her teeth and tried to dodge to the side, but she was still hit by the aftershocks.
Pfft, a mouthful of blood surged into his throat, mixed with tiny bits of flesh, and dripped from the corner of his mouth.
"Your Majesty!"
Tens of thousands of martial artists were engaged in a chaotic battle within a radius of ten miles.
A man wielding a sledgehammer saw Miao Caixin injured again while fighting two opponents and shouted anxiously, immediately rushing to her aid.
"Your Majesty! You go first!" Miao Zhan's blood and qi were boiling and burning, and his momentum was rising higher and higher!
Before long, he had progressed from the early stage of the Marrow Infusion Realm to the middle stage. He was just a little bit away from breaking through to the later stage.
"Take the men and retreat to Red Maple City!" Miao Caixin wiped the blood from her mouth and gave the order.
Miao Zhan seemed not to hear, and with a single swing of his hammer, he gathered a powerful force to attack He Changhong!
Seeing this, He Changhong sneered repeatedly and repelled him with a single shot without showing any weakness.
With a muffled groan, Miao Zhan stared at him warily.
He Changhong didn't make another move. Instead, with a hint of pity in her eyes, she said softly:
"Miao Zhan, Miao Zhan, have you ever heard the saying? A dog that forces its way in will only get walked."
"No matter how much you give, Miao Caixin will never look at you. She would rather choose a useless person whose bloodline talent had declined than a genius like you. Can't you see that?"
"You're still foolishly thinking about covering your tracks now, but even after you die, the woman you love will still be lying in another man's bed."
"Shut up!" Seemingly touched by a painful memory, Miao Zhan spat out a black Gu worm in a fit of rage. The Gu worm vanished into thin air in a flash.
He Changhong, who was not far away, caught a glimpse of this scene and his expression immediately changed drastically.
"You idiot, you actually used a life-sustaining Gu to cancel out my lifespan?" Sensing a slight loss of his vital essence, his face turned extremely ugly. He sneered:
"Heh, you stubborn fools, let me tell you the truth, you can't escape. Once the capital falls and I capture this woman, I'll definitely give her a good beating!"
"Then, I'll have Miao Zhan watching closely from the sidelines!"
Miao Zhan's face turned bright red from He Changhong's words. "Ah!! You'd better die!"
Upon seeing this, Miao Caixin's expression changed, and she hurriedly reminded him, "Miao Zhan! Calm down!"
But Miao Zhan was beyond reasoning with. No man could tolerate being humiliated in front of his beloved woman! Especially not Miao Zhan!
Seeing the two start fighting again, Miao Caixin frowned deeply, keeping a watchful eye on the tiger demon hidden in the clouds while scanning the surrounding battlefield.
The battlefield was in complete chaos, with the Eastern Border rebels and the Royal City warriors' alliance locked in combat. The two sides were evenly matched, and countless people were dying every moment.
Watching her people slaughter each other, Miao Caixin's eyes reddened. She gazed coldly at the Black Tiger King in the clouds.
"Damn it, what are these demons trying to do!"
She couldn't understand why the forces in the Eastern Territory had collectively betrayed them and sided with the demons. Didn't they know that this was like seeking a tiger's skin and courting death?
The Black Tiger King's actions, in particular, clearly showed that he was deliberately trying to balance the power between the two sides.
When the royal coalition initially held the advantage, they launched a horde of demons to besiege the coalition; once the coalition was weakened to a certain extent, they stopped intervening... It all seemed to be deliberately arranged.
But those warriors from the Eastern Territory actually believed that the demons had given them a way to survive, which was utterly ridiculous!
Suppressing her impulse, Miao Caixin exhaled and drew her sword, releasing a colorful sword aura into the sky.
"Martial artists at the Essence Blood Realm and above, prepare to cover the rear! Everyone else, evacuate the battlefield!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she patted the black bottle at her waist, and countless tiny Gu worms, as thin as mosquitoes, swept towards the warriors from the Eastern Border.
"Black Emperor Gu? You still have it!" He Changhong was looking for an opportunity to kill Miao Zhan when he suddenly caught sight of the swarm of black Gu worms and his expression turned to shock.
The Black Emperor Gu, one of the trump card Gu worms of the Southern Border royal family, has strong toxicity and the ability to penetrate blood and qi. One or two might not be scary, but thousands or thousands of them would exhaust even a martial artist in the essence blood realm to death!
Its unique nature makes it extremely difficult to kill; even for him, it would take a considerable amount of time to kill so many Black Emperor Gu.
"Let's go!" Miao Caixin shouted to Miao Zhan.
Miao Zhan glared at He Changhong resentfully. The blood and qi boosted by the Gu worms in his body had begun to weaken. Even though he was unwilling, he could only retreat with the army.
After an incense stick had burned, watching the Royal City Allied Forces disappear into the distance, He Changhong angrily crushed the few Black Emperor Gu he was holding in his hand.
The highly toxic fluids sizzled and burned in his palm.
"hateful!"
His gaze, fixed on the distance, barely swept across the sky, while he silently cursed something in his heart.
"My lord, our men are seriously injured. Should we stop to rest? We also have very few Gu worms left and need to replenish them," one of the men said in a low voice as he approached He Changhong.
"Take a day to rest. Also, gather the Gu worms and send a small team to Red Maple City to prevent the people inside from evacuating."
He Changhong's gloomy expression changed, and he sneered repeatedly.
"Hmph, I'd like to see if our king will abandon the people of the city and flee alone."
After Red Maple City comes the Royal City. Miao Caixin, where can you run to?
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"More and more people are fleeing to the capital..."
Looking at the densely packed crowds of refugees on the desolate plains not far away, several times more numerous than when they had first left the capital, it meant they were getting closer and closer to the battlefield.
It was the darkness before dawn, before the sun had risen, and the desolate land was filled with specks of light emitted by the Gu worms.
On the high ground, Zhang Ping remained silent for a long time. During this period, he had seen mostly refugees.
Whether in the Great Wei or the Southern Frontier, the impact of demons on this land is far greater than anyone imagined.
Suddenly, a sharp cry rang out from the eastern sky, and a ferocious-looking giant bird, shrouded in demonic energy, swooped down from the clouds, pecking at the humans on the wilderness.
The giant bird was only at the Refining Realm, and there were no other birds of its kind around; it seemed to have sneaked away on its own.
However, those with some cultivation in the city ahead had already left, and now the people in the wilderness were mostly martial artists or ordinary people with very low cultivation, who were no match for the giant bird.
Zhang Ping frowned, then casually unleashed a long streak of blood energy that spanned a thousand meters and beheaded the giant bird.
Ignoring the pleading looks from the refugees, he leaped into the sky again and disappeared in a flash.
The warm sun rises from the east, and the winter sunlight shines on the earth, but there is no sign of life.
After flying for a while, Zhang Ping noticed that the number of refugees on the wilderness below gradually decreased until there were none left to see. He found this rather strange.
But soon, a red city appeared at the edge of the horizon.