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People from various small and medium-sized city passes were still migrating en masse. Demons would occasionally attack a city pass, but they would rush back to the Demon Realm when they realized a Marquis Godfiend was present. The presence of a Marquis Godfiend horrified the demon monarchs.
The demons’ goal was to force the Marquis Godfiends to defend the city passes.
19th March, morning.
The sky was gloomy—a sign that it was about to rain.
Zhang Yunfeng and Yang Fang stayed inside the manor while Meng Chuan continued patrolling the city as usual.
Above the clouds, 50 kilometers away from Jiang State Capital, black water flew over.
Whoosh.
Eleven figures stood above the black water. Leading them was a bald, black-robed man. Barefoot, he stood on the black water. The ten Skydemons behind him had extraordinary auras, but they appeared extremely reverent.
“Look, there’s an avian demon monarch up ahead.” The bald, black-robed man saw a bird flying half a kilometer ahead. With eyes filled with pity, he said, “Unfortunately, a carefree avian demon monarch was enslaved by the Godfiends. Now, he is diligently serving the Godfiends. He doesn’t even know that he is a Demon Realm demon monarch.”
“This bird should be patrolling. However, it can’t see us at all, even though we are very close to it.”
“How can this demon monarch see through the Palace Lord’s concealment?” The Skydemons complimented the Palace Lord’s abilities.
The bald, black-robed man was the Blackwater Palace Lord. The Blackwater Palace was one of Skydemon Sect’s seven factions. He enjoyed a very high status in Skydemon Sect.
Whoosh.
The bald black-robed man stretched out his hand, and an invisible force blanketed the bird—that was half a kilometer away. The bird immediately struggled in pain. Blood spilled out of its body, and it soon became a desiccated corpse—no more blood or liquid was left inside it.
“Let’s meet up with the demon monarchs,” said the bald, black-robed man. He controlled the black water and—with the ten third Firmament Skydemons behind him—descended.
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50 kilometers outside Jiang State Capital.
Over a hundred demon monarchs gathered on a patch of grass. Sixteen were third Firmament demon monarchs, and 103 were second Firmament demon monarchs.
“He’s here.” The demon monarchs saw the scenery in front of them distort, revealing the bald, black-robed man and the ten third Firmament Skydemons behind him.
“Greetings, Blackwater Palace Lord.” The demon monarch-in charge bowed together with the other demon monarchs.
Although the demons were much stronger than the Skydemon Sect, the demons still had to give face to the Skydemon Sect when they were in the human world. Here, they were partners of equal standing.
After all, Blackwater Palace Lord was a fourth Firmament Skydemon. He was as strong as Marquis Godfiends and fourth Firmament demon monarchs. In the Demon Realm, there were many third Firmament demon monarchs, however, there weren’t as many fourth Firmament demon monarchs. Every fourth Firmament demon monarch enjoyed a high status in the Demon Realm. Thus, they didn’t dare be disrespectful when facing Blackwater Palace Lord.
If Blackwater Palace Lord destroyed them with a flip of his hand and claimed that the human Godfiends had done it, the demons would probably have nothing to say.
“One hundred and nineteen demon monarchs?” When Blackwater Palace Lord saw this, he indifferently asked, “Is that all?”
“We’ve been constantly pursued ever since we entered the human world. It hasn’t been easy to gather so many for the assault on Jiang State Capital,” said Demon Monarch Goat respectfully. “Blackwater Palace Lord, may I know about the Godfiends in Jiang State Capital?”
“I don’t know,” said Blackwater Palace Lord.
“No idea?” The demon monarchs were astonished. The Skydemon Sect was in charge of gathering intelligence, but they actually said they didn’t know?
“The ones responsible for investigating Jiang State Capital didn’t return alive,” said Blackwater indifferently. “However, there’s nothing to be afraid of since we are certain that all Marquis Godfiends are defending the middle-sized city passes.”
“Yes, yes,” answered Demon Monarch Goat obediently. The other demon monarchs exchanged looks and did not dare say a word.
“Jiang State Capital.” Blackwater Palace Lord looked at the city a hundred kilometers away. He whispered, “Jiang and Wu in harvest spell food for the world?”
There was indeed a saying in the Great Zhou Dynasty that Jiang and Wu in harvest spelled food for the world. Although the Great Zhou Dynasty was more densely populated than the Great Yue Dynasty, that was the overall situation. There were still major differences in the Great Zhou Dynasty’s 23 states. For example, the places in the north—such as North River Pass—were cold and mountainous. Here, few places were suitable for growing food, and harvests only happened once a year.
The Jiang State and Wu State were different. The Great Zhou Dynasty’s southeastern region was filled with plains. Many lakes littered the region, and water was abundant. There was no need to worry about droughts. In the vast fertile lands, large fields lined the area. Additionally, harvests happened twice a year here—meaning a lot more food was produced than in the northern regions.
“The Godfiends allowed demon monarchs entry since they hold the absolute advantage. It’s very difficult to engage in wanton massacres. It’s already impressive if we can kill 20 to 30 percent of the population by paying a huge price. Their losses would be rapidly recovered with the humans’ reproductive abilities. If we want to reduce the number of humans, we have to cut off their food supplies. Without food, there will be fewer people.”
Blackwater Palace Lord knew what the Skydemon Sect and the Demon Realm’s leaders had planned. Food was the demon’s primary target. Thus, the Jiang State and Wu State were of utmost importance.
“All demon monarchs are to scatter. Invade Jiang State Capital from all directions and kill anyone you come across. All you need to do is slaughter everybody you see,” ordered Blackwater Palace Lord.
“Yes,” answered the demon monarchs in unison.
Chapter 171 - Churning Smoke
The demon monarchs immediately surrounded Jiang State Capital’s four city walls. Only Blackwater Palace Lord and the ten Skydemons were left on the plain.
“All of you, move out as well,” instructed Blackwater Palace Lord indifferently. “According to our agreement, we will infiltrate Jiang State Capital and carry out a massacre. We will force the Godfiends to appear before killing them.”
“Yes.” The ten Skydemons respectfully obeyed the order, split into four squads, and disappeared from the plain.
Blackwater Palace Lord looked at the distant Jiang State Capital before his body silently transformed into black water. The black water entered a nearby river and rapidly moved towards Jiang State Capital at terrifying speeds.
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Outside Jiang State Capital’s western city wall.
The demon monarchs were blurry shadows as they charged towards the western city wall extremely quickly.
“We’ve finally arrived at the western city wall after taking a 150 kilometer detour. The western city wall is the furthest, so we were the slowest to arrive. The demon monarchs have already arrived at the other three walls.” Demon Monarch Goat looked at the towering western city wall in front of him. Currently, 30 demon monarchs were split into 12 groups. They were scattered around the western city wall—that spanned dozens of kilometers. Two demon monarchs stood beside Demon Monarch Goat.
“Leader, the demon monarchs are waiting for your command.” The other two demon monarchs were filled with anticipation.
Demon Monarch Goat’s excited eyes filled with killing intent.
They had been hiding in the human world for too long. They could finally storm a large city, something they didn’t dare do in the past.
However, there were no Marquis Godfiends in the city, while a fourth Firmament Skydemon led their attack!
“Let’s begin.” Demon Monarch Goat’s sharp claws pointed at the gloomy sky.
Swoosh.
Blinding white light shot out from Demon Monarch Goat’s claws and into the sky. The beam of white light—1000 feet wide—was extremely eye-catching. Even mortals could see the dazzling beam of light from tens of kilometers away, much less the demon monarchs.
The light was a signal—the signal to attack together!
“Kill!” The demon monarchs led by Demon Monarch Cat—scattered outside the dozens of kilometers-long eastern city wall—charged at the city wall rapidly. At the southern city wall, the demon monarchs—led by Demon Monarch—also moved. Demon Monarch Tiger led the charge on the northern city wall. Demon Monarch Goat led the charge on the western city wall.
“Demon monarchs, there are demon monarchs!” The soldiers patrolling the city walls shouted frantically. Since the demon monarchs were no longer concealing themselves as they charged towards the city walls, the soldiers immediately saw their large figures.
Furthermore, since this was a state capital, the generals of the four city walls each had a Demon Seeking Token. Once demonic powers were released within 25 kilometers of the Demon Seeking Token, the tokens would alert the generals.
The four generals were shocked to see their Demon Seeking Tokens burning red-hot. After rushing out of their towers, they saw the demon monarchs that were charging towards the city walls. The demon monarchs’ speed made the mortal soldiers feel despair.
“Light the beacons!” screamed the generals.
In fact, the soldiers had already begun to light the beacons before they were even ordered to do so. Lighting the beacons was standard procedure once they discovered demon monarchs coming.
Billowing smoke rose from Jiang State Capital’s four city walls. The soldiers—on any city wall where a demon monarch was sighted—lit the beacons. Instantly, smoke from over a hundred beacons billowed up!
“Hahaha…” The demon monarchs jumped up the city walls.
These 80-kilometer-long, 300-foot-tall city walls were not used to block demon monarchs, but ordinary demons! No matter how tall they built the walls, demon monarchs could scale them easily. Mortal soldiers were not threats to demon monarchs.
Whoosh.
A blood-red fog spread out.
As Demon Monarch Cat jumped up the city wall, several attacks sliced through the area. Soldiers on the city walls were killed like harvesting wheat. They all fell to the ground as the blood-red fog filled the area.
Kill! Kill! Kill! Demon Monarch Cat’s eyes began to turn red with ferocity.
The other demon monarchs scaled the city walls and slaughtered wantonly. The mortals despaired.
These demon monarchs had followed the law of the jungle ever since they had been born. They had been stuck in the human world for too long. Now that they could begin a large-scale attack, they could sate their bloodlust.
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The sky above Jiang State was gloomy as rain poured.
Meng Chuan held an umbrella as he walked through Jiang State Capital’s streets. He wore a dark-cyan robe—given to him by Archean Mountain. He knew that an attack was coming ever since they had interrogated the Skydemon Sect disciples.
Oh? Meng Chuan stared off into the horizon. He could see the columns of smoke rising from the city walls.
Smoke is rising from the eastern city wall. Meng Chuan’s expression changed as he glanced around him.
The southern wall, the western city wall, the northern city wall…
Smoke was rising everywhere. Over a hundred beacons were lit within a few seconds.
Meng Chuan’s expression changed. Demon monarchs are invading from all directions. A large-scale assault?
Meng Chuan was extremely fast. He could be considered the fastest among Regis Godfiends. However, each of the city walls was 80 kilometers long. Even Meng Chuan would take five minutes to cover the city wall perimeter. How many people would die in five minutes? Furthermore, the five minutes weren’t inclusive of his battle time. Besides, the demon monarchs wouldn’t stay put. They would scatter throughout the city and massacre everybody.
At this moment, even Meng Chuan found Jiang State Capital too big! After the demons had invaded the human world, state capitals were one of the safest places in the world. Jiang State Capital had constantly expanded for 800 years, resulting in a population of 7 million. Jiang State Capital had four city walls, each 80 kilometers long.
Don’t panic. There are many other Godfiends in the city. Meng Chuan calmed himself down. Jiang State’s Archean Mountain branch is located in the city’s northwest. Many Godfiends reside in the city’s eastern region… The southern region has the least Godfiends. I should head there first.
Although it took time to describe, Meng Chuan instantly made up his mind in reality. With a whoosh, he transformed into a bolt of lightning and disappeared. The umbrella he had been holding fell to the ground. The wind blew the umbrella, causing it to tumble several times on the ground before falling into the river.
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“Let’s go.”
“Quick!”
Most Godfiends were at Jiang State Capital’s Archean Mountain branch. Fifteen Godfiends immediately reinforced the city’s northern and western regions. Similar arrangements occurred in the city’s eastern and southern regions.
The Godfiends had long prepared for a demon monarch attack. However, they still lacked Godfiends, no matter how they prepared. After all, Godfiends also had to guard prefecture cities, city passes, and etc. The demons and Skydemon Sect could focus on attacking one city.
I hope we can hold on this time. Archean Mountain branch’s dean, Dean Chang, had grizzled hair. He stood on the tallest bell tower and observed the overall situation. He flipped his right hand, and a black wooden box—as large as his palm—appeared. Dean Chang glanced at the wooden box. The sect sure is ruthless. Only when the Godfiends are completely defeated, or over twenty percent of the city’s population is killed can I use it. If not, I will be a human sinner.
When Dean Chang saw the hundred-plus columns of smoke, he knew that a large number of demon monarchs had invaded the city and were massacring the humans.
This ate at him, but he also understood that a defensive treasure wasn’t the same as a powerful Godfiend. It was gone once it was used. He had to wait for the right moment to use the defensive treasure. In fact, it would be even better if they hadn’t used the defensive treasure even after the state capital was attacked for decades.
Chapter 172 - Cold Rain
In the form of lightning, Meng Chuan rushed towards the southern wall. He exceeded his usual speed by unleashing all the lightning within his body. Although he was furious and anxious, he knew that he needed to reserve his Power of Essence Soul and forbidden spells for critical moments.
Many mortal humans rushed towards the nearest tunnels within the city. Everybody in the city knew that this battle wasn’t something they could help with when they saw the hundred-plus plumes of smoke originating from the city walls. It was suicidal to help in such situations.
Bang!
Boom!
Each tunnel had over 100 people sealed within after the mechanisms and traps were set up. Horrified, everybody within the tunnels waited for the invasion’s conclusion.
“Why would Jiang State Capital be attacked?”
“Why are the demons so bold?”
“Beacon smoke rose from all four city walls. The bells at Archean Mountain’s Jiang State Branch didn’t ring. Those at the Marrow Cleansing realm and above weren’t even asked to help defend the city. It’s clear that the situation in the city is very dire.”
People discussed the situation softly. They knew that the tunnel traps and mechanisms could only stall for time. It would take some time for ordinary demons to reach them, but they would be killed very quickly if it were a demon monarch! However
, by staying within the tunnels, at least they would buy some extra time. If they were outside the tunnels, they demon monarchs would annihilate all life within 1000 feet in the blink of an eye. Demon monarchs would need a few seconds to break through all the tunnel’s defenses, and only a few hundred would die even if one tunnel was breached.
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Meng Chuan was extremely swift. With a flash, he was 15 kilometers away from his original position. After ten or so flashes, Meng Chuan arrived at the city’s southern quadrant.
This is… Meng Chuan’s expression changed slightly. At a glance, Meng Chuan could see swaths of corpses! At this area—close to the southern city wall—it was obvious that many people had been fleeing towards the tunnels.
Some corpses were split in half, as though a massive axe had cleaved through the area. The rain mixed with blood and flowed into a nearby river. Some corpses remained intact, but their faces were blacks. Hundreds of corpses were like this. It left Meng Chuan shuddering.
Although he had seen many massacres over the years—be it when he was six or when Eastcalm Prefecture was invaded—they had mainly been conducted by ordinary demons. Those massacres were not comparable to when demon monarchs attacked. This was the first time he had seen such a gruesome scene.
However, he understood that this was only the beginning! After the three supreme sects abandoned small and middle-sized city passes, such scenes would continue to occur.
Demon monarchs! Demon monarchs! Meng Chuan’s killing intent surged as he shuddered in anger. Meng Chuan looked into the distance—where he could sense the closest demonic auras. In that direction.
Swoosh.
Meng Chuan quickly rushed towards the battlefield, and from afar, he saw the ground shake violently. He arrived at the battlefield in a flash and saw a 20-foot-tall wolf demon monarch exited a tunnel with his body bent over. The tunnel had completely collapsed., so the outcome of those hiding within the tunnels didn’t need description.