Upon hearing Sha Mingyuan's order, hundreds of Sha family members followed the heads of each family and rushed out to fight.
With a flash of cold light, a family head swung his sword, condensing into a dark blue ice cone, which pierced into the heart of a murderer with endless anger and hatred.
But the murderer just shook slightly, and the dull long sword in his hand slashed down fiercely.
"Puff!" The head of the family was split into two halves by a sword. He died without even having time to scream.
Behind him, the other family heads and the Sha family disciples were all stunned. The family head had already reached the ninth level of divine priesthood. While not as powerful as Sha Mingyuan, he was still considered a master even in the Qingning Temple. Yet, he was killed by such a clean and sharp sword strike. Even more puzzling was that his divine technique had clearly pierced the opponent's heart, but it didn't cause any significant damage, and even his combat effectiveness was barely affected.
Just as they were in shock, the murderer swung his sword and attacked them.
Several people suddenly came to their senses and launched their magic at the same time. In an instant, the murderer was engulfed in a shower of meteors, fire, death swords, and flying sand and rocks.
Several people also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although their strength was not as good as the previous family head, they were only at the level of seventh-level or eighth-level divine priests, but when they joined forces, their power was no weaker than that of the family head. The opponent was overwhelmed by their strongest divine arts without any obstruction or defense. Even if he did not die, he would be seriously injured.
But soon they realized that they were too happy too early.
The meteors, fire showers, death sword stars, flying sand and rocks fell on the man, making a series of dull sounds, but his movements of swinging the sword did not slow down at all.
How is this possible? Even a Divine Heart Priest couldn't withstand their combined divine arts without any resistance and without sustaining any damage.
A few people realized that something was wrong and turned around to flee, but it was too late. The moment they turned around, the cold sword edge had passed through their chests like lightning. The powerful force surged into their bodies, shattering their internal organs and heart meridians.
Holding their chests, several people fell straight down. In the last moment before death, they looked at each other in confusion, but they only saw the dark holes where the eyes should be, and the cheeks that were just a layer of skin and bones, like mummies.
"He is not a human being. He is definitely not a human being." This was the last thought of the man before he died.
In a moment, all the patriarchs and the Sha family members who rushed forward were annihilated. However, the thugs did not stop and continued to raise their butcher knives towards the wailing crowd.
Seeing this, the heads of the various families behind Sha Mingyuan were terrified and no longer dared to act rashly. They all looked at Sha Mingyuan eagerly. They did not think that they were stronger than those who had come before. Facing such a powerful thug, they could only rely on Sha Mingyuan. Not only was his strength at the level of a Divine Heart Priest, but he also possessed the Qiankun Life and Death Seal. If he didn't take action, who would?
"Stop!" Sha Mingyuan shouted, flew over the crowd and stood in front of the thugs.
The opponent's skills were too strange, and he originally didn't want to take action rashly. However, if he didn't take action, he would have to watch the families of various families die tragically on the spot, and the morale that had been stabilized with great difficulty would be dispersed again. He was forced into a corner.
"The sea is raging, kill!" Sha Mingyuan, who was in mid-air, slashed with a sword and displayed his most powerful magic.
A wave of aquamarine light swept across the night sky, rapidly gathering and surging like a mighty wave. As expected of one of the twelve clans of Lesser Divine Heaven, Sha Mingyuan's divine art was indeed far more powerful than that of the five great temples. As the mighty wave rolled, the ground before them seemed plowed, smooth as a mirror.
Under the impact of that enormous force, the pursuing criminals fell to the ground one after another, rolling back like dead trees in a storm.
What a powerful strength! Seeing Sha Mingyuan display his might, the people behind him finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the frightened crowd finally rushed into the city lord's mansion. The heads of the various families had no time to ask about each other's well-being. They quickly stepped forward with their subordinates and the children of the Sha family and stood behind Sha Mingyuan.
The terrifying waves surged into the distance and slowly disappeared. The long street in front of the City Lord's Mansion was washed by the huge waves. All the bloodstains and corpses had disappeared. Even the figures of the murderers were nowhere to be seen. It seemed that they had died under Sha Mingyuan's magic.
"Your Excellency is mighty, Your Excellency is mighty!" Fei Changle was the first to raise his arms and shout, and the other family heads followed suit.
This time, however, Sha Mingyuan didn't show any elation. Instead, his expression became unusually solemn. Although he had defeated the enemy in one fell swoop, he still couldn't figure out how the enemy had broken through the defenses and appeared in Pingchuan City, and why their skills were so strange. He felt a sense of unease in his heart.
At the end of the long street, there were suddenly muffled footsteps. A man covered in a black robe came slowly towards them, chanting softly as he walked. The singing was obscure and distant, as if it came from another world.
"Who are you?" Sha Mingyuan asked with a startle in his heart.
The man did not answer, but walked towards them while chanting softly.
"Click, click, click..." As he chanted, a crackling sound like twisting joints was heard underground in the long street.
A hand suddenly broke through the ground and appeared in front of everyone. The hand was so thin that only skin and bones were left, like a tree root that had withered for many years, but it was extremely powerful. After the hand clenched several times, it crushed the hard bluestone tiles around it. Then, an entire arm like an old tree root stretched out, and then a dried corpse crawled out of the ground and slowly stood up with a crisp sound.
He was wearing a tattered robe and holding a rusty sword in his hand. His eye sockets were sunken, and only two dark holes could be seen, but there was a heart-pounding dark red blood light flashing in them, full of murderous intent.
The ground continued to break open, and after a while, hundreds of mummies dressed in tattered sacrificial robes crawled out of the ground, holding rusty swords in their hands, and approached the city lord's mansion step by step.
"This...what's going on?" asked a family head in a trembling voice.
No one answered his question because everyone was trembling with fear like him and stepped back involuntarily.
They finally understood why the patriarch hadn't hurt the enemy at all despite striking their vital points. This was because the creature wasn't a normal human being, but a dried corpse that had crawled out of the ground. Facing such an enemy, they had absolutely no way to defeat it.
"Raging sea and raging waves, kill!" Sha Mingyuan roared and once again used his most powerful magic.
A terrifying wave surged out again, sweeping towards the group of mummies.
But this time, they failed to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop like last time.
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