Just as Sha Mingyuan used his magic, the man in the black robe in the distance suddenly raised the sword in his hand, and the chanting in his mouth became high-pitched and sharp.
All the mummies suddenly stopped, with bloodshot eyes, and raised the long swords in their hands at the same time. The rusty long swords suddenly flashed with the black light and shadow unique to the law of death, interweaving to form a huge black shield.
Amidst the muffled sound, the surging waves hit the black waves, and the chaotic airflow scattered in all directions.
Sha Mingyuan and others were shocked and retreated several steps. The mummies on the opposite side were also blown to the ground, and some were even directly shattered by the turbulence.
But soon, the mummies that fell to the ground crawled up and continued to approach the City Lord's Mansion. As the black-robed man chanted, more mummies continued to crawl out of the ground.
Sha Mingyuan's face turned pale with horror. Although he had killed many mummies twice with the help of the raging sea waves, his spiritual power was also depleted by nearly half, while the mummies summoned by the other party were endless. If this continued, he would be dragged to death sooner or later.
"Quick, retreat back to the City Lord's Mansion!" Sha Mingyuan made a prompt decision and gave orders to everyone.
Judging from the current situation, they were completely unable to stop these mummies and could only rely on the defensive formations of the City Lord's Mansion. In fact, he still had the Qiankun Life and Death Seal in his arms, but his understanding of this artifact was limited, and his own strength was not enough to replenish its spiritual power. It could only be used once every two weeks, so it was obviously impossible to rely on it at this time.
The others were already frightened out of their wits and without giving it much thought, they swarmed into the City Lord's Mansion.
"Mingzhi, Mingxin, Minghao, you each lead your men to activate the defensive formation, and I will be in the middle to coordinate, there must be no mistakes!" As soon as he entered the City Lord's Mansion, Sha Mingyuan gave orders to several members of the Sha family.
Although Pingchuan City is quite powerful, it is not the main city of the temple after all, so its defensive formation is far less sophisticated than those of the main cities of the major temples. It requires the simultaneous activation of several formation points distributed in the city lord's mansion to be effective.
The Sha family members took their orders and left. Soon, several mysterious pillars of light shot up from various locations in the City Lord's Mansion. Sha Mingyuan, standing in the center of the City Lord's Hall, also activated his core formation. Gazing at the approaching group of mummies, he fiercely executed a hand seal. Several beams of light suddenly changed direction, converging and condensing in mid-air to form a massive, flashing ball of lightning, which slammed down towards the open space in front of the City Lord's Mansion.
"Boom!" There was a loud thunder and the earth shook.
The thunderball exploded, emitting a light brighter than the midday sun, making it impossible for people to open their eyes.
A moment later, the lightning dissipated, and everyone opened their eyes again to see that the open space in front of the City Lord's Mansion had been blasted by the lightning ball, creating a pit several feet deep. Everything within it had been charred black by the lightning. The group of mummies was shattered, their bones reduced to charred pieces. Even the man shrouded in black robes had vanished without a trace.
The entire Pingchuan City became dead silent again.
It turned out that the defensive formation of the City Lord's Mansion was so powerful that everyone's hearts, which had already risen to their throats, returned to the scene again. However, when they thought of the previous strange scene, they were still frightened.
"Sir, what the hell was that just now?" a family head couldn't help but ask.
"I'm not too sure, maybe it's some weird magic like summoning the dead." Sha Mingyuan said uncertainly.
Just like the sword spirit puppets in the Holy Court Continent, summoning the dead is also a forbidden technique in the Continent of Gods. It has been lost for many years, so he doesn't know much about it.
"Summoning of the Dead!" Everyone behind him changed color when they heard it.
Even Sha Mingyuan didn't understand this sorcery, and they certainly knew even less, though they had heard rumors. It was said that this necromancy technique first appeared a million years ago. The exact creator was unknown, but upon its appearance, it unleashed a bloody havoc on the Sacred Continent, slaughtering tens of millions of civilians.
After all, the mummies summoned by necromancy—the legendary undead puppets—feel neither pain nor fear. Unless they are shattered to pieces, even a highly skilled priest would find it exceedingly difficult to completely destroy them. Even more terrifying is that many undead puppets were once priests, and even after being summoned as undead puppets, they retain a certain level of cultivation. The stronger their strength in life, the stronger they become after being summoned. They can even manipulate them with the caster's divine consciousness and cast simple divine arts, making them far beyond the reach of ordinary people.
This evil art was therefore listed as a taboo by the temple. Any priest who practiced this art would be hunted down endlessly by the temple, and even his entire clan would be killed. But even so, it took tens of thousands of years for this forbidden art to completely disappear from the Continent of Gods.
Who could have imagined that a million years later, this forbidden technique would reappear? Fortunately, Pingchuan City's defensive formation was powerful enough, otherwise, everyone present today would have been killed.
"Could it be that the hundreds of villages that were massacred were caused by that man just now?" a family head suddenly said.
Some time ago, hundreds of villages in the major temples were massacred. The temples worked together to investigate but failed to find any clues. They had also heard about this incident and were wondering at the time that if the perpetrators were bandits, how could they have avoided the full-scale investigation of the major temples? Now they understood.
There is no way that a group of bandits can avoid the joint pursuit of the major temples, but if it is just one person who uses the art of necromancy to massacre civilians, it will not be easy to investigate.
"It seems that the information from Master Mu and others is correct. That person really came to our Pingchuan City to kill us. We should have taken precautions earlier." Another family head said with a sigh.
Although Sha Mingyuan ultimately defeated the mysterious man practicing necromancy with his defensive formation, many of the clan members suffered casualties, including several clan heads. If Sha Mingyuan had trusted Mu Hanyan and welcomed the various hall heads into the city, he might have been able to locate the man earlier, avoiding unnecessary casualties.
"So what? Anyone who dares to invade my Pingchuan City will end up dead!" Hearing the resentment in his words, Sha Mingyuan felt a little unhappy and snorted coldly.
"Your Excellency is right. Our Pingchuan City is on par with their major temples. Sooner or later, we will surpass them. Why do we need their help? Even if we rely on the City Lord alone, we can still kill the evildoers. This is a good opportunity for them to see the strength of our City Lord." Another family head saw Sha Mingyuan's displeasure and took the opportunity to flatter him.
"Yes, their major temples spent several months and joined forces to deal with the murderer but were unable to do anything. Now our city lord killed him with one move. Let's see how they can hold their heads up in front of the city lord in the future." Another family head also echoed.
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