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After being pushed aside, the dark mass of demonic beasts rushed towards the city gate where human cultivators had appeared. The roars of the beasts were incessant, and the most venomous ones even spat out venom, leaving cratered pits in the ground.
In the sky, winged demonic beasts continued to descend, attacking the top of the Holy City's defenses. The loud bangs were so deafening that everyone inside the city could no longer remain still and stared at the sky.
After the city gates opened, Ruan Qingyu wasn't the first to leave. She unleashed a powerful attack with her Fire Phoenix Palm, a phoenix cry piercing the sky, reducing the first charging demonic beasts to ashes.
"Senior Sister Qingyu is amazing!" Lin Yu shouted, and he and Zhao Zhao rushed out after Fire Phoenix Palm.
The originally pristine white protective formation suddenly emitted a buzzing sound, and the constantly flashing light prompted the elder in charge of the north gate on the city wall to quickly come out and investigate.
The magical artifact placed outside suddenly lit up, projecting the scene outside onto the city walls like a mirror. Suddenly, even larger magical beasts were seen approaching from afar, some running wildly on the ground, others flying in the sky.
They were either black or brown. In the shadows, there were even red-furred magical beasts approaching, whose spiritual energy fluctuations were unlike anything ever seen in the Holy City.
"Daojun, a large number of high-level magical beasts have suddenly appeared outside, and even some super-high-level magical beasts have appeared. Our magical artifacts cannot detect them." The cultivator in charge of guarding the area turned around sharply and shouted. Soon, someone flashed in from behind.
Li Qingchen asked calmly, "Can you still see anything from the monster passage?"
Upon receiving the order, the cultivator responsible for monitoring the demonic beast passage quickly checked the monitoring artifact. The next moment, his expression turned grim as he said, "Dao Lord, the artifact on the demonic beast passage side seems to have been damaged by the demonic beasts and cannot be monitored."
This was the first time he had ever encountered a magical artifact being destroyed by a magical beast.
"No other means of surveillance prepared?" Li Qingchen's gaze fell on the light and shadow outside the city. His divine sense had already drifted far away, but he could still only see the situation as if it were a projection inside the city, with a continuous stream of magical beasts rushing towards Holy City.
Upon hearing this, the cultivator in charge of monitoring lowered his head in shame, then, as if remembering something, said, "We still have magical artifacts that we can summon. I'll go right now!"
North Gate.
Ruan Qingyu's Phoenix Divine Fire spread like wildfire across the grasslands, easily igniting a large number of magical beasts. In the blink of an eye, the token at her waist had already accumulated a large number of points.
"I didn't expect that the token with the recorded points would still be usable at this time."
After placing the spatial fragments collected by the divine fire into the jade box, Ruan Qingyu began to set fires in a sweeping manner, moving towards more distant locations.
Lin Yu looked back and saw that Ruan Qingyu had single-handedly held off hundreds of demonic beasts and even expanded the open space outside the city.
While they were astonished, their confidence soared. With such a fellow cultivator fighting alongside them, they could easily face even ten thousand more demonic beasts.
The other end, right next to Ruan Qingyu, constantly emitted the smell of burnt coals. Mixed with the stench of magical beasts, it was enough to knock out even the most sensitive cultivators.
Yunyin flicked his hands toward the sky, and countless winged demonic beasts were struck by lightning like a shower of flowers, falling to the ground like rain.
He didn't possess the Phoenix Divine Fire's ability to forge spatial fragments, but the Ancient Thunder Leopard's lightning power was extraordinary; any magical beast touched by its lightning was reduced to charcoal. Soon, a small cluster of divine fire would arrive and cleanse the bodies of those magical beasts.
Three hours of fierce fighting passed in the blink of an eye.
With a flick of her sleeve, Ruan Qingyu created several walls of fire that blocked most of the north gate, allowing many cultivators to catch their breath.
"Wutong, please take these spatial fragments to the Refining Elder." As Ruan Qingyu spoke, the small wooden puppet that had been hanging at her waist flickered and quickly grew larger.
Taking the jade box handed to her by Ruan Qingyu, Wutong followed the aura of the weapon-refining elder from her memory and flew swiftly towards the city.
As her gaze slowly swept over the many cultivators resting inside the fire wall at the North Gate, Ruan Qingyu suddenly remembered a musical score that Wutong had given her earlier.
The Wutongqin zither emitted a joyful buzzing sound from her dantian. Since Ruan Qingyu had completely broken through to the Phoenix body, she had mostly relied on divine fire.
Now that the phoenix tree has finally been released, the fiery red phoenix zither, as clear as glass, immediately began to play joyfully.
In the distance, Yunyin saw Ruan Qingyu release a wall of fire and then sit down on the spot while holding the phoenix tree, but the lightning in her hands was released even more fiercely.
Hordes of magical beasts were easily sliced through Yunyin's lightning like vegetables. The roars of the beasts and the crackling of the lightning made the North Gate much noisier than the other three gates.
Suddenly, these noises were drowned out by the quietly rising music of the zither. The exhausted cultivators were also given new strength by the music.
Even many injured cultivators, weakened by qi and blood deficiency, regained some color in their bodies amidst the gentle zither music. The intangible zither music gradually transformed into a tangible golden-red halo, gently caressing every cultivator on the battlefield.
The warm music gradually drifted away, and could be heard even through the other two doors in the distance.
At the west gate, Liu Feng severed a demonic beast's claw with a single sword stroke. Catching his breath, he looked in the direction from which the music was coming.
A sharp, long whip flipped the demonic beast beside Liu Feng, and then a slightly mocking female voice rang out: "What are you looking at? How could a Dao Lord's closed-door disciple possibly be interested in you?"
Liu Feng remained silent, but his sword movements became even faster. The sword cleaved a demonic beast in two like lightning, and a warning glint appeared in his eyes as he turned to look at Jin Chengcheng.
Jin Chengcheng froze for a moment. Her face grew even darker, and she lashed out at a demonic beast with her whip, continuing, "What's with the temper? You're practically begging to be someone's dog, but who knows, the one next to her might not even allow it."
With a "whoosh," a flash of cold light appeared, and the longsword that had just severed a demonic beast suddenly landed on Jin Chengcheng's neck.
Yang Ming, who was nearby, quickly dodged and pulled Jin Chengcheng behind him, his usually honest expression turning serious and tense.
At the east gate, Lu Siyao took a moment to catch her breath and closed her eyes slightly. She also heard the intermittent zither music and couldn't help but smile.
The light blue water ribbon suddenly expanded, annihilating all the monsters that had returned to the area.
As night fell, Ruan Qingyu tossed the empty medicine bottle into her storage bracelet. Only then did she feel her somewhat depleted dantian recover, having hunted more magical beasts in a single day than in the previous few days.
Wutong, who had just returned from the weapon-refining elder, immediately relayed the elder's message: the magical artifact that blocked the passage to the demonic beasts had been completed an hour earlier.
Currently, under the escort of two other Dao Lords, they are being transported to the location of the demon beast passage. Once the demon beast passage is blocked, the crisis in Holy City will be resolved.
Upon hearing this, Ruan Qingyu frowned, feeling for some reason that this matter wouldn't end so quickly. Perhaps the magical artifact blocking the passage wouldn't be completed so soon.
"It's alright, just keep collecting." Ruan Qingyu looked at Yun Yin, who nodded and continued to unleash a continuous stream of lightning power across the battlefield.
Zhao Zhao, who had already rested for several rounds, couldn't help but sigh helplessly. Are Nascent Soul cultivators really that strong, or are only Senior Sister and this Fellow Daoist Yun like this?
The location of the North Gate has now changed hands three times. Many cultivators didn't even retreat due to injury, but rather because they were completely drained of their spiritual energy and had to retreat into the city to rest.
Under the cover of night, the various gates of Holy City remained as bright as day thanks to the array formations.
Flames erupted from her palm, annihilating another batch of demonic beasts. Ruan Qingyu looked towards the city; three hours had passed since the two Dao Lords delivered the magical artifacts, yet there was still no news.
Ruan Qingyu remembered that place; it was next to the teleportation channel in the cultivation world where she had come before. It was only a quarter of an hour's journey round trip, so there shouldn't have been no news for so long.
Suddenly, the formation emitted a red light.
All the cultivators' tokens began to vibrate wildly. Ruan Qingyu felt a heat behind her; it turned out that Yun Yin had noticed something was wrong and quickly withdrew.
Upon seeing this, Ruan Qingyu immediately looked at the token at her waist: A large number of high-level magical beasts are attacking. Disciples, please be careful!
Admittedly, most of the monsters encountered that day were mid- to low-level magical beasts. But were the numbers of high-level magical beasts so exaggerated that even the disciple tokens and the city's protective formations needed to issue warnings?
As Ruan Qingyu pondered this, her wings unfurled, immediately attracting the attention of many cultivators. However, upon recognizing her, they all averted their gazes; it was much more normal if it was this senior sister.
As the altitude continued to increase, Ruan Qingyu's gaze easily swept over the many magical beasts below the high rank, and saw the high-ranking magical beasts outside who seemed to have received orders, all standing in a row waiting for something.
After high-level magical beasts, this was the first magical beast I'd seen with reddish fur. It had no fleshy wings or feathers, yet it stood in mid-air, and it didn't even look as frightening as the black magical beasts, but it increased the formation's defense by 120,000 points.
One of the red monsters suddenly seemed to rise higher, and in the next moment, black and red flames poured out like a river. Their target was the Holy City before them, and the surrounding temperature instantly soared.
On the city wall, Li Qingchen coldly watched the high-level magical beast that had made its move. Suddenly, a silver-white longsword appeared in his clenched hand, its tip gleaming with a blinding cold light.
Li Qingchen stood motionless on the city wall, and with a slight flick of his wrist, a silver-white sword aura carrying a thick golden light cleaved through the horde of demonic beasts below the city.
It also cleaved through the long river of flames, rushing straight towards the super-high-level magical beast. Everything happened in the blink of an eye, and the ferocious super-high-level magical beast lost half of its body.
"Awooo—" The beast's cry of pain abruptly stopped, and a slight commotion arose among the other high-level magical beasts in the distance.
They moved instantly, but instead of attacking individually, they all took to the air and unleashed countless black and red flames towards the Holy City.
In the blink of an eye, the entire Holy City was engulfed in flames.
"Hiss—this fire is poisonous." Lin Yu withdrew her hand; she hadn't been able to dodge in time, and a bit of the blackish-red flame had gotten on her wrist.
As if licked by some ferocious beast, a piece of flesh immediately tore off. Zhao Zhao quickly flashed over and sprinkled a lot of medicinal powder on her wrist. Seeing that the flesh that was about to continue peeling off had finally stopped, he breathed a sigh of relief.
There were quite a few cultivators like Lin Yu who were injured. At the other city gates, the early Nascent Soul cultivators were the first to succumb, while the Golden Core cultivators had already retreated inside the city gates after the formation gave feedback.
Nevertheless, the cultivators protected within the formation began to blush, and those who never sweated found their mouths dry and sweat dripping from their noses.
Ruan Qingyu looked at Yun Yin and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that his expression was normal. However, her expression grew increasingly serious. What exactly was the situation with this group of suddenly appearing magical beasts?
What she knew was that these magical beasts didn't have much intelligence, but looking at the group of red magical beasts today, they were clearly more intelligent than high-level magical beasts.
Ruan Qingyu clenched her fist and popped another bottle of pills into her mouth. The Wutong Qin emitted a soft hum, as if responding to its master.
Suddenly, a sharp yet somewhat icy aura began to spread. Ruan Qingyu looked up at the city wall. The aura of this aura was clearly that of her master, who had taken the time to unleash his Mahayana stage domain to protect the cultivators within the Holy City while confronting those special magical beasts.
"Junior Nephew!" A shout came from inside, and Ruan Qingyu knew something was wrong.
The weapon-refining elder approached alone, his expression slightly flustered. But in front of so many cultivators, he nervously stood beside Ruan Qingyu.
Receiving a subtle glance from Ruan Qingyu, Yun Yin nodded and then swiftly rushed towards the horde of demonic beasts. Although the poisonous fire of high-level demonic beasts was ferocious, it only consumed more spiritual energy for him.
"Elder, has something changed in the monster passage?"
With a long sigh, the Refining Elder nodded. It turned out that after the two Dao Lords rushed to the Demon Beast Passage, they discovered that there was more than one passage, and both Dao Lords were at the early stage of the Mahayana realm.
However, it took a tremendous amount of effort, and after killing countless high-level magical beasts, to finally place the magical artifact into the magical beast passage.
Unexpectedly, another passage suddenly changed, revealing countless completely different red magical beasts, all with cultivation levels far exceeding those of high-level magical beasts.
The two Dao Lords tried to kill a few of them and found that the cultivation level of these super high-level magical beasts was around the Nascent Soul stage. They had not yet encountered any higher-level ones.
However, this Lesser Sacred Realm is somewhat dangerous, simply because there are far fewer Nascent Soul stage cultivators than high-level magical beasts. Too many ants can kill an elephant; currently, Sacred Realm City has a limited number of people who can be accommodated for its spiritual energy recovery pills and its spirit-gathering formations for converting violent spiritual energy.
If the second passage cannot be blocked in time, a third or even a fourth passage will likely appear soon.
"Yunyin!" Ruan Qingyu suddenly spoke after hearing this, her back to Yunyin.
In an instant, Yunyin, who was still in the monster horde, flashed back. The two were in perfect sync, and in the blink of an eye, Yunyin reached out and placed his hand on her shoulder.
In an instant, a massive surge of spiritual energy flowed down Ruan Qingyu's back and into her dantian. The red flames on her hands suddenly underwent a transformation, now interspersed with numerous tiny purple lightning bolts.
Gradually, the golden-red flames turned into purplish-red flames. Ruan Qingyu continuously drew out the spiritual power within her body, and the Phoenix Divine Fire seemed to be freed from its restraints.
The ever-growing divine fire gradually spun into a huge fire lotus. The next moment, it was released from Ruan Qingyu's grasp.
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