On the other side of the battlefield, Lu Mingyuan also noticed the situation and saw Shi Tou's performance, a hint of approval flashed in his eyes.
He held nothing back; the golden flames on his longsword surged as he launched a fierce attack on the demon leader: "You wretch, let's see how long you can last!"
As the stone side gained a decisive advantage, the situation on the battlefield gradually tilted in favor of the human cultivators.
The demon soldiers' charges were repelled time and time again, and the high-ranking demons were held back one by one, making the defenses of Wangyue Gate increasingly solid.
Stone gripped the bone spear, getting carried away with the fight. Suddenly, he raised the bone spear high and slammed it down on the demon wielding the bone staff, yelling, "Get down on your knees!"
The bone spear, carrying immense force, fell like a mountain crashing down. The demon had no way to avoid it and could only desperately raise his bone staff to defend himself.
"Snap!"
With a crisp crack, the bone staff was instantly broken, and the demon was so shocked that he coughed up blood and fell heavily to the ground, losing his fighting ability.
Seeing their companion defeated, the demon wielding the bone spear was terrified and dared not continue the fight. He turned and tried to escape into the black mist.
"Trying to run? No way!"
Stone chuckled and hurled the bone spear in his hand, which flew straight toward his back like a javelin!
"call out--!"
The bone spear, like an arrow released from a bow, flew straight towards the back of the fleeing demon with a whistling wind.
The demon was only focused on escaping and had no idea that Shi Tou would suddenly throw a weapon. By the time he heard the sound of the wind, it was too late to dodge.
"Pfft!"
The bone spear pierced his body instantly, and black blood gushed out along the shaft.
The demon let out a shrill scream, its body being propelled forward by the bone spear, until finally, with a "thud," it was impaled on a withered tree in the distance.
The tree trunk shook violently, leaves fell in a rustling sound, and the demon's body hung on the tree. Its limbs twitched slightly a few times before it became completely still.
Stone looked at the demon nailed to the tree, clapped his hands, and grinned: "Run? You think you can run from me?"
After dealing with the two demons who had ambushed him, he turned to look at the battlefield, where he saw that Xiao Chen, Lin Jingxing, and Luo Qingyang had also each defeated their opponents.
Black blood still dripped from Xiao Chen's rusty iron spear. The Creation Realm demon he had fought lay on the ground, a bullet hole piercing his chest.
Lin Jingxing's Dragon Flame Sword was stuck in the demon's corpse, the golden flames still burning; Luo Qingyang put away his white jade whisk and was wiping the demonic energy off his hands with a handkerchief.
On the other side, Lu Mingyuan's battle with the demon leader was still fierce.
From the start of the battle, Lu Mingyuan was simultaneously maneuvering against his opponents while occasionally keeping an eye on Xiao Chen and the others' battle situation out of the corner of his eye.
He had planned to immediately withdraw and provide support if Lin Jingxing and Shi Tou were caught in a difficult battle.
But watching the group defeat their opponents one after another, and even seeing Stone kill two demons at once, was truly remarkable.
Lu Mingyuan's anxiety gradually subsided, and he thought to himself, "These young people really haven't disappointed me."
With no worries about the future, he unleashed his full power. Golden flames surged on his longsword, each strike carrying a world-destroying force, forcing the demon leader to retreat repeatedly.
But he was so focused on suppressing his opponent that he failed to notice that the demon leader, though seemingly disheveled...
However, they were intentionally or unintentionally guiding the direction of the battle, moving a little further away from the Wangyue Gate with each retreat.
As time went by, the two gradually drifted away from the main battlefield and flew towards the Sunlight Mountains. Their figures quickly disappeared into the black mist and forests, leaving no trace.
The cultivators on the city wall were busy clearing out the remaining demon soldiers, while Xiao Chen, Lin Jingxing, and Luo Qingyang gathered together, watching Shi Tou deal with the last demon, their faces showing tired but relaxed smiles.
"I didn't expect Brother Stone to be so fierce, taking on two opponents so easily."
Lin Jingxing said with a smile, his tone tinged with admiration. He knew very well that although those two demons were only at the early stage of the Creation Realm...
They were skilled at long-range ambushes, making it no easy task to deal with them. Yet Stone not only emerged unscathed but also killed them so decisively.
Luo Qingyang nodded in agreement: "Brother Stone's physical body is probably already invincible in the same realm."
Stone scratched the back of his head and chuckled, "Thank goodness, it's just that those two guys were too cunning, otherwise I would have taken care of them long ago."
Xiao Chen looked at the group and said in a deep voice, "Senior Lu and the Demon Clan leader are far away, but with Senior Lu's strength, he should be able to handle it."
"Let's take advantage of this lull to kill the remaining demon soldiers and rest to recover our strength—who knows if new demon reinforcements will arrive next."
Everyone nodded in agreement. After fighting for so long, they were already exhausted and definitely needed to rest.
The group immediately split up and charged towards the remaining demon soldiers below the city gate.
Xiao Chen's rusty iron spear was like the Grim Reaper's scythe; wherever its tip passed, demonic soldiers fell to the ground. Lin Jingxing's Dragon Flame Sword unleashed streaks of fiery sword energy, burning swathes of demonic soldiers to ashes.
Luo Qingyang used spatial techniques to teleport to areas densely packed with demonic soldiers from time to time. With a wave of his white jade whisk, spatial threads harvested a patch of lives.
Stone was even more direct, charging into the horde of demon soldiers with his bare hands. His fists flew around like a tiger among sheep, and the demon soldiers were no match for him.
Seeing the prodigies take action, the cultivators on the city wall were filled with even greater morale and rushed down the wall to engage in a final battle against the demon soldiers.
The originally densely packed demon soldiers were quickly slaughtered, with most of them killed. The remaining demon soldiers, seeing that the situation was hopeless, scattered and fled, but were stopped by the defensive formations that had been set up in advance, and eventually fell one by one into pools of blood.
Half an hour later, the demonic soldiers in front of the Moon Gazing Gate had been mostly cleared out, and the ground was covered with their corpses and black blood.
A strong, pungent stench filled the air. Xiao Chen and the others stopped what they were doing, found a relatively clean rock to sit on, and began circulating their internal energy to recover their strength.
Stone leaned against the city wall, panting heavily, and casually picked up a cracked spirit crystal from the ground and stuffed it into his mouth.
He had expended the most energy and urgently needed to replenish it. Xiao Chen closed his eyes, formed hand seals, and slowly circulated his spiritual energy, gradually suppressing his spear intent.
They entered a state of meditation. Lin Jingxing and Luo Qingyang sat to the side, exchanging whispers about the battle they had just fought and analyzing the characteristics of the demon race's combat strength.
The battlefield has temporarily returned to calm, but everyone knows that this is only temporary.
The demon leader has not yet been killed, and no one knows how many more demon reinforcements will arrive.
But at least for now, they held the first line of defense at Wangyue Gate, buying Sunlight City some breathing room.
Xiao Chen opened his eyes and looked in the direction where Lu Mingyuan and the demon leader had disappeared, his brows furrowing slightly.
He always felt that Lu Mingyuan being lured away was no accident; perhaps the demons had an even bigger conspiracy waiting for them.
But since it had already happened, Xiao Chen didn't dwell on it.
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