Chapter 1259 The Devil Resurrects
The seven-day deadline quietly came to an end amid the increasingly rapid heartbeats.
At dawn, a scarlet crack suddenly appeared in the sky in the far north, like the bloody mouth of a giant beast.
Immediately afterwards, a deafening roar resounded throughout the heavens and earth, causing even the defensive formation of the City of Gods to ripple violently.
“Here I come!”
Someone shouted, and suddenly there was a sound of dense footsteps on the city wall.
The originally silent City of Gods was instantly filled with the sound of war drums.
Luo Li stood at the highest point of the City Lord's Mansion, her silver armor glowing coldly in the morning light.
She looked at the monstrous demonic energy gushing out from the gap in the far north, and the Xuan Yue in her hand trembled slightly as if it was longing to drink blood.
The fragments of the Demon God's inheritance that had been purified by Luo Li for a long time rushed out of the Chaos Jade and directly merged into the crack.
at the same time,
"Ari!"
Three hours later, Lan Xiaoxiao's voice rushed to her side with a rush of air, and the Sea God's Godhead stirred up blue waves behind her, "News has come from the defense line. The first batch of demons have broken through the ice field defense line and are heading towards the City of Gods!"
Luo Li nodded and said, "Send an order, have them return to Buli City immediately and don't linger in the battle."
Then, she swept her gaze over the spiritual masters below who were standing in a state of alert. Her voice, carried throughout the city through her soul power, "Everyone, today's battle is not about grudges, but about life and death. Behind us is the home we protect, and before us is a darkness that must be shattered."
"I am willing to follow the leader and fight to the death!"
The thunderous roars shook the air, and countless beams of soul power shot up into the sky, interweaving into a dazzling curtain of light above the City of Gods.
The Xuan Yue Sword sliced through the sky, bringing up a streak of silver lightning. Her voice resounded through the sky again: "Activate the formation!"
In an instant, the city defense formation of the City of Gods shone brightly, blocking the monstrous demonic energy outside the city.
Lan Xiaoxiao's expression was solemn. "Those demon species will be able to reach the outskirts of the City of Gods in three days at most."
Three days later, when the morning light cut through the night, the distant horizon was covered by a black wave.
Luo Li stood on the city wall, and her voice reached the ears of every spiritualist in the City of Gods, "Prepare for battle!"
"yes!"
Outside the city gate, the demons that arrived first had already crashed into the light curtain and let out a shrill roar.
A catastrophe that swept across the entire continent of the gods officially began in an interweaving of blood.
Luo Li stood inside the light curtain, watching those hideous demons being crushed by the formation, and more demons rushed forward stepping on the corpses of their companions.
She knew this was just the beginning.
These are just the lowest level demon species...
When the pressure that was enough to crush the heaven and earth came from the Far North Crack, Luo Li held Xuan Yue tightly.
The pressure was like tens of millions of mountains piled up together, pouring down along the scarlet cracks. Wherever it passed, the air seemed to condense into substance, making it difficult to breathe.
The light curtain of the City of Gods' defense formation trembled violently, and the originally bright golden light was dimmed by three points.
Luo Li's pupils suddenly shrank, and the Xuan Yue Sword hummed as it was about to be unsheathed. This was not the breath of an ordinary demon, but the pressure from the Demon God!
"A-Li!" Di Xuanming's figure instantly appeared beside her, his dark robe fluttering without wind, and the profound energy around him transformed into an indestructible barrier. "The Demon God has been reborn."
A black-robed figure slowly emerged from the crack.
He stepped barefoot on the clouds of demonic energy, and his pale fingertips played with a dancing black demonic fire. It was Yan Ye who had disappeared for many days.
But at this moment, the aura around him was several times stronger than before.
"Luo Li, how are you?" Yan Ye's voice carried an eerie echo. "You see, this is true power. What does the power of chaos mean? It can't withstand the essence of the Demon God."
He raised his hand, and the demonic energy surging out of the cracks suddenly accelerated, turning into countless sharp claws that fiercely scratched the light curtain, making a harsh scraping sound.
The patterns on Luo Li's silver armor lit up, and the power of chaos poured into the formation like a tide: "Yan Ye, you are just a puppet controlled by the Demon God's inheritance, how can you talk about power?"
"Puppet?" Yan Ye chuckled, his laughter filled with madness. "It's my honor to be able to bear this power! But you, guarding these dying people, don't you think it's ridiculous?"
Yan Ye flicked his fingertips, and the black magic fire suddenly turned into a magic whip, lashing the light curtain fiercely.
“Boom!”
The city defense formation shook violently, and golden light patterns lit up inch by inch, but a crack appeared where the magic whip hit.
"Ridiculous?" Luo Li Xuanyue unsheathed her sword, the light illuminating the cold glint in her eyes. "At least we are protecting living people. Unlike you, who can only hide in the demonic energy and survive by devouring the essence of living beings."
Before she finished her words, a soul-shaking roar suddenly came from the crack behind Yan Ye.
Countless demons with double horns on their heads and black wings on their backs rushed out in a torrent of demonic energy. The bone blades in their hands flashed with dark green poisonous light, and they charged towards the light curtain as soon as they appeared.
"These are just appetizers." Yan Ye's voice was filled with a cruel smile. "Luo Li, I want you to see with your own eyes how everything you cherish will be reduced to ashes in the demonic tide."
He slowly raised his hand, and a pitch-black magic core emerged from his palm. "See? This is the Myriad Soul Attraction, forged from the one hundred thousand wronged souls in the Soul Locking Tower. The Soul-Erosion Curse that Mo Xuan cast on you and your father was merely a defective remnant of it."
Luo Li was shocked. No wonder her father's soul-eating curse was so strange. It turned out that the root cause was here!
"You are looking for death!" The chaotic power around her surged, and the Xuan Yue Sword drew a silver arc across the sky and earth, slashing fiercely towards Yan Ye.
But before the silver arc touched Yan Ye, it was blocked by the huge shield of demonic energy that suddenly condensed in front of him, making a deafening roar.
"Don't be impatient." Yan Ye slowly and calmly took Wanhun into his sleeve. "I won't kill you myself. I want you to watch the destruction of the City of the Gods, watch your companions die one by one at the claws of the demons, and finally, in despair, willingly surrender the Origin of Chaos."
He turned around, stepped barefoot into the torrent of demonic energy, and a voice came from afar: "Enjoy this feast, my... sacrifice."
The vortex slowly dissipated, and Yan Ye disappeared.
Di Xuanming stood beside Luo Li, frowning slightly, "Yan Ye is too confident in himself. It seems that he wants to stay in the rear."
The chaotic power at Luo Li's fingertips had not yet subsided, and Xuan Yue's humming was still filled with lingering anger.
She looked in the direction where Yan Ye disappeared, her knuckles whitening beneath her silver armor. "He wasn't confident, but certain we couldn't hold on."
She exhaled softly, "Soon, Yan Ye will send the first batch of demons to attack the city. We must be prepared."
Emperor Xuanming nodded, "I will have the spiritual master prepare to leave the city gate to fight."
Luo Li shook her head, the Xuan Yue Sword swirling in her palm, the silver light reflecting the coldness in her eyes: "No need. Pass the order down, defend the formation to the death, and wear them down until they are exhausted."
Lan Xiaoxiao was puzzled: "But there are too many demon species. How long can the formation last?"
"We'll wear them down until they reveal a flaw." Luo Li looked towards the Far North Rift, where the demonic energy was surging ever more violently. "Yan Ye wants to use the demonic tide to wear us down. Let's see who collapses first."
As soon as he finished speaking, the demons outside the city suddenly retreated together, and the originally chaotic roars turned into a uniform roar.
In the black torrent, several demon generals, ten times taller than ordinary demons, broke out of the ground. Their skin was as hard as obsidian, and sticky black blood flowed on their bone blades.
"It's the Purgatory Demon General!" A cry of surprise came from the city wall. A spiritual master recognized this kind of monster recorded in ancient books. "This one is at least a seven-star saint king!"
Luo Li tapped her fingertips lightly on the ridge of the Xuan Yue Sword, and the power of chaos flowed along the sword pattern: "Xiao Xiao, take the spiritual master to guard the southeast corner, where the formation is the thinnest."
"Understood!" The waves behind Lan Xiaoxiao suddenly surged, carrying dozens of blue figures towards the corner of the city wall.
Emperor Xuanming had already summoned his Black Ice Spear, the dark black energy condensing into an icy spike at the spear tip. "Leave the Northwest to me."
Luo Li nodded and glanced at the spiritual masters who were on high alert on the city wall.
Some of them held trembling spiritual weapons, and some secretly looked at their homes behind them, but when their eyes met hers, the fear in their eyes turned into determination.
"Remember, every moment you hold on brings a new hope." She raised her hand, pointing the Black Moon Sword towards the sky. "In the name of the gods, slay the demon!"
Silver light poured down like a waterfall, landing precisely on the head of a Purgatory Demon General who leaped in front of the formation.
The demon general let out a deafening howl, and the sword energy actually split a crack in his hard head. Black blood splattered on the light curtain, making a sizzling corrosion sound.
"kill!"
The spiritualists on the city wall were inspired by this sword, and various soul power beams hit the demonic tide like a rainstorm.
Fireballs exploded among the demons, ice spikes nailed them to the ground, and vines tightly wrapped around the demon generals' limbs. Even though they knew these attacks could only temporarily slow down the demon tide, no one took a step back.
By nightfall, two more cracks had appeared on the light curtain.
Luo Li leaned against the city wall, her silver armor splattered with black demonic blood, and the consumption of the power of chaos made her face pale.
"We've already killed 7,763 demons and three Purgatory Demon Generals." Lan Xiaoxiao wiped the water off her face, her voice tinged with fatigue. "But the cracks are still pouring out. We can't kill them all."
Wen Xingyan also rushed over and said in a deep voice: "The demons not only attacked the City of the Gods, but also the main cities of the major forces were attacked at the same time. However, they are all holding on for now."
Luo Li's gaze did not leave the outside of the city. The bodies of the dead demons were melting and turning into pure demonic energy that was recovered by the cracks, as if it was an endless cycle.
"They're collecting their energy," she whispered. "Yan Ye is waiting for our soul power to run out."
As the night deepened, the demonic tide's offensive did not abate in the slightest.
The demonic energy that rose from the melted corpses of the slain demons condensed into a rolling black sea of fog below the crack. Countless twisted shadows could be vaguely seen wriggling in the fog, and new demon species were being bred inside.
Luo Li gripped the Xuan Yue Sword tightly, the cold light on the sword reflected the solemnity in her eyes.
"Xing Yan," she suddenly said, her voice a little hoarse, "Immediately organize all the alchemists in the city to distribute the Qingling Pills and let each team of spiritualists take turns to rest."
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