Chapter 1260 Counterattack
Wen Xingyan responded and left without any hesitation, because he knew that someone might be sacrificed at every second.
After he left, Lan Xiaoxiao frowned as she looked down. "Ah Li, this isn't going to work. Even if we have a lot of pill reserves, we can't keep using them up like this."
The demonic attack was temporarily halted. Mu Ze returned from outside the city and said to Luo Li, "The casualties were less than we expected, but many spiritual masters still perished."
He looked sad, but he knew that now was not the time to be sad.
He said in a deep voice, "Also, I've discovered that the demons we're fighting are not very high-level. Even I can fight the demon generals on equal terms, or even slightly better than them, not to mention Senior Feng Yan and the others."
Luo Li didn't offer any comments on his words. Instead, she suddenly said in a deep voice, "Let everyone retreat."
"What?" Mu Ze was stunned, "But..."
Luo Li turned her eyes, her eyes determined, "Do as I say."
Mu Ze's doubts were stuck in his throat, but when he met Luo Li's eyes, which were still clear yet sharp as cold stars under the reflection of the demonic energy, all his confusion was suppressed in an instant.
He knew very well that Luo Li would never act without a purpose, especially at such a critical moment of life and death.
"Yes! Alliance Leader!" Mu Ze gritted his teeth and replied. He turned abruptly, his voice carrying soul power that penetrated the chaotic battlefield. "Alliance Leader's order! All combatants, immediately retreat to the city! I repeat, immediately retreat to the city! Abandon the frontline positions!"
The order was like a drop of water thrown into boiling oil, instantly exploding on the city wall.
The spiritual masters who were fighting the demons outside the light curtain all stopped moving, their faces filled with disbelief.
"Retreat? Now?!"
"We managed to withstand this wave with great difficulty!"
"If we retreat, won't the demons come over?"
Astonishment and confusion spread quickly. Many spiritual masters had fought bloody battles, and their companions had just fallen. Asking them to give up every inch of territory they had fought for with blood and soul power was like cutting out flesh from their hearts.
But the three words "Alliance Leader's Order" are of great weight. In the Alliance of Gods, Luo Li's will is the highest command.
After a brief period of chaos, despite being filled with reluctance and confusion, the spiritualists at the edge of the light curtain launched a final attack to force back the monsters in front of them. Then they turned around without hesitation, transformed into streams of light, and surged back into the city gate like a receding tide.
"Quick! Close the city gate! Reinforce the light curtain!" Although Lan Xiaoxiao was also puzzled, she executed the orders the fastest and directed the spiritual masters in the city to assist in covering the rear and providing support.
The heavy city gate slammed shut with a harsh sound of metal friction, the huge formation was reactivated, and the cracks on the city-protecting light curtain began to heal under the flow of golden light.
Outside the city, the demonic tide, having lost its resistance, paused for a moment, then erupted into an even more violent roar.
Like wolves smelling blood, they pounced madly on the light curtain that had just been impregnable.
The roars of the demon generals shook the city walls. They commanded the tide of low-level demons to ram into the walls fearlessly, trying to completely tear open this last barrier.
The atmosphere in the city was extremely depressing. The retreating spiritualists were still gasping for breath, with wounds on their bodies and faces covered in blood and fatigue. Their eyes were all focused on the silver-armored figure at the highest point of the city wall.
Ye Yichen was the first to rush to Luo Li's side, his voice a little hoarse from his urgency: "Ah Li! Why? If we retreat, the pressure on the formation will increase dramatically, and we won't be able to hold out for much longer! The buffer our brothers paid for with their lives..."
"The buffer is enough." Luo Li's voice was unusually calm, but her eyes were fixed on the black fog sea outside the city that was formed by the melting corpses of demons.
Her fingertips unconsciously stroked Xuan Yue's cold hilt, and the power of chaos surged in her body, as if she was sensing something.
"Look," Luo Li pointed at the terrifying black vortex outside the city. "Yan Ye is using the cracks to recycle the power of the dead demon species and recreate new ones, thus eroding our strength. This is his perpetual motion furnace, and it's also the reason he's confident he can wear us down."
Lan Xiaoxiao looked in the direction she pointed, her expression becoming even uglier. "Yes, if we keep going like this, we'll be dragged down sooner or later! But if we retreat into the city, won't that just make the fire burn even more fiercely?"
"No," Luo Li's lips curled up in a cold arc, and a nearly crazy light flashed in her eyes, "I withdrew the spiritual masters, not because I am afraid of fighting, but because I want to destroy his perpetual motion furnace!"
Di Xuanming had been standing silently beside Luo Li. At this moment, a flash of understanding flashed in his dark eyes, and his low voice rang out: "Chaos Jade?"
"That's right!" Luo Li clenched her Xuan Yue fiercely, and the sword emitted a long, clear cry. "Two-thirds of those fragments of the Demon God's inheritance that merged into the cracks came from the Chaos Jade. I purified them and they bear my Chaos Mark!"
"Yan Ye thought he had absorbed the power, but he didn't know that I was waiting for the moment when he would merge these fragments into this sea of demonic energy!"
Her voice was frantic, "I will force Yan Ye to destroy this furnace of his and come to fight him personally."
The Xuan Yue Sword suddenly pierced into the bricks under his feet, and the silver light spread along the lines of the formation, outlining complex chaos runes on the ground.
Luo Li closed her eyes, and a warm shadow of chaotic jade appeared between her eyebrows. The fragments of the demon god that she had purified day and night now resonated faintly in the far north crack.
"Use Chaos as a guide, lock!"
She suddenly opened her eyes, and the chaotic jade shadow suddenly shattered, turning into countless light points and merging into the city defense formation.
The roiling sea of fog outside the city suddenly surged violently, and the shadow that was originally nurturing a new demon species began to twist and emit a shrill scream.
"What's going on?" Lan Xiaoxiao looked at the silver chains emerging from the center of the fog sea in astonishment. Those chains seemed to have life, tightly binding the most concentrated magic core in the fog sea.
"The purified fragments will repel the unpurified demonic energy," Luo Li's voice trembled slightly. The overdrawn power of chaos made her vision black. "If Yan Ye doesn't sever his connection with the sea of fog, these chains will flow through the demonic energy and backfire on him."
Before he finished speaking, a dark beam of light suddenly burst out from the Far North Rift.
The sea of fog was like stagnant water with a huge rock thrown into it, and it instantly raised huge waves. The silver chains broke into pieces in the strong light, but they were also annihilated along with countless phantoms of demons.
"Luo Li!"
Yan Ye's furious roar pierced through the clouds, and the demonic energy surging out of the cracks suddenly became violent, and the originally orderly demonic tide began to become chaotic.
Obviously, in order to escape the backlash of the Chaos Mark, he forcibly cut off control of the furnace.
"Now!" A cold light flashed in Emperor Xuanming's eyes, and the black ice spear transformed into an ice dragon, smashing fiercely at a Purgatory Demon General who was biting his own kind outside the light curtain. "Lan Xiaoxiao, Mu Ze, go!"
"yes!"
The blue waves and the green wind instantly intertwined outside the city. The spiritual masters who were originally on the passive defense were like unsheathed swords, taking advantage of the interval between the internal strife of the demon tide to kill.
Luo Li on the city wall looked at the crack in the far north that was becoming increasingly scarlet due to rage, and slowly raised the Xuan Yue Sword.
"Yan Ye, your perpetual motion furnace is broken."
Her voice was soft, but it reached everyone's ears clearly.
In this bet, she won the first step, but it also completely ignited Yan Ye's final madness.
Soon, Yan Ye controlled the backlash and regained control of the demon species.
All the demons disappeared into the ground almost instantly.
The spiritual masters looked around in confusion:
"What's going on?! Where are those demon species!"
"I don't know! This is so weird!"
"What does the leader say?"
Luo Li watched this scene and understood, "Everyone, retreat back to the city and recuperate!"
The noise and confusion in the city suddenly quieted down as if being strangled by an invisible giant hand.
The spiritual masters who were fighting desperately with the demons a second ago were now staring blankly at the empty and desolate battlefield outside the city.
The demons disappeared into the ground without a trace, leaving behind only the devastated earth and the stench of demonic energy that lingered in the air.
This strange and sudden full retreat was more chilling than the violent attack.
"What's going on?" A young spiritualist's voice trembled, his knuckles turning white from the excessive force on his sword. "Are they...are they scared?"
"Afraid?" A middle-aged man with a bloodstained face nearby spat, his eyes as hard as cold iron. "How can demons know fear? They only have the instinct to kill! This is clearly the silence before the storm!"
Lan Xiaoxiao, Mu Ze and others quickly directed the retreating spiritual masters to count the wounded and strengthen the city defenses, but their eyes involuntarily turned to Luo Li who was at the highest point of the city wall.
Di Xuanming stood silently beside her, his dark profound energy like the deep night silently enveloping her slightly pale profile.
"Yan Ye is lying dormant," Luo Li's voice was soft, but it clearly pierced the brief silence and reached the ears of several companions around her. "He forcibly cut off the demonic energy furnace, and was counterattacked by my Chaos Mark. His power must have been shaken. Recalling the demon seeds now is not a retreat, but a way to accumulate strength and prepare for the final battle."
Luo Li turned around and walked down the tower. "Let's go. He won't attack the city again for at least three days. This also gives us some time to breathe."
Di Xuanming followed behind her and said softly, "We can also use these few days to recuperate and gather our strength."
"There is one more important thing." Luo Li looked at the night sky shrouded in black air, her voice vague.
The people around him were confused as to what he meant. "What?"
Luo Li looked slightly disappointed, "To pay tribute to our deceased companions."
The bells of the City of Gods rang low and wailing, resounding through the sky.
All the gates of the underground city were brought to the ground, and the spiritual masters, holding white soul lamps, lined up in neat rows along the city walls.
The light of the soul lamps swayed in the night wind, illuminating their faces which were a mixture of sadness and determination.
A huge monument rises from the ground in the square in the center of the city.
Luo Li walked slowly to the monument, and gently inserted the Xuan Yue Sword into the ground in front of the monument. The silver light flowing on the sword and the faint light of the soul lamp complemented each other.
"Their names will be forever engraved in the history of the Continent of Gods."
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