Chapter 95 095 If you don't want to die in the broken city, find a secluded place...
After discussing it, Zhiwei and Yun Tianjiao decided to split up. She went to find Yun Tianqi, while he went to check on the situation in the outer city.
The outer city is now almost a ghost town. Most of the residents have gone to the inner city for refuge. Only a few elderly, sick, and poor people who have no one to care for them remain in their homes in the outer city, which have no shelter, ready to become food for the vampires at any time.
As Zhiwei walked along the outer city street, two blood demons staggered towards her, looking like two lumps of human flesh, leaving a trail of blood in their wake. But before they reached Zhiwei, they stopped in a comical manner, stiffly tilted their heads, seemed to think for a moment, and then immediately changed direction as if avoiding her like snakes.
With disgust in her eyes, Zhiwei casually flicked her wrist, turning the two blood demons into dust as if wiping away dirt.
"This colleague is amazing, how did they do it?"
At this moment, several immortal lords of similar divine rank to Zhiwei emerged from a dilapidated house nearby. They had set up a barrier to shield their auras in that house. They had been hiding there silently, watching Zhiwei outside. Only after seeing that he had eliminated the blood demon did they dare to show themselves.
It's laughable to think that a dignified god would hide and run away for a few of the lowest-level monsters.
"It's just the simplest exorcism magic; my colleagues are too kind," Zhiwei thought disdainfully, but still smiled and answered politely.
The gods were all taken aback when they saw Zhiwei's face.
"No wonder, it turns out to be the Heavenly God Zhiwei who won the championship in this Ascension to Immortality Tournament. To be honest, although we can eliminate this Blood Demon, it is really exhausting for us. We just happened to meet the Blood Demon separately, so we simply set up a barrier to catch our breath for a while."
Zhiwei sensed something was amiss. "Why are my colleagues here?"
This time, it was unexpected that these few gods would be the ones to be notified. "Didn't the God of Knowledge receive the notification?"
Zhiwei hadn't heard any news from the Heavenly Court for a long time, but when they asked her this, she pretended to touch her empty waist and said, "Huh? I don't know when my communication jade pendant fell out."
"If the jade token is lost, we should return to the Heavenly Court as soon as possible to replace it, otherwise we will miss the Heavenly Venerable's order, which would be terrible."
Zhiwei asked, "Did the Heavenly Venerable issue an order?"
All the gods looked sullen, like shop assistants forced to work by their manager. "Sigh, it's that Mugo again. He's been showing up outside the West Gate since last night, carrying a filthy, stinking corpse on his back. The Heavenly Venerable is worried that he will force his way through the inner city barrier, so he has ordered all the gods to set up defenses in the outer city."
A young immortal lord couldn't help but complain in a low voice, "That's a demonic aura, even the gods find it difficult to deal with, so what use are we?"
"Alas, let alone the rare demonic energy that appears only once every hundred years, even these blood demons born from demonic energy are not easy to deal with."
As these low-ranking gods began to grumble and complain, Zhiwei grew increasingly impatient and expressed her intention to take her leave.
The leading deity hurriedly said, "If the Deity Zhiwei doesn't mind, may we travel with you?"
“Of course I don’t mind.” Zhiwei blinked her peach blossom eyes and smiled very kindly. “I just want to go outside the West Gate to see what that demon looks like. I wonder if you gentlemen would be willing?”
"..."
The gods all looked at him as if he were a madman.
Is there something troubling you? Why would you go and die?
Seeing that the noisy group had finally shut up and quieted down, Zhiwei was very satisfied. She nodded slightly in greeting and then drifted away.
...
Outside the west gate of the imperial city, Mo Bei and Gong Xin stood side by side on the city wall, watching the motionless figure in the distance.
Mo Bei's eyes were bloodshot. He yawned widely and complained to Gong Xin beside him, "I really can't take it anymore. This is like torturing a hawk! What does he mean by this? He's been like this for days, not moving at all."
Gong Xin, holding his precious jar, looked as sleepy as usual, but was suddenly awakened by Mo Bei's shout.
Mo Bei was speechless: "Seriously, Venerable Gong Xin, I'm really impressed. How can you still be asleep at a time like this?"
Gong Xin craned his neck and looked around for a while before asking, "Hasn't Lord Yu Li arrived yet?"
Mo sighed, "The God of Yuli clashed directly with Mugo a few days ago and was seriously injured while protecting that village. He probably hasn't fully recovered yet. As for the God of Qingyuan, we don't know where he went. We haven't seen him since this demonic entity appeared in the world."
"I'm afraid it either perished or was eaten by that demon," Gong Xin said listlessly, yawning.
Mo Bei shuddered and rubbed his arms. "Hey, don't talk nonsense, you're scaring me to death."
The two were only distracted by saying those few words when Mugo disappeared from where he had been standing.
Mo Bei was startled, blinked, and thought there was something wrong with his eyes. "Hey, where's that Demon Fiend?"
Gong Xinqian's eyes, which had been half-asleep for a thousand years, finally widened. He held the jar and poked his head out to look around. Suddenly, he gasped and gently patted Mo Bei, making a downward gesture.
Mo Bei seemed to understand something, and followed Gong Xin, slowly leaning out to look down from the city gate tower. As a result, he met Mu Ge's face, which was close at hand, grinning.
"Heavens above!!! Divine Lord Gongxin, why didn't you say anything to him? He... he climbed up here!" Mo Bei retreated repeatedly.
Gong Xin was confused for a moment, "Huh? He climbed up? I just saw him standing at the bottom of the city wall... Ahhhhh!"
Before he could finish speaking, Mugo had already leaped onto the city wall in an instant, his mouth wide open, revealing a row of sharp teeth, seemingly laughing very happily. Unlike those creatures that crawled out of the blood lake, he still maintained a perfect human form, except that his teeth and eyes were demonized. If he closed his eyes and mouth, he would be no different from an ordinary person, still looking like a thin and wiry young man.
At this moment, his pair of red vertical pupils were staring at the two deities, like a wild beast eyeing its prey, showing extreme excitement.
Mo Beigong reacted quickly, immediately joining forces to activate the killing formation. However, Mu Ge was completely unaffected by the formation. With a long bundle on his back, he moved slowly and deliberately, stomping around the formation's core in a highly insulting manner.
"The legend is true, the power of the gods is ineffective against demonic forces!"
Mo Bei and Gong Xin both saw fear in each other's eyes. Mo Bei's forehead was covered in cold sweat: "What are we going to do!"
"What to do, what to do? Of course, we have to run!" Gong Xin, clutching the jar, turned and jumped off the city gate tower, then ran into the city.
Mo Bei also realized what was happening and followed Gong Xin's example, running wildly behind him.
Mugo was right behind them, teleporting almost instantly as he chased after them.
"Why, why don't we go back to Heaven? Why are we running around here?" Mo Bei asked as he ran.
Gong Xin said, "Of course we cannot disobey the Heavenly Venerable's order. He instructed us to guard the imperial city and prevent this demon from entering the inner city."
"Hmph, easy for you to say, why doesn't he come himself!" Mo Bei cursed under his breath, then, seizing an opening, waved the palace lantern in his hand, creating a barrier behind him in an attempt to block the way.
However, this barrier, which could easily keep the blood demons out, was useless to Mugo. He passed through the barrier almost without any hindrance and continued his relentless pursuit.
"The barrier is ineffective! I wonder if the barrier set up by the Celestial Venerable in the inner city could stop him?"
The closer they got to the city, the denser the houses and buildings became, and Mo Bei and Gong Xin took to the air. Unexpectedly, when Mu Ge saw them fly, his grin widened even further. Suddenly, a stream of blood shot from each of his palms, attaching itself to the backs of Mo Bei and Gong Xin.
The two of them suddenly felt a weight on them, and before they could even look back, the world spun around them. Mugo was pulling them up and down like two kites, their movements completely out of their control.
"Aaaaaah, this bastard!" Mo Bei was deliberately manipulated by Mu Ge, crashing straight into a two-story building. Seeing that there was no way to dodge, he could only use magic to protect himself, and crashed into a section of the roof.
Gong Xin fared even worse, bouncing around on the ground like a pinball from Mugo, hitting him so hard he saw stars and almost vomited.
The two gods and one demon caused quite a commotion in the city, which caught the attention of all the gods who were on patrol and defense, and they all went to provide support.
Seeing that more and more celestial beings were gathering around him, Mugo also summoned the Blood Demon. The lower-level celestial beings had to deal with the Blood Demon again, leaving only a few Immortal Venerables who were still trying to break the blood pillars that Mugo was connecting to Mo Bei and Gong Xin.
But no matter what methods they tried, they couldn't get rid of Mugo. Mugo became even happier. While maintaining his high-speed pursuit, he was able to spare some energy to release a few more pillars of blood, turning those immortals into kites and sending them flying high into the sky.
With the power of a demon, he fought against the gods, advancing with unstoppable momentum, and was about to reach the inner city's barrier.
At this moment, he seemed to sense something, his grin narrowed, his eyes rolled to the right, and then he suddenly leaned back to dodge. Several spells pierced the air and cleanly severed the blood column shooting from his palm.
Mo Bei and Gong Xin finally regained their freedom, quickly leaping into the air and landing gracefully, maintaining their dignity as divine beings. However, the other immortal beings who had been sent flying like kites were not so lucky, falling flat on their backs in a sorry state.
At this moment, they were already at the boundary between the inner and outer cities. Many people in the inner city had seen them through the barrier and naturally saw the miserable state of these gods. They couldn't help but feel uneasy. They looked up at the barrier light screen that reached straight to the sky and couldn't help but step back.
Those two who were just tormented to the point of near death by the demonic energy were divine beings! If even the divine beings themselves couldn't deal with the demonic energy, then how could this thin barrier set up by the Heavenly Venerable possibly be effective?
Mugo slowly turned his head toward the direction from which the spell had been fired, and paused when he met Zhiwei's two cold gazes.
He could sense that this god was different from the others; he possessed an aura similar to his own.
Demons and ghosts are of the same origin, but ghosts still retain humanity and reason, while demons have almost lost human emotions.
"If you don't want to die, find a deserted place and fend for yourself." Zhiwei stood atop a tall temple, looking down at Muge, and coldly warned him.
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