Shi Tianjiao reached out to stop them and sighed, "Forget it, we've only given them a place to stay, let's just leave them be."
When the three of them descended from the sky, Shi Tianjiao was overjoyed. Finally, help had arrived. Although there weren't many of them, they could still relieve some of the pressure. Who would have thought that the ending would be like this? It was all for nothing!
Shi Xuan had no time to consider what the City Lord of Qingshui was thinking; her mind was currently focused on finding a perfect method for layered pill refining. In fact, the previous Bursting Pill was already a success; this was simply a matter of adding a few more layers.
This resulted in a greater consumption of spiritual energy. Each layer required compression and isolation using spiritual energy, demanding extremely precise control of both divine sense and spiritual energy over a prolonged period. After only half a day, Shi Xuan had to take a painkiller.
The previous rebellious state of her spiritual root has greatly improved recently thanks to her comprehensive treatment. With simultaneous progress in body tempering, the Morning Sun Pill, and advancement, it has not recurred for a long time.
A full day and a half passed before Shi Xuan finally finished refining the pills. He had refined three batches of pills in total, averaging one batch every half day. Such a slow pace was unprecedented in Shi Xuan's previous pill-refining history.
The moment Xuan pushed open the door, his two senior brothers immediately came to greet him, asking with concern, "How are you?"
Shi Xuan smiled and nodded: "Let's go and check out the situation at the front."
Meanwhile, on the front lines, Qingshui City was in complete disarray, its protective formation teetering on the brink of collapse. City Lord Shi Tianjiao, along with several high-level cultivators, charged into the horde of demonic beasts to fight, but with little success.
The number of monsters was too large; as soon as one group was killed, another group would follow, creating an unusual and continuous tide.
Several Golden Core cultivators were so exhausted that they had to stuff pills into their mouths to keep going.
When Shi Xuan released her divine sense, she found that the human cultivators were fighting near the city walls, but her compound powerful explosive pill had too large an impact range, so she had to go to a more distant place to detonate it.
"Second Senior Brother, Fourth Senior Brother, let's fly out together on our swords and throw the pills ten miles in front of the main gate. We'll line up vertically, with Second Senior Brother in front, me in the middle, and Fourth Senior Brother behind. If we encounter any flying monsters, the three of us will work together to kill them, but we can't run out of the range that the three of us can reach."
The two senior brothers readily agreed.
Shi Xuan nodded, "Let's go!" As soon as he finished speaking, the three of them rushed out, quickly passing over the cultivators who were fighting, and flew to a more distant place.
The city lord looked up and saw the three men, his anger growing even stronger. For almost two days, they had done nothing, not even showing their faces, simply watching helplessly as the city lord struggled against the demonic beasts' attacks. Now, with the city on the verge of collapse and about to fall, instead of guarding the city gates, they had flown so far away—were they here for sightseeing?!
Several lieutenants also saw them and watched helplessly as the well-dressed men disappeared on their swords. Their eyes turned red with anger, and some even cursed, "You bastards from the Lianfeng Sword Sect! I'll fuck your grandpa!"
There were also quite a few flying demonic beasts in the sky. Although it was only a short ten-mile journey, they encountered many attacks, but fortunately, they had two Golden Core senior brothers to protect them. The three of them successfully reached their destination, and Shi Xuan launched the pills at the location she had previously set without hesitation.
The newly refined pills were enormous, each one the size of ten ordinary pills. When thrown into the horde of beasts, they produced an incredibly loud explosion, creating a massive firework display with a radius of at least five miles.
The soldiers fighting below the city were still cursing and complaining that the cultivators sent by the Lianfeng Sword Sect were unreliable when a huge explosion was heard, and the entire ground shook.
Looking up, a massive mushroom cloud rose from the direction where the three had disappeared, and a huge shockwave shot into the sky, seemingly tearing the sky apart. The powerful winds generated by the massive explosion spread from the epicenter, making it difficult for the people fighting to stand, and even the demonic beasts frequently retreated.
These monsters' nature instilled a sense of crisis in them. The enormous sound was terrifying to them, and their intuition told them that this giant firework might take their lives!
The city lord clearly sensed that the monsters were hesitant; they felt a great threat and didn't know whether to continue attacking the city or turn around and flee for their lives.
After throwing the compound, potent explosive pill, Shi Xuan, who was flying high in the sky on his sword, ran away, soaring as high and far as possible to avoid being affected.
Within a five-mile radius of the blast, most of the low-level demonic beasts were killed instantly, while those in the middle were mostly injured. However, the outermost layer of the Exploding Pill contained a mixture of various poisons, substances that blocked spiritual power, caused weakness, and caused unbearable pain and itching, which acted upon them with an extremely unpleasant effect.
The monsters fell in droves. Within a radius of five miles, except for a few on the outermost edge which were less affected, the rest were stunned by the explosion.
They suddenly felt as if they had been stabbed a hundred times, their strength was draining away, and they began to feel unwell all over. Along with their strength, their fighting spirit was also draining away. Their instincts told them that this place was extremely unsafe and they needed to escape!
The restless monsters began to panic and rush about in an attempt to escape. Those monsters that were only injured and lying on the ground, not yet completely dead, could only be mercilessly trampled by their panicked companions, turning them from non-corpses into corpses.
That wasn't all. Shi Xuan spotted the direction in which most of the monsters were fleeing from the air, followed them to the densest area, and dropped another pill.
Calling it a pill is no longer appropriate, because this thing is bigger than a person's fist; calling it a thunderclap would be more fitting.
The scene just now repeated itself. In the new area, the low-level demonic beasts were once again blown to death, and those who had been injured and followed along were attacked a second time, their injuries compounded. Coupled with the doubled negative effects of the pills, they quickly lost their fighting ability.
This unexpected attack caught the monster horde off guard, resulting in heavy casualties.
At this moment, Shi Tianjiao no longer cared about killing the demonic beasts. He flew out of the battlefield and climbed to the highest observation platform on the city wall to observe the situation.
The scene that unfolded before his eyes was unforgettable for Shi Tianjiao!
Two enormous holes appeared in the once endless horde of demonic beasts. Large numbers of beasts fell wounded, while many more fled in terror. Unlike the desperate struggle on their city front, the demonic beasts on the other side were being treated like potatoes, utterly powerless to resist!
Looking at the three small black dots still flying in the air on their swords, Shi Tianjiao thought about his previous evaluation of them and blushed. He had made the mistake of judging people by their appearance.
In the cultivation world, strength is paramount. Seeing those two Golden Core cultivators so obedient to a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he should have suspected this Foundation Establishment cultivator possessed some extraordinary ability. Yet, he judged based on appearance, instinctively assuming it was because the female cultivator was beautiful. Shameful! Utterly shameful!
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