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Chapter 2374 - 2373: Demonic Beast War (Part 2)
The people living at the center of the Formation were smashed by this force until flesh and blood flew everywhere.
Nearly a hundred thousand people were buried beneath the rubble, and within the rolling dust, there was nothing but wails and screams.
The soldiers of the City Defense Camp responsible for guarding the interior of the city rushed over immediately and started rescuing people from beneath the ruins.
After the Demon Blade broke through the Array, it swept out a streak of Mysterious Light and flew back to the rear of the Demon Race.
"Ula!"
"Ula!"
"Ula!"
"..."
The Demon Army roared in excitement as one, just about to launch an assault on the position where the Cannons were deployed.
Wang Xun had long since ordered the cannon muzzles adjusted, and he took the lead in opening fire on those flame Demonic Beasts.
The shells poured down toward those flame Demonic Beasts like a hailstorm, smashing down madly.
With a muffled rumbling, the massive shockwave swept across a surrounding area of a hundred thousand meters.
A circular pillar of flame burst up on the battlefield.
Within the enormous storm, shrapnel whistled in all directions, crackling as it swept across the bodies of the flame Demonic Beasts.
Yet though the shrapnel carried tremendous impact, the instant it touched these Demonic Beasts’ bodies, it was melted by the high temperature clinging to them into molten iron.
Like hailstones thrown into a bonfire, they melted away completely before even touching the flames.
These gigantic Demonic Beasts were of the First Generation Demon Race, their bloodlines overwhelmingly powerful.
The incoming shockwave only sent their bodies rolling a bit; it didn’t inflict much damage on them at all.
The commanders atop the city wall were horrified to see there were fully four to five thousand of these flame Demonic Beasts.
They were spread along all four sides of the city wall, with over a thousand on each side.
These undying creatures were beyond the Human Race’s understanding.
After the Demon Blade pierced the city’s defensive barrier, in the blink of an eye, the second-generation Demon Soldiers had already charged up to the front of the Moat.
In this Moat, every section had been fitted with massive Array Plates.
The instant the Demon Soldiers entered the water, the Moat began to freeze, sweeping one Demon Soldier after another into the Ice Soul Formation, instantly chilling them into shattered ice slag.
However, because there were simply too many Demon Soldiers, the ones behind stepped onto the ice and charged directly forward.
Once they entered the effective range of a thousand meters, the officers on the walls immediately ordered the men to open fire.
Thump, thump, thump—muffled reports rang out.
Streaks of aurora-like flame spewed from the muzzles, transforming into beams that pierced one after another into the bodies of the Demon Soldiers.
These Aurora Flame Guns were likewise fitted with a Spirit Stone Formation at the rear.
But they absorbed light energy inside, compressing it and storing it in the Array Plate; pull the trigger, and a beam of light carrying immense heat shot out in a straight line.
Once it hit a Demon Soldier’s body, a bowl-sized hole immediately blossomed open.
There were too many Demon Soldiers; they didn’t even need to aim.
Zhang Fang and Monkey emptied a Spirit Stone Formation Pill Plate in no time at all, then immediately fell back to swap out the Array Plate.
Others behind them moved up to take over, and once their Spiritual Energy was exhausted, Zhang Fang and Monkey would rotate back in.
Zhang Fang’s body was trembling, his eyes bloodshot as he asked Monkey, "Did you hear it just now? It sounded like there was a massive explosion at the city center."
Monkey gripped his arm and tried to calm him in a low voice. "Stay cool. This isn’t the time to think about that."
Zhang Fang suddenly broke down in a low sob. "My home is there. How can I not think about it!"
As they were speaking, they suddenly heard the officers shout, "Fire defense!"
The Demon Soldiers had already surged up to the base of the city wall, and the men above immediately ignited the fire oil they’d poured over the corpses of yesterday’s Demon Soldiers.
Thump, thump, thump—another series of muffled bursts.
Flames shot skyward; for a moment, black, thick smoke billowed up in roaring columns, choking the men on the wall and making them cough dryly.
The gunfire grew even denser, crimson beams hammering down like a rainstorm.
There were First Generation Demon Soldiers over five to six meters tall, legs coiled, bodies like mantises, arms shaped like blades, pitch-black from head to toe. They locked onto the Flame Spears atop the wall, then suddenly sprang, soaring over a hundred meters into the air in a single bound to land atop the battlements, their blade-like arms sweeping toward the defending warriors in a frenzied slaughter.
In an instant, chaos erupted in many places along the walls.
These First Generation Demon Soldiers had extremely tough flesh; even when the beam guns spat fire, a single shot couldn’t do them much harm.
From the rear positions atop the walls, the special forces troops of the army—each one a warrior at the Nascent Soul Stage—immediately drew their latest-model standard-issue flame sabers, the great blades capable of being infused with heat, and moved to intercept these First Generation Demon Soldiers.
The fighting was brutal. On all four sides of the city wall, nearly ten thousand warriors died horribly underfoot, their blood splattering everywhere.
Originally, during the previous battles, the Warships on the water’s surface had already begun fire support.
But now the major fleets had been wiped out by the Demon Lords; the survivors had surrendered to the Puppet Court.
Without naval gunfire support, the situation on the battlefield grew far worse.
Soon, a black-pressing mass of creatures appeared in the sky.
Their wings spanned over a dozen meters, like gigantic bats, and they roared toward the city walls.
Ji Xiaolian stood atop the city wall, eyes fixed on the dense flock of Winged Demon Race incoming from the sky, and immediately gave the order for all flying troops deployed in the rear to take off and engage the Winged Demon Race.
One carrier after another that had been waiting impatiently below spewed flames and shot up rapidly into the air.
Once these colossal behemoths reached a certain altitude, swarms of sub-ships detached like a hive of bees and hurtled at high speed to intercept the Winged Demon Race.
On the ground, a Demon King blew the horn made of ox horn, and those flame Demonic Beasts that had just finished readjusting gathered their strength once more. Magma-like flames flared from their tails as they flicked them, hurling them one after another toward the carriers.
In an instant, fireballs surged from the ground, dense as a volcanic eruption, spewing up toward the heavens.
The giant carriers opened their defensive barriers and braced themselves in midair against the incoming fireballs.
Soon, boom, boom, boom—deafening impacts thundered out.
The carriers’ defenses were battered by the fireballs, as if they were wrapped in a shell of burning oil.
Once the flames dispersed, the colossal Warships’ giant cannons opened up beneath their hulls.
A massive pillar of light spewed down toward the ground, and with a thunderous crash, the earth below was instantly shrouded in red radiance.
The enormous light column, like a waterfall, surged madly outward in all directions.
Within a radius of ten thousand meters, the Demon Soldiers were instantly reduced to drifting ash under the tremendous heat.
The Demon King to the rear watched in fury and immediately ordered the flame Demonic Beasts to change their angle of attack and retarget the city walls.
At the same time, they sent another call for aid to the Demon Lords behind them.
Heaven and earth alike were soon plunged into one great melee.
The small flying Warships and the Winged Demonic Beasts tangled together, turning the entire sky blood-red, as if blazing clouds were hanging overhead.
Streaks of fire whipped from the tails of the Winged Demonic Beasts once more, flung toward the city walls, weaving into a dense fiery net that enveloped the battlements from all sides.
The flames traced red arcs through the air; before the scorching light even landed on the walls, it was already so dazzling that the men atop them couldn’t open their eyes.
The officers stationed by each heavy Cannon bellowed, "Take cover!"
The artillery crews scattered in all directions.
Zhang Fang and Monkey were directly in front of this wave of fire oil. With their weak Cultivation Level, just a glance at the fiery radiance made the steel helmets on their heads turn scorching hot.
Zhang Fang was so terrified he dropped flat on the ground, shouting to Monkey, "Monkey, help me find my wife and kid, take care of them for me!"
This fire-oil-like substance suddenly stalled in midair, a dozen or so meters above their heads.
It hung there, suspended in place, motionless.
The soldiers on all four city walls stared, stunned, as a group of people stepped out of the blinding firelight, walking on empty air as they descended toward the walls.
One of them raised a hand, and the fireballs around all four walls suddenly reversed course and hurtled backward.
With a muffled boom in the Void, the blazing firelight rained down wildly into the ranks of the Demon Race.
Boom, boom, boom—on the encircling belt ten thousand meters out, a sea of fire roared to life in an instant, burning into a crimson ring of flame all around the city walls.