In the eyes of the ancient demonic beast, the city before it was not a city at all, but merely a fence to confine its food. Everyone within the fence was its prey.
She licked her lips with a clear "slurp," her eyes filled with greed.
Sun Chongyang caught a glimpse of a face that bore a slight resemblance to Elder Mo Shuxin of Dan Peak on Shenqi Mountain and lowered his head again.
"Demon Lord, Lady Shu, please wait a moment. We will soon open the gates of Donghui City, allowing Lady Shu to feast."
He dared not let the woman act on her own.
Despite her gentle and harmless appearance, if she were to unleash her power, it would be just like the attack on Wuse City. Not only did everyone in Wuse City become her food, but his own subordinates were also consumed, serving as a pre-meal treat.
Those small snakes each contained a trace of his cultivation and divine sense. Millions of them, accumulated, had a significant impact on him.
Li Tingyun embraced Shu'er's waist and coldly commanded, "Then hurry. Do not keep this Lord waiting."
Shu'er covered her mouth and giggled, but her slender tongue flicked out and back almost imperceptibly, her charming fox eyes filled with greed.
"I am truly hungry."
Disregarding Li Tingyun and Sun Chongyang, she leaped forward, transforming into a colossal demonic beast and crashing into the city gate.
"CRASH!"
The monstrous beast, as large as three Heavenly Dragon Snakes, smashed open the city gate with a single blow. Countless dense demonic energies spread wildly into the city from the gate.
"Ah! Run! The demon cultivators are here!"
"Save us! We don't want to die!"
"Don't kill me!"
In Donghui City, the populace, who had been in fear for days, watched this terrifying scene and nearly collapsed from fright!
"Get away!" One person even forcefully struck at the demonic energy, only to watch powerlessly as it rapidly enveloped more than half the city.
"Do not enter!"
Li Shiqing and Sun Ling leaped onto the city wall, attacking the massive ancient demonic beast. However, the beast merely snorted, spewing out countless black arrows.
The tips of the arrows were imbued with ominous, scorching demonic flames. Li Shiqing, accidentally brushed by one, changed color. The spiritual energy within her plummeted, and accompanied by a heart-wrenching pain, she rolled off the city wall.
The ancient demonic beast took a step forward, its foot about to stomp down on Li Shiqing!
"Shiqing!" Sun Ling leaped off the city wall, intending to save Li Shiqing, but was blocked by Sun Chongyang. Gritting her teeth, she yelled, "Sun Chongyang, get out of the way!"
Sun Chongyang sneered, "It is Lady Shu's mealtime. No one is allowed to disturb her."
After Sun Chongyang fell into demonic cultivation, his power surged. Sun Ling was no match for him. She watched helplessly as the colossal foot descended towards Li Shiqing!
"Shiqing—"
At the critical moment, a shattered light like cracking ice suddenly leaped forth from in front of Li Shiqing.
The minuscule fragments of light, as faint as a trace of imperceptible breeze, struck the ancient demonic beast's foot, nearly overturning it.
"AH!"
The foot was deeply gash by the shattered light, and the ancient demonic beast let out a sharp, piercing roar.
"Damn it!" Shu'er's pupils flashed with crimson light as she fixed her gaze on the space before Li Shiqing. "Who dares to ruin my good deed!"
The space rippled, then was torn open by a pair of slender hands. A man with narrowed phoenix eyes, tall and handsome, carrying a long sword glinting with starlight, advanced menacingly.
"Qin Si."
Not far away, Li Tingyun composed himself, his gaze solemn.
He had actually managed to arrive!
His robes fluttered, his black hair cascaded like a waterfall, and wherever his sword swept, it left an aura of icy frost.
Qin Si looked up coldly. "Li Tingyun."
The Wuji Canghan Sword slashed through the air, but no sword aura was visible.
Li Tingyun dared not be distracted. Indeed, in the next moment, sharp sword light, agile as a dragon, surged from his right front, arriving in an instant!
He immediately summoned his own sword to block, only to find that his sword could not even touch Qin Si's sword aura. The sword aura seemed to constantly tear through space, reappear, vanish, and tear through space again, its movements elusive and difficult to discern.
"Hiss..."
In a moment of distraction, Li Tingyun's left hand was wounded by the sword aura and instantly frozen by ice.
"Your mastery of the Way of Space has improved again?" Li Tingyun exclaimed in surprise.
Although he had not sparred with Qin Si for years, he had kept abreast of his news. To think that in such a short time, he could fuse his sword intent with the Way of Space.
Truly worthy of being a once-in-a-millennium genius of the Shenqi Continent!
Li Tingyun's expression was filled with admiration, but his blood-red eyes showed no emotion.
The malevolence around him boiled, and he said grimly, "Since that is the case, I shall not let you live any longer!"
Not far away, Qin Si's phoenix eyes lifted slightly, a mocking expression on his sculpted face. "You shall not let me live? What is it, Tingyun? You don't want to hide like a stray dog anymore?"
If Bai Shengyi's taunts sometimes hit close to the heart, Qin Si's venomous words were like stabbing at someone's lungs. In just one sentence, Li Tingyun's face changed dramatically.
"You are courting death!"
"Then let's see who dies!"
Qin Si let out a cold laugh, his sword in hand. "Frostfall!"
A vast, chilling sword intent condensed at the tip of his sword. Instantly, the small snakes on the city wall were frozen into ice sculptures. The frost continued to spread infinitely, creeping towards the ancient demonic snake and Li Tingyun.
The sword light mingled with the frost, yet there was a spatial shift, making it impossible to discern where the true sword move was hidden.
Li Tingyun's eyes glinted with ferocity. He spread his hands and sinisterly said, "Shu'er, lend me a hand!"
Upon hearing this, the ancient demonic beast let out a strange cry and transformed into a vast, decaying, dark demonic aura that fell into Li Tingyun's hands. With a thought from Li Tingyun, the demonic aura condensed into countless black, ominous arrows that rained down upon the frost!
As the frost receded by a foot, the arrows met it. As the frost advanced by a foot, the arrows retreated by a foot.
Sun Chongyang roared from the side, "Supreme Demon Lord, I shall assist you!"
The Heavenly Dragon Snake opened its mouth, and a dark inner core was spat out, falling into the arrow rain. Instantly, a long, elongated arrow formed within the rain!
A sinister grin flashed across Li Tingyun's eyes. With a wave of his hand, the arrow shot towards the civilians of Donghui City!
"Go! Fetch the blood of the city for my Shu'er!"
"Stop it!"
Li Shiqing and Sun Ling exchanged a glance, both disregarding everything to intercept the giant arrow.
However, the giant arrow seethed with fierce black smoke. The moment the two touched it, their hands were corroded, and they were flung away.
But the giant arrow was eventually stopped.
"Wuji!"
"SWOOSH!"
Two streaks of sword light flashed, directly slicing the giant arrow into countless pieces.
Qin Si hovered in the air above, looking at the suddenly appearing rusty sword with astonished joy, tightening his grip on the Wuji Canghan Sword.
Was he dreaming?
That looked like... Ayi's sword?