Chapter 526 Unparalleled Blessings
The deadly attack of the flock of green demon birds had just ended when the advance troops of the soul beast army broke through the defense line and rushed to the top of the city wall. The two sides engaged in a brutal close combat.
The Ten Thousand Monster King also took action, continuously releasing countless thick branches, sweeping wildly on the city wall like a living creature. Although several Title Douluo tried their best to stop him, the Ten Thousand Monster King was powerful and extremely cunning, always maintaining a roaming tactic, leaving the besieged Title Douluo helpless. And they did not dare to rush into the enemy camp, so they could only deal with the branches that kept attacking.
In a short period of time, more than half of the large soul guides on the city wall had been destroyed by the Ten Thousand Demon King. After all, he had been forced by a dragon to become a ninth-level soul guide in the past few thousand years, so whenever he had the chance, he would naturally prioritize dismantling the soul guides that humans depended on for survival. What was even more terrifying was that the branches that stretched across the city wall became an excellent climbing path for soul beasts. More and more soul beasts followed the branches to the top of the city wall, and the battle soon turned into a brutal melee.
As time went by, the battle became more and more brutal. The casualties of the Barak City Defense Force continued to rise. The elusive Emerald Birds were always waiting for an opportunity to strike, suddenly launching a fatal attack when the soul masters were fighting with other soul beasts. The light of the soul guides on the city wall had completely disappeared, and almost all the soul guides defending the city were destroyed.
The situation outside the city was equally grim. Xian Lin'er and Qian Duoduo teamed up to fight against the Bear King but were defeated. At this moment, all the battles were concentrated on the top of the city, and the soul masters' soul power and physical strength were greatly consumed. Although the individual strength of the soul masters was superior, facing the endless army of soul beasts, their advantages were being eroded bit by bit.
Suddenly, a deafening roar spread throughout the entire Barak City. The people who were fighting fiercely could not help but look in the direction of the sound. Elder Lin from Shrek Academy was too old and weak to dodge, and was directly hit by the dark gold claw of the bear king. The terrifying impact caused the entire section of the city wall to collapse.
At this moment, all the soul masters defending the city showed despair on their faces. In such an unfavorable battle situation, the collapse of the city wall meant that their last support was completely lost. The same thought came to everyone's mind: It's over, everything is over.
Although Du Bu Si was extremely reluctant to retreat, after experiencing the fatal attack of the Emerald Bird, he finally had to make this difficult decision and led the wounded and demoralized soul masters to withdraw from Barak City. The Vixrock Plain was endless, with a wide view but no strategic location to defend. For human soul masters who needed terrain cover and had just suffered heavy losses, this was undoubtedly a desperate situation that made the situation worse.
Under the double attack of the ghostly shadows of the flying soul beasts and the soul beasts chasing them on the ground, they were forced to fight and retreat, and every step was accompanied by tragic sacrifices. The troops responsible for the rear were almost torn to pieces by the surging waves of soul beasts. The remaining team was exhausted and wounded. The shadow of death brought by the Emerald Demon Bird was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, making everyone like a frightened bird. Finally, they barely retreated behind the tall and cold walls of Silves City.
At this moment, the Silves city walls were already on full alert. The cold soul guide gun barrels flashed with cold metallic light and pointed outside the city. The healing soul masters were ready to treat the wounded at any time. The air was filled with a suffocating solemnity, foreshadowing that a more tragic battle was about to come.
Du Bu Si was covered in blood, and stood on the top of the city with a sharp gaze. In front of him was a torrent of soul beasts surging like a black tide on the plain; behind him were the soul masters who had gathered together. Although their numbers were far less than those of the pursuers, their eyes were equally determined. These remnants of the army who had just escaped from the claws of the Emerald Demon Bird and were bathed in blood on the plain, joined the reinforcements who were waiting in full battle array, and together they built this new line of defense.
The story of the Body Sect's bloody battle for the survival of mankind spread like wildfire, completely changing people's past prejudice and fear of this sect. This recognition and respect gained with blood and lives has never been more deeply rooted in people's hearts.
However, Du Bu Si felt extremely heavy in his heart when he heard those whispers of praise, without any joy. His bloodshot eyes looked at the soul beast army outside the city, which had regrouped and formed a heavier and more terrifying battle line, and then slowly swept over the exhausted soul masters on the city wall.
Those lost lives, those soul masters who fell forever on the plains in order to fight for a moment of respite, their sacrifices have made the Body Sect famous at this moment. The price of this belated change is too high, so high that he would rather not have it. Because victory is far away, and the crisis at hand is becoming more serious with the redeployment of the soul beast army.
The order to notify non-combatants to evacuate completely shattered the last glimmer of hope in Silves City, and the streets in the city were instantly flooded with fleeing people. Cries, shouts, and curses amidst the shoving and pushing intertwined into a desperate din. The civilians repeatedly turned their heads to look towards the city gate, where the beast tide was about to surge.
Panic spread like a plague, and the soldiers who were maintaining order shouted at the top of their lungs, trying to divert the flow of people, but in the face of sheer numbers and extreme fear, their voices were like stones thrown into a raging sea, instantly drowned out. From time to time, shoving and shoving turned into fierce conflicts. In order to fight for a closer position and to grab a few limited supplies, the fragility of human nature was fully exposed under the pressure of survival.
Those who stay, whether they are soul masters or soldiers, will face a bloody battle in which they may die.
Dust rose up in the chaotic footsteps, like a low-hanging gray fog, covering the city that was about to become a huge meat grinder. Silves City, the capital of the Silves Kingdom ten thousand years ago, was now silently counting the final countdown to death in the chaos of evacuation and desperate farewells.
When all the soul masters were on the city wall, their nerves tense like a fully drawn bowstring, a figure that didn't fit in appeared on the empty and messy streets of the city. It was the auspicious emperor beast that had disappeared since the battle began. She completely ignored the smoke and despair that filled the human city. Her elegant body covered with golden hair cast a long shadow on the messy street and finally stopped in front of a magnificent building.
The building rises from the ground, with a height of nearly 100 meters. Its huge outline stands out against the chaotic urban background, exuding a heaviness and majesty that has gone through the years.
The Silves Grand Fighting Arena - its scale far exceeds that of the Soto Grand Fighting Arena. After all, this place was once the capital of the Silves Kingdom, so its status and heritage are naturally extraordinary.
Huo Yuhao still used his simulated spirit skills to hide his figure to avoid unnecessary trouble. They easily passed through the open door and stepped into this hall that was once the glory and bloody competition of human spirit masters. The empty and deadly interior of the fighting spirit arena formed a cruel contrast with the bustling hustle and bustle of the past. The first thing that caught the eye was a huge stone tablet standing at the entrance. On the stone tablet, countless names were densely engraved, and each name represented a dead soul that had fallen in this fighting spirit arena, silently telling the tragedy of the past.
However, in this inscription representing death, there is a passage written in a larger and deeper font. It records that the original generation of Shrek Seven Devils had defeated the strong with the weak, challenged the enemy of higher level, and annihilated the notorious fierce god team.
Of course, the Silvester Arena would not describe in detail how the original generation of the Shrek Seven Devils wiped out the Evil God Team, so Huo Yuhao could only see how brutal the Evil God Team was and how each of the Shrek Seven Devils were young heroes who eliminated harm for the people. As for the process of them using hidden weapons to beat their opponents into sieves, there was no mention of it at all.
However, this "glorious" record that once belonged to Shrek now lies quietly at the silent entrance of the fighting arena. The dusty noise of the past seems to still echo under the empty dome, and the more terrifying noise is ready to go outside the city wall.
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"I have contacted Di Tian, but he rejected my request. The reason is that as long as he does not appear on the battlefield, the strong men on the human side will not dare to go all out because of fear. At least for the time being, there is no need to worry that those Titled Douluo will use self-detonation to force back the beast tide, although I think he simply does not want to come... But Biji and the others will pay attention to distance themselves from Du Bu Si. And they will also stop when they see the good, and stop fighting when they reach the Sunset Forest. As you know, the soul beast population there is too scarce, and almost all of them have been wiped out by the poisonous miasma. It is more convenient to push directly over than to migrate by space teleportation... emmm, anyway, Di Tian thinks so. He thinks it is too mentally exhausting to open the portal for a long time." Fu Rui is already a mature emperor beast. She has arranged everything clearly. "You don't have to be too anxious! Even if the Sun Moon Empire and the Star Luo Empire go to war, they should not be able to reach Star Luo City for a while, right?"
“That’s hard to say. Who knows what Orange will do next? Even the teacher admires that woman’s determination for revenge! Let’s go over there quickly!” Huo Yuhao sneered. He could allow Orange to call him dad, even though the other party did not mean that, but she could not snatch her biological father’s head from him.
At this moment when the whole city was enveloped in deathly silence, Huo Yuhao's figure was suddenly engulfed by the extreme cold current that soared into the sky. The ice-blue light expanded violently, and the biting cold instantly swept across the entire Douhun Field. Even Du Bu Si and others on the distant city wall shuddered violently, and some people even had a thin layer of frost condensed on their bodies. In the center of the cold current that seemed to be able to freeze the soul, a huge ice-blue dragon appeared proudly. It was covered with diamond-like ice crystal scales. Its huge dragon wings suddenly spread out, casting a shadow that almost covered the entire street. Its cold vertical pupils swept across the mess below without any emotion.
What made the pupils of the strong men on the city wall shrink even more was that on the back of the ice-blue dragon, there was a stunningly beautiful girl sitting.
"Golden Dragon Girl?!" Du Bu Si's voice was filled with incredible ecstasy and shock. After all, Fu Rui's performance in the Soul Master Competition held by the Sun and Moon Empire was indeed impressive. Could it be that Long Xiaoyao finally had time to support them?
The strong men around Du Bushi also became excited instantly, and for the first time, cracks of hope appeared on their tense faces. "It's the North Territory! Senior Long finally freed up his hands! He sent reinforcements!" The breath of extreme ice and the pressure belonging to the top dragon clan were simply divine soldiers sent from heaven in desperate situations!
However, their ecstasy lasted only a moment.
The ice-blue dragon didn't even glance at the tiny human figures on the city wall. It raised its huge head slightly and let out a deep and distant dragon roar towards the western sky, with a majesty and coldness that penetrated the soul. Then, its dragon wings that covered the sky and the sun suddenly flapped!
The violent airflow exploded in all directions like a real tsunami, sweeping up the rubble on the street and forming a huge ice storm ring. The strong men on the city wall were forced to use their soul power to resist the sudden shock wave, and their robes rustled. As they watched in astonishment, the giant dragon carrying the golden dragon girl swept towards the west like a blizzard without looking back. The slender dragon body drew a dazzling ice-blue track in the air, and instantly turned into a small light spot in the western sky, completely disappearing behind the rolling clouds, leaving only the biting cold and a quickly dissipating ice mark to prove that it once existed.
On the city wall, the excitement was replaced by a deathly silence. The ecstasy on Du Bu Si's face seemed to be frozen in an instant, and then turned into a dark and deeper confusion. He stared at the direction where the dragon disappeared. The west is not the direction of the north! Wasn't that ice dragon the reinforcement sent by Long Xiaoyao? It even ignored them, and ignored this city that was heading towards destruction!
Is this right? This was not the first time that Du Bu Si had doubted his life. Then, he looked at the reinforcements gathered on the top of the city. The number of strong men sent by the Douling Empire was still within his expectations, but when he turned his eyes to the small group of people representing the Xingluo Empire, an irrepressible anger instantly surged in his heart. The Xingluo Empire, a powerful country on the continent, with a vast territory and profound cultural heritage, only had these few people to help at this critical moment of life and death?
He turned his head abruptly, staring at Nebula Douluo, and asked with undisguised dissatisfaction: "What does the Xingluo Empire mean by this? We are here to sacrifice our lives and shed our blood to resist the beast tide for all mankind. The Xingluo Empire is full of strong men, but they only sent a few of you? Who are you trying to please?!"
Nebula Douluo did not get angry at Du Bu Si's almost rude questioning, but sighed softly, "Master Du, please calm down. It's not that our Xingluo Empire is unwilling to help. At the same time as the beast tide broke out on Tianhun's side, the new emperor of the Sun Moon Empire officially declared war on our Xingluo Empire. Hundreds of thousands of troops were stationed at the border of the Mingdou Mountains. The war is about to break out!"
She paused, facing Du Bu Si's doubtful eyes, and continued, "At this critical moment of life and death when the enemy invades in large numbers, all the Titled Douluo-level priests who can be mobilized in the Imperial Worship Hall have been urgently requisitioned by His Majesty and sent to the front line of Mingdou Mountain Range for garrison! The Western Army Group led by Duke Baihu is under tremendous pressure and urgently needs top combat power to deter the powerful enemies of Sun and Moon. We really... we really can't spare more manpower." Her tone was full of helplessness, even with a hint of bitterness. "These reinforcements behind me are the greatest support that His Majesty can squeeze out after weighing again and again, under the huge pressure on the border. I hope that Lord Du will understand the difficulties of the Xingluo Empire."
Damn it! Is this right?! An indescribable chill spread from Du Bu Si's spine all the way to his entire body. In front of him was a tide of millions of beasts pressing forward, and behind him was the Sun and Moon Empire, eyeing him covetously and taking advantage of the situation.
Oh, and there was also a beast tide in the north! He had seen what it meant to have bad luck when it rains!
The knuckles of Du Bu Si's clenched fists made a slight crackling sound, and his heart full of anger and questioning finally turned into a sigh that was suppressed to the extreme.
Another equally deadly crisis has quietly arrived, and it is more severe than expected.