The Wolf King howls at the moon! A massive horde of beasts is at the city gates!

Meanwhile, several hundred miles outside Yan City, deep within the Black Wind Mountain Range, lay the Valley of Death.

The massive altar in the center of the valley still stood tall. At the heart of the altar, a pitch-black fleshy orb was slowly pulsating like a heart, as if a starving beast waiting for the nourishment of flesh and blood.

Three figures stood quietly by the altar with their hands behind their backs. They were three of the Twelve Divine Officials from the Divine Court!

The leader was the Blood Slaughter Divine Official! By his side, to the left and right, were the Yin Sha Divine Official and the Ming Gu Divine Official!

The three Divine Officials stood there casually. Without revealing any of their aura, they seemed like the absolute Dominator of this deadly domain!

At their feet, one thousand ragged, shackled, living people were huddled together, shivering in terror.

Their eyes were filled with endless Fear. These people had all been abducted by the Divine Court from towns and villages across the land, or from hunting parties exploring the wilderness. Their only purpose was to serve as sacrifices!

"The time is almost upon us." The Blood Slaughter Divine Official slowly raised his head. He glanced at the sky obscured by thick fog, his voice hoarse and cold.

"Begin." "Let those self-righteous fools in Yan City experience the true deterrence from the Divine Court!"

The Yin Sha Divine Official let out a shrill laugh, like a night owl. He took a small, dark green bottle from his robes and opened the stopper. An invisible, eerie ripple instantly spread outward.

Those shackled sacrifices didn't even have time to scream. Their bodies began to rot and melt at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into pools of foul-smelling, purulent blood!

The Ming Gu Divine Official formed hand seals and began chanting. Runes, black as ink and filled with an aura of evil and resentment, flew from his fingertips and merged into the pools of blood.

Boom!!! The entire bone altar shook violently. The pools of blood seemed to be imbued with life, and began to boil intensely!

They turned into streams of blood, rapidly spreading along the eerie, pre-carved patterns on the altar! Finally, they converged at the very center of the altar!

Hum—! A thick, scarlet beam of blood, as wide as a water barrel, suddenly shot up from the center of the altar into the sky! It pierced straight into the clouds!

Roar—! At that very instant, a terrifying beast roar, seemingly capable of tearing the heavens and earth apart and filled with endless brutality, erupted from the depths of the valley! The entire Black Wind Mountain Range trembled violently because of it!

The night was as dark as ink. On the watchtower of the East Gate of Yan City, it was brightly lit, as clear as day. Squads of city defense troops, clad in heavy alloy armor and wielding various weapons, were patrolling back and forth with solemn expressions. Every person's face was etched with gravity.

At the highest point of the watchtower, the East District Commander, Wang Junyi, stood with his hands behind his back. His brows were tightly furrowed as he gazed into the distance at the Black Wind Mountain Range, which lay in the darkness like a giant beast.

Although he supported the Grand General's decision, believing that there was no harm in being cautious, he still felt a faint sense of unease in his heart. This feeling was baseless, yet it felt so real.

"General! You have been standing here for two hours. Why don't you go and rest for a while?" A deputy general walked up and said softly.

"There is no need." Wang Junyi shook his head. "My right eyelid has been twitching non-stop." "I have a feeling that something major is going to happen tonight."

No sooner had he finished speaking than a shrill, urgent alarm siren suddenly resounded across the entire East Gate defense line.

"Enemy attack!!!" "It's a beast tide! It really is a beast tide!!!" On the watchtower, the soldier responsible for guarding let out a desperate, hoarse scream.

Wang Junyi's heart sank! He took a step forward, instantly appearing at the edge of the city wall, and looked into the distance. With just one glance, even with his Heart-Nature forged by countless battles and accustomed to mountains of corpses and seas of blood, his pupils instantly contracted to the limit!

He saw that on the distant horizon, a boundless black tide, carrying countless blood-red specks of light, was sweeping crazily toward Yan City with a world-destroying posture.

That was no tide! It was a death legion composed of endless vicious wolves! Those scarlet specks of light shining in the dark night were their bloodthirsty eyes! That terrifying Demonic Qi rising to the sky, mixed with brutality and slaughter, was almost enough to dye the entire night sky blood-red!

"My god..." The deputy general looked at the scene before him. His legs went weak, and he almost collapsed to the ground. "This... how many wolves are there?!"

"At least... over a million!" Wang Junyi's voice became incredibly hoarse. His face was filled with unprecedented gravity!

He finally understood where his sense of unease had come from. This was no ordinary beast tide! This was a monstrous catastrophe that, if handled with even the slightest carelessness, would be enough to destroy Yan City!

"Pass on my orders!" Wang Junyi snapped out of his shock. "All units! Immediately take up combat positions!"

"Units one through ten, energy cannons! Give me indiscriminate, area-coverage bombardment!" "Units eleven through thirty, close-defense cannons! Free fire! Do not be stingy with the Spirit Stones! Blast them to death!"

"All soldiers! Hold the city wall to the death! Do not retreat a single step!" "Yan City is right behind us! Our families are right behind us!" "Perish with the city! Fight to the death, no retreat!"

"Fight to the death, no retreat!!!" On the city wall, tens of thousands of city defense troops roared in unison! Although there was Fear in their eyes, there was even more determination to defend their home and country to the death! Fierce courage!

Hum, hum, hum... Huge energy cannons began to charge! Boom! Boom! Boom! The sound was like thunder, rolling like a tide. Terrifying beams of energy, capable of tearing the Void Realm, shot into the sky! They smashed fiercely into the black beast tide!

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! The war entered its most tragic phase in an instant! Beneath the city wall, it instantly turned into a meat grinder! Countless vicious wolves were torn to pieces under the dense barrage of fire! Severed limbs and broken arms flew everywhere! Blood flowed like a river!

However, those vicious wolves were like madmen! They were fearless of death! The death of their companions not only did not make them feel any Fear, but instead further ignited the ferocity in their bones! They stepped over the corpses of their companions, treading on thick blood... and charged toward the East Gate like madmen!

One thousand meters! Eight hundred meters! Five hundred meters! ... Two hundred meters! One hundred meters! ... Boom!!!!! The terrifying tide finally crashed fiercely against the East Gate! In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains swayed!!!

"Attack, attack!" Wang Junyi's expression grew increasingly grim. He knew that this could not continue. Energy would eventually run out, and the protective formation might be broken. When that time came, it would be time for them to engage in close-quarters combat with these beasts!

Just then, he keenly captured an extremely unusual detail! Deep within the wolf pack, the Iron-Spine Wolf King, with the largest body and the most terrifying aura, had not participated in the attack at all. It just stood quietly at the rear of the beast tide. Coldly, it watched the battlefield. That gaze did not look like a beast's. It was more like that of an experienced human general! It was observing! It was looking for the weak point in the defense line!

Oh no! A terrible thought exploded in Wang Junyi's mind! However, it was already too late! "Roar—!" The Iron-Spine Wolf King moved!