67: Chapter 67 Monster Wave

Xiguang Dynasty, the Third Megacity — Mingguang City.

This place originally stationed 500,000 elite garrison troops, with robust city defenses and heavily guarded ramparts, deserving to be called an important town of the Imperial Dynasty.

But ultimately, it still failed to resist the iron hooves of the challengers, completely falling and changing hands.

The challengers who captured Mingguang City all came from the same academy.

Within the team, a student possessed a rare destiny mark talent, able to remotely locate all schoolmates who left behind the same-origin marks.

Therefore, the moment everyone stepped into the Chaoming Realm, they did not rush to explore the world rules or seize villages and towns. Instead, relying on this talent, they searched the entire region for scattered schoolmates and companions.

In just a few days, he gathered over a hundred challengers from the same academy.

One hundred people joining hands were as irresistible as a bamboo breaking. Not only did they take Mingguang City, which had strong weapons and armor, but they also hard-fought the official punitive army of the Xiguang Dynasty several times, winning completely every time.

It could be said that their momentum was unmatched.

Since then, this Alliance grew crazily like a snowball.

Absorbing Loose Cultivator challengers and conquering and dividing cities one by one, their forces expanded rapidly.

In just over two months, they had already controlled eight large and medium-sized cities, Alliance members exceeded 300, and the subordinate family army approached two million, making them a super behemoth.

Sitting on such a terrifying foundation, everyone had long given birth to arrogance, convinced that whether it was the native forces of the Xiguang Dynasty or the remaining challengers, none of them were their opponents.

But after all, they forgot that this was the Chaoming Realm.

They were still a group of invaders.

Their overly flamboyant rise and overly domineering plunder were as dazzling as a torch lit in the darkness.

This torch ultimately attracted the attention and backlash of the world's will, and a terrifying disaster quietly targeted them.

Their biggest enemy was never the challengers, nor the Imperial Dynasty forces, but a group of eerie, terrifying monsters far beyond the cognition of this world.

The disaster descended, crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood.

In the blink of an eye, three cities under the jurisdiction of the Alliance fell one after another, 76 challengers were buried in the beast wave, their foundation was greatly damaged, and their Origin Qi was heavily wounded.

The most fatal thing was that the advance route of these monsters happened to encompass all eight cities they occupied.

Placed before everyone was an unsolvable dead question.

If they desperately defended the city, the tragic end of the previous three cities had already proved that they were simply unable to contend with these eerie monsters, and in the end, only total annihilation would follow;

But if they abandoned the city and retreated, their dependent races could still be stored in the Divine Domain and taken away, but the millions of native living beings in the city could only be completely abandoned, falling as monster rations.

Giving up the foundation and abandoning their source of faith was equivalent to clearing to zero overnight and starting all over again. All the painstaking efforts of this period of time would all flow away into nothingness.

This was something none of them could accept.

Weighing pros and cons repeatedly, the Alliance finally gritted their teeth and made a resolution.

All members gathered their forces, assembled all challengers and the dependent race army, retreated to guard Mingguang City, which had the largest size and strongest defense, desperately defended this last core important town, bet all foundations, and hard-resist the beast wave.

On the city wall of the Mingguang City Lord's Mansion, Yan Qinghe, the temporary leader of the Alliance, paced back and forth anxiously, the fierce Qi and irritation intertwined between his brows, full of annoyance and regret.

"Where on earth did this group of monsters pop out from!"

Originally relying on his own destiny mark talent, grouping up to develop and strongly expanding, he thought that this trial would definitely harvest a high ranking and directly shock the world with a single brilliant feat.

He even started daydreaming about being fancied by the Nine Divine Mansions.

But now his dream was shattered.

The ultimate high profile and greed actually triggered the malice of the world's will, summoning such an unsolvable natural disaster.

At this moment, Yan Qinghe's intestines had long turned green with regret.

If he had kept a low profile back then and developed steadily, how could he have fallen into today's desperate situation?

But the general trend was already formed, and the disaster had arrived; everything was too late to regret.

Before long, at the distant end of heaven and earth, a touch of scarlet blood color swept over.

That was not evening clouds or sunset glows, but a dense and boundless tide and sea of monsters. Scarlet Evil Qi soared into the sky, wrapping around the dead silence coercion that destroyed everything, rolling over.

All the challengers on the city wall saw this overwhelming blood-red wave, their backs turning cold, and their eyes instantly surged with hard-to-conceal panic.

"Everyone calm down!" Yan Qinghe shouted sternly to stop them, forcibly stabilizing the military morale. "They are just a group of ugly monsters! We sit on an army of a million dependent races, occupying the natural barrier of a majestic city, why should we fear the enemy!"

Under the stern pacification, the panic in everyone's hearts settled slightly.

But the countless dependent races on the city wall instinctively trembled, and the fear engraved in their Bloodline was difficult to suppress.

Restricted only by the orders of the Divine Master, they could only bite the bullet and form ranks to prepare for battle, facing the surging beast wave directly.

The next instant, two torrents spanning a thousand miles fiercely collided, and heaven-shaking roars exploded across all directions!

During the initial clash, everyone suddenly discovered that although these monsters were ferocious and terrifying in form, their strength was uneven, and many had not even stepped into the extraordinary Domain, with mediocre combat power.

A dawn instantly lit up in everyone's eyes, and their tense heartstrings suddenly relaxed.

Turns out they were just a mob with a false appearance!

But everyone was blinded by the illusion before them, and no one noticed the eerie scene deep in the battlefield: whenever a monster's corpse fell, it would be instantly devoured and absorbed by its own kind; even the remaining corpses of the dependent races who died in battle would be swallowed and dissolved completely by the beast wave.

Corpses as food, flesh and blood as rations.

Such eerie devouring and regeneration was initially unnoticed by anyone, but as the battle dragged on, more and more challengers discovered the horrifying truth.

The more monsters were killed, the more there were; the more they fought, the stronger they became!

Even on the bodies of many newborn monsters, the exclusive characteristics and abilities of their subordinate dependent races unexpectedly emerged!

At this moment, everyone's mindset completely collapsed.

They finally understood why the previous three fortified cities were instantly leveled, and why there was not even the slightest bit of resistance.

This was simply not an ordinary beast wave, but a group of monsters that could devour to evolve and regenerate perpetually!

Moreover, their dependent races were also beginning to collapse, and they could sense that the faith of their dependent races was declining.

"Run! This cannot be fought at all!"

After losing 70% of his subordinate dependent races, a challenger had his mindset completely shattered.

Fighting any longer, even if he barely guarded the city, he would completely become a commander with no subordinates, and years of painstaking efforts would all be invalidated.

He had no trace of nostalgia left, decisively gathering the surviving dependent races, turning around to leave the battlefield, and fleeing through the air.

Obviously, he had long prepared to abandon the battle and flee for his life.

"Liyuan! You traitor!"

Yan Qinghe witnessed this person fleeing, so angry that his chest violently heaved, almost vomiting blood.

The already precarious battle situation and crumbling military morale completely collapsed with this person's defection.

Countless people gave birth to the intention to retreat, and no one was willing to fight to the death anymore.

Soon, the second and third deserters appeared one after another.

Under his fury, Yan Qinghe forcibly suppressed and escorted back the deserters, but could no longer stabilize the scattered hearts of the people.

More and more challengers harbored the intention to retreat, and even broke out in conflict and fought fiercely with the defending garrison troops; internal strife was on the verge of breaking out.

Yan Qinghe looked at the chaotic battlefield and the disunited allied forces, full of powerlessness, and finally gritted his teeth and ordered in a deep voice.

"The entire army retreats!"

He knew very well that if they kept defending stubbornly, without the monsters breaking the city, they themselves would first suffer internal strife, scatter, and collapse without being attacked.

Following the issuance of the retreat order, the allied forces completely scattered.

The towering and magnificent Mingguang City completely degenerated into a hunting paradise for monsters.

The millions of civilians in the city, regardless of the elderly, young, women, or children, were all brutally slaughtered. Their flesh and blood bodies were all swallowed and assimilated by the beast wave, nourishing this patch of scarlet disaster.

This group of monsters was as greedy as a glutton, swallowing cities and devouring people, eating everything without exception.

At the center of the battlefield, at the most core position of the old site of Mingguang City, a huge, eerie, and ferociously shaped blood-red meat ball quietly suspended in mid-air.

Countless monsters around prostrated and knelt down one after another, their eyes full of ultimate fanaticism and piety, like worshipping a True God who dominates the world.

Crack, crack —

Dense cracks slowly filled the entire giant meat ball. Eerie scarlet flowing light leaked from within the cracks, and the terrifying coercion layered upon layer, continuously climbing.

The monsters across the sky roared and howled in unison, shaking heaven and earth. The fanatical and restless sound waves swept across the entire ruined city, all welcoming their supreme king, born to break the world!