72: Chapter 72 The Primordial Beginning's Eyes No Longer Ethereal

Once that sky-covering Green-Silk White-Ash Python left, the low-tier Yao Beasts, who had been firmly suppressed by the Demon King's Aura and dared only to crawl on the ground, instantly lost their restraints.

After a brief silence came an even crazier, completely chaotic riot!

"Awoo!"

"Roar!"

Countless scarlet beast eyes once again surged toward the Huoyang Commandery city walls in unison.

By now, all high-tier combat power had gone deep into the Black Mountain.

The Cultivators beneath the city walls, having endured a night of brutal fighting, were all drained of spiritual power and exhausted, relying only on their last shred of faith to support them.

"Retreat quickly."

One Cultivator's Flying Sword grew dim and tottered; his arms trembled, and he couldn't even hold his Magical Artifact steady.

The next moment, a Yao Wolf pounced and instantly tore him to pieces.

A breach appeared.

Like a flood bursting through a dam, the situation spiraled out of control.

"Retreat! Retreat to the top of the city wall! Rely on the defensive Formation!"

It was unknown who shouted with such hoarse desperation, but the remaining Cultivators began to retreat step by step.

Jiang Feng's eyes narrowed; he knew the situation was lost, and if he stayed under the city wall any longer, he would be torn to shreds sooner or later.

He grabbed one with each hand, his left arm embracing the shaken Huangfu Yunshang, and his right hand grabbing the still-dazed Huangfu Yunni.

With force from his feet, his figure moved like lightning, and in a few leaps, he retreated to the arrow tower at the highest point of the city wall.

The sisters were sent spinning by his rough movements, and just as they wanted to struggle, they saw the place where they had originally stood instantly submerged by hundreds of Yao Beasts.

The color drained from both their faces.

"What are you dazing off for? Do you want to be torn up and eaten as snacks?"

Jiang Feng scolded them irritably and threw them onto the ground.

Just then, an Aura emerged from behind him.

Jiang Feng turned his head abruptly.

Yuan Chu was already standing there, though he didn't know when she had arrived, her increasingly obvious pregnant belly protruding, and her immortal dress fluttering slightly in the bloody wind.

Her eyes, which were usually ethereal and clear, as if they could see through everything, were now a cold, dead silence.

The surrounding atmosphere instantly became incredibly oppressive.

A bloodthirsty bat that had luckily broken through the Formation and rushed onto the arrow tower hadn't even come within three zhang of the three of them.

Yuan Chu just glanced at it indifferently.

"Puff!"

That bloodthirsty bat turned into a handful of blood powder in mid-air, silently drifting away with the wind.

Yuan Chu raised her slender jade finger and pointed casually at the dense beast tide below the city wall that was continuously attacking the defensive Formation.

A streak of light, almost invisible to the naked eye, flashed by.

"Boom!"

Below the city wall, hundreds of Yao Beasts in a straight line were instantly blasted into fragments of meat, as if crushed by an invisible, immense force!

She just stood there, expressionless, pointing, one tap.

Every time she raised her hand, a large area below the city wall would inevitably be cleared.

Gradually, the corpses of the Yao Beasts piled up like a mountain beneath the city wall, forming a wall of flesh and blood.

The remaining Yao Beasts finally felt fear, circling not far from the bottom of the city wall, emitting uneasy low roars, but they dared not take another step forward.

This silent slaughter was more chilling than any bloody combat.

The Huangfu Sisters had their mouths agape, completely unable to speak.

This stunning woman who had always been by Jiang Feng's side and seemed quirky and strange was actually this violent today, killing so many Yao Beasts without even blinking an eye.

Jiang Feng, however, had no heart to think about these things.

He walked to Yuan Chu's side, stared at her eyes that were no longer ethereal, and asked softly:

"Chu'er, what's wrong with you?"

Yuan Chu's eyes flickered, avoiding his gaze, and she pretended to be nonchalant: "Sister Su is worried about you, so she asked me to come over and take a look."

Jiang Feng knew clearly in his heart that Yuan Chu's Telepathy could perceive people's hearts and, in certain special circumstances, could also sense things that were about to happen.

For this matter to make her lose control of her emotions to this extent, it probably wasn't a small thing.

But since Yuan Chu wasn't willing to say, Jiang Feng didn't ask any further.

He stood silently by Yuan Chu's side, one hand resting on her shoulder, the other hand unobtrusively protecting her pregnant belly.

The two of them looked toward the depths of the Black Mountain together.

That was the battlefield that would decide everyone's fate.

"Boom!"

A heaven-shaking, earth-shattering loud noise came from the deepest part of the Black Mountain!

Immediately after, an energy shockwave far exceeding any previous one swept out!

Everyone looked up in horror.

They saw a huge shadow in the sky deep within the Black Mountain suddenly rise from the ground, blocking the daylight!

The shadow continued to expand, eventually turning into the phantom of a towering black mountain, emitting a terrifying Aura that seemed to suppress eternity, hovering high in the sky!

"Th-that, what is that?!" someone on the city wall screamed.

The Huangfu Sisters were even paler, and that kind of Aura, just by looking from afar, made their Divine Souls tremble, almost forcing them to kneel on the ground.

Jiang Feng's pupils shrank suddenly.

His heart sank abruptly.

nine prisons peak!

That was the Medium Grade True Artifact he had given to Yao Shifei for self-preservation!

This treasure was something even a Golden Core True Lord would be jealous of, and the consumption to activate it was equally huge.

He had repeatedly warned her not to use it unless it was the final moment!

Now, Yao Shifei had actually unleashed it! What on earth had happened inside the Black Mountain?

The black mountain phantom paused in the air for a moment, then, with an earth-destroying Aura, smashed down fiercely toward a certain location below!

"Hiss!"

A Snake King roar, shrill to the extreme and filled with pain and fury, resounded through the sky!

This sound was no longer the intimidation from before, but a miserable howl!

Clearly, this strike from the nine prisons peak had already severely injured that Tier 3 Demon King!

Immediately after, the True Qi fluctuations deep in the Black Mountain completely returned to calm.

Not long after.

A hum.

The energy shockwave that had terrified everyone disappeared without a trace.

The Cultivators on the city wall slowly, bit by bit, recovered from the shock.

"Has... has it calmed down?"

"They succeeded! The Commandery Princess and the others succeeded!"

"We survived! Hahahaha, we survived!"

The wild joy of surviving a disaster instantly swept across the entire city wall.

Countless Cultivators collapsed to the ground, laughing loudly or hugging each other and crying.

At the edge of the Black Mountain, those hesitant Yao Beasts seemed to have sensed something as well, turning around like madmen and surging toward the depths of the Black Mountain.

Everything seemed to be over.

Huangfu Yunshang let out a long sigh of relief, sat down on the ground, and only then realized that her back had long been soaked with cold sweat.

She looked at Jiang Feng, who was still standing straight beside her, and a trace of admiration and complex smile appeared on her face: "Jiang Feng, it's over."

However, Jiang Feng did not respond.

He was still staring fixedly at the depths of the Black Mountain, and his face, which usually wore a bit of playfulness, was now completely solemn.

Others didn't know, but he was clear.

The nine prisons peak was the final trump card he had given to Yao Shifei; it was meant for self-preservation, not for risking one's life.

Using this Medium Grade True Artifact meant that the plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain had developed a fatal deviation in some part.