461: Southern Region Anomaly

Several months later.

Southern Region.

Linmo City.

A frontline city that stood against the Demon Race tens of thousands of years ago.

Nowadays, it has turned into an ordinary cultivation city.

Because the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi nearby is thin, and it experienced that tragic Human-Demon War tens of thousands of years ago,

the surrounding environment is extremely harsh.

Outside the city, even Yao Beasts are very scarce.

Inside the city, most are basically low-level Cultivators.

They only settled in Linmo City out of necessity.

At this moment, on the towering walls of Linmo City,

Zhang Wu, a city guard, was chatting with his colleagues as usual.

"I don't know when I'll ever be transferred away from here!

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi nearby is just too thin.

I've been practicing for decades and I'm still only at the Second Layer of the Golden Core Realm."

"Stop dreaming. Someone has to guard Linmo City.

But seriously, the salary here is actually quite generous."

"Sigh, if I had known, I wouldn't have been so greedy for the salary here.

The surroundings are truly too desolate.

If I hadn't already signed the contract, I would have run away long ago.

If you ask me, is there even a need to guard Linmo City anymore?

What's the point of having us low-level Cultivators on guard?

Besides, isn't the Demon Domain under an Immortal's Seal?

The Demon Race doesn't have any Immortals!

If they could break the Seal, I won't visit the Yingxiang Pavilion for a month!"

Zhang Wu patted his chest and spoke with certainty.

The other city guards laughed upon hearing this.

"Never mind whether your salary is enough to visit the Yingxiang Pavilion a few times.

Just half a month ago, you went once, and when you came out, you were so weak you couldn't even stand steadily.

Can you even recover within three months?

So your last sentence is just nonsense!"

"I didn't want to be like that either!

It's just that Xiao Fang was too enthusiastic!"

Zhang Wu rubbed his head awkwardly. Thinking of the curvaceous and enchanting Xiao Fang, his heart felt a surge of heat again.

Should he go enjoy himself tonight?

While the city guards were talking and the atmosphere on the wall was filled with cheer,

the earth suddenly jolted.

Zhang Wu almost lost his footing. Being quick-witted, he hurriedly circulated his Spiritual Qi to steady his body.

Immediately, he looked around in confusion.

"What's going on?"

"Could there be powerful experts fighting nearby?"

The other city guards also noticed the massive disturbance and looked around one after another.

But they didn't find anything unusual.

After dozens of breaths, the earth did not vibrate again.

It seemed as if the vibration just now was merely their hallucination.

"Maybe there really was a battle between experts.

But it's over now!

Forget it, why should we small Cultivators worry so much?

Let's keep chatting~"

"Which girl in the Yingxiang Pavilion do you like the most?"

"I..."

The city guards resumed their conversation.

As the talk grew lively, they sat directly on the wall's parapet.

Suddenly, the other guards noticed Zhang Wu staring blankly in a certain direction.

"Zhang Wu, what are you looking at?"

Zhang Wu didn't answer. He reached out to rub his eyes and looked south outside the city once more.

He saw tiny cracks appearing in the sky over there, and they were continuously expanding.

"You... look!"

"What is that over there?"

The other city guards also sensed something was wrong and looked in the direction Zhang Wu was pointing.

"Is that a spatial rift?

Could it be that experts of the Enlightenment Realm are fighting nearby?"

"There are actually Enlightenment Realm experts here?

That's impossible!

Who would come to such a remote place?"

"Wait, that's not right!

What is that black Qi?"

Zhang Wu only took one look at the black Qi surging from the spatial rift and immediately felt a swarm of distracting thoughts.

He suddenly felt a slight sense of foreboding in his heart.

"This is..."

"Could this be Devilish Qi?"

"Holy crap???

Devilish Qi? Has the Demon Race broken the Seal?

That shouldn't be possible! Didn't they say an Immortal stepped in to Seal the exit of the Demon Domain?"

The other city guards were instantly shocked.

The leisurely expressions on their faces vanished, and they quickly stood up to stare into the distance.

At that moment, the earth vibrated again, and the entire Linmo City shook violently several times.

Following that, the spatial rift in the distant sky expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Endless Devilish Qi surged out. The originally desolate area outside Linmo City was instantly shrouded in Devilish Qi, becoming pitch black like a living hell.

Sinister and brutal voices drifted out from the rift:

"Little brats of the Human Race!

Are you ready to welcome the arrival of our Power Demon Clan?"

"Hahaha, the territory of the Human Race, I have returned!

This time, I must kill even more humans!

Lord Huan Xie Demon Emperor will surely reward us handsomely!"

"Don't compete with our Spirit Demons!

The territory of the Human Race is ours!"

...Several pitch-black giant hands reached out from the spatial rift and then, like pulling open a gate, they directly tore toward the sides.

The sky for thousands of miles around shattered like a mirror, revealing another bottomless space.

The sky in that space appeared dark red, with roiling Devilish Qi everywhere.

A Demon Race army, whose end could not be seen at a glance, scrambled out from the spatial rift.

Some of these demons were several or even dozens of feet tall, sturdily built and covered in scales, wielding various weapons and emitting an ominous aura.

Other demons had forms similar to ordinary humans.

However, they were surrounded by hazy Devilish Qi, causing anyone who saw them to unintentionally fall into a terrifying illusionary realm.

Still other demons were surrounded by Devilish Qi with attributes such as flames or frost.

Just then, a massive figure flew directly out from the Demon Race army; it was a burly demon dozens of feet tall.

He was surrounded by pitch-black light of laws.

He was the leader of the Power Demon Clan army, Demon Venerable Ming Gang of the First Layer of Tribulation Crossing Realm.

"Is this Linmo City?

The place that dealt a painful blow to our Demon Race tens of thousands of years ago?

Now it looks like it couldn't withstand a single blow!"

Demon Venerable Ming Gang looked at Zhang Wu and the others trembling on the wall and spoke with disdain.

"But it's been a long time since I've had a good slaughter. Let's warm up first!"

With a flash, he seemed to step through the heavens and earth.

In an instant, he appeared in the air above Linmo City.

"Take my punch!"

Demon Venerable Ming Gang smashed out a punch, earth-shattering.

As if sensing the attack from the Demon Race,

the Anti-Demon Formation laid down tens of thousands of years ago in Linmo City automatically activated. Countless mystic lights bloomed in the air, forming a Spiritual Energy Barrier that covered the entire city.

"Just this?

A Formation without high-level Cultivators to drive it is too weak!"

A ferocious expression appeared on Demon Venerable Ming Gang's face.

He didn't care about this Spiritual Energy Barrier at all and continued to smash his punch toward it.

Bang!

In less than a breath, the Spiritual Energy Barrier shattered instantly.

Boom boom boom boom boom!

In an instant, two-thirds of Linmo City was annihilated by a beam of pitch-black devilish light.

Countless Human Race Cultivators had their flesh and blood fly in all directions as they were turned to ashes.

"Enemy attack!"

The surviving Cultivators in the city reacted immediately.

They left their houses one after another and fled in all directions.

"Run!

It's the legendary Demon Race!

The Demon Race is here!"

"What Realm is this demon at?

A single strike almost destroyed the entire Linmo City?

If not for the city's Restrictions, the aftershocks of the Laws could have wiped us out!

Could it be a demon of the Enlightenment and Tribulation Crossing Realm?

It's over, our Linmo City is finished!"

Many Cultivators looked at Demon Venerable Ming Gang in the sky, feeling despair and fleeing in panic.

"Power Demon Clan, hear my command!

The time for battle has come. These humans are your prey!"

Demon Venerable Ming Gang spread his arms and shouted.

The warm-up was over; he didn't need to take action anymore.

He could just let the army of his clan handle it.

The Power Demons in the distance suddenly accelerated and charged directly into Linmo City.

Wherever they passed, mountains crumbled and the earth split; not a blade of grass remained.

The remaining Human Race Cultivators in Linmo City had no power to fight back before them, being torn to pieces and turned to ashes one after another.

A moment later, a beam of dark red devilish light also charged into Linmo City.