184: Chapter 184: Pushing 700 Miles Across (asking for monthly pass)

Gulan County,

The night was eerie.

The entire county town was silent.

The massive Yao Race demon statue in the center, built with the blood and sweat of tens of thousands of laborers, appeared even more monstrous under the moonlight.

It had a horse’s body, a single horn, a white body, a black tail, and faint scale-like patterns.

This demon was called Bo, and because their calls resembled drumbeats, they were known as the Yao Race’s “Drummers”!

At this moment, in a pitch-black house in the southeastern corner of the county town, pairs of numb, lifeless eyes were vacant and hollow.

One by one, ragged, blood-stained commoners, their faces covered in grime, sat limply on the ground, numb.

From the rafters of the house, lives that could not bear the humiliation hung like moldy cured meat, swaying, long since lifeless, and no one had bothered to take them down.

The moonlight seeping through the window cracks illuminated everything eerily, and a Fishy smell rotting smell filled the air, yet no one seemed to care.

In a corner, a low, whimpering cry, like that of an injured young beast, began to sound.

“Mom…”

“Mom…”

“…”

A young boy was seen shaking a woman, then frantically biting his own finger to break the skin and dripping blood into the woman’s dry, cracked mouth.

But it was all in vain; the woman’s scarred body, after a day of hard labor, was at the end of its Qi.

Before she died, she tightly pressed a hidden, half-dried and hardened pancake into her son’s hand, silently uttering the words “son” before her eyes, filled with intense reluctance, finally closed.

The boy lay in his mother’s embrace, feeling her warmth rapidly fading, tears streaming endlessly from his eyes.

He knelt up, constantly wiping away his tears, holding the pancake, which still held his mother’s residual warmth, with blood-stained hands, wolfing it down in the darkness, and finally kowtowed three times heavily.

Then, he picked up a broken piece of green tile from the ground and sharpened its pointed end against the wall.

Inside the room, pairs of numb eyes, slightly brightened, mechanically turned their heads.

“Screech, screech, screech” sounds echoed in the dark, filthy room, while outside, there was the glow of fire and cheers.

After a while, the grinding sound abruptly stopped.

Immediately following, a child’s rhyme, sounding like both a cry and a laugh, came from the room: “Baldy, baldy, Baldy’s whole family is rotten and poor…”

A few breaths later, hurried footsteps were heard outside, and the next second, the door was abruptly pushed open, a torchlight shining in, followed by an ugly, fierce, bald face peering in, its dead-fish-like eyes glaring at the people inside, letting out an exasperated roar.

“Who sang that?!”

The sound didn’t stop. Baldy’s fierce gaze fell upon a young boy in the corner, his mouth covered in blood, his expression a mix of crying and laughing. Enraged, he strode in, grabbed the boy, baring his yellow teeth, his face contorted in a ferocious grimace, “You’re courting death.”

With that, he was about to violently throw the boy to the ground.

At this moment, the boy’s eyes became even more ferocious than Baldy’s, and one hand suddenly slashed towards Baldy’s eye socket.

“Ah!”

A shrill, piercing scream tore through the night sky.

In the room, Baldy was seen with a sharp piece of tile embedded in his left eye, blood gushing out. In his pain, he violently flung the boy to the ground, his blood-soaked face becoming extremely distorted and ferocious, roaring in shock and anger,

“I’ll kill you!”

With that, he quickly reached for the knife at his waist.

But the next second, a figure beside him suddenly rose and slammed into him.

Then, a second, a third…

Dozens of people in the room now let out roars, their chains clanking, rushing towards Baldy like a tide.

Baldy was startled and about to roar in anger, but he saw pairs of eyes, like those of vengeful spirits, even more ferocious than his own, and his heart couldn’t help but tremble.

“You all…”

The next moment, a horrific scream echoed from the room.

Then, figures rushed out of the room one by one.

“Xu…”

A piercing whistle tore through the night sky.

Torches surrounded them, and at the same time, a terrifying Yao Race demon roar erupted, and massive demon shadows rose from all directions.

In the surrounding houses, hearing the commotion, pairs of eyes desperately peered through windows, seeing the scene outside. The hope that had rapidly surged in their eyes, seeing the fleeing figures and the towering demon shadows illuminated by the firelight, quickly extinguished.

But then, suddenly, a vast, piercing shriek echoed between heaven and earth.

A golden stream of light appeared, as if piercing through an eternal night, igniting the extinguished flames of hope in these people.

The golden stream of light crashed directly into the center of the county town.

“Boom!”

A earth-shattering roar.

The massive Yao Race demon statue in the center of the city shattered with a crash, as if the sky and earth were collapsing, sending huge stones flying.

And it was clearly visible that at the center of this collapsing sky and earth, where golden light scattered, a long spear, some twenty zhang tall, stood resplendent, cracking and lifting the ground for several miles around, then violently sweeping outwards, unleashing a terrifying shockwave that surged in all directions.

“Dong!”

“Dong!”

“Dong!”

Rapid drumbeats exploded.

One after another, Yao Race demon figures shot up into the sky from the swirling dust.

Demons with horse bodies, single horns, tiger claws, and human faces revealed themselves, emitting sounds like drumbeats. As the drumming grew louder and more frequent, the Aura of these Bo rapidly surged, and the violent shockwave was quickly suppressed by these rapid drumbeats.

“Who is it?!”

A roar of shock and anger. As a figure leaped into the Void Realm, two enormous demon eyes, one black and one white, stared fixedly at the ruins of the statue below.

Then, a pair of demon shadows swept towards the east, and it was clearly visible that a great sun suddenly rose in the distance, illuminating the Void Realm.

Immediately after,

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

The sound of the ground trembling rapidly approached from far to near.

Under the great sun, a giant appeared from the distant horizon, running with thunderous strides at an extremely fast speed.

In an instant, the golden-armored giant crashed through the city wall, then suddenly leaped, soaring into the Void Realm, its blazing golden light like terrifying flames.

“Ah!”

Wherever it passed, the Bo let out terrified screams, smoke rising from their bodies, appearing like paper scorched by fire, with black holes appearing one by one.

Then, with a “puff,” golden flames erupted from within.

And the golden-armored giant, soaring high into the sky, its eyes blazing with golden light, stared fiercely at the Bo demon from the Heavenly Gate, whose expression had changed dramatically, revealing a mouthful of ferocious white teeth.

“You are the second one today!”

Then, he let out a fierce roar, filled with monstrous killing intent.

“Kill!”

“Kill all these beasts, quickly!”

Then, he stretched his hand downwards, and from the terrifying giant pit on the ground, a heaven-shaking spear cry erupted, and the long spear flew into the sky.

As he spoke, several loud shouts exploded in the eastern Void Realm.

“Wind and Thunder!”

“Clouds Rise!”

“Two Poles!”

“Sword Come!”

In an instant, the heavens and earth changed color.

The wind howled furiously, blurring the world.

Dark clouds rolled, and thunder roared.

A stream of cloud-like sword light pierced through the dark clouds, like an immortal descending from the heavens, plummeting towards the city below, then suddenly clanging, transforming into a sky full of sword rain.

The Bo Race Dao soldier demon, seeing this scene, went from a sudden change in expression to eyes filled with terror, blurting out,

“Five Heavenly Gate Human Race!”

“Quickly send a message, call for reinforcements!”

But as he spoke, a sinister laugh exploded in his ear.

“You all must die!”

Immediately following, a long spear, like a Dragon, burst forth with cold stars!

Chen Yuan’s eyes were filled with ferocity, his feet moved wildly, swinging his spear to smash, and the Three-Pointed, Double-Edged Spear, which had achieved a Breakthrough, shrieked as he wielded it in the Void Realm, like an Earth-Shaking Wave.

The Bo Race Dao soldier demon’s heart pounded wildly, and he let out a fierce roar.

From his mouth came a heaven-shaking drumbeat, and the black and white spiral horn, about a meter long, on his head flew out, growing larger in a breath, transforming into a Dao soldier resembling a horn.