143: Chapter 143 has been out for 7 months.

Hundreds of thousands of giant beasts simultaneously reined in their surging, vicious aura.

The thunderous footsteps that had just been shaking the entire earth suddenly ceased in this moment.

The wilderness for several miles around fell into absolute silence in an instant.

A gale swept in from the distance, brushing over the heads of the dense horde of beasts, stirring up dust across the ground and sending sand flying throughout the sky.

The open plains outside the city were densely covered with countless exotic beasts.

All the ground-dwelling exotic beasts were about the size of an adult elephant.

Their bodies were thick and sturdy, covered in heavy, hard scales, and sharp, stark-white fangs protruded from their mouths, making them look extremely intimidating.

Looking at a single exotic beast alone, one would not call it a world-destroying colossus.

Yet, thousands upon thousands—an endless number—of beasts crowded the entire wilderness, so dense that one could not see the end at a glance.

The pressure built up by their sheer numbers weighed heavily upon the entire world.

What truly terrified the soldiers and civilians of Fanghui City was not these dense giant beasts on the ground.

It was the boundless, layered, and infinite winged beasts hovering high above the entire horde.

The winged beasts across the sky hovered steadily in mid-air, not moving in the slightest.

The wings of every single winged beast were extremely broad, covering a terrifyingly vast area.

Countless flying beasts hovered side by side in the firmament, layered one upon another, directly obscuring more than half the sky.

The originally bright sunlight was completely blocked out, and a massive, dark shadow descended, steadily shrouding the entirety of Fanghui City.

The sky turned dim in an instant, and a cold, chilly wind threaded through the streets and alleys, blowing a bone-chilling coldness through the entire city.

The soldiers and commoners in the city had spent half their lives at war; they had seen Japanese Invaders attack with guns and artillery, and they had seen battlefields of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Yet they had never seen such a formation of exotic beasts, covering the sky and earth.

In the eyes of every Mortal, this was no longer an enemy invasion; it was the arrival of a genuine natural disaster.

On the ground, all the exotic beasts stood silently upon the wilderness.

Pairs of cold, scarlet beast eyes turned in unison, locking tightly onto the dilapidated, old city walls ahead.

An intangible sense of oppression, like a tide, pressed heavily upon the heart of every soldier on the city wall.

Atop the city wall, extreme fear completely seized everyone's spirit.

Most of the soldiers were deathly pale, devoid of any color, their lips trembling incessantly.

The old-fashioned rifles in their hands were thoroughly soaked by the cold sweat seeping from their palms; the gun bodies were slick, and though they gripped them tightly, they were liable to slip from their hands at any moment.

The psychological defenses of a few young soldiers completely shattered.

Their legs shook uncontrollably, their bodies went limp, and with their knees buckling, they collapsed directly onto the cold city bricks.

They clutched their mouths tightly, using all their might to suppress the exclamation about to burst from their throats, not daring to make a single sound.

Other soldiers huddled tightly behind the crenellations of the city wall, daring only to sneak a glance outward through the gaps in the bricks.

A mere glimpse was enough to make their hearts stop in terror; they quickly pulled their heads back, their entire bodies shaking precariously, like leaves in the wind.

The entire city wall was terrifyingly silent; no one dared to speak.

On the entire city wall, one could only hear the suppressed, rapid, and intermittent gasps of the crowd.

They were battle-hardened, long accustomed to hail of bullets and the slaughter of war.

But the scene before them, with Vicious Beasts filling the ground and flying beasts filling the sky, completely exceeded the scope of their cognition.

The fear of the unknown was far more terrifying than visible guns and artillery.

The atmosphere of deathly silence lasted for a full ten breaths.

At the very front of the beast horde formation, Mo Yufei sat quietly on the back of Dabai, his expression calm, without the slightest ripple.

The next instant, fine, flowing light suddenly illuminated behind him.

A pair of thin, ethereal energy wings silently unfurled.

The wings vibrated gently, stirring up a mighty wind.

There was no earth-shattering commotion, no exaggerated, leaking pressure.

Clad in white, Mo Yufei stepped on the wind and ascended, his figure extremely agile.

In a brief moment, he crossed the hundred-zhang wilderness and landed steadily toward the top of the city tower.

His toes tapped lightly on the blue stone floor of the city tower, emitting a sound almost too faint to hear.

His robes were slightly lifted by the wind atop the city wall; his posture was upright and solitary.

He lowered his eyes, his indifferent gaze looking down from above, quietly overlooking the garrison troops trembling all over the wall.

At the very moment he landed.

In the minds of all the soldiers on the city wall, memories of the past few days uncontrollably welled up.

The newspaper news distributed everywhere in the streets and alleys was a legend everyone had heard of.

Previously, Japanese Invaders had pressed their heavy forces against the border, the Huaxia defense line was in critical danger, and large swaths of territory had fallen one after another.

Just when the whole country was in despair, an Immortal protecting the nation suddenly appeared in the world.

That Immortal possessed extraordinary abilities, was impervious to swords and guns, and galloped across the battlefield.

He slew countless Japanese Invaders soldiers, defended the lines about to completely fall several times, and saved hundreds of thousands of commoners trapped in the scourge of war.

At the time, newspapers carried the story in their headlines for days, the whole country praised him, and soldiers and civilians alike were full of anticipation, thinking that with the Immortal appearing in the world, the chaotic times were about to end.

But not long after, the official newspapers suddenly changed their tune completely.

News was published across the entire network, claiming that the Immortal's Heart-Nature had mutated, that he had slaughtered innocent commoners without reason, and that he bore a monstrous Karmic Obstruction.

The Heavenly Dao sent down an extreme heavenly punishment, and thunderbolts struck the earth.

That nation-protecting Immortal, along with everything beside him, was completely annihilated out of thin air, disappearing entirely from this world.

Since then, the authorities concluded that extraordinary miracles had been completely severed, and there were no more Immortals in the world.

Everyone assumed that the Immortals in the sky had long since fallen and vanished, and there was no turning point left for the chaotic times.

But at this very moment, the young man in white before them also possessed the ability to fly in the air and was also able to command thousands of Vicious Beasts.

Yet everyone knew in their hearts that the former Immortal had held the common people in his heart, protecting the nation and the people.

While the person before them had brought hundreds of millions of Vicious Beasts to the city gates, with winged beasts filling the sky and blotting out the sun, and a vicious aura shrouding the entire city.

By comparison, the difference was worlds apart.

One saved the world, the other pressed upon the city.

A thought of extreme horror simultaneously rose in everyone's hearts.

The true Immortal had long since died in the heavenly punishment and disappeared completely.

This being before them who could command ten thousand beasts and fly through the air was not an Immortal at all.

He was a great demon that had emerged to wreak havoc on the human world.

The more they thought, the more flustered they became; the more they thought, the more afraid they grew.

The soldiers who had originally been struggling to stand staggered backward, huddling together in the corners of the city wall, trembling.

In everyone's eyes, there was a mixture of extreme fear, panic, and wariness; no one dared to look directly at the white-clad figure on the city wall.

Of the hundreds of garrison troops on the entire city wall, everyone was terrified, the entire force filled with fear.

Only Garrison Commander Wang Yufeng of Fanghui City forcibly suppressed the fear in his bones.

He was a city garrison commander, shouldering the heavy responsibility of city defense; even if the sky collapsed, he could not retreat.

The military uniform on his back had long been thoroughly soaked through with cold sweat, sticking tightly to his skin.

His legs could not stop trembling slightly, and his body was tensed to the limit.

Yet he still braced his figure, hunched his back, and slowly stepped forward, one step at a time.

He dared not raise his head to look directly into Mo Yufei's eyes; his head was hung extremely low, his waist and back bent to the absolute limit.

His tone was humble and timid, every word carried an irrepressible tremor, extremely respectful.

"Supreme One, above."

"This lowly general is the Garrison Commander of Fanghui City, in charge of all defense affairs within the city."

"You have led ten thousand exotic beasts to the city gates; the soldiers and civilians of the entire city are terrified and uneasy, and the hearts of the people are in chaos."

"I dare to make a bold, presumptuous inquiry: I do not know why the Supreme One has personally come to Fanghui?"

Mo Yufei stood at the highest point of the city tower, his expression indifferent.

He swept a faint glance over Garrison Commander Wang Yufeng, who was bowing before him, extremely humble.

He then casually glanced at the group of soldiers huddled in the corner behind, their faces full of terror and trembling.

With his current vision and level, there was simply no need to explain anything to this group of Mortals.

Nor was there any need to deliberately soothe their panic.

He had merely accidentally drifted into this chaotic world sealed by plane rules.

Passing through this place, he simply wanted to find out the current situation of the world and understand the status quo of this world.

Mo Yufei's voice was cold and steady, piercing through the whistling wind on the city wall, clearly falling into everyone's ears.

"Where does this place belong? What is the current state of the world?"

On the wilderness outside the city, hundreds of thousands of exotic beasts remained completely motionless.

Above the firmament, the boundless winged beasts still obscured all the sunlight.

The thick, dark shadow tightly shrouded the entire Fanghui City, the atmosphere extremely oppressive.

In all the streets and alleys within the city, every household's doors and windows were tightly shut; no one dared to go out.

Hundreds of thousands of commoners were all hiding deep within their houses, holding their breath and concentrating, silently waiting for the final news from the city wall.

Garrison Commander Wang Yufeng still maintained his bowing, head-lowered posture, not daring to raise his head to look up in the slightest.

His posture was extremely humble, his tone respectful and apprehensive; not daring to have the slightest concealment, he answered honestly.

"In reply to the Supreme One."

"This place is the hinterland of the Central Plains, Fanghui City, belonging to the Jiangbei region."

He paused for a moment, his throat rolling slightly, his eyes surging with endless vicissitudes and helplessness.

Drifting in chaotic times for several years, with constant war and displaced commoners, things had long since changed and people were no longer the same.

"The current world has long since completely changed."

"Seven months ago, there was an Immortal who protected the nation."

"At that time, that Immortal appeared on the battlefield, killing a large number of Japanese Invaders, holding the front line, and saving countless commoners trapped in the war."

"It was just that there were always rumors in the streets that that Immortal's abilities were mediocre and his Divine Might was limited."

"Compared to your heaven-reaching means of commanding ten thousand beasts and stepping through the air above the city, it was simply not worth mentioning."

Speaking of that fallen Immortal, Garrison Commander Wang Yufeng's tone was incomparably complicated.

Once the hope of everyone, he ended up with the fate of being annihilated by heavenly punishment, which was sigh-inducing.

"No one could have expected that good times would not last."

"Not long after, bad news spread among the people, saying that that Immortal had inexplicably borne a Karmic Obstruction and violated heavenly rules."

"Ultimately, it drew down the Supreme heavenly punishment, and he was annihilated out of thin air, disappearing completely from the world."

"Counting from the day that Immortal encountered the heavenly punishment and disappeared, up until now."

"The human world has already endured a full seven months of turbulent, chaotic times."

Seven months.

These three simple words drifted gently into Mo Yufei's ears.

Causing a trace of subtle fluctuation to flash instantly through his typically indifferent and waveless eyes.