379: Chapter 379 First Stele

At the highest point of the city gates, City Lord Gongsun Lie, broad-shouldered and covered in blood, looked like a wounded tiger.

He grabbed an old man's collar and roared with bloodshot eyes,

"Liu Chongshan! Where are the reinforcements?! Didn't you say seven days ago that the distress signal was sent?! Where are they?!"

Liu Chongshan's face was as pale as paper, his lips trembled, and his eyes were vacant as he said,

"I... I did indeed ask the Yunyan Sect and the Holy Land for help... Just... just hold on a bit longer... perhaps..."

His voice grew lower and lower as he spoke.

Gongsun Lie abruptly let go. Looking at the Erosion Beasts gathering below the city, their auras becoming increasingly violent, he nearly ground his steel-like teeth to pieces.

He turned and roared hoarsely at the remaining defending Cultivators,

"Brothers! Hold on! Reinforcements will be here any moment!!"

However, a deputy general behind him, covered in wounds, shouted,

"City Lord! We can't hold! The Spirit Stones for the Formation core are almost exhausted! The brothers... the brothers are almost all dead!"

By the battlements, a young Cultivator who had lost his left arm sat slumped in a pool of blood, staring blankly at the sky and muttering to himself,

"It's over... it's all over..."

After repelling another Erosion Beast Tide, the surviving soldiers and Cultivators fell into a deathly silence, and a sense of hopeless despair enveloped the broken city walls.

When the Erosion Beast Tide came again, three earth-shaking, terrifying roars suddenly erupted from the rear of the swarm.

The earth shook, and erosion qi surged!

Three massive eroded ancient beasts stepped through the dust and smoke, appearing at the back of the battlefield.

One was a pitch-black, mottled giant tiger with hideous bone spikes growing from its ribs, its eyes as crimson as blood moons!

One was a bizarre flower demon whose roots had turned into countless tentacles, its blossoms spewing poisonous miasma!

One was a terrifying giant python, thousands of feet long, its body coiled in dense, crimson erosion qi!

The aura emitted by that giant python caused even the heavens and earth to change color! "What Realm is this? Void Tempering? Or the Tribulation Transcendence Stage?!"

Liu Chongshan completely collapsed to the ground, his face devoid of color.

He was only at the Soul Transformation Stage. While he could still distinguish a Realm one level higher than his own, the auras of these three Erosion Beasts were far beyond his perception.

A look of tragic heroism flashed in Gongsun Lie's eyes,

"Pass my final command! Fight to the death and do not retreat! Secure one last chance of survival for the women, children, and elderly in the city!"

After a brief, deathly silence atop the city walls, a final, sorrowful roar erupted.

The three terrifying ancient beasts roared at the sky and slowly moved forward.

Suddenly, above the firmament.

Three brilliant purple light trails pierced through the clouds like meteors falling from the heavens, carrying a majestic Divine Might that purified all evil, tearing through the sky and crossing a hundred miles in an instant.

Wherever they passed, the pervasive crimson erosion qi dissipated one after another!

"BOOM—!!!"

Deafening explosions echoed through the clouds.

The first light trail plunged into the pitch-black giant tiger's gaping maw. In the next moment, its massive, hideous head exploded like a ripe watermelon!

The second light trail pierced through and tore the bizarre flower demon's massive body in half! Countless root tentacles turned to ash within the golden light!

The giant python reacted quickly, rearing up as a gray light barrier lit up on its body. However, the third light trail treated the barrier as if it were nothing, piercing through it and pinning the beast firmly at its seven-inch mark!

The three Erosion Beasts of overwhelming ferocity collapsed and were annihilated in an instant.

Atop the walls of Water Rock City, all the surviving Cultivators were frozen as if by a binding spell, staring dumbstruck at this miraculous scene.

One second it was total destruction, and the next, those three nightmare-like Erosion Beasts had been turned into wreckage.

Gongsun Lie's pupils shrank to the size of pinpricks. He stared fixedly at the slowly dissipating purple light trails and cried out in shock,

"This... what is this?!"

Liu Chongshan suddenly sprang up from the ground. His clouded old eyes burst with an unbelievable light, and his voice trembled violently.

"Rein... Reinforcements?! It's reinforcements! When did the Yunyan Sect have such... no! Could it be... the White Rock Holy Land?!"

On the horizon, the thick clouds were torn apart by a majestic force, and a towering fleet broke through the air, like a celestial palace descending to the mortal Realm.

Under the sunlight, a massive "Moon" character war flag snapped and fluttered in the wind.

The exhausted and hopeless Cultivators on the walls looked up in uncertainty; this did not look like the flag of the White Rock Holy Land, nor did it resemble the emblem of any Sect in White Rock Province.

Chi Wanhe's clear and resonant voice rang out from the tianque divine boat, reaching everyone's ears clearly.

"We are the Moon Shadow Holy Land of Cangwu Province, here specifically to help you repel the enemy!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Qin Zhaoxue, Du Yuqing, and others led the Moonshadow Sect Disciples, turning into streaks of sharp light. Like meteors, they descended from the sky and plunged boldly into the beast swarm!

"It's the Moonshadow Sect! The Moonshadow Sect from Cangwu Province!"

A well-informed Cultivator shouted excitedly,

"The Sect of that Supreme Moonshadow who killed the Demon Ancestor with a single sword strike three years ago!"

The wild joy of surviving a disaster spread like a prairie fire, instantly igniting the deathly silent city walls.

Despair was replaced by earth-shaking cheers!

Chi Wanhe landed lightly back on the deck of the tianque divine boat and turned to look at Shi Qingxuan, whose face was grim.

"Sect Leader Shi, according to our agreement, the first world-suppressing monument and resonance dao tower will be established here. What do you think?"

Shi Qingxuan withdrew her right hand. She had originally intended to take action herself, but the thunderous strike from the Moonshadow Sect's Void-Shattering Air-Piercing Boat had snatched the initiative.

She took a deep breath, suppressing the complex emotions churning in her heart, and raised her hand to point at a high hill outside the city.

"Very well. That is a node where the earth veins converge; it is suitable for placement."

"Good! Then we shall place it there!"

Chi Wanhe readily agreed, though she secretly grumbled in her heart.

"It's just setting up a monument and a tower, is there a need for such a sour face? This is a great thing for your White Rock Province too!"

She glanced at Shi Qingxuan's slightly rigid profile—one that had plenty of majesty but lacked softness—and curled her lip inwardly.

Revered Master definitely, certainly, absolutely could not possibly like such a plain-looking and stiff woman!

A moment later, an incredibly thick pillar of brilliant light soared into the sky from that hill, stirring the clouds.

The massive world-suppressing monument crashed down. Countless profound runes on the monument's body lit up instantly, spreading out and imprinting themselves deeply into the earth.

The crimson erosion qi, as if meeting its natural enemy, let out a shrill "sizzling" sound and began to dissipate into nothingness.

The Erosion Beasts attacking the city wailed in pain; their surrounding erosion qi was heavily suppressed, and their strength weakened visibly to the naked eye.

Immediately following that, a uniquely shaped resonance dao tower rose from the ground next to the world-suppressing monument.

Light flowed at the tower's tip, and ripples of invisible energy instantly spread out, enveloping all the Moonshadow Sect Disciples.

The spiritual light on Qin Zhaoxue, Du Yuqing, Shui Liuli, and the others suddenly surged. Their auras rose steadily, and the power of their attacks doubled!

Witnessing this miraculous scene, the Cultivators on the city walls knelt on the ground one after another in excitement, shouting,

"Immortal treasures! Truly immortal treasures!"

Liu Chongshan muttered to himself,

"This world-suppressing monument from Cangwu Province can indeed suppress erosion qi as the rumors say... If it could really spread across the entire province... this disaster of Erosion Beasts..."

Before he could finish, his expression suddenly became complex beyond words.

This was not something from the White Rock Holy Land.

And compared to the Moon Shadow Holy Land, this White Rock Holy Land..."