Volume 8: Demon Suppression Chapter 30 A glimmer of hope
At the same time.
Luoyan Pass.
Lieutenant General Tang Ze returned in a hurry, and when he saw the inquiring look from General An Haihou, he could only shake his head helplessly.
"General, I have asked all the monks who came from other city gates to support our Luoyan Pass, and they did not find any abnormal situation on the way here."
"The cultivators we sent out were clearly annihilated, so how could there be no abnormalities?" Marquis Anhai concentrated his attention and said in a deep voice: "No abnormalities were found, that is the biggest abnormality. We can't wait any longer, immediately convey our news to Yumen Pass and apply to temporarily abandon Luoyan Pass!"
"Abandon Luoyan Pass?!" The young lieutenant general Tang Ze looked at Marquis Anhai in surprise, unable to believe it.
Luoyan Pass is one of the only seventeen small city passes of the human race in the battlefield outside the domain.
In order to defend this city gate, countless human cultivators sacrificed their lives, but now, Marquis Anhai is actually preparing to abandon Luoyan Pass?
"I feel uneasy," An Haihou nodded, frowned, and patiently explained, "Everything is too strange this time. In the past, when the demons attacked the city, they always came with great fanfare, not like this now? Also, Luoyan Pass has now become an isolated city that only allows entry but not exit. This is clearly a trap."
"If we delay any further, something big will definitely happen." Marquis An Hai said affirmatively.
This is just his guess.
It may seem a little metaphysical, even a little arbitrary, but this is not out of conceit on his part.
He had been guarding Luoyan Pass for a thousand years and had experienced hundreds of sieges by the demons. He had already developed an intuition, an intuition about how the situation would develop.
The experience and intuition of an old monk who has fought in many battles are often very accurate.
Although Tang Ze was confused, he did not oppose Marquis Anhai's decision and immediately said, "I'll go and pass on the message."
whoosh!
But before he could retreat, a beam of light came rapidly from a distance and landed on the city wall.
In the escaping light, there was a monk guarding Luoyan Pass. He had a panicked look on his face and reported anxiously: "General, something big has happened. The demon army is on its way and has already blocked the northern area of our Luoyan Pass!"
Tang Ze was the first to change color when he heard this. "In the past, when the demons attacked, they would just march out in large numbers. There was never any talk of blocking the front..."
"The blockade can only be used to encircle and kill us at Luoyan Pass," An Haihou's face turned pale. His experience allowed him to see many things in an instant. He muttered, " I didn't expect it was too late. I should have been more decisive and directly executed first and reported later, and abandoned Luoyan Pass first..."
"Didn't the demons only block the north?" Tang Ze understood the meaning of Marquis An Hai's words and said subconsciously.
Marquis Anhai shook his head and said affirmatively: "Since it is a blockade, how can it be just a blockade in the north? Isn't this just deceiving yourself? It's just that the news from other parties hasn't come yet..."
As soon as he finished speaking, three more monks flew up to the city gate one after another and reported anxiously, "General, a large group of demon troops appeared in the south of Luoyan Pass!"
"...A large demon army appeared in the east!"
"…The demon army appeared in the west!"
Tang Ze's pupils dilated suddenly, showing his inner unrest.
"It seems that the demons intend to destroy our Luoyan Pass in one fell swoop." Marquis Anhai said softly.
"How is this possible?" Tang Ze kept shaking his head, not daring to believe it, or rather, unwilling to believe it, "How could the demons break the balance for no reason..."
They have been at Luoyan Pass, resisting the attacks of the demons for more than a year or two.
It is precisely because of these years of experience that Tang Ze has already conceived that unless a decisive battle is launched, the demons will only send out an army that is equally powerful as theirs to attack the city in order to deplete their manpower, and will never destroy the city.
This idea can be said to have been deeply rooted in his mind.
Who would have thought that today the old calendar would turn over a new leaf.
"It has already happened. There is no point in hoping it won't happen again. The most urgent task is to reduce the losses."
Marquis Anhai looked at the young lieutenant general whom he valued very much, and just let out a breath. He did not analyze the situation in detail with him, and said slowly.
Many times, the so-called quick thinking and strategies are no longer important on the huge battlefield between the two races. Instead, the overall view becomes the key.
In Anhai Hou's opinion, Tang Ze is excellent in other aspects except his overall vision.
But this can be cultivated slowly.
Marquis Anhai has always been very optimistic about Tang Ze becoming the next general of Luoyan Pass, so he has spared no effort in training him.
But now he couldn't be sure whether Luoyan Pass still existed after this disaster, and whether Tang Ze was still there...
…
These thoughts flashed through the mind of the veteran from Luoyan Pass, and soon he calmed down.
The paleness on Marquis Anhai's face had disappeared after the initial surprise, and only calmness remained.
He was staring intently at the wilderness in the distance.
There, one seems to be able to see a line of black tide looming.
"Since this is a situation of siege and killing, the demons have naturally made all preparations. Defending Luoyan Pass is a dead end, and we must fight to break out. If we can get away with one cultivator, we'll get one."
…
Lu Qingshan felt a little bitter.
After he was forced to stay on the warship by Demon General Qingge, he could only watch as the warship followed the demon army and continued to approach the direction of Luoyan Pass.
And now, the majestic Luoyan Pass in the distance has come into his sight.
The mottled city wall full of potholes indicates the long history of this city.
This is an ancient city that is thousands of years old, majestic and grand.
But after today, Luoyan Pass will no longer exist.
Luoyan Pass was originally the destination of Lu Qingshan's trip.
Who could have thought that after all the trouble, he finally arrived at Luoyan Pass, but he came with the demon army that was attacking Luoyan Pass.
Isn't this like "Taijun, please come this way"? Although it was forced...
Lu Qingshan was extremely helpless and kept thinking in his mind, but no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't seem to find a way to escape.
Because this warship, with Demon General Qingge on board, is located right at the core of the entire demon army.
How could he leave in public without the permission of Demon General Qingge?
"The difficulty at Luoyan Pass is a foregone conclusion. What I need to consider next is my own safety. The longer the night, the more dreams there are. The longer I am trapped in the devil's den, the greater the probability that my identity as a fake underworld cultivator will be exposed."
At this time, Lu Qingshan was no longer thinking about the matter of Luoyan Pass - he had already tried to save Luoyan Pass at great risk, and was even about to sacrifice himself.
He believes he has a clear conscience.
"The only solution now is to act flexibly when the war starts and see if we can escape in the chaos." Lu Qingshan kept thinking.
…
The majestic Luoyan Pass.
The monks of Luoyan Pass, led by Marquis Anhai, gathered on the city wall, looking at the demonic tide that had appeared in their sight.
The demons are vast and powerful, like a flood wave pouring down and forming a line.
Countless demons were rushing towards Luoyan Pass frantically, and each of them looked extremely crazy and full of fighting spirit.
The atmosphere in Luoyan Pass was extremely solemn.
Faced with this situation, some of the human cultivators turned pale, shocked by the mighty noise, while others had red eyes, ready to fight these demons...
Boom boom boom!
The sound of a low drum suddenly rang out at this moment, as if knocking on the hearts of every monk in Luoyan Pass.
The sound of the drums seemed to have a strange power, which made the monk, who had originally been pale, gradually calm down in the sound of the war drums.
This is a war drum instrument that has an inspiring effect.
And in the center of Luoyan Pass, there is a huge formation.
At this moment, a thick ray of spiritual light shot out from this formation, rushing straight into the sky, and then turned into a magnificent sky curtain, connecting the sky and the city, covering the entire Luoyan Pass.
This is the city defense formation of Luoyan Pass. It is the most important confidence for human cultivators to defend the pass and it is their lifeline.
This is also the reason why Marquis Anhai, although he was not prepared to defend Luoyan Pass to the death and wanted to break out, led all the monks in the city to temporarily defend the isolated city.
We must break through, but we cannot do it blindly.
The strength of a single person will be swallowed up in an instant in the ocean of war and will only be devoured by the demons.
He must rely on the protection of the formation and gather the strength of all the cultivators before he has a chance to make a breakthrough.
…
"Finally here!" Seeing the demon army getting closer, a fierce light flashed in Marquis Anhai's eyes.
The next moment, he took the lead and was the first to jump out of the Luoyan Pass city wall and kill towards the demons.
In order to boost morale and test the bottom line of the demons, he must kill and fight!
Only in this way can the monks of Luoyan Pass have a glimmer of hope.
Lieutenant General Tang Ze was the first to rush out following the general.
"kill!"
"kill!"
whoosh whoosh whoosh!
A dozen of the most powerful combined cultivators in Luoyan Pass followed closely, set an example, and left the city one after another to kill the demon army.
Boom!
In the air, Marquis Anhai's energy was released wantonly, spreading in all directions.
There was a blue sea water that appeared out of thin air with him as the center, forming an area of a hundred feet in size.
In the domain, the sea water surged and undulated in the void.
This is his Dao Domain, the Anhai Dao Domain, a very comprehensive Dao Domain that is extremely good at both restraining and controlling the enemy and resisting the enemy.
Of course, comprehensiveness also means that there are defects everywhere.
Let’s not talk about this for now.
The other Luoyan Pass combined cultivators also sacrificed their own Dao domains at this time.
Some have flames shooting up into the sky forming a sea of fire, some are filled with evil spirits like hell, and some are like continuous spring rain, looking full of vitality... In short, they are all strange and magical.
Dao Realm is the most representative and strongest means for the combined cultivators.
"Attack!" Three water jets shot out from Marquis Anhai's hands, crossed the sky, and turned into three winding and ferocious snakes, which instantly bit the demons who were rushing to the front line.
The remaining monks from Luoyan Pass also used their own methods.
For a moment, all kinds of magical lights, magic weapons, and even flying swords connected together and shot towards the demon army with great momentum.
It is conceivable how completely defeated the demons would be when faced with this wave of ferocious attacks.
However, the imagined scene did not appear as expected.
Because, at this moment, dozens of astonishingly powerful auras also rose into the sky from the demon army.
Seeing this scene, Marquis Anhai's pupils couldn't help but shrink.
This is a seventh-grade demon cultivator!
In an instant, nearly fifty seventh-grade demon cultivators attacked at the same time.
You must know that in the large-scale battle at Luoyan Pass before, the number of seventh-grade demon cultivators dispatched by the demon clan generally did not exceed twenty.
But this time, it more than doubled.
With such a large force deployed, the devilish ambitions of the demon clan are obvious.
This made Marquis Anhai feel a chill in his heart - the gap between the two sides in top combat power was too great.
A burly demon cultivator covered in iron armor who had just appeared waved his huge palm nonchalantly and directly broke the three water jets released by Marquis Anhai in half.
Then, he showed a ferocious smile to Marquis An Hai, his fangs bared, "That's it?"
On the other side, a strange demon cultivator with five sharp spears extending from his palm suddenly waved his hand.
The next moment, five short spears fell off his palms and transformed into five dark lights. They moved so fast that they could not be seen clearly. They twisted and moved forward in the void and stabbed directly towards Marquis Anhai.
Marquis Anhai's expression remained unchanged when faced with this scene.
puff!
The black light transformed from the five short spears, when piercing into his Dao domain, was like being stuck in a swamp, moving forward with difficulty, and its power was constantly weakening.
The demon who had fired the short spear didn't care when he saw this. He just curled his lips and said sarcastically, "The human race's tortoise shell is still so disgusting."
The cultivation systems of humans and demons are different.
In the cultivation system of the human race, any cultivator who has achieved the fusion of the two bodies will cultivate the Dao domain.
Within the Dao Realm, the cultivators are the masters and the kings. Unless other cultivators also cultivate their own Dao Realm to compete with them, they have almost no ability to resist within the Dao Realm of others.
This is also the reason why the fusion cultivator can easily crush the spirit transformation cultivator.
But among the demon clan, there is no such thing as the Dao Realm. However, the seventh-grade demon cultivators of the demon clan are not afraid of the Dao Realm of the human cultivators at all.
This is because, in the demon clan’s cultivation system, although there is no Dao Realm, all seventh-grade demons will cultivate a divine and demonic body.
The bodies of the demons vary from person to person, and there are many types, and the powers they possess are also different.
Some can bring extremely strong fighting ability, some have terrifying speed, and some have various magical powers...
But all gods and demons have one thing in common - extremely strong immunity to magical powers, and are invulnerable to all kinds of attacks.
This allows them to ignore the influence of the human cultivators' Dao domain to a large extent and fight with the human cultivators.
Therefore, in the eyes of the demons, the human race’s Dao Realm is nothing, at most it is just a troublesome turtle shell.
…
Boom boom boom!
The combined cultivators of Luoyan Pass have already collided with the seventh-grade demon cultivators.
The battle was extremely fierce.
Marquis Anhai has extraordinary combat power, so he is safe for the time being, but the other combined cultivators who left the city with him did not have as profound cultivation as him.
Faced with the large numbers and power of the demons, their Dao domain was forced to narrow its scope and passively defend, appearing quite embarrassed.
If it is a one-on-one fight, it is hard to say which one is stronger, the Dao Realm or the God and Demon Body, but unfortunately, the number of seventh-grade demon cultivators at this time is far more than that of human combined cultivators.
So in just a moment, several human masters had suffered minor injuries.
whoosh!
Suddenly, a shadow demon hidden in the shadows unexpectedly appeared in the Spring Rain Dao Realm of a human cultivator.
He grinned grimly, holding a poisonous thorn in his hand, which cut through the void, penetrated the Dao domain, and stabbed straight into the forehead of the cultivator in the Dao domain.
The one who performed the Spring Rain Dao Domain was a female spiritual practitioner in the early stage of fusion.
She was originally concentrating on fighting with another seventh-grade demon. Faced with the sneak attack from the seventh-grade shadow demon, who was known as the spiritual killer, she was horrified and retreated in a hurry, but it seemed that it was too late.
The situation is extremely critical!
when!
A green lotus bloomed at just the right moment, blocking the devil thorn and defusing this fatal attack.
The Shadow Demon, who had failed to hit the target in one blow, did not want to continue fighting. He decisively flashed and disappeared into the shadows.
The shadow demon that has not appeared is the most terrifying.
The female spiritual practitioner who had escaped death turned around and saw that it was Tang Ze, the Lieutenant General of Luoyan Pass, who helped her stop the Shadow Demon's determined attack.
"Thank you." The female spiritual practitioner was still frightened and was extremely grateful.
Tang Ze waved his hand.
"retreat!"
Marquis Anhai noticed that the human cultivators were in a state of confusion and in frequent danger, so he shouted loudly and led everyone to quickly retreat to Luoyan Pass.
The demons, on the other hand, took advantage of the situation and chased down the retreating human monks.
Fortunately, the human cultivators did not rush too far, so they quickly retreated back to Luoyan Pass.
The demon cultivators of the demon race chased for a while, and then stopped unwillingly when they saw that all the human cultivators had retreated to Luoyan Pass.
The sky stopped them from continuing their pursuit.
At the rear of the demon army, on the high-suspended warship, Demon General Qingge stood on the deck, watching the human cultivators voluntarily leave the city, and then being forced back to Luoyan Pass in an embarrassed manner. He kept grinning and giving orders loudly.
"The human race is just so small, kill them all and break through this protective formation!"
Seeing that the demon army had launched a fierce attack on the sky curtain under his orders, the Qingge Demon General, who was deeply favored by the Demon Lord, proudly swung his non-existent long sleeves, put his hands behind his back, raised his chin, and said calmly: "With the flick of my Qingge's fingers, Luoyan Pass will be reduced to ashes!"
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Marquis Anhai, who retreated to Luoyan Pass in a panic, stood on the city gate, looking at the demon army from afar with a gloomy face.
"My Lord Commander, the demons are determined to win this time. It will be difficult for us to break out..." Tang Ze said with difficulty, staring at the nearly fifty seventh-grade demon cultivators floating in the sky outside the city, who were eyeing him covetously.
His wrist was bleeding.
In the brief engagement just now, he had already suffered considerable injuries.
Within Luoyan Pass, there are less than twenty human cultivators.
The demon clan has nearly fifty seventh-grade demon cultivators.
Fifty to twenty.
This is already a one-sided crush of strength, how can we break through?
The other combined monks were also silent at this time.
Their judgment is exactly the same as Tang Ze's.
Luoyan Pass has fallen into a desperate situation with no chance of survival .
The day when the protective formation is broken, that will be the day they die.
The pessimistic mood of the fusion masters also affected other human monks.
There was dead silence in Luoyan Pass.
This is a pessimistic mood that even the war drum instrument cannot save.
As if sensing everyone's despair, Marquis An Hai shook his head, a gleam in his eyes, and said word by word: "No, we still have a chance!"
"There's still a chance?!"
“Look…” Marquis Anhai looked into the depths of the demon army.
"That is..." Everyone quickly followed his gaze and saw the blood-stained warship.
"I was just wondering, although the demon clan has dispatched nearly fifty seventh-grade demon cultivators, there seems to be no obvious subordinate relationship between them, and it is obvious that there is no leader among them. Who is the person leading the army? Why has he not shown up yet?"
"Until I saw him!" Marquis Anhai's gaze pierced through the endless army of demons and shot straight at the Demon General Qingge who was standing on the warship, high-spirited and domineeringly commanding the demon army to launch an attack.
“Who would have thought that the leader of the demon army, which includes nearly fifty seventh-rank demon cultivators, would actually be a sixth-rank demon cultivator…”
Marquis An Hai murmured, "I guess the reason why the demons behaved so abnormally this time is because of this sixth-rank demon cultivator."
"This demon cultivator is incredible..."
Tang Ze, who was standing behind Marquis Anhai, had his eyes flickering at this moment, as if he understood something, "What the general meant was..."
"Yes," Marquis Anhai said in a resounding voice, "A sixth-rank demon cultivator can actually lead the demon army, which means that his identity must be extraordinary. And the more extraordinary his identity is, the more beneficial it is to us. Because, no matter how extraordinary his identity is, it cannot change the fact that he is just a small sixth-rank cultivator. Capture the leader first. If we can find a way to get close to that warship and capture it alive, we may be able to use it as a hostage to force the demons to withdraw!"
As a veteran of hundreds of battles, after discovering that this time the demon army was actually led by a sixth-rank demon cultivator, Marquis An Hai was able to break through the fog in an instant and grasp the glimmer of hope that theoretically existed!
