Chapter 1944

It was Han Li and the Qinglong Shangren and four other Body Integration cultivators, while the others were also some late-stage Void Refinement cultivators not many in the city.

They all kept silent, merely staring fixedly at the distant black 'color' demon sea.

Han Li's eyes suddenly flashed with a blue light!

In the demon sea, a strange laugh suddenly rang out, followed by the demonic energy parting, and several streaks of escape light flew out from within.

One wore black armor and held a hammer, with a grim 'color' face; the other wore a white robe, icy cold, looking like a youth—indeed, the two demon race Body Integration cultivators seen earlier that day.

As for the other two streaks of escape light, one was entirely clad in red armor, ten zhang tall, with flames rolling all around; the other was a petite girl, barefoot 'naked', stepping on a red and a blue giant python, her face bearing a smiling 'yin' 'yin' 'color'.

Although the latter two had unfamiliar faces, Han Li, who had already learned much about the four demon race venerables, naturally recognized them at a glance, his 'color' slightly shifting as he silently confirmed against the information in the records.

These two were both early-stage Body Integration cultivators; unless they possessed some supreme treasure or cultivated some heaven-defying technique, they should not pose a threat to him.

Moreover, the two demon race venerables making their first appearance, discussed earlier in the hall, had been assigned to Yinguang and Lin Luan, two female cultivators, to deal with. The black-armored giant and the white-robed youth obviously had divine abilities not comparable to the latter, so it was up to him and Qinglong Shangren to restrain them.

According to Qinglong Shangren, there was no need for them to truly defeat their opponents; as long as they could restrain the four demon race venerables so they could not separate, they could endure until the day of the Five Yangs Transforming into Yin, and even if they won greatly, it would suffice.

Although they witnessed the four great demon race venerables already flying out of the demon sea, after a brief 'sob' disturbance, each one remained standing on the top of the great hall, unmoving in the slightest.

After the four demon race venerables flew a certain distance out of the demon sea, their escape lights retracted one by one, and they revealed their forms.

After speaking a few words in low voices, they remained silently hovering in midair, with no intention of immediately advancing to challenge.

"These demon heads really are able to hold their breath. It seems they will not begin the siege until the five yangs have completely lost the heavenly and earthly yang power." Qinglong Shangren's 'color' sank slightly as he spoke somewhat helplessly.

Han Li smiled faintly upon hearing this, said nothing, but raised his head to sweep his gaze once more toward the high sky.

At this moment, in the sky, four of the seven suns had already completely dimmed, while the fifth sun had already been more than half covered by gray 'color' spots, and was still spreading rapidly toward the remaining areas at a speed almost visible to the naked eye.

"This is natural! As long as the celestial phenomenon of the Five Yangs Transforming into Yin has not been completed even for a moment, these demon heads will still fear the Nine Yang Gangri Great Formation, which has not yet lost its efficacy." Lin Luan, standing nearby, smiled and interjected these two sentences.

"Indeed. But these demon heads probably never imagined that we would have already shut down this great formation on our own before it failed. This is why we appear so cautious! This is also good—being able to buy more time is always advantageous for us." Qinglong Shangren pondered briefly, then spoke with a hint of joy on his face.

"But I fear we cannot buy much more time." Yinguang Xianzi glanced at the sky, yet spoke with a somewhat bitter smile.

"Hehe, being able to consume even a little more time means one more chance of victory. This is certainly better than the demon race immediately beginning the siege!" Qinglong Shangren hehehed with a laugh.

Upon hearing Qinglong Shangren say this, Yinguang Xianzi also smiled faintly and said nothing more.

Time passed bit by bit, and the fifth sun in the sky gradually dimmed and lost its light.

At the exact moment when the five dim, hazy heavenly suns simultaneously appeared, a bleak and killing aura erupted simultaneously from both the demon sea and Yitian City!

Qinglong Shangren took a deep breath, about to speak, when the black-armored giant in the distance suddenly buzzed open his mouth:

"Daoist Qinglong, your great formation, which you relied upon, has already lost its effect. Why persist in futile resistance? As long as you are willing to lead your surrender to our holy race, I can request the holy race adults to bestow upon you the body-forging**, making you also a member of our holy race. This is your last opportunity, Daoist friend; if you refuse, hehe, our great army will soon trample your little Yitian City flat!"

The black-armored giant's voice was unusually loud, echoing continuously in the sky above Yitian City's walls, allowing most of the human race to hear it clearly.

Upon hearing this, Qinglong Shangren's 'color' turned somewhat ugly; he coldly snorted, and without thinking, loudly replied:

"Hmph, this seat has never even considered becoming a demon race. You are wasting your efforts; this seat would rather die fighting on the spot than surrender to foreign races."

These words, spoken by Qinglong Shangren with exceptional fervor, stirred the spirits of countless human race listeners who heard this reply.

"Good, very good. This seat originally thought you had some ability and originally intended to spare your life. Since you are so stubborn and unyielding, then await this moment of the Dao's decline and the people's demise." The black-armored giant, upon hearing this, felt great anger in his heart, but his face merely showed a gloomy smile.

Immediately afterward, he suddenly waved his sleeve robe upward toward the high place.

With three "peng" sounds, three green 'color' light balls shot out from within, flashing briefly before appearing in the high sky ten zhang up, bursting forth with a tremendous roar.

Three clusters of green flame, each about the size of a mu, suddenly floated in the high sky and burst forth with blinding light.

Immediately after, from the demon sea behind the black-armored giant came mournful, piercing cries one after another; only then did enormous war barges, each thousands of zhang long, slowly fly out from the demon sea like mountains, and simultaneously, several large gates opened, and wave after wave of low-level demon beasts surged forth in dense crowds.

At the same time, troops of demon race knights wearing armor and riding various demon beasts surged forth like a 'tide' following closely behind the war barges in a frenzied rush.

In just a few breaths' time, the entire sky was nearly occupied by low-level demon beasts and myriad-form demon knights, and under the overwhelming sky-covering, their numbers far surpassed those Han Li had seen before, too numerous to count!

Moreover, this time, as those giant barges swayed slightly, the number of super demon beasts they released actually reached over three hundred. Besides the super demon beasts resembling giant rhinoceroses seen last time, there were actually several more kinds appearing even more ferocious super demon beasts.

Among them were creatures resembling magnified tens of thousands of times a mantis, and also unknown strange birds with five-colored, variegated feathers 'hair'.

As for the last kind of demon beast, merely looking at it caused one's heart to tremble with fear—it was actually a terrifying monster with a human face and a dragon body.

The skull was 'chaotic' and disheveled; at first glance it resembled a savage man's head, but from the neck downward, it was instead a huge, deep purple 'color' dragon body, covered in scales, and emitting a foul, rancid odor.

Of these three newly appearing super demon beasts, the giant mantis-like ones were the most numerous, numbering over two hundred. Next came the giant demon rhinoceroses, about seventy or eighty in number. As for the brilliantly colored giant birds and the human-faced purple dragons, their numbers were the fewest—former only over thirty, latter only about three.

Under the leadership of these super demon beasts, the low-level demon beasts, letting out loud roars from their mouths, immediately surged forth like locusts toward Yitian City.

At the same time, those giant war barges, upon letting out a booming roar, also simultaneously emitted one after another black 'color' light pillars, covering the attack of the myriad demon beasts.

As for those demon race knights, this time they again gathered and formed into individual spell formations, step by step not differing, closely following behind the demon beast army.

Each of them had excited expressions, their faces full of bloodthirsty killing intent.

As for those demon warriors with the most bizarre appearances, they were nowhere to be seen at this moment, seemingly still hidden in the demon sea and not yet emerged.

However, besides the myriad-form demon knights, another kind of demon race elite emerged from the demon sea.

These demon race individuals were each four or five zhang tall, with hands extremely sharp and pointed, green faces with fangs, resembling evil spirits, yet they wore green 'color' long robes, and on their foreheads appeared an additional emerald 'color' eyeball, fighting barehanded as they mixed among the myriad-form demon knights.

Although the number of this kind of demon race was somewhat more than that of the Jia Lun war demons, it was absolutely not much more. Altogether, they numbered perhaps twenty or thirty thousand, each with green eyes flickering, faces bearing strange, gloomy smiles.

Seeing the demon race army actually mobilize entirely at once, with almost no reserve left, their momentum surging like a flood, Qinglong Shangren and the others naturally had their 'color' change.

But since the opposing demon venerables had not yet made a move, they naturally could not personally engage in attacking the demon race army.

Almost without needing these few people to give orders, the high-level cultivators on the city walls solemnly transmitted one command after another to the various human race units below.

At this moment, the black 'color' light pillars sprayed from the war barges, after a few flickers, spread across the sky and completely fell upon the protective restrictions of Yitian City.

Compared to the previous siege, these black 'color' light pillars sprayed from the war barges were not only thicker by several turns, but also came one after another without the slightest pause.

The power contained in each of these light pillars was nearly equal to a full-force strike by a Soul Transformation cultivator.

With such tremendous power, combined with such terrifying numbers, it was almost just a single glance—the outermost restrictions began to melt and collapse one after another.

The entire restriction of Yitian City immediately presented a state of inability to withstand!

Seeing this, Han Li's 'color' changed slightly. But before he could say something to others, in some places underground in Yitian City, hundreds of different intense formation fluctuations suddenly surged forth, instantly transforming into streams of mysterious power that rushed wildly toward various parts of the city walls.

The great city walls of Yitian City suddenly rang with a loud buzzing sound, followed by the surface repeatedly appearing a kind of silver 'color' rune never seen before, densely packed, and in an instant forming one after another silver-bright formation patterns.

Light burst forth!

The originally five-colored light curtain was instantly replaced by a layer of silver-colored light shield.

The surface of this light shield was extraordinarily smooth and crystalline.

When the black-colored light pillar shot from the demon race's giant vessel struck it, most of it slid off and dissipated around the edges, with only a small portion actually hitting the shield—but even that merely caused its light to flicker slightly, utterly incapable of damaging it in the slightest.

This not only eased Han Li's heart slightly, but the silver-light immortal maiden beside him openly displayed joy on her face.

At this moment, under the urging of the high-level cultivators on the human side, the human warriors and cultivator army likewise launched a massive, imposing attack.

Simultaneously, the ground before the city walls suddenly collapsed, and ranks upon ranks of bronze puppet armies emerged once again.

It was nearly a repeat of the previous siege, except this time both sides deployed far more personnel and fought with far greater intensity—several times over that of the last engagement.

In the sky, spiritual flashes pierced the air without cease, while the ground trembled violently as if heaven and earth were splitting apart.

Within a ten-li radius before the city walls, the area had become a slaughterhouse through and through. Dense clusters of light orbs exploded outward, nearly covering the entire region, their booming echoes filling the sky, while a bloody stench permeated the void.

"Azure Dragon Daoist, dare you face me in battle?"

Just as the Azure Dragon Elder observed the battlefield with a stern expression, a wild laugh suddenly rang out from the distant high altitude, followed by two tremendous booms rolling like thunder. Then two pitch-black whirlwinds descended from above, crashing down upon a section of the city wall—merely violently striking the same point a few times, causing the silver-colored shield wall there to flicker wildly and show signs of instability.

It was precisely the black-armored giant swinging his two massive hammers, frenziedly striking the ward on the city battlements.

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