Chapter 3065

Since even the my lord of Ying Sheng Tian has already failed, what are they still doing here? Without the Coming of the Gods, they can't even figure out where the target is located.

As the Red General's tactics were successfully advanced, the demons suffered heavier casualties and realized that dispersing their forces did not bring them flexibility but instead made them easy to pick off one by one, so they began to gather together, using collective strength to oppose the Cang Yan army.

At the same time, they fiercely bombarded the palace's barrier.

The Chi Xiao Golden Hall, as a single magical artifact, naturally possesses a barrier above it. Once the Red General activates the highest-level alert, not even a single foreign fly is allowed to enter or exit.

This barrier is like a tightly sealed transparent cover, enveloping the entire palace within.

What should the demons do?

They try to gather as much as possible, hoping to combine the power of all the demons to blast a small hole in this cover so they can escape.

But their plan is far too naive.

Now, on the eve of the Gods' descent, Cang Yan has long been prepared for war, and the energy reserves of the Chi Xiao Golden Hall are extraordinarily abundant.

Let alone fifty or sixty demons gathering together—even if their numbers increased severalfold, they might still not be able to break through this cover above the palace.

The Hao Yuan Golden Mirror has also marked every single demon, displaying them on the sand table.

Seeing that if this continues, the invading demons will be suffocated one after another, an anomaly arises!

In the four directions—north, south, east, and west—outside Ju City, each has a location that suddenly lights up.

The northern suburb is a clearing in the forest, with the ground covered in fallen leaves.

The eastern suburb is an abandoned granary of a small town, with the warehouse piled full of grain.

The western suburb is the cellar of a relay station, filled with bottles and jars.

The southern suburb is a small lake, whose water is not clear.

At this very moment, on this day, these four points simultaneously flash with crimson light.

Subsequently, the fallen leaves, warehouse, cellar, and lake water covering them are burned to nothing.

Their true nature is now revealed: they are four circular sigils, with mysterious patterns, flashing with an ominous light.

Not long after they lit up, stars in the sky also flickered, as if responding from afar.

That night, the alarm bells of Ju City rang long and loud.

Residents and travelers near the palace could see various lights flashing inside the Chi Xiao Golden Hall, and often explosion sounds could be heard coming from within.

Since the founding of Cang Yan, Ju City has enjoyed peace and prosperity, never encountering such a disturbance. Although people did not understand, the patrol guards and soldiers were deployed, Ju City implemented a curfew on the spot, strictly preventing chaos, and everyone could only stay at home, holding their doubts in their stomachs.

After all, it is the eve of the demons' descent, so everyone will have all kinds of strange associations. The most common and intuitive one is:

Have the demons descended early?

Thus, countless people gazed at the starry sky, trying to find omens. And then the omens truly came: a dark sky appeared with many points of light, flickering one by one, carrying crimson light.

Their speed is very fast.

What is that?

It seems to be coming here.

Civilians gazed anxiously at the points of light in the sky, but they could only watch helplessly, unable to do anything.

The Chi Xiao Golden Hall naturally noticed the celestial anomaly.

Du Shan personally rushed out of the Lan Yue Pavilion, looked up at the sky, and his expression changed abruptly.

Could it be that the plan of the Ling Xu Saint Venerable has been activated ahead of schedule tonight?

The Ling Xu Saint Venerable publicly announced the time for the large-scale descent of the gods as tomorrow night, but who says he must keep his word?

In war, deception is not despised.

At this moment, a flash of golden light appeared behind him, and the Red General stepped out of the mirror once again.

She had just led her troops to kill over twenty demons besieging Chaoyang Gate and was still pursuing the remaining ones, but upon seeing the celestial anomaly, she hurried back.

"This is not the descent of the demons. It is the enemy's summoned heavenly fire to burn the city."

"Heavenly fire?" Du Shan exclaimed in shock, "Meteorites?"

The Red General directly ordered: "All nine gates and thirty-six wells of Ju City, hear the command—prepare the Xu Ling Cannon and Chong Tian Cannon, aim at the sky, target locked on the heavenly fire meteorites!"

Ju City has a total of nine city gates inside and outside the walls, and the defensive structures on the walls are grouped into units called "wells," with thirty-six wells in total. In each well, the weapon with the longest range is the Chong Tian Cannon, the most powerful is the Xu Ling Cannon, followed by siege crossbows and the like.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth has increased over twenty years, and large-scale destructive weapons and artillery in the human realm have been advancing rapidly, with Cang Yan and Bei Jia competing in research and development. The Red General's order was transmitted via the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror through a special divine ability to the city wall commanders of Ju City, who responded in unison with "Yes," then hurried to adjust the angles of their weapons.

This order to fire toward the sky is the first time they have received such a command. As a rising power, Cang Yan's Ju City defenses are equipped with the latest weapons, powerful in strength, but they have never had the chance to be formally used on a large scale.

The Red General also strode toward the sand table, saying: "The Ling Xu Saint Venerable most likely already knows that the two great demons of Ying Sheng Tian have fallen, his plan to invade the Chi Xiao Golden Hall has failed, so he directly activated the next step."

How could the Ling Xu Saint Venerable possibly have only one plan against Cang Yan's Ducheng? So, since sneaking in secretly failed, he simply decided to go hard—directly using heavenly fire to blast Ju City to ruins!

This is a fallback plan, but if successful, it can also achieve the effect of deterring the human world.

Everyone was both shocked and angry. The Ling Xu Saint Venerable's malicious intent—actually wanting these several million people to be buried with Ying Sheng Tian!

The descent of the heavenly fire is very fast. The Red General then took something from her bosom and gently placed it on the sand table. Du Shan followed in and, seeing it, asked: "Is this the core of the Chi Xiao Golden Hall?"

This looks like the Chi Xiao Golden Hall itself, only reduced by several ten-thousands of times—a miniature, exquisite, and adorable model.

The Red General placed it into the sand table, then lightly tapped it and said, "Yuan Li Qi!"

The red light on the sand table immediately spread to cover the entire sand table.

The Hao Yuan Golden Mirror also appeared beside the Red General, and just then she said in a deep voice: "I have merged the protective power of the Chi Xiao Golden Hall with that of Ju City. From now on, the Chi Xiao Golden Hall and the entire Ju City share weal and woe—hundreds of thousands of people must jointly resist the heavenly fire."

With the aid of the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror, her voice spread to every corner of Ju City, and all citizens could hear it clearly.

The Chi Xiao Golden Hall actually shared its defense with the entire Ju City, rather than keeping it to itself! Seeing that great calamity loomed over the city, the people were both startled and delighted, turning toward the Chi Xiao Golden Hall, closing their eyes, clasping their hands, and began to murmur prayers.

Millions of beings, united as one city.

The protective great array covering the entire Ju City was activated.

If viewed from above, one would see that each city gate of Ju City has crawled out one to four varying numbers of guardian beast phantoms, roaring toward the sky.

And in the sky above Ju City, a huge dragon shadow appeared, its scales lifelike, coiling vigorously.

It bared its fangs and brandished its claws toward the descending heavenly disaster.

At this moment, General Hong spoke to Hao Yuanjinjing again: "Search carefully for magic power fluctuations near Ducheng. Heavenly Fire Burning the City is a super-large formation; it must have a formation base to activate."