Chapter 3066

The Hao Yuan Golden Mirror suddenly flashed with light. When the city was first built, it was originally just one with the Chixiao Golden Hall, but over these twenty years its coverage has expanded more and more, and it is no longer limited to Ju City alone.

Monitoring abnormalities within the territory in real time is merely one of its functions.

After just a few breaths, Liang Daoyuan suddenly pointed to the north side of the sand table and said: "Here it is—here a formation has appeared."

The Hao Yuan Golden Mirror also displayed the formation's position in real time, not just this one.

One, two, three, four—four directions, four formations.

"Very good." The Red General beckoned, and the eight roof beasts on the Lan Yue Pavilion roof flew down and landed on the table.

"Go, tear these four formations to shreds for me."

At her command, all the roof beasts spread their wings and rushed into the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror.

They passed through the mirror, and in the next breath appeared in the suburbs, directly above the glowing formations.

At this time the roof beasts were no longer palm-sized dolls, but monsters over five zhang tall, with ferocious faces and sharp claws and fangs. They lunged at the formations, and in just a few blows shattered the defensive barriers, destroying the formations completely.

Once activated, the Heavenly Fire Burning City formation cannot be stopped. Moreover, the Heavenly Demons clearly know that on someone else's territory, these four formations are doomed to fail, so they simply did not station anyone to guard them.

Even if the formations are destroyed, it merely prevents the Holy Lord of Lingxu from descending with a second or third wave of heavenly fire. But there is no doubt that the first wave is the most deadly.

The Red General looked out the window at the night sky. Originally pitch black, the night curtain now blazed like fire, a vast expanse of red.

These were meteors carrying apocalyptic might, now rushing toward the entire giant city.

At this moment, the nine gates of Ju City all reported in turn:

Cannons loaded, ready.

"This wave of heavenly fire burning the city requires us to harden our resolve." The Red General raised her head to the heavens: "Come on.

The time to test Cang Yan has arrived.

The entire sky was burning fiercely. Thousands of meteors trailed with incandescent tails, crashing down violently.

On the ground, countless people closed their eyes in prayer.

The cannons of Ju City and the Chixiao Golden Hall fired skyward, one after another.

The city-defense cannons of today are no longer the old models from twenty years ago that merely blasted a pit with each shot; most are now mother-and-child shells, and whether or not the target is precisely hit, the mother shell explodes, sending hundreds of child shells outward, triggering a more violent secondary explosion.

The Xu Ling cannons are newly developed based on the Xu Ling divine statue, firing not cannonballs but divine powers, with force equivalent to the heavy punch of the Giant Spirit God.

The immortals and cultivators within Ju City and the Chixiao Golden Hall also directed their divine powers toward the heavenly fire.

Ground troops stood in strict formation, ready to respond to the aftermath of the impact.

At this moment, even time seemed to pause.

Ju City's sky roared without cease, violent chain explosions making the vast city blaze like broad daylight, and casting every face turned skyward into a ghastly pallor.

Countless meteors were blasted into fragments. Du Shan personally witnessed a meteor originally nearly a hundred zhang in diameter being directly shattered by the Xu Ling cannon into countless small pieces.

If this thing were to strike Ju City intact, who knows how many lives it would claim.

Next came the barrier above Ju City absorbing one explosion after another.

The heavenly fire struck the barrier.

This time the scale of the Heavenly Fire Burning City was too great; even with Ju City and the Chixiao Golden Hall giving their all in resistance, a large number still slipped through.

Moreover, although the large meteors were shattered, their fragments still struck the barrier, merely with reduced force.

The crimson barrier covering Ju City endured tens of thousands of explosions.

The earth trembled incessantly, making it impossible to stand firm.

The barrier held for over twenty breaths, when suddenly a large section of the Chixiao Golden Hall's central hub collapsed, and people heard several loud booms not far away:

The Hall of Heavenly Questions collapsed in clusters.

The barrier over Ju City's sky flickered twice, did not vanish, but appeared with several breaches.

The current barrier has also been improved; it no longer vanishes entirely when breached, but resembles a fishnet pierced through—its main body remains, only locally damaged.

Meteors and fragments fell through the breaches, smashing buildings and triggering explosions.

Firelight and black smoke shot up into the sky.

As the main body of the heavenly fire fell in large numbers, the Chixiao Golden Hall saw several more building clusters collapse, and more breaches appeared on the barrier.

More meteors smashed into Ju City, triggering chain explosions.

Troops and patrols mobilized, rushing to rescue and aid.

Even with Ju City's full defense, under such a fierce heavenly fire assault, disaster was unavoidable.

The Hao Yuan Golden Mirror displayed the disaster zones in real time—streets reduced to ruins, rivers and lakes breached, water sources flooding, civilians scattering in flight.

The Red General turned her head to glance at the mirror, sighed softly, and reached out to stroke the central hub.

Ju City's defensive strength instantly strengthened further, but the light canopy above the Chixiao Golden Hall dimmed at once.

Anyone could see she was diverting more of the Chixiao Golden Hall's protective power to the entire Ju City.

The breaches in Ju City's sky barrier immediately contracted and decreased, and the number of meteors smashing into the urban area greatly diminished.

After another twenty-plus breaths, the barrier of the Chixiao Golden Hall itself began to violently tremble, revealing several huge breaches.

Meteors from above fell into the hall, while on the ground hundreds of rays of light rose up, flying out through the barrier breaches.

Liang Daoyuan lost his voice: "Disaster—the Heavenly Demons have escaped!"

Originally, many Heavenly Demons were trapped within the barrier inside the Chixiao Golden Hall, with no way out. Now, with the heavenly fire opening a path, they hurriedly fled through the barrier breaches, not looking back!

The Red General exerted full control over the palace's central hub, not looking back: "Let them go."

To protect Ju City's people or to slaughter the Heavenly Demons? This is a dilemma of choosing one of two.

She thought, if He Lingchuan were here, he would probably choose the first without hesitation.

Du Shan immediately said: "Let them linger a few more days! Anyway, the two great Heavenly Demons have already been slain by us!"

Ju City's ability to turn defeat into victory today is already remarkable; we do not seek the perfection of annihilating the enemy completely.

As the heavenly fire entered its later stage, the crimson canopy above Ju City faced ever-weaker attacks, and it gradually stabilized. No longer could meteors pierce its protection and smash into the city below.

The peak of the heavenly fire had passed, and everyone, having recovered from their anxiety, looked up at the sky.

At this time, the meteorites were no longer dense, only scattered in twos and threes.

The people of Ducheng also knew the great calamity had passed, and finally breathed easy.

The last few meteorites struck the barrier, bursting into countless shards of light, and even triggered cheers from below.

By this time, people finally had the leisure to truly appreciate it. And these final dozen or so explosions now resembled a dozen fireworks celebrating Ju City's victory.

Ju City had endured.

"We survived."

"We won!"

The city was filled with cheers.

And within Lan Yue Pavilion, everyone, including the Red General, let out a long sigh of relief.

"The intensity of this heavenly fire burning the city even surpassed that of the meteor shower Miao Zhantian triggered in the Inverted Sea. And Ju City's defensive area is larger than that of the Inverted Sea.

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