Chapter 172: That kid is really handsome

Save us, our city-defending grand formation can't hold on much longer!

Tong City,

Over a million Tong City residents are desperately calling for help online.

Because under the insect swarm's attack, their city-defending grand formation is about to be breached.

Tong City's defenses are not weak; there are also many cultivators in the city.

But they can't withstand the insect swarm's enormous size.

These war insects, even the weakest have first-realm strength; second- and third-realm war insects are everywhere, and fourth-realm ones are not rare.

They arrive covering the sky and earth.

Even though Tong City's defenders carried out wave after wave of clearing with powerful weapons, they still couldn't stop their offensive.

Mainly because there are several fifth-realm or higher war insects inside, especially two winged insects that destroyed many of the heavy weapons on the city walls.

Otherwise, under a heavy-fire carpet-bombing style strike, no amount of ordinary war insects would be useful.

Nowadays' heavy firepower is a completely different concept from that of the old era.

Strong experts might not fear it, but the first few realms cannot completely ignore it.

Thus, Tong City's outermost wall fell.

As for the inner walls, they are part of the city-defending grand formation.

Once the city-defending grand formation is activated, one cannot naturally attack outward from within it.

So the defenders attack from the outer walls, with heavy weapons also placed there; only when they can no longer hold do they retreat into the city-defending grand formation.

Now, the city-defending grand formation can barely hold on.

Under the insect swarm's frenzied attack, the city-defending grand formation is in peril.

Once the city-defending grand formation is breached, their million-year legacy will follow Liu City's footsteps, becoming food for the insect offspring.

Boom—boom—boom~

Just then, countless attacks fell from the sky, clearing out blank areas in the insect swarm.

Immediately after, a large number of cultivators flew out, slaughtering toward those war insects.

Boom—boom—boom~

Lu Xun raised his hand, and a large sheet of fireballs smashed down.

He used fireball technique as a meteor fire rain, perfect for clearing the field.

"Kill them down, clean them up, leave the fifth-realm ones to us."

Three figures took the lead and charged down.

These are two fifth-realm cultivators.

They are volunteers recruited by the Martial Manor, specially responsible for support across the eastern regions.

Now the situation has become quite dire.

Actually there are still many cultivators in space, but they can't free themselves; otherwise the insect disaster would become even more terrifying.

Besides, what's most important now is actually the Rainbow Bridge.

The insect race is also attacking the Rainbow Bridge.

If no one protects it, even if the Rainbow Bridge isn't destroyed, it will still suffer great impact.

Thus, the strong ones in space cannot come down to the ground to support.

The capital itself also has an insect swarm, and foreign peoples lurk in the shadows, restless; the Martial Manor dares not pull troops from the capital's garrison.

Thus, the Martial Manor began recruiting volunteers in the capital.

Lu Xun decisively signed up.

This is undoubtedly an extremely dangerous undertaking.

There are still quite a few volunteers who signed up.

The airship that Lu Xun is aboard actually has eighteen fourth-realm cultivators, plus two fifth-realm, and over a hundred third-realm.

Boom—boom—boom~

Lu Xun didn't use any other means; he just kept casting fireball technique.

One volley of fireballs can kill a large swath of insects.

Suddenly, a fourth-realm insect locked onto Lu Xun; with a flap of its wings it swooped down.

This insect's speed is too fast; it almost arrived in the blink of an eye.

Waiting for it were several sharp sword qi.

Just a few seconds later, this insect turned into dozens of pieces that fell down.

As for its attack, Lu Xun blocked it with his vermilion armor shield.

"So impressive."

"How can he use both spells and sword qi?"

The surrounding cultivators couldn't help but glance sideways.

Some cultivators were also doubtful.

They didn't yet know Lu Xun, originally thinking he was a fourth-realm Immortal Cultivator.

But Lu Xun's few swords left them bewildered.

Lu Xun stepped on his flying sword, flying toward the insect-dense area; wherever he went, the insects there would be doomed.

Other fourth-realm cultivators also went all out; although killing insects wasn't as fast as Lu Xun, it was still extraordinarily swift.

The airship that brought them also lowered its altitude, with over a hundred third-realm cultivators acting from above.

These third-realm cultivators are mainly Immortal Cultivators; cooperating with each other, their spells blanket the sky and earth, making killing the insects also quite efficient.

Each cultivator, as they kept killing, gradually drifted apart.

After they joined the battlefield, the pressure on Paulownia City's City-Protecting Grand Formation instantly greatly decreased.

"Boom—"

Accompanied by a deafening roar, the City-Protecting Grand Formation was still breached at a corner.

Only seeing spiderweb-like cracks rapidly spreading, in an instant, a tide-like swarm of war insects surged in through the breach, their ferocious mouthparts glinting with a chilling cold light in the sunlight.

"It's over!"

The crowd on the street instantly erupted into chaos, with wails and screams rising and falling.

Shop shelves were knocked over, the sound of shattering pottery endless in the ears.

"Mom... Mom, where are you..."

A roughly seven- or eight-year-old little girl sat down on the street corner, her pink dress covered in dust, the cloth doll in her arms having fallen out at some point.

Her tender cries were drowned in the surrounding chaos.

"Niu Niu~"

The mother finally found her, hurriedly hugging her tightly.

But at this moment, their surroundings were already swarming with war insects.

Seeing that the mother and daughter were about to be killed by the war insects, suddenly,

"Swish!"

Sword light filled the sky like a Milky Way pouring down, sharp sword qi carving a perfect arc in the air.

In the blink of an eye, the surrounding war insects, baring fangs and claws, were all reduced to powder; their foul-smelling green bodily fluids hadn't even splashed before being completely evaporated by the sword qi.

"Wow! Brother is so awesome!"

The little girl clapped her hands.

Lu Xun picked up the cloth doll from the ground and handed it to her: "Then listen well to your mother's words, and become as strong as brother, okay?"

"Okay! Thank you, brother!"

The little girl happily received the cloth doll.

Perhaps because this little girl was too cute, Lu Xun couldn't help but pat her little head, then stepped on his flying sword and left.

He flew to the breach of the City-Protecting Grand Formation, holding a long sword, and killed the surging war insects one after another.

"Mom, brother is so handsome, I will definitely become a strong person like brother!"

The little girl looked at Lu Xun's back, her eyes full of admiration.

Thus, Lu Xun's figure was like a brilliant meteor, streaking across the girl's tender heart, silently planting there a seed of yearning to become stronger.

"Make way, that's a Fifth Realm war insect!"

As they kept killing, suddenly, a Fifth Realm war insect charged toward Lu Xun.

"Fifth Realm war insect?"

"So fast."

This guy was still hundreds of meters away a second ago, and the next second he was right in front of us.

If Lu Xun hadn't opened his eye aperture, they couldn't have captured its trajectory.

"Come on!"

Lu Xun didn't dodge or evade; all his flying swords instantly erupted.

In his hand, a Holy Weapon silently appeared, slashing out extremely sharp sword qi.

Among these sword qi were included sword intent of the minute level.

The Fifth Realm war insect sensed the danger, wanted to dodge, but its reaction was a beat slow, and then Lu Xun interfered with it using space magic.

It was directly submerged by Lu Xun's attack, turning into a large amount of fragments.

"Just killed it?"

Lu Xun was stunned.

This is a Fifth Realm war insect; killing it was perhaps too easy.

"That's right, it was seriously wounded."

At this point, Lu Xun finally noticed the clue.

This Fifth Realm war insect was not at its peak; it had been heavily wounded by the Fifth Realm Grand Master chasing it, so its reaction was that slow, and all its abilities were greatly weakened.

After suffering heavy wounds, this guy still wanted to charge into Paulownia City and go on a killing spree inside.

He really didn't care about his life anymore.

"Just killed it?"

The Fifth Realm Grand Master who had come chasing also couldn't help but be stunned.

Although this Fifth Realm war insect was already seriously wounded, it's still not easy for a Fourth Realm cultivator to kill it.

Yes, he took Lu Xun for a Fourth Realm cultivator.

Because Lu Xun's sword qi just now actually contained sword intent.

"Fourth Realm, Immortal Martial Dual Cultivation, who is he?"

The Fifth Realm Grand Master was full of doubts.

Along this journey, everyone was in a hurry to rush, and there was little communication on the road.

Little brother, I'll leave this to you; I'll go deal with the other Fifth Realm war insects.

"Okay, Uncle Huang, you go."

Although doubtful, this Fifth Realm Grand Master didn't waste time, flying straight away.

The battle hasn't ended yet.

The gap in the city-defending grand formation was still guarded by Lu Xun alone.

Lu Xun, with only himself and his sword, did not let a single war bug rush into the city.

The war bugs that came surging in, regardless of their strength, all turned into corpses.

"Wow, amazing! Those bugs can't even get near him!"

"His sword qi sweeps everywhere, as if entering an uninhabited realm—so cool! This is what a true cultivator should be!"

The crowd that had been panicking was no longer panicking at this moment.

People crowded under the eaves of the street corners, and without prior agreement held their breath to watch the battle—as if this were not a life-or-death city defense war, but a cultivator's training ground.

Whenever his sword qi swept across the bug swarm, the crowd would erupt in waves of cheers.

Some even recorded this scene, or started a live stream.

"Whoa, that guy is so handsome; I have a friend who wants to marry him—can anyone help me ask if he has a girlfriend?"

"To be honest, I am that friend."

"Don't rush ahead, I've already picked out a name for the child!"

The number of viewers in the live stream surged wildly, and the barrage of comments instantly flooded the screen.