Chapter 288: Thwarting the Enemy's Plot (Please Subscribe)

"The big one is here! Hahaha!"

"What? It's really here?"

"Quick, quick, quick, Brother Zhang can't hold it!"

"Lacking experience, we still have to come and support!"

A crowd of deacons were in a flurry, one after another turning into tug-of-war team members, enjoying their leisurely, happy time, possessing a joy different from those lifeless, pitiful people.

Everyone deliberately didn't use magic power, shouting chants, one-two-one-two, continuously exerting force, finally helping that Brother Zhang pull the big catch up.

A person!

Hmm?!

While the deacons were stunned, that person smiled slightly, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

A kind of terrifying aura surged directly toward their faces, leaving their brains completely blank.

Is, is, is it the Golden Core stage?!

In shock, they only saw a burst of fire bloom, directly covering them and instantly turning them into ashes.

"Roar!!!"

The attacker then draped on a layer of demonic beast fur, shook their body, and transformed into a variegated demonic tiger; the roaring sound shook the mountains and forests, making the people inside the buildings around the lake instantly come back to life like dead fish, scurrying about in panic and terror.

Because they felt a thick crisis of death!

There was a terrifying feeling that the sky was falling which simply couldn't be stopped, making them scurry and flee in all directions!

"What kind of petty thieves dare to act so presumptuously!"

At the outer settlements, Ying Dongqing had naturally strengthened the defensive forces here as a precaution, dispatching three late-stage Golden Core guardians to each settlement; this anomaly immediately startled them out.

One person came to the front, deliberately making noise to attract attention.

The other two flanked from the left and right, hidden in the panicked crowd, having already prepared their methods, intending to strike directly in the next moment and, using the cover of the chaotic crowd, turn that Fudong villain into ashes on the spot!

As for the people along the way?

They didn't care at all; if they died, they died!

"Roar!"

The tiger-transformed cultivator didn't care about these things at all, their eyes filled only with manic beastly nature, leaping continuously, leaving behind pools of blood and pits of flesh, charging straight at the guardian who had come to the front.

Seeing this big fish take the bait, the other two guardians were secretly sneering, about to coordinate their strike, when unexpectedly, someone beside them suddenly erupted, tearing through the human body used as a screen, and launched a sudden sneak attack amidst the splashing blood.

Caught off guard, they directly thrust their hands into their bodies.

"Ah!"

"You, you all!"

Heh!

If I were you, I would immediately self-detonate my Golden Core.

The sneak attacker only sneered, their pupils incomparably cold; their armored hand was like some kind of crustacean demonic beast, at this moment piercing through the flesh, reaching straight to the dantian, and digging out that golden, glittering Golden Core.

Now, even self-detonation was too late; they could only watch helplessly as their blood-stained Golden Core was swallowed in one gulp by them, chewed and chewed, even appearing quite disgusted.

With a gulp, the two guardians died on the spot with hatred.

"Screech!!!"

After killing the people, the two here let out a long screech toward the sky; the carapace that was originally only covering their hands spread rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, they transformed into two-zhang-tall demonic creatures—not demonic beasts that existed in the wild, but a type of artificially selected and modified variety.

Standing on two legs, with sharp hands, sharp heads, and sharp teeth, their bodies covered in dull gray carapace, their defensive capabilities far exceeding magic tools of the same rank; the hissing sound was like that of an insect and even carried the effect of a sound attack. If it weren't for the need for those low-level cultivators to create chaos, the previous long screech would have been enough to directly annihilate the nearly ten thousand people here!

They were existences designed specifically for killing, filled with a cold, bloodthirsty aesthetic, terrifying to behold, making one feel as if they had encountered an irresistible natural predator!

At this moment, their cold, bloodthirsty compound eyes were fixed on the last guardian of this place.

That person was terrified and panicked, struggling left and right, unable to fend off the crazy, fierce tiger in front of them; even though their natal magic treasure had already been brought out, they were still clawed until their whole body was covered in wounds.

Whoosh!

Two armored demonic figures pierced out, and thus, the magic treasure shattered, and the person bloomed!

That flower of flesh and blood blooming in mid-air made the people here even more terrified, screaming continuously and crowding to escape, for a moment forgetting that they were still immortal cultivators!

Standing proudly in the air, with cold eyes looking at these people surging on the ground like delicious insect feed, these three fur-draped and armored beings just waited silently.

They were waiting for the actions in other directions.

Very naturally, after realizing that the incitement strategy had failed, they rotated their tactics; therefore, this moment was not a single-point attack, but a multi-point outbreak, intending to drive the nearly one hundred thousand low-level people on the outskirts of Changle City to surge together toward that proud city.

Their actions here were very swift, and the escape direction of the crowd was very correct, so there was no need to do anything else, just wait for the other directions to...

One after another, invisible but distinct markers of their kind, like candles blown out by a gale, were suddenly extinguished in large numbers!

What is the situation?

Thud!

A figure descended from the sky at a speed far exceeding what their senses could capture, landing in this place, shattering the fear, tearing apart the unease, and isolating the aura pressure of the three.

The panicked crowd, while running, discovered that they didn't seem to be so afraid anymore, and couldn't help but pant repeatedly, turning around in a disheveled state to look, only to see those three demonic figures sinking rapidly downward, their momentum urgent and their killing intent intense.

The next moment was the sound of various heart-stopping carapace shattering and fur tearing.

Pieces of parts were tossed like fountains at the edges of the building tops, and from afar, these low-level, miserable people looked at each other in disbelief.

It seems, it seems, those three terrifying nightmares that were like demons and monsters had been dismantled by someone?

"Ah!"

"It's you!"

"Du En!!!"

Three lingering sounds of remnant voices rang out.

The three, dead.

Huh? They're dead just like that?

The crowd was still in a state of panic and disbelief.

A moment later, they saw a calm figure walk out, looking nothing like the terrifying, hideous monster they had imagined in their brainstorming just moments ago.

If anything, the figure looked a bit too ordinary, possessing only a tranquil temperament that made one feel involuntarily at ease.

"I have already cleared the residential area; you may return."

Hearing these words, the people instinctively cupped their hands in salute, then, with the feelings of those who had survived a catastrophe, returned one after another to their own dwellings.

The damage to the houses remained, and there were still many footprints on the ground, but the shocking, scarlet bloodiness had vanished, leaving behind no severed limbs or mangled flesh that would remind them of the nightmare.

If not for the fact that quite a few people were indeed missing in such a short time, and the damage to the houses and the remaining footprints still existed, they would have all thought what just happened was merely a dream or hallucination.

Then, carrying complex emotions, they returned to their respective rooms to chew over the events in silence.

Du En left this lakeside settlement, and as he surveyed the surroundings, he saw no further abnormal fluctuations of spiritual energy.

Come to think of it, it was the Fur-Covering and Armor-Cladding Art of the Fu East Immortal Gate, which turned them into something resembling demonic beasts, that allowed his Spirit-Seeking Technique to instantly capture their traces, lock onto the targets, and unleash his power to airdrop himself here.

Three in one place, twenty-one across seven places; although they carried nothing useful, their corpses could still be recycled to fertilize the Death Land of Divine Abilities.

(End of this chapter)