Chapter 268: Demonic Aura, Killing Aura

Moonlight sprinkled lightly, dotted with two or three lamps, and Qinghe City was peaceful.

"Old Liu, what's your situation? Did you take a new concubine and sprain your waist?"

A strange laugh rang out under the city gate.

Old Liu, who was teased, was not annoyed, and said with a very good temper: "I'm old, but I still want to hold a son."

The other guards looked at Old Liu with strange expressions.

Among them, Old Liu was the oldest.

It was strange to say, Old Liu wasn't unable to have children.

On the contrary, he was very capable.

He married his wife early too.

But his luck was bad; he had seven daughters in a row, which worried Old Liu to death. Recently, under the pressure of his old mother, he took a young concubine, aiming to have a son.

In the Yu Kingdom, it is absolutely impossible to have no man in the family. Even a wealthy family won't do; if a family is all women, they will be eaten up by others.

It is equivalent to the ancestral bloodline being cut off. In the future, they won't get incense during the Zhongyuan Festival, and the ancestors below will be hungry and cold, and they will all blame Old Liu.

Old Liu's mood was naturally good.

Working hard day and night, he finally had a reward.

She was pregnant.

He was already old, and in a few years, he would go to the Registrar to plead for mercy and let him go to the Six Offices to be a leisure official.

This life would not have been in vain.

Just as they were chatting enthusiastically, the sound stopped abruptly.

Only to see County Magistrate Zhong Zheng walking over with an expressionless face.

He just said one sentence: "Open the gate."

Hearing this, the gate-guarding commander hesitated and asked with a stiff scalp: "Magistrate Zhong, it is already near the hour of Zi; why open the gate?"

Opening the gate at this time was too strange.

If the inspector found out, it would be a matter of losing one's head.

Zhong Zheng looked at the commander coldly: "What, I am not the Prefect, so my words don't count? I remember your position as commander was recommended by Magistrate Zhuang."

"Yes, yes."

The gate-guarding commander was immediately scared into a cold sweat.

This matter had always been his heart's disease. He was a man of the former Prefect Zhuang Renhe, otherwise he wouldn't have been arranged to such an important position as guarding the city gate, but now Zhuang Renhe was dead, and he would inevitably be liquidated.

Zhong Zheng could find any excuse to punish him, and he definitely wouldn't be able to bear it.

He gritted his teeth and said to the people behind him:

"Open the city gate."

Then he saw the city gate slowly open, and Zhong Zheng rode out alone.

A moment later.

Zhong Zheng arrived at a desolate mountain range outside the city.

Lady Lingluo and Yuan Gao were standing not far from him. As he approached, Zhong Zheng's eyes flashed with struggle, and he said in a dull voice: "The city gate is open."

"Very good."

Lady Lingluo's eyes flashed with an eerie purple, as if a mandala flower was blooming.

"Since you have finished the task, you can go die."

Cold light flashed!

Zhong Zheng's pupils expanded instinctively, staring wide-eyed at the woman before him.

Until he died, he didn't even understand when he had been hit by the illusion.

Lady Lingluo didn't even look at the corpse on the ground.

She just looked at Yuan Gao and said indifferently:

"Let's go, catch people!"

"Why do you think Magistrate Zhong went out so late?"

Several soldiers stood at the city gate, looking into the boundless darkness, chatting.

It was too strange.

Although Qinghe didn't implement a curfew, a County Magistrate going out of the city alone at night looked strange no matter how you looked at it.

The gate-guarding commander also felt something was wrong.

But for the sake of his official hat, he could only do this.

If he offended the "Blue Sky" of the current Qinghe government office, there would be no good days in the future, and he might even end up with his family destroyed.

He had finally climbed to where he was now.

He really couldn't bear to part with this glory and wealth.

He suppressed the unease in his heart: "Wait a little longer."

A full half-hour passed.

Just when they thought County Magistrate Zhong Zheng wouldn't come back and were thinking about whether to close the city gate first.

Suddenly.

Old Liu, who had been silent, pointed to the darkness ahead, his voice trembling obviously:

"What... what is that?"

Hearing Old Liu's voice.

The others also looked in the direction Old Liu was pointing, their pupils shrinking to the size of needles in an instant.

Demonic beasts.

Demonic beasts as far as the eye could see.

The gate-guarding commander's blood ran cold in an instant, his mind blank.

Old Liu was the first to react, shouting repeatedly:

"Close the city gate!"

"Quickly close the city gate!"

At the same time, he ran toward the city wall with all his might.

'Child, Daddy probably won't be able to see you anymore.'

A roaring sound like rolling thunder exploded in the dark night. Standing on the city wall, half the sky was crimson.

"Demonic beasts!"

"It's demonic beasts!"

The night was like ink, and flames rose in the outer city of Qinghe. The thatched roofs were licked by flames, instantly turning into a sea of fire. With the wind blowing, the fire spread, and it was out of control.

"Water is coming, quickly put out the fire."

"What fire, the demonic beasts are here!"

Various cries for help, wails, and screams intertwined, and at this moment, it was like a human purgatory.

The city gate was wide open.

The demonic beasts rushed into the outer city almost without any obstruction, and one fresh life after another was buried in the beasts' mouths.

Anning Guard.

"Enemy attack?"

Li Rui opened his eyes, rolled over violently, and the urgent bell rang in his ears.

This was the alarm bell.

It only rang when the enemy left the city, but this was Qinghe; how could there be an enemy attacking the city?

It was simply absurd.

The Yu Kingdom had been stable and peaceful for hundreds of years, and such a thing had not happened.

He got up quickly, didn't forget to put on his clothes, put on his shoes, picked up his long saber, and went out the door.

At this moment.

Wang Zhao and Yang Yong walked out of the room in a daze, even forgetting to put on their shoes.

"What happened?"

Li Rui looked at the crimson half-sky not far away and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Something big has happened."

"Follow me."

Li Rui took two quick steps, grabbed Wang Zhao and Yang Yong's hands, and dragged them into his room, lifting the tunnel entrance under their shocked gazes.

"You go in first."

Wang Zhao and Yang Yong looked at Li Rui in surprise, seeing that he had no intention of going in with them, they couldn't help but panic:

"Master, what about you?"

Li Rui said in a deep voice: "Liang He is still outside; I need to find him and bring him back."

As a master, and already one of the top few in the city, he couldn't just sit idly by.

After Qinghe built the new city, it was divided into an inner city and an outer city.

The inner city still had a circle of city walls.

Fortunately, the inner city had not yet been breached; those living inside were the prominent nobles of Qinghe. As for the outer city, it had completely fallen.

The Tiandi Alliance was not one of the Eight Great Sects.

They couldn't afford and couldn't buy land in the inner city, so they were still in their original location, in the east of the outer city.

A flash of golden light shot through the head of a giant python, bringing out a thin line of blood.

The little girl covered by the python's body didn't even know what had just happened.

Flicking Finger Divine Art!

Li Rui didn't need feathered arrows; he killed the demonic beasts directly by flicking his fingers, which was incredibly powerful and didn't require worrying about recovering arrows.

'Save one if I can.'

He sighed lightly in his heart.

Beside the little girl lay two corpses, a man and a woman. Even if the python was killed, they wouldn't necessarily survive in such troubled times.

When poor, cultivate one's own virtue; when successful, benefit the world.

Li Rui was neither a saint nor cold-blooded.

Now, with his Fifth-Rank realm, he was already considered very high in Qinghe, and he could save someone at will, so why not?

Although the number of demonic beasts attacking the city was large.

Most of them were average in strength.

He almost didn't need to consume anything to easily slay the demonic beasts. 'So, what exactly happened?'

Before leaving the Anning Guard, he had already been to the Military Advisor's Prefecture, and only a group of Huaqing Sect disciples remained. Jiang Linxian was gone, and Jiang Yan was gone too.

Everything revealed a hint of strangeness.

Li Rui looked at the smoke in the void.

A piece of blood red.

In the government office.

The elders in charge of the Eight Great Sects in the city gathered together.

"Where is Zhong Zheng?"

"Why was the city gate opened?"

"The Qinghe government office needs to give us an explanation!"

If the city gate hadn't been opened, the demonic beasts wouldn't have been able to ravage the city so easily.

Please... you... collect_(!)

They lived in the inner city and were still safe, but many of their industries were in the outer city, which they found unacceptable, so they gathered together to make trouble for the government office.

Registrar Liu Quan had a bitter face.

You ask me.

Who do I ask?

It's truly hellish. First the Prefect died, and now even the County Magistrate has gone missing. At the critical moment, the biggest one is actually him, a Registrar ranked third.

Heavens.

'I'm just a tiny Registrar in the government office!'

"The situation is unclear, but Qinghe is in trouble now, and I hope the eight elders will help. The imperial court will definitely remember this favor."

Liu Quan quickly steadied his mind.

Being able to become a Registrar, and a Seventh-Rank Registrar of Qinghe, how could he be a vulgar person?

He definitely wouldn't take the blame.

But now, to tear his face with the Eight Great Sects, it hadn't reached that point yet.

With demonic beasts surrounding the city, they were all grasshoppers on the same rope. Now the people of the Anning Guard hadn't arrived yet, clearly something had happened to them too. The only ones he could rely on were these elders of the Eight Great Sects.

Elder Zhou Ting of the Hundred Battles Gate had a fiery temper.

He snorted and was the first to speak: "A bunch of flat-feathered creatures that popped out of nowhere, can they really ride on my head and poop?"

Beside him, Elder Shi Zhou of the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang sneered coldly:

"Demons must be killed, but the culprit must be found!"

He considered things more deeply than Zhou Ting.

Today, demonic beasts entered the city; it was not a natural disaster, but a man-made one.

Otherwise, how to explain the city gate of Qinghe being wide open?

Someone did it on purpose.

The elders of the other six sects were silent, but their attitude was also very clear.

Suppressing the demonic chaos was a must.

They didn't just represent themselves, but the sects behind them. If people in their own sects found out that a group of demonic beasts had suppressed them so much that they didn't dare to go out, how would they mix in the jianghu in the future?

Seeing that the sect masters of the Eight Great Sects all agreed to take action.

Registrar Liu Quan was unprecedentedly excited, and even his hands began to tremble slightly.

Sometimes a crisis represents an opportunity.

He, a Registrar, without a Prefect or a County Magistrate, if he could suppress this demonic chaos, it would definitely be a great achievement, and he might even become a Prefect directly.

'Great opportunity, great good fortune!'

Liu Quan seemed to have seen the golden road to promotion slowly opening toward him.

His breathing became rapid.

Suddenly—

Liu Quan's gaze turned to horror. His hands completely ignored his command, slowly lifting to hold his head.

Crack.

After a crisp sound of bone breaking.

It was seen that Liu Quan had twisted his own head off.

Seeing such an eerie scene, the elders of the Eight Great Sects all had their expressions freeze.

Zhou Ting was the first to explode:

"Demon, stop playing god and playing ghost here!"

The giant hammer behind him smashed toward the door like a hurricane.

Boom!

Zhou Ting's body flew backward instantly, accompanied by the sound of bones breaking.

If they were just angry when Registrar Liu Quan died, now, they were afraid.

What kind of person was Zhou Ting?

That was a Fifth-Rank minor grandmaster!

To be knocked away in one encounter, the person who made the move was at least crushing Zhou Ting in terms of strength.

The Hundred Battles Gate followed the path of hard training; there were too few people in the jianghu who could crush the Hundred Battles Gate in strength at the same rank.

So there was only one answer.

'Fourth-Rank Primordial!'

The other seven elders all had their hearts sink. Elder Bai of the Dao Xuan Sect was quick-eyed and used clever force to catch Zhou Ting, staring dead at the door.

"Since the elders are all here, it saves me from having to look for you one by one."

A woman's voice rang out.

Lady Lingluo walked into the room leisurely.

She didn't care about their gazes at all, just looked at Liu Quan on the ground: "Magistrate Liu, don't worry, the County Magistrate and the Registrar have already gone down to wait for you."

Hearing this.

The elders of the Eight Great Sects all had their hearts sink.

Prefect Zhuang Renhe was already dead, and this woman had killed the County Magistrate, Registrar, and Registrar in one breath; the Qinghe government office had been wiped out.

Shi Zhou looked at the tower-like strong man behind the woman with fear, the corners of his mouth lifting into a bitter smile:

"It really is Primordial."

Primordial Realm; even if the eight of them went up together, they might not be the strong man's opponent.

At this moment.

Bai Jing of the Dao Xuan Sect suddenly spoke: "City Lord Lingluo?"

Lady Lingluo saw someone recognize her identity, and her smile became even more enchanting: "Senior recognizes me?"

Seeing Lady Lingluo didn't deny it.

The expressions of the others turned ugly to the extreme.

The woman before them was the City Lord of Barbarian Bone City, and today's attack on the city was clearly caused by this woman.

It was simply daring!

What did she want to do?

Declare war on the Yu Kingdom?

Lady Lingluo sat on the seat previously occupied by Registrar Liu with a smile: "I came today to discuss a business deal with you elders?"

Business?

The eight people in the room looked at each other, not knowing what medicine Lady Lingluo was selling in her gourd for a moment.

Moreover, doing business with the rebels of the Wu Kingdom, how was this different from treason?

"How could we collude with you, an evil woman..."

A bearded middle-aged man was the first to disagree.

Lady Lingluo gave a wink to the strong man behind her.

Boom!

An explosive sound.

The bearded middle-aged man, an elder of the Northern Peak Sect, was punched out of the room, leaving only a huge hole.

Seeing this, everyone stopped speaking.

This woman was indeed as ruthless as the rumors said.

Shi Zhou hurriedly spoke: "City Lord Lingluo, please tell us."

Lady Lingluo narrowed her beautiful phoenix eyes, revealing a satisfied smile:

"You all go back, restrain your disciples, and in return, no one else will know about what happened here. How about it?"

The people in the room looked at each other.

They couldn't make up their minds for a moment.

It was Shi Zhou who spoke first: "Alright."

With the first one taking the lead, the rest were much easier to handle, and even Zhou Ting nodded in the end.

Seeing this scene.

Lady Lingluo stood up.

In Qinghe City, if she wanted to take down Jiang Linxian, she had to prevent the people of the Eight Great Sects from making trouble.

Jiang Linxian had his own people to kill.

She just needed to control the people of the Eight Great Sects.

Just then, a man in black came to her side and whispered a few words, and Lady Lingluo's expression changed drastically, walking out of the room quickly and disappearing into the fiery black night.

Leaving only a few people looking at each other.

The bearded man, who was being supported, spat: "How did your Divine Weapon Shanzhuang raise a coward like you? Shi, don't ever say you've drunk with me again."

They were all elders of the Eight Great Sects with status, so they naturally had private friendships.

The bearded man didn't know how many times he had drunk with Shi Zhou.

Before, he only thought Shi Zhou was an anomaly of the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang, lacking the boldness of the Divine Weapon Shanzhuang; now it seemed he was clearly a spineless coward!

Shi Zhou glanced at the bearded man:

"Elder Hu, if I hadn't spoken just now, you would have been beaten to death."

At this time, Elder Bai of the Dao Xuan Sect also helped: "Elder Hu, the situation just now was strong enemy, weak us; it was a delaying tactic, otherwise none of us in the room would have walked out tonight."

The bearded man was speechless for a moment.

But he also understood that Shi Zhou had indeed saved his life just now.

Zhou Ting suddenly spoke: "Don't worry about that stupid donkey; they seem to have all left. What should we do next?"

Shi Zhou's mouth lifted slightly.

That Lady Lingluo was clearly somewhat flustered when she left just now. If even that woman's temperament was shaken, it must be a big deal.

It was clear that things had taken a turn.

He had cultivated a good temper over the years, but he was a blacksmith by trade after all; did they really think Master Shi was a soft-tempered person made of mud?

A woman from the Wu Kingdom, and she deserves to ride on their heads?

"Naturally, it's to f*** her."

"No, f*** her!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 269 =====