Chapter 89: Just Hold the City — Leave the Outside to Me! (Please Follow and Read)

Huang Xiaotian's words had barely fallen when he looked up and saw that Lu Zheng was already right before his eyes.

Immediately, he tossed his phone aside and, without time to be stunned, said directly:

"Right now, there are only two Saint-rank professionals in the city, Yang Lidong and Li Jiuhu. The Saint-rank professionals of the other main cities need to defend their respective cities. This monster disaster is sweeping across the entirety of Huangsha Commandery.

I requested help from above. War God Xuanyuan said you came here and told me to let you handle this matter! All hope rests on you. Tell us what to do and we'll fully cooperate!"

Lu Zheng glanced outside and smiled. "Just hold the city. The outside, leave to me!"

Before his words had faded, Lu Zheng flew straight into midair. With a raise of his hand, the Cloud-Soaring Crane appeared beneath his feet.

First, he had to stop this sandstorm. Otherwise, even if the monsters were all killed, the entire city would be buried deep beneath the sand.

And to accomplish this, he only needed one skill.

Cloud and Mist Riding!

This skill that manipulated the power of clouds and mist could form clouds and mist to effectively fuse with the sand and dust, causing them to settle down.

But with such a large-scale sandstorm, Lu Zheng's mana alone was not enough.

He dove directly into the black sand and dust, released his summoned beasts, and let them fall into the monster tide below — either fight their way out or be killed.

Released at the same time were the three divine pets: Baize, Qiongqi, and Taotie.

Baize did not participate in combat, serving only as a mana-supplying energy reservoir. Qiongqi had to join the battle, specifically hunting down Saint-rank monsters to kill. And Taotie was the main force against this monster army.

That's right — a single summoned beast was the main force! With the Dharma Avatar Heaven and Earth skill activated, within the storm, a monster bearing a pair of ram horns appeared, its height reaching over two hundred and fifty meters. Its terrifying aura made all the surrounding monsters retreat three leagues away.

After completing its transformation, Taotie's attributes had multiplied several times over. In terms of base attributes, it was only a hair's breadth away from demigod level.

This already surpassed the level of a peak Saint-rank monster. In aura alone, it made the four Saint-rank monsters that had already revealed themselves feel a sense of oppression, and they all roared in this direction.

Taotie paid them no attention at all and released a skill on its own.

Black Hole Devour!

It had been a long time since it had properly devoured anything. This time, Lu Zheng didn't even plan to use too much of Qiongqi's combat power. These monsters were all food rewarded to Taotie.

A terrifying black hole formed in midair, its diameter reaching two hundred meters.

The violent gravitational force warped the spacetime around the black hole. Everything nearby was drawn toward it — whether monsters or windblown sand — all sucked in and converted into pure energy for Taotie to absorb.

With massive numbers of monsters killed, experience points began to skyrocket.

Taotie had once been Lu Zheng's combat mainstay, but now it had fallen to the second combat sequence. This had left it wanting to find an opportunity to vent.

Divine pets were still quite high in intelligence.

Previously, Lu Zheng's most favored summoned beast was naturally the three-tailed spirit fox Tushan Jiaojiao, whom his mother had raised as a daughter. Taotie was the second most favored.

But with the arrival of other divine pets, Taotie clearly felt it was being neglected! So it very much wanted to demonstrate its value, in hopes of receiving more attention from Lu Zheng.

Now that it finally had a chance to show off and earn experience to return to the position of Lu Zheng's second-favorite summoned beast, how could it not go all out?!

Thus, after releasing the Black Hole Devour skill, it also released another skill it hadn't used much before.

【Skill: Tyrannical Mist】 【Effect: Consumes a minimum of 10,000 mana to release a Tyrannical Mist formed from dark power and soul power. Within the mist, targets whose mental stat is below half of your mental stat have a 100% chance of falling into a berserk state, launching destructive attacks at everything around them; targets whose mental stat is above half your mental stat but below your mental stat have a 50% chance of falling into a berserk state; targets whose mental stat is above yours have a 10% chance of falling into a berserk state.】

As Taotie continuously poured in energy, the range of the Tyrannical Mist kept expanding, directly overtaking the sandstorm and enveloping the majority of the monsters.

Under the effect of the Fortune Halo, apart from the four great Saint-rank monsters, all other monsters fell into a berserk state! They began attacking everything around them indiscriminately.

In this state, they naturally had even less ability to resist the gravitational pull of the devouring black hole.

Over twenty million monsters, the vast majority of them between level 100 and level 200, though one-tenth were above level 200 — roughly two million.

This was an enormous amount of experience points.

Taotie, originally only level 151, reached level 155 in the blink of an eye, and its experience bar was still filling up at extreme speed.

When monsters were dense and plentiful, Taotie's devouring and slaughtering skills were the fastest way to level up.

Qiongqi's ability was like Baize's — both were targeted in nature. Only when facing evil demons could they rapidly kill monsters and level up.

Taotie's slaughter made no distinction between targets.

It could devour everything. Even non-living things could be devoured and converted into energy — it just yielded less energy, that was all.

Although its dark attribute accounted for more, its darkness was not simple attribute energy but a utilization akin to rules. There was no such thing as being countered.

Watching the massive quantities of monsters being frantically devoured by Taotie, and sensing Taotie's aura grow even more powerful, the four Saint-rank monsters could no longer calmly wait for their opportunity from the rear.

Among them, the LV. 380 Storm Lizard Chieftain took the lead in charging forward.

The Storm Lizard was a type of beastman monster, with a humanoid body, walking on two legs, but with claws on all four limbs, a lizard-like head, and a thick tail behind it.

The main basis for classifying them as beastman-type was that these monsters generally used weapons.

For instance, this Storm Lizard Chieftain held a large black cleaver in its hand. The massive cleaver was over sixty meters long and looked extremely imposing.

Taotie could also use weapons.

Lu Zheng directly brought out the Evil God Jacob's Abyss Demon Fork. The moment the three-hundred-meter-long Abyss Demon Fork appeared, the Storm Lizard Chieftain's charging momentum immediately stalled.

Though it did not fear Taotie's pressure, seeing that the opponent's weapon was clearly longer and more imposing than its own, the gap was immediately apparent.

But by now it was too late to dodge or retreat! The black hole's gravitational pull made it unable to dodge or even move. It could only hurriedly raise the cleaver in its hand to block Taotie's Abyss Demon Fork.

But its large cleaver was merely ordinary equipment — how could it withstand the edge of a divine-class equipment, the Abyss Demon Fork!? Moreover, after the amplification of the Dharma Avatar Heaven and Earth skill, Taotie's strength far exceeded its own. With this one strike, the large cleaver snapped directly into two pieces.

Immediately after, the Storm Lizard Chieftain also had half its head sheared off by this strike.

At this point, the monster was still not dead.

But the next moment, the Abyss Demon Fork in Taotie's hand flicked upward, slicing off the remaining half of its head along with its entire neck.

This time, it was thoroughly dead!

Seeing this, the other three Saint-rank monsters immediately turned and fled back the way they came.

Too brutal! The difference between fighting desperately and courting death — they still knew that much! (End of this chapter)