Chapter 368: Decisive Battle, Under the Iron Guancheng

Arriving in Qiongming for only dozens of days, Qian Chen designed to remove two of the most troublesome Five Great Demon Kings in this mission. The remaining Black Ox King and the Peacock Demon Kingdom were distant, and the Dragon Tree King's cultivation and magic power were also at the bottom of the Five Great Demon Kings.

The demon race reincarnator side suffered heavy losses.

And on Qian Chen's side, the *Ci-Tie* Demon King's strength was unexpectedly powerful, even better than the Wise Wolf King and the White Bone King.

Logically speaking, the mission was going so smoothly, Qian Chen should have had a few points of confidence in dealing with the Peacock Great Bright King. But in the Guzu Kingdom these few days, the worry between Qian Chen's brows was more obvious day by day, even to the extent that the careless Si Princess Qingcheng could see it.

"Is Yan Yan Shixiong going to set up the formation again?"

Si Princess Qingcheng stopped Qian Chen and said: "Yan Yan Shixiong has walked all over the Guzu Kingdom these few days, checked the original mountain-protecting formation several times, and set up many seals, which has already made those Golden Core True Persons of the Guzu Kingdom secretly dissatisfied..."

Yan Shu looked at Qian Chen's solemn expression and said in a deep voice: "Can the Demon-Illuminating Dharma Mirror still not find the Peacock Great Bright King?"

"No trace at all!"

Qian Chen said in a low voice: "We still underestimated the Peacock Great Bright King. To be able to subvert the human race's rule and open up a demon kingdom, this person not only has amazing supernatural powers and a body of arrogance, but also knows how to endure."

"A demon king as powerful as it, practicing a Great Completion supernatural power, is already very terrifying... If it knows how to endure." Qian Chen sighed: "This demon gives me more pressure than Miaokong!"

"Why not launch a surprise attack on the demon capital of the Peacock Kingdom and lure it out!" Yan Shu raised his sword eyebrows and said coldly.

"The Peacock is probably not the kind of person who cares about the lives of a group of demons in the demon kingdom. Now that we are in Guzu, although there are some entanglements and constraints, we also occupy the geographical advantage and can hide relatively better." Qian Chen said sternly.

"If we abandon these advantages and be surrounded and killed by demons in the heart of the demon kingdom, it will be even more dangerous!"

"There have been traces of demon scouts outside the Iron Pass repeatedly these few days, and the Desolate Market has also investigated large groups of demons... Zen Master Master Fa Xin still decided to leave the pass to protect the Desolate Market!" Ning Qingchen said calmly.

The strength and power of the demon kingdom are now a hundred times that of the human race.

In the Guzu Kingdom, Qian Chen could clearly perceive the conservative and retreating intention of the Guzu Kingdom. The victory of Qian Chen and the others in beheading the two great demon kings could not change the contrast in the hard strength of the two sides.

The demon kingdom has thousands of demon generals alone.

And those more than a dozen Golden Core True Persons in the Iron Pass, besides adopting the policy of shrinking defense, have no other way. As the biggest psychological reliance of the human race, it is even more impossible for the Iron Pass to be opened to unreliable refugees.

Although Qian Chen felt that the Iron Pass had almost no effect in front of a demon king of the Peacock Great Bright King level, he could not change the psychological inertia of the Guzu Kingdom for three hundred years.

Finally, the demon race vanguard rushed a thousand miles in one day and killed in front of the Iron Pass...

The Desolate Market fell almost instantly. Luo Sen, Master Fa Xin, and others, including a group of human camp reincarnators, fought bloody battles to protect most of the refugees and retreated to the front of the Iron Pass.

The majestic pass was in the way, and hundreds of thousands of refugees were dragging their families, blocked in the canyon.

The Iron Pass was originally built in the narrowest part of the canyon. In the short valley road a few miles wide sandwiched by the towering mountain walls on both sides, it was densely packed with moving crowds.

Master Fa Xin did a beautiful job.

He protected at least 70% of the refugees in the Desolate Market and entered the canyon.

"This is the demon race letting them pass, using them as drivers to attack the city!"

A Golden Core True Person on the city wall scolded: "The maze leading to the Iron Pass, how can these people crack it? It must be that Master Fa Xin taught the method of breaking the formation, letting them come under the Iron Pass!"

"The Desolate Market was originally a buffer place between Guzu and the Demon Kingdom. If these refugees want to die, let them die outside! Why let them in?"

A cultivator of the Guzu Kingdom said loudly.

Ning Qingchen paced in the sky full of light snow, stepping on the cyan-black stone steps under his feet, and walked onto the city wall step by step. He held a long hook and choked a person's throat.

"Open the pass!"

Simple two words, but stated a determination that could not be shaken.

... When the human tide like a black line appeared at the canyon entrance covered by clouds and mist, Qian Chen and Yan Shu were already standing on the city tower of the Iron Pass, seeing all this clearly.

Yan Shu said solemnly: "This move again! Qian Shidi, the refugees will inevitably conflict with the Guzu people. The demon race driving them to die is also to mess up our Dao heart!"

Qian Chen nodded slightly: "These refugees, fish and dragons are mixed, and there must be demon race spies mixed in. And the Guzu people have relied on this pass to resist the demon race for three hundred years, and their psychological reliance on this pass is even more deeply rooted in the bone marrow."

"For most cultivators in the Guzu Kingdom, refugees cannot even be considered humans. The Desolate Market is just a chess piece to contain the demon race's offensive."

"A few days ago, we had the opportunity to let the refugees enter the pass. The demon race attacked, needless to say us, even the most ignorant refugees know that the Desolate Market cannot be defended and will inevitably be abandoned."

"The Desolate Market has been slaughtered several times, what does it matter if it is slaughtered again? I am afraid that in the Guzu Kingdom, many people will think so."

"Even you and I, may not necessarily have the intention of abandoning them!"

Yan Shu said solemnly: "Qian Shidi..."

"Why cover it up? Relocating refugees, although it will mess up the Guzu people's hearts, and will make us excluded by all the people and cultivators here, it will bring countless troubles. But since we have already admitted such reality, it proves that in our opinion, these refugees are also a part that can be abandoned!"

"For the sake of... the big picture of the human race!" Qian Chen sneered.

"With such a trade-off heart, I admit it... but you and I both know that when the great tribulation of the human race comes, the Peacock Demon King takes action, this Iron Pass is just a thin piece of paper."

"The outcome of this battle depends on you and me. Don't we have the qualification to be willful?"

Yan Shu hesitated: "Qian Shidi..."

"Is the Iron Pass more impregnable with hundreds of thousands of refugees than without these refugees?" Qian Chen said calmly: "To protect hundreds of thousands of people, retreating to the Desolate Market in the demon race's tail-chasing pursuit, how much effort will it take?"

"I did have the heart to ignore the Desolate Market being slaughtered, but since Master Fa Xin and others worked hard to let the refugees retreat to the pass, you and I work hard once, be willful once, what does it matter?"

"Open the pass..."

"Open the pass!" A loud roar on the city wall.

The cloud bridge was lowered, and the city gate opened wide...

The city gate made of thousand-year iron wood opened slowly, and the crowded crowd outside the pass let out a cry of disbelief, and wept with joy in the despair of seeing hope...

The crowd surged into the pass, and many people were squeezed to the side of the cloud bridge.

In the wailing, they were squeezed and fell into the abyss.

On the city tower, a cloud of auspicious clouds fell, falling into the bottom of the abyss faster than them. The Flying Cloud Pocket rose slowly, carrying the refugees who fell into the abyss into the pass city.

The Golden Core True Persons who had been cleaned up in the pass looked at Yan Shu pushing open the city gate with his own strength, daring to be angry but not daring to speak.

The atmosphere on the pass tower was even more heavy. Qian Chen stood with his hands behind his back on the city wall, looking down at the crowd, and said calmly: "We came from outside the sky, saving the human race, not Guzu... Since they are humans, I will save them!"

"This time the demon race attacked, the Iron Pass is already dispensable. If we die in battle, even if there are thousands of majestic passes, we cannot stop the Peacock Demon King."

"In that case, let's live and die together!"

"The Iron Pass city is broken, we die in battle, the Guzu Kingdom is destroyed, the human race is exterminated! Life and death are as usual, escaped for three hundred years, this time there is no escape, so take out a little integrity! Even if the Guzu Kingdom is destroyed, don't die in a nest-like way, making the human race ashamed!"

"The heart of compassion, everyone has it; the heart of shame, everyone has it; the heart of respect, everyone has it; the heart of right and wrong, everyone has it."

"Be a human!"

In a silence, Qian Chen finally stopped his steps and turned his head slowly.

Looking into the distance, the demon Qi soared into the sky at the end of the canyon, and a short black line appeared at the valley entrance. Then came the roar of ten thousand demons galloping, echoing in the canyon, like rolling muffled thunder, becoming more and more intense. When it got closer, a fishy smell of beasts hit the nose...

The demon army was like a vertical curtain, heaven and earth, all were demons.

The demon Qi broke through the covering clouds and mist, and heaven and earth darkened for it...

The mountain ponds, swamps, and forests in the canyon were all submerged in the demon tide. Wherever the demons reached, everything was leveled. On the steep mountain cliffs on both sides of the canyon, there were also demons good at climbing, crawling all over the thousand-blade mountain walls on both sides, leaping toward the Iron Pass.

In the sky, there were countless flying demon birds, eagles, pigeons, sparrows, and carvings, which were the Peacock's personal army.

The majestic Iron Pass city was trembling slightly under the vibration of the demon army's galloping. On the pass city, countless human cultivators had numb scalps, facing this huge demon army, the lowest of which were demon beasts, and it took three or five Qi Refinement cultivators to deal with one, many people's legs were trembling, almost fainting.

Behind Qian Chen, the goat-bearded Daoist also closed his eyes slightly.

After opening his eyes, he let out a calm laugh: "Since it is so, then die as a human! Practiced Dao for five hundred years, why be so fly-like and dog-like?"

Amidst the tide of demons, Luo Sen launched into a streak of blade light, leaping continuously between the canyon walls on either side, using the long blade in his hand to strike down one demon after another.

At the very end of the refugee tide, Master Fa Xin, with a tattered cassock, pressed his palms together, shirtless, blocking the demon tide's vanguard alone.

His bald head was shiny, his thin body had muscles bulging, bathed in a layer of golden Buddha light. The demons rushing to the front faced him and smashed countless demon Dharma ghost arts.

Green demon fire, burning flesh and blood, like maggots attached to bones!

Black demon wind mixed with highly poisonous *Sha* Qi, swept over with a fishy smell...

Countless demons erupted Dharma spells, roaring wildly, the demon arts bringing up a sound of breaking through the air like ghosts crying and gods howling.

Thousands of demons sprayed demon fire and demon wind, spiraling and gathering into a huge fire pillar, rushing straight toward Master Fa Xin, and even toward the human tide behind him, just like pouring into the Iron Pass city from the opened city gate, turning the human tide into purgatory...

Behind the fire pillar, the demons with sharp fangs and fishy saliva were muscular, their bodies dozens of times stronger than the human race. They also set up various magic tools, horns, teeth, and pill yuan, and bombarded the lonely figure breaking the rear.

Master Fa Xin raised his right palm flatly, gathered it to his waist, and the Qi machine of the entire canyon was driven by this palm. The airflow was excited, the yuan Qi surged wildly, and with this withdrawal of his palm, it was like pumping air, surging forward for hundreds of meters.

A *Wan* character appeared in Master Fa Xin's palm, and he pushed his right palm flatly.

A huge golden palm print like the Iron Pass city wall blocked the canyon, carrying the solid condensation like a copper wall and iron wall, slapping the huge demon fire pillar a hundred *zhang* thick, causing it to roll back, and collided with the demon race's vanguard...

The strong wind in the canyon rolled back, and the yuan Qi surged.

The demon fire instantly swallowed hundreds of demons as the vanguard, and then the golden Buddha palm pushed horizontally for a thousand *zhang*. Wherever it reached, the demon tide was crushed into fishy flesh and blood like pulp. Countless demons hit the Buddha palm, and their bones and flesh turned into mud.

Luo Sen stepped on the towering stone wall of the canyon, flew and leaped a hundred *zhang* in a few steps, leaped over the giant Buddha palm pushing horizontally along the canyon with a back-flip posture, drew his long blade from his waist, and with his body rotating in the air, slashed horizontally.

The blade light slashed the long sky, cutting off the middle of the sky.

Countless demon birds hit the blade light, blood feathers splashed, and fell from the sky.

The scholar riding a big cyan donkey, his blood-stained right hand holding a bamboo slip, said tiredly: "Confucius said to achieve benevolence, Mencius said to take righteousness. Only when righteousness is exhausted, benevolence is reached."

The white Haoran righteous Qi was like cloud Qi, covering the sky and earth, soaring into the sky, blocking the demon birds diving down behind the refugees, shrouding the city gate, and cutting off the retreat.

On the city wall, Qian Chen stared at the countless refugees entering the pass from the city gate, locking onto one figure. Yan Shu's sword box behind him rushed out countless sword Qi, Ning Qingchen held the Demon-Illuminating Dharma Mirror, stood on the city wall, and shone over the hundreds of thousands of refugees entering the city one by one.

Countless sword Qi circled the Iron Pass city, then ten thousand swords dived down, and the sword Qi like swimming fish shuttled back and forth in the crowd of hundreds of thousands, beheading the refugees who manifested their demon bodies in the Demon-Illuminating Mirror one by one. In the crowd, heads kept flying up.

Accompanied by the neck blood soaring into the sky, those heads were still human, and when they hit the ground, they turned into beast heads!

In Si Princess Qingcheng's Golden Core realm, countless heavenly soldiers and divine generals manifested, leading the human tide to continuously split, disperse and enter the pass city, and settle in various places... Qian Chen stepped down the city tower, straight into the crowd, toward a figure. ===== CHAPTER 369 =====