Chapter 722: Tilt and Collapse (4/6, Autumn Subscription)

"Wh-what's happening?! The eerie creature was suddenly frozen solid!"

"This frost power—it's Yese Liming, who just went out to chase down the Heaven Alliance leader!"

"What Yese Liming? Call him Lord Ye—Lord Ye!"

After feeling the frost power sweep over them, many people's expressions changed.

Everyone had seen with their own eyes the sight of Tian Wangchuan fleeing in disarray.

The fact that it wasn't Tian Wangchuan returning to rescue them, but Fang Yue coming back, already said a great deal.

The chatter quickly spread. Dou Hongyi got the news at once and said joyfully, "It's Senior Ye who's come to rescue us!"

Captain Wu was already standing beside Dou Hongyi by now, fighting the eerie creature alongside him and pulling Yang Hongxia and the others into Dou Hongyi group's protective range.

"Captain Ye finished the fight that fast?!"

Captain Wu's face showed shock. He already knew what level of powerhouse Tian Wangchuan was, and understood the strength of the Nuomian Gui.

For Fang Yue to have dealt with two existences of that caliber so quickly—his strength was simply too exaggerated.

But very quickly, Captain Wu sensed something was off.

The gathering point of the civilians had become even more chaotic, as if something was rapidly harvesting the lives of the people.

"Dou Hongyi, something's wrong!"

"……"

Dou Hongyi said nothing. The excitement that had just risen in him was immediately snuffed out by more than half.

Because he saw… in the distance, a group of people being swallowed whole by a massive number of small hands bursting from the ground, sinking down into the earth.

"The Nuomian Gui… that thing has come over to our side!"

No wonder Senior Ye came back in a hurry—it's because the Nuomian Gui fled this way!

The Nuomian Gui was harvesting civilian lives on a massive scale, and with the other eerie creatures running amok, the entire protective perimeter was on the verge of collapse. People were dying every second of every minute, yet the guards tasked with protecting the civilians were utterly powerless!

"Lord Ye, did you get Tian Wangchuan's formation command token? At this rate, apart from us strong ones, everyone else in Chunuan City is going to die!"

Dou Hongyi let out a sharp shout, telling Fang Yue to toss something over to him.

"Catch!"

When Dou Hongyi caught it, his face immediately lit up with joy.

This was unmistakably Tian Wangchuan's formation command token, the one with the highest authority!

Dou Hongyi excitedly stroked the formation command token.

He had dreamed of it day and night—wanting one day to obtain this thing fair and square, and become the true ruler of Chunuan City.

But pity, the moment he actually got his hands on it, the situation was exactly what it was now.

"Yang Diandian, give me your formation command token, then hold the formation for me! I'm going to activate Chunuan City's formation!"

When the eerie creatures that had entered Chunuan City were all hiding and lying in wait, the city's formation truly could not locate, lock onto, and destroy them.

But now that these eerie creatures had all revealed themselves, the situation was different.

When they weren't hiding, Chunuan City's formation was fully capable of wiping out most of the low-level eerie creatures here!

If these small-fry eerie creatures could be cleared out, the situation would become much clearer, and they wouldn't have to be so passive.

"Take it!"

Yang Diandian seemed to realize the severity of the current situation as well, and without the slightest hesitation handed the formation command token straight to Dou Hongyi.

Tian Wangchuan's formation command token was the master authority, able to directly activate part of the formation's functions.

And when all three formation command tokens were gathered together, they could unleash the full power of Chunuan City's formation!

Catching the formation command token Yang Diandian threw over, then taking out his own formation command token along with the master one he had just obtained.

The three tokens, pinched between the fingers of his right hand, held high, Dou Hongyi roared at the top of his lungs.

"Formation… OPEN!!"

Rumble rumble rumble—

The ground shook violently.

Amid the violent trembling, cracks split open across every stretch of ground in all of Chunuan City.

From within the cracks, a dazzling white light gradually blazed to life.

The people struggling to survive, upon feeling this light, would immediately sense waves of warmth—stamina, energy, and internal strength all recovering somewhat, though only to that extent.

As for the low-level eerie creatures, they were as if scorched by intense sunlight, hurriedly covering themselves against the light and letting out shrill, wretched cries.

Within the blinding white light, they turned to ash and vanished without a trace.

Only the powerful eerie creatures suffered varying degrees of burning damage to their bodies, but still retained a certain fighting capacity. They howled and fought even more savagely, as if enraged.

Chunuan City's formation was not a sustained one.

A killing formation of this intensity and this range could only achieve so much.

Even so, after the brilliant light, the entire scene was as if the deck had been reshuffled—becoming exceptionally clean and clear.

The majority of the weak eerie creatures were wiped out on the spot. The remaining eerie creatures were either injured or powerful ones requiring dedicated fighters to handle.

"This is… the might of Chunuan City's formation!"

Dou Hongyi excitedly clenched the three formation command tokens. If he could, he truly wanted to keep hold of all three tokens forever and become the ruler of Chunuan City.

But the present moment wouldn't allow it. Setting aside Yang Diandian's, even Tian Wangchuan's token alone would be hard for him to hold onto for long.

"All personnel below Human-rank are to be responsible for protecting the civilians' safety. All personnel above Human-rank, follow me in a charge to slay these injured eerie creatures!"

Shifting from passive defense to active offense was undoubtedly a huge boost to morale.

The crowd excitedly shouted in unison and charged out following Dou Hongyi.

However, they had barely charged out any distance before everyone suddenly stopped in unison, staring dumbfounded ahead—even Dou Hongyi was no exception.

Before their eyes, a massive wall formed of human hands rose up from the ground!

Human hands layered upon human hands, each one seeming to move with its own will, freely shifting to form a thick wall of human hands.

The enormous wall of human hands stretched out of sight to both the left and right, and its height was so great that it blocked even the night sky above the 【Tian Shi】 Queen.

A massive shadow fell down, engulfing everyone beneath it, inspiring awe and dread at the same time.

"【Nuomian Gui】... it's 【Nuomian Gui】!!"

Dou Hongyi shouted in terror. The power of Chunuan City's formation, compared to those top-tier experts, only had a wider strike range and was more effective against small fry.

But against an aberration of 【Nuomian Gui】's caliber, at most it could only enrage it—there was simply no way to inflict any effective damage.

At this moment, everyone held their breath, not even daring to exhale.

【Nuomian Gui】's fearsome reputation had already been spreading like wildfire through Chunuan City these past days. Even Tian Wangchuan had failed to take down 【Nuomian Gui】—one could well imagine how powerful it was.

Although they didn't know whether that Lord Ye was stronger or 【Nuomian Gui】 was stronger, for the common folk of Chunuan City, there was really no difference—both were existences they could not afford to provoke.

Staring dumbly at this enormous wall of human-hand flesh, for a moment, panic seized the hearts of the people.

And just as they had feared, the wall of human-hand flesh began to tilt and collapse down toward their group!

(End of this chapter)