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Chapter 63 The Sky...Has Fallen.

"If Fufeng City is the target of the Scion of Ten Thousand Demons, then we still have a considerable chance of surviving."

"If Fufeng City is the target of 'Evil Hall', then all of us will likely perish right here."

"At this moment, Fufeng City has already been enveloped by a Formation, a unique Formation of 'Evil Hall', known as 'Soul-breaking Array', which can block all Sound Transmission Talismans, Mind Transmission, Teleportation Talismans, Flying Swords, and other means of traversal and communication."

"Right now, Fufeng City is essentially a solitary city; whatever happens here, the outside world has no way of knowing, unless the Formation is broken from the outside."

"Huh?"

Fat Long started with a somewhat odd expression, "Do these Evil Cultivators actually refer to themselves as Evil Cultivators? I thought that was a somewhat derogatory term."

"To us, it is, but from their perspective, they quite like the term, and so do the Demon Cultivators."

...

Chen Qiu stood upon the city walls, looking down at the roaring demon beasts below. These demon beasts seemed to have no intention of launching an attack anytime soon, only surrounding and continuously roaring at Fufeng City as if waiting for something.

"Where's the City Lord?"

He glanced around but could not replace the City Lord of Fufeng City. Logically, given the calamity that had befallen Fufeng City, the City Lord should have been the first to step forward, not necessarily to lead an attack, but at least to make a public appearance and stabilize the morale of the forces.

And like that, two hours passed quickly.

During these two hours, the demon beasts below did not launch an attack, and the soldiers on the walls did not engage offensively either. It seemed like both sides were waiting; Fufeng City was waiting for reinforcements, but what was the Evil Cultivator hidden among the demon beasts below waiting for?

Just then—

A furious shout came from the horizon.

"Despicable vermin, come forth and meet your demise!"

A towering azure sword light almost tore through the thousands of miles of dark clouds, striking toward Fufeng City. At the same time, the Formation around Fufeng City began to slowly reveal its true form amidst this onslaught.

A white, semi-transparent shell, like an eggshell, covered the entire Fufeng City and its surroundings.

And this great Formation, under the towering azure sword light, was almost instantly torn apart, dissolving into white light that disappeared into the air.

At the same moment, the people inside the city discovered that the Sound Transmission Talismans could once again be used, and the means provided by Teleportation Talismans were available as well.

"Cackle cackle cackle!"

As the Formation shattered, a blood-red light bolted toward the horizon at a speed almost too fast for the naked eye to capture, leaving behind a rather arrogant laugh: "Since everyone has arrived, I won't stay any longer. I wish you all a delightful time."

The moment the voice fell!

The tens of thousands of red-eyed demon beasts surrounding Fufeng City, as if crazed, let out a collective roar and launched a desperate total assault on the city.

Several streaks of golden light shot across the sky, landing above Fufeng City, their Divine Senses carrying the formidable pressure of Golden Cores swept quickly through Fufeng City. Then with a wave of their sleeves, they scooped up their own juniors and rapidly left Fufeng City without a moment's hesitation.

...

"Quick, leave!"

The Sect Master of Caotian Sect, his expression grim, with a wave of his sleeve, unleashed a surge of Spiritual Energy that swept up Zhao Yishi, who was still crouching invisibly in a corner, and immediately turned into a ray of light intending to flee from Fufeng City.

"Wait a moment!"

Zhao Yishi urgently said, "Sect Master, are we just going to leave like this? What about Fufeng City?"

"Right now, we can't worry about Fufeng City."

The Sect Master of Caotian Sect, while transforming into a ray of light that covered dozens of miles in just a few breaths, said with an ugly expression, "Fufeng City will soon be littered with corpses, and nobody can stop it. The Heavenly Dao is about to undergo another change. Before the major version 'World Conflict,' there's a precursor mini-version named by Heavenly Dao as 'Demon Race Invasion.'

"And this mini-version 'Demon Race Invasion' is set to descend within a thousand miles centered around Fufeng City."

"'Evil Hall' knew about this before we did and trapped you all in Fufeng City to lure us here. If we don't leave soon, we won't be able to escape either. Don't think just because I'm a Golden Core that I amount to anything; in the face of Heavenly Dao's change, a Golden Core means jack shit!"

"The Scion of Ten Thousand Demons is way faster than me!" Find adventures on empire

A few hundred breaths later.

The Sect Master of Caotian Sect, pushing his movement technique to the limit without any reservation, kept sticking talisman after talisman onto his body, even as blood began to seep from the corners of his mouth, pulling his speed to the extreme. Finally, before the black clouds could plummet down, he escaped beyond the range of the clouds.

And Zhao Yishi was left with a face full of disbelief and shock as he looked back.

Behind him.

The black clouds that stretched for a thousand miles and possessed an extremely compelling presence were now thunderously descending, as if the sky had collapsed, heavily crashing toward the ground. It was almost instant that he found his Divine Sense completely blocked by these black clouds.

The entire area behind him was now covered by the extremely dense black clouds.

The sky... had it really collapsed?!

Meanwhile—

A voice from the edge of the sky, weathered and devoid of emotion, slowly echoed in the ears of everyone in Da Xia Country.

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"Heavenly Dao Decree": Only one year remains until the next shift in the Heavenly Dao version, the "Conflict of All Under Heaven." The preceding minor version change, "Demon Race Invasion," will descend within a thousand miles centered upon Fufeng City.

As black clouds bear down, the Demon Race invades.

Within thirty days, should the Demon Race prevail, their status as prisoners of the Heavenly Prison will be removed.

If the Demon Race is defeated, then the black clouds will dissipate and all will return to as before.

The number and Cultivation of Demon Race allowed to participate in battle will be equivalent to that of the cultivators within a thousand miles of Fufeng City.

-

At the same time.

Inside Fufeng City, the scene became incredibly chaotic in an instant.

The sky had truly collapsed.

The black clouds that extended for a thousand miles brought with them an unstoppable force as they heavily smashed down. There was no rain, no thunder—just the black clouds crashing down. Though they caused no harm, they filled the air with black mist, reducing visibility to almost zero.

Outside the city, tens of thousands of demon beasts had begun charging toward Fufeng City recklessly. With such low visibility, the beasts below the city walls were barely visible—only the constant trembling of the city walls could be felt.

The city's defense soldiers, in their fear, kept hurling the talismans handed down to them toward the area below.

"Now I understand."

The scholar, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, looked around at the black mist and spoke softly, "I thought it was the demon beasts attacking the city. I didn't expect the sky to have collapsed."

"What do you mean?"

Fat Long frowned and looked at the scholar: "It sounds like the second scenario is better?"

"Mm, if it were demon beasts attacking the city, we would have to worry about whether we could survive, but now that the sky has collapsed, we don't need to think about that issue at all."

"Every major change in the Heavenly Dao version is preceded by many minor changes, such as this 'Demon Race Invasion' minor version. Its essence is to give those discarded by the last Heavenly Dao version a chance to re-enter the fray."

"The so-called Demon Race is the side that lost in the last Heavenly Dao version."

"Imprisoned by the Heavenly Dao in some unknown small world, until the next Heavenly Dao version is about to shift again, they participate as the discarded in a war. If they win, they can rejoin the current Heavenly Dao version; if they lose, they will be utterly annihilated."

"We're quite lucky, just having been chosen to join the battle."

Chen Qiu said nothing, his eyes slightly narrowed as he felt the black mist around him. Casually, he released a Thunder Summoning Technique, and the Spiritual Energy he had just used was almost instantly replenished through the automatic rotation of his Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.

"Have you noticed?"

The scholar said with an indifferent expression, "This black mist is Spiritual Energy at its thickest, which can quickly fill your Tao Foundation with Spiritual Energy to the brim. In the following days, there will be corpses strewn all around within a thousand miles of Fufeng City. The power of the Demon Race is almost unmatched among their peers."

"Looking at the situation now, it seems that quite a few people received the message in advance."

"The City Lord of Fufeng and the workshop owner of the Ask Heaven Market must have fled. In some ways, this might not be such a bad thing, at least it means that no Golden Core Demon Race of equivalent Cultivation will descend upon us. It's just unclear whether the Capital received the message in advance. If they knew, why didn't they come?"

"..."

After a moment of silence, Chen Qiu calmly looked at the Thunder Light re-emerging in the palm of his hand and at his Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment, which had once again almost instantly replenished his Spiritual Energy to full. Then he suddenly chuckled.

"You're right about one thing."

"We are indeed quite lucky."

"It's time to show these so-called Demon Race what it means..."

"To be a Magic Practitioner."