Boom!
Chen Yu activated the Five Thunder Gangqi within his body, his figure flickering with five-colored electrical lights, which converged to form a gigantic five-colored palm imprint.
Seeing this, the six martial artists from Red Flame Demon Sect at the Gang Qi Stage made their moves, with fierce Gang Wind sweeping out to block Chen Yu's strike.
At that moment, an elder from the Holy Shadows Sect coldly said, "Chen Yu, it's useless. You can't stop us. Our sect has been planning for a long time, and it's not just the county city— the entire Xu'an County is ours!"
Indeed, after breaching the county city, the martial artists of the Holy Shadows Sect would refine iron corpses at the fastest speed and then, using the power of demon ghosts, control these iron corpses to attack the next city.
Because they were not interested in occupying the cities but only needed the flesh and to reanimate the corpses, they could clear the battlefields quickly. After conquering one location, they could rush to the next.
By the time the people from Jing Tian Department caught up, it would be much later, and with even one dark-level demon ghost cultivated, they would not fear the Jing Tian members. They might even wish for more to come.
The Metropolitan Procurators couldn't come out, and without them, nobody from the Jing Tian Department could match a dark-level demon ghost. The more that came, the more nourishment they would have.
By the time the Metropolitan Procurators of the Jing Tian Department arrived, they would have long since left, dusting off their trousers and departing.
It could be said that the strategies laid down by the Six Union God Sect were watertight. Of course, their success was mainly due to the power of the demon ghosts.
Otherwise, with their scant numbers, as long as those at the Gang Qi Stage didn't engage, the tens of thousands of city defenders would have been enough.
"Ah!"
Suddenly, a scream came from the city walls as more than a dozen soldiers defending the city bled from all seven orifices and died on the spot.
Chen Yu's eyes narrowed as he saw a dozen or so martial artists from the Holy Shadows Sect whispering something nearby, seemingly forming a technique. Among them, the martial artist in the center was enveloped in flickering black qi, with the power of the demon ghost surging continuously, emitting a chilling coldness that Chen Yu found abhorrent.
The demon ghosts had tricky and unpredictable methods. Against ordinary people or even some martial artists with lesser cultivation, they didn't need to possess bodies, their mere aura was enough to erode the victim, either dissolving them into a pool of blood or turning them into mindless puppets.
The stronger the demon ghost, the larger the range they could affect.
Paired with some of the secret arts of the Holy Shadows Sect, their might was amplified considerably.
"Look quickly!"
At that moment, Cui Yu and Deng Zi An pointed, only to see, not far away, hundreds of warriors with blank eyes and pupils swirling with black qi slowly approaching the city gates.
These people were not possessed by demon ghosts but had been slain by the members of the Demon Sects, after which a small amount of demon ghost power invaded their bodies, awakening the remnants of instinct in their corpses, turning them into emotionless puppet automatons.
The elder from Holy Shadows Sect laughed loudly, "You have no idea just how terrifying the power of demon ghosts is. It's something that human clan warriors can't compete with. I'm giving you one last chance, join our god sect and I will spare your lives."
"As long as we kill you, the rest of those scatterbrains are nothing to worry about," Chen Yu said coldly.
Seeing that his attempts to recruit Chen Yu had failed three times, the elder from Holy Shadows Sect's expression darkened as he said, "You're courting death. Today, nobody can save you. Everyone will die. Since you're so stubborn, then you will be buried along with the county city!"
As the words ended, both sides clashed again. The three from Jing Tian Department were very strong, but the members of Red Flame Demon Sect and Holy Shadows Sect were not weak either.
Among the three from Jing Tian Department, only Chen Yu had cultivated a unique type of Gangqi, but he was facing the two strongest from the visiting Red Flame Demon Sect and Holy Shadows Sect. In a one-on-one fight, Chen Yu wasn't afraid, but taking on two at once, he couldn't kill both of them quickly.
After all, the Holy Shadows Sect had sinister methods, and that elder continuously harassed Chen Yu from a distance, making it difficult for Chen Yu to engage wholeheartedly with the martial artist from Red Flame Demon Sect at the Gang Qi Stage.
Meanwhile, on another front, although some iron corpses had invaded the city through tunnels, there were still over a hundred outside.
These iron corpses were devoid of any emotions, merely over a hundred killing machines. With extremely tough bodies, they were used as shields at the forefront, heedless of the Jing Tian members' attacks, they only focused on besieging the city gates, eager to breach them as soon as possible.
At the same time, in another area, martial artists from Red Flame Demon Sect and Holy Shadows Sect were harassing from the side. Now with a few hundred puppet warriors rushing towards the city walls, the situation on the battlefield gradually started tilting in favor of the Demon Sects.
Unless Chen Yu's side could swiftly determine the victor, the city gates wouldn't hold much longer before being breached, and then the Demon Sects' forces would charge straight through, slaughtering the civilians at will.
Seeing this, Deng Zi An and Cui Yu were immediately shocked and became pale.
"Get lost!"
Chen Yu roared in anger. Dazzling electrical sparks flickered all over his body. He countered with a palm strike, and the Gangqi between the two exploded, their energies surging unstoppably. The ground trembled, and everything within a ten-yard radius was reduced to dust.
Immediately afterward, the elder of the Holy Shadows Sect caught up, and the two of them surrounded Chen Yu once more.
Screams of killing, wails of anguish, and the sound of blood splattering never ceased as time went by. With each passing moment, Chen Yu's heart sank further into an abyss.
He knew that Jing Tian Department had lost. At this point, even he was out of options.
Without any surprises, it wouldn't be long before the demon sect's army could break through unstoppably and storm into the county town. Tens of thousands of civilians would be dismembered and meet with tragic deaths right where they stood.
Deng Zi An and Cui Yu felt the same, their faces darkened, foreseeing the inevitable outcome. The situation was beyond control.
The only reason they had lasted this long was that Jing Tian Department had been filling the gaps with human lives. They disregarded their own safety, using their bodies as shields, hoping to even slightly slow down the demon sect's onslaught.
In just this short period of time, over a dozen first-order Metropolitan Procurators and upwards of thirty second-order ones had perished.
At this moment, the members of the Red Flame Demon Sect and the Holy Shadows Sect all wore smiles on their faces. Although they were injured, taking down the county town was a good thing.
But just then, suddenly, a cloud of dust was stirred up in the distance, and a troop of soldiers approached rapidly.
"Master Chen!"
Hearing this, Chen Yu's expression shook. He turned his head and saw Xu Qing leading Gu Chen and two others, racing towards him.
"Let them go!"
"Saving one is better than none!"
Cui Yu and Deng Zi An spoke one after the other. The current situation was chaotic, and it was pointless to continue throwing away lives.
"Today none of you will escape!" the elder of the Holy Shadows Sect said with a cold laugh, full of confidence.
At this moment, Gu Chen and his companions charged from another direction. When they saw the ground littered with corpses, mostly their comrades, Xu Qing and the others felt their eyes redden.
Xu Qing had been with Jing Tian Department for many years, undertaken many missions and made many friends, but now, most of them lay buried in foreign lands, dying far from home.
"Wake up!" With tears in his tiger-like eyes, Xu Qing found a first-order Metropolitan Procurator with a faint breath among the pile of the dead, grasping his blood-stained hand.
"Old... Xu..." The first-order Metropolitan Procurator was on the verge of death; his breath was so faint it was nearly imperceptible.
"Quick... go..." As he spoke, a steady stream of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, soon staining Xu Qing's palm red.
"No!" Xu Qing roared with tears rolling down from his eyes, while both Song Yu and Wang Yan beside him had eyes filled with red, their killing intent skyrocketed.
Gu Chen stood still, looking around at the scene of havoc, silently observing everything.
Among the dead were many Gu Chen did not know or were not intimate with, nothing like his relationship with Song Yu and Wang Yan. Yet, having been on missions together for so long, he had seen nearly all the faces at least once.
Besides, he had conversed with many among them, and even during the little rest time they had, they had good-naturedly teased Gu Chen, inquiring if he had never been with a woman.
After all, among the Metropolitan Procurators, Gu Chen could be said to be the youngest.
Now, these colleagues, whose voices and smiles were still fresh in Gu Chen's mind, had all turned into lifeless bodies.
At this moment, for some reason, a surge of hot blood rose from Gu Chen's chest, rushing to his brain.
The roaring blood within Gu Chen felt like an inferno blazing fiercely; his eyes immediately reddened.