Returning from the abyss

Chapter 1345 Ancient War
When the demons emerged from the snow, a fierce battle was bound to break out. The strength of these demons was only at the level of new demons and great demons. However, don't forget when Lu Ning dared to fight the demons head-on, and if she didn't have the blessing of Tian Manxing, she probably wouldn't have the strength to deal with the demons now.

Soon, Lu Ning discovered that it was not the snow that produced the demons, but rather the cold. When the temperature dropped to a certain level, the demons would emerge from there.

The temperature outside was extremely low, so demons naturally began to appear. Although the demons that came were not strong enough, they were covered with cold fog.

“These guys are totally cold.”

Lu Ning crushed the head of a demon that entered the house, but the head exploded like an ice flake and spread the cold fog into the house.

In an instant, Lu Ning felt that the temperature in the room dropped by several degrees.

When she realized this problem, Lu Ning suddenly realized that her current internal energy was basically perfectly restrained. If the opponent was the type who was more likely to burst out with combat power the colder he was, her ice qi would be completely useless.

"After killing the dragon, is this it again?" Lu Ning sighed, drew his sword, and chopped down a demon that was peeking out of the door with one sword.

"Let's try it first."

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In the blizzard, an icicle condensed in Ye You's hand, swaying with the wind and snow. Below it, a tall demon king with a black and white umbrella in his hands was walking towards Xingyin City like a ghost.

"Wuchang, don't underestimate the people of Xingyin City." Ye You said happily, "Although the emperor is stubborn, he is not stupid. As for the core fighting force of the city, its strength is also quite extraordinary. After all, the demon star in the northern part of the border lacks some accumulation, and the demon generals sent are all useless."

"The Tenth Palace is not happy with the progress here."

Wuchang's feminine voice came from under the umbrella.

"They march day and night, and even if Xingyin City is not in chaos, the people should be living in misery. Now the human emperor has set up the sacrificial ceremony and is competing with us. This is your dereliction of duty."

"What dereliction of duty?" Yeyou didn't care. "Riyou and Qinchen were having a great time fighting, and I was having a great time here too. Aren't we here to help Saibei develop its strategy? How come I didn't know Fengdu was coming over?"

Wuchang also laughed.

In fact, the concept of superiors and subordinates in Fengdu is not as important as recorded by the human race. It can even be said that demons do not have much of this concept. They do what they want, and even if they gather together under the leadership of the demon star, they are not united by a strict system.

Whether it was Day Tour, Night Tour, or Impermanence, they all only followed the same general direction regarding Fengdu's actions. However, based on their powerful strength, even if they fought on their own, they could still create enough oppression.

The arrival of Wuchang brought with it its unique "cold vortex". This ability works very well with the ritual that is now being carried out. Yeyou can see that more than a dozen cold vortices have been created by Wuchang and have invaded the city of Xingyin.

"Are those guys here too?" Ye You asked.

"The Ghost King has not arrived yet, but the other demon kings have all come, but I don't know where they are." Wu Chang chuckled, "A thousand years ago, no city could withstand the impact of Fengdu. A thousand years later, can the human race create a miracle?"

"I'm looking forward to them. Look, they are already evacuating ordinary people." Yeyou pointed from a distance, "That's good. Those ordinary people can probably become good materials for Bird's Beak and Leopard's Tail."

"There aren't many people resisting in the city." Wu Chang raised his head slightly, "I'll go take a look."

"It's best not to go. There are a large number of Sky Stars hunting everywhere. There is not much resistance. They are all elite." Ye You laughed, "I suffered a small loss at the hands of those humans."

"The small loss you suffered during your night tour must have been a big gain." Wu Chang tilted his umbrella slightly, and on his pale face, a pair of black hole-like eyes looked up into the sky, "But I haven't seen where my path is going yet."

"Boring, uninteresting! You, a guy, don't know how good the world is. You seek that thing all day long, but it's just a constraint that we demons impose on ourselves!" Ye You laughed loudly and disappeared in the wind and snow.

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Starting from the tenth one, Lu Ning no longer counted how many demons she had killed.

They were not strong, but even if they were not strong, Lu Ning still had to spend some effort to kill the demons. And the demons could appear from anywhere, and even if she hid in the house, the cold air would chase her in, spread the coldness, and then condense new demons.

Although in theory the birth of demons requires sufficient conditions, Fengdu has apparently mastered a simple and quick method of producing inferior demons. These demons may not be very powerful, but they are very difficult to deal with. When Lu Ning figured out their strength, new changes began to appear.

The demons that were killed no longer exploded directly, but began to leave corpses. These corpses were picked up and eaten by the demons that appeared later. After the demons devoured a few of their kind, their short and beast-like bodies began to swell, and they could even stand up.

Lu Ning heard shouts coming from afar. There were still people fighting demons like her, but there were not many who could kill several demons as easily as Lu Ning.

Just as she was about to go over, she heard a few beast-like roars, and several demons rushed out of the house next door and pounced directly at her. Lu Ning could only face them again. She vaguely felt that there might be something wrong with her fighting method.

In all of Lu Ning's experiences, she had never participated in such a typical "war" scene. Although the wars she participated in were large-scale, they did not require her to personally go to the front line. Her usual practice was to find the commander and kill him, or find the crux to solve it, which was more like fighting than participating in a war.

Now, as more and more demons pour into Xingyin City, she feels that she needs to deal with them with a different attitude and tactics.

Some of her friends have experienced this kind of war scene, and their opinions on how to adapt are not the same. But one thing is the same, that is, to be prepared for a long tug of war.

This "long term" is not necessarily really long, but it must be relative to her own reserves. The war may cut off all her sources of supply, and it will not leave her much time to rest. As a Tianmanxing, she can't even go to the palace for refuge now, because it is her duty to kill demons outside.

A faint roar could be heard in the distance, and she saw black smoke rising from a tall building in the distance.

In order to resist the cold, people would burn very strong fires in rooms where people gathered. However, once the room was invaded by evil spirits, the raging flames could easily cause a big fire.

Lu Ning knew she couldn't get through - she could hear screaming, roaring, crying, and cursing. There were still civilians in Xingyin City who had not had time to evacuate, and they were the ones who suffered the most.

At this time, a neat sound of footsteps came, and Lu Ning saw a group of strong men rushing onto the street. They were almost the same height and dressed in the same clothes. They held iron rods in their hands and wore masks on their faces. They only used the most common swinging movements to smash the demons that had not yet gathered on the street into pieces. After the strong men cleared the street, Qiu Suying came out. He was obviously not afraid of the weather, but frowned when he saw Lu Ning.

"Where's Wen Rong?"

"I want to ask you something else." Lu Ning said.

"Ha..." Qiu Suying rubbed his brows. "Obviously, she encountered some problems that were difficult to deal with alone. She might even have been affected by this ritual."

"Wen Rong contacted me, but I didn't see her. If you have a way to find her, please tell her to put Zhao Yuqiao's matter aside for now."

"You should tell her about this yourself." Qiu Suying waved her hand. "She can take care of herself, and there are seven old guys following her. The problem is that in Xingyin City now, the manpower I drew from the Cave in the Pot is limited, and they can only fight the new monsters at most. I can't put them into the battle. I need to evacuate the civilians first."

"The officers and soldiers are already doing it."

"I am a member of the Demonic Cult. I don't believe that the officers and soldiers can really sympathize with the people. The emperor has to drag a large group of people to risk their lives to open a way for him, and now he is pretending to protect the civilians... I don't believe it. I can't be a savior, and I am too lazy to be one. Let the emperor solve the problem of Fengdu himself, and I am only responsible for the civilians."

"That's enough."

"Is this the official response to me?" Qiu Suying sneered.

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"I can't represent the official side either. I just had bad luck and was arrested and given the title of a star official." Lu Ning shrugged. "You seem to be more familiar with this kind of war, so I don't care."

"No need to remind me." Qiu Suying nodded, said hello, and left quickly with the group of strong men. He was just passing by, but Lu Ning knew that these were not accidental.

The web called "fate" hangs over the sky of Xingyin City. It is not some illusory prophecy, but is formed purely by human research and desire, and is manifested under the power of the ritual. After obtaining part of the content of "Heaven", Lu Ning knows more clearly what kind of web is woven behind the ritual. It can be said that it can squeeze out the value of everyone in the ritual.

She wiped the ice and snow off her face and took difficult steps. The thickness of the snow had reached her calves. It would have been difficult for her to walk in such thick snow without using light skills, but Lu Ning could not afford to waste any more time now.

A group of demons gathered from the air in the distance. Before they landed on the ground, several demons around them grabbed one in the middle, tore it into pieces, and then started eating it.

When the demons began to actively hunt their own kind, it meant that the situation was deteriorating further. If they could grow rapidly in this way, even if they only grew into a group of big demons, it would put great pressure on the imperial palace. The emperor knew his own business. The number of heavenly thrones conferred by the emperor was about two to three hundred. Heavenly soldiers and generals were only for these small minions, but how many heavenly soldiers and generals could there be in Xingyin City?
A scream came from nearby, and Lu Ning stopped abruptly. The demons also stopped eating their own kind and looked over there.

"It's really endless..."

Lu Ning had no choice but to draw her sword and charge forward, but this time she found that these demons were not so easy to kill. Their hard skin made the effect of weapons on them even weaker. Lu Ning relied on her internal force to break their skin, but the feeling of swinging the sword was like cutting on ice.

After finally killing them all, Lu Ning even began to feel a little cold. The cold air generated by each demon's death was enough to freeze an ordinary person to death. Before, it might have been just frostbite, but now it could be frozen to death.

At this time, crying sounds were heard, which made Lu Ning feel very annoyed.

"Stop crying!" she roared, picked up the sword and walked over. When she arrived at the place where the crying came from, she saw two half-grown children hugging a frozen female corpse and crying. Not far from the door, there was a man's corpse that had been torn into pieces and many parts of it had been eaten.

Lu Ning was silent for a moment, then thrust the sword into the ground and shouted again, "Stop crying!"

The two children stopped crying after being frightened, but the grievance, fear and despair on their faces made Lu Ning feel unbearable.

"Come with me."

She knew where to find the team to evacuate civilians, but after all this time, it would be even harder for her to find Wen Rong. She also had no idea what happened to Wen Rong. For Lu Ning now, the rituals performed in Fengdu were still completely unknown.

She took her two children and ran on the roof using her lightness skills. The wind and snow did not become more violent at this time, but Lu Ning felt as if she had snow blindness. In this scene where the whole world was white, it seemed as if her demon eyes' ability to distinguish had begun to suffer from the same disease.

When she found a disbanded team, Lu Ning even felt a lot weaker. She pushed the two children to a soldier, coughed twice, and suddenly reached out and grabbed a man wearing tattered clothes and huddled in the team.

"What a coincidence... ahem, isn't it?" she gasped.

"You have been afflicted with a serious disease and your vision is blurred. How can you see mine?"

"Even if I'm blind, I can recognize you." Lu Ning sneered, exerted force with his hands, and pulled the man out of the team, "Where is Wen Rong?"

Zhao Yuqiao lifted his felt hat a little and said with a wry smile, "I was just about to ask you, how did she disappear into the ground and leave me alone there?"

"Wen Rong, get into the ground... Come out and tell me everything!"

"Okay, okay, I wanted to take advantage of the chaos to run out of the city to take a look. There are many sick people here. You are sick, I am afraid that there are not many people who can escape." Zhao Yuqiao stretched out his hand and put his hand on Lu Ning's wrist. "If you talk about illness, you can even be called seriously ill. I can see a lot of problems in you."

"Stop talking nonsense and take me to where Wen Rong is hiding. You can see my symptoms but not hers? Don't you know how to treat her?"

"We have to be reasonable. She went underground and I don't know how to get in. How can I show her?"

"I don't believe a word I say to you now." Lu Ning grabbed Zhao Yuqiao by the collar. In her eyes, Zhao Yuqiao was just a snowman with a bit of humanity. This was not ordinary snow blindness. She had to make Zhao Yuqiao use all his abilities.

"I have reserved the position of Earth Spirit Star for you. Now, follow me to claim your position as Star Lord!"