Douluo: Did you move Danta here?

Chapter 499 The city is broken
Ma Hongjun was overjoyed at the destruction of the Tang Clan, especially since the effects of consuming the Phoenix Sunflower had completely eliminated his physical ailments, making him feel relieved. Now, the only thing he couldn't do was settle scores with Tang San.

Ma Hongjun naturally didn't intend to let Wharton, who had always disliked him, go and confront him head-on when the other party's cultivation was much stronger than his own.

“You’re right. Let’s hold out for a few more days. At least we’ll have done our best, right? Tang San and I have some old friendship, so he probably won’t kill us all.”

"Really? Then let's keep an eye on it for now."

This was a fairly reasonable suggestion, which made Walton put aside his displeasure and feel relieved. He didn't want to end up like those Tang Sect disciples who failed their missions.

After discussing it, the two went to the city gate together. Looking at the vast, dark army several kilometers away, Walton's mood became extremely heavy. He then hurriedly summoned the guards and asked them:
"Are all the defensive concealed weapons ready?"

"Lord Walton, there are more than 400 Zhuge Repeating Crossbows in total, which basically ensures that each person defending the city has one."

"That's good. When the enemy army comes, you all shoot them down hard and don't let them threaten the city walls."

"Yes, my lord."

After dismissing the city guards, Walton summoned a group of ordinary soldiers who had been trained for a long time and ordered them to take bows and arrows and rolling stones to the city wall to assist the Tang Clan disciples in defending the city.

After explaining everything, Walton finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had done everything he needed to do, and even if Salikl fell in the end, he shouldn't be blamed.

Next came the moment to wait for the enemy to launch their attack, but the situation once again surprised Walton. After the main forces of the Skyfrost Duchy and the Extinction Sect arrived and camped outside Salikel City, they did not launch even a probing attack for several days, as if they were deliberately waiting for something. This made the city's defenders, who had been on edge for several days, appear extremely listless.

Wharton, who witnessed all this, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, pacing back and forth in the city gate and mansion, occasionally glancing at Ma Hongjun and complaining.

"What are these people up to? If you want to fight, then fight quickly. If you can't beat them, I can tell my members to run away. They just stand there watching all day without even saying a word."

Ma Hongjun smiled without saying a word. Of course he knew what the Extermination Sect forces were waiting for, and he also felt that the time was almost right.

Seeing this fatso still laughing at a time like this, Walton felt a surge of anger.

"Elder Ma, I respectfully address you as elder, but please don't go too far. Is this the time to laugh?"

"Don't be too anxious. The other side probably wants to keep us on edge, and then attack when we relax."

Ma Hongjun offered a vague, half-smiling explanation, saying that in his eyes Wharton would soon be dead anyway, so there was no need to take the other person's offense to heart.

Walton found some truth in the fat man's words, but they did nothing to ease his impatience.

"But there's no way to deal with this. We can't just send our members and soldiers back to rest for a couple of days before coming back. It's been several days already, and everyone is exhausted. We don't know what those people are still waiting for."

Upon hearing this, the fat man came to Walton's side and gave him a mysterious smile.

"Perhaps I know what they're waiting for."

"Oh? Tell me."

The fat man waved to Walton, who immediately stepped closer, appearing all ears. However, before he could get the answer he wanted, Walton's pupils suddenly contracted, and he stared at Ma Hongjun in disbelief, clutching his stomach and taking dozens of steps back.

Looking down, Walton saw a claw-shaped gash in his abdomen, blood gushing from the wound, its edges still burning with flames. "Why...why?"

"I'm telling you the answer. This is the moment the Extinction Evil Sect's army has been waiting for."

Why betray the sect leader?

Looking at Wharton, whose eyes were full of resentment and doubt, Ma Hongjun's lips curled into a sneer.

"Betrayal? You don't really think Tang San cares about our lives, do you? If he wanted to go back, he would have done so long ago. Besides, I was tricked into coming here by this bastard in the first place. Now that I have a better way out, I naturally have to pay some tribute."

As Ma Hongjun finished speaking, Walton, whose abdomen had been burned through by the focused flames, stared wide-eyed and fell to the ground in despair, slowly losing his life.

After doing all this, Ma Hongjun didn't even glance at Walton, and walked straight toward the city gate.

Amidst the puzzled gazes of the city's soldiers and members, Ma Hongjun, who had ascended the city wall, suddenly unleashed his martial spirit, condensing it into a giant fire phoenix that soared into the sky. After circling once, the fire phoenix flew straight into the clouds.

"Elder Ma, what's going on?"

"It's nothing, you can continue to defend the city, don't worry about it. I'm just venting my frustrations from the past few days."

These words were, of course, meant to appease the city's defenders. In reality, the Fire Phoenix was merely a signal he and Ning Bei had arranged in advance; once the Fire Phoenix army appeared, they could begin their attack.

The city defenders and soldiers looked at each other, but due to Ma Hongjun's strength, they dared not ask any questions. However, when they looked at the enemy camp several kilometers away again, the enemy had already begun to assemble and was heading towards the city gate.

"Quickly, prepare to defend the city; the enemy is about to launch an attack."

"What? I understand. I'll notify the others immediately."

Just as the group that first discovered the enemy's movements was about to take action, a raging fire engulfed them completely, and the source of the fire was Ma Hongjun, who was on the steps.

"Still defending the city? What a load of crap."

As Ma Hongjun unleashed Phoenix Roar Strike once more, the city gates of Salikl shattered, and the army of the Evil Extermination Sect arrived at the city gates.

The little angel at the front of the group immediately smiled and waved to give the army the order to enter the city.

As tens of thousands of troops poured into the city, the little angel took the lead, entering her Martial Soul Possession state and flying towards the Tang Sect headquarters. She hadn't forgotten the content of her assessment; only by judging those wicked people to a considerable extent could her assessment be considered complete.

Caught off guard, the Tang Clan members were unable to mount any decent resistance. The members who fled in disarray to the mansion to search for Walton only found his corpse, which shattered their last line of defense.

"What. What should I do?"

"What do you mean, what should we do? The sect leader has already given up on Salikel. I don't want to stay here and die with him. Let's escape from the south."

Some of the more resourceful Tang Clan disciples had already begun to back down and were fleeing towards other city gates. But Tang San could not have been unaware of this moment. He had already sprinkled a large amount of medicinal powder inside the city to suppress the plague poison in his subordinates' meridians. Once these people left Salikel for too long, the unsuppressed plague poison would erupt, becoming Tang San's ultimate backup plan.

(End of this chapter)