Daqin Zhentiansi

Yongtian Imperial City, Military Affairs Office.

On the huge light and shadow sand table, the dark golden light spot representing Riftwind City suddenly flickered violently, and the northwest corner area was instantly covered by a thick dark purple color representing the invasion of filth!

The piercing alarm blared, tearing through the deathly silence!
Minister of War Zhou Chang swayed violently, his face turning deathly pale, and he exclaimed in shock, "The fortress... has been breached?!"

Zhao Zhou Tianjian Gorge, a dilapidated fortress.

Leaning against the cracked base of the Zhenhai Divine Sword, the old swordsman with the missing arm suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the ice shards on his chest red.

He stared intently at the north, a look of near despair appearing in his cloudy eyes for the first time: "Riftwind...has fallen?!"

Several young sword cultivators beside him, also covered in blood, were trembling uncontrollably with their sword-wielding hands.

Deep in the frozen soil of Xuzhou, there lies a stone fortress inhabited by the remnants of the ancient people.

The ice mirror rippled violently, and the scene was instantly filled with a surging tide of demons and shattered city walls.

The secret chamber was deathly silent. The breaths of the clan leaders were caught in their throats, and the faint hope that had just ignited in their eyes flickered like a candle in the wind, about to be extinguished.

Despair enveloped them silently.

Demon Clan Main Camp.

The suspended demon commander, with the Void Ember Demon Flame burning steadily at his fingertips, let out a chilling sneer: "The light of an ant will eventually be extinguished."

He could almost see the city of Riftwind transformed into a blood-soaked inferno.

The elite demons who stormed into the breach, with a ferocious aura of destruction, trampled over the broken walls and ruins, their greedy eyes scanning the interior of the fortress they had longed for and hated for so long, preparing for a thoroughly enjoyable massacre and plunder.

However, in the next instant, their frantically charging bodies suddenly came to a halt!

On his ferocious, bloodthirsty face, ecstasy was quickly replaced by astonishment, bewilderment, and an immense, instinctive fear!

What they saw was not a collapsed and chaotic city at all!

There were no soldiers or civilians scattering and fleeing!

There is no such thing as easy wealth!
In the outer city area, as far as the eye could see, there was a huge "barbican" that had been "cleared" and deliberately left out!
Most of the original streets and houses were bulldozed and replaced by crisscrossing, heavy barricades made of black iron and covered with "thorns" and "slowness" runes!

Behind the barricades stood rows of newly erected "Frost Prison Crossbow Towers" and "Molten Fire Rune Towers," with more complex structures and cannons whose muzzles gleamed with a cold blue light and a blazing red flame!
The cold metallic luster gleamed with a chilling aura under the light of the ramparts.

What shocked them even more was—

Behind the barricades, between the towers, and on the specially reinforced high walls at the edge of the barbican, rows and columns of Crimson Scale Riders, clad in crimson scale armor, wielding armor-piercing spears, and riding crimson flame beasts.

The elite assault force of the Northern Border Guardian Army, clad in heavy black armor, as imposing as mountains, and armed with a forest of spears.

And the Pan Shi Camp's elite warriors, wielding massive shields, their auras as solid as the earth, forming a small, immovable battle formation...

We are already on high alert!

His icy gaze, like a thousand-year-old glacier, locked onto the intruding prey!

The intense, almost tangible, iron-blooded aura and chilling killing intent formed an invisible iron wall, colder and more solid than a city wall!

The air seemed to freeze, leaving only the heavy breathing of the demons and the restless pawing of the war beasts.

This is not a defeated city at all!

This is clearly a death trap that has been laid out for a long time, waiting for its prey to walk right into it!
Just as the elite vanguard of demons was momentarily thrown into disarray by the sight before them—

"close the door!"

A cold, majestic voice, like a decree from a celestial being, pierced through the clamor and echoed clearly in every corner inside and outside the barbican!
On the Demon-Suppressing Platform, Zhang Yuan's black python robe fluttered and rustled even without wind!

In his hand, the "Autumn Chill Longsword," which came from the Crimson Flame Army and had drunk its fill of demon blood, was drawn with a clang!
The blade gleamed with a cold, dark gold luster, which complemented the solid Dragon Elephant Prison Monument behind it!
Above their heads, the dark military spirit battle flag, symbolizing the will of the Rending Wind, suddenly straightened against the gale, and the ferocious dragon and elephant roaring pattern on the flag seemed to come alive!

"Slay the demon—!"

The two words were like thunderclaps from the heavens!

It contains the supreme truth of the Dragon Elephant Suppressing Prison, and the determination to kill the three million soldiers and civilians of Liefeng!
The true nature of the scheme is revealed!
As his blade pointed—

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!..."

Countless dazzling rune lines suddenly lit up the ground of the barbican!

The ice trap was activated instantly, and extreme freezing air surged out, freezing the large number of demons charging in front into ice sculptures!

Flame traps erupted from the ground and barricades, scorching lava and fiery runes that could melt metal and iron intertwined to form a sea of ​​fire!
Thick chains of lightning cleaved down from the sky, precisely binding the demon kings and generals who were attempting to leap or cast spells!
Countless tough, barbed iron thorn vines grew wildly from the ground and walls, entwining and piercing!
Ice!

Flames!

Thunder!

Binding!

The pre-laid complex trap array was completely detonated at this moment!

The entire barbican instantly transformed into a deathly inferno of elemental chaos!

"Arrows——!!!"

Almost at the same instant the trap was activated, Xue Dingyue's icy voice boomed above the gap!

Thousands of elite Eagle Guards, already poised for battle, stood atop the towering ruins on either side of the breach, their improved "Sky-Piercing Armor-Piercing Crossbows" gleaming with a ghostly light as they were fully charged! The bowstrings vibrated like thunder!
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!!!" A barrage of arrows was unleashed! It was no longer the previous "Thunderbolt Starfall," but rather specially made armor-piercing arrows that were slightly less powerful but denser and had greater penetrating power!
Like a torrential downpour, it instantly covered the gaping passage and the subsequent army of demons that followed the vanguard!
The arrow rain precisely avoided the vanguard that had fallen into the trap of the barbican, but pinned down the demon echelon that was trying to pour in as reinforcements in the narrow passage!
The demon soldiers at the forefront didn't even have time to react before they were riddled with arrows!

The subsequent torrent of attacks was instantly cut off. In the narrow gap, the corpses of demons piled up at a visible speed, and blood flowed like a stream!

The demons that followed could only crowd and roar outside the gap, but were firmly blocked by the rain of deadly arrows and the mountain of corpses!
Inside the barbican, it was a true battlefield!
"Crimson Scale Cavalry—Sharp Arrow! Pierce Through!"

"Zhenyue Army - Xuanbing Trapped Dragon! Lock!"

"Rock Barracks - Iron Wall Encirclement! Crush them!"

The roars of generals such as Jin Yuelin, Yuchi Changshan, and Tuoba Han rose and fell!
The Crimson Scale Cavalry, already brimming with power, transformed into a crimson arrow that tore through the inferno. Their iron hooves trampled the burning frozen earth, and their long spears, like a forest, crashed into the core of the demon vanguard, which was slowed down by traps and thrown into chaos!

Wherever they went, ice sculptures shattered and demonic soldiers were cut in half!
The Northern Border Zhenyue Army's assault team formed a huge circular "Mysterious Ice Dragon Trapping Formation." The chilling spear light, like a frozen thorn forest, trapped and strangled the demon kings and generals who tried to disperse or resist!

The elite Rock Camp was like a mobile steel fortress, with huge shields connected to form a wall, crushing forward with heavy force and completely crushing the demons that had been severely injured by the traps and had lost their ability to resist!
The elite demons who rushed into the walled city, whether they were the lava giant dragon clones, the crystal armored war demon overseers, or the ferocious skeletal demon generals, were now in a truly desperate situation!

Ahead lay the thunderous attack of a well-prepared army, above them a dense rain of arrows and tower bombardment, below them deadly traps continuously erupting, and their retreat was completely blocked by the corpses of their own comrades and a deadly rain of arrows!

Their proud strength was gradually disintegrated under the carefully constructed traps and battle formations, and their raging roars were quickly replaced by terrified howls!
"No—! A trap! It's a trap!"

A crystal-armored war demon overlord was bound by several lightning chains and had its crystal core pierced by the long spears of the Crimson Scale Riders, letting out a desperate screech.

"Roar! You despicable humans!"

The lava giant dragon's clone was tightly bound by the "Mystic Ice Dragon-Trapping Formation" and its body was frozen by the concentrated fire of several Frost Prison Crossbow Towers. It struggled angrily and in vain.

The skeletal demon general wielded a bone hammer crackling with lightning, smashing several Zhenyue soldiers away, only to be instantly engulfed by a pillar of lava erupting from beneath his feet. The massive skeleton crackled and crumbled in the flames!

The morale of the troops completely collapsed after witnessing the vanguard elites being easily crushed like ants falling into boiling water!
The demon army that was trapped outside the breach looked at the hellish scene inside the city and the mountains of corpses piled up at the breach, and listened to the desperate cries of their comrades inside. The bloodthirsty madness in their eyes was finally replaced by boundless fear, and they began to stir and retreat uncontrollably!

Riftwind Fortress, this seemingly torn-open fortress, has finally revealed its most deadly fangs after paying the price of the broken Northwest Barrier!
That enormous gaping hole was no longer a smooth path to victory, but a gaping maw of death that devoured the elite of the demons!
Inside the barbican, the demon-slaying is in full swing!
In the northwest corner of Riftwind City, the hundred-zhang gap that was forcibly blasted open has now been completely transformed into a purgatory graveyard for elite demons!

Inside the barbican, the embers of the traps mingled with the cold gleam of the black armor.

The spears of the Crimson Scale Cavalry and the forest of spears of the Zhenyue Army devoured every demon king and general who charged in like a meat grinder.

The desperate cries were completely drowned out by the clang of metal and the battle roars.

Outside the gap.

The demon army was held back by the Eagle Guard's rain of deadly arrows and the mountain of corpses of their own kind. The surging tide crashed against the cold iron wall, and the morale of the army was shaking violently in fear!
At that critical moment when the demons' offensive was thwarted and their formation was slightly disrupted—

“Ooooooooooooo!!!”

A horn that pierced the sky, like the awakening of a primordial beast, suddenly resounded from behind the frozen hills on the left flank of the demon alliance!

Its voice was desolate and fierce, carrying the most biting chill of the frozen north!
In the next instant, the barren hill crumbled!

The frozen soil is churning and boiling!

Marquis Jingbei, Wang Ben! Clad in black armor branded with howling ice wolf totems, his face marked with frost like knife cuts, he stood tall like a lone wolf on the icy plains!
His long spear pointed directly at the flank of the demon army, his voice like the scraping of metal, icy and chilling: "Heavy armored cavalry! Pierce through the enemy lines! Slay all the demon chieftains—Kill!!!"

Behind them, 150,000 elite soldiers from the North and 100,000 Frost Dragon Vulture cavalry of Tuoba Han formed an iron torrent, like a black avalanche, and suddenly crashed into the demon army from the flank!

The Frostwolf Totem blazed brightly during the charge, and the chilling air condensed into a tangible storm of ice blades, instantly tearing a huge gash in the unprepared Frostwolf Guards and the swarm of corpse golems!
The dragon-eagle roared, its frost breath freezing the path, and the barbarian warrior's totem battle axe cleaved through the demonic armor, unstoppable!
At the same time, the chaotic clouds behind the demon army were violently torn apart!
“Boom-ka-!!!”

High above, purple lightning danced wildly!
A terrifying bolt of lightning, as thick as a mountain, crashed down!
Amidst the lightning, Lei Hao, the Manifestation Marquis of Exorcism, was clad in a python robe and soft armor, his face as cold and stern as ten thousand years of ice. The purple lightning whip in his hand, which kept leaping, drew upon the thunder and fire of the nine heavens!
Behind him, several enormous "ice-breaking weapons" covered with mysterious runes floated, their cores glowing with dazzling light from the "world-shattering lightning cores"!
Lei Hao's voice was like a divine decree: "Thunder Punishment—Slay the Demon!"

"Buzz—Boom!!!"

Dozens of extremely refined purple-gold lightning bolts erupted from the tip of the ice-breaking weapon.

Instead of directly attacking the demon army, it pierced deep into the chaotic half-demon cannon fodder behind the demon army and the land where the demon energy supply node was located!

The earth was instantly torn apart into a network of massive, scorched rifts!
The terrifying shockwave, mixed with pure exorcising lightning energy, swept across like an invisible tsunami!
The already chaotic hundreds of millions of half-demon cannon fodder collapsed instantly, like an ant colony being thrown at them by a boulder, howling and scattering in all directions, completely shattering the already wavering formation of the demon rear!

The demonic energy node was destroyed by lightning and fire, causing the corrupt energy field to fluctuate violently!
Almost at the same time, the shadows on the ground in the core area of ​​the demon alliance began to writhe eerily!

Several silent, illusory figures, like soul-reaping scythes emerging from the deepest depths of the Netherworld, suddenly appeared behind several crystal-armored war demon overseers and demon kings who were supervising the battle!
Yin Jiuyou, the Marquis of Jiuyou Town, clad in dark armor, almost blended into the shadows. His chilling aura froze the dust, and the illusory image of the Judge's Pen behind him seemed to solidify into reality!

His voice was as cold as iron, devoid of any emotion: "Netherworld—annihilation."

"laugh!"

The judge's pen silently pointed out!
There was no earth-shattering spectacle, only the purest law of death descending!
Once locked on, the target, whether it is a hard crystal armor or a powerful demon body, will instantly freeze, decay, and turn into ashes from the inside out!
Even a mournful cry from the soul could not be uttered!

The elite Shadow Strike troops, like phantoms, unleashed a silent storm of death in the demon command center, precisely sniping demon leaders who were attempting to reorganize their defenses!
Three ambushes! Like three deadly, poisoned blades, they simultaneously pierced the massive body of the demonic alliance from the flanks, rear, and core!

Wang Ben's Xuanjia Iron Cavalry fiercely attacked, Lei Hao's Ice-Breaking Thunder Punishment caused collapse and chaos, and Yin Jiuyou's Shadow Strike severed the central nervous system!

The seemingly boundless formation of the demon alliance's main force was instantly torn apart, disrupted, and plunged into unprecedented chaos by this fatal attack from both inside and outside!
"Roar! It's...it's a Qin ambush!"

"Chaos has broken out at the rear! The half-demon have rebelled!"

"The warlord has been assassinated! Run!"

Panic spread like wildfire through the demon army!
And just as this chaos reached its peak—

"Roar--!!!"

Within the city of Riftwind, in the resettlement area for the millions of rescued survivors, a deafening roar erupted!

Silver Scales! The dense scales covering its body gleamed with a resolute, cold light under the glow of the barrier, and the spiraling battle runes on its forehead burned fiercely! (End of Chapter)