So it turns out I'm the demon!

"To stall us?"

Looking at the Corpse Demon King's mocking gaze, Ran Qingshan's heart skipped a beat, and he had a bad feeling.

Boom!

Just then, a strange thing happened at the foot of the city wall.

With a deafening roar, the ground exploded like a fountain, sending mud and rocks flying everywhere.

Two enormous, mountain-sized, one-horned beetle monsters covered in armor and with ferocious horns on their heads emerged from the ground.

Both of these demonic creatures are at the eighth level.

Its flat head has almost no eyes, only a huge mouth that splits from the left ear to the right.

The two giant horns were like heavy hammers that could break through a city. With a casual swing, they smashed more than a dozen demon slayers who couldn't dodge in time into mincemeat.

Inside the light shield, Ran Qingshan and the others were horrified.

"Damn it! How come we didn't notice anything amiss? There were actually two Tier 8 siege beetles lurking underground all this time? That old monster, what a deep scheme!"

Shui Miaozheng looked extremely unpleasant.

Ran Qingshan gritted his teeth and comforted her:

"Water Master, don't panic. There are still several high-level cultivators, including Lin Anchang, guarding the city wall. With them working together, holding off two eighth-tier demon kings is no problem. As long as we deal with this Corpse Demon King as soon as possible and break the formation, this situation can be resolved."

The Corpse Demon King chuckled sinisterly:

"If it comes to a head-on fight to the death, I am indeed outnumbered and will eventually be worn down by you. But if I am determined not to fight you to the death and only seek to protect myself, what can you do to me?"

This "Four Extremes Soul-Locking Array" prevents you from getting out and keeps outsiders out. You can only watch helplessly as your subordinates are slaughtered!

"Enough talk! Go get it and kill it!"

Ran Qingshan roared, his longsword unleashing a torrent of lightning, and charged headlong towards the Corpse Demon King.

Shui Miaozheng and the other masters also unleashed their magical weapons, launching a pincer attack.

However, just as the Corpse Demon King said, the old monster simply didn't take the bait.

The massive body, over three meters tall, seemed boneless, moving with extraordinary speed, constantly dodging and weaving amidst the attacks of several people.

They mainly employ a rogue tactic.

No matter how many people corner it, it always manages to escape.

Outside the light shield, the situation below the city walls had taken a sharp turn for the worse.

With the addition of two eighth-tier giant beetles, the morale of the corpse demon army soared, and they launched a counterattack as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

The giant beetles were at the very front, like two bulldozers.

Although the demon slayers below were fearless, they were falling in droves under the overwhelming power.

"Manager Lin, make your move quickly!"

A blood-soaked demon-slaying guard roared at Lin An, who was standing on the city wall.

Lin Anchang stared at the two ferocious eighth-order giant beetles, his two whiskers trembling, his face deathly pale.

beat?

What are we going to use to fight?!

He himself was only at the eighth realm, how could he risk his life against such a savage beast? What if he got injured or lost his life? Wouldn't his promising official career be ruined?

"We can't hold on any longer...this city can't be defended!"

Lin An swallowed hard and made a decision in his mind in an instant.

With a flick of his sleeve, he turned and channeled his star power, sprinting into the city without hesitation. At the same time, he roared at his Yuancheng subordinates, "Retreat! Retreat to the inner city for street fighting!"

"We can't hold this place anymore. Staying here is just suicide! Retreat!"

Incompetent generals lead to the deaths of their entire army.

The commander's desertion was the final straw that broke the camel's back.

With Lin Anchang taking the lead in escaping, the demon slayers of Yuancheng immediately lost their leader, abandoned their armor and weapons, and fled in disarray.

This sense of panic spread as quickly as a plague.

The flank, which was originally the defense zone of Yuancheng, was now largely empty. The horde of corpse demons swarmed in through this gap, throwing the defenders on the city wall into chaos and tearing the already precarious defense line to shreds.

Even with two deputy commanders desperately trying to organize, it was all in vain.

Meanwhile, another group of demon slayers, who were fighting fiercely below, were originally supposed to rotate according to tactics and wait for their comrades on the city wall to come and help them retreat to rest. However, instead of coming to their aid, the people on the city wall began to retreat.

In an instant, the defenders on the city wall and the demon slayers below were separated into two groups. The demon slayers below were attacked from both sides and were pressed tighter and tighter by the horde of corpse demons. It looked like they were about to be surrounded and killed at the foot of the city wall.

Fear and despair welled up in their hearts.

Gone!

They all ran away!

They were treated as expendable pawns and completely isolated!

Ran Qingshan witnessed all of this and felt a surge of anger rush to his head, making his eyes almost burst with rage.

He roared in uncontrollable rage:

"That bastard Lin Anchang! Does he even know what he's doing?!"

Shui Miaozheng gritted her teeth and kept blasting the light shield with her round fan.

The blue ribbon crashed into the light barrier time and time again, only to be bounced away each time.

The Corpse Demon King stood in front of her, but did not attack; he simply blocked every single one of her attacks that attempted to break the formation.

"I told you, you will pay the price for your stupidity."

The Corpse Demon King mocked.

The officials all fell silent.

Anger is pointless.

Everyone knows that once the defense line collapses and the demon army enters the city, the people inside will inevitably become food for these demons.

Ran Qingshan was filled with regret and anger.

Just as those demon slayers were in despair, a majestic golden mountain descended from the sky.

The light was so intense that it turned half the sky golden.

The golden mountain, carrying immense pressure, crashed down on one of the beetle-like monsters.

puff!

The thick, black carapace cracked as easily as if it were made of paper when it was smashed by the gold mountain.

Purple pus and shattered scales splattered in all directions, and the enormous insect body was instantly crushed into a pile of minced meat.

In an instant, the entire venue fell silent.

Whether they were desperate demon slayers or fanatical monsters, they were all stunned by this "physical exorcism" that fell from the sky.

Immediately afterwards, countless blade energies poured down from the sky like a torrential rain.

Countless whirlwind-like blade energies swept across the entire city wall with overwhelming force, precisely grazing the corpse demons on the wall.

After the flash of the blade, the corpse demons that had rushed into the breach were reduced to countless fragments.

Clear the screen in one move!

Then, a Vulcan statue, tens of feet tall, descended from the sky.

Bang!

A huge phantom, wreathed in flames, threw a punch, sending another beetle monster flying off the city wall.

The beetle's enormous body tumbled in mid-air before crashing into the horde of corpse demons outside the city, crushing many of them to death.

Before the Vulcan Dharma Image could even regain its footing, it unleashed another punch.

They smashed it, shell and all, into the mud.

Then, everyone saw a tall and imposing figure standing on the city wall with his hands behind his back, looking like a god or a demon.

It was like the sun.

For some reason, a deep sense of gratitude welled up in everyone's hearts.

"Little Jiang..."

Shui Miaozheng stared blankly at the figure on the city wall, a smile slowly blooming on her bright but haggard face.

The morning light shone through the gaps in the clouds, making the mist in my eyes sparkle.

"It's Hall Master Jiang!"

"Lord Jiang is back!"