After maxing out my affinity, my signature weapon kept evolving.

Xie Wenyuan wanted to throw away the rusty iron knife, but it was his own spiritual weapon, connected to his life essence, and throwing it to the ends of the earth would be of no use.

"I'm doomed. Am I going to become a part of the void too?"

Fortunately, it was just a false alarm. Just when he was in despair, the system provided an explanation:

[Host, don't worry. The void will enter your spiritual weapon because your spiritual weapon can absorb void to strengthen itself. There's no need to be concerned.]

"Absorb the power of the void to strengthen myself? Wouldn't that make me a Void Order?"

[No, they are using the power of the void, which will eventually backfire on them. But the host is directly absorbing and transforming it. As long as they don't absorb a large amount in a short period of time, it won't corrupt the host's mind.]

It seems that the rusty iron knife the system gave me is truly extraordinary; the void, which others would avoid at all costs, has become nourishment for me.

After eliminating a few more beasts that hadn't been corrupted by the void, Xie Wenyuan looked towards Sun Huazeng and the others. The path that he had forcibly changed for the beast horde earlier seemed to have been reversed by an unknown force, and they were heading back towards the main city area once again.

"Damn it, what's that in the main city area? Everyone's running over there."

Sun Huazeng had started cursing in the street at this point, and all his previous efforts had been in vain.

Everyone present was engulfed by the horde of beasts. Spiritual cultivators above the Spirit Lord level could use their spiritual power to create protective auras, while spiritual practitioners like Xie Wenyuan had to rely solely on their physical bodies to withstand the onslaught.

With powerful spirit beasts mixed in, some cultivators with low cultivation levels gradually began to run out of strength, and one after another, they perished under the hooves of the beasts.

Wang Changqing roared and slashed down with his saber again, briefly creating a vacuum in front of everyone.

"Lord City Lord, this can't go on. Let's break out of here! We can't afford to lose any more people!"

Sun Huazeng tried the same trick again, sweeping the beasts aside, but this time it had little effect.

Behind them, countless wild beasts had already escaped and rushed towards the main city. Although there were catapults and heavy crossbows for defense, if this continued, those ranged weapons would be exhausted.

Wang Changqing is now in a dilemma. If he retreats, the beast horde will soon attack the city walls, and the city walls of Renqiu City will not be able to withstand the beast tide. But if he does not retreat, everyone except himself and Sun Huazeng will die here sooner or later.

But the Marquis of Hejian's reinforcements won't arrive here in a short time. What should we do? Should we make the whole city pay the price for our recklessness and stupidity?

But at that moment, a sudden change occurred.

Hundreds of purple "meteors" fell from the sky, precisely targeting and eliminating the most powerful spirit beasts in the horde. To Xie Wenyuan, this was like missiles from his previous life, which was extremely shocking.

Then an earthen wall rose from the ground, stretching for thousands of meters, keeping the beasts outside.

"What's going on?"

Everyone looked up at the sky, where two figures shrouded in purple cloaks were floating hundreds of meters in the air, like gods descending to earth.

"To be able to fly into the sky without the aid of external objects, one must be at least a Spirit King level expert."

However, the Marquis of Hejian was in the capital at the moment, not in his fiefdom a hundred miles away, so he had no way to get here so quickly.

Who are they?

Countless questions arose in Wang Changqing's mind, but in any case, these two powerful figures were heroes who saved them.

Xie Wenyuan felt that the aura emanating from the two people in the air was somewhat familiar, yet also somewhat repulsive to him.

Ren Xudong suddenly knelt on the ground and shouted:

"Thank you, Your Excellency, for saving our lives! Why aren't you kneeling down to express your gratitude!"

The first half of these words were addressed to the two people in the air, while the second half was addressed to everyone present, including Wang Changqing.

In the air, one of them waved his hand and said in a deep voice:

"There's no need for that. We two came here to rescue you all; there's no need to take it to heart."

The other person said:

"The situation is critical, and the two of us will do our best to drive back the beast tide."

Wang Changqing bowed deeply and said:

"Thank you both for your help in rescuing the people of Renqiu from disaster."

With the intervention of these two mysterious powerful figures, the beast horde seemed to feel a terror no less intense than that in the heart of the forest, and the beast tide was forced to change course.

"System, can you sense their background?"

[The host is making things difficult for this system; this system simply wants to remind this lowly host to be vigilant.]

Xie Wenyuan couldn't get an answer from the system, but judging from Ren Xudong's attitude towards him as if he were an ancestor, he could tell that these two had a significant connection with the Ren family.

So this is the real source of the Ren family's confidence in committing all sorts of evil deeds in Renqiu City?

As the two powerful figures landed on the ground, the remaining spiritual cultivators knelt down, expressing their gratitude.

Only Xie Wenyuan, Wang Changqing, and Sun Huazeng remained standing, expressing their gratitude verbally.

"Xie Wenyuan, how dare you disrespect the Envoy?"

A Donald Duck-like voice came from behind the mysterious expert. Xie Wenyuan looked closely and saw that it was his defeated opponent, Ren Xingyuan.

Not only that, his tortoise shield suddenly detached from his body and aimed directly at Xie Wenyuan's calf.

"Kneel down!"

Xie Wenyuan wouldn't let him have his way. With a flick of his longsword, the shield flew to the side.

Although his technique was rather clumsy, both the shield's bizarre flight path and the two cloud patterns on it indicated that Ren Xingyuan had broken through to the Spirit Master realm.

In just half a month, he actually jumped from the intermediate spirit master to the spirit master realm, which is considered genius even in a large family.

Xie Wenyuan glanced at it and noticed that the originally green tortoise shield had turned a strange purple, emanating an unsettling aura.

"Ren Xingyuan, what do you mean? You weren't here when we were fighting the beast tide, but now you're trying to show off?"

Ren Xingyuan chuckled and said with a sinister look:

"I just arrived with the two envoys. I was in the midst of a crucial breakthrough, and I came here as soon as I broke through. You, on the other hand, are ungrateful. It wouldn't be a shame if you were eaten by a spirit beast!"

Xie Wenyuan realized that this kid was just using someone else's power to bully others.

Seeing Ren Xingyuan jumping around, Wang Changqing interrupted him to avoid delaying the important matter:

"May I ask who you two are, and why you came to our rescue?"

"We are the left and right protectors of the Holy Church's Hejian Kingdom branch. After learning of the beast tide that occurred here, we came to help under the command of the branch leader. As for the reason, the Holy Church could not bear to see the people of Renqiu City suffer, so it naturally took action."

"Yes, the purpose of our Holy Church is to worship the Holy Heaven and save all living beings. Of course, besides that, we have another matter, which concerns our newly joined young believer."

Wang Changqing looked puzzled:

"Ren Xingyuan? What does he have to do with this?"

"Of course there is a connection. This young friend named Xie Wenyuan once injured Ren Xingyuan without cause, and he has come here specifically to seek an explanation for him."

Xie Wenyuan rolled his eyes. Here it comes, the classic trope of a spoiled brat seeking revenge.