Even without cheats, we must survive the apocalypse

Lu Mu rubbed her hair helplessly, "Okay, okay, I'm just teasing you."

"Be careful, I'm the kind of stubborn girl who is hard to coax."

She raised her neck proudly, with an expression that said, "I am such a difficult girl."

It's actually very cute.

Especially since Gu Yunxi was only as tall as his shoulders, she had to look up to see him.

……

The setting sun disappeared and Zhaotian City fell into darkness.

The remaining living people in the city no longer dared to light a lamp. They hid in the darkest corners they could find, not daring to make any sound for fear of attracting humanoid demons looking for food.

Although no one knows that the evil cultivator who dominated this city is dead, they may find out, or they may never find out until someone tells them.

But these have nothing to do with Lu Mu and the others.

Under the night, the four of them hurried along the mountains or the road, leaving the outline of Zhaotian City far behind the horizon. Before leaving, he had covered the dilapidated courtyard with a formation. The formation was in the hands of the oldest boy named Yun. Lu Mu told him to open it at noon five days later.

That child is very clever.

In the following days, they did not stop for a moment and went deeper into the vast territory of King Nanling.

If he was tired, he would find a secluded place in the wilderness or on a steep mountain to meditate and rest. He did not need to eat, but only took some mild medicinal qi-strengthening pills, and then continued on his way. The farther he went, the more regrettable what he saw.

The mountains and plains were filled with fleeing common people. They might be alive, or already dead. Many spirit beasts were able to feast on them. It seemed that in this lawless place, it was not only bandits and evil cultivators who benefited... They fled from cities that had been occupied by evil cultivators, and villages that had been looted by bandits, and they fled for their lives all over the mountains and plains.

But sometimes the danger outside is actually greater, but it is hard to say which way of death is more painful, dying at the mouth of a spirit beast or dying at the hands of an evil cultivator.

Huang Yanyao and Gu Yunxi did not think of stopping. The mortals were like river sand. How could the four of them save them? It would be better to deal with the Nanling King and the evildoers of the Xiexin Sect as soon as possible, so that the southern border of the imperial dynasty could be peaceful for a while.

Seven days later, Nanling Royal City was within sight.

……

It was already night, and the entire Nanling Royal City was shrouded in darkness. There were no candles or lights inside or outside the city, making it look eerie and cold.

Nanling Royal City is very large, much larger than Tianque City, and its location is also very good. It is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only the west gate faces the hilly plain. If a large foreign enemy army invades, they can only attack from the west. The three mountains connected side by side are definitely where Hong Zhan's elite troops are stationed, and perhaps many formations have been set up to fight the enemy.

Hong Zhan was indeed very cautious, and Huang Yanyao knew a little about military warfare. At first glance, she felt that the Nanling Royal City was easy to defend but difficult to attack. It was more like an extremely heavy fortress than a city.

Even his own base camp is guarded so tightly, I wonder if he has no sense of security or if he has planned it in advance.

Outside the west city gate, the war army was densely packed, they were hidden in the night, without lights or fires, only the murderous aura of the army was rolling like thunder, floating like floating clouds above the royal city. Judging from the number of troops, there were probably at least 100,000 of them.

Huang Yanyao stared at the royal city. The darkness could not block her pupils. In the pitch-black distance, the only smell emanating from Nanling Royal City was an extremely thick smell of blood… They were very far away. The royal city was just a small outline on the horizon. But even at such a distance, it was not difficult to doubt what had happened in the royal city.

"It smells like dead silence."

Murong Xue leaned on Lu Mu's shoulder, looking at the distant Nanling King City through the night with indifferent eyes, "It looks like a lot of people died."

"Such a huge city, with millions of civilians. If he gets a little crazy, it is not impossible for him to throw all of them into the formation." Lu Mu responded, his eyes darkening as he looked at Wang Cheng.

The Great Array of All Souls' Breath-Seizing requires the flesh and blood of living beings. If all the common people in the royal city are sacrificed, the power of the array will probably be even stronger.

King Nanling might not have done this at first, but it was a pity that his poor only son Hong Jing was beaten to pieces by Huang Yanyao.

A father who has lost his mind.

Gu Yunxi patted Lu Mu's arm, "What do you think?"

Lu Mu looked up at the stars in the sky and smiled softly, "This is a good sign. There is no wind or rain tonight, the moon is dim and the stars are hidden. Since the sky is willing not to shine, why not go out and try tonight?"

"Yeah, I like it." Gu Yunxi was delighted to hear that.

Huang Yanyao glanced at Lu Mu, with a faint smile on her slightly raised lips.

The defenses of Nanling Royal City are tight, but there are still loopholes that can be exploited.

They couldn't go west because that was where the army camp was at that time, and any movement might arouse alert. Murong Xue had no way to persuade the 100,000 soldiers to get out of the way, so the only options were three other directions, namely the mountains that the royal city relied on.

Finally they decided to sneak in from the mountains in the east.

……

There were not very sophisticated concealed formations set up on the mountains, and hidden soldiers lurking in the dense forests. They were not very strong, and if they discovered any movement, the first thing they would do was to send a message to alert everyone, but Murong Xue did not give them a chance.

Her method of seduction has been transformed, and with just a wisp of her breath, she can make those low-level secret soldiers lose their minds and then commit suicide.

The four of them walked as if they were in an empty place, all the way to the entrance of the guarding palace halfway up the mountain.

Chapter 110: A Place of Deep Sin

In fact, as early as when he stepped into the range of the mountains, Lu Mu could already feel the secret fluctuations of the formation.

King Nanling will specially send elite troops to guard here. As long as the formation is not broken and each formation complements each other, King Nanling's city will be heavily defended and like a solid wall, it will be indestructible to them.

The royal city is now protected by a city defense formation. The three steep mountains in the east, south and north also provide other defensive formations for the city defense formation.

But Lu Mu did not intend to destroy the formation. He had some knowledge of formations, but he was not proficient in them after all. He only knew the basics. If he acted rashly, the result would be bad, and doing so would be tantamount to telling King Nan Ling that someone was invading.

Exposing one's whereabouts in someone else's lair would be simply an act of seeking death. Now, in order to lure away the Immortal Phoenix Dynasty's worshipper of the realm of creation, Lu Renyou has long left Southern Xinjiang. If anything happens, Lu Mu will have to bear it on his own.

He was not afraid of King Nanling and the Xiexin Sect. He could run away, as he had many treasures and no shortage of magical instruments to escape. But that would mean he would lose the chance to sneak into the royal city again, and then he would only have the last resort of asking for help... Now was not the time to alert the enemy. Only when the formation was about to be completed would Hong Zhan and the Xiexin Sect be most relaxed in their vigilance.

He wanted to kill the defenders so that no one would know that anyone had been here.

Walking down from the entrance of the palace cave, Murong Xue used her charm to directly control all the guards along the way. These people's cultivation was only at the half-step innate realm, and they practiced the unconventional blood-qi military formation method. Of course, they were strong enough when they were together, but now they were separated, and there was no way they could resist the power of Murong Xue's charm.

So they came to the bottom of the palace quietly. According to the distance they had walked, they were now in the middle of the mountain. Going further down, they would go deeper underground. They concealed their breath, so the monk sitting cross-legged in front of the center of the formation did not notice that someone was behind him.

The strength of this cultivator who specialized in formations was not very high, only at the second level of Pi Palace. Murong Xue's charming aura quietly penetrated over.

Being so close, no matter how relaxed the monk was, he would have noticed it by now, but it was too late.

"who……!"

The screams of surprise stopped abruptly, like the cry of a dead baby in the womb.

As soon as he turned his head, the words in his mouth disappeared instantly, and he stopped moving. The fear in his eyes quickly disappeared, leaving only dullness and emptiness. Murong Xue had completely controlled him.

Murong Xue hooked her jade finger frivolously, and the cultivator stood up without even a hint of resistance.

"This kind of charm technique really has the potential to bring chaos to the world."

The surprise in Huang Yanyao's eyes had appeared more than once. Part of the surprise was actually due to Murong Xue's transformation. After all, she was just a person without even a Dao root before, but now she could make the cultivators in the Pigong realm become their soul-losing running dogs under her charm without any resistance.

Earlier on the mountain, she had let those soldiers commit suicide one by one, which was horrifying enough.

Another part of the surprise... came from Huang Wumeng's hostility and fear towards the owner of the Yin Mei Taoist body.

The old ancestor was once the most beautiful woman in the world, the most beautiful woman in the Central Region, and also the empress of the ancient dynasty. But she still had a rival, Huang Yanyao did not know her name, but whenever Huang Wumeng mentioned her, there was no lack of helplessness towards that female elder in her words.

Is the Yin Mei Taoist body really that powerful?

Huang Yanyao actually didn’t quite believe it.

But Murong Xue's mere glance was enough to make her sink into her fantasy. If Huang Wumeng hadn't intervened, she would have already lost her mind... Now Huang Yanyao believed it.

Our predecessors did not exaggerate.

"He is completely defenseless. If he were alert enough, it would not be so easy for me to control him."

Murong Xue responded to Huang Yanyao's words with a gentle look in her eyes, but her ease did not seem fake.

"In that case, let's ask and see what the situation is in Nanling King City."

Lu Mu looked at the cultivator who was no different from a puppet thoughtfully.

"How are the common people in Nanling King City doing now?"

Murong Xue restrained her charming manner and her eyes became cold.

"All of them have been thrown into the blood pool of the sacrificial formation by the prince."

"Do you know whether the formation is complete?"

"I don't know. The formation is located at the bottom of the palace. I cannot get close to it. Anyone who violates it will be executed according to the law."

"Well... then you are of no use to us."

Murong Xue pursed her lips, and the monk's seven orifices bled, and he fell down like mud, his life force gone.

They did not do anything to the eye of the formation and left the palace directly. They also dealt with all the guards on the way and came to the unmanned top of the mountain. From here, they could overlook the entire Nanling Royal City. The royal city had been shrouded in a city defense formation and was almost blended into the darkness. The only place with bright lights was the Nanling Royal Palace in the center of the city. The palace and mansion were extremely luxurious, but it could not hide the dead and depressing atmosphere.

There are few people left in the city. Those running around on the roofs are probably evil cultivators.

Gu Yunxi frowned, and a murderous aura emerged.

In such a huge city, all the people of the imperial dynasty were thrown into the formation.

It really goes against the harmony of nature.

"It seems that this place is already a dead city."

Lu Mu stood on the cliff and looked down. The palace was already in sight in the distance, but the only place with lights on in the darkness made people feel cold, as if the most evil was escaping from it and drowning everything.

"Want to go into town?"

He looked at Huang Yanyao. Going deep into the devil's cave had been her plan from the beginning. An easier way would be to get a cultivator from Tianhuang City who could raze the place to the ground. But she had other plans.

Now that they are standing here, she has unknowingly become the backbone, not Lu Mu.

"I think you have a way for us to pass through the city defense formation quietly?"

The bright lights of Nanling Palace were reflected in Huang Yanyao's eyes, so deep that it was difficult to detect the truth.

Lu Mu nodded.

"Then go in."

A winding path leads directly to the foot of the mountain. It is actually only a mile away from the city wall, but there are not many defenders here. The four of them restrained their breath and used the night as a natural cover. They bypassed more than a dozen patrol teams along the way and stopped outside the barrier of the city defense formation.

Lu Mu took out a copper lamp from his spirit ring and injected true energy into it. The copper lamp quickly emitted a deep purple mist that enveloped the four people. He winked at each other, and they stepped together across the city defense formation as if walking on flat ground, without any obstacles.

Easy and freehand.

There are hundreds of magic weapons in Lu Mu's spiritual ring, which will always come in handy, like now.

After passing the formation, the city wall of Nanling King City is right in front of us.

The four of them each mobilized their true Qi and quickly jumped onto the top of the wall. There were no guards on the wall, so they flipped over and fell into a deep alley at the edge.

As soon as I landed safely, a strong fishy stench immediately hit me.

Under their feet was sticky blood.

Looking around, the short, narrow, winding alleys were stained blood red, the doors and windows of the houses lined up were broken, and the smell emanating from inside was so dry and rotten that it was appalling.

Like a dirty and filthy bloody painting.

"...It seems there are still some who are unwilling to obey."

Gu Yunxi raised her foot with some disgust. Her boots were white jade in color, but after this, she would never wear them again.

"It's the work of an evil cultivator."

"Since Hong Zhan has already lost his humanity and is willing to use the people he once protected to refine the formation, those evil cultivators will probably not be able to resist their bloodthirsty desire to kill people."

King Nanling's army is composed of elite soldiers. It is meaningless to kill ordinary people who have no power to resist, but the evil cultivators like to do this. They just want rivers of blood to flow and turn this place into a chaotic hunting ground.

Their hunting grounds.

Lu Mu took the lead and left the alley. The streets were dark and full of corpses.

The streets, or even right in the middle, were filled with corpses, their tendons pulled out, their skin peeled off, their internal organs shattered, their limbs and body parts scattered all over the ground. The way they died was extremely tragic, and the pain they endured was obvious at a glance.

This is a completely dead city.

Murong Xue wanted to look away in disgust, but no matter where she looked, she could only see corpses. Even when she looked up at the sky, the stench from the whole city was carried by the wind, tinging the night with a little crimson. If there was a moon tonight, it would surely be blood red.

"Evil cultivators are a disaster to the world, but such methods are really..."

Gu Yunxi slowly clenched her fists.

They had never seen such a scene before, where millions of ordinary people were sacrificed in this way, and what was left behind was a scene that looked like the abyss on earth.

The evil of the Evil Heart Sect and its unforgivable sins can be seen from this small corner of Nanling Royal City.

“Hehe…” Lu Mu laughed softly, “Without any power, they were slaughtered like pigs and dogs. They are pathetic, and the evil cultivators are even more despicable.”

He was angry, but that was all.