Chapter 82: Chapter 82: Ye Family Arrives
The sword rain continually slashed down, and in just a few moments, a large number of demon beasts were annihilated in mid-air outside the city.
This scene was truly terrifying; at least thousands of demon beasts were instantly killed, greatly alleviating the pressure.
"Phew..."
Ji Chen stood atop the city wall, exhaling a long breath, his face somewhat pale.
Evidently, the sword rain just now was naturally deduced by him using the grand array.
This kind of attack was exceedingly demanding on Ji Chen himself. Even with his nine spirit veins, his spiritual power was nearly depleted.
"Everyone, continue to go outside the city to block them. I need some time to restore my spiritual power. Launching such an attack is too costly, though it seems to have been effective. You all may withdraw back into the city in an hour. By then, once my spiritual power is restored, I will launch such an attack again," Ji Chen said.
Everyone was startled, unable to voice their shock.
The means just now had a tremendous impact on them.
The sword rain falling from the sky conducted indiscriminate attacks, causing thousands of demon beasts to meet instant death.
Under such an offensive, never mind the Returning Ruins Realm, even a Celestial Essence Realm level expert caught within could perish.
No one could refrain from being astonished; they clearly had not anticipated that the city defense array Ji Chen constructed possessed active offensive capabilities.
Hong Cheng only felt a chill down his spine, his expression becoming grave.
He privately speculated whether, should Ji Chen use such an array against the Sword King Sect one day, the sect could withstand that terrifying sword rain?
In an instant, a large number of disciples would likely be killed and meet a terrible end.
"Swoosh!"
Without hesitation, Emperor Chu and others exited the city once again to block the enemy.
It must be said that Ji Chen had indeed relieved them of immense pressure by instantaneously killing thousands of demon beasts with the array.
By now, the scale of the beast tide had visibly diminished significantly. Compared to when it first came, less than half of the demon beasts remained.
"Kill!"
Chaos erupted once more. During the time Ji Chen restored his spiritual power, a group of Returning Ruins Realm experts held their positions outside the city.
Finally, an hour later, they received Qu Luoning’s signal to retreat.
The moment they returned to the city wall, everyone could see a purple light illuminating the human world, whereupon the skyful of sword rain formed and, under Ji Chen’s command, consistently pressed down against the beast tide.
"Roar!"
Continual wails of grief echoed in everyone’s ears.
When the purple light dissipated, and the terrifying sword momentum gradually abated, the crowd discovered that the demon beasts outside the city were virtually annihilated, with only a few stragglers fleeing to distant skies.
"Is it finally over...?"
Seeing such a scene, joy surfaced on everyone’s faces.
The battle had lasted a full day and night, with the vast beast tide formed by tens of thousands of demon beasts finally being vanquished.
Celestial Essence City was successfully defended.
"The casualties across all factions in this battle, adding up, must be at least a thousand, right?" Emperor Chu frowned, letting out a long sigh.
In just a day, so many lives were lost, a thousand people laying down their lives here forever.
For the Profound Domain, this was destined to be an unforgettable day.
"Order everyone to rest in place and quickly restore their spiritual power in preparation for the next beast tide," an elder expert instructed.
From the Anomaly Pavilion, Zhuang Miao personally brought many elixirs to everyone, mostly those capable of quickly replenishing one’s internal spiritual power.
In this defense of Celestial Essence City, the Anomaly Pavilion also played a major role. Besides providing elixirs for free, they leveraged the Alchemy Master Alliance’s influence to summon many experts to jointly defend Celestial Essence City.
"Roar!"
Just as everyone let out a sigh of relief and was about to rest in place.
Suddenly, from the distant void came a movement.
Instinctively looking over, everyone’s face instantly turned extremely serious.
Emperor Chu said with a grim expression, "The beast tide is coming again! And it’s no less significant in scale!"
"What should we do? Now nobody’s spiritual power has been restored, we can’t go out to intercept," someone said, a look of despair appearing on their face.
Ji Chen also frowned, clearly not anticipating that just after repelling a vast beast tide and before catching their breath, a similarly astonishing beast tide was striking again.
It was simply impossible to withstand.
Furthermore, with the large-scale attack he just launched with the array, his spiritual power had not yet recovered.
"What to do?"
This was the first thought rising in everyone’s mind, all showing faces of despair, feeling utterly powerless.
"Buzz..."
Suddenly, a terrifying aura spread, originating from the distant void behind Celestial Essence City.
This aura was terrifying beyond everyone’s comprehension.
In the next instant, it seemed as though the space there was pierced by some terrifying existence, as a touch of dark light seeped through.
Looking over, the crowd only then saw that it was a black ancient halberd, like piercing through the barriers of time, bursting forth from that distant Ancient Era at an astonishing speed, charging into the beast tide ahead.
"Boom!"
A loud explosion erupted, shaking heaven and earth.
A black halberd suddenly appeared, bringing mountains crashing wherever it passed. If not for the grand array protecting Celestial Essence City, it would likely have been turned into a wasteland by the terrifying energy shock wave unleashed by the black halberd.
"Roar!"
With just one encounter, the beast tide was utterly routed; under the black halberd’s attack, at least half of the demon beasts were instaneously reduced to ashes, not even leaving a single bone behind.
"What is that?"
Inside Celestial Essence City, everyone was shocked, staring dumbfounded at the scene unfolding outside the city, thoroughly stunned.
And just as they were bewildered, a figure suddenly emerged above the high skies in front of Celestial Essence City.
It was a young man dressed in fine clothes, his entire being enveloped in a golden light, like a Celestial Vault Divine Heir descending upon the world.
The young man extended his great hand forward, instantly recalling the black halberd from the beast swarm below into his hand.
He stood holding the halberd, as if a war god descended to the mortal world, emanating terrifying aura like a mountain, suppressing above Celestial Essence City, making it nearly suffocating for everyone within the city.
"That is..."
"Emperor Ye’s Xuantie Halberd!"
"People from the Ye Family of Cloud Domain have arrived!"
After the astonishment, the city suddenly erupted with such an uproar.