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Chapter 187 Displaying Divine Skills

On the long street, the situation temporarily fell into a stalemate.

Li Muyang, holding a hostage, stood within the Demon Sect’s battle formation.

The group of Blood Lotus Sect warriors, wearing red headbands, glared at him with eyes nearly bursting with rage yet, fearing to hurt the hostage, dared not advance.

After half of her tongue was cut off, Nangong Ting had since fallen into silence.

With a cold expression, she allowed Li Muyang to hold her hostage, no longer making any sound or attempting to struggle.

Li Muyang, holding the hostage, slowly retreated under the cover of the Tianjiao City soldiers.

The group of warriors, wielding steel knives and wearing red headbands, attempted to pursue but the sound of patrolling soldiers rushing to reinforce could already be heard in the distant alleys.

Hearing such noise, the six flag bearers of the Blood Lotus Sect glared fiercely at Li Muyang.

"Li! If you dare to harm our incense master, you won’t be able to leave Tianjiao City!"

After dropping the harsh threat, the group of Blood Lotus Sect warriors actually turned and left.

They moved away promptly with orderly steps, quickly disappearing around the corner.

Seeing this fierce group of warriors leave, all the soldiers on the street breathed a sigh of relief.

Their clashes with these warriors were too deadly; if there was a chance to live, who would choose death?

Now that the enemy was driven off, the soldiers on the street immediately cheered as if they had survived a great disaster.

City Lord Tianjiao also didn’t call for the soldiers to pursue, allowing the Blood Lotus Sect’s warriors to leave, understanding clearly the gap in strength between these ordinary soldiers and the Blood Lotus Sect warriors.

Even with numerical superiority, his own side was still massacred and forced to retreat with heavy casualties by this group of warriors.

Under such circumstances, there wasn’t the capability to pursue.

To be able to stabilize the situation and drive off that group of demon-like followers of the Blood Lotus Sect was indeed a great fortune amid misfortune.

Ou Ziyu stood in the center of the long street, not leaving but quickly dispatched soldiers and government officials to contact the nearby patrolling troops for support.

Soon, messages began to arrive like flakes of snow.

Only then did the situation in Tianjiao City unfold before everyone’s eyes.

The mysterious blood fog arrived abruptly, instantly covering the entire Tianjiao City and even the wilderness outside the city.

It was conservatively estimated that an area within a hundred miles was engulfed by the blood fog.

During the turmoil, a total of six teams of demon-like followers of the Blood Lotus Sect appeared across the city, slaughtering cultivators and breaking into government buildings.

Each team of these Blood Lotus Sect demon followers consisted of two hundred robust and vigorous warriors catching the major government offices in Tianjiao City off guard.

Nine major government offices were attacked, and six were breached, causing heavy casualties among the Demon Sect’s cultivators.

Those cultivators who were once esteemed were now miserably killed by the blades of ordinary warriors, dying in extreme agony.

The Blood Lotus Sect’s demon followers were quick and aggressive in their attacks; they even overran the most securely guarded prison and released all the imprisoned followers of the Blood Lotus Sect.

As the chaos in the city worsened, the patrolling soldiers were busy rushing to defend the city walls.

After the blood fog lifted, tens of thousands of Blood Lotus Sect devotees emerged from the wilderness outside Tianjiao City, densely attacking the city gates and scaling the walls, trying to breach into the city.

The devotees outside the city were much weaker than the twelve hundred rebels inside the city.

However, their sheer number put immense pressure on the defending soldiers.

Not to mention, amidst the wilderness outside the city, there clearly was the grand flag of the Blood Lotus Sect’s leader.

The flag brought with it an enormous oppressive force.

— Could it be that the legendary Blood Lotus Sect Leader had also come?

This time, attacking Tianjiao City, the Blood Lotus Sect had deployed its elite in full force, hardly holding anything back.

Even Li Muyang couldn’t help but furrow his brows after receiving those urgent reports.

One hundred thousand troops had surrounded the city from outside?

And inside, over a thousand martial artists were setting fires and causing chaos...

This time, the Blood Lotus Sect had gone all-in, mobilizing nearly all the forces they could.

They were clearly determined to fight to the death, aiming to trap and kill all the top fighters of the Refinement Demon Sect within Tianjiao City.

Now, with twelve Elders and one Sect Master trapped inside, eliminating these formidable Elders of the Demon Sect would greatly weaken the Refinement Demon Sect, which had dominated the area.

Ou Ziyu and Yan Xiaoru were stationed in the city, continuously directing the patrol camps’ soldiers and receiving news from around the city.

The six teams of Blood Lotus Sect warriors causing chaos in the city were fast and brutal, leaving no survivors in their wake.

However, they rarely stuck to one location, quickly changing directions and leaving if their offensive faltered, attacking other parts of the city instead.

The city was already in chaos, and the incidents had occurred suddenly.

As a result, it was impossible to gather a large force to encircle these six teams of warriors wreaking havoc.

Ou Ziyu, receiving the constant flow of reports, was plagued by headaches.

While issuing orders to assemble the patrol camp soldiers, he was also confirming the whereabouts of the Demon Sect’s major powers.

Now that the situation had stabilized, it was possible to summon all the Elders back.

By gathering the Elders and having the Sect Master step forward, relying on the Demon Sect’s long-standing authority to forcibly unite the people’s hearts, they could potentially defend the city with the soldiers inside.

Not to mention, there were hundreds of thousands of ordinary civilians in the city who could also be rallied to defend the walls at critical moments.

Although there were many demon followers of the Blood Lotus Sect outside, this place was ultimately the Demon Sect’s territory.

Once the message was sent out, it wouldn’t take long for reinforcements to arrive, and then they could break through the troublemakers of the Blood Lotus Sect and turn danger into safety.

—This had been the plan of the City Lord of Tianjiao City.

But the subsequent news shattered his plan.

"...Report! The Sect Master has mysteriously disappeared; we’ve lost track of his whereabouts. Now we don’t know where the Sect Master is, only a decree from him remains!"

"Report! Elder Sun broke into the alchemy furnace, concocted a batch of elixirs, swallowed them, and transformed into a hawk before flying away!"

"Report! Elder Wu was swallowed by a water demon beast at Stone Gate Bridge and carried away along the river by the beast!"

"Report! Elder Qi ran to the east gate, took away eight thousand cavalry from the patrol camp. A quarter of an hour ago, Elder Qi led the cavalry out of the city gates, broke through the Blood Lotus Sect’s demon followers’ formation outside, and headed east!"

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"Report..."

One urgent report after another came in.

Each piece of news made the City Lord of Tianjiao City’s eyelids twitch uncontrollably.

In such a dire moment, these Elders of the Refinement Demon Sect were displaying their divine skills and finding ways to escape.

But with one hundred thousand Blood Lotus Sect demon followers outside, could you really escape?!

Escaping aside, that damnable Elder Qi had even taken away his eight thousand cavalry?

In the past, these eight thousand cavalry were negligible, only used for suppressing local thieves and for convenience in operations; that’s why they were equipped with so many horses.

But under the current circumstances, this cavalry represented Tianjiao City’s strongest combat force!

Yet Elder Qi had taken them all away...

Ou Ziyu rubbed his temples forcefully, his face bitter.

"We might as well be dead..."