Within Yu Capital City, living beings were plunged into misery.
The citizens living in this city were countless, and chaos had already erupted when ten thousand ghosts prowled the night. To hold back the ghosts, the Regent's Office had once raised grand formations in all four directions. At that time, the city gates had been shut, and no one could escape. For if the gates were opened, it would inevitably create even greater turmoil.
At the time, the people still had faith, believing that the Regent's Office could resolve this disaster.
But after Evil Ksitigarbha appeared, Yu Capital City's defenses were immediately destroyed. No one could stop this resurrected heavenly demon from the Upper Realm.
Only then were the four city gates opened, allowing the people to flee. But ordinary mortals could not fly through the heavens or burrow into the earth. Even with all four gates flung wide open, how many could escape in a short time? Amid the chaos, crushing, trampling, and collisions instead caused countless casualties.
At this moment, the soldiers of the Yu Dynasty played a vital role. The large numbers of guards on the city walls had been the ones best positioned to escape, and they all possessed some cultivation. If they abandoned everything and fled for their lives, there was a good chance they could have gotten away.
Yet not a single soldier in the entire city fled. They all stood atop the walls in every direction, maintaining order for the fleeing citizens and clearing away the nearly endless savage ghosts, preventing them from harming anyone.
But even so, only a relatively small portion of the people escaped in time. The vast majority remained trapped within the city, dying miserably amid the rampage of ghosts and the battle of mighty cultivators.
Evil Ksitigarbha was