Clang—!!
With a soft ring, the straight blade in Cao Yuan's palm slid from its sheath.
Pitch-black Malevolent Qi Flames ignited in Cao Yuan's pupils, weaving into a slowly burning, flickering black king's robe that draped behind him. His eyes were crimson as blood!
Mad Demon Cao Yuan opened his mouth and roared fiercely at the Beast Tide surging through the narrow breach!
"Roar roar roar—!!!!"
That roar directly drowned out the howls of the "Mysteries" breaking through the wall, stunning the frontmost wave of "Mysteries" into a halt as bewilderment appeared on their faces.
Before they could recover, Mad Demon Cao Yuan gripped his straight blade and shot forward like an arrow, charging alone at all the "Mysteries" packed beyond Chenglong Pass's shattered wall.
The outer wall of Chenglong Pass, which had housed the heavy weapons, had been breached by a gap roughly a hundred meters wide. At that moment, over a thousand "Mysteries" were frantically squeezing into Chenglong Pass through that opening. Yet because the "Mysteries" varied in size and most were enormous, it would still take some time for all of them to pass through the breach.
This forced them to passively compress their formation, filing through the gap in a long, narrow column to enter Chenglong Pass.
And Lin Qiye's group of seven stood right in the middle of that narrow breach.
It was a steel stronghold, easy to defend and hard to attack.
Of course, even though the Beast Tide's compressed formation greatly weakened the frontal force compared to before, they were still a swarm of calamity-level beings. Cao Yuan alone could never hold this breach.
Jialan brushed her fingertips over the Black Box, and the golden spear Sky Palace automatically sprang forth.
She seized the spear shaft and stomped heavily on the ground, turning