The Lone Battle Against the Beast Tide

Boom!

As if something had been triggered, the iron-poured walls of Lihuo City crumbled and collapsed in an instant.

The collapse spread in a continuous wave, starting from the city gate and rapidly extending outward. In no time, the entire ring of walls around Lihuo City began to crumble.

In the blink of an eye, the mighty walls that had stood for hundreds of years crumbled like clods of earth, brittle and fragile.

Li Ruojun had just arrived and witnessed the scene. Shocked beyond belief, she looked at Ge Liancheng, who lay motionless on the ground, and shouted in fury, "Ge Liancheng, you'll die a terrible death! How dare you destroy the walls? Do you even know what you're doing?"

As the eldest daughter of Lihuo City's ruling family, and a renowned first-rate prodigy, Li Ruojun had learned long ago from her father that the walls had been fashioned into a powerful formation.

Before leaving, Lihuo City Lord had even given Li Ruojun specific instructions for emergencies: if danger arose, she was to activate the formation without hesitation and protect Lihuo City completely.

But Li Ruojun had never imagined that Ge Liancheng would learn the greatest secret of Lihuo City, something she herself had only discovered a few months ago.

The fact that Lihuo City had a formation protecting it was a good thing. Revealing it would have reassured the people, and there was no reason to keep it secret.

But although the formation was powerful, in a certain sense, it was also fragile.

If anyone learned how it was arranged, it would be easy to destroy.

That was why only the Li family, the ruling family of Lihuo City, knew of the formation.

In fact, fewer than ten people in the entire Li family knew about it.

Yet somehow,