In Yunlu County, the townspeople watched the shimmering light curtain of the Magic Array rise and fall.
Though fear had seized their hearts, they mustered the courage to look beyond the curtain.
To their horror, the demons looked even more frightened than they were.
Demon flesh flew across the sky, and scarlet blood ran in rivers, staining the land outside Yunlu County red.
Only then did the demons, who had lost all reason and charged toward their deaths, seem to come to their senses.
They stared in terror at the defensive Magic Array their bodies could not break. Fear stirred in the hearts of these denizens of the Ten Thousand Demon Lair for the first time in ages.
In past campaigns, the Ten Thousand Demon Lair had swept through the Human Race forces it attacked like a knife through bamboo—or close enough.
Even Tianyan Sect, when it had attempted to restore its former rule, had lasted less than three days under the siege of the Demon Ancestors dispatched by the Cave Master before hastily renaming itself the Dao Alliance.
After that, it had never dared mention the name Tianyan Sect again.
"Since when did the Great Qi Dynasty command such powerful methods with arrays?"
The woman in thin silk silently watched everything unfolding below, then looked at the young man fighting alone against many foes and slaughtering the Demon Ancestors with ease.
The Ten Thousand Demon Lair had vowed to send every Demon Ancestor it had in retaliation, yet it could not even take this shabby little county town.
Was this still the Great Qi Dynasty she knew, a dynasty that had barely found a shortcut to power through Incense Wish Power?
The more she thought about it, the more unsettled she became. Suppressing her astonishment, she turned her