Devil-Slaying Divine Spear

Over the next few days, Zhang Tie felt as if he had entered a dark, nauseating nightmare. Even he did not know how he had endured it.

After July 7, the elite forces of the Zhang Clan of Huaiyuan Prefecture and the Stormcloud Iron Cavalry of the Taishi Clan from Langya Prefecture withdrew to fifteen kilometers outside Tianhan City, sealing the entire city in a tight encirclement. Devilized humans infested by puppet worms constantly fled from Tianhan City, only to be killed by the troops surrounding it.

Among those devilized humans who were killed were men and women, old and young, even children. Most had been ordinary people while alive, so their fighting strength was extremely limited. Even the few who possessed some combat ability were no match at all for the Zhang and Taishi forces.

The first time he struck at those devilized humans, even Zhang Tie struggled inwardly. The people who charged at him then, judging by their clothes, had clearly been ordinary residents of Tianhan City. They were the first wave to surge out from Tianhan City, crashing headlong into the Zhang Clan's defensive line.

Their eyes were blood-red, their faces savage and livid. Strange, meaningless sounds came from their mouths as they brandished all manner of miscellaneous weapons—wooden clubs, kitchen knives, and the like—and rushed out of Tianhan City in a swarm. There were roughly more than four hundred of them.

"These residents of Tianhan City are already dead! The Devil Race and the Zhen Clan killed them! What we see now are no longer humans, but merely devilized creatures and flesh-and-blood zombies wearing human shells. What controls them are the puppet worms in their heads!"

An officer from Huaiyuan Hall shouted himself hoarse, then loosed the arrow in his hand, blasting apart the head of