Buzz!
At once, Su Yuexi felt as though the sky had gone dark and the earth had turned upside down. All she could see before her was an endless, pitch-black void.
"Jing Gege, Jing Gege!" Su Yuexi burst into loud sobs, her grief shaking the entire city.
Suddenly, a scream rang out beneath the city walls.
As if waking from a dream, Su Yuexi erupted once more. She lunged to the edge of the wall and saw her father, Su Zhenglong, slumped against the city gate, a spear wound in his shoulder pouring blood.
"Father..." Su Yuexi cried, about to throw herself down, but someone held her back with all their strength.
"Let go of me! Let me go!"
Su Yuexi struggled madly, but with her third-level Human Realm strength, how could she possibly break free? Her eyes bloodshot, she looked at Duan Chengshan. "I want to go down and die with my father! I want to go be with Jing Gege! Why won't you let me go down and die with them?"
Tears streamed wildly down her face. She had already broken down completely.
All of a sudden, a voice cried out in wild delight, "City Lord, look! Reinforcements!"
At those words, Duan Chengshan and the others instinctively looked into the distance. They saw towering clouds of dust rolling across the earth, while hoofbeats thundered one after another, as if all of Yunye City were trembling.
Countless people atop the walls widened their eyes, their faces lighting up with ecstatic joy.
"It must be Yun Province City's troops coming to reinforce us! We're saved!" a City Lord's Guard officer shouted.
The entire city erupted in excitement. Yunye City would not fall after all.
At that moment, Su Yuexi stopped struggling and shouted, "City Lord, the reinforcements are here! You