The next day.
Jun Wangyou had arrived early and was waiting at the edge of the central plaza.
At this moment, there were hardly any people left in the teleportation plaza.
Compared to the sea of people yesterday, it was practically deserted now.
Only two or three staff members remained, chatting idly out of boredom.
As for what had happened here, Jun Wangyou had already learned about it earlier.
Just then, Ye Lingtian jogged over from afar.
His steps were light; anyone unaware would have thought he was heading out on a trip.
When he reached him, Ye Lingtian said excitedly, "Big Brother, let's go."
Before long, the two arrived before the teleportation array.
The staff immediately bowed upon seeing Ye Lingtian. "Greetings, Young Master Ye."
Ye Lingtian waved a hand. "Cut the nonsense. Activate the teleportation array already. I'm going to the east."
"Yes, Young Master Ye."
The staff did not dare delay. They immediately loaded spirit stones and activated the teleportation array.
Meanwhile, Jun Wangyou stepped up to the teleportation array and studied it carefully.
The teleportation array was a device shaped like a crescent moon.
It was covered in mysterious inscriptions.
As spirit stones were placed into the grooves, the originally grayish-white inscriptions lit up one by one.
Soon, every inscription had lit up.
A beam of light shot out from each end of the crescent, converging in the center to form a mirror-like vortex.
"How amazing."
Jun Wangyou looked astonished, as though he had never seen anything like it before.
Ye Lingtian walked over and smiled faintly. "Big Brother, let's go."
Yesterday, Ye Lingtian had been somewhat reluctant to call him that, but now it rolled off his tongue more naturally.
Jun Wangyou nodded, and the two stepped into the teleportation array together.
Not long after they left.
A figure descended rapidly from the sky. It was a middle-aged man clad in a black brocade robe.
The surrounding staff became even more respectful upon seeing him. "Greetings, Third Master Ye."
Third Master Ye was currently the third most powerful figure in the Ye family, and Ye Lingtian's paternal uncle.
Ye Fan looked anxious. He grabbed a staff member by the collar and demanded, "Tell me, where is Ye Lingtian?"
The staff member trembled violently, his face full of misery. "Reporting to Third Master Ye, Young Master Lingtian has already been teleported away."
"Where? I mean, which city was on the other end of the teleportation?"
Ye Fan asked with a frown.
"Reporting to Third Master Ye, Tai'an City."
"Tai'an City!!!"
Ye Fan's voice suddenly rose, then the light faded from his eyes as he looked utterly devastated.
"It's over. It's all over!"
Seeing this, the staff member could not help asking, "Third Master Ye, did something happen in Tai'an City?"
Ye Fan sighed mournfully. "Tai'an City was breached by the Demon-Monster Allied Army not long ago. Of the millions in the city, some fled and some died. The news only just arrived. Lingtian going there now is no different from walking into a tiger's jaws!"
"It's over. How am I supposed to explain this to Big Brother?"
In eastern Eastern Continent, before the teleportation array in the center of Taixuan City.
The place had already become desolate. Corpses lay everywhere in the streets, scarlet blood still lingered in the gaps between the paving stones, and fallen leaves covered the ground amid complete chaos.
Yet in front of the teleportation array, more than a dozen people were gathered around a huge round table, drinking and making merry.
All of them carried a heavy stench of blood and wore black clothes, their laughter unrestrained.
Suddenly, one of them drained a bowl of blood wine mixed with fresh blood and said unhappily:
"I have no idea what those people up there are thinking, making us guard this damned teleportation array. Everyone knows the east belongs to us now. What blind fool would dare come here to die?"
The moment he said this, the others immediately chimed in.
"Exactly. There's wine and meat here, sure, but nothing else. It's boring as hell. I want to kill someone!"
"Ugh!"
The group sighed, then... resumed guzzling wine and tearing into meat.
Just then, the circular teleportation array behind them suddenly flashed with light.
"..."
The group glanced back but paid it no attention, thinking their eyes were playing tricks on them.
They turned back around and continued eating, drinking, and making merry.
But they did not know that in the instant they turned away.
Two youths had already emerged from the teleportation array.
Jun Wangyou and Ye Lingtian stared blankly at the scene before them.
Jun Wangyou was fine; he understood what had happened in an instant.
Ye Lingtian, on the other hand, wore a face full of self-doubt.
Suddenly, a sharp-eyed Demonic Cultivator spotted them and immediately roared, "People! Grab them!"
"People? Where?"
The Demonic Cultivators turned around in confusion, then saw Jun Wangyou and Ye Lingtian.
At once, every Demonic Cultivator's eyes lit up as though they had seen peerless beauties.
"Hahaha! Someone finally came! Leave that pretty boy to me. I'm going to have my way with him, hahaha!"
"Give him to me after you're done, Big Brother. I haven't had a taste in ages either."
"Me too! Me too!"
It turned out that all dozen or so of them were gay.
Ye Lingtian's scalp instantly went numb, followed by overwhelming fury.
"Damn it, you disgust me! Die, all of you!"
Ye Lingtian formed hand seals with both hands, and a red magic array instantly formed before him. More than a dozen fireballs larger than humans flew out from it.
The fireballs shot toward the Demonic Cultivators.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The fireballs exploded, blasting the dozen or so Demonic Cultivators into piles of mangled flesh.
Ye Lingtian was still cursing. He had truly been disgusted beyond measure.
"Go!"
Jun Wangyou remained calm. He grabbed Ye Lingtian with one hand and ran into the distance.
If they did not run now, were they supposed to wait to die?
The situation was already obvious.
This city had been breached and completely occupied by the Demon-Monster Allied Army.
The people in the city had either died or fled.
They had drawn a royal flush right from the start. Jun Wangyou practically wanted to curse out loud!
Inside an abandoned, ruined house.
Jun Wangyou and Ye Lingtian concealed their auras and hid there.
"Big Brother, it's all my fault. I never knew this place... would actually..."
Ye Lingtian looked deeply guilty.
Jun Wangyou waved a hand and smiled. "It's fine. No one could have predicted this. Besides, aren't you here with me too?"
"Ugh!" Ye Lingtian sighed, looking around with worried eyes.
They had practically walked into a tiger's den. The danger was extreme.
One misstep, and both of them would die here.
At this moment, Jun Wangyou pressed himself against the wall and listened carefully to the sounds outside.
Then he said to Ye Lingtian, "Wait here. I'm going out for a while."
"Alright." Ye Lingtian was rather innocent and did not think much of it.
After darting outside, Jun Wangyou changed into a set of pitch-black clothes.
Hidden in the darkness, he was impossible for ordinary people to detect.
He arrived atop a towering building and looked down over the entire city.
At first glance, Jun Wangyou immediately sucked in a cold breath.
The entire Tai'an City was now engulfed in flames and smoke.
What was even more horrifying and shocking was that there were dozens of hundred-meter-tall piles of corpses in the city, each resembling a small mountain!
Beside those corpse piles, countless enormous Demonic Beasts were feeding.
Jun Wangyou even saw a terrifying Demonic Beast as large as a mountain lying on the ground in deep sleep.
Its terrifying size made even Jun Wangyou feel fearful just looking at it.
If that Demonic Beast slapped down with one paw, the entire city would probably shake.
"So this is the Demon-Monster Allied Army. Interesting."
Jun Wangyou's eyes flickered as he continued observing carefully.
He discovered that there were actually not many members of the Demon-Monster Allied Army in the city now.
There were only around a thousand humans and several thousand Demonic Beasts.
That number was highly abnormal. It was far too small.
There was no way they could have taken Tai'an City with so few forces.
If so, there was only one conclusion: the main force had already left.
Only a small portion remained behind to guard this city.
"If that's the case, perhaps..."
A fierce glint flashed through Jun Wangyou's eyes.
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