Beyond the wooden wall, the ghost tide surged.
Hundreds upon thousands of Demon Wraiths charged over the corpses of their own kind, rotting hands constantly clawing onto the wall. Evil-breaking crossbow bolts whistled over everyone's heads, bursting into great sprays of foul blood amid the ghost tide, yet they could not fill that ever-advancing sea of crimson mist.
Lu Chen stood on the tottering wooden wall, holding a Hundred-Forged Long Saber.
Its blade was long and narrow, forged entirely from darksteel mixed with red-patterned steel. The cold, hard edge reflected the flickering firelight around him and could withstand an intense infusion of blood energy.
The wooden wall beneath his feet suddenly shook violently.
A Demon Wraith covered in gray-white bone spurs smashed through the barricade and leaped up from the piled corpses. Its ten fingers were hooked claws, and its split mouth stretched almost behind its ears as it lunged straight at the Martial Guards atop the wall.
"Watch out! A Bone-Forging Demon Wraith!"
A nearby Martial Guard cried out a warning. Several spears thrust out together, only to be smashed apart by a sweep of the wraith's arm. It landed atop the wall, and the planks beneath its feet immediately cracked under the unbearable weight.
Lu Chen stepped forward.
His saber cleaved down from above with brutal force.
Swish!
The icy edge cut into the top of the wraith's head, split through its hard skull, chest, and abdomen, and cleaved the Bone-Forging Demon Wraith in half.
The two halves crashed below the wall, splashing thick black blood across the planks. The stench of decay mingled with dense smoke and washed over the nearby Martial Guards, turning several of them pale.
Lu Chen did not even blink.
He kicked the wraith's remains off the wooden wall, swept his gaze across