Battlefield of a Hundred, Holy Dragon Soul Suppression

The moment the Angel Sacred Sword shattered the altar, the entire River Valley Town was illuminated by golden light.

The civilians bound on the platform looked up blankly.

They had been tortured by evil soul masters for days. People beside them had constantly been dragged away, bled dry, and refined into puppets.

Despair had long since shrouded the entire town.

Now, seeing the Six-Winged Angel descend from the sky, many of them even thought they were hallucinating before death.

"Spirit Hall is here!"

No one knew who shouted it.

Crying and shouting instantly erupted from the crowd.

"Save us!"

"The lords of Spirit Hall are here!"

"We're saved!"

Faith and hope were ignited in an instant.

The Bloodfang evil soul masters reacted swiftly.

"Release the corpse puppets!"

"Kill the hostages first!"

Several evil soul masters brandished blood-red weapons, preparing to slaughter the civilians on the platform.

Qian Renxue's second soul ring lit up behind her.

"Angel Holy Light!"

A vast expanse of golden radiance descended from the sky.

The blood-red Soul Power on the evil soul masters touched the holy light as though red-hot irons had been pressed against their skin, immediately billowing with thick black smoke.

Screams rang out one after another.

Their movements were forcibly interrupted as well.

At the same time, Qin Yue smashed through the stone wall on the western side of town and led the main force into the sacrificial grounds.

"Sixth Soul Skill, Split-Mountain Charge!"

The phantom of a Mountain-Splitting Rhino more than ten meters long emerged behind him.

Qin Yue himself transformed into a gray-black streak of light.

The houses, wooden fences, and low-level corpse puppets in his path were all smashed apart.

Three Soul Ancestor evil soul masters tried to block him together.

The instant both sides collided, all three vomited blood and flew backward.

A level-sixty-eight assault-type Soul Emperor erupting head-on was simply not something ordinary Soul Ancestors could withstand.

Chu Jin and Xiao Jin followed close behind.

They did not charge toward the high-level evil soul masters.

His Double Pupils swiftly locked onto the chains on the platform and the positions of the surrounding guards.

"I'll handle the three on the left."

"The rest of you, protect the civilians as they get off the platform."

The twelve guards who had followed them had already learned about Chu Jin from the battle records on the mountain road, and they had personally seen him find the blood array's node earlier.

Upon hearing the order, no one hesitated.

Four guards rushed toward the right side of the platform.

Two guards protected the crowd with shields.

The other six formed a small formation, blocking the low-level evil soul masters pouring in from the streets.

Chu Jin stepped onto the platform.

The first evil soul master unleashed a blood wolf martial soul and pounced from the side.

The Double Pupils saw that his Soul Power was concentrated in both claws, leaving his chest, abdomen, and waist poorly defended.

Chu Jin thrust his heavy halberd forward.

The blood wolf soul master immediately changed direction, attempting to circle around the side of the halberd blade.

Xiao Jin flew out from beneath the halberd's shaft.

"Roar!"

Holy Dragon Soul Suppression erupted at close range.

The blood wolf martial soul's body stiffened.

Chu Jin twisted his wrist, and the halberd's shaft slammed sideways into the man's waist and abdomen.

Bang!

The evil soul master was blasted off the platform, his body smashing through a wooden wall.

The second evil soul master launched a sneak attack from behind.

Chu Jin did not turn around.

The danger sense Xiao Jin sent through their martial soul link had already allowed him to determine the attacker's position in advance.

The butt of his halberd stabbed backward.

It struck the man squarely in the chest.

The third evil soul master had just prepared to detonate the blood beads on his body.

Qian Renxue descended from the sky, and a beam of holy light severed his arm.

Chu Jin swept his weapon sideways.

The evil soul master's head crashed heavily into a stone pillar, knocking him unconscious on the spot.

"The chains!"

Chu Jin shouted.

Two guards with tool martial souls immediately stepped forward.

Iron chains, wooden cages, and blood soul shackles were swiftly destroyed.

The civilians began evacuating from the platform.

The initial rescue went very smoothly.

But dense footsteps suddenly sounded from both sides of the streets.

One corpse after another crawled out of houses, cellars, and underground waterways.

Their skin was deathly pale, their eyes blood-red, and blood-colored threads coiled across their bodies.

There were more than two hundred of them.

Some were townspeople.

Some were Spirit Hall branch soul masters.

Others were Bloodfang Group members who had died over the past few days.

Corpse puppets felt no pain and did not fear death.

They surged toward the sacrificial grounds from every direction, forcibly surrounding the Spirit Hall team and the civilians.

One guard's face went pale.

"So many?"

"The controllers are hiding nearby."

Chu Jin's Double Pupils swept over the corpse puppets.

The blood threads on every dozen or so corpse puppets converged in the same direction.

Some connected to rooftops.

Some led underground.

Others were hidden near the civilian group.

"Don't waste Soul Power attacking the corpse puppets' heads."

"Cut the blood threads and kill the controllers."

Chu Jin planted his heavy halberd at the edge of the platform and moved to a higher position.

His view covered more than half the sacrificial grounds.

"Shield martial souls, block the three street entrances."

"Long weapons, attack the corpse puppets' legs from behind the shields."

"Fire-attribute soul masters, burn the blood threads."

"All ordinary people, retreat to the center of the sacrificial grounds."

Orders came one after another.

The local guards moved swiftly.

The defensive Soul Ancestor who had entered from the eastern side also arrived with the surviving members of the branch.

The more than twenty Spirit Hall members who had previously fought separately were reorganized into formation by Chu Jin.

Several civilian soul masters from the town also approached while protecting their families.

Their levels were not high. The strongest was only in his twenties.

Some had awakened hammers.

Some had awakened ropes.

Others possessed only life-type martial souls.

"Those who can fight, join the line."

Chu Jin looked at the crowd.

"Those with life-type martial souls, move the wounded and protect the children."

"Follow orders, and everyone can make it out alive."

The words were not impassioned.

Yet they gave the panicked crowd a clear direction.

A soul master with an iron pot martial soul was the first to step forward.

His iron pot martial soul could not deal much damage, but once expanded, it could serve as a large shield.

"I'll hold this side!"

Two long-staff soul masters followed behind him.

The rope martial soul soul masters rushed toward the injured civilians, dragging them one by one into the safe area.

The number of people accepting Chu Jin's command rapidly increased.

Overlord Army spread outward from the center of the sacrificial grounds.

At first, it only covered the twelve guards.

Then it quickly grew to thirty people.

Fifty people.

Eighty people.

Everyone within the army could vaguely sense the positions of their companions, while the fear in their hearts was suppressed by a steady force.

They did not know where this power came from.

They only knew that when they stood within the formation, their bodies felt lighter than before, and their reactions were faster as well.

"East side!"

Chu Jin's voice rang across the sacrificial grounds.

On the eastern rooftop, a hidden evil soul master was controlling twenty corpse puppets.

A distant Soul Ancestor had long since taken up position in the bell tower.

Hearing the order, he raised his hand and drew his longbow.

An arrow of Soul Power crossed several hundred meters, piercing straight through the evil soul master's chest.

After losing control, all twenty corpse puppets collapsed at once.

"Second entrance to the underground waterway!"

The controlling Soul Ancestor raised his hand.

A mass of vines burrowed into the waterway and dragged out the evil soul master hiding within.

Qian Renxue swept through the air.

Angel Sacred Flame descended.

The evil soul master and the blood threads around him were purified at the same time.

Control of the battlefield began tilting toward Spirit Hall.

The corpse puppets still numbered greatly, but they could no longer break through the formation.

The civilians evacuated faster and faster.

Golden light continuously flickered in Chu Jin's eyes.

After Overlord Army covered more than a hundred people, the information he received multiplied as well.

The Soul Power of the guard on the left was nearly exhausted.

A civilian soul master on the south side had been injured.

Two corpse puppets were circling across the rooftops toward the civilians' rear.

This information was not seen through his eyes.

The breathing, emotions, and danger senses of everyone within the army were reaching Chu Jin's mind in a hazy manner.

He swiftly made adjustments.

"Xiao Jin, the southern rooftop."

Xiao Jin beat its four wings, transforming into a golden afterimage as it crashed into the two corpse puppets.

"Third group, fall back. Second group, replace them."

"Healing soul masters, tend to the left side first. Don't spread out your Soul Power."

The orders came faster and faster.

The army formation operated more and more smoothly.

The low-ranking Soul Masters, who had originally fought on their own, gradually formed into a real team.

Watching this from the air, Qian Renxue felt far more shaken than she had during past training.

Academy sparring matches had only involved five people.

Now, Chu Jin was commanding over a hundred.

Most of them had never even met him.

Yet in such a short time, they had already begun instinctively trusting his orders.

The Faith Anchor within Qian Renxue radiated brilliant golden light.

Without Chu Jin needing to say a word, she could sense the next target.

Inside a house on the western side of the ritual grounds, three streams of evil Soul Power were gathering.

Qian Renxue beat her wings.

A golden longsword descended from the sky.

Boom!

The house was split apart.

Three evil Soul Masters controlling corpse puppets were exposed.

Chu Jin looked up.

Their gazes met in midair.

"Kill."

Just one word.

Qian Renxue's holy fire fell.

The three evil Soul Masters, along with their blood threads, were incinerated.

The remaining corpse puppets lost control and collapsed in large numbers.

Cheers erupted from the ritual grounds.

As the civilians watched the corpse puppets that had oppressed them for days being struck down one after another, their trust in Spirit Hall and Chu Jin rapidly rose.

The Overlord Army expanded once more.

Chu Jin could feel his strength, mental energy, and Soul Power recovery speed all increasing.

This boost was several times greater than during the battle on the mountain road outside Bluestone Town.

A Soul Elder-level evil Soul Master suddenly sprang from the crowd, his blood blade stabbing straight toward Chu Jin's back.

He had been disguised as an injured townsman, waiting for a chance to get close.

"Watch out!"

Several people around them cried out at once.

Chu Jin did not turn around.

His danger sense erupted in advance through the army formation.

He stepped half a pace forward and twisted sideways, sweeping his eight-hundred-jin heavy halberd backward from his waist.

Bang!

The blood blade was smashed apart by the heavy halberd.

Both of the evil Soul Master's arms twisted grotesquely.

Xiao Jin dropped from the air and bit down on his throat.

Chu Jin did not give him the chance to self-destruct.

The butt of the halberd struck the Soul Power node on his chest.

The Soul Power within the evil Soul Master, on the verge of going berserk, instantly dissipated.

"Drag him out."

Two guards immediately stepped forward.

Qin Yue was suppressing three Soul Ancestors in the distance. Seeing this, the last trace of worry in his heart vanished.

Chu Jin had not charged recklessly just because his parents' enemy was in town.

He was doing what a commander was supposed to do.

Save people first.

Stabilize the front first.

Then find Blood Butcher.

At that moment, violent tremors suddenly spread through all of River Valley Town.

Rumble!

The ground of the ritual grounds split open.

Masses of dark crimson blood gushed from the cracks.

From the cemetery north of town, corpse miasma and bloody light shot into the sky at the same time.

A deep roar came from underground.

The ground continued to bulge.

Bones, corpses, blood, and shattered weapons were forcibly stitched together, forming a Blood-Bone Behemoth more than ten meters tall.

A black-robed figure sat atop the behemoth's back.

The man's face was covered in blood-red patterns, and he gripped a bone magic blade in his right hand.

He looked at Chu Jin in the center of the ritual grounds, the corners of his mouth slowly spreading into a grin.

"Such a resemblance."

"Almost exactly the same as when your father stood before me with his spear back then."

Blood Butcher.

He had finally appeared.