"Clang!"

There was no sound of explosions.

But out of the corners of their eyes, they could clearly see bursts of eerie green fire blooming in the air.

Meatworm Wraiths were spherical strange entities with no means of moving on their own. They could not control their bodies and could only drift with the wind, their weight light.

The wind was strong tonight.

The Bamboo Pole Entities stood upwind, using their favorable position to hurl Meatworm Wraiths at the City Wall.

They intended to destroy the City Wall this way, then charge into the Camp's core area.

Under this assault, Chen Fan and the others had little room to fight back. They stayed behind the battlements as much as possible to keep the sticky green liquid from splashing onto them. They could only leave the rest to the Arrow Towers.

This assault was extraordinarily fierce.

Some of the Bamboo Pole Entities were responsible for throwing Meatworm Wraiths.

The others were already charging toward the City Wall, followed by Mantis Entities, Monkey-Head Entities, and a host of other strange entities.

"Arrow Rain Storm!"

"Arrow Rain Storm!"

A Level-3 Arrow Tower launched massive volleys of bolts into the air without pause, precisely striking the strange entities charging into the Camp. Countless creatures soon fell dead or wounded, while the remaining ten Level 2 Arrow Towers kept firing bolts.

Each bolt claimed a life with unerring precision, like a vengeful ghost from Hell.

Boom!

Boom!

The ground shook with a rumbling sound. Through the black fog, the Bamboo Pole Entity leader, larger than all the others, slowly entered the Camp. Every step it took sent tremors through the ground.

It was another Bamboo Pole Entity.

But this leader clearly had far stronger limbs. It casually grabbed two Mantis Entities beside it, took a few quick running steps, and hurled them into the air. They sailed over the City Wall and landed in the Camp's core area behind it. The leader repeated the process over and over.

One Mantis Entity after another flew straight over the City Wall.

After crashing heavily inside, the Mantis Entities quickly rolled upright. Screeching, they raised their mantis arms and charged up the stone steps toward Chen Fan and the others on the City Wall.

Meanwhile—

Many Bamboo Pole Entities had also reached the foot of the City Wall. They picked up nearby Mantis Entities and used their mantis arms like battering rams, pounding the wall with all their strength in an attempt to breach it.

In an instant!

The entire Camp faced threats both inside and out, caught between two deadly foes.

It had fallen into an extremely dangerous situation.

"Keep yourselves alive!"

Chen Fan roared before quickly looking outside the wall. All the Meatworm Wraiths had been used up. Although this section of the City Wall was badly corroded, it had yet to collapse.

Many Bamboo Pole Entities were concentrating their attacks on this weak point in the City Wall.

The Level-3 Arrow Tower, with its enhanced power and added fire element, was firing precise shots at the High-Grade Bamboo Pole Entity that had entered the Camp. The tower packed considerable power, its bolts pelting the creature like hail.

One struck its forehead.

Two struck its eyes.

Three struck its abdomen.

Before it could charge more than a few steps, it staggered and fell to the ground, never to rise again. It was dead.

With their launcher gone, no more Mantis Entities were thrown over the Enclosing Wall.

After killing the High-Grade Bamboo Pole Entity, this Arrow Tower began dealing with the Bamboo Pole Entities at the foot of the City Wall, picking them off one by one. With support from five of the remaining Level 2 Arrow Towers, it soon cleared nearly all the strange entities along the wall.

The other five Arrow Towers swiftly killed the Mantis Entities that had landed inside the Enclosing Wall.

Meanwhile, the other Level-3 Arrow Tower kept activating Arrow Rain Storm, rapidly slaughtering the hordes of strange entities charging into the Camp as it attacked on both fronts.

The entire Camp looked like a little boat teetering in Torrential Rain.

But in truth, it was rock solid.

What they needed to do was simple: stay alive, evade the attacks of the few Mantis Entities that had landed inside the Camp, and leave the rest to the Camp's Defensive Structures!

Just then—

A Mantis Entity burst out of the shadows and leaped into the air, screeching as it slashed at Chen Fan and the others with its twin blades.

Lightning flashed.

Chen Fan could even clearly see the fine hairs beside the creature's mouth.

They were deathly white and chilling.

Clang!

Crippled Monkey, wielding the Godslaying Spear, immediately moved to meet it. He raised his Spear and blocked the blow, but the tremendous impact instantly drove him to the ground. Still, he had stopped the Mantis Entity's ambush.

The next moment.

A bolt flew through the rain.

It struck true.

Before the Mantis Entity could attack again, it suddenly stiffened in midair and collapsed onto the City Wall in the rainy night.

A few dozen breaths later.

The battle was over.

The ground outside the wall was littered with the corpses of strange entities. One section of the Enclosing Wall was on the verge of collapse, and not a single strange entity remained alive inside the Camp.

"..."

Chen Fan quickly glanced over the others, then looked inside the City Wall.

No one was injured.

Zhou Mo, who had been asleep, had also been woken by the commotion. He stood in the rainy night, holding his Great Knife and panting, blood seeping from the web of his hand as he looked up at Chen Fan.

Chen Fan had never fought a Mantis Entity head-on at close quarters.

A single accurately placed bolt from a Level 2 Arrow Tower could instantly kill a Mantis Entity.

But—

He had just watched Zhou Mo exchange several blows with a Mantis Entity, barely managing to defend himself. Even so, the repeated clashes had split the web of his hand. With the strength of a Level-Two Cultivator and an exotic treasure in hand, he still could not face a mere cannon-fodder Mantis Entity head-on.

Strange entities... these creatures were simply not something human strength could confront directly.

Even cultivators struggled.

And this was inside the Camp, where there was light.

If Zhou Mo had been out in the eternal night, surrounded by thick darkness with zero visibility, he would have died beneath the Mantis Entity's blades within three exchanges.

Chen Fan looked toward the sedan chair in the gray fog outside the Camp.

At this point!

Every strange entity that had surrounded the Camp tonight had been wiped out. Only that sedan chair remained.

"Retreating?"

Chen Fan frowned slightly as he watched the blood-red sedan chair slowly retreat through the gray fog. This Female Wraith was far too intelligent, making her a serious problem. If he let her leave this time, she would surely bring more strange entities when she returned.

But he had no good way to stop her.

He could only watch her retreat. The Arrow Towers could only attack creatures within the Camp's boundaries.

The next moment—

After backing away several meters, the four Bamboo Pole Entities carrying the sedan chair suddenly began running toward the Camp. They moved faster and faster, charging inside with the sedan chair on their shoulders. The instant they entered the Camp—

The sedan chair abruptly exploded.

Countless fragments pierced the ground.

The four Bamboo Pole Entities were also shattered and killed.

"Ahahahaha!!!"

Piercing, eerie, crazed laughter instantly engulfed the entire Camp. A completely naked Female Wraith stood barefoot on the ground, looking at the people atop the City Wall.

Her face was as pale as snow, nothing like the face of a living person.

Her features were exquisite, like a masterpiece painstakingly carved by an artisan.

There were no pupils in her eyes, only a murky blackness, yet her lips were unusually red.

Her long black hair fell past her waist, reaching her calves.

So beautiful.

That was Chen Fan's first impression. She was too beautiful to look like a strange entity, more like an earthly temptress.

A naked woman was not necessarily all that beautiful. Often, it was clothing that concealed and revealed in glimpses that brought out her beauty.

But—

The Female Wraith before him wore not a single scrap of clothing, standing utterly naked beneath the sky.

Yet there was nothing vulgar about her. She radiated an air of cold nobility.