Evil ghosts massed like clouds, rotting bones pooled into lakes, and blood rained down in torrents over the Capital City, while rolling corpse qi blotted out the sky and sun.
As far as the eye could see, demons, evil ghosts, and savage deities covered the ground for twenty li. These were no pets kept by Roselight Capital-this was plainly a demonic siege.
Besides these demons, quite a few cultivators of the nether-penetrating lamp-kindling Dao and the blood furnace lantern-lighting path had gathered near Roselight Capital's walls to fight them.
But compared with the hundreds of thousands of demons and evil ghosts, the cultivators within Roselight Capital were far too few. Fortunately, Roselight Capital was a national capital and housed many Great Cultivators. Only under their leadership had its walls avoided falling outright.
"Daoist Zhang, do you think you're very funny?" Zhao Lian asked in a hollow voice.
With an invasion on this scale, Roselight Capital was on the verge of falling, and countless lives were about to be plunged into misery. Yet Zhang Yuan still had time to joke. Did he have no conscience?
He had never been this ridiculous back in White Tree City.
Zhang Yuan raised an eyebrow. "Am I not?"
Holding Zhang Yuan's back collar between her teeth, Xie Jingxin listened to their exchange and said indistinctly:
"Very funny."
Zhao Lian's mouth twitched. Deep down, she felt that the two suffered from the same condition; their thought processes were beyond any normal person's comprehension. Ignoring them, she said gravely:
"These demons and vicious monsters come from the [Nether Void Death-Inscribing Palace]. I never imagined that after I left, Ghost Deities from the Demon King Palace would launch a full-scale siege."
The [Nether Void Death-Inscribing Palace] was mounting a massive assault on Roselight Capital.
Hearing that this tidal