After everyone had left, Zhang Yuan walked out of the yamen as well. Standing in the courtyard piled with demon corpses, he clasped his hands behind his back and looked toward the two tallest buildings in Roselight Capital.
The Upper Nether Academy's library and the Imperial Academy.
One stood in the outskirts beyond the city, the other in the center of Roselight Capital. They housed the City-Protecting Grand Formation's Yang Plate and Yin Plate, respectively.
Barring any surprises, both array plates were operating at this moment, drawing in the mist formed from mysterious yin death qi and gradually spreading it throughout the city.
"But it still isn't enough... These few wisps of mysterious yin death qi are far too little to cover the whole city. More killing is needed, then-killing on a massive scale..."
Boom!
An arrow flew in from outside the city, suffused with dark blue power. It struck Roselight Capital like a meteor, blasting an enormous crater into the city and crushing more than a dozen residents into pulp, giving rise to threads of conceptual images representing death.
Outside Roselight Capital, waves of howls rose from demons and evil ghosts.
The corpse tide... had come again.
Zhang Yuan's gaze remained calm. He gave it a brief glance, then looked away as a muffled voice sounded behind him.
"You aren't activating the City-Protecting Grand Formation?" [Death-Severing Baleful Fiend King] appeared behind Zhang Yuan and spoke upon seeing his utter indifference to the attack on Roselight Capital.
"Once the City-Protecting Grand Formation is activated, there won't be another chance," Zhang Yuan replied.
The mysterious yin death qi mist enveloping the city, along with the corpse tide outside, was undoubtedly the work of that Ancient Lord and the Black-Robed Demon King. Their goal was to make Roselight Capital activate the City-Protecting