The arrival of the barbarians threw Blackwater City into even greater chaos.
The one-sided outcome everyone had imagined never came to pass. Those left in Blackwater City were all elites.
Empowered by the brood parasites within their bodies, they possessed powerful recovery abilities and feared no death.
Everyone wanted to grow stronger. Everyone wanted to devour fresh flesh and blood.
Moreover, Blackwater City was unlike the open plains outside. In street fighting, cavalry charges offered no real advantage.
On the contrary, the locals of Blackwater City used their home-field advantage and began savagely tearing into the barbarian forces.
"Longevity!"
"Ahhh! For longevity!"
"..."
Those who had newly joined the Longevity Cult shouted fervently.
Was this the wonder of joining an evil cult? As long as you killed people, you could grow stronger and overcome your mediocre cultivation talent.
Veterans of the Longevity Cult like Shen Yi were not nearly as frenzied. Instead, they all hid away.
"Th-this is still an Immortal Insect? Why has it become like this?!"
Shen Yi felt that all of this was inseparable from Zhou Feng. Every newcomer to the Longevity Cult had gone mad.
There were even people from martial arts schools among them. After being implanted with brood parasites, they displayed astonishing adaptability.
Not only did they make excellent use of the brood parasites' abilities, they could even integrate them with the cultivation techniques they had learned before.
"They've gone mad! They've all gone mad!"
Even the barbarian troops, who had initially looked bloodthirsty, realized that something was wrong.
These people of Great Zhou seemed to have gone insane, constantly trading their lives for the barbarians' lives.
The enormous casualties brought the barbarians to a halt outside Blackwater City. They no longer dared enter the city for street fighting.
The people of Blackwater City