"Roar!"
Beast silhouettes blotted out the sky and sun. Demon beasts filled heaven and earth, and the cultivators on the city walls sank into utter despair.
Some cultivators had barely any magic power left and had already chosen to give up.
Others refused to die here. Their attempts to flee were hardly any slower, and they had already mounted their magical artifacts and fled in every direction.
But their flight speed fell far short of the demon beasts'.
From afar, countless streaks of escape light could be seen swallowed by dark shadows before they even left Golden Spear City.
Only a scant few survived the demon beasts' first assault and continued flying into the distance.
But the beasts' next attacks followed close behind. Often, a single cultivator faced pursuit by several, or even a dozen demon beasts. A glance behind made their scalps crawl.
Neither heaven nor earth offered any escape!
The outcome of today's battle was already obvious. Liu Yu and the other three had issued no orders to defend the city to the death.
If any cultivators truly escaped with their lives, they would not be punished for it. They were "survivors," not "deserters."
Holding out for two years had already been an admirable performance.
"Aaargh!"
A breath later, shrill screams rang out along the walls, rising one after another.
A black leopard twenty feet long opened its bloody maw and savagely bit down on a cultivator who failed to dodge.
Squelch!
Blood splashed, and the crack of breaking bones was clearly audible.
Most of the cultivator's body vanished outright, and all signs of life disappeared on the spot.
Yet his fate was merely a miniature of what unfolded across the walls. The demon beasts' first charge alone killed five or six hundred people.
Then more demon beasts