Hua Tieshou knew full well that staying alive might be his only task now.
Thus, he feigned panic. "It's not just outside... quite a few of the nodes sustaining fortune power inside the city have shattered too!
"True Lords Li Chenjiang, Jia Daoyi, and Chongxu have been fighting head-on for six to eight hours with only fifty thousand Prefectural Army troops to support them. The City-Protecting Grand Formation has already suffered considerable damage!
"At this rate, the grand formation will break within eight hours at most! But even the nearest reinforcements will need at least half a day to arrive!"
Hua Tieshou had barely finished speaking-
Boom! Boom! Boom! More than a dozen deafening explosions suddenly erupted inside the eastern and western sides of the city!
Crimson flames shot into the sky like fiery dragons soaring into the clouds. The dense spiritual energy instantly fell into disorder and dispersed, forming violent air currents!
The enormous barrier of light enveloping Blackstone City suddenly rippled violently, its radiance dimming another shade at a speed visible to the naked eye!
"Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!"
Atop the city walls, hundreds of cultivators desperately pouring in qi and blood to sustain the battle formation and activate the Fortune Talismans were shaken by the backlash, coughing up blood on the spot and suffering heavy losses of magic power.
"Wuxin! Lei Bao! What the hell are you doing?!" Daoist Chongxu's hair and beard bristled, fury rushing straight to his head as he flung his sleeve. "Why are the nodes inside the city being destroyed one after another? Don't you have even a few reliable guards under your command? If this keeps up, we'll collapse on our own before the Southern Yue barbarians even attack!"
True Person Wuxin's expression was ugly. His lips trembled, but he could not utter