Hundreds of Millions Slaughtered, Shockwaves in All Directions

Everyone looked up at the sky and saw Zhou Qiong slowly sheath his saber. Without sparing Hong Tu another glance, he turned and walked straight into the Demon Dragon Flying Carriage.

Opposite him, Hong Tu had already dropped to one knee. Watching Zhou Qiong disappear before his eyes, he gave a bitter laugh. "What a saber!" With those words, his body began to slowly disintegrate.

Zhou Qiong's single saber strike had actually reduced him to dust.

"What? How is that possible!"

"The ancestor is dead! The ancestor was actually killed!"

"How could he be so powerful? This is impossible."

Even Elder Mu, beside the Demon Dragon Flying Carriage, looked toward its interior with fear in his eyes. He secretly rejoiced that he had submitted quickly back then. Otherwise, he would probably be the one reduced to dust now!

An icy voice came from within the carriage. "Slaughter the city!"

"As you command!" Liansheng bowed beside it, then looked toward Heavenly Sea City and shouted.

"The Cult Leader commands: slaughter the city!"

"Yes!"

The Demon Sect members flew toward Heavenly Sea City. Even Elder Mu joined the battle.

Hong Biao looked at Hong Tu, whose soul had already been scattered, with tears in his eyes. He knew the sky had fallen. Hong Tu's death had already proved that his Hong Family would not survive today's calamity. His eyes filled with hatred as he stared at the Demon Dragon Flying Carriage.

Watching the Demon Sect members charge toward them, Hong Biao stood atop the city wall and roared.

"Where are the disciples of the Hong Family!"

"Here! Here! Here!" the many Hong Family disciples shouted, their eyes brimming with tears.

"Our Hong Family has guarded Heavenly Sea City for over eight thousand years. Today, our Hong Family stands at the brink of life and death. Demon Sect disciples seek to kill our clansmen and destroy our home. What should we do?"

"Defend Heavenly Sea City to the death!"

"Defend Heavenly Sea City to the death!"

"Disciples of the Hong Family, follow me to fight these demons! Kill!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The Hong Family lived up to its reputation as a great lineage thousands of years old. Its cohesion was terrifying. Its clansmen charged fearlessly toward the Demon Sect members, determined to drag one of them down even in death. And what sort of people were the Demon Sect members? They were all vicious fiends. For a time, the two sides were locked in a fierce stalemate.

But this could not change Heavenly Sea City's fate. The strength of the top combatants was what decided a battle, and no one in all of Heavenly Sea City could stop Elder Mu, who was in the True Martial Realm.

Even after Hong Biao used a secret art to unleash his potential, he only managed to hold Elder Mu off for half a quarter of an hour. With Hong Biao's death in battle, the Hong Family immediately lost its backbone.

A blood-red saber flew above Heavenly Sea City, emitting red light that shrouded it. A heavy stench of blood immediately filled the entire city, while the Demon Sect members bathed in the red light seemed to have swallowed a powerful tonic, their combat strength soaring at once.

Earth-shaking screams rang out from Heavenly Sea City-roars, pleas for mercy, and cries of hatred. At first, they came from the Hong Family, then from the other living beings: other races, the Demon Race, and humans. The entire Heavenly Sea City seemed to be enduring an apocalypse.

Countless streams of bloody Qi and wronged souls kept rising from Heavenly Sea City, absorbed by the saber in the sky. The saber grew ever more blood-red, its red light ever stronger. Some Demon Sect members even displayed cultivation several levels beyond their own realms.

The other living beings, however, were cowed by the red light, their strength instantly dropping several levels. Some whose wills were weak went mad outright and began attacking at random.

The cries of battle lasted two full days. The stench of blood throughout Heavenly Sea City had grown so thick it was almost tangible, yet eerily, aside from corpses strewn everywhere, there was not a single drop of blood in the entire city.

A group of black-robed figures emerged from the city. Every one of them exuded the reek of blood and slaughter, like emissaries who had crawled out of hell. An ordinary person would probably have been frightened to death at the sight.

They walked beneath the Demon Dragon Flying Carriage and knelt on one knee. Clad in blood-red battle robes, Liansheng knelt at the very front and reported in a ringing voice.

"Reporting to the Cult Leader, Heavenly Sea City has been completely slaughtered. Not a single living being survived!"

"Very good. Set out for headquarters!" A deep voice came from the carriage.

"As you command!"

The Demon Dragon Flying Carriage turned and flew toward Heavenly Demon Peak. The blood-red saber above Heavenly Sea City swiftly departed and vanished into the carriage.

At that moment, within a human faction in Desolate Mountain City, beside Heavenly Sea City, an old man looked at the reports in his hands. Even his hands trembled slightly. The reports were simply so shocking that he could hardly believe them.

The Demon Sect had officially begun its attack on Heavenly Sea City!

The Demon Sect's Cult Leader had killed Heavenly Sea City's lord, Hong Tu, with a single saber strike, also carving out a massive moat outside Heavenly Sea City.

The final report was the hardest for him to accept.

The Demon Sect had slaughtered all of Heavenly Sea City. Regardless of race or kind, not a single living being had survived! Heavenly Sea City was now a dead city, containing only the piled corpses of hundreds of millions of living beings. Some who went to investigate had even been driven mad with fright by the horrific sight within!

The old man looked at the guard who had delivered the reports and sighed. "Go reserve a place at Heavenly Rainbow Tower and send invitations to the leaders of the other factions in Desolate Mountain City! Tell them I'm inviting them to a gathering!"

In fact, it was not just Desolate Mountain City. Every faction in the surrounding cities that received the news was given a fright. Had Heavenly Sea City not truly been devoid of living beings, they would have thought someone was playing a joke!

For a time, the leaders of all the major surrounding cities began holding incessant discussions. They discussed only one thing: whether the Demon Sect would attack another city.

Their conclusion was that it definitely would. The Demon Sect had seized Black King City not long after ascending from below, and now it had slaughtered Heavenly Sea City. Its leader was clearly an ambitious man who could not possibly be satisfied with his current power.

For a time, panic spread through the weaker surrounding cities. Individual factions in quite a few cities had already begun relocating, moving to stronger cities farther from the Demon Sect, terrified that it would slaughter another city.

The surrounding factions that did not relocate also spent every day on tenterhooks, terrified that the Demon Sect would suddenly attack.

The news continued spreading rapidly. Even some remote cities had already received it. It could be said that the Demon Sect's slaughter of the city had officially shattered the balance of the entire Land of Chaos.

At that moment, in a council hall on a mountain peak at the outskirts of Yang City, several old men with swords hanging at their waists sat drinking tea together. They were none other than the Sword Sect members who had moved there not long ago. Relying on their considerable strength, the Sword Sect had finally established a foothold in Yang City after more than half a year. Though it could not be considered a major faction, no one dared bully it at will anymore.

Elder Yan Qing, seated to one side, gave a bitter smile. "Nephew Shangguan truly had foresight. Had our Sword Sect moved to Heavenly Sea City, we would probably have been wiped out by now!"

"Indeed!" some of the other elders echoed softly.

"Who knows how that Demon Sect Cult Leader cultivates! To think he could kill Hong Tu with a single saber strike. It's truly unbelievable!"

Shangguan Yun did not join their discussion. Instead, his face was full of worry. Although they had moved to Yang City, with several cities separating them from Heavenly Sea City, and Yang City's strength was far beyond anything Heavenly Sea City could compare to, he kept feeling that the danger had not disappeared at all. Rather, it seemed as though it might descend at any moment!