at the same time.
Outside Cang County, turbulent waves surged to the sky.
Hundreds of water demons of various shapes and sizes stirred up the turbid waters, causing them to churn and churn. A foul, demonic Yao Qi rose into the sky, forming a visible dark green miasma that enveloped the entire Cang County.
The defenses along the riverbank had long since been breached.
Several warriors dressed in the uniforms of the Demon Suppression Bureau stood back to back, forming a makeshift battle formation. They were covered in blood and breathing heavily.
"Puff!"
Despite the piercing pain in his meridians, Commandant Hu channeled his last wisps of True Qi into the blade, roared, and plunged the battle sword into the crack of a Mystic Realm crab demon's shell, twisting it fiercely!
Dark green liquid splattered all over him, but his arm holding the knife was trembling violently.
His True Qi was completely depleted.
The situation was even worse for Commandant Shen beside him; a fish demon's bone spike had pierced his chest armor, leaving a bloody hole the size of a bowl, and every breath was excruciatingly painful.
Behind them were several captains who were also nearing exhaustion, and many more Demon Suppression Guard lying lifeless in pools of blood.
"Why hasn't Lu Cang arrived yet?!"
Commandant Hu kicked away a snake demon that was trying to ambush him, and roared at the sky, his voice filled with anxiety and despair.
"The distress signal was sent out an hour ago! If he doesn't come soon, we're all going to die here!"
The other captains also had grim faces, their hands gripping their weapons with prominent veins.
Only Commandant Shen felt a sudden sinking feeling in his heart during a lull in the attack.
For a powerful figure like Lu Cang, the journey from Tiannan Commandery to Cang County takes only half an hour.
It's okay if no distress signal is received.
But what if they received it and have already set off, but haven't arrived yet...?
A chilling, unsettling thought surfaced in his mind.
Something happened.
Commandant Lu is very likely in trouble!
Just then, a sharp, mocking voice came from behind the water demon's camp.
"Heh heh heh... Don't wait any longer, your Commander Lu is in dire straits himself and can't come."
The water demons parted to make way, and a tall, thin Mystic Realm Eighth Level demon, who had transformed into human form but still retained a pair of shrimp claws and a mouthful of sharp teeth, slowly walked out.
It swept its scarlet compound eyes over the exhausted crowd, filled with the thrill of a cat catching a mouse.
"Speaking of which, we should thank you all for working so hard to perform with us for so long."
Commandant Hu and the others' expressions changed drastically.
acting?
"What do you mean?" Commandant Shen asked coldly, forcing back his pain.
"What do you mean?" The shrimp demon grinned, revealing a cruel smile. "It means that if it weren't for holding you back and buying Elder Liu Ming time to set up the formation, you few would have been my snacks half an hour ago!"
Liu Ming!
Demon God Cult!
These two words instantly connected everything for Commandant Shen.
A diversionary tactic!
The water demon's disturbance was a ruse; the real purpose was to lure Lu Cang out of Tiannan Commandery and then set up an ambush!
A bone-chilling cold, accompanied by endless despair, instantly overwhelmed his heart.
"However..." The shrimp demon raised a huge claw and scratched its chin, "It's about time now. Your usefulness has come to an end."
Its scarlet eyes suddenly turned icy cold, revealing a murderous intent.
"All troops, attack! Leave no one alive! Tear them to shreds!"
"Roar--!"
Upon receiving the order, the hundreds of water demons instantly unleashed demonic Yao Qi ten times more ferocious than before, converging into an unstoppable black wave that surged madly toward the last few people on the shore.
It's over.
Commandant Hu and Commandant Shen exchanged a glance, both seeing the will to die on each other's faces.
They gripped their weapons tightly, ready to burn their last breath in a desperate fight.
At that critical moment...
A streak of purplish-black light suddenly ripped across the sky without warning.
The beam of light was so fast that it reached the sky above the battlefield without attracting anyone's attention.
The next moment.
A will descended, not of power, but more like an ironclad law.
A pure, all-encompassing will to suppress all gods and Gods and Devils descended with a thunderous roar!
The hundreds of water demons that were charging forward suddenly froze in their movements.
Their bloodthirsty instincts were forcibly suppressed in the face of that will, replaced by a fear originating from the deepest part of their souls.
High in the sky, a figure slowly emerged.
He didn't even look at the demon horde below; he simply raised his right hand, his index and middle fingers together, pointing towards the gloomy sky.
Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art!
"Fall."
A single, unassuming word escaped his lips.
The sky, thick with dark clouds, was instantly torn apart!
Not one, not two!
Instead, hundreds and thousands of purplish-black lightning bolts, each as thick as a water vat, carrying the aura of a law that destroys everything, crashed down vertically without warning, like a cataclysmic downpour!
boom!
boom!
There was no deafening roar, only the teeth-grinding sound of matter being instantly electrolyzed and vaporized.
The black wave composed of hundreds of water demons was wiped out in large swathes before it could even utter a wail under the purplish-black thunder and rain.
Flesh and blood, bones, demon cores... everything, upon contact with the lightning, transformed into the most basic particles.
In just three breaths.
The lightning dissipated.
The once turbulent waters are now deathly silent.
A thick layer of burnt ash floated on the water's surface.
The hundreds of water demons that had been so menacing before had vanished without a trace.
Only the shrimp demon at the Mystic Realm Eighth Level remained, fortunately escaping the first wave of the thunderstorm because of its position at the back.
But at this moment, it froze in place, its carapace trembling violently, its scarlet compound eyes staring Dead Land at the sky, filled with extreme horror and disbelief.
[Ding! Killed Spirit Realm Second Level Water Demon, reward Slaughter Points...][Ding! Killed...] A series of system notifications rang in Su Yu's mind. He nodded to himself, quite satisfied with the power of the Purple Firmament Heavenly Thunder Art.
One move.
Just one move.
Its entire army is gone?
What kind of power is this? Earth Realm?
No! The power unleashed by the Earth Realm expert is far greater than this.
shore.
Commandant Hu, Commandant Shen, and the others, who were already prepared to die, also remained frozen in place, staring blankly at the empty world before them.
One second ago, it was a desperate situation of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
The next second, the enemy was gone.
This stark contrast between going straight from hell to heaven left their minds blank.
"What... what just happened?" a captain muttered to himself, even wondering if he had already been killed and that everything he was seeing was just a hallucination before his death.
Commandant Shen raised his head, his gaze passing through the rising wisps of smoke and looking up at the sky.
The figure, bathed in the lingering lightning, slowly descended.
Wearing a black Demon Suppression Guard uniform, with a young and calm face.
Commandant Shen's pupils suddenly shrank to pinpoints.
It's him!
Su Yu, a newcomer who had just joined the Demon Suppression Bureau a little over a month ago and had just been promoted to Demon Suppression Commandant!
How could it be him?!
Meanwhile, the shrimp demon that had miraculously survived finally saw what the newcomer looked like.
When it saw that face that was too young, even a little childish.
Its demonic soul was screaming and trembling.
It was a collapse originating from the very source, a collapse in the face of a natural enemy.
It let out a shriek, its instincts driving it to turn around and try to escape into the water.
However, a foot Soundless stepped on its head.
A tiny arc of purplish-black electricity crackled around that foot.
The shrimp demon's enormous body crashed to its knees, creating a deep crater in the ground, and it could no longer move an inch.
Su Yu looked down at it from his high vantage point, his calm voice ringing out.
Where is your Elder Liu Ming?