Terrifying beast roars rolled across the land like peals of thunder, shaking the walls of the
The sight of the boundless tide of demons left
"Oh my god, so many Wind Snow Demon Beasts — people are gonna die! I don't want to become demon beast shit!" Lu Piao wailed. "Heaven, have mercy on me — I'm still a virgin!"
"Pathetic!"
Du Ze gave Xiao Xue a thumbs-up. If even a woman like her wasn't afraid, how could any of them men back down? Lu Piao said what he said, but he was still standing on the wall. The guy just had a big mouth sometimes — but he had backbone. Otherwise, in his previous life, he wouldn't have thrown himself toward death without a second thought.
Ye Ziyun glanced toward
The City of Radiance would be protected by them!
Xiao Ning'er gazed at Nie Li's back. Back in the Black Prison world, she had already lived through life and death, and she had come to see everything as it was. If the beast tide truly destroyed the City of Radiance, then let her die together with Nie Li.
Nie Li looked out into the distance. The Wind Snow Demon Beasts at the vanguard had already entered the first defensive zone. As the horde crossed the rolling slopes up ahead, their advance visibly slowed. A cluster of Wind Snow Demon Beasts quickly pushed past the slopes and into a pitted, uneven stretch of ground.
The moment these Wind Snow Demon Beasts landed, they stepped into the pits, splashing through the liquid pooled inside.
When the liquid touched their fur, it ignited with a whoosh, instantly forming a vast sea of fire. The Wind Snow Demon Beasts at the very front screamed in agony as the flames swallowed them. The fire spread rapidly, engulfing at least several thousand beasts in an instant.
Fire was the thing Wind Snow Demon Beasts feared most. But ordinary flames could never burn on their bodies. What Nie Li had poured into those pits was red oil, mixed with phosphorus stone and other substances. The moment it touched fur, it burst into flame — and burned so fiercely that ordinary cold couldn't extinguish it.
As the beast tide surged forward, the Wind Snow Demon Beasts at the front had no way to stop. They were shoved from behind, one after another, tumbling into the sea of fire, which only made the blaze burn even fiercer.
In mere moments, the corpses of Wind Snow Demon Beasts piled into mountains, forming a towering inferno.
Thousands of demon beasts wiped out in the blink of an eye!
The sight stunned everyone. No one could have imagined that the liquid poured into those pits would carry such horrifying power — instantly cutting off the beast tide's assault.
Ye Zong and
"That kid Nie Li really knows his stuff! This one trick alone has saved us a ton of effort!" Ye Xiu said excitedly.
Even Ye Zong's eyes held a hint of approval. Nie Li had done well.
"Look over there!" a city guard shouted urgently.
Everyone turned to look into the distance. After the first wave of charges was blocked, the beast tide quickly split into two columns, sweeping around the sea of fire and crashing toward both flanks.
"That won't do — if this keeps up, the beast tide will slam into the east and west sides of the city, where the wall defenses are thinner," Ye Zong said, his expression shifting.
Just then, two flaming arrows arced through the darkness, tracing parabolic paths before plunging into two deep trenches on either side. In an instant, twin walls of fire surged all the way into the distance, rising five or six meters high and stretching thousands of meters long.
Some Wind Snow Demon Beasts charged so fast they couldn't stop. They plunged straight through the fire walls and immediately let out shrill screams, their entire bodies ablaze. They staggered forward for dozens of meters before collapsing, charred black, to the ground. One after another, Wind Snow Demon Beasts unable to halt crashed into the walls of flame. In moments, another several thousand had perished in the inferno.
The surviving Wind Snow Demon Beasts had no choice but to keep surging under the fire walls' driving force — straight toward the southern wall of the City of Radiance.
Ye Zong and the others stared, dumbfounded. Nie Li had apparently calculated the Wind Snow Demon Beasts' exact routes of advance in advance, using the flames to herd them. Those beasts had no such intelligence; all they could do was instinctively dodge the fire and push forward.
"We're almost at the second defensive line!" Nie Li said with a faint smile. Everything was going exactly as he had predicted.
Driven together by the fire walls on both sides, the Wind Snow Demon Beasts had packed into a crushing mass, so dense it was beyond imagination. And clinging to their fur were tiny sparks — one or two of which drifted down to the ground.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Shrill explosions ripped through the air, like lightning screaming past one's ears. Even the people standing on the wall clapped their hands over them. The noise was simply too terrifying.
The scene ahead was even more shocking.
Thousands of chain detonations ripped through the horde. The Wind Snow Demon Beasts packed at the front were blasted skyward. Many were torn to shreds, their fragmented carcasses scattering through the air like confetti.
That single volley erased at least tens of thousands of Wind Snow Demon Beasts in an instant — including a group of Gold-ranked ones and two Black Gold-ranked beasts among them.