Chapter 493 — Human Life Weighs More Than Heaven
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 2 of 4
Just then, a long, resonant dragon cry rose from the Bai residence. The woman and the many Bai family experts revealed their true forms, transforming into giant dragons that soared into the sky to meet the falling iron ball. At the same time, experts from the other great residences of Bailong City poured out in full force, surging toward the south gate. Beyond the south wall, colossal half-human, half-beast giants were battering the wall.
The towering rampart collapsed with a roar, and then countless "outer-realm fiends" poured into the city like a tide, swiftly drowning house after house and crashing into the defending army. "Go, quickly! " Shen Mu, Bai Qingfu, and the others raced toward the north gate. It was already packed with refugees, so jammed that not a drop could pass—people crushing against people, trampling one another—there was simply no way out.
On the gate tower, the deity guarding the city exerted its divine power, transforming it into great hands that reached down, lifting and shifting the people crammed there out of the city, crying in a loud voice, "Stand in the light outside the walls! Do not step out of the light!
" Shen Mu and the others leaped out of the city. They saw that many of those who had landed outside were screaming and charging into the darkness, only to turn into skeletons in an instant, flesh and bone stripped away. The deity had moved tens of thousands of people, and still countless more were surging toward the north gate, wailing and crying, while the army of the "outer-realm demons" had already cut its way over.
The deity ground its teeth and leaped out of the city, roaring, "Gather around me—I will take you to the Heavenly Court! Follow me!
The young and strong at the rear, hold off the outer-realm demons! " As for those still rushing through the city, it could not spare them either; it could only save these first. Shen Mu and the others landed. Bai Qingfu hastily led the group after the deity into the darkness, but Ban Gongcuo said furiously, "Come back, all of you!
If you want to live, don't follow that deity!
" Bai Qingfu was taken aback, and looked at this man with no legs. Bai Qu'er, holding the child in one arm and raising the Mystic Water Dragon Pearl in the other to light the way, asked in confusion, "Why shouldn't we follow them? " The child began to cry.
Her sister-in-law took the child and soothed him softly. It was Bai Qingfu's son, not yet weaned. Shen Mu said gravely, "That deity is guarding tens of thousands of people—too large a target. It will surely come under attack!
Everyone, there's nothing wrong with listening to him. The Venerable One is the finest fugitive I have ever seen—his skill at fleeing is unmatched under heaven! Venerable One, you have the most experience—tell us which way to go!
" Ban Gongcuo asked at once, "Which way is the Heavenly Court? " Bai Qingfu raised a hand and pointed west of Beiluo Shimen. Ban Gongcuo said immediately, "We go east!
Hurry! " The deity had already vanished into the darkness with the refugees, while a light glowed around Shen Mu and the others, drawing a hundred or so refugees to gather there, with more constantly drawn in by the glow. Ban Gongcuo said viciously, "Move—kill all these dead weights!
" "How can you kill our own people? " The crowd was outraged.
Bai Qu'er stopped too, ready to lead away more of them. Sweat poured down Ban Gongcuo's forehead. He said sternly, "Are you all going to die here?
Don't want to live? All this womanish mercy, and not one of you will escape! " The "outer-realm demons" burst out of the north gate and plunged into the crowd of refugees, slaughtering on every side.
Bai Qingfu ground his teeth.
"No need to wait for the others.