Chapter 189 — An Old Wooden Box
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
Long Jiaonan hesitated as well. The vortex above Tianbo City had by now become a passage linking to another world; the demons emerging from it grew stronger by the moment, and a dense black mass of the demon horde poured down from the sky like a tide.
"Leave, my people of Dutian!
Leave our ruined, dark world and go to the new world! " The Dutian Demon King stood atop the altar, eight arms spread wide to welcome the demons descending from the sky, and his voice boomed, shaking heaven and earth: "Come, my people. This new world is not as desolate as Dutian.
It holds beautiful women and endless food, and those who guard it are all weaklings—let us trample them!
" Long Jiaonan saw her father pinned beneath the Demon King's foot, and the flood dragon her father had raised lay fallen on the ground, unable to move.
Another being of the sect-master level had already lost his head; the Dutian Demon King had plucked it off and held it high in one hand.
"Is the Yulong School truly finished? " she thought, desolation in her heart.
The demon horde in the sky descended like rain, laying into the soldiers and officers fleeing in every direction.
Shen Mu, too, was blasted from the air by several demons and slammed to the ground; with a series of heavy thuds, six or seven demons landed not far from him and slowly rose to their feet. Shen Mu was no stranger to the demon horde.
Once, when he and Li were roaming the desolate ruins at night in search of Wuyou Village, he had met the horde and killed many of them. These demons had powerful bodies and grotesque forms, unlike humans, and they cultivated demonic qi; they excelled at close combat and spellcraft, with uncanny divine powers, though their arts were not as fine as human spells.
The moment these demons landed, Shen Mu flashed to the side of one, raised his blade and brought it down, beheading the thing; then he dodged the scorpion tail another demon swept at him, its glossy black barb nearly catching him on the hook. Pressing two fingers together, he thrust forward, and the Chubao sword ran through the demon that had not yet withdrawn its scorpion tail; with a backhand he formed the Dark Demon Unfettered Seal, dragged out the soul of a demon creeping up behind him, and shattered it outright.
"Younala!
" A bull-headed demon in the distance pointed at him and shouted, "Younala, ma a bu lu ji nao di di na jia hong (Warrior, I challenge you)!
" "Come on, who's afraid of you!
" Shen Mu bellowed, primal essence exploding as he drove the Mystic Body Three-Elixir Art. The bull-headed demon roared, charged forward at a run, dragging a huge blade more than three zhang long behind him, its edge scraping the ground, trailing sparks of lightning and fire as he came; suddenly he gave a thunderous shout and swung the blade down at Shen Mu! At that very moment, a giant serpent crashed down from the sky, crushing the bull-headed demon to powder.
Long Jiaonan rode the serpent to the ground; its tail lashed out in a sweep like a rolling iron beam, crushing dozens of demons that rushed in. Shen Mu flashed away.
Long Jiaonan was about to press the attack when suddenly a vast dark mass of demons descended from the sky; even though her cultivation exceeded Shen Mu's by two or three realms, she too was drawn into a bitter fight. Shen Mu was likewise surrounded.
Xue Hu'er promptly summoned a tornado to spin around them, but some demons still cut their way into it and lunged at them.
More and more demons poured in from the other world; seen from afar, they were like countless flies flying in from Dutian, blotting out the sky and the earth.
"The Patriarch said that when you stir up trouble yourself, you have to be able to settle it yourself.
This time, I can't settle it.
" Cold sweat broke out on Shen Mu's forehead. Suddenly, a brilliant light came from the south, a light that moved through the air and flooded heaven and earth with radiance.