At the same time, a vast army of demons approached a city.
Divine Lord Wenhua stood on the city wall. Looking at the mighty demon army, he knew that both he and the city were doomed.
However, he didn't take a single step back. He just whispered instructions, "Tell the common people in the city to flee quickly. I can hold out for a while longer. As long as we wait for Battle God Chenyu to arrive, we'll be saved!"
In front of the demon army stood a figure in cyan.
Qingque smiled faintly, but there was cruel killing intent in his eyes. "I advise you not to waste your efforts. Our demon army has already circled behind the city wall. Once the common people leave the city, they'll be torn to pieces!"
"Qingque!" Divine Lord Wenhua was shocked and indignant upon hearing this. "Do you really want to kill all the common people?"
Qingque didn't answer his words. Instead, he gently raised his hand. "Kill!"
Divine Lord Wenhua fought desperately against the demon's attack, but the city was still breached.
He was seriously injured and fell heavily to the ground.
Qingque stepped on his chest. The demonic power radiated from his toes and shattered Divine Lord Wenhua's heart meridian.
Divine Lord Wenhua's eyes were wide open. He never expected to die in such a way.
Just as the common people were panicking and helpless, golden lights appeared on the horizon. The Thousand - Handed Divine Venerable held a weapon in each of his hands and launched a heavy attack on the demon army.
It was the gods who had come. "Qingque, as a member of the demon race, you've fallen into the demonic path. According to the law, you should be executed!"
"Execute me?" Qingque seemed to have heard the biggest joke. "You gods always talk about benevolence and morality, but you only show up after Divine Lord Wenhua's death. Your real purpose is to collect the faith of the common people. You're so despicable. How dare you come and accuse me?"
The Thousand - Handed Divine Venerable was exposed for his true thoughts. He flew into a rage and said, "Nonsense! You're just framing me. I'll execute you on behalf of the heaven today!"
All the gods attacked together. Qingque didn't even have a chance to struggle before he was captured.
The Thousand - Handed Divine Venerable held him, and all the gods exerted their strength. The once - mighty demon army of tens of thousands disappeared in an instant.
The common people cheered when they saw this. The power of faith reached its peak.
The gods received the power of faith and were extremely satisfied. Then they headed to the next location.
Working together, the gods quickly forced the demons to retreat step by step. The demons had no choice but to withdraw to the Demon Realm by the Tianhe River.
The Demon Realm was leaderless. It seemed that the demons were about to be exterminated.
At this moment, a black qi suddenly emerged from the ground by the Tianhe River.
The earth shook and the mountains trembled within a radius of three hundred miles around the Tianhe River. Along with this strange phenomenon, a young man slowly rose from the ground.
All the demons knelt down and said, "Greetings, Young Master!"
The news of the great battle between the gods and the demons quickly spread to Danxue Mountain.
"What? The young master of the demons, Zhao Xing, has been released from seclusion and saved the demon race from a difficult situation. The gods can do nothing about him?"
Tu Yang looked at the secret report from the front line with a solemn expression.
"Who is Zhao Xing?" Yaohua asked in doubt.
"Zhao Xing is the youngest son of the Nine - Heavens Mysterious Demon. He was born with powerful demonic power," the Divine Lord explained. Then he murmured seriously, "It's bad! Now that the ancient gods have set off natural disasters, the people in the Divine Land are already suffering. If Zhao Xing gets involved, there will probably be countless casualties and even the evil situation of people eating people!"
Hearing this, Yaohua and Chongming couldn't help but be terrified. "What should we do now?"
The Divine Lord thought for a moment and seriously took out a wooden box. "This is the Primordial Pearl. I'm going to give it to you."
Chongming was puzzled. "Give it to me?"
The Divine Lord nodded seriously. "I'm worried that the other gods will misuse the power of the Primordial Pearl. I can only be at ease if I give it to you."
But Chongming had a different idea. "All the disasters in the human world are caused by this pearl. Instead of keeping it and using its power carefully, it's better to destroy it directly to prevent it from harming the common people!"
After saying that, he slapped the pearl hard, trying to shatter it.
But at this moment, the world changed color. The wind and thunder were stirred up, and a thunderbolt struck directly at him. This was because he had violated the will of the Heavenly Dao and wanted to destroy the Primordial Pearl!
A figure of a demon suddenly appeared not far away. He rushed over, trying to snatch the Primordial Pearl. But Chongming was quick - eyed and quick - handed. He slapped the demon away with one palm.
Yaohua captured the demon firmly and shouted, "Who are you? Why are you here?!"
The demon turned his head defiantly. When their eyes met, both of them were stunned.
Looking at the familiar eyebrows, Yaohua exclaimed, "Zhao Wu?"
Taking advantage of her daze, Zhao Xing quickly broke free from her restraint and left swaggeringly. He also left a sentence, "I'm Zhao Xing!"
Yaohua stared blankly at his back. The system's beeping reminder rang in her mind, "It seems that Zhao Xing has absorbed the Nine - Heavens Mysterious Demon power from his own clansmen in order to become stronger."
"What do you mean?" Yaohua was a little confused.
The system explained, "All demons are born from the demonic power of the Nine - Heavens Mysterious Demon. Therefore, each demon has a wisp of extremely weak Nine - Heavens Mysterious Demon power. Only by killing that demon can one obtain this power. Obviously, Zhao Xing has adopted this method to become so powerful in a short time."
"This is also the reason why you've been searching for demonic qi so hard before, right?" Yaohua understood after thinking for a while.
The system coughed lightly and asked somewhat uneasily, "Host, can you help me stop Zhao Xing?"
Yaohua was stunned. "Isn't it a good thing for you that the power of the Nine - Heavens Mysterious Demon grows stronger? Why do you want me to stop him?"
The system said sheepishly, "There can only be one Nine - Heavens Mysterious Demon in the world at the same time. I'm just a wisp of his soul. If Zhao Xing collects all the Nine - Heavens Mysterious Demon power and becomes a demonic body, I'll lose my self - awareness and be completely absorbed by him."
Yaohua didn't answer immediately. "Let's see how it goes."
Chongming put away the Primordial Pearl.
She asked doubtfully, "Didn't you want to destroy this Primordial Pearl?"
Chongming shook his head. "I just sensed that the Primordial Pearl can't be destroyed at all. So I can only keep it properly to prevent it from causing harm to the common people."
The communication jade tablet on the Divine Lord's body kept lighting up. He checked the messages in it with a bad look on his face. "It's bad. I don't know what method Zhao Xing used. He led the demon army to appear and disappear mysteriously. Now they've already reached Henan Prefecture."
Henan Prefecture is now the best - built place in the Divine Land. There are tens of thousands of common people in it. Once it's breached, the consequences will be unimaginable.
The group immediately set off. But when they arrived at Henan Prefecture, they didn't see any trace of the demons.
On the city wall, all the gods were there. Battle God Chenyu was reporting the situation to them. "Zhao Xing found that he couldn't defeat us, so he retreated."
Retreat as soon as he couldn't defeat them? This didn't seem to be the style of the demons.
Yaohua thought for a moment and stepped forward boldly. "I think they may be using the strategy of feigning an attack in the east and striking in the west!"