The Game with Fairies

On the long street, the situation had temporarily reached a stalemate.

Li Muyang, holding a hostage, stood within the battle formation of the Demonic Sect.

Meanwhile, the group of martial artists from the Blood Lotus Sect, all wearing red headbands, glared at him with eyes full of rage yet hesitated to advance, fearing they might hurt the hostage.

Nangong Ting, whose half tongue had been cut off, had since fallen silent.

She allowed Li Muyang to hold her hostage with an indifferent expression, no longer making any sound or attempting to struggle.

Li Muyang, with the hostage in tow, slowly retreated under the cover of Tianjiao City soldiers.

The martial artists from the Blood Lotus Sect, armed with steel knives and red headbands, tried to pursue, but the sound of patrolling soldiers rushing to reinforce from afar echoed through the streets.

Hearing this commotion, the six flag-bearers of the Blood Lotus Sect glared fiercely at Li Muyang.

“Li! If you dare harm our Incense Master, you won’t make it out of Tianjiao City alive!”

After issuing their threat, the martial artists from the Blood Lotus Sect turned and left.

They marched away in unison, quickly disappearing around the corner of the street.

Seeing the departure of these fierce martial artists, all the soldiers on the street breathed a sigh of relief.

Their clashes with these martial artists had been deadly, and if they could survive, who would wish to die?

Now that the enemy had been driven away, the soldiers on the street cheered as if they had been spared from a great disaster.

The lord of Tianjiao City didn’t order his soldiers to pursue, letting the martial artists from the Blood Lotus Sect leave, fully aware of the gap in strength between his ordinary soldiers and those from the Blood Lotus Sect.

Even with a numerical advantage, his side had been forced into a retreat, suffering heavy casualties and deaths.

Under such circumstances, there was simply no capacity to pursue.

Now, having managed to stabilize the situation and drive away the demonic people from the Blood Lotus Sect, it was already a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

Ou Ziyu stood in the middle of the long street, not leaving but instead quickly dispatching soldiers and officials to contact the patrolling soldiers nearby for support.

Soon, messages arrived like snowflakes fluttering down.

Only then did the situation in Tianjiao City begin to unfold before everyone’s eyes.

A strange blood mist had appeared abruptly, covering the entire Tianjiao City in an instant, even the wilderness outside the city.

It was estimated that the blood mist covered a hundred miles in all directions.

During the chaos, six groups of demonic people from the Blood Lotus Sect appeared in the city, slaughtering monks and breaking into government offices.

Each group of these demonic people from the Blood Lotus Sect numbered two hundred, each with a strong body and vigorous blood, catching the major government offices of Tianjiao City completely off guard.

Six of the nine major government offices in Tianjiao City were breached, and the monks of the Demonic Sect suffered heavy casualties.

The monks of the Demonic Sect, who used to be high and mighty, were now miserably killed by the hands of ordinary martial artists, dying in a most suffocating manner. Р𝐀₦ɵ₿Ěs

The demonic people from the Blood Lotus Sect moved quickly and attacked fiercely, even the most securely guarded prison was breached, and all the imprisoned members of the Blood Lotus Sect were released.

The chaos in the city intensified, but the patrolling soldiers were busy rushing to defend the city walls.

After the blood mist dissipated, tens of thousands of followers of the Blood Lotus Sect surged out from the wilderness and forests outside Tianjiao City, fiercely attacking the city gates and climbing the walls, trying to break into the city.

The followers outside the city were much weaker in strength compared to the one thousand two hundred or so people causing chaos inside.

However, their sheer numbers put great pressure on the defending soldiers.

Not to mention, among the wilderness outside, there was the grand flag of the Blood Lotus Sect’s leader.

That flag brought an immense sense of oppression.

–Could it be that the legendary leader of the Blood Lotus Sect had also arrived?n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

This time, the Blood Lotus Sect’s attack on Tianjiao City was an all-out effort, with almost no reserve held back.

Even Li Muyang, after hearing the urgent reports being relayed, couldn’t help but frown.

Ten thousand troops had surrounded the city from the outside?

And inside, more than a thousand martial artists were setting fires and causing chaos…

This time, the Blood Lotus Sect had gone all-in, mobilizing almost all available forces.

Clearly, they were determined to encircle and kill all the top fighters of the Demon Refining Sect within Tianjiao City.

The Demon Refining Sect had twelve elders and one sect leader trapped inside the city.

If these powerful elders of the Demonic Sect were to be eliminated, the Demon Refining Sect, which once dominated the region, would suffer a tremendous blow.

Ou Ziyu and Yan Xiaoru sat in the city, continuously directing the patrolling soldiers and receiving messages from within the city.

The six groups of martial artists from the Blood Lotus Sect, who were causing chaos in the city, moved quickly and ruthlessly, leaving no survivors wherever they went.

However, they would not stick to one place if their attack faltered, immediately changing direction and moving on to other parts of the city.

Moreover, with the city in such disarray and the situation so sudden, it was difficult to gather a large force to surround these six groups of martial artists.

Ou Ziyu, receiving the continuous stream of reports, was extremely troubled.

He kept issuing orders, directing the patrolling soldiers to assemble while also confirming the whereabouts of the powerful figures of the Demonic Sect.

Now that the situation was stable, it was time to summon the elders back.

By gathering the elders and having the sect leader come forward, relying on the long-standing authority of the Demonic Sect, they might be able to rally the people’s hearts and defend the city with the soldiers inside.

Not to mention, there were hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens in the city who could be mobilized to defend the walls in a critical moment.

Although there were many demonic people from the Blood Lotus Sect outside, this was still the Demonic Sect’s territory.

As long as the message was sent out, it wouldn’t take long for reinforcements to arrive, and then they could defeat the demonic people from the Blood Lotus Sect causing chaos here, turning danger into safety.

–That was the plan of the lord of Tianjiao City.

But the subsequent news directly thwarted his plan.

“…Report! The sect leader has mysteriously disappeared, and we have lost track of him. We do not know where the sect leader is now, only a decree from him remains!”

“Report! Elder Sun broke into the alchemy furnace and concocted a batch of pills. After consuming them, he turned into a hawk and flew away!”

“Report! Elder Wu was swallowed by an underwater monster at Shimen Bridge. Now that monster, with Elder Wu inside, has escaped along the river!”

“Report! Elder Qi ran to the east gate and took away eight thousand patrolling cavalry. A quarter of an hour ago, Elder Qi led the cavalry out of the city gate, broke through the formation of the demonic people from the Blood Lotus Sect outside, and headed east!”

“Report…”

One urgent piece of information after another was relayed.

Each piece of news made the lord of Tianjiao City’s eyelids twitch.

In such a critical moment, the elders of the Demon Refining Sect were each showing off their powers and trying every means of escape.

But with a hundred thousand Blood Lotus Sect demonic people outside, can you really escape?

It would have been fine if they had just escaped, but that damned Elder Qi even took away his eight thousand cavalry?

The eight thousand cavalry of that patrol camp were insignificant in the past, merely used to suppress local petty thieves and equipped with so many horses for ease of movement.

But under the current circumstances, these eight thousand cavalry have become the strongest force in Tianjiao City!

Yet Elder Qi took them all away…

Ou Ziyu rubbed his temples forcefully, his face bitter.

“My life is over…”