"Clang!"
A deep bell rang from within the city. The eight massive stone pillars standing in all directions lit up one by one, with a flowing light extending outward, connecting to form an inverted light bowl with a diameter of over a thousand kilometers, enveloping the vast Feixing City.
Inside the city, it was bustling with noise, and numerous players took to the air, gathering at the city’s edge, gazing at the approaching Red Tide from afar.
Unlike those smaller guilds they passed by earlier, where everyone was panicking, everyone in the city was calm.
Feixing City, with its ten-thousand-year history and thousands of Red Tide experiences, had given them enough confidence.
"Boom!"
The Red Tide surged toward Feixing City like a flood. Rolling blood clouds crashed against the City Defense Barrier like ocean waves, shattering on impact.
Su Yu looked up and saw the Red Tide sweeping over the dome of the inverted light bowl. The sky turned from clear to covered with red clouds, changing the world to an eerie red and dark hue. Outside the transparent barrier, countless Red Tide Essences were furiously crashing against it.
"Such density, wow!"
While he marveled at the scene, a pillar of light shot up from the center of Feixing City, swiftly transforming into a figure of light with white hair and a beard.
Star-Pointing Daoist (Unparalleled): Earth Immortal, Level 240, Supreme Elder of the Feixing Sect.
Attributes: ???
Star-Pointing Daoist flicked his wide sleeve, and eight streams of light shot in all directions, directly striking the eight towering 500-meter-high pillars at the edge of Feixing City. In an instant, countless Flowing Light Runes flew up, outlining and swiftly transforming into eight Heaven-Reaching Divine Generals, each clad in light armor and towering 500 meters high.
Celestial Star Divine General (Unparalleled): Divine General, Level 199, Feixing Sect’s Secret Skill-forged Divine General.
Attributes: Qi and Blood 0, Mana 2 million, Attack Power 200,000, Speed 0, Magic: Celestial Star Mountain Shifting Divine Power Skill, True Body of the Celestial Star Divine General, Celestial Star Divine Thunder, Celestial Star Demon Slaying Skill, Demon-Subduing Vajra Palm, Five Peaks True Form Divine Gang Spell.
Magical Treasure: Celestial Star Divine Armor (Tier Eight), Celestial Star Battle Blade (Tier Eight)
"Impressive!"
The protection of eight Divine Generals, each a step away from Level 200, along with an Earth Immortal, was the secret behind a millennia-old undefeated city. This defensive power, combined with the gathering of tens of millions of players inside the city, meant that even four or five super BOSSes over Level 200 wouldn’t be able to breach Feixing City.
The eight Divine Generals formed and immediately swung their battle blades downward, cutting across with blade lights several kilometers long, shattering any Red Tide Essence they touched.
Reaching out to grasp the void, the starlight amassed into a powerful celestial thunderbolt, instantly clearing a thousand-meter-diameter area.
"Five Peaks True Form Divine Gang Spell!"
Mana gathered, and a colossal phantom mountain descended from the sky, crashing outside the city. In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains trembled, eliminating at least a hundred thousand Red Tide Essences in a second.
The eight Divine Generals unleashed their skills, instantly clearing vast areas outside Feixing City.
"So powerful!"
With the Divine Generals taking action, the oppressive aura brought by the overwhelming Red Tide vanished, and the players became active once more, pointing and discussing the outside view.
Some powerful and daring players had already started banding together to prepare to hunt the Red Tide Spirits outside.
Su Yu also felt eager to move and said to Luo Qingchan:
"Let’s go too."
"Let’s go!"
The Jade Sinking Ship soared into the sky, flying out of the city along with groups of players. The nearby Red Tide Spirits were actually being crushed by the even larger number of players. Su Yu and his group followed along, flying a thousand kilometers without seeing a single monster shadow.
"Unbelievable!"
The two of them flew more than two thousand kilometers away from Feixing City. As the many players spread out, some Red Tide Essences began trickling through.
"What difficulty?"
In reality, there were more people than monsters, making the actual difficulty negligible, at least for the first two days.
The two of them flew nearly five thousand kilometers away from Feixing City, finding few people around. Suspended in the air, Luo Qingchan released two Tier Nine Flying Swords, while Su Yu unleashed the Wind and Fire Fan, conjuring a massive, hundreds-of-meters-tall flame tornado to frantically hunt down the Red Tide Spirits.
From then on, it was dull monster-hunting time. The two held their ground, blocking all the Red Tide Essences swarming into their area.
Most were ordinary essences, with the occasional appearance of a BOSS, sometimes none for an entire hour—considerably less than during their time at Rage Tide Island.
The first day yielded almost no gains, with a total bounty of less than a hundred points in experience and cultivation combined.
The difficulty of the Red Tide increased on the second day, with a rise in BOSS numbers, accumulating just over two hundred points after a day of effort.
For two consecutive days, no big BOSS appeared.
But on the third day, Su Yu suddenly felt a tightness in his chest during the level-up grind as if the air had solidified.
"What terrifying pressure!"
"A super BOSS is coming."
Luo Qingchan reacted even quicker, immediately retracting his swords and retreating with the Jade Sinking Ship.
During their retreat, warnings of a super BOSS were already being broadcast in the regional channel, and teams were starting to prepare for withdrawal.
They quickly returned to Feixing City, surrounded by countless players’ flying ships streaming into the city like homing swallows.
An hour later, most players had withdrawn, and the Red Tide Essences they had pushed out before began to surround them again, denser and stronger on average.
"Roar!"
A sound like a steam whistle suddenly echoed, and the densely packed Red Tide Essences parted. A Vast Sea Dragon Whale, as large as an island, floated toward us from the depths of the Red Tide.
Vast Sea Dragon Whale (Legendary): Demon King, Level 256, Deep Sea Dragon Whale Essence.