Main God Ji activated his technique, and Magpie Mountain’s vegetation and rocks gradually transformed into the solid walls of the “Undying City.”
Before long, even the Magpie Mountain main hall where we were had been “hollowed out.” Only Main God Ji’s formation beneath us continued to rotate. Main God Ji and I were sitting on this luminous formation, almost floating in mid-air, surrounded by Xie Zhuo’s barrier.
The entire Magpie Mountain and Northern Wasteland completely “merged into one.” On the Northern Wasteland, the ring city slowly revealed its future magnificence and majesty.
Looking at Main God Ji tearing apart Magpie Mountain, my eyes grew subtly hot.
I forced myself to calm down, continuously reciting Kunlun’s meditation technique in my heart.
At this moment, I only wanted to quickly eliminate the evil miasma within my soul. I didn’t want to add even a wisp of evil miasma to the Northern Wasteland or this world because of myself.
Just as I was getting on the right track, suddenly, I heard an eerie wind sound from the ground below. The sound grew louder and louder, almost to the point where I could no longer ignore it.
I opened my eyes to look and was shocked to discover that countless people infected with evil miasma were now floating in the air!
These people were not strangers; they were all…
Citizens of Magpie Mountain!
It was truly as Main God Ji had said—in just two short days, the Evil God had controlled everyone.
The Evil God’s methods now were much more sophisticated than when he was in the Snow Wolf tribe’s homeland, Mirror Forest. The people he controlled had completely lost their self-awareness.
They were pulled by the black evil miasma, like marionettes, flying up to this mid-air formation, like moths to a flame, or like locusts swarming. They covered the sky as they came forward, crashing into Xie Zhuo’s barrier with a “boom”!
The barrier blocked their first wave of attack.
Their ferocious, angry faces were completely visible to me through the transparent barrier.
They attacked the barrier Xie Zhuo had left to protect Main God Ji and me—some with evil miasma, some with swords, some with hands and teeth, using every possible means to attack.
They wanted to tear open the barrier, rush in, and tear apart me and Main God Ji… or rather, just Main God Ji.
The Evil God controlling them seemed to know Main God Ji’s intentions and was trying to prevent the completion of the Undying City.
Xie Zhuo’s barrier was very sturdy, but with Xie Zhuo absent, his barrier could not continuously withstand these relentless attacks.
I saw a crack appear in one part of the barrier, and those controlled people seemed to notice it, too.
They swarmed toward it, frantically attacking that weak point.
I knew that Xie Zhuo must be tied up with more evil spirits below.
Main God Ji was still focused on casting his technique to build the city and couldn’t divert his attention. Here, only I could protect the Main God Ji.
The Undying City must be built.
I stood up, drawing the sword from the young soldier’s waist. I stood in front of Main God Ji, focusing all my attention on the place where the barrier was breaking.
I mobilized all the soul power I could around me, filling my limbs with it.
With a “crack” sound…
The moment a small gap opened in Xie Zhuo’s barrier, a black stream of evil miasma immediately rushed into the formation.
I channeled soul power into my sword, slashing downward at an angle, cutting through the first wisp of evil miasma in one strike!
Afterward, without any time to catch my breath, the crack in Xie Zhuo’s barrier grew larger. I concentrated, guarding Main God Ji, and with another stroke of my sword, cut down a small child who had squeezed through the gap.
I had no time to feel compassion because he was a child.
I only knew that if I couldn’t protect Main God Ji here, then in the future, who knows how many children would become like this.
The breach grew even larger. I stood guard beside Main God Ji, cutting down one after another as they came.
I felt that on this day, I cut down more people than on any day before in Kunlun.
After they died, there was no blood, only evil miasma filling the space around me.
I felt the unclear miasma in my body becoming agitated, but I forcefully suppressed it.
I don’t know how much time passed, how many sword strokes I made, how many people I cut down. I was almost unable to hold on, and this young soldier’s body was also almost at its limit!
I began to get injured—bitten, my arm cut open, and my chest struck by evil miasma. But I struggled to endure, adamantly not allowing any evil spirit to touch Main God Ji.
But I knew I was at the end of my strength.
I…
I was hit by a stream of black evil miasma and knocked flying. I fell awkwardly to the ground, almost rolling to the other side of the barrier. Behind me, the still-intact barrier blocked the evil spirits outside that kept pounding and howling.
Looking up, I saw a young girl with a long sword, stabbing directly toward Main God Ji at the center of the formation.
My eyes widened in shock, with barely enough time to cry out. I only felt a gust of wind beside me.
The barrier behind me shone brightly, and as it repaired the crack, a sword pierced through that young girl’s chest.
It was Xie Zhuo again, arriving just in time.
He stood in front of Main God Ji, his sword piercing through the girl, not yet withdrawn.
I struggled to my feet and walked toward Xie Zhuo.
I thought he would quickly pull out his sword, but even by the time I reached Xie Zhuo, he still hadn’t withdrawn it.
I looked at Xie Zhuo, then shifted my gaze to the young girl’s face…
It was a familiar face.