Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 784 - 624: Duel Appointment, Sword Fighting over Heavenly Barrier River!

Chapter 784: Chapter 624: Duel Appointment, Sword Fighting over Heavenly Barrier River!

For thirty-three days, the battle raged, turning the sky dark and the earth murky; naturally, the human realm that held the advantage also began to surge with great turmoil.

Peace City, the front line of the standoff between the two forces, had become a demon cave that devoured humans without spitting out their bones overnight.

Sixteen Heavenly Officials, in an unprecedented move, collectively issued an edict for the Human Sect and the Post-Yan to fully engage in war; the No-Life Dao unfurled a Gathering Magic Flag.

Moreover, to the north of the Heavenly Barrier River, the ever-strengthening Dragon Qi Prohibition by the day also made it increasingly difficult for demons and ghosts to survive.

They, whether by choice or not, flocked to the beastly dynasty.

A considerable number of them were assigned to this city gate, serving as a protective barrier.

An uncountable number of demons, weird spirits, and Strange Immortals gathered together, unsurprisingly transforming this place into a vast Deceit Realm— Hell on Earth!

At night, let alone mortals, even demons with ordinary abilities wouldn’t dare to stroll the streets alone.

Even in broad daylight, the place was gloomy and misty, chilling to the bone.

In the Western Market, a scrawny scholar with a large head and thick neck walked leisurely through the desolate market, hands clasped behind his back.

But wherever his gaze fell, whether it was on people hiding at home, afraid to come out, or on bricks and stones, a part of them would vanish into thin air.

It looked as if they had been viciously bitten by someone.

"Tsk tsk, this taste is not bad... although the bones are thin and they’ve clearly been eating poor meals all along, because of their young age, some of the Innate Qi is still preserved.

Ptui, this one’s truly disgusting.

The old man spent his life doing manual labor, and apart from still being able to tend to crops, the mortal world long ground away the last bit of personality and spirit he was born with.

All that’s left is poverty, numbness, abjection, dullness, and a body of old, hardened bones— inferior even to a wall brick weathered by wind and rain..."

This Swallowing Star Strange Immortal, contaminated by the Swallowing Star Heavenly Dog, critiqued every person he devoured like a gourmet food critic.

Wandering into the residential areas, heedless of whether they were tall, short, fat, or thin, he gobbled up everything he encountered along the way.

Previously, it was not so harsh and unfussy, but with the limited resources within the city, it could no longer afford to be choosy.

If it couldn’t find a tasty morsel, then it settled for one that could fill its belly.

In the East Market, a weird entity made of countless human heads called "Diligent Learner" flew towards the heart lights emanating from the reading scholars among the houses.

This Deceit Monster had an endless thirst for knowledge and specialized in turning others’ knowledge and... human heads, into its collection.

The more human heads it collected, the stronger it became, with the experienced elderly and the enlightened scholars being its favorite targets.

There were also ruthless officials marked with the bloodstained "prison" character, roaming everywhere, punishing all the "culprits" that appeared before them.

During the era when the Empress ruled, she indulged ruthless officials. One such official named Suo Yuanli created ten kinds of torture devices:

Stabilizing Hundred Veins, Chuan Bud, Tudi Hou, Immediately Admit, Lose Soul, the True as False, the False as True, Worry of the Dead Pig, Seek Death Immediately, Seeking Destruction.

All who fell into his hands confessed while they still breathed.

That is until... he too perished from the very tortures he created; thus the Ruthless Official came into being, and before it, no one was innocent.

In the exquisitely decorated galleries of the past, demonesses indulged in wanton debauchery, hosting grand lascivious feasts, knocking the bones and sucking the marrow of the remaining young and strong in the city;

Using freshly spilt blood to paint the vicious Five Senses on a yellow paper Exorcism Charm, randomly selecting life and death date combinations within the city, and curse-killing at will...

The already struggling populace was immediately struck by disaster, with rivers of blood flowing in the Deceit Realm, the stench assaulting the senses.

Even before the war began, Zhu Bo’an had quietly infiltrated the city with a group of Black Law Judges, rescuing a batch of common people.

But that was not enough to stop the unseen evil from kidnapping people from other places to indulge themselves.

Of course, due to the opposing pathways of the Heavenly Officials, the city’s deceits could not fully suppress their innate chaos.

Attacking and devouring each other was also common.

But the Green Seal Sages of various sects arriving here one after the other did not concern themselves with this.

In a world where power is paramount, one Yellow Seal is more useful than a hundred Red Seals.

Following the Empress’s line of thought, it was a good opportunity for breeding; if a few more Green Seal Sages could be cultivated, then nothing could be better.

Once the beastly dynasty, bolstered by the great victory of the war between north and south, released all the demons and ghosts gathered from across Divine Land en masse,

It could instantly turn the world upside down, giving Red County Shenzhou a brand new hue.

The assemblage of Strange Immortals also knew that when that time came, it would be a moment for an inner sectarian purge, but under the pressure of the Heavenly Officials, they tacitly agreed not to voice this out loud.

They all secretly harbored their own malevolent intentions.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Atop the city walls set under an arbor, a group of Green Seal Strange Immortals led by the Qingtian Righteous Law Path’s Flower Hairpin Lady were watching the battle.

During this time, provocations between both sides were continuous; if there wasn’t a major battle, there were minor skirmishes.

At the moment, on the battlefield outside Peace City, the ferocious killing aura was ablaze, scorching the heavens.

It clashed with the dense military aura of twenty thousand Daoist Soldiers, transforming into countless venomous dragons and ferocious tigers, tearing and gnawing at each other over the boundless army below.

"Awooo—!"

With a mournful howl, Helian Yibao leaped high into the air, growing larger in the wind, and in a moment, transformed into a tall Divine General with the body of a man and the head of a wolf, clothed in crimson battle armor.

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