deltrittennovels Chapter 333 9th Order Defensive Array
Chapter 333 9th Order Defensive Array
[Void Battlefield - Human Central City]
Despair, like a silent plague, spread wildly through the air.
This is the last stronghold of the human race in the Void Battlefield—the central main city, "Tianyu City".
This magnificent city is a sacred place that countless cultivators on the Void Continent yearn for, with the most bustling markets and the most stringent defenses.
However, at this moment, the entire city was plunged into unprecedented panic and turmoil.
The news simply couldn't be suppressed.
Hundreds of cities on the front lines fell in a single day, and hundreds of thousands of defending troops were wiped out...
This series of nightmarish battle reports struck everyone's heart like a heavy hammer.
"Run! We can't hold out any longer! The city in front of us was breached in less than half an hour."
"That's a ninth-tier Demon Emperor! No human can possibly contend with him!"
"Where's the teleportation array? Why is it closed? We want to go back to the Heavenly Profound Realm! We want to go home!!"
The teleportation plaza in the city was crowded with cultivators trying to escape.
They pushed and shoved, cried and screamed, and some even began attacking the soldiers guarding the teleportation array. At that moment, order completely collapsed.
Just as the situation was about to spiral out of control and trigger a large-scale riot.
"Clang—!!"
A chilling sword light, like an inverted Milky Way, swept across the sky above the plaza in an instant.
The next second, several seventh-level cultivators who led the charge against the guards and shouted the loudest suddenly froze, their heads flying high into the air, their scalding blood spraying out like a fountain, soaking the surrounding crowd.
The bustling square fell into a deathly silence in an instant.
An old man, dressed in a dark gold robe, with a withered face but eyes as sharp as a hawk, slowly emerged from the void.
He didn't hold a sword in his hand, but his entire being was like a peerless weapon unsheathed, radiating a terrifying pressure that made people's breaths suffocate.
He was a powerful cultivator at the eighth level, tenth stage, and also the guardian elder of the Demon Slaying Hall—Gu Xuanwu.
"Anyone who dares to back down even one step will be killed without mercy!"
Gu Xuanwu's voice was icy cold and devoid of any emotion.
His imposing aura, belonging to the eighth rank and tenth level, was released without reservation, enveloping the entire city and making everyone breathless, even their souls trembled.
"This is the last line of defense for our human race in the Void Battlefield."
"Behind us lies the spatial node leading to the Heavenly Profound Realm."
"Once this place falls, the demon army will sweep in unimpeded, and our homes, our sect, and our loved ones will all become food for the demons!"
Gu Xuanwu looked around, and no one dared to meet his gaze.
"You must defend this city to the death with me! The city stands, we stand; the city falls, we fall!"
Under the deterrent effect of these iron-fisted methods and absolute power, the riot was finally forcibly suppressed.
The cultivators were ashen-faced, but dared not utter the word "escape" again. They could only silently grip their magical artifacts and return to their respective defensive posts.
Looking at the city that had regained order, Gu Xuanwu withdrew his oppressive aura.
But in a corner unseen by anyone, this elder, known for his iron-fisted nature, let out a deep sigh, a trace of profound helplessness and sorrow flashing in his sharp old eyes.
"Hold on to the death... what are we going to use to hold on?"
He knew it better than anyone else.
Even if he killed all the deserters, even if all the cultivators in the city united as one, in the face of an absolute power disparity, they would all be nothing more than moths drawn to a flame.
The eighth and ninth ranks are an insurmountable chasm.
That's the difference between mortals and gods.
"Now, even if we dozens of old guys join forces, we probably can't withstand a single blow from that Demon Emperor."
"The only hope..."
Gu Xuanwu looked up at the sky and silently prayed.
"Lord of the Palace... all you ninth-tier ancestors... please, descend quickly!"
"Otherwise, this void battlefield... will be breached today."
……
Just as Gu Xuanwu sighed.
"Buzz—!"
A loud buzzing sound suddenly rang out.
Surrounding Tianyu City, the twelve large fortified cities arranged like stars around the moon simultaneously emitted extremely dazzling white pillars of light!
These twelve beams of light shot straight into the sky, converging in the dark void, and then transformed into a huge, semi-transparent light curtain, like an inverted glass bowl, enveloping the central main city and the twelve surrounding cities.
The ninth-tier defensive formation – [Heavenly Twelve Stars Formation]!
This is an array set up by a ninth-tier human expert who was extremely skilled in array formations.
Although the formation has been in place for hundreds of thousands of years, it no longer possesses the power it once had.
But for them, this was their last trump card.
As the formation rose, the panic within the city was slightly alleviated.
That thick light curtain gave people a final sense of security.
at the same time.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Forty-nine figures flew out from the main city and the major cities.
Each of these people exuded an aura as deep and vast as the ocean, and each of them was surrounded by almost tangible Daoist principles.
They are the last remaining strength of the Demon Slayer Hall in this void battlefield.
Forty-nine eighth-tier, tenth-level experts with perfected Dao traces!
They are truly the strongest combat force below the ninth rank, and when they join forces, they are even capable of contending with a weaker ninth-rank powerhouse for a short period of time.
Gu Xuanwu stood at the forefront, looking at his old friends who had fought alongside him for many years, a resolute glint in his eyes.
The group stood outside the great formation, in the void, gazing at the dark demonic cloud that was rolling and approaching in the distance.
That despairing atmosphere is coming.
……
[In the Void - Vanguard of the Demon Army]
Lin Hanzhou maintained his true form as the Demon Emperor, followed by hundreds of eighth-order Demon Generals, like a king inspecting his territory, and was already approaching the last human defense line.
Looking at the huge light screen rising in front of him, and the dozens of "little ones" blocking the way, Lin Hanzhou's lips curled into a cruel smile.
"Is this the final tortoise shell?"
"That's quite interesting; it's actually a ninth-tier formation."
Lin Hanzhou saw through the true nature of the great formation at a glance.
Although it is a ninth-order formation, its power is reduced by at least half because it is not presided over by a ninth-order expert.
At this moment, Gu Xuanwu took a deep breath and stepped forward from the crowd opposite him.
Although he was afraid, as a leader, he had to step forward to buy time.
"Your Majesty the Demon Emperor ahead!"
Gu Xuanwu used his spiritual power, and his voice, like a resounding bell, echoed throughout the void.
"Although our human race and the demon race are irreconcilable enemies, as a ninth-tier supreme being, are you not afraid of incurring the wrath of our powerful human race by acting so recklessly?!"
"If Your Excellency is willing to withdraw today, my Demon-Slaying Hall is willing to..."
Gu Xuanwu's rhetoric was very standard: first a threat, then an offer of bribes—a typical delaying tactic.
However, he clearly underestimated the temper of this "newly crowned Demon Emperor," and even more so, he underestimated the other party's eagerness to make ends meet.