The commanding officer had barely finished speaking when those animals radiating Demonic Qi went mad, charging toward the city walls.
Then the soldiers atop the walls continuously drew bows and shot arrows, and the next instant, a rain of arrows showered down upon the demonic creatures.
As the arrows made of black gold made contact with the bodies of the beasts, they imdiately drove away the Demonic Qi. The mont the creatures were struck by the arrows, they vanished on the spot, leaving only their Demon Cores behind.
Witnessing this scene, Lu Chen was sowhat surprised. These black gold arrows were this effective? They could easily kill the demonic creatures.
He wondered if they would have the sa effect against Demon Cultivators.
Under the barrage of arrows produced by Black Moon City, the first Demonic Tide was quickly held back, but things were far from over.
The Demonic Qi within the sealed demon lands was getting denser and denser. Clearly, a much larger Demonic Tide was gathering.
At this ti, Ji Qiuyu, accompanied by Bai Wenbin, returned to Lu Chen's side.
Lu Chen spoke up, "Lord Ji, I don't have a weapon forged from black gold. Could I borrow a black gold sword?"
Upon hearing this, Bai Wenbin let out a cold snort and said, "A Loose Cultivator is indeed a Loose Cultivator, so poor that you can't even afford a Black Gold Sword."
Without hesitation, Ji Qiuyu tossed a sword from a nearby soldier to Lu Chen.
Catching the sword, Lu Chen said, "Thank you, Lord Ji."
As the words fell, Lu Chen drew the sword and seriously sensed the state of the Black Gold Sword.
At that mont, he suddenly realized that the dark aura emitting from the Black Gold Sword seed to be that of Heavenly Demon Power.
After he had taken the Black Gold Sword, the Demon Burying Spell within him started running on its own, and the dark aura on the sword also began to dissipate quickly.
This...
Lu Chen appeared to understand sothing. Was it possible that this so-called black gold, which could kill demons, was manufactured from the demons themselves?
However, on the other hand, why didn't the Heavenly Demon Power emitting from these black gold items beco nourishnt for those demonic creatures, making them stronger, instead of becoming a weapon that could kill them?
While Lu Chen was puzzled, the system alert sounded.
"Heavenly Demons and the bodies of demonic creatures both contain two kinds of power: one is the power of demons, and the other is the power to seal demons."
"If there is only the power of demons without the power to seal demons in check, Heavenly Demons and demonic creatures will completely fall and beco senseless Fallen Demons."
"The substance on black gold is not Demonic Qi, nor is it Heavenly Demon Power, but the power to seal demons. When so powerful Heavenly Demons fall, the sealing power within their bodies will solidify into black gold."
Hearing the explanation from the system prompt, Lu Chen instantly reacted. So that was the story.
It's much like how the human body has oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes; you can rely on oncogenes to proliferate cells, but you can't let oncogenes grow unchecked. At that point, you need tumor suppressor genes to impose limits.
The power to seal demons was similar to tumor suppressor genes, restricting the demon power from crazily increasing in Heavenly Demons and demonic creatures, ensuring a balance within their bodies.
Lu Chen couldn't help but remark inwardly at how elaborate the bodies of demons were.
At this very mont, the Demonic Qi above the sealed demon lands grew denser, but the second wave of the Demonic Tide had yet to arrive, which felt very unsettling to Ji Qiuyu.
She would naturally be pleased if the Demonic Tide ceased, but the current situation seed more like the calm before a storm.
With such dense Demonic Qi accumulating above the sealed demon lands, there was no telling how many demonic creatures had gathered below. If those creatures sward in, Black Moon City might not be able to hold.
For a mont, Ji Qiuyu's face was riddled with anxiety.
Gradually, the sun had fully set, and the sky grew darker, but those demon creatures still had not erged from the sealing ground.
At that ti, a full moon slowly rose from the horizon, but the surging Demonic Qi covered most of the moon, revealing only a ring of light—making it appear like a black moon, which was the origin of Black Moon City's na.
Ji Qiuyu's expression grew uglier with each passing mont, as the demon creatures had not co out for so long. No one knew how large the second wave of the Demonic Tide would be.
At this point, everyone was on edge, even Bai Wenbin shifted his attention from Ji Qiuyu to the sealing ground.
He had initially thought that even if there were disturbances in the sealing ground, it would not cause a significant Demonic Tide. After all, there had been previous outbursts of Demonic Qi in the sealing ground, but those hadn't amounted to much.
His presence there was simply to take advantage of the situation to get closer to Ji Qiuyu and cultivate a relationship with her.
However, considering the current situation, it seed the disturbance in the sealing ground was no ordinary event—true trouble was afoot.
Just when everyone was holding their breath awaiting the ergence of the demon creatures from the sealing ground, suddenly, a giant shadow flew out from within.
The soldiers imdiately descended into chaos.
"Flying demon! It's a flying demon!"
"Everyone, be careful!"
"Quick... use the Demon-Slaying Arrow!"
...
After hearing the soldiers' words, Lu Chen then noticed weapons similar to siege crossbows on the city wall.
While they resembled siege crossbows, the giant arrows were made of black gold.
Clearly, these so-called Demon-Slaying Arrows were designed to deal with such large demon creatures.
The soldiers hurriedly aid the siege crossbows at the flying demon in the sky, but before they could launch the arrows, the airborne demon suddenly shot out countless black feathers, each as sharp as an arrow.
In an instant, nurous soldiers on the city wall were pierced through by the black feathers.
The soldiers defending the city were all cultivators of the Heavenly Human Realm, whose strength would be considered quite good in the Tianchen World. But in this world, they were no different from ordinary people.
Watching one soldier after another fall, Ji Qiuyu couldn't hold back any longer. She leapt into the air, ready to personally slay the flying demon.
At that mont, the ground began to shake, and in the next instant, a wave of demon creatures surged out of the sealing ground like a tide.
The soldiers on the city wall frantically began firing arrows, but this ti there were simply too many demon creatures, and their strength seed to have increased. While the first wave of creatures would die upon contact with the black gold arrows, it took several arrows to kill the creatures of this wave.
The faces of the soldiers turned deathly pale; this scene was new to them.
Although they had seen large-scale Demonic Tides before, they had never encountered a scene of fierce beasts charging at the city wall, piling upon one another.
Black Moon City's walls were high enough, but they were utterly defenseless in the face of such a massive Demonic Tide. Soon enough, so demon creatures climbed up the city walls by stepping on the bodies of others.
The soldiers had no choice but to engage in close combat with the demon creatures with their swords.
Ji Qiuyu bit her silver teeth, channeled her Sword Qi, and swiftly slew the flying demon in the sky, before returning to the city wall to help the soldiers defend against the onslaught.
Seeing this scene, Bai Wenbin beca utterly blank, not having expected such a multitude of demon creatures to assail them.
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