Chapter 37: The Divine Might of the Puppets

“You all go too!”

Xu Lingqing embedded the thousand mid-grade spirit stones in her hand into the puppets. The sixteen puppets were instantly activated, and the mysterious runes flowing inside them were faintly visible.

Swish, swish, swish!

The sixteen puppets, along with all the soldiers of Anjin City, charged forward and engaged the beast pack head-on.

The beasts in the pack were all at the Origin Opening Realm. In the initial clash, both sides were evenly matched.

The Sky Demon Wolf King and the Shadow-Roaming Azure Bat stared at the battlefield with strange eyes. The hundred specks of spiritual rhyme in their bodies emitted a blood-red light.

Countless streams of blood-fiend energy rose, joining the battle with a thick sense of oppression.

“Roar!”

“Don’t get in my way!”

The Sky Demon Wolf King roared, its ferocious wolf claws swinging out a hundred times in a row, instantly tearing a hole in the soldiers’ defensive line.

Once the defensive line was broken, those ferocious beasts charged wildly towards the center of the city, wantonly destroying, ruining, and slaughtering the buildings and citizens within.

Xu Lingqing held her sword in her jade-like hand and flew into the air with the help of the wings on her back. A cold sword strike descended from the sky, carrying a sharp purple light that mangled a third-level Origin Opening Realm ferocious beast.

Hiss…

So this is the strength of the Empress Heart Sutra. How terrifying!

The little violet-ink qilin beast looked at the dying ferocious beast on the ground and rushed up like a hungry wolf pouncing on its prey, devouring the spiritual rhyme and life force in its body in one bite.

Immediately, the small beast grew visibly larger, and spiritual rhyme gradually began to form within its body.

“Wah wah!”

Xu Lingqing patted its head. “Good boy!”

With that said, she commanded the Meridian Unblocking Realm puppet to block the Sky Demon Wolf King’s attack.

Receiving the command, the Meridian Unblocking Realm puppet heavily injured a ferocious beast in front of it, then turned its target to the Sky Demon Wolf King with the speed of lightning.

Boom!

A punch, burning with the power of a mid-grade spirit stone, smashed down hard on the Sky Demon Wolf King’s head.

The Sky Demon Wolf King’s reaction was also extremely fast. It quickly dodged to the side, its claws leaving a deep mark on the ground.

“A Meridian Unblocking Realm puppet!”

In the next second, ten mid-grade spirit stones burned in an instant, concentrating all the power in front of it onto the puppet.

Its speed increased tenfold, leaving behind a series of afterimages as fast as lightning. It attacked the Sky Demon Wolf King from an extremely strange angle and speed.

“What?”

The Sky Demon Wolf King’s eyes suddenly sharpened. Dazzled, it couldn’t tell where the puppet was attacking from for a moment.

Crack!

A bone shattered!

One punch was not enough, so another followed!

Its belly was hit by several sharp punches, and a large gash appeared, blood flowing freely.

The attack, exchanged for dozens of mid-grade spirit stones, had indeed achieved a considerable effect.

The Sky Demon Wolf King was actually injured by a puppet and forced back a hundred meters!

At this moment, numerous cries of alarm erupted in the city, and the soldiers shouted excitedly.

“Long live! Long live!”

“We’ll let you beasts know that our Anjin City is not to be trifled with!”

The Meridian Unblocking Realm puppet stood proudly in place. Its body, forged from black iron, reflected cold glints of light under the sun.

Any ferocious beast affected by the cold light felt a chill in its heart!

“Oh, a cornered beast’s struggle?”

Among the beast pack, a young man looked at the battlefield with a playful expression, his bewitchingly soft voice ringing out.

“Everyone in Anjin City, listen up! Whoever hands over Xu Lingqing, our master will surely reward you heavily!”

“If you refuse to hand her over, resist stubbornly, and don’t know what’s good for you, Anjin City will disappear from the map of the Firo Continent today!”

What an arrogant voice!

Xu Lingqing’s gaze focused on the source of the voice. The man had long hair that fluttered in the wind, and she could barely see half of his side profile.

Just the side profile alone was unusually fair, revealing a sickly appearance, and the corner of his mouth was constantly勾勒 out a strange smile.

He rode on the Sky Demon Wolf, holding a long whip in his right hand and a purple-glowing golden cymbal in his left.

“Is that Mu Yang?”

“It’s only been a few days. How did he become like this?”

A trace of evil qi was revealed in Mu Yang’s pupils as he stared at Xu Lingqing.

“It’s all your fault, you lone star of heavenly calamity, for making me like this. Today, I will definitely eliminate you, the evil star!”

As his words fell, the violet-gold cymbal in his hand began to enlarge, gradually becoming the shape of an alien flying saucer.

Sitting on the violet-gold cymbal, specks of spiritual rhyme flickered on his body, adding up to over a hundred.

Mu Yang waved the whip in his hand up and down. A faint, hard-to-detect blackness flowed from the traces it left.

As the whip continued to wave, the black qi grew thicker, and an invisible sound wave, like the Azure Shadow Light Wave, spread out between its rise and fall.

In Xu Lingqing’s violet-gold glowing eyes, she could vaguely see that Mu Yang had actually pulled out an ethereal soul body from within himself.

The soul body almost overlapped with his physical body, but it could not hide its ferocious and terrifying appearance.

“Go! My slaves!”

…

The battle situation became more and more grave.

Chen Anping also became more anxious, afraid that Xu Lingqing would be injured by those ferocious beasts.

“I want to top up! Buy me some more puppets, I want to protect my baby Lingqing!”

[Top-up successful. Purchased twenty mid-level Origin Opening Realm puppets!]

He sent the twenty puppets to Xu Lingqing and also paid to buy a thousand mid-grade spirit stones to send along with them.

Immediately, Chen Anping lit a Huazi cigarette and blew out a black and white smoke ring.

“Damn it, even a war in a game is so expensive!”

“Looks like I have to smoke more, pay more taxes, and add fuel to the fire for the country’s aircraft carrier!”

…

The black qi had an extremely powerful spreading effect.

In an instant, it enveloped all the ferocious beasts within a thousand-meter radius, and the black qi invaded their bodies.

The infected ferocious beasts instantly turned blood-red, their manes stood on end, their spiritual flames ignited, and they opened their bloody maws, roaring wantonly, completely losing their minds.

With Anjin City as the center, the deafening roars could be heard within a thousand-li radius.

In an instant, the sky shook, the earth moved, and the wind and clouds changed color.

Hundreds of ferocious beasts, as if possessed, launched an attack on the soldiers of Anjin City. Even when cannonballs hit their bodies, they didn’t even let out a single cry of pain.

“City Lord! The state of the ferocious beasts… they seem to be bloodthirsty!” a personal guard hurriedly reported.

How could Lin Jintian not know that they were burning their own blood essence to forcibly increase their strength? In this state, they were invincible and extremely difficult to kill. They could only temporarily avoid them and wait for the bloodthirsty period to pass before fighting again.

“Third Brother, take the villagers and retreat out of Anjin City through the back gate first!”

Xu Lingqing nodded slightly, controlling the puppets to face the furious beast pack.

The crowd quickly fled towards the gate on the other side. Mu Yang squinted his eyes and smiled sinisterly.

Soon, when everyone had reached the back gate, Lin Jintian discovered that something was wrong.

Quiet!

It was too quiet!

It didn’t look like a city besieged by ferocious beasts at all!

Anjin City was surrounded, how could there not be a single ferocious beast at the back!

The moment the city gate opened, it was as strange as Lin Jintian had expected.

“Everyone, run!”

[End of Chapter]