Chapter 1184.
As the remaining ten array pillars were detonated, the first line of defense collapsed at the same time as the second line of defense was quickly built.
From the four city gates in the southeast, west, north and west, each came out of a temporary formation of the cultivator army, blocked in the road to enter the city must pass through.
Each of the cultivator armies had thousands of people, and their cultivation levels were mostly Heavenly Demon Perfection and Heavenly Demon After Realm cultivators, and no more than Heavenly Demon Middle Realm ones.
Such an army of four cultivators was a force that could not be ignored.
The crowd returning to the city brushed past the cultivator army, and Xu Chuniang stared at these cultivator armies for a while before withdrawing her gaze and stepping into Sand City.
Just as she entered the city, six figures greeted her, it was Yan Guang and the rest of the few people who worked for her.
Yan Guang nervously surveyed Xu Chuniang, seeing the countless wounds of all sizes all over her body, and there was a hidden worry in the bottom of her eyes.
“Senior, are you alright?”
He had been worried ever since senior was chosen and forced to participate in the first line of defense.
Luckily, although senior had suffered a lot of injuries, he had finally survived.
“Nothing.”
Xu Chuniang shook her head and swept a glance at the several people, “This is not the place to talk, go back first.”
Several people understood and followed behind Xu Chunniang, leaving the city gates.
The two mansions Xu Chuniang had purchased were not far apart, and when she went back, she made the rest of the people wait outside, only letting Yan Guang enter the courtyard alone.
“What’s going on with those large armies?”
“In the three days that senior was chosen to fight against the sand beasts at the first line of defense, the Golden Armor King and a few other Demon Kings have been calling on the cultivators in the city to form an army and set up a second line of defense.”
“So simple?”
Xu Chuniang raised an eyebrow unexpectedly, even though these several armies had a large number of people, they still didn’t have an advantage when facing the large number of Sand Beasts, and there was a great risk.
No one who could cultivate to the Heavenly Demon Realm was stupid, would they be willing to be obedient and go out of the city to block the Sand Beasts’ attack?
“With heavy rewards, there will be brave men, the Golden Armored King promises that he will use battle merit as the basis for merit, anyone who enters the top ten of the merit list will be granted one of the Demon King’s Demon Seeds! Anyone who enters the top thirty of the merit list will be rewarded with a Demon King’s Demon Soldier, and anyone who enters the top one hundred of the Merit Gang will be rewarded with a Heavenly Demon’s Demon Soldier in addition to returning to the Northern Realm with any of the city’s merchant caravans!
And so on, as long as the person who enters the top three thousand of the Merit Bind, all of them will be rewarded.”
Rock Light explained, “After the Demon Kings enacted this order, there were many applicants, and there were quite a few applicants who fell out because their cultivation was too low.”
With such a heavy reward, it was no wonder that the Golden Armor King and other Demon Kings were able to form four huge and elite teams in just three days.
Especially the Demon King’s Demon Seed and the Demon King Grade Demon Soldier were treasures that were rare to see on a normal day, and everyone wanted them.
Xu Chuniang glanced at Rock Light, “Then why haven’t you few joined the cultivator army?”
Yan Guang knelt on one knee and lowered his head deeply, “We work for senior and look up to senior, how can we act privately? How is doing so different from betraying senior?”
“Get up.”
Xu Chuniang looked outside the city, thirty miles outside the city, the sound of killing shook the sky, blood dyed the yellow sand in the sky.
The Devil Kings’ makeshift army of cultivators had already engaged the sand beasts.
Wanting to stand out amongst the tens of thousands of people, this Demon King level Demon Seed and Demon Soldiers were not that easy to get.
In this battle, the cultivator army no longer had the shelter of formations and pillars behind them, and could only rely on their own flesh and blood to kill their way out.
It had to be said that these Demon Kings, they were all sophisticated.
Between the strategizing, the lives of 50,000 to 60,000 cultivators in the city were arranged in a clear way.
They first used force to suppress, selecting thousands of cultivators, supplemented by pre-positioned array pillars, delaying the sand beasts for three days at the smallest cost. And then they promised heavy benefits to lure more than 20,000 elites in the city out to meet the battle.
At this time, there were still nearly 30,000 cultivators remaining in the city.
If the second line of defense fails, these relatively low cultivation cultivators remaining in the city will definitely defend the city on their own initiative to block the sand beasts from invading.
As for the promised magic seeds and magic soldiers and other treasures, although the value is high, but after this battle, the sand beasts all over the ground are trophies.
The total value of these trophies was more than the promised rewards.
After the tide of sand beasts receded, the Sand City would still be standing, and the Demon Kings would not be affected, and could even reap some benefits.
The only thing that would die permanently would be the sand beasts and cultivators that died during the battle.
Xu Chuniang pondered, perhaps, before the sand beast tide came, the Sand Beast Kings and the Demon Kings, had already guessed the end of the battle.
They, as the ones in power, dominated and pushed for this battle.
Perhaps, even the agreement between the Sand Beast Kings and the Demon Kings was no coincidence.
Xu Chuniang silently watched the killings that were always being staged outside the city, when cultivation was not enough, the lowly would be destined to become the pawns of the highly placed, to be played with.
The only way to get rid of the destiny of being a pawn was to go against the grain and become a high-ranking person.
“You go back first, looking at this battle, these cultivators will be able to hold back the sand beast army for at least a day or two, when the second line of defense is broken, the wave of sand beasts will be approaching the city, and at that time, there will be another hard battle to fight.”
“Yes.”
Rock Light’s expression was solemn, he had experienced several Sand Beast Tides and knew that it was far from safe at the moment.
Once the city was broken, the battle between the cultivators and the sand beasts would be in full swing.
After seeing Yan Guang off, Xu Chuniang began to reinforce the formations in the courtyard.
As a cultivator who had participated in the first defensive battle, in principle, she was allowed to be exempted from participating in the next battle.
But after the city gates were broken, a large number of sand beasts flooded into the city, and these manic sand beasts didn’t care about rules, they would just kill anyone they saw.
As a precautionary measure, it would never be wrong to make more preparations.
As the battle escalated, more and more cultivators and sand beasts died in the battle.
The temporary formation of the elite, after all, is a body of flesh and blood, it is difficult to resist the tide of sand beasts that have lost their minds and fallen into mania without fear of death.
The second line of defense became precarious under the sand beasts’ increasingly frequent and hasty attacks, and could be breached at any time.
The atmosphere in the city was highly tense, and everyone was at risk.
This tense atmosphere finally reached its peak the moment the second line of defense was breached.
“Not good, the second line of defense has failed, the sand beasts are surging towards the city gates!”
“More than 20,000 elites in the city have only stopped them for less than two days, how can this be? These damn sand beasts, when will they return to normal!”
The cultivators in the city who had heard the news were in a panic.
“Panic about what?”
A cold voice rang out abruptly, not loud, but it reached the ears of all the cultivators.
When everyone heard the voice and looked, they saw a One-Horned Demon King standing above Sand City with a calm expression.