Published: March 3, 2025
Chapter 522: Unexpected Changes!
“Roar!”
The shadows of beasts darkened the skies and covered the ground, with demonic beasts everywhere, leaving the cultivators on the city tower in despair.
Some cultivators, with very little magical power left, chose to give up.
Others, not wanting to perish here, attempted to escape but did so without much speed, wielding their magical artifacts to flee in various directions.
However, their escape speed was far inferior to that of the demonic beasts.
From a distance, it could be seen that before they even left the bounds of Golden Spear City, many escape lights were engulfed by the black shadows.
Only a very few escape lights managed to survive the first wave of attacks from the demonic beasts, continuing to fly toward the distance.
But the next wave of attacks from the demonic beasts followed closely behind, often leading a single cultivator to face several, even dozens, of pursuing demonic beasts, causing them to feel their scalp tingling as they looked back.
There was nowhere to run!
The outcome of today's battle was already very clear; Liu Yu and the others had not issued a command to hold the line.
If any cultivators truly managed to escape, they would not be punished for it; they were "survivors," not "deserters."
To be able to hold out for two years was already quite impressive.
“Ugh~”
A moment later, a chilling scream echoed from the city tower, followed by a succession of cries.
A two-meter-sized black panther opened its bloody mouth and viciously bit down on a cultivator who was unable to dodge in time.
“Pfft!”
Blood splattered, and the sound of bones cracking could be clearly heard.
The unfortunate cultivator had more than half of his body completely devoured and lost his life on the spot.
However, the fate of this cultivator was merely a microcosm of the entire city tower; under the first wave of the demonic beasts' assault, five to six hundred people had lost their lives immediately.
Soon, more demonic beasts arrived, further accelerating the death toll of the cultivators, with a large number losing their lives every minute and second.
This scene, for many human cultivators, was a tragic display of horror!
……
Liu Yu, Zhuo Mengzhen, Daoist Cangyun, and Sima Yong each fled in different directions, with the three of them acting first.
A moment later, Liu Yu was already seven to eight miles away from Golden Spear City.
The other three were even faster, with the slowest among them having escaped over ten miles.
He was certainly not slow to react; rather, he had deliberately lagged behind after careful consideration of the current situation.
With the ferocity of the third-order demonic cultivators and their overwhelmingly superior golden core level combat power, it was clear they aimed to kill every last one.
At this moment, escaping too quickly was not a wise choice.
After all, no matter how fast one escaped, could anyone outpace the flying demonic beast, the cold sky eagle?
The faster one's actions and escape speed, while theoretically increasing the chances of survival, would certainly draw the attention of the demonic beasts, which intended to catch everyone in one sweep; being a "troublemaker" would surely lead to special attention.
The two cold sky eagles, in order to not miss a single target, would likely prioritize pursuing the faster escaping cultivators.
Other fast-moving third-order demonic cultivators would also prioritize chasing after the cultivators fleeing quickly.
Demonic cultivators understood strategy and would certainly not act chaotically like low-level demonic beasts.
This could be gleaned from the two years of sieging.
It seemed that all the demonic cultivators accepted the command of that late third-stage cold sky eagle.
As thoughts flickered through his mind, Liu Yu fully activated his escape speed but did not immediately summon his life-saving talisman.
At the same time, a strand of spiritual consciousness locked onto the talisman, ready to be used at any moment.
Initially, he did not plan to use the talisman, not wanting to attract the attention of the demonic cultivators.