This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable

Next to the group of guardian cultivators, who had already gradually assembled, were thousands of ordinary people dressed in different clothes but with expressions of panic on their faces, cautiously observing them.

These were ordinary people saved by the cultivators of the guard tower after they had slain the demonic beasts.

Undoubtedly, in the eyes of these survivors of the calamity, the cultivators of the guard tower had become their protective deities.

The sobbing of these ordinary people, their soft whispers, mixed with the constant violent fluctuations of magical combat from all over the city and the intermittent roars of demon beasts, composed a scene of apocalypse.

In just such a brief moment, the atmosphere of desolation and silence pervaded this once thriving prefectural city.

Lu Qingshan's eyes narrowed slightly.

His entire attention was on the ruins.

In the ruins, one could see the crimson blood flowing out from beneath the bodies of the demonic beasts, already forming rivulets and incessantly trickling across the ground.

It seemed nothing out of the ordinary.

However, Lu Qingshan, who was well aware of the sequence of this great chaos, was staring intently at those pools of blood.

Upon closer observation, one could see a faint, barely perceptible red gleam shimmering on the surfaces of the blood.

It was eerily strange.

The flowing blood then seemed to be absorbed, slowly seeping into the earth below and gradually vanishing without a trace.

Lu Qingshan looked up at the sky, where the layer of blood-red mist under the canopy of heaven grew thicker.

It was the same tactic as in the previous life!

The Asura Blood Fiend Formation, the terror-inducing demon formation of the Demon Race.

Formations were originally a high art exclusive to human cultivators.

But who could have imagined that the Demon Race, while building the Netherworld forces within the Human Race, had lain hidden for ten thousand years, causing trouble and chaos everywhere with the creation of killings, was also continually absorbing and learning the strengths of the Human Race!

Formation techniques were one such strength that the Demon Race had absorbed from the Human Race.

After learning and mastering the art of formations, the great monarchs and demon lords of the Demon Race integrated their own race's cultivation system into the basic framework of human formations and thus created many powerful demon formations.

The Asura Blood Fiend Formation was the first of the demon formations to come into the view of the Human Race.

Aside from its conventional function of constructing barriers and sealing space, it also has an incredibly bizarre divine skill.

Combined with the Demon Race's unique Blood Pool Reincarnation Technique, the demon formation achieved a unique ability that no human formation had ever possessed.

The demon formation could absorb all the essence blood within the formation and transform it into the blood mist above the sky.

Once it absorbed enough essence blood, the blood mist could transform into a blood river hanging inverted in the sky, thereby enacting the Blood Pool Reincarnation Technique.

That was also the ultimate goal of the Demon Race this time.

To use the essence blood of the entire city's Human Race to resurrect the Asura Demon Child.

Thus, the Netherworld did not spare its own losses at all; after triggering the Asura Blood Fiend Formation to seal Zhenjiang City, it released the demonic beasts it had accumulated over the years, slaughtering wildly within Zhenjiang City without any scruples.

The Netherworld didn't worry about the loss of demonic beasts.

Even if all these demonic beasts died, the Underworld Cultivators wouldn't be distressed because the essence blood of the demonic beasts, just like that of the Human Race, would become nourishment for the Asura Blood Fiend Formation and part of the Blood River.

The Netherworld had planned for so many years, and the Demon Formation they deployed was not something that could be broken in a short time.

Guarding the city and evacuating the citizens from Zhenjiang City was an utterly impractical idea.

With this thought, Lu Qingshan glanced at Dantai Qingrun and Gao Tian, who were standing in front of the city guards, and a thought struck him. Silently, he took out the token that Dantai Qingrun had given him from his Storage Ring, his Divine Sense stirred, and a Spirit Message was sent.

He hoped that after the numerous collaborations over time, Dantai Qingrun would have a certain level of trust in his words.

...

Dantai Qingrun and Gao Tian, as they observed the situation unfold, both frowned deeply.

The Tower Master, Chu He, had received a Spirit Message from True Monarch Lin Lang not long ago, and had immediately gone to meet Lin Lang. He was not in the tower at present, which made the two deputy Tower Masters the acting heads of Zhenjiang Tower.

Although they had already agreed that the safety of the human race within the city was the most urgent matter and that the citizens needed to be evacuated from Zhenjiang City as soon as possible,

how to evacuate them was a huge problem facing them.

Suddenly, Dantai Qingrun seemed to sense something, his eyebrows slightly raised, he took the token out from his Storage Ring, on which waves of light shimmered.

"Is it a Spirit Message from the Tower Master?" Gao Tian asked eagerly upon seeing the misty green light on the token.

After realizing the situation in the city, they had immediately sent a Spirit Message to Chu He, asking for specific countermeasures.

However, after the Spirit Message was sent, there had been no response.

It was unclear whether the Spirit Message could not be delivered to Chu He or whether Chu He could not reply to them.

Dantai Qingrun shook his head and looked over the gathered city guard cultivators, quickly locating Lu Qingshan within the crowd.

With the situation being so urgent, Dantai Qingrun didn't bother with propriety and, not worried about shocking or appalling anyone, directly flew up and landed in front of Lu Qingshan.

The cultivators surrounding Lu Qingshan immediately stepped back a few paces, including those from the Tiger Squad.

"Is what you said true?" Dantai Qingrun asked in a cold voice, with a grave expression.

"The Demon Formation set by the Netherworld is indestructible; evacuation is not feasible.

The only plan now is to find the Underworld Cultivators lurking within the city, kill them, and only then can we break the Formation!" This was the Spirit Message that Lu Qingshan had sent to Dantai Qingrun.

Lu Qingshan firmly nodded his head: "This Demon Formation simply cannot be broken in a short period of time!"

Gao Tian, who saw Dantai Qingrun unexpectedly seeking out a city guard Foundation Establishment Cultivator, was extremely astonished, but immediately followed to find out the specifics.

Hearing what Lu Qingshan had to say, Gao Tian instinctively questioned, "With so many Spiritual Cultivators skilled in Forbidden Breaking Techniques gathered here in Zhenjiang Tower, along with the rest of the cultivators taking action together, would we really not be able to break through this Barrier?"

Lu Qingshan knew he had to stop their evacuation plan.

Just as he had said, with their current arrangement of cultivators, violently breaking the Formation was not feasible. The correct choice was to seek out and kill the Underworld Cultivators who maintained the Formation.

The Demon Formation required the maintenance of the Underworld Cultivators, and with their deaths, the Demon Formation would naturally fall apart on its own.

If they wasted a lot of time and effort escorting the citizens to the edge of the Barrier, only to find out after attempting that they couldn't break the Formation and then have to react and adjust their strategy to search for and kill Underworld Cultivators within Zhenjiang City, it would be too late.

Finding Underworld Cultivators hidden within the vastness of Zhenjiang City was not an easy task and would take a lot of time.

Perhaps by the time they found the Underworld Cultivators, the Asura Blood Fiend Formation would have already absorbed the necessary Essence Blood.

We must search for and kill the Underworld Cultivators with all our might from the get-go, that's the only way we have even a slight chance of preventing this descent of the Demon!