Chapter 394.
A soft, earth-colored light slowly rose from different locations in Huaishan City.
A huge mana canopy completely enveloped the county town, and the guardian drums arranged on the drum tower automatically sounded, spreading their sound for a hundred miles around.
Inside a few houses in the county town, a stream of black smoke suddenly rose up, and then dissipated and disappeared.
This was the evil spirits lurking in the city, and under the dual suppression of the city protection staff and the guard drums, the spirits directly flew away and dispersed.
At the same time, a stream of light headed straight to the northwest!
The war cultivators stationed on the city walls looked at this far away light and couldn’t help but show a worried look in their eyes.
Zhao Hongyi had left.
As the town envoy of Huaishan City and the only Purple Mansion cultivator in the city, his presence was like a sea pin, deterring evil spirits and miscreants.
Previously, Zhao Hongyi had been staying at the town guard’s mansion, and although there had been a number of incidents of evil spirits and mischief in the city, the situation was still quite stable, and at least the county residents were still able to live a normal life.
But now that he had suddenly left, it had undoubtedly cast a shadow over everyone’s hearts.
There was always some ominous feeling!
You have to know that although the protective spell formation is powerful, only under the auspices of a high-level cultivator can it exert its maximum power.
Moreover, the consumption of the protective spell formation is extremely high, and it is impossible to operate at high intensity all the time, otherwise the spirit stones simply cannot support it.
Once the spell formation was unsustainable and Zhao Hongyi couldn’t return in time, the entire county was bound to be in great danger.
The evils that lurked in the shadows would 100% come out to cause trouble!
Just Zhao Hongyi himself is also very clear about the consequences of leaving, but he has no choice, it is impossible to watch his beloved son lose his life and his ancestral land fall into the evil domain.
The town envoy had just left, and Huaishan City immediately entered a state of siege.
The residents of the city were ordered to stay at home and not to go out, the number of patrols on the streets increased dramatically, and dozens of cultivators appeared on the city walls to help the armorers guard this line of home defense.
It was a scene of the wind and grass!
A little bit of time passed, inside and outside of Huishan County City was quiet, without any abnormalities appearing.
As if the evil spirits in the city had all been dispersed.
However, the cultivators and armorers guarding the city didn’t dare to be the slightest bit careless and remained vigilant.
Without Zhao Hongyi, Huaishan City was at its weakest!
“On guard!”
As the sun was setting at dusk, a cultivator suddenly stared and shouted in a deep voice, “Mount crossbows!”
Only to see a long procession appear at the end of the chute connecting the south city gate.
The one at the front was beating gongs and drums, followed by dozens of flag bearers, and then hundreds of knights escorting a cloud carriage, traveling towards the county town unhurriedly.
Drums and gongs, suona and bamboo flute, the ethereal sounds drifted around, reaching everyone’s ears.
Accompanying them was the Brahma singing that made people feel incomparably bored.
If one looked closely, one could see that all the feet of this group did not touch the ground, and all of them, including the mounts, were floating and moving.
The afterglow of the setting sun shone down, but it looked weird and eerie.
Evil spirits!
Only evil spirits have such characteristics!
The armorers defending the city didn’t dare to be slow, pushing the heavy crossbows to the battlements as fast as they could.
One by one, the crossbow arrows engraved with runes were mounted on the arrow slots, and the creaking sound of cocking was unceasing!
These crossbows and arrows had the special power of piercing armor and breaking evil spirits, and were specifically used to deal with demonic beasts and evil spirits, and because they were expensive, they were usually treasured in the secret vaults of the Zhenshou Mansion.
But during this period of time, because of the evil spirits’ rebellion, they were distributed to the guards’ hands.
Arrows that shone with cold light were aimed at the approaching evil spirits.
The cultivator who was in command of the city’s defense stared at this incredibly bizarre team with a deadly stare, sweat oozing from his palm as he pinched the talisman.
He had seen quite a few evil spirits, but this kind of evil spirit was unheard of, and he felt the pressure coming like a mountain.
Although the city guard formation was open, although prepared a large number of weapons to deal with the evil spirits, but this cultivator did not have a lot of bottom spirit, but only strong support to keep himself calm, the surface does not show half a trace.
So that he wouldn’t lose his composure and disorganize the army.
He also didn’t dare to make a move easily, so he just watched as the evil sneak team approached the city gates.
At the same time, in front of the back door of the city’s town hall, a servant dressed in gray quietly appeared.
He looked around and raised his hand to tap on the courtyard door.
After a few moments, the heavy wooden door opened with a creak, and a head with gray hair poked out.
“Uncle Fu.”
The gray-clothed servant nodded at the other party, “Trouble you.”
“What a time to come back!”
Fu Bo, who was hiding behind the door, said viciously, “Don’t you know that there is a curfew in the city now? Hurry up and get out, it doesn’t matter if you die, but if you involve me, I’ll see if I don’t fuck up your whole family!”
The gray-clothed servant who was sprayed with spittle not only didn’t get angry, but instead smiled and said, “Don’t be angry, you’re a big man, don’t bother with the little one.”
Saying this, he secretly stuffed over a jade stone.
Fu Bo’s character was very greedy and stingy, bumping into this person’s hands, wanting to solve the problem without bleeding was simply impossible!
Uncle Fu subconsciously caught it, then realized that it was actually a spirit stone!
His face instantly softened a lot, skillfully and incomparably pocketed the spirit stone, and coldly grunted, “Count yourself lucky this time, next time don’t go out of the mansion privately, otherwise no one will be able to protect you if you are discovered.”
Saying that, Uncle Fu opened the door of the room.
The gray-clothed servant flashed into the mansion and smiled, “Understood.”
He walked straight to the path on the right.
“Ah Gui, where are you going?”
Fu Bo, who had just closed the back door, immediately said in a low voice, “You’ve only been out for half a day, and you don’t even know which path to take when you come back?”
“Then which road did you say?”
The gray-clothed servant stopped and turned around, the smile on his face becoming eerie, “Quickly tell me.”
Fu Bo shuddered, feeling as if his entire body had fallen into an ice cave, the blood in his body freezing.
This was not Gui!
He shivered and wanted to cry out, yet he opened his mouth but couldn’t spit out a single word, his throat cackled and his eyes were full of panic and pleading for mercy.
The next moment, a cold hand strangled his throat.
Click!
Fu Bo couldn’t even react in time and instantly died on the spot.
The gray-clothed servant looked around and opened his bloody mouth.
His mouth expanded to two feet wide in an instant and violently swallowed Fu Bo’s corpse.
It was swallowed with a gurgle!
Shaking his head, the gray-clothed servant stuck out his long tongue and licked his nose and mouth to recover.
He patted his bulging belly like a pregnant woman in September and rubbed it vigorously.
The swollen belly swirled and deflated.
“Uh~”
The gray-clothed servant burped, revealing a satisfied expression.
He walked towards the path on the left side in a big manner.
This path led straight to the Inner Court’s Protector Hall, as well as the Heavenly Pavilion that controlled the city protection spell formation!