My Fairy Growth System

Chapter 56: What Purpose Does the Morning Sun Shine on the City of Sorrow?

The situation in the courtyard where Shen Wanning and the others were located was indeed extremely dire.

The moment demonic beasts entered the city, Song Guisheng immediately dispatched the Song family elites and all the reserve cultivators he could mobilize to protect the medical members.

Liu Sandao also led the Protecting Disciples back to the city to protect the Tianxiang Pavilion disciples in the medical department.

They were very close to the city wall.

When they arrived, several courtyards had already been breached.

A few days ago, when Shen Wanning heard that Yu Qingtan was seriously injured, she wanted to find her, but her request was denied. Fortunately, she also received news that Yu Qingtan had already been treated by the City Lord, so she had to continue working.

The first wave to reach the courtyard where Shen Wanning was located was a group of long-armed Demon Apes. They climbed up the surrounding walls with great agility and jumped into the courtyard to launch their attack.

The first to suffer were the Qi Cultivation novices lying on the ground, unconscious due to the influence of the Monkey-faced Eagles.

The long-armed Demon Apes smashed their fists on the heads of these cultivators, then reached in and stuffed the blood-mingled brain matter into their mouths.

The girls screamed in terror at the horrifying scene, but no one paid any attention to comfort them.

Song Zhenkai, along with the guards and lightly wounded, was engaged in a fierce battle with the long-armed Demon Apes.

Song Zhenkai held a green cauldron-shaped magic artifact, both offensive and defensive, from which he could also shoot fireballs.

However, fighting alone against two late-stage First Stage long-armed Demon Apes, he was just managing to hold his ground.

Shen Wanning bit her silver teeth tightly, holding the Qiushui Sword, ready to attack at any moment.

At that moment, a long-armed Demon Ape leapt down from a tree and charged straight at Shen Wanning.

Just as Shen Wanning was about to cast a spell and use her sword to attack, the long-armed Demon Ape suddenly had a cramp in its hind leg, then fell straight to the ground.

Its head faced downward, and it happened to hit the most vulnerable part of its skull, the back of its head, on the edge of a step. It convulsed twice and then lay still.

Qi Yu, Lin Qiushuang, and others on guard were also stunned.

That worked?

Fortunately, at that moment, a streak of green sword light appeared and sliced into the group of long-armed Demon Apes.

It was Song Zhenbo leading a dozen or so Song family cultivators to the rescue.

With the addition of this fresh force, the long-armed Demon Apes were quickly slaughtered to the last.

Five Saber-Toothed Tigers, two of which were at the Second Stage, and the other three were in the late First Stage.

Amidst the roars of the tigers, Song Zhenbo and everyone inside the courtyard couldn’t help trembling, with some people pinning their hopes on the Foundation Establishment senior who had just made a move.

Yet even Fu Nian appeared solemn, as facing top-tier demonic beasts like Saber-Toothed Tigers, he too found it difficult to take on two at once.

Just as the Saber-Toothed Demon Tigers were about to burst into the courtyard, five white beams of varying thickness suddenly descended from the sky, each striking the heads of the five Saber-Toothed Tigers.

"Roar~ Awooo~"

Amidst the screams, the five large Saber-Toothed Tigers fell to the ground, their heads spilling blood mixed with white substance from the large holes.

At the same time, across various locations in Suichuan Immortal City, beams of white light fell, breaking the dark night sky, like a dazzling light show.

Some demonic beasts were about to bite down on the defenseless, unconscious cultivators on the ground, some were carrying out beastly acts on female cultivators who were not particularly beautiful, and some were launching fierce attacks on the buildings’ protective arrays...

But the moment the Five Elements Extinction Divine Light descended, all demonic beasts were unable to dodge, hitting their vital spots with precision, even the fastest Sky-Rending Eagle.

They might be fast, but not faster than light.

Soon, the howls of the demonic beasts gradually subsided.

However, what followed was not the cheers of victory from the cultivators, but voices of pain and mourning.

In the courtyard where Shen Wanning was, everyone also felt a surge of joy for surviving the ordeal, then deep sorrow ensued.

Apart from the corpses of the demonic beasts, more than a hundred cultivators lost their lives to the two waves of the beast’s assault in the courtyard.

Once the demonic beasts broke through the defenses, they immediately launched a heavy attack on the nodes of the array, and by the time the array was restored, about ten percent of the nodes had been damaged.

However, the Great Five Elements Qiankun Formation had more than three hundred nodes, with its own mysteries, and the damaged nodes only caused its power to decrease by about twenty percent.

Even as the formation was restored, demonic beasts continued to flood into the city from the breaches in the defenses. Some Major Demons of the Second Stage sensed something was wrong, but it was too late to stop it.

The nearly five hundred thousand demonic beasts that poured into the city were caught in a situation akin to locking the door to beat the dogs, and a dense rain of Five Elements Extinction Divine Light descended, annihilating these beasts.

Hu Kaishan and other Heavenly Demons, noticing such changes in the battlefield, gave the order to retreat with grim expressions, also halting their attack on Ouyang Wenjian.

They couldn’t understand why, despite having tied up Ouyang Wenjian, the formation was still able to recover, and moreover, someone else was able to control the formation and unleash the deadly move of the Five Elements Extinction Divine Light.

To their knowledge, the only controller of the Protective City Formation was the City Lord, Ouyang Wenjian.

In this battle, the demonic beasts suffered losses of more than eight hundred thousand, but Suichuan Immortal City also suffered heavy damages after being ravaged by the beasts, with over a hundred thousand cultivators dead and countless injured.

As dawn approached, the morning sun shone over Suichuan Immortal City, now filled with ruins and rubble, while the cultivators were immersed in the agony of losing their family and friends.