Chapter 823 - 321: Night of the Startled Dragon
Cyan Dragon Avenue, Pianyu Square, World Demon Extermination Bureau.
The Unruffled Platform spun frantically, releasing a massive will that resonated with the Qi Stabilization Platform. Everyone in the Demon Extermination Bureau received this catastrophic news at the same time.
The World’s First Immortal City, the Immortal Capital of the Shangjing Immortal Dynasty—Changning City, has fallen.
This horrifying event, which erupted suddenly and reached its peak in a short time, was like a sudden clap of thunder, shattering the understanding of every unprepared person.
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Ye Wuyue was meditating instead of resting, but suddenly awakened, her expression changed drastically, she rushed out of her chamber without having time to change her training clothes.
And Guan Xin found her at the first moment.
"What’s going on, why is the Unruffled Platform reacting so intensely!" Ye Wuyue asked.
Guan Xin, still shaken, her pupils trembling slightly,
"Demon cultivators... Changning City and its surrounding counties, densely packed... they’re everywhere! Look!"
She waved her hand to unveil the Qi Mechanism Map of Changning City, with black representing Demonic Qi. At this moment, about ten percent of the Qi in this map was black. And it was continuing to increase.
Ten percent!
This is a rather terrifying number. The vast Changning City and its surrounding areas have a population measured in billions.
Ye Wuyue’s mind shattered,
"How could this happen!"
She never imagined such a thing. The headquarters of the Demon Extermination Bureau, in Changning City, was full of demons, this was beyond just a dereliction of duty.
She couldn’t afford to think too much, quickly directing the field staff currently at the Demon Extermination Bureau to control the situation, and urgently summoned the staff on external assignments to return to Changning City.
Then, at the first opportunity, she contacted the Changning City Guard, the Immortal Palace Guard, the Cabinet Profound Armor Guard, and other Immortal Dynasty armies.
In this emergency, Ye Wuyue displayed strong commanding and execution capabilities.
Palace Tianrui, the Right Minister of the Immortal Dynasty and his cabinet advisors, also responded immediately.
At this point, it was no longer a "demon extermination affair." For the first time in ten thousand years since its founding, the Immortal Dynasty was facing an unprecedented large-scale invasion of its capital by demon cultivators. Palace Tianrui dared not imagine what consequences this would bring.
The various city defense formations and prohibitions buried beneath Changning City were activated one by one.
The first to be activated was the Sealing Spirit Array, used to lock down various Qi inside the city. In an instant, from Tribulation Immortals to Qi Refining, everyone’s Qi was locked within their bodies, unable to be used, turning them all into ordinary people. Only military personnel with specially-made array flags and the staff of the Demon Extermination Bureau could move.
"Silence!"
"Silence!"
The sharp, piercing warnings echoed in the air.
The City Guard rode the Suspended Mirror, shuttling back and forth above Changning City, the burning tail flames from Spirit Stones tracing ghostly blue trails in the sky.
However, they quickly discovered,
those smiling, hopeful, zombie-like, mindless "out-of-control demon cultivators," were completely unaffected by the Sealing Spirit Array, still wantonly spewing Demonic Qi.
They attacked indiscriminately, creating chaos.
And the normal people, because of the Qi lock, couldn’t resist at all, completely becoming live targets, with no escape.
Witnessing this, Ye Wuyue’s face changed dramatically, swiftly finding Palace Tianrui,
"Quick, quickly disable the Sealing Spirit Array! The normal people’s Qi is locked, they can’t resist the demon cultivators’ attacks at all!"
Palace Tianrui also saw this scenario. Those with locked Qi were like chicks in the hands of demon cultivators, with no room for resistance.
His brow trembled incessantly.
But he knew well that once the Sealing Spirit Array was disabled, the situation would become even more uncontrollable.
Now, the Qi of demon cultivators is about ten percent. In other words, the uncontrolled Qi accounts for only ten percent of the total Qi in Changning City. Once the Sealing Spirit Array is lifted, the uncontrolled Qi will suddenly rise to fifty percent, or even seventy percent.
At that time, if a riot occurs, the order of Changning City will be instantly torn apart.
"No! No way!" Palace Tianrui immediately decided, no matter what, the Sealing Spirit Array must not be disabled. This is the most unbreachable line of Changning City.
Changning City is the capital of the Immortal Dynasty, the absolute center of politics, economy, and culture.
Once the capital falls, even if controlled again later, the Immortal Dynasty’s national fortune would suffer irrevocable damage.
Ye Wuyue was stunned for a moment, then shouted angrily,
"What are you saying! You don’t care about all those lives!"
Palace Tianrui was under enormous pressure, but as the ruling Prime Minister, he knew what he was doing, gritting his teeth,
"Isn’t this the Demon Extermination Bureau’s negligence? Such a large number of demon cultivators have been lurking in Changning City for so long, and you didn’t even notice! What have you been doing all this while! Spending so much time, so much energy offending those Terminal Daoists and their forces, why couldn’t you guard even your doorstep!"
Ye Wuyue’s heart nearly stopped.
Indeed, this was a grave negligence on the part of the Demon Extermination Bureau.
Her face turned solemn, "I am willing to take full responsibility, but you should never treat the citizens of Changning City as live targets."
Palace Tianrui said with a cold face,
"Full responsibility? Do you have the right to assume it? I warn you, what you should do now is command the Demon Extermination Bureau to clear out the demon cultivators, not arguing with me here. Whether it’s the City Guard, the Imperial Guard, or the Profound Armor Army, their primary duty is just to maintain the stability of Changning City, not to be accountable for its citizens."