Chapter 1331: The Direction of the Breakthrough

At this defensive line where Huaimang was located, all the calamities seemed to have received some kind of signal, charging forward like madmen, fearless of death. For a time, the coordination between the Esoteric Sect members fighting on the front lines was severed, like withered leaves scattered by a rolling torrent, drifting unsteadily.

"This is..."

Tianhuai, overlooking the overall situation from a high vantage point, immediately noticed the anomaly in this defensive line.

In his vision, the previously disorganized offensive of the Falsehood Mountains suddenly changed, as if commanded by someone else. Changing from its original casual looseness, it charged like thunder toward the flattest position!

No!

Tianhuai immediately looked up, only to see that in the sky on the side of the Falsehood Mountains, a white-furred ape had appeared at some point.

That monkey was nothing special, and its aura was only Seventh-Rank, but those eyes, originally full of primal instinct, were now occupied by two clusters of messy lines, as if another existence had occupied its thoughts and was commanding the entire Falsehood Mountains.

"A bunch of trash with only skin and no brains... I have to command them myself."

The ape snorted coldly, and an invisible storm of thoughts swept outward again. In an instant, the direction each calamity needed to charge was imprinted into their minds. The entire massive tide of calamities was like being moved by a giant hand, fully mobilized!

Is it the Delusion Calamity?

No, that's not right...

Tianhuai seemed to realize something, a flash of killing intent appearing in his eyes. He didn't hesitate to raise his hand, and two coffins carrying [Tiangang] puppets shot toward the ape!

No matter what, he couldn't let that ape continue to command the Falsehood Mountains!

But before the two coffins could get close to the ape, a gray afterimage flashed past the ape's side at a speed invisible to the naked eye. Like a cruise missile at near-light speed, it crashed into the two coffins, shattering them along with the puppets inside!

It was a tiny gray sparrow, radiating a terrifying Eighth-Rank aura. It was exactly one of the Eighth-Rank calamities that had been hiding at the back of the tide watching.

Those Eighth-Rank calamities also seemed to have received instructions from the ape and began to approach the front lines one after another.

"Knowing to deal with me first, that's quite clever... But do you have the ability to do so?"

The ape glanced at Tianhuai under the distant sky and sneered.

Tianhuai's expression turned incredibly ugly.

During the time Tianhuai was held up, the large-scale charging tide of calamities had torn a gap in the unprepared defensive line. Countless calamities crossed the edge of the Xuanyu Realm simultaneously, trampling the fences into dust and roaring as they approached the cities within the realm.

Roads were trampled into mud by the calamities, and wheat fields were crashed into messy ruins;

"Damn it!" Huaimang was dragged down by the endless calamities. The attacks from all directions made him struggle immensely, and he was unable to stop more calamities, only able to watch helplessly as they rushed into the realm.

The outline of the city drew closer in the eyes of the calamities, and exclamations sounded from nearby villages!

"Is it an earthquake?"

"The calamities have broken through!!!"

"Run! Run away!!"

“……”

One village after another was crushed into debris by the calamities. Just as many calamities were about to tear the screaming civilians into pieces, a sigh of helplessness sounded from the void.

The Awakening Lion pendant swayed silently;

The next second,

A massive Awakening Lion burning with seven-colored flames rushed out from nowhere. Its hill-like body directly slammed the calamities charging at the front dozens of meters away, then turned its head to bite those man-eating calamities, forcibly tearing them into pieces!

This scene directly terrified the civilians around the village. They looked at the burning Awakening Lion before them in doubt and fear, unable to determine for a moment whether this was a calamity.

But for some reason, the flames radiating from that Awakening Lion didn't make them feel afraid; instead, there was an inexplicably peaceful feeling.

The Awakening Lion glanced at these surviving civilians, then turned its head toward the front and let out a roaring lion's cry!

*Roar—!!!*

This was the optimal breakthrough direction he had calculated using divination.

The moment the lion's roar sounded, a figure wrapped in bandages appeared like a ghost in the surging tide of calamities. Long white hair like a waterfall danced in the wind as dust swirled. He gently opened his mouth and spat out a small ring from his throat.

He slipped this ring onto his fingertip and said flatly:

"Suppress."

Black curse lines quickly formed on Jiang Xiaohua's fingertips, and an invisible ripple swept out in all directions. Any calamity that touched this ripple began to show an unnatural blackness on its body, and the skin surface visibly festered and swelled!

Their running bodies swayed slightly, their skin split open from the center, and they collapsed to the ground one by one like torn rags.

Jiang Xiaohua walked calmly among these festering skins, the bandages on his skin fluttering, as if he were completely out of place with all the filth and pain here...

He took two steps, then suddenly turned back.

"Fangkuai, this is the right direction, right?"

"..." The burning Awakening Lion looked up, speechless, signaling him to look ahead.

"Didn't you see that Black Spade has already charged so far ahead? Even if it's not this direction, we can only go this way."

……

"Faster!"

"Faster still!!"

"Fight our way out of here, then go protect the civilians!!"

Huaimang's eyes were bloodshot, and he kept growling amidst the surging tide of calamities. Fresh blood flowed slowly from his seven orifices, as if he had pushed his mental capacity to the limit.

In his blood-red vision, countless figures were constantly fighting the calamities around him, especially the old man holding the sword, whose sword had already swung out countless afterimages, his figure becoming somewhat flickering and unstable.

Huaimang's mental capacity was reaching its limit. He was constantly forcing himself to stimulate his potential, trying to forcibly carve a bloody path out of here!

But even so, he remained stuck in the tide of calamities, unable to advance even an inch, as if trapped in a quagmire.

Just then,

A figure appeared silently at his side.

Huaimang's bloodshot eyes instantly shifted, and the old man holding the sword instinctively flashed to his side, about to slash at that person with his sword...

But that person seemed to be able to sense the old man's killing intent, calmly raising his hand and easily pinching the blade from the void between his index and middle fingers.

The old man holding the sword froze.

Huaimang froze as well.

"Tsk... You're so young, why push yourself so hard?" Jian Changsheng shrugged.

"You... is it you?"

Huaimang frowned in confusion, seemingly not understanding why Jian Changsheng would appear here.

Jian Changsheng casually pushed aside the old man's sword blade, his palm slowly reaching toward his lower back. A breeze fluttered the hem of his leather jacket, and a faint smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Watch closely..."

"A sword isn't used like that."