Forty-seven seconds after the countdown to the apocalypse ended—
It had only been forty-seven seconds since the onset of the apocalypse.
It was only forty-seven seconds, yet those forty-seven seconds felt as long as a whole year to people.
The stench of blood was already overwhelming, and the ground was piled high with chunks of flesh and coagulated blood.
If it weren’t for these blood clots and pieces of flesh melting away and reabsorbing into the earth, the area outside the city would already be a river of blood.
And it was precisely these 47 seconds when the Doomsday Tide had just begun, and many people had not yet entered a state of combat readiness!
Or rather, many people are now watching the situation unfold, trying to understand what is happening around them.
But the situation was too unexpected for them.
Within the city of Fanggang, the auras of two kings appeared.
This isn’t right, something must be wrong!
Port has already had a king, and now another king has appeared. What is going on here?
As soon as the two auras appeared, two figures had already risen from the core area of the harbor and flew straight toward the city outskirts.
Thousands of Wang Zuns in the Tiankeng had just rushed to the front of the city when they were suppressed by the power of a Wang.
Lu Yu also shouted from the direction of the mirror gate, “Leave Wang Zun’s body for me, I have a great use for it.”
The King of Immortality roared, sealing away the flames and toxins, his power undiminished with every strike.
The puppet of the Stone City Lord followed Lu Yu’s commands completely, and under his control, it began to act primarily against King Zun with deadly intent.
“Roar!”
The beast’s roar split the sky.
Lu Yu threw a punch, and a gigantic crack instantly swallowed tens of thousands of beasts.
Boom!
In the next second, a hundred thousand beasts could overwhelm Lu Yu, pressing down on him like a mountain.
Buzz!
At the center of where the herd was overwhelmed, murderous intent pierced the heavens. Dozens of fist-like bursts of energy tore through the sky, powerful enough to kill all one hundred thousand beasts.
Lu Yu had just taken a step forward from the center of the beast herd, his body drenched in blood, when even more creatures overwhelmed him.
This was a situation where even an inch of progress seemed impossible, leaving the soldiers on top of the Fanggang City Wall feeling their scalps tingle with dread.
If they were to get caught in such a tidal wave of beast herds, would they still be able to make it out alive?
“Kill!”
The roaring from the Mirror Gate grew even louder.
“Humanity, your time of arrogance has come to an end. From this moment on, this land belongs to us, and you humans will vanish from this planet.”
A surge of qi filled with resentment and murderous intent gushed out from the mirror gate. A gigantic claw emerged from within, plunging down like a mountain peak and heavily smashing onto the ground.
Hundreds of thousands of wild beasts were crushed into blood-soaked mud across the vast land.
At this moment, another claw emerged from the mirror door and landed precisely on Lu Yu’s body as it touched the ground.
Buzz.
The king’s breath spread from his dragon claw, and with a single strike, Lu Yu was sent flying backward.
This is a dragon’s claw, but it is not alive; it is entirely composed of dragon bones, with not a trace of flesh upon it.
As soon as Lu Yu saw the dragon claw, he immediately knew who had arrived!
This is the skeleton of the dragon, which was nearly a king, from the sacred city of the Inhumans.
Now the dragon’s skeleton has already extended its head out of the mirror gate, and upon the skull, dozens of Wang Zun’s half-bodies have already merged into it.
Half of the dragon’s body had emerged, and countless warriors of the异人族 were clinging to its massive skeleton.
The dragon’s claws touched down, crushing countless beasts on the ground into pulp.
These beasts ignored the warriors of the Yi people and desperately rushed toward Fanggang.
On the dragon’s skull, dozens of Wang Zuns immediately spotted Lu Yu.
In an instant, their eyes all turned bloodshot.
Lu Yu stormed into the holy city, threatening them, and openly took away what belonged to them in front of everyone’s eyes.
Moreover, within the sacred city of the Snake Demon Clan, everything Lu Yu did kept them suppressed, unable to lift their heads.
This was not only an insult to the Snake Demon Clan, but they were there at that time as well. Therefore, Lu Yu’s forceful suppression included them too. In front of them, he humiliated them all together.
All hatred has always been deeply buried in their hearts.
Now, seeing each other like enemies, all the hatred instantly turned into rage and murderous intent.
“Lu Yu!” the King of the Dragon Clan roared from atop the dragon’s head, his voice sharp with fury: “It’s time to settle our old score.”
“Kill him, destroy this city, and leave not a single human alive,” roared all the Wangzun together.
Boom!
The dragon’s claw struck the earth again, and countless beasts beneath its talons perished.
One-third of the dragon’s body had already emerged.
Lu Yu wore the domain barrier of Fanggang and collided with the city wall.
This is a giant dragon on the verge of becoming a king. Even before achieving kingship, its power remains boundless and terrifying.
As Lu Yu crashed into the city wall, the dragon’s claw also struck down.
Boom!
The dragon’s claws collided first with the glowing barrier of the domain.
Buzz.
The mask flashed, radiating brilliant light in all directions.
The dragon’s claw sprang up.
Meanwhile, the domain barrier outside the city wall also demonstrated its formidable defensive capabilities.
The warriors on the city wall burst into loud cheers and screams.
This dragon is nearly at the level of a king in terms of strength. Even its attacks cannot harm the city’s protective barrier, meaning the city’s defensive power has already reached the effect they anticipated.
The dragon claw was raised once again, heading towards the light shield.
A figure lunged from the side and threw a punch at the dragon, sending the dragon’s body, which had already emerged halfway from the mirror gate, flying into the sky. The tens of thousands of cultivators covering the dragon bones instantly exploded.
“This is the power of the king!”
Countless people cheered.
It was the Undying King who struck, with a force so immense that words fail to describe it.
Because Lu Yu’s toxic power could only kill one warrior on the Dragon Bone at a time on that day at the Monster Hunting Plains.
Today, the Immortal King instantly reduced ten thousand people to dust with a single strike.
Lu Yu stood up from the ground, dark fumes rising from his palms, swirling like black smoke between his hands.
But in an instant, these black smoke tendrils recoiled back into his palm.
“What’s going on here?”
Lu Yu was startled.
All the power within him was sealed the moment he became the King’s Disciple, although it could still be enhanced, it could not be used.
Later, Lu Yu came up with a solution to suppress Wang Zun’s abilities, allowing him to tap into his own powers instead.
Only then could he use the Star-Calling Technique for cultivation, and also mobilize his toxic power to establish a thousand-layer poison barrier beneath the Blood Pagoda, preventing the creatures below the altar from threatening the city.
Yet, the power that could clearly be used was sealed away once again.
A cold voice echoed in Lu Yu’s ear: “Power seal complete. Before the Wangzun Body is destroyed, no abilities other than the newly acquired one can be used.”
“You bastard!” Lu Yu, upon hearing the icy voice, immediately knew who it was and cursed loudly, raising his head toward the sky.
Does the deity intervene in the battlefield in this way?
Was it his own power that was too strong, or were the gods trying to kill him by means of this method?
Even the forces he could mobilize have been sealed away.
With only Wang Zun’s strength, this battle is going to be quite difficult.
Boom…
Outside the city walls, the earth had collapsed in more than one place. Around Fanggang, there were as many as ten massive sinkholes formed by the collapsing ground, each emitting a powerful aura.
“Au.”
“Roar.”
Infinite beasts crawled out of the giant pit. In the end, there were beasts numbering up to five thousand, with powerful ones approaching ten thousand, and countless kings among them.
The rift in the sky where the ferocious beast emerged, and the giant sinkhole that appeared on the ground—
Countless beasts surrounded the harbor completely.
Even with domain guardians, white bone warriors, and defense towers, they could not stop these beasts from drawing near.
The dead beasts transformed into blood and seeped into the earth, yet countless new beasts continued to crawl out.
Stretching from the heavens to the earth, it was infinitely more terrifying than the beast tide launched by India at the time of Abushe’s death.
Tens of thousands of King-level beasts, hundreds of thousands of beasts with power exceeding ten thousand, and the remaining beasts numbered in the hundreds of millions.
Surrounding Fangang, dozens of beast mountains have formed from the fall of creatures from the ferocious beast space. Currently, ten enormous sinkholes are spewing out beasts that are crawling outward.
It’s over a billion, this is an army of over a billion.
The warriors in the city could no longer afford to be relaxed.
Because they saw Lu Yu dash into the herd of beasts, and with a single punch, a void cage could swallow hundreds of thousands of creatures.
But in the blink of an eye, he would let more beasts devour Lu Yu right on the spot, without even moving an inch.
The battle between the King of Immortality and the Dragon Bone involved an enormous area, with shockwaves alone capable of killing countless beasts.
But in the next second, the revived beasts came back to life, and even more beasts rushed from the distance toward the foreground.
In an instant, even the Deathless King was overwhelmed.
A person’s voice trembled as he said, “C-completely brute force tactics… This is just throwing lives away to fill the gap.”
“This can’t be the end of the world already. If these beasts don’t die out completely, this apocalypse will never end.”
“But how many beasts are there really? We can’t possibly kill them all.”
People were murmuring, some of them trembling so much that their hands shook holding their weapons, and their legs quivered.
“If you can’t even withstand these, then you have no qualification to pass the Tide of the End Times at all,” a king overheard someone beside him saying in the first zone. He scoffed disdainfully, “Let me tell you, the current Tide of the End Times hasn’t even begun yet.”
“What, what?”
“Come on, if this kind of apocalypse tide isn’t even considered to have started yet, then what exactly would qualify as an apocalypse tide?”
Wang looked toward the end of the earth and said, “The event is called the Descent of Darkness because when it arrives, both heaven and earth turn pitch-black, without light or shadow. Do you all understand? It’s only when the Descent of Darkness comes that the true beginning of the apocalypse tide starts!”
“This—”
Countless people closed their mouths.
They forgot that destruction has always begun with the descent of darkness.
They stood rooted to the spot, stunned.
Boom!
The earth began to rumble.
From ten enormous heavenly pits, black gas surged out like waves, forming ten towering pillars of darkness that pierced straight into the heavens.
At the edge of the world, they could still see distant cities where black pillars rose into the sky.
A column of black mist spewed up to the pinnacle of the sky, then suddenly recoiled as if the fountain’s water had reached its limit, transforming into droplets of black rain that fell rapidly toward the earth.
Xue Ji stood on the city wall, gazing at the black mist and murmuring softly, “The black rain is coming; the descent of darkness is near!”
Black rain fell from the sky, dripping onto the beasts. Upon contact, it transformed into thin tendrils of black mist that seeped into their bodies. Each beast involuntarily shuddered as a result.
They were howling as if in pain, yet also seeming to go mad.
After absorbing the black rain, each beast’s power increased.
Each drop of black rain contributes less than a tenth of a Zun’s worth of strength to these beasts.
However, the sky was pouring down black rain like a heavy downpour, covering all the land outside Fanggang City and all the wild beasts as well.
Each beast would instantly be baptized by hundreds of thousands of drops of black rain.
“Au.”
Some beasts raised their heads and howled towards the sky, experiencing a surge in strength as they underwent the baptism.
Bang—
Some beasts howled in agony, suddenly exploding into a shower of flesh fragments, unable to withstand the explosive power within the black rain.
Lu Yu shouted fiercely among the beast horde: “What are you all doing, just standing there on the city wall watching? Do you want to wait until this city is overwhelmed by beasts, until every last defense is broken, before you finally take action?”
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