115: The difficult-to-fight Zhu Jiu! Level 7!
Candle Nine?
No, that was just one of his eyes.
Ye Ze stared intently at the blood-red vertical pupil in the sky, feeling as if the demonic energy of the entire world was spreading—it was the aura of the Abyss!
This was quite different from what he remembered; he originally thought Candle Nine was related to the Candle Dragon…
But the Candle Dragon’s eyes, when opened, could illuminate the Nine Nether Land, turning night into day.
However, this blood-red vertical pupil in the sky, when opened, brought endless darkness, shrouding the entire world in the demonic energy of the Abyss!
Wherever its gaze fell, the fiends were covered in a layer of eerie purple demonic energy, their strength greatly enhanced!
Could it be the contamination from the Abyss?
This was somewhat terrifying.
For a moment, whether due to the terrifying blood-red vertical pupil in the sky or the fiends shrouded in darkness, a sense of helplessness and despair seemed to envelop Lin Yuan City.
Looking at the eye in the sky, even the battle-hardened Regimental Commanders of the Demon Suppression Army couldn't help but fall silent.
They had never seen such an exaggerated ability!
It was like mortals fighting a demon god.
“What are you afraid of!” At this moment, Regimental Commander Chang Zhengping, the Regimental Commander, suddenly roared.
“No matter what happens, just do what we’re supposed to do!”
As soon as he spoke, it seemed to scatter the confusion and despair within the Demon Suppression Army’s Northward Regiment.
In the face of adversity, hesitation was useless, tension was useless; only progress mattered.
Subsequently, an order to ‘continue advancing’ rang out. With Demon King Ao no longer blocking their way, the Northward Regiment immediately headed to the Pollution Land defense line. Their mission was to rebuild the defenses.
As for Ye Ze, he decisively went into Lin Yuan City.
If possible, he hoped to preserve Lin Yuan City.
However, just as he entered the North Gate of Lin Yuan City, he saw that the city was deserted, littered with debris, and full of desolation as far as the eye could see!
It was even more tragic than when Demon King Mirage entered the city.
Evacuating the citizens of Lin Yuan City was clearly a wise decision, because the fiends had already breached the city in such a short time!
Suddenly, two explosive sounds rang out, and two Demon Kings appeared ahead!
One had a bull’s head and a human body, towering over ten meters tall like an iron tower.
The other was ghost-like, with a horse’s head and a human body, wielding a steel trident.
“What the hell! Ox-Head and Horse-Face?”
Ye Ze quickly summoned Fox Fairy and Panda.
These were not just ordinary Demon Kings; they had been enhanced by the aura of Candle Nine in the sky, making their strength extraordinary.
To deal with them, his own strength would definitely not be enough.
But the problem was, the spiritual energy consumed by Samadhi True Fire when fighting the six-tier enemies and Demon King Ao hadn't had time to recover. Ye Ze and Fox Fairy currently only had enough to sustain one use of Samadhi True Fire.
Ye Ze preferred to save this opportunity for Candle Nine.
After all, that was the true key to deciding the outcome of the battle!
“Looks like I’ll have to pull out my gun?”
As Ye Ze was thinking this, he suddenly heard a stern voice beside his ear:
“Young man, leave quickly! It’s not your time to be on the battlefield yet!”
As the words fell, a white-robed old man floated over, single-handedly charging towards the two Demon Kings.
His punches were astonishing, and he actually fought the two Demon Kings without falling into a disadvantage!
Seeing who it was, Ye Ze was somewhat shocked, “Dean!?”
Ye Ze had only seen this white-robed old man in a photo hanging on the wall of the War College.
The Dean of War College, Zhou Tianya.
Although as Dean he rarely appeared at the War College, constantly traveling to various places, there were still many legends about him.
An old-school five-tier pugilist, rumored to be the strongest below the six-tier!
His ability to single-handedly fight two Demon Kings at this moment was enough to show that his strength should not be underestimated!
“Oh, a War College student?” Dean Zhou Tianya said calmly, with ease, “Then as a high school student, you should definitely not come to the front lines of the battlefield casually!”
“Don’t you know how dangerous it is here?”
Ye Ze was speechless, but he didn't refute. It was good that the Dean was helping him block the Demon Kings, allowing him to head straight to the main battlefield where Demon Lord Candle Nine was.
“Okay, Dean, I’ll be going then.”
Just as he finished speaking, Ye Ze was about to leave.
Suddenly.
An unprecedented sense of crisis enveloped his entire body!
Ye Ze’s pupils contracted sharply, and almost subconsciously, he copied Shadow Evasion, recalled Fox Fairy and Panda, and immediately transformed into a shadow to save his life!
The next moment, he saw the vertical pupil in the sky unleash a blood-red yin lightning bolt, its aura terrifying to the extreme!
It was Demon Lord Candle Nine making a move!
The yin lightning struck the ground, crushing down from the sky, and its terrifying power swept through the surroundings.
“What!!” Dean Zhou Tianya’s expression changed drastically.
Accompanied by a violent roar.
In an instant, all the buildings near the North Gate of Lin Yuan City, including the city wall, were reduced to rubble.
The white-robed old man’s corpse remained on the ruins.
Dean Zhou Tianya was dead.
The two Demon Kings, Ox-Head and Horse-Face, who were fighting Zhou Tianya, also died.
Ye Ze, who had turned into a shadow, felt his scalp tingle.
The Dean, just died like that!?
The strongest person below the six-tier was actually instantly killed by a single blow from Candle Nine, no, probably just a casual strike!
He hadn’t expected that the first time he met the Dean of the college would also be the last.
However, it was hard to say whether those two Demon Kings were truly dead, because Ye Ze didn't find any fragments of their origin.
Ye Ze suddenly turned his head to look.
He saw that beside the ruined gate of Lin Yuan City, Tong Mo, Shi Qing, and nine other six-tier experts were besieging Demon Lord Candle Nine.
Calling it a siege, resistance would be a more accurate term.
The nine six-tier powerhouses of N/A, relying on their professional synergy and various disposable legendary items, were still steadily retreating.
“Damn it, if I don’t go up now, it’s really going to be over!”
These words weren't spoken by Ye Ze, but by Wan Feipeng, who walked out of a temporary medical room in the city.
“Don’t be impulsive, you’re still severely injured!” Wu Ming and the medics quickly stopped him.
“If it really comes down to it, there’s still the Demon Suppression Army’s Armor Regiment and the five-tier elite squad on standby.”
“How can those people stop Candle Nine?” Wan Feipeng gritted his teeth.
Although he said that, this was the only solution for now. If they couldn't stop him, it was likely that the entire East China would fall.
At this moment, seeing Wan Feipeng, Ye Ze quickly rushed over.
Before using Samadhi True Fire, at least the N/A’s combat power needed to be able to barely contend with Candle Nine.
“Ye Ze? Why are you here!” Wan Feipeng and Wu Ming were both shocked.
Before they could even tell Ye Ze to return to a safe zone, Ye Ze spoke first:
“Stop talking nonsense!”
“Eat this first, then go hold back Candle Nine!”
As everyone was surprised by Ye Ze's tone, he pulled out the seven-tier advancement pill he got from the secret realm and threw it to Wan Feipeng.
“This is… Holy crap!!!”
Wan Feipeng and Wu Ming both exclaimed in unison, their eyes almost popping out.
The six-tier didn’t have advancement quests, and the seven-tier advancement pill was almost the only way to advance to the seven-tier at present.
“You actually got it!!!”
“Awesome, Ye Ze! If we can hold out today, I’ll get you whatever you want!”
These words, even among the six-tier, only Wan Feipeng could say them.
Is he really not just taking it… Wu Ming gave Wan Feipeng a strange look.
But it still didn't hinder their excited mood.
This was a seven-tier advancement pill; it was no exaggeration to say it was priceless. There was nothing it couldn't buy!
Advancing from six-tier to seven-tier was a huge threshold, and the improvement after crossing it would be substantial!
And he would be the first seven-tier globally!
Wan Feipeng swallowed it in one gulp. His severely injured and weakened state disappeared, and a violent aura surged explosively!
The power of a seven-tier hunter!
Moreover, since Wan Feipeng had accumulated a lot of experience at the six-tier, his level had already broken through to level 75!
“Hahaha! This is the seven-tier! I’m going to fight the Demon Lord!”
Wan Feipeng, filled with heroic spirit, excitedly fist-bumped Ye Ze, “Wait for me to come back!”
As soon as he finished speaking, he instantly charged out, like a cyan storm, soaring into the sky, attacking Demon Lord Candle Nine.
Seeing this, Wu Ming was filled with emotion, “Ye Ze, we owe you so much this time…”
Before he could finish, a loud explosion resounded from the battlefield.
Wan Feipeng's imposing figure, with overwhelming momentum, was directly sent flying by Candle Nine in a single exchange.
Wu Ming: “…”
Ye Ze: “…”