Nuclear-powered Sword Immortal

Chapter 278: Chapter 275: Taking Over Yellow State

"The Spirit Clan must demonstrate their power, but due to current circumstances, we cannot reveal the strength that would make Qiantian Central State wary. The Yellow Sky Dao Sect is just right,"

Above the Sky Dome, a colossal Demon Bird exhibited its Undying Demon Body, like a deathly cloud of doom, carrying a suffocating pressure as it dove straight towards Yellow Sky City, its inhabitants poised for battle, "Today, Yellow Sky shall fall."

Behind it followed tens of thousands of immense demons.

These demons surged like a flood, crossing mountains, rivers, forests, and fields, rapidly enveloping the area towards Yellow Sky City.

Everything alive perished along their path, all spiritual beings capable of manifesting were reduced to their prey.

Facing this relentless onslaught of demons, everyone on the walls of Yellow Sky City turned pale.

Those disciples and protectors that had just experienced a fierce battle thoroughly understood the terror of demons, their bodies trembling, their eyes filled with despair.

"How could it be so fast, how could these demons have arrived so quickly!?"

Zhang Lingjian’s face was filled with disbelief.

It was only a few days, and the demons had already reached Yellow Sky City!?

"Where is Gu Jinlai, what about that Governor Gu now? We need his help!"

Zhang Taiping immediately inquired.

Yu Xuanjing responded, "Governor Gu was originally at the border fortress in Blue State resisting the invasion of Mu State Demons. From there to our Yellow Sky City is more than seven thousand li. Even if the Sword Heavy Cannon is carried by the Demon God Guards, it can’t travel a thousand li in a day; right now, he probably... has just finished gathering his forces at Starlight City and is expected to take another two to three days to arrive at Yellow Sky City."

"Two to three days... We need to hold Yellow Sky City for two to three days?"

Zhang Taiping looked grim, "Saving people is like fighting fire, can’t Gu Jinlai act alone, and hurry to Yellow Sky City at top speed? With his Mechanical Tyrannosaurus’s speed, if there were no delays, he would’ve arrived by now."

Zhao Danqing glanced at his Supreme Elder.

That was something he couldn’t confirm.

He merely said, "This Demon King’s Undying Demon Body does not appear to have reached Perfection. Let all Divinity Transformation Cultivators assist from the side. We rely on the city walls’ defense mechanisms for defense; holding out for two to three days is not without hope."

The other Supreme Elders exchanged glances.

Hold on!

Given the current circumstances...

We must push through!

As the Primordial Spirit Monarchs made their decision and called on the Divinity Transformation Cultivators, even the Refining God Immortals prepared to abandon the command of the skies, defending against the demons on the ground, the flying Demon Bird King finally came into view.

"Zhraa!"

With a piercing screech that split the heavens, this Demon Bird King, along with...

Hundreds of flying demons, soared directly towards Yellow Sky City.

"That Demon Bird King, its true form is a Flash Falcon!? The fastest among the large raptors!?"

"Draw swords!"

Zhang Taiping let out a long cry.

Sword Qi soared into the sky.

The sword light, mixed with flying swords, shot towards the forefront of the incoming flying demons.

Several Primordial Spirit Monarchs’ flying swords were aimed directly at that King-level Flash Falcon.

However...

There was still considerable distance between the two sides.

This distance gave the demon fowl time to react.

About ten Great Demon Level flying creatures surged forward, some striking with their claws, others using their bodies as shields, courageously colliding with the flying swords launched by the Monarchs.

For a moment, blood filled the sky.

Almost simultaneously, the King-level Flash Falcon accelerated, its massive body breaking the sound barrier, rushing at nearly four times the speed of sound, sweeping up a hurricane, charging directly at the Monarchs atop Yellow Sky City.

"How can such a massive body achieve such speed!? Even the flying swords of Divinity Transformation Cultivators can’t match it!"

"Ordinary Demon Kings’ flying speed, at most, barely matches the firing range of a Divinity Transformation Cultivator’s flying sword, but this Demon Bird King is the fastest predatory Falcon, a Flash Falcon, and its Undying Demon Body enhances its flying speed... thus it possesses a speed that surpasses Divinity Transformation Cultivators!"

"There’s another possibility; its Undying Demon Body might have reached Perfection! Stay sharp!"

Zhang Lingjian, Zhang Taiping, and other Primordial Spirit Monarchs shouted in unison.

"Intercept!"

Zhang Taiping’s flying sword, initially trapped by an Upper-level Demon, burst with Sword Qi, and in an instant ripped the Upper-level Demon to shreds.

Not even the demon’s defense-oriented nature could save it.

Flying creatures naturally have weaker attack and defense capabilities, something not even an Undying Demon Body can compensate for.His flying sword contained a terrifying energy fluctuation. It was even more lethal than Huo Yuqing’s flying sword, but the speed...

At most, it only reached around five times the speed of sound.

Under these circumstances, before the flying sword could reach the Demon King Flash Falcon, it had already flown to the city wall first.

Various defensive devices on the city wall, like arrow carts, had no time to respond before it had already ignited the Qi and demonic nature in its body, along with compressing the air to form several visible enormous Wind Blades, plowing straight through the wall.

Wherever the Wind Blade passed, all the elite soldiers on the wall were shredded without a doubt, and many devices were destroyed one after another.

A Refining God Immortal who reacted promptly roared, his True Qi boiling, and his combat sword thunderously cleaved down, turning into a Sword Gang tens of meters long. However, before this Wind Blade the Sword Gang couldn’t withstand a moment and was smashed to pieces.

Eventually, the Wind Blades plowed for several hundred meters on the city wall, causing hundreds of deaths and injuries before fiercely striking the watchtower.

Among the bursting smoke and flying stone debris, the sturdy watchtower was instantly torn apart, with countless rubble splashing down towards the ground.

"Demon!"

Zhang Taiping roared furiously; the speed of his flying sword surged once again, almost catching up to the silhouette of Flash Falcon.

But this Demon King pulled upward, spinning rapidly, and formed a violent hurricane and airwaves behind him, continually slicing and shaking the flying sword shadows sent by Zhang Taiping’s Primordial Spirit Sword Control.

In the shaking, the flying sword was as if unbalanced.

Seizing the chance, Flash Falcon turned around, soared upward, then dived downwards, merging the Qi and boiling demonic nature within its body, forming a barrage similar to black flames, furiously striking Zhang Taiping’s flying sword.

Merely touching these Demon Flames, Zhang Taiping distinctly felt both his Primordial Spirit and the spirituality contained in his flying sword being corroded at an incredible speed.

The feeling was like throwing a piece of ice cream into a 40-degree summer day, melting unbelievably fast.

"Demon Evil!"

Zhang Taiping let out a cry mixed with pain, "Perfect Demon Body! It’s a top-tier Demon King!"

"Bang!"

Almost as he cried out, the flying sword corroded by Demon Evil was seized by the Demon King’s claws and snapped into two parts amidst a burst of sparks.

Meanwhile, numerous Upper-level Demons from Lu Xing took advantage of the situation while the Divinity Transformation Cultivators and Primordial Spirit Monarchs had their flying swords occupied, and charged with full force, finally reaching below Yellow Sky City.

In the terrifying roar, these Upper-level Demons directly charged at those Primordial Spirit Monarchs with the capability of flight.

In this situation, the Primordial Spirit Monarchs had to dash into the Void.

Their plan to manage the demons with the city’s devices instantly failed.

Rushing into the Void, the Primordial Spirit Monarchs had to split their strength to control flying swords and maintain rapid movement in high altitude, affecting both their stamina and concentration heavily.

In this situation, those Primordial Spirit Monarchs who could not even block Demon King Flash Falcon, were in even greater danger.

"Top-tier Demon King! We can’t hold them off!"

Zhang Taiping, with his Primordial Spirit half-corroded, looked at the Demon King in fear, no longer holding the resolve to fight to the death, "Retreat! Abandon Yellow Sky City! We are retreating!"

...

At this moment, the army led by Gu Jinlai was still advancing towards Yellow Sky City.

Due to the urgency of time, he had not brought many people.

Only four thousand Demon God Guards and a special operations squad formed by a thousand Refiners, Gang Condensation, and Hugging Pill Realm cultivators, and additionally, there were eighty-eight Sword Heavy Cannons along with their operators.

In total, slightly over six thousand people.

Numerically few, but mostly comprised of elites, they moved extremely fast and had already entered Yellow State.

However, Yellow Sky City, the site of the Yellow Sky Dao Sect in the north-central part of Yellow State and about 1,600 miles from the border of Star State and less than a thousand miles from Tianhe.

Even though Gu Jinlai streamlined the troops and moved at full speed, it was estimated that it would still take another two days to reach Yellow Sky City smoothly.

But just as they had not yet reached Yellow Sky City, Gu Chaoyang, who had accompanied them from Starlight City, delivered some intelligence, "Patriarch, news just came from our observer within Yellow Sky Dao. Yellow Sky Dao... has fallen."

"Fallen?"

Gu Jinlai was stunned, "It’s fallen already? Didn’t the news a day ago say that the demons hadn’t reached Yellow Sky City yet? How long did the people of Yellow Sky Dao resist? Less than a day? A night? Half a day?"

"To be exact, one hour."

Gu Chaoyang said, a trace of disdain in his tone, "The leading Demon King among the demons is a top-tier existence like the Champsosaurus King, with Undying Demon Body Perfection. It destroyed Zhang Taiping’s flying sword in one strike, and soon after killed True Monarchs Zhao Danqing and Tao Changle, leaving Zhang Taiping and Zhang Lingjian without the courage to resist, leading the first to flee. Once they fled, the morale of the Yellow Sky Dao disciples naturally collapsed, thus kicking off the grand fiasco at Yellow Sky City."

"Zhang Taiping, Zhang Lingjian... being the First Venerable Daoist and Sect Master of the Yellow Sky Dao, they actually fled, abandoning their sect disciples first..."

Gu Jinlai’s expression was somewhat grim, "If I’m not mistaken, as the capital of Yellow State, Yellow Sky City... has a population of over five million, right?"

"Due to the demons from Tianhe breaking out of Champsosaurus Swamp a few months ago, the situation in the north of Yellow State deteriorated, and countless people fled to Yellow Sky City for refuge... Though some have returned recently, the total population in Yellow Sky City... still exceeds eight million..."

Gu Chaoyang said.

Gu Jinlai looked towards the north, his expression heavy.

Even though Star State and Jiangzhou State still need rest and recuperation, having too much territory might not be a good thing, but...

"Pass my order, mobilize the elites of Star State, enter Yellow State, take over the cities of Yellow State."

Gu Jinlai ordered solemnly, "If Yellow Sky Dao doesn’t want Yellow State, Lingxiao City will take it!"