Chapter 2317: Chapter 2007: What Can She Do? At Most, She’ll Just Send Someone to Warn Us

Dazhou, Qingshi County.

The sky suddenly turned into the color of ink, the once clear sky swallowed by thick, syrup-like black mist, tearing apart the last ray of daylight, plunging the world into eternal night.

From within the black mist came bursts of inhuman screams, the shrill cries interwoven with the sound of bones scraping.

The soldiers defending Qingshi City were immediately thrown into chaos upon witnessing this scene.

One soldier shouted loudly, "Evil spirits are attacking! Quickly notify the Deceit Suppression Bureau!"

As soon as the soldier finished speaking, countless evil spirits rushed out from within the black mist, madly crashing against the city walls of the county.

Behind the evil spirits, some grotesque entities with bloated, decayed bodies, flesh turned outward, and exposed bones were walking toward the county, but they did not attack the city walls like the evil spirits.

The soldiers on the walls were few, and Qingshi City was just a small city with a population of tens of thousands, with only a few hundred soldiers stationed there in total.

However, the number of evil spirits was endless, like black waves, each one higher than the last.

As the evil spirits scaled the city walls, the once peaceful county was instantly turned into a hell on earth.

Crumbled ruins fell amid flames, the shrill cries of the people drowned by the screams of the evil spirits, the black mist carrying the stench of blood and decay, spreading in all directions.

At the rear of the evil spirit wave were four figures exuding a terrifying aura.

One had a frail body like a corpse, wrapped in a tattered black robe cloaking an emaciated skeleton; another was towering and burly, clad in blood-stained heavy armor, with deceitful evil seeping continuously from between the armor plates; another had an unnaturally handsome appearance, almost demonic, with a skin tone pale as snow, yet half of the face intermittently revealed bare bones; the last one was as tall as a demon god, surrounded by countless wailing soul shadows, forming a layer of writhing soul shadow shield.

At this moment, the blood pupil Deceit King, whose appearance was handsome yet demonic, with a pair of blood pupils emitting red light, spoke: "I really admire you all, knowing full well that Yun Yudie disagrees with our ideals, yet you still went to the Heavenly Fate Sect to waste time."

Some days ago, Yun Yudie had sent the four Deceit Kings to the Heavenly Fate Sect, all three of them -- except for the Blood Pupil Deceit King -- had gone.

Because he knew Yun Yudie’s beliefs were deeply entrenched, she pursued more perfect, higher quality blood meals, considering the entire Dazhou as her blood pasture, and would never allow the four of them to destroy Dazhou, ruining her blood pasture, so they wouldn’t benefit from going there.

If there’s no benefit, why should they go?

Though the Blood Pupil Deceit King’s power was indeed inferior to Yun Yudie’s, he was not afraid of her at all, after all, he was an immortal, indestructible existence, and the only way to deal with him was to seal him.

Since they were all immortal, indestructible beings, what did Yun Yudie’s superior strength matter?

Hearing the Blood Pupil Deceit King’s words, the Everlasting Darkness Deceit King beside him, who looked like a dried corpse, spoke: "If it weren’t for the fact that she helped us in the past, I wouldn’t have gone to the Heavenly Fate Sect either."

Years ago, when the four Deceit Kings instigated a mysterious chaos, they were defeated and suppressed by the Great Zhou Ancestor and the First Generation Prince Zhen Nan, sealed, at that time, Yun Yudie, to save them, was also sealed in the Demon Suppression Tower, to a certain extent, they still had some camaraderie.

At this moment, the Tribulation Abyss Deceit King said, "Since Yun Yudie refuses to give up even three prefectures, there’s nothing to discuss with her."

After the three Deceit Kings returned from the Heavenly Fate Sect, they waited, thinking Yun Yudie would quickly send someone to seek their help, as the Heavenly Fate Sect only had Yun Yudie, an Earth Realm Deceit King, and to kidnap someone with Lu Chen’s special identity from the heavily guarded Capital City was nearly impossible.

However, so much time had passed and Yun Yudie never sent a deceit to inform them.

It was at this time that the Blood Pupil Deceit King found the three of them, inviting them to instigate mysterious chaos.

Although they commanded relatively few mysterious entities, they could integrate the evil spirits of this world, using them as the vanguard to seize human cities, allowing their mysterious entities to harvest the blood meals afterward.

Then the Blood Pupil Deceit King said, "Once the strength of the four of us surpasses Yun Yudie, we will force her to hand over the Heavenly Fate Sect to us. With those mysterious entities from the Heavenly Fate Sect, we can initiate mysterious chaos again, and by then the entire Dazhou will be ours. If she wants to raise blood meals, she can go somewhere else to do it."

Their main interest was Yun Yudie’s mysterious army; her strength exceeded theirs, and she seemed to have an innate suppressive force over mysterious phenomena, causing most mysterious entities to choose joining the Heavenly Fate Sect, leaving them with few sources of mysterious troops.

They harbored dissatisfaction towards Yun Yudie for a long time, but being immortal, indestructible entities, they couldn’t do anything to each other.

Moreover, their overall strength still could not match Yun Yudie’s, so the time to fall out had not yet come.

At this moment, the Everlasting Darkness Deceit King said, "I estimate it won’t be long before Yun Yudie finds out that we have initiated mysterious chaos. I wonder how she will react."

The Blood Pupil Deceit King sneered and said, "What can she do? She can only send someone to warn us."

Being immortal, indestructible beings, even if Yun Yudie was stronger, there was nothing she could do to them.

Just as the Everlasting Darkness Deceit King was about to speak, the Blood Pupil Deceit King’s gaze turned toward the distant, already completely fallen Qingshi City, then said, "We should move too, otherwise those oblivious little underlings will take our blood meals."

Tens of thousands were not enough to satisfy the four Deceit Kings, but it could help them regain some strength.

They also wanted to attack densely populated cities, but those had stronger qi fortune, and were guarded by the formidable Deceit Suppressing Guards. Dazhou’s qi fortune would suppress their power.

Even as Earth Realm strangers, under the suppression of Dazhou’s qi fortune, they could only exert Profound Realm strength. Even if those cities weren’t guarded by Earth Realm Deceit Suppressing Guards, they might still fail to conquer them.

So their strategy was to first consume the population of smaller cities, gradually weakening Dazhou’s qi fortune, thereby enhancing their own strength.

Once their strength reached a certain level, and Dazhou’s qi fortune waned, they would then attack those large prefectures.

...

The news of Qingshi City’s fall quickly spread throughout Dazhou, causing a stir in both the court and the public, plunging Dazhou’s people into panic.

At the Deceit Suppression Bureau, in the council hall.

Sunlight slanted through the high windows, casting on the stern, rigid faces of the people.

In the vast hall, a pin drop could be heard, Prince Zhen Nan sat in the main seat, his gaze sweeping over the hall, the high-ranking members of the Deceit Suppression Bureau all lowered their heads holding their breath, even their breathing was light.

The brighter the sky outside, the more oppressive the atmosphere inside the hall.

At this moment, Prince Zhen Nan’s face was grim, brows furrowed, after a long while, he finally spoke: "Let’s talk, what are your thoughts on the fall of Qingshi City?"