Repugnant Gateway

Chapter 442 – Killing a City

An Zheng looked at the warrior who was lying on the ground casually, after that, an electric current surged out from within the warrior’s body. In just a moment, the warrior was charred black by the electric current.

Zhou Shen looked at An Zheng, his expression a little ugly and his eyes a little fearful. But what made the deepest impression on An Zheng was instead the faint, faintly discernible look of relief and relief that appeared in his eyes.

An Zheng saw that Zhou Shen’s lips were moving up and down, as though he had said those two words soundlessly.

Finally …

Finally?

Reading words was also one of the necessary methods to investigate a case, so An Zheng was sure that he hadn’t seen wrongly. However, at this time, Zhou Shen’s defensive barrier was violently broken by An Zheng, and three of the four armored warriors had already been killed, what did Zhou Shen really mean by that?

What happened next made An Zheng even more surprised. Zhou Shen waved his hand and ordered, “Gather everyone here to kill him. Either he dies, or all of you die.”

After saying this, he actually turned around and walked into the City Lord’s Mansion. Following his order, more and more people gathered. The guards of the Mayor’s Mansion were all wearing red armors. There were also cultivators dressed in ordinary clothes who were rushing over from all directions. The number of people was enough to make one’s hair stand on end.

An old man wearing a sackcloth robe appeared in the crowd. His face was covered by a black cloth, revealing only a pair of turbid eyes. He looked as if he was looking at An Zheng, then walked to the stairs in front of the City Lord’s Palace and sat down cross-legged. All of the cultivators and guards formed a defensive formation with this old man at the center. This old man was their core.

The old man took out an octagonal object from his sleeve that looked liklate. He placed the octagonal disc in front of him, then lifted his hand and bit his index finger to drop a drop of blood onto the octagonal disc. Moments later, a golden light appeared on the octagonal diagram. The beam of light was like a sword, shooting straight towards the sky. It suddenly dispersed in mid-air, as though it was filled with stars. Golden light dotted the sky above the entire ancient city.

The old man pressed his hand on the octagonal diagram and then grabbed it with one hand.

With just these two movements, the golden lights in the sky above the ancient city of An, suddenly lit up. Even the brightest night sky, when the stars were at their brightest, was not as magnificent as it was now. It was not night, but the sky was full of stars.

He made a grasping motion with one hand, and it seemed as if the entire ancient city of An was shaking. After that, even more people gathered around. This time, it was not cultivators, soldiers, or people in charge of the yamen’s security. It was just ordinary citizens. They moved slowly like zombies and soon filled up the entire street. Their eyes were blank and their expressions were as calm as if they had been carved out of stone. There were no changes in their emotions.

“Kill!”

The old man pointed at An Zheng.

Then, those slow moving commoners seemed to have transformed into a different person as they pounced towards An Zheng like mad wild dogs. Their running speed was very fast, but their movements were exceptionally mechanical. That scene was incredibly bizarre to the extreme.

An Zheng never killed ordinary people, but he knew that these ordinary people were no longer human. In the past few years, no one knew what Zhou Shen had done to the ancient city of An, to actually cause all of the citizens of the ancient city of An to turn into such a ghastly state. Those people baring their teeth as they charged over, where was the trace of humanity left? The most terrifying thing was that An Zheng did not feel much anger from them either.

The breath of life.

From the moment An Zheng entered the city, he felt that the ancient city of An was filled with oddities.

When the Broken Army Sword appeared, An Zheng held onto the sword hilt. With a swing of the sword, a five to six meter long sword light extended out from the sword blade. Like a meteor’s tail flame sweeping past, he slashed horizontally through hundreds of people. There were too many people around, so many that it sent chills down one’s spine.

What happened next was even more terrifying. Those commoners who were killed by An Zheng did not die. Their lower bodies were moving randomly, and their upper bodies were still crawling towards An Zheng. Not a single drop of blood came out from their bodies. An Zheng frowned, and Cultivation Power flew out. The sword beam from the Broken Army Sword instantly extended from five to six meters to ten meters in size. The sword beam that swept through was even scarier than the scythe of the god of death as people fell one after another.

At the same time, An Zheng pointed up with his left hand. The Nine Hell Thunder Bell immediately flew up and hung on his head, forming nine pagodas that revolved around An Zheng. Those who did not get enough time to kill with the sword beams were all killed by the electric currents that fell from the tower. While the twenty-seven Holy Fish Scale flew into the crowd, grinding them back and forth like a meat grinder.

In just a few minutes, the streets were filled with broken limbs. An Zheng walked forward step by step, towards the City Lord’s Mansion.

With every step he took, the number of corpses in front of him increased. However, there were even more people gathering from all directions like mad dogs. Their howls were ear-piercing, and every single one of them charged over crazily, as if death meant nothing to them. When An Zheng walked forward, it was as if he was going to kill, he didn’t have any other thoughts.

The ancient city of An was finished, and there was no one left as a normal person.

But no matter how fierce or cruel An Zheng’s attack was, the cultivators would always protect the old man who was sitting cross-legged at the door. Even though An Zheng’s strength was heaven defying, his speed of advancement wasn’t fast. Because there were too many people here, even though the ancient city of An wasn’t a very big city, there were at least 200,000 people living here all year round. If 200,000 people were to gather on this street, how terrifying would the scene be?

An Zheng didn’t know how many people he had already killed, but he knew that he had only taken six steps forward from the start. It was only six steps, but the corpses around An Zheng had already piled up like a small mountain. As he walked forward, he and his magic tool were like an iron plow that was deeply embedded within the earth, plowing forward. In front of him was a canyon, and on both sides were piles of corpses and people who were still charging at him.

The Nine Hell Thunder Bell flashed with a dazzling light as countless currents of electricity shot out from it. In just a moment, there was not a single blade of grass within a three hundred meter radius. All the people and corpses were turned to ash. When it flew back up, the sky turned gray. It was as if a large fog had suddenly appeared in the sky, making it hard to see anything clearly.

“Originally... This is the peace and prosperity in your heart, the Peach Blossom of the World. ”

An Zheng’s eyes were filled with sorrow, sorrow that could not even resist killing intent.

However, he didn’t show any mercy when he attacked, even if he knew which civilians were innocent.

“I’ll send you all into reincarnation. I hope you won’t encounter such madmen again in your next life.”

An Zheng pushed forward with one hand, and each of the twenty-seven Holy Fish Scale s became the size of a meter. The twenty-seven of them connected together side by side, and were around thirty meters wide, almost as wide as the main street. As he pushed forward with a single hand, the twenty-seven Holy Fish Scale that were side by side were pushed forward. Everywhere they passed, they were all chopped in half at the waist.

After the Holy Fish Scale passed through, the electric current on the Nine Hell Thunder Bell fell, blasting all the incomplete people into bits and pieces. An Zheng stepped on the corpses as he walked forward, and the sounds of bones cracking could be heard. On the other hand, the group of people were still rushing over from afar. They did not have any emotion, they only had to listen to the old man’s orders, and their target was An Zheng. They pounced down from the rooftops, from the walls, from the trees, but because they didn’t have enough strength, many of them directly broke their legs. Even so, no one stopped.

An Zheng stabbed the Broken Army Sword into the ground, with one hand facing the ground and the other towards the sky.

[Lightning Lake]

Following the release of the Cultivation Power, the water vapor on the ground was immediately gathered and then rose to the sky. In the blink of an eye, the sky was filled with thick black clouds. Electricity coursed through the clouds, and it looked as if electric dragons were rolling in the clouds. After a short moment, countless currents began to pour down from the clouds. Each current was about a meter thick, and such an intensity was not something that ordinary people could withstand. As for the black clouds, they covered an area of ovehousand meters. Within a radius of three miles, a gap was blasted open. A large portion of the dense crowd had been cleared, and the power of this lightning pool was terrifying.

An Zheng took advantage of this short time gap to rush towards the direction of the City Lord’s Mansion’s gate.

“Protect the reverend!”

One of the cultivators shouted, and then, he rushed towards An Zheng.

“Die!”

With a swing of the Broken Army Sword s in An Zheng’s hands, a sword beam was thrown ten meters away, directly slicing the cultivator into two. The sword beam was only ten meters away, but it continued to extend forward. In a straight line, all cultivators were split apart by the sword Qi.

“To be the accomplice of a tiger.”

An Zheng said as his eyes turned cold, “You guys are so loyal, yet you guys are doing evil!”

He was like a fierce tiger pouncing on a flock of sheep. None of those cultivators could stop him. At leasundred cultivators lined up in front of the old man and drew their daggers in unison. However, they did not attack An Zheng. Instead, they stabbed their blades into their own hearts. Blood sprayed out in an instant. The scene was shocking.

[Blood Sacrifice]!

Strangely, the blood that sprayed out did not fall to the ground, nor did it flow downwards. Instead, it gathered in the air like streams of water, forming a blood river and entering the octagonal disk in front of the old man. The light in the octagonal disk became brighter and brighter, and the old man’s eyes also changed. When the old man raised his head, his eyes were red, and countless black dots were circling within them.

“Astral formation, devour the soul!”

The old man suddenly raised his hand and pointed forward. The dense starlight in the sky suddenly condensed intiver of stars that surged towards An Zheng. An Zheng blocked with his hands, and the twenty-seven Holy Fish Scale formed a wall. However, the starlight was not real, nor was it Cultivation Power.

Although An Zheng was not sure what kind of terrifying power was contained within the starlight, he was sure that it had something to do with the fact that all the citizens in the ancient city of An. If he was hit by the starlight, he would most likely end up like the commoners.

However, no matter if it was the Nine Nether Thunder Bell or the Broken Army Sword, or some other magical equipment, even if An Zheng had gathered all of his Cultivation Power to form a defense, he still could not stop the Milky Way.

It waower that did not belong to the mortal world. It was something that could not be stopped, something that could pierce through everything.

Just as the starlight was about to hit An Zheng’s body, good old man, who had been sleeping inside the spatial artifact, mewled suddenly. Then, he walked out from the spatial artifact. It leapt onto An Zheng’s shoulder, and two balls of light shot out from its eyes. Shortly after, all the starlight stopped shining for a moment, and then converged in good old man’s eyes likiver flowing into the ocean.

At this moment, the old man controlling the octagonal disc cried out and spat out a mouthful of blood.