Great Demon Sun Wukong

This night was one of chaos, with scouts, spies, and informers from all three forces in motion. Yet by dawn, no valuable information had been gathered!

However, King of Qin, Ghost King, and Yao Guang, the King of Light, didn’t fully trust the letter from Di Jun. But since they had arrived with such fanfare, it was impossible to simply bask in the sun together!

So, as darkness receded, the camp of the King of Qin sounded the horn to attack. A total of four million soldiers, leaving one million to defend against the Light Army from the east, the remaining three million troops rushed towards the Ghost King’s army to the west in a triangular pyramid battle formation, under the leadership of the King of Qin!

After pondering for a night, the King of Qin decided to strike the Ghost King first. The grudge between him and the Cangming Ghost King had reached a point of irreconciliation, doomed to a fight to the death. The reason he hadn’t acted yet was merely the fear that both sides would suffer severe losses, allowing Yao Guang to benefit as the third party.

But today, the Ghost King had to be fought. For if the King of Qin attacked Yao Guang’s Light Army or Battle Demon City first, he would likely face a joint attack from both Yao Guang and the Ghost King simultaneously.

Focusing on the Demon Clan second and striking the Ghost King first, there was a great chance that Yao Guang wouldn’t intervene but would instead capture Battle Demon City and the World Suppressing Stele as quickly as possible!

However, heh, the Demon Clan wasn’t so easy to beat, and the World Suppressing Stele wasn’t so easy to take. Or perhaps, the King of Qin had no intention of obtaining the World Suppressing Stele from the start. Different perspectives reveal different vistas. Despite his immense desire for the World Suppressing Stele, he knew it wasn’t something they could lay hands on yet.

So from the beginning, his goal had been to eradicate the Ghost King’s Crimson Army and then seize the Ghost King’s Demon Suppressing Seal.

With the Demon Suppressing Seal in addition to his own Imperial Ghost Seal, in the Netherworld World, aside from that Domain Lord with the Heavenly Stele, and the ten Inner City Lords, no one could likely defeat him! Naturally, the Domain Lord need not be mentioned; with the Heavenly Stele, he is the supreme ruler of this world.

And as for those ten Inner City Lords, it is said they are all beings who have merged with the Eight Laws, just one step away from reaching that Realm.

As soon as the King of Qin’s forces began to move, the Ghost King’s Crimson Army promptly sprang into action as well. Surprisingly, they targeted not the Demon Clan but the King of Qin. Of course, Yao Guang’s Light Army didn’t fall behind, almost moving at the same time as the Cangming Ghost King’s Crimson Army, aiming squarely at Battle Demon City halfway up the mountain!

In an instant, nearly ten million soldiers from three forces were on the move. In less than half a moment, the Cangming Ghost King’s Crimson Army and the King of Qin’s allied forces were already locked in fierce combat. And the Ghost King, wielding the Demon Suppressing Seal, had already crossed swords with the King of Qin who bore the Imperial Ghost Seal.

As the two clashed, Yao Guang’s Light Army had also reached halfway up the mountain. With three million people being too large a number, not all could climb the slope, so roughly only over a million stood below the city walls while the rest either climbed the cliff face or waited at the base of the mountain.

Di Jun, on the other hand, had long since ordered his subordinates to activate the Mountain Protection Array! A giant screen of light formed entirely from Star Sinkers enveloped Battle Demon City, the very same Great Formation slightly altered by Donghuang Taiyi!

The siege of three million against fifty thousand began at Di Jun’s furious roar!

Di Jun’s first command was to order the Demon Clan to throw down all three hundred thousand Exploding Puppets! Due to the rush for time, only three hundred thousand Exploding Puppets had been made by the fifty thousand people working day and night.

The enemy’s thought process was simple: seeing the current situation, the three forces, because of mutual concern, had not attacked the city at the same time. Instead, Yao Guang’s Light Army was attacking, while the King of Qin and the Ghost King began to grapple with each other. This gave the Demon Clan some breathing room.

Otherwise, if the three forces resolved to attack Battle Demon City directly, it was feared that none of their defensive measures would be effective.

As Di Jun pondered, all three hundred thousand Exploding Puppets had been thrown down. The consequence was that the previously formidable million-strong vanguard of the Light Army was almost entirely wiped out!

Even though the strength of this vanguard was the weakest within the Light Army, with power between Four Patterns to Five Patterns, who would have thought that the Demon Clan would have so many Exploding Puppets? The creation of these puppets was almost a lost art; how did the Demon Clan acquire them?

With a livid complexion, gazing at Battle Demon City halfway up the slope, he had lost nearly a million soldiers without even touching the enemy’s edge. The three-million-strong army had instantly dwindled to two million, turning what could have been a force rivaling the King of Qin into the weakest link.

"Commander, what do we do? We’ve lost a third of our forces in just one encounter. How could the Demon Clan be this terrifying!"

"Order everyone to attack the mountain itself. Let’s see if their city will collapse once we destroy this mountain!"

At that command, the entire Light Army did not retreat, instead, two million soldiers divided into five formations and began preparing a combined strike under Yao Guang’s guidance—the Light Emperor’s Seal!

This was a technique exclusive to Yao Guang’s Light Army, whereby the luminous power of all the troops would gather into a unique handprint under Yao Guang’s control, and then be unleashed in one fell swoop! If this attack were to succeed, not just a mountain, but the entire Battle Demon City might be reduced to ashes!

However, the cost of this terrifying attack was enormous as well; it was likely that half of the two million soldiers would be drained of their strength! But Yao Guang had already lost his reason, with an army of one million annihilated in an instant, Yao Guang could no longer afford to care about such things. Even at this moment, Yao Guang no longer intended to seize the World Suppressing Stele!

Just as the two million strong Light Army began to gather their power, suddenly, eighteen dark openings appeared on the side of the mountain where Battle Demon City stood.

"Thunder Fire Scorching Flame Cannon, target, Light Army, fire!"

With a single command from Donghuang Taiyi, a red light flashed across the eighteen Thunder Fire Scorching Flame Cannons, then eighteen meteor-like beams bombarded the very center of the two million Light Army troops!

Then there was a sky-rending wail and roar of fury. But this was just a prelude, in the following moments, the eighteen Thunder Fire Scorching Flame Cannons each fired twenty shots, adding up to a total of three hundred and sixty!

After the thunderous roar subsided, out of the two million Light Army troops that had been neatly arranged into five formations, now less than one million remained! And even those who survived were mostly heavily wounded!

The Demon Clan hadn’t lost a single soldier, while the Light Army suffered two million casualties!

Even King of Qin and Ghost King, who had been entrenched in their fight, stopped and stared blankly at the carnage and severed limbs scattered around. The two of them looked at each other and couldn’t help feeling a tremendous sense of relief.

Thunder Fire Scorching Flame Cannon! The Demon Clan still had such a weapon? What were the origins and Divine Skills of this Demon Clan? Not only did they possess the World Suppressing Stele, they even had the knowledge of making Exploding Puppets, which had long been lost. Now, they had brought out eighteen Thunder Fire Scorching Flame Cannons! Nôv(el)B\\jnn

This weapon was explicitly banned by the Six Great Divine Nations.

However, in the next moment, greed appeared on the faces of both King of Qin and Ghost King, and they simultaneously ordered a ceasefire. Then, nodding at each other, the forces that had been fighting suddenly formed a surprising alliance!

Although the Thunder Fire Scorching Flame Cannon was terrifying, its consumption was even more so. Both leaders believed that, after the barrage just now, the Demon Clan surely couldn’t have many Eight Patterns Soul Crystals left!

They even noticed that the power of the more than two hundred rounds that followed had clearly diminished, meaning the Demon Clan had run out of Eight Patterns Soul Crystals and had resorted to using Seven Patterns and Six Patterns ones. But Seven Patterns and Six Patterns Soul Crystals couldn’t unleash much power.

The Thunder Fire Scorching Flame Cannon had a peculiar trait; it could exert three times or even more power with Eight Patterns or higher Soul Crystals, but with Seven Patterns, it could only unleash two-thirds of the power, Six Patterns, just half. And with anything below Six Patterns, it couldn’t even fire!

Di Jun stood atop the city gate, watching nearly six million troops of the combined forces of King of Qin and Ghost King charging towards Battle Demon City with roars of anger. Di Jun’s face showed a look of desperation and helplessness.

The supplies of Exploding Puppets and Soul Crystals were all exhausted, and although the Mountain Protection Array was strong, it was estimated it wouldn’t last long against such a massive army. Once the Mountain Protection Array was broken, the Demon Clan’s fifty thousand soldiers wouldn’t be enough to fill the gaps between the enemies’ teeth.

However, just as the armies of Ghost King and King of Qin had started to scale the mountain, a crack suddenly opened in the sky. Everyone froze in horror at the mighty presence leaking from it, when a ten-meter-tall orange Heavenly Stele suddenly emerged from the crack and landed directly in front of the gates of Battle Demon City.

This Heavenly Stele was orange, appearing extremely beautiful and ethereal. On its front was inscribed: World Suppressing Stele, Soul Suppressing Number Five!