The fierce fighting on the battlefield was extinguished by the heavy rain.

The rain was pouring down, and as the back of the demon wave was cut off by the rain of swords, the attack was unable to continue. With the help of the sword energy on the top of the city, the situation that had been forced to retreat steadily, and the situation of retreating while fighting was stabilized in the blink of an eye.

On the city wall that was submerged by the torrent of demons, the Xia family's battle flag flew again.

The pressure on all the soldiers suddenly dropped. After the monster in front of them was killed, there were no more monsters to attack.

They were all stunned and looked at the reversal in front of them in disbelief.

"This, this is..."

"Who is drawing the sword? Who is saving us?!"

"Are we...saved?"

All armies and aristocratic armies, including those Jianghu sects who were temporarily recruited, stared blankly at the outside of the defense line.

The area outside the defense line was already like purgatory, with countless sword energy penetrating down, and all the demons wailing and falling.

Those big monsters in the Third Immortal Realm rolled up their huge bodies and tried to escape into the distance, but like moths struggling in the heavy rain, they were soon covered by the rain of swords and fell rapidly, making no sound anymore.

"Who is that..."

In the center of the defense line, Marshal Xia Changkong, the commander of the second line of defense, looked up with shock on his face.

Under the long river of sword energy, I saw a young figure sitting on the back of the red flame demon. The energy in his body seemed to be snow-white mist, visible to the naked eye, rushing towards the sword tide in the sky above his head, turning into endless sword energy sweeping down.

Next to the young man stood the head of their Xia family and his brothers.

"The head of the family, Yuan Wu..."

Xia Changkong was a little stunned. The head of the family actually rushed there in person. What about the owner of Gluttony Valley?

He couldn't help but look behind the demon tide, but saw that there was no movement there.

On the battlefield, only a few elders from Gluttony Valley were left. They fled in panic into the distance, but were chased by long sword-qi dragons.

Soon, an elder from Gluttony Valley was injured. At this moment, it seemed that the sword energy dragon was not very powerful, so he chose to resist it with his body. But soon, his soul seemed to be sucked away, and he fell rapidly.

The demons in the Valley of Gluttony are brutal and blood-drinking. They are generally physically strong and powerful, not much inferior to the dragons. They also rely more on the physical body when fighting, but in the face of 1% fatal attribute, they are no different from ordinary demons.

Li Hao looked at the falling demon figures under the rain of swords, his expression calm and unchanged. When the battlefield almost completely calmed down, he put away the wave of swords.

"You two, I'll leave the rest of the fish that slipped through the net to you. I'll leave first."

Li Hao said to Xia Linglong and the two people beside him.

The two of them reacted and were stunned. In just a moment, almost all the tens of millions of demons on the battlefield were wiped out!

This is too scary!

Is this the strength of the Taiping Dao realm? It feels beyond their imagination.

"General Haotian, don't worry, leave the rest to us. Once we clean up, we will send troops to Qingzhou immediately!"

Xia Linglong reacted and quickly said to Li Hao.

Originally, she said that sending troops was indeed a return of favor, but at this moment, she herself felt that in the face of an existence like Li Hao, their Xia family's troops were of little significance. At most, they could rescue the villages and towns in Qingzhou that had fallen everywhere.

After all, although Li Hao is strong, he cannot take care of the entire Qingzhou by himself in a short period of time.

"Um."

Li Hao nodded and did not refuse the other party's kindness.

Then he gently stroked the head of the Candlefire God as a signal, and the flames swept through the Candlefire God's body. He stepped out with his thick hooves like a unicorn, piercing the sky of the battlefield with the light of fire, and galloped away into the distance, leaving the battlefield.

On the defense line, many generals, family heads, and masters of Jianghu sects all raised their heads and stared at the figure riding the red flame demon away, remembering this scene in their hearts.

They didn't know who the young man was, but they knew that the Xia family would give them the answer.

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Qingzhou, Qingzhou City.

Qingzhou City, which used to be prosperous in the past, is now on alert throughout the city. All civilians are restricted from leaving their houses, and all stalls on the streets have been cleared, freeing up wide streets for the rapid passage of troops.

On the four walls of the city, golden magic circles were propped up, but outside the city was a mighty wave of demons gathering.

On top of the city, many Li family soldiers and Qingzhou City defenders gathered here, looking solemn.

The fighting for several days made them exhausted mentally and physically, but no one dared to relax.

Three days ago, information obtained from the outside through the Li family's secret technique revealed that most of Qingzhou's land had fallen.

Hundreds of cities have been shattered and occupied by demons. Qingzhou, the headquarters of the Li family, has suffered unprecedented damage in thousands of years.

When the remaining cities that survived received the news, many people did not believe it and thought that the military information was wrong. However, it was not until they saw the large number of refugees fleeing from other cities and villages that they realized that there was really a big problem in Qingzhou.

After thousands of years of comfort, the people in most cities in Qingzhou have long lost their clear understanding of monsters.

Occasionally, the Demon Suppression Department would hunt down demons that had been killed and parade them around the streets before transporting them back from outside the city. Countless people would come to join in the fun and watch, which was just a novelty.

Now that demons are sweeping across the city, every city is shrouded in unprecedented shadow and fear, and every city is on trembling alert.

However, compared to Qingzhou, which has been engulfed in war, the city of Qingzhou is now besieged on all sides and is in danger.

On the city wall, Li Muchiu and Li Xiaoran were guarding the place. However, both of them had pale hair. Compared to before, they looked obviously more than ten years older, and the wrinkles on their faces were more and deeper.

They suffered two severe blows during this period, which made them feel as if they were dead.

More than a month ago, when Li Tianzong's spirit disappeared, they went to the Ming River in anger, but instead of attacking directly, they investigated secretly. As a result, they unexpectedly discovered that the power of demons gathered outside the Ming River was beyond their imagination.

Longmen and Holy Palace actually mobilized most of their forces, and the leaders of the two major forces were personally stationed in order to kill Li Hao.

They did not act rashly, but chose to take advantage of this opportunity to send troops to attack Longmen's lair.

This is a rare opportunity. The Holy Palace's nest was wiped out by Prince Qing, while the Longmen's nest was also poorly defended.

Mobilizing a large amount of intelligence through the Tianji Tower, they discovered Longmen's lair. After reporting it to His Majesty, the Li family and the royal family sent troops to destroy it together.

It took more than half a month to destroy Longmen's lair. When the leader of Longmen died outside the river got the news, he was furious and advanced his plan to attack Qingzhou quickly and went straight to Qingzhou City.

However, Li Xiaoran and Li Muxiu had already known that Li Hao had left the Ming River, so they did not continue to guard the area outside the Ming River, but returned to Qingzhou in advance.

It was also expected that after Longmen found out the information about the destruction of their lair, they might become angry at Qingzhou and come back early to set up defenses. This led to the failure of Longmen and the Holy Palace's overnight rapid attack on Qingzhou and failed to break through Qingzhou City, which in turn exposed their purpose.

Since the failure of the Liangzhou plan and the failure of the Qingzhou City secret attack plan, Longmen and Shenggong could no longer take care of the secrets. After discussion, they directly called on all demons to launch a massive attack on Qingzhou.

Thus, this protracted fighting began.

In this battle, both sides made countless sacrifices. They persisted for more than a month, and Qingzhou was finally defeated.

The Li family retreated all the way to the defensive line, abandoning most of Qingzhou City, and finally defended all the way to Qingzhou City.

The army sent from the Imperial City was intercepted and killed by another demonic force. Not only did they fail to reinforce the troops in Qingzhou, they also suffered heavy losses.

The demons besieging Qingzhou are not only the Holy Palace and Longmen. In addition to the Taixu realm that is still guarding the Ming River to welcome their master's return, there are other top demon forces that have also come to an end.

When they asked for help from the Xia family in Youzhou, they learned that Gluttony Valley had attacked the Xia family. Obviously, Gluttony Valley's move was to restrain the Xia family. Although the five great generals fought openly and secretly with each other, they helped each other in times of crisis.

, and the Xia family is the closest divine general’s residence to the Li family.

The attack from Gluttony Valley made it impossible for the Xia family in Youzhou to allocate troops to reinforce Qingzhou, and cut off another hope of theirs.

In the past few days, all the calls for help from Qingzhou to other parties have come to nothing, and Qingzhou seems to be surrounded and isolated by demons.

This time the demons gathered more power than in Liangzhou, and they seemed determined to crush the entire Qingzhou and conquer it completely.

They retreated all the way from the border, were defeated while fighting, and abandoned their armor. Now, they retreated to Qingzhou City, which was their last position.

If it is lost again, only the Divine General's Mansion will be left, like a boat in the sea, which can be destroyed at any time.

Li Xiaoran looked grim. In this more than a month of fighting, both he and Li Muchiu almost died.

The leader of the Dragon Gate revealed his strength and broke through to the Taiping Dao realm from the half-step realm in the originally recorded information.

As for the Palace Master of the Holy Palace, he was originally in the Taiping Dao realm. Fortunately, Yan Bei was seriously injured in a fight with Prince Qing, and his realm fell. He seems to have not recovered yet, and is only comparable to the Half-Path Realm.

If Li Muxiu hadn't been in the Half-Way Realm and could hold up the Dao Domain to barely resist, he would have died in the battle long ago.

With a half-step invincible fist and a half-step domain, Li Muxiu fought to a draw with the leader of the Dragon Gate, which greatly delayed the defeat of Qingzhou. Otherwise, Qingzhou would have been defeated a month ago. This Qingzhou city

It has also been destroyed long ago.

But now, we are still in a desperate situation.

"Their target is our Li family, and they want the God General's Mansion to be removed from the list!"

After more than a month of fighting, Li Xiaoran had already figured out the purpose of these demons and wanted to destroy the Li family, and this was only the first step for them to capture Dayu.

This plot may have been brewing decades ago. Ever since the nine sons fell one after another, the area under the jurisdiction of the Li family has been frequently attacked by demons. Now it seems that everything is traceable and is a target.

If you want to cut off the bloodline of the Li family and leave no successors to the Li family, if you wait a few more decades, the direct bloodline of the Li family will weaken, and the true dragons selected will probably be inferior to most of the other divine generals.

That is the most suitable time to attack the Li family.

But now, the demon's plan seems to have changed ahead of schedule.

Li Muxiu's eyes were deep and he slowly adjusted his breathing. He had previously fought with the lord of the Holy Palace outside the magic circle and defeated him and retreated, but he himself was also very exhausted.

The leaders of these two major forces took turns to consume him and make him exhausted.
To be continued...