Chapter 533: The Realm Intent of Love and Hatred

Chapter 533: Chapter 534: The Realm Intent of Love and Hatred

“Hold the line!!!” Yun Mengshang roared.

The order passed down the long line of the Fox Demon Race.

“You must hold them back.”

At each node of the Array, the defending Yao Race members were replaced by their strongest cultivators.

A radiant glow erupted from the city walls—the final bulwark of the Fox Demon Race.

An incessant rustling sound came from outside the walls. BOOM! With a deafening crash, the first member of the Demon Race to reach the wall struck the radiant glow with his halberd.

One crash followed another as countless members of the Demon Race hacked at the barrier relentlessly. The force of their charge, combined with their formidable cultivation, made each heavy blow terrifying enough to shake a Yao’s very soul.

The very first charge sent a violent backlash through the barrier, causing countless members of the Yao Race who were channeling their Yao Power to vomit blood.

“Swap out! We have to hold!”

Shouts echoed from the Yao Race’s side as fresh defenders took their positions. The radiant barrier, which had seemed to weaken, solidified once more.

Now, it was a question of which side could hold out the longest.

In reality, however, the Yao Race had no hope. Every member of the Fox Demon Race present had already reached this conclusion in their hearts. Having come this far, their expressions were a mixture of frenzy and madness.

The Demon Race not only had Profound Level Divine Techniques burning away at them, but they were also attacking in wave after wave.

If this continued, it was only a matter of time before the Demon-Building Array was broken. If it weren’t for the Demon Marshal’s ‘Demonic Flames Scour the World’ Divine Technique, they might have been able to use the Array to launch a counterattack. As it was, they didn’t dare venture out.

A weakened Yun Miqiu swallowed a medicinal pill and sat cross-legged beside Yun Mengshang.

“This Chi Xiao is even stronger than before,” she said. “And these demonic artifacts… the Demon Race never had anything like this in the past. I don’t know how they forged them, but the power boost they give the Demon Race is terrifying!”

Yun Mengshang’s sapphire-blue eyes remained fixed on the battlefield, watching for the right moment.

“No, it’s impossible that these things were forged in the Floating Shadow Realm. The Human Race opened a path to the Jiuzhou Realm, and it’s possible the Demon Race is also receiving aid from another world. I’ve seen a demonic artifact like that Demon Horn before. Through it, it felt as if an impossibly powerful existence was peering into our world, watching everything!”

Hearing this, Yun Miqiu’s heart sank even further. A single Demon Army was enough to threaten the Fox Demon Race with extinction. If there truly was an impossibly powerful being behind these demonic artifacts, how could the Fox Demon Race possibly resist?

“Aunt Qiu, don’t be like this. The Celestial Dao always leaves a sliver of hope. It’s just like how that Cultivator named ‘You’ suddenly appeared on the Human Race’s side. These outside forces can’t interfere too much in the Floating Shadow Realm. As long as we survive this, our Fox Demon Race will surely endure.”

Watching the purple-black flames begin to weaken, Yun Mengshang let out a soft snort. “Hmph. I’m still planning a wedding. The Northern Territory will not fall today!”

The Demon Race’s charges came one after another. A million demons had gathered beneath the city walls, packed together yet orderly.

The radiant glow on the walls was no longer as brilliant as before, showing signs of decay. As for the members of the Fox Demon Race on the walls, they were in a similar state; more than half had sustained serious injuries.

Meanwhile, the purple-black flames on the Demon Race’s side also receded, and the color of the sky turned into a chaotic swirl of dust and smoke.

Once the last of the purple-black flames flowed back into the demonic artifact in Chi Xiao’s left hand, he spurred his Demon Steed forward, charging at extreme speed.

“Your Fox Demon Race is clearly exhausted. This Demon-Building Array… watch as I shatter it!”

A cacophony of demonic sound erupted as Chi Xiao’s left hand transformed into a colossal Demon Claw. It swiped down from the sky, its tips saturated with incredibly pure Demonic Qi. Like black lightning, it tore long fissures into space itself.

A peak Divinity Transformation cultivator wielding a demonic artifact… The hearts of all the Fox Demons froze. ‘We can’t withstand this blow. No matter how much more Yao Power we pour in, the Demon-Building Array has already been attacked so many times. It’s no longer the indestructible bastion it once was! Moreover, the Array has a fixed limit, and its foundations haven’t been repaired. We won’t be able to withstand this attack!’

The morale of the Demon Army surged. “KILL! KILL…”

Once the Demon-Building Array was broken, the beautiful women of the Fox Demon Race would be overrun and slaughtered by the army. The thought of it sent a thrill of exhilaration through the ranks of the Demon Army!

But in that very instant, frost bloomed across the sky, painting the world a stark, pale white. A bitter wind swept over the Demon Army, and carried upon it was the sound of a beautiful, sorrowful zither. It was the same melody Chen Dong had once played—Eternal Icefield!

It seemed to speak of sorrow, of grief, of confession, of longing…

And even more, of love and hate…

Unlike Yun Mixue’s Frost Dream Realm, which was an entanglement of affection, sweet to the very core.

And unlike Yun Miqiu’s Frost Dream Realm, which was the anticipation of love, a moment of absolute beauty, the crystallization of affection that, if one were to linger, would last for a lifetime.

Yun Mengshang’s Frost Dream Realm was unspoken love, a heart filled with resolve. It was the endless seeking of the unattainable, the hatred born from love, the sorrow of love commanded with a look of disdain… It was imbued with killing intent, and within it, one was doomed to sink into despair…

Within this Illusion Realm, even the splendors of three thousand worlds could not compare to a single world of coalescing frost…

The Demon Army was enveloped by the Illusion Realm and sank into its depths. The Demon Marshal Chi Xiao’s claw froze in mid-air, the Demonic Qi congealed by the blooming frost and coated in a layer of ice.

‘How could she…? How could the Fox Demon Race still have…?’ Chi Xiao had never imagined it. This one claw strike, meant to crush the city, would be met by the descent of a Frost Dream Realm. Caught completely off guard, he, like his Demon Army, was plunged into it.

To the Fox Demon Race, the Illusion Realm was so familiar, but this time, it was filled with an unbearable heartache.

The world says that we of the Fox Demon Race are a heartless people, but they do not know. When it comes to the path of love, no one can feel it as deeply, as unforgettably, as we do.

The pain of love, the threat of extinction… hundreds of thousands of the Fox Demon Race revealed their true fox forms. It was like an endless torrent of tears, like the final fate of the Fox Demon Race itself: a desolate end amidst annihilation…