Chapter 594 — Hard to Tell True from False

Send scouts to the front to find out where this host of gods and demons comes from! " His order was passed down. The first demon army, led by its commanding demon god, had already come to a halt before the ruins of Wuwang City, still more than four hundred li from the battlefield; on receiving the order it at once pitched camp and did not join the fighting.

Many demon officers and strongmen moved mountains and set stones, swiftly raising walls; they also slaughtered one giant beast after another and used the beasts' blood to cover the stone walls with demon script, drawing all manner of patterns to strengthen the defenses. Inside the city the demons worked without pause, building watchtowers and arrow towers.

The commanding demon god gave a shout and led several great generals out of the city toward the front to observe the Taihuangtian army that was fighting there and learn where it came from.

When they reached a hilltop before the battlefield, this demon god set up a great mirror more than ten zhang tall on the mountain, reflecting the state of the battle. After a while Vajra took out a mirror and examined it.

Seeing the battle reflected in the glass, he wore a look of suspicion. His gaze was keen, and he could make out what was odd: this host of gods and demons that had appeared so suddenly were not true living beings.

Strong as they were, they seemed to be gods and demons manifested by the art of creation. Yet he also noticed at once that in the battlefield there were not only these created gods and demons, but also several exceedingly formidable figures moving through the chaos to assassinate the demon ancestors.

These were masters of the god-and-demon level: one a burly pig-slaughtering fellow, one an old man who worked iron, one a little runt holding a black dragon-bone spear. These three were the most terrifying; joining hands, they could assassinate even an ancestor of the demon gods amid the chaos of battle.

Besides them there was a peerless beauty, a stalwart man riding a green ox, and an old man in blue robes carrying a man in a bronze mask on his back, weaving through the battlefield, while countless giant venomous creatures spread poison everywhere, felling and numbing whole swaths of Youdu monsters. The most terrifying of all was the man in the bronze mask.

Wherever he passed he released poison that felled great numbers of monsters, causing more death and injury than any of the other masters; many monsters were poisoned outright, or their bodies rotted away into blood and water, a method more dreadful than the arts of gods and demons. The horde of Youdu monsters that the demon race had summoned from Youdu simply could not withstand this man's virulent poison. "Where on earth did these people come from?

And where did those created gods and demons come from? " Vajra could not gauge their depths either, and said gravely, "Lu Li, the enemy's host of gods and demons is a mix of the false and the true, with real gods and demons hidden among them. We do not know how many are concealed within.

I ask you to recall the monster horde and let us take the long view! " Lu Li's figure was graceful, her moth-brows slightly knit, very lovely to look at, yet her voice was coarse and heavy. "Vajra, you should be able to see that the enemy is not really strong.

There are only five or six true gods and demons among them.

Kill those five or six, send the demon army rolling over them, and we can crush them in no time!

If we withdraw now, we give Taihuangtian a chance to catch its breath, and then it will be much harder to break them outright! " Vajra shook his head. "The enemy is already on their guard; there is no time to push straight through to Li City.

Better to put our forces in order and take the chance to learn the truth of their strength. Besides, how do you know there are only five or six gods and demons? If more are hidden inside, we will only suffer grievous losses. I cannot gamble the future of the demon race! " Lu Li had no choice but to cry out in a shrill voice, uttering harsh words in the Youdu demon tongue.

At the front, many demon ancestors heard the sound, and shouts rose from their throats as they led the monster horde in retreat. Shen Mu heard Lu Li's voice, and his expression stirred. "That is. .

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the Youdu demon tongue?

I know it too—" Without a moment's thought he too uttered the rise and fall of the Youdu demon tongue, and it burst like thunder above the battlefield, carrying for twenty or thirty li around.

The demon ancestors who heard him halted one after another and turned to look, low words of demon speech coming from their mouths in answer to his voice. Shen Mu shouted several phrases at the top of his voice, and those demon ancestors turned around and dropped to one knee, bowing their heads.

The Butcher, the Silent Craftsman and the others, drenched in blood, had been about to pursue and cut down the fleeing enemy; at this sight they all stopped short, startled and uncertain.

In the distance, Vajra saw in his mirror the monsters and demon ancestors halting one after another, and knew something was wrong.

He looked at Lu Li.

Beads of cold sweat broke out on Lu Li's forehead, and she laughed with a cackle.

"Vajra, you are really too incompetent. You actually let that little thing live! That little thing is in the enemy camp!

Little thing, you want to take my control from me? Dream on!

" Her voice turned shrill and bleak, demonic sound rolling like thunder, bursting above the battlefield, drowning out and covering Shen Mu's voice so that he could not make himself heard.

Shen Mu gave a stifled grunt and opened his mouth to speak the Youdu demon tongue, but his voice could not carry. Those demon ancestors wore blank looks, rose to their feet one after another, and reined in the Youdu monsters as they fell back.