After hearing Bai Shuanglian’s words, everyone understood. Although the Exorcists Association seemed to have been handed over on a silver platter, considering this was a sudden ambush by the Devil, with them caught off guard, being captured was inevitable—probably.
Ling Xiaoyou continued to ask further:
“Since the Devil occupied the Exorcists Association in such a short time, how come they didn’t destroy the Teleportation Array? Wasn’t their attack on the Exorcists Association not only to destroy the Teleportation Array but also to prevent the exorcists from threatening them?”
Bai Shuanglian nodded and said:
“The Teleportation Array was not destroyed. Although that is indeed strange, even if it is strange, as long as the Teleportation Array is usable, it’s not the most critical thing for us.”
As she spoke, Bai Shuanglian looked at everyone and said:
“The most important thing now is to leave the Imperial Capital first, then bring reinforcements. The other things are not important.”
Ling Xiaoyou nodded in understanding. Although they were indeed considered powerful cultivators on the Xuantian Martial Stage, if they actually participated in this incident involving a Supreme Being, they would only be delivering themselves to the enemy. In that case, it was better to just go back and bring reinforcements.
Thinking, Ling Xiaoyou took out her mobile phone and glanced at it. It had lost signal at some point, and she didn’t know what method Team Leader Lin had used to contact her.
However, although the phone had no signal, she didn’t know if there were any other means to contact the outside besides teleportation. She thought there probably weren’t, since even the teleportation to the outside had been salvaged urgently; other communication methods must have become unusable.
Thinking, Ling Xiaoyou sighed softly. So this incident happened too suddenly, catching too many people off guard. No one expected that the Demon Grand Duke would sacrifice all his subordinates and even his own life to launch this attack.
The vehicle sped along the road, encountering no pedestrians along the way. The road was full of gravel and broken trees, but the people in the car used magic to clear them away before the vehicle hit them.
Looking at the surrounding buildings that were blackened and some still burning and collapsing, Ling Xiaoyou’s mood grew heavier. She didn’t know if this incident could end safely.
Just as she was thinking this, from the corner of her eye, Ling Xiaoyou suddenly saw a burst of fire from a nearby building, then a loud noise that shook the car. Another building exploded.
The earth shook under the explosion. The already damaged surrounding buildings collapsed again. Thick smoke and dust filled the air, covering the vegetation that had been almost burned away by the flames.
Flames shot into the sky. Ling Xiaoyou stared blankly at the exploding building. Even though she had seen it a few times on the road, no matter how she looked at it, she couldn’t get used to such a scene.
Just as Ling Xiaoyou was focusing on the exploding building, the collapsing floors, and the flames reaching the sky, suddenly her eyes noticed something in the flames that was not produced by the fire. It seemed to be a human figure, its burly and sturdy body faintly visible behind the flames. Curved horns from its head pointed to the sky, and a demonic tail behind it flicked, occasionally smashing nearby bricks and tiles.
The figure half-crouched at the edge of the rooftop. Its eyes, still bloodshot even through the flames, were fixed on the vehicle they were driving. It held a longspear high, seemingly about to attack.
And clearly, the target was their car. Seeing this, Ling Xiaoyou immediately shouted to Bai Shuanglian:
“There’s a demon about to attack us! Dodge!”
Hearing this, Bai Shuanglian’s eyes sharpened. She didn’t ask for details. Spirit Power surged in her hand on the steering wheel, and the car she was driving suddenly sidestepped as if it had cheated, looking like an image cut and pasted to the side.
And almost at the instant the car sidestepped, a longspear shot down from above, embedding itself straight into the ground, with more than half of it buried by the force.
The nine people in the back, who had been drowsy from the long drive, were startled awake by the sudden movement and looked out the window in unison. They first noticed the longspear, then saw a burly figure rapidly falling from above, crashing into the ground with a loud noise, creating a deep crater.
Then, footsteps came, and that burly figure, holding the longspear, slowly walked out of the crater.
“I didn’t expect that even though the citizens have been evacuated, I could still see a car passing by here.”
As expected, the newcomer was a demon. Judging from his aura, he was at least not inferior to the Steward Demon that Bai Shuanglian and Su Taosheng had defeated.
After seeing the girls in the car, the demon raised an eyebrow and said:
“I see. Not citizens, but cultivators?”
“But… your strength is just too weak!”
A cruel grin suddenly appeared on the demon’s fierce face. He raised the longspear over his shoulder, pulled it back, and then violently shot it toward the vehicle.
The air cracked. The longspear arrived in an instant, right in front of the car, and the next moment it would pierce through.
But in an instant, a fair, jade-like hand reached out and grabbed the longspear. It was Bai Shuanglian!
She had gotten out of the car at some point. Now standing on the road, her right hand firmly gripped the longspear, not letting it advance an inch.
“Huh?”
The demon was surprised. He thought that even if this attack was blocked, the residual force would be enough to destroy the car, but he didn’t expect even the residual force to be neutralized.
“I take back what I just said. It seems there are still powerful people among you.”
The demon was about to say something else when his pupils suddenly constricted. He saw the longspear in Bai Shuanglian’s hand suddenly reflected back, with the demon as the target.
And from the force, this attack was not weaker than the one he just shot, and even somewhat stronger.
‘But how is that possible?!’
‘This power… is it really from a cultivator far weaker than me?’
The demon’s expression turned somewhat horrified, but Bai Shuanglian didn’t care.
An ice-blue longsword appeared in her hand, and she was about to continue attacking.
Seeing this, Ling Xiaoyou was taken aback and instinctively wanted to get out of the car to help Bai Shuanglian fight.
But before she could leave the car, Bai Shuanglian called out to her.
“Xiaoyou, just stay in the car. The others still need your protection.”
Ling Xiaoyou was stunned. She looked at Bai Shuanglian and said worriedly:
“But…”
“Don’t worry about me.” Bai Shuanglian smiled over her shoulder and said:
“With your help, I’ve become much stronger now. I can handle this.”
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