I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

The immortal fire monster cannot be resisted by human power. The only option now is to retreat into the city and rely on the Jiuzhou formation to resist.

After realizing this, the Jiuzhou monks who were carrying out rescue missions outside retreated to the nearest county town where the Xuanhuang Pagoda was built.

However, of the more than 3,000 Jindan monks who left the city, only one third remained when they returned.

Yan Chixia had no time to return to the capital, so he could only take his men to the nearest city of Taiyuan.

When they arrived at Taiyuan City, it was already in dire straits, with thousands of fire monsters surrounding Taiyuan City. From a distance, the entire city looked like it was burning in red flames.

A colorful shield was placed upside down on Taiyuan City. Normally, the shield was golden, but now it was colorful, indicating that the defense was fully activated and running at full power.

Under the impact of tens of thousands of fire monsters, the colorful light shield flickered and shook constantly, appearing to be struggling.

What's worse is that the protective barrier cannot completely block the invasion of the strange power from the fire monster.

Those monsters had five or six heads, seven or eight faces, a dozen arms and legs, dozens of eyes and mouths. The faces and limbs of humans and animals were twisted together in an irregular pattern, which was frightening to look at.

When the monks saw this, they felt nauseous, their minds were dull, and their spellcasting was disturbed.

Ordinary people were even more miserable. After taking one look, they were so frightened that they lost control of their bowels and bladder, and it took them a long time to recover. After taking a few more looks, they would even become alert and go crazy on the spot.

The screams of these monsters have an equally unhinging power.

Helplessly, the people had to hide in their houses, under their quilts, stuff their ears with cotton, cover their ears with their hands, close their eyes tightly, and neither look nor listen, thus barely avoiding the mental damage.

But even so, he could still feel the terrifying atmosphere outside the city through his sixth sense. He felt uneasy and trembling. The city was filled with a clearly visible atmosphere of fear.

This was the situation Yan Chixia faced when he entered Taiyuan City.

As the highest-ranking official in the city and also the cultivator with the highest cultivation level, he immediately took over the command of the city after entering the city - after more than a year of special guidance from Tianzun, Yan Chixia is now a real Yangshen cultivator.

And he is a very capable fighter, able to fight across levels.

After Yan Chixia entered the city, he immediately asked the monks to form a formation to stabilize the nodes of the Xuanhuang Pagoda. At the same time, he ordered officials to mobilize people from house to house and gather the people to the central square of the city to pray collectively around the Xuanhuang Pagoda.

He knew very well that individual power was limited and that collective power was powerful.

At this time, in addition to the 700,000 permanent residents in Taiyuan City, there were another 300,000 people who came to seek refuge from surrounding villages and towns, bringing the total number of people to as high as one million.

Millions of people prayed together, the scene was unprecedented and extraordinary.

[The sky and earth are dark yellow, the sun and the moon are vast and boundless, shining brightly and protecting all living beings. ]

[God above, the pagoda's divine light, bless my people, protect my nine states...]

Millions of people recited the complete prayer mantra, and the tremendous power of faith suddenly rose up and poured into the Xuanhuang Pagoda. A blazing golden flame suddenly burned on the pagoda, which was the boiling wish of all living beings.

The dark atmosphere of fear that shrouded Taiyuan City disappeared in an instant, and the sky became open and bright. Although there was no sunlight, it was as warm as the sunshine.

Under the envelopment of this warm atmosphere, the people who were originally frightened immediately calmed down.

【There are so many of us, what is there to be afraid of? 】

[Each person's spit can drown those monsters! ]

[God of Heaven, we have the protection of the Heavenly Lord and the Nine Provinces Formation. As long as we stay here, we will be safe! ]

For some reason, everyone suddenly felt more confident and courageous, and instantly felt that the monsters outside the city were not so scary anymore.

Infused with the powerful willpower of all living beings, the barrier of Taiyuan City gradually became more stable.

A similar scene also occurred in other cities that were nodes of the Xuanhuang Pagoda.

The Sitianyuan and court officials, in accordance with the Jiuzhou Emergency Plan that had long been issued, stabilized the Jiuzhou formation, appeased and guided the people to concentrate on their prayers, and maximized the power of the Jiuzhou formation.

For a moment, the Jiuzhou formation, which had been somewhat turbulent due to the collapse of the sky and the cracking of the earth and the impact of strange earth and fire monsters, gradually stabilized.

No matter how the monsters attacked, it remained unmoved.

There is chaos and suffering outside the protective barrier, but peace and tranquility are inside the barrier.

The crisis was temporarily relieved, but in Taiyuan City, Yan Chixia couldn't help but sigh.

[I wonder how many people will die in this disaster...]

[Is this the catastrophe that will destroy the world? It is indeed terrifying! ]

[If it weren’t for the sudden appearance of the Heavenly Lord, who took the initiative to reorganize the human world and set up this Nine Provinces formation, I’m afraid…]

In order to maintain a high-intensity protective barrier, the Jiuzhou Formation can only protect the living beings within the cities in various places.

Yan Chixia couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the large number of people outside the city's barrier who were unprotected and could only helplessly face their fate of death.

What depressed him the most was that he knew that countless innocent people were dying tragically outside, but he was powerless and unable to change the situation.

[I hate it! If my cultivation was higher, even if it was only one-tenth of the Heavenly Venerable…]

When Yan Chixia was feeling painful and blaming himself, suddenly one of his subordinate monks came forward to report.

"Lord Yan, the situation has changed!"

With the help of the telescope invented by the Academy of Sciences, Yan Chixia followed the monk's instructions and found that far away outside the city of Taiyuan, after killing all the living creatures and losing their targets, the fire monsters actually began to kill each other brutally.

"Great! We just need to wait for these monsters to kill each other and collapse!"

Upon discovering this, a monk on the spot shouted with joy.

Yan Chixia frowned and said, "Don't be too happy too soon. I'm afraid there is something wrong."

He observed carefully and found that the monsters were not only killing each other, but also preying on each other.

When a larger monster kills a smaller monster, it will devour the opponent's body and become larger itself.

After the smaller monsters besiege and kill the larger monster, they will also eat it and become larger.

[They are devouring each other! ]

Big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp.

With layers of killing, the number of fire monsters in that place decreased rapidly in the blink of an eye.

After a stick of incense, the only thing left at that place was a gigantic fire monster that was several dozen feet tall.

Moreover, its appearance continued to change as its body grew, gradually changing from a distorted and disordered form to a human form, and it actually revealed some kind of ghostly form.

After seeing the whole process of the fire monster devouring and changing from beginning to end, Yan Chixia felt his scalp tingling.

[What on earth are these monsters?! ]

A certain unknown fear and feeling of powerlessness surged deeply into his heart.

Even this battle-hardened demon-slayer monk couldn't help but feel fear.

The strange thing is that there is a hint of familiarity in this fear, as if this is not the first time I have encountered this kind of monster...

But Yan Chixia was sure that he had never seen such a monster.

If you encounter a monster like this once, you will never forget it. It is impossible to remember it wrongly!

An absurd guess suddenly popped up in Yan Chixia's mind.

[Could it be a previous life? ]