The method of attack was something Lu Yu hadn't expected.

In An Nan City, three totem avatars comparable to Martial Cultivators in the Splitting Spirit Realm suddenly descended from the barbarian tribes.

As Lu Yu was cultivating late into the night, the three totem avatars suddenly appeared in An Nan City, causing immense chaos; buildings were flattened by the totem avatars, and countless humans died under their attacks.

Fortunately, the place where he was located was in a secluded corner in the southwest of An Nan City, so he was not affected.

Watching the totem avatars in the sky being besieged by An Nan City's Splitting Spirit Realm experts, Lu Yu hesitated whether to return to the Divine Weapon Pavilion Secret Realm immediately.

The barbarian's first attack had already involved avatars of Splitting Spirit Realm experts; it's unimaginable what level of experts might appear next.

Bang bang bang~

Three loud explosions erupted, and the totem avatars were blasted apart by a joint force of many Splitting Spirit Realm experts. However, the barbarians had already achieved their objective of causing chaos within the city.

Standing in the courtyard, Lu Yu could hear the shouting, running, beast roars, and collisions outside the city wall... The Southern barbarian natives took advantage of the chaos inside An Nan City, rushing to the city walls.

The explosive force of the totem avatars illuminated the entire sky, and the dense, wave-like movements of the Southern barbarian natives appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

These natives were also mixed with a large number of monsters, poisons...various strange creatures.

Without discipline or order, their sole aim was to rush into An Nan City, devour fresh flesh inside, and destroy the city.

Lu Yu ran towards the direction of the city wall; he saw many Divine Weapon Pavilion disciples waking up and fully armed, forming groups, heading to the city wall.

These Divine Weapon Pavilion disciples were only at the Aura Refinement Realm, with a few Martial Cultivators at the Qi Sea Realm. They dared to run to the city walls, indicating it was still relatively safe there.

Lu Yu followed the large group heading toward the city wall; he did not rely on his fast speed to run ahead, blending into the group.

"How dare those Splitting Spirit Realm totems descend their avatars within An Nan City? Aren't their powers weakened when their avatars are exploded?" A Divine Weapon Pavilion disciple questioned a Qi Sea Realm senior brother beside him.

The Qi Sea Realm senior brother responded without turning his head: "The totems of the barbarian natives are wild gods; they achieve their status through the incense and belief power of the natives. Although they seem similar to Splitting Spirit Realm, the difference is very significant."

"Martial Cultivators of the same rank could easily explode wild gods, but wild gods also have a benefit: their power is related to incense and belief. As long as there is enough belief and incense, their power increases rapidly."

"They dare to descend their avatars in An Nan City because they are prepared for their avatars to explode; their avatars are condensed by absorbing belief and incense. As long as the natives provide enough belief power, they don't mind making avatars."

"Before launching a war, the natives conduct large-scale sacrificial activities precisely to gather belief power, summoning the wild god's avatar."

He added: "Don't think it's a good thing to increase power quickly; the power obtained from belief comes quickly and is lost quickly. Since the Grand Zhou Zhenyuan Legion entered the southern frontiers, countless wild gods have fallen as their tribes of believers were exterminated and lost their sources of belief."

"Only the power cultivated step by step is truly belonging to oneself."

"I understand, senior brother," the person quickly responded to the teaching.

Listening to the conversation nearby, Lu Yu thought about the God of Light, who seemed to walk the path of divinity through belief, yet it was far more powerful than these totems.

Back then, even just an insignificant avatar within an avatar nearly forced him to his limit, and the subsequent avatar that appeared was even stronger, impossible to resist.

The power of that avatar was likely beyond the Splitting Spirit Realm.

It forcefully reversed the collapsing Sacred Light rune in Lu Yu's mind from an unknown distance, attempting to break through the Divine Weapon Pavilion Secret Realm.

Feeling the cracks in the Sacred Light seed within himself, Lu Yu thought he should find a way to dispose of it, fearing the God of Light might seek him again.

Last time, luck interrupted the descent; next time might be different.

Moreover, as he had already entered the Divine Martial World, he no longer needed the Sacred Light seed, requiring its disposal to prevent the God of Light from using it for positioning in its descent.

Instead of taking the stairs, everyone directly leaped, jumping tens of meters high, spraying spiritual power in mid-air, propelling themselves to land on the city wall.

Lu Yu landed gently on the city wall without making a sound, demonstrating absolute control over his power, not wasting any spiritual power in the leap.

Bang bang bang~ Figures clad in spiritual armor landed on the city wall, creating noises.

Walking to the parapet, Lu Yu looked below; about fifty meters away was another wall, half as tall, the frontline of the battlefield.

The Southern barbarian natives, monsters, poisonous mists, and exotic beasts had already surged onto the city wall; battles erupted in the open land, military camps, and marketplaces between the two walls.

In the dark, the combatants on both sides emitted brilliance, adding a lot of color to the night.

Boom~ A huge sound echoed, and Lu Yu felt the wall shaking, with the ground vibrating.

A massive figure appeared in Lu Yu's vision: a giant rhinoceros, over twenty meters tall, exerting full strength, crashing against the city gate. Each impact made the wall tremble and the ground shake.

It seemed intent on overturning the wall.

Boom! A huge firelight exploded, followed by the sound of falling; the giant rhinoceros was instantly killed in one strike, with no knowledge of who acted.

The blood witch tribes' priest, covered in blood-red totem markings, walked to the fallen mountain-rending rhinoceros. As he chanted quietly, the blood-red totem rapidly spread over the rhinoceros, as if infecting.

Woosh! The tightly closed eyes of the rhinoceros suddenly opened, both pupils turning blood-red, also emanating blood-red patterns over its body.

It stood up again, rushing towards the city wall with force.

Boom! A massive boulder flew over Lu Yu's head and crashed into An Nan City behind him.

Revived and berserk, the Mountain-Shaking Giant Rhinoceros smashed through the city wall with its head, which was now bloodied, but it didn't stop. With heavy steps, it picked up speed and charged towards the second wall.

"Ah! It's coming, let's run!" someone exclaimed as they saw the enormous figure of the Mountain-Shaking Giant Rhinoceros charging forward, hurriedly advising their companion.

His companion, with sweat dripping from his forehead due to tension, didn't agree with the suggestion, "Don't panic, surely someone will stop it."

Whoosh~ A figure appeared right in front of the charging Mountain-Shaking Giant Rhinoceros.

Lu Yu saw that the figure flew out from the military camp, belonging to the An Nan City garrison. From the armor on the figure, it seemed to be a commander of the city garrison.

As everyone worried that the Mountain-Shaking Giant Rhinoceros might knock down the wall, a dazzling sword light split the night sky in two.

With a flash of the sword light, Lu Yu saw the steps of the Mountain-Shaking Giant Rhinoceros slow down and finally collapse to both sides.

The Mountain-Shaking Giant Rhinoceros was cleaved in half by a single strike.

The Mountain-Shaking Giant Rhinoceros was definitely a demon beast at the Spirit Beast Realm. The person who could slay such a colossal demon beast in one blow must possess Core Formation Realm strength.

Another strong figure who could slay the Mountain-Shaking Giant Rhinoceros just appeared, unquestionably, this person was also a Core Formation Realm expert.

Within just a few minutes, two Core Formation Realm experts acted, and Lu Yu could hardly imagine the intensity of the upcoming battles.

Seeing others jumping off the wall and entering the battlefield below, Lu Yu hesitated for a moment and decided to stay on the wall.

After all, his attack range was large enough, and with absolute control of his power, there was no need to worry about long-range attacks accidentally hitting others.

Lu Yu extended his right hand, where a golden glow flickered at his fingertips. With a swoosh, a compressed Celestial Falling Bright Flame shot out.

Under the control of his Fire Demon Eyes, the Celestial Falling Bright Flame struck an indigenous equivalent to the Qi Manipulation Realm, and the golden flame penetrated his body, erupting from within.

In an instant, the indigenous figure was charred into ashes.

His strength wasn't enough to withstand the incineration of the Celestial Falling Bright Flame, or rather, most at the Qi Manipulation Realm couldn't resist Lu Yu's Celestial Falling Bright Flame.

One Celestial Falling Bright Flame cost Lu Yu 5000 points of compressed Spiritual Power, with an added boost from fire spiritual power, equating to 8000 points of Spiritual Power damage.

No one at the Qi Manipulation Realm could withstand 8000 points of Spiritual Power exploding from within.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~ Golden beams continuously shot out, creating many bright pillars of fire on the battlefield. Each new pillar meant the death of an indigenous or demon beast.

Lu Yu focused on attacking the indigenous, because he found that his compressed attacks might not instantaneously slay the demon beasts.

He had to admit, the defenses of demon beasts indeed far exceeded those of humans without external aids.

Slaying an indigenous at the Qi Manipulation Realm level would earn Lu Yu tens of thousands of experience points, shooting from the safety of the wall allowed easy harvesting of experience points.

Seeing the continuous golden glows lighting up on the wall, some speculated that it was a powerhouse at the Sea of Qi Realm, as every golden light could instantly kill an indigenous at the Qi Manipulation Realm level.

Moreover, sustaining such consecutive releases for this long wasn't possible unless one was at the Sea of Qi Realm.

An indigenous watched Lu Yu with fixed eyes, a skinny, dark-skinned witch holding a small straw figure, constantly muttering obscure incantations while staring at Lu Yu on the wall.

At the same time, Lu Yu felt a slight change in himself, sensing something seemed to be entwining his body.

His keen perception detected an unusual fluctuation on him, although he couldn't identify its exact source.

The dark-skinned witch expressionlessly used a bone needle, stabbing it into the straw figure's head. As it penetrated, a sinister smile appeared on his face, twisting the needle vigorously as if he wanted to shatter the straw figure's head.

"Hmph!" Lu Yu grunted as if his head had split open, causing nosebleed.

Wiping away the nosebleed, Lu Yu noticed the blood was beginning to darken, realizing he had been underhandedly attacked.

"Witchcraft, is it?" Lu Yu glanced into the distance.

"Ugh!" Another sudden attack occurred, and Lu Yu couldn't even figure out its source, with more blackened blood flowing from his nose.

The dark-skinned witch bled from the corners of his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth, with two bone needles stuck into the straw figure in his hand.

Performing this witchcraft he also suffered backlash.

Glancing at the still intact straw figure, the witch pulled out another bone needle, this one poisoned, and violently stabbed it into the figure's heart, piercing through.

"Pff~" The witch spewed out a mouthful of black blood, containing small wriggling worms.

On the wall, a streak of blackening blood trickled down Lu Yu's lips. He felt as if something was trying to emerge from the black blood, but those foreign entities were quickly eliminated within his body.

He had already located the attacker who tried to ambush him, sensing the source of the abnormal power, two identical power fluctuations.

One was on himself, the other outside the city — Lu Yu had already spotted the dark-skinned witch.

Gazing into the distance, Lu Yu's lips curved upwards, hinting at a silent question: who would die first?

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