Boom!

The explosion echoed, plunging the entire Jinling into chaos.

Inside an inn.

"Master... I'm scared!"

Mo Gu was startled awake, curling into Cen Hongyue's embrace with teary eyes.

"Don't be afraid, it's safe here, no more bad people."

Cen Hongyue gently comforted, waving her hand at the same time.

An invisible force opened the door, revealing the pitch-black night and a swathe of crimson in the direction that unmistakably pointed to the Imperial City!

"Are there demons daring enough to attack the Imperial Palace?"

Cen Hongyue widened her eyes in disbelief.

"Master, what should we do?"

Yingzi bit her lip, looking at her master.

"It's nothing..." Cen Hongyue forced a smile, as if comforting her disciples, or perhaps herself: "The invaders' target is the Imperial City, it has nothing to do with us common folk... nothing to do with us..."

Before she finished speaking, a scream echoed from not far away.

"Monster... a monster!"

"The monster is killing people!"

"There's a monster!"

...

Cen Hongyue's face suddenly became unsightly. She stepped out of the inn and saw every household had lit lamps, and sounds of commotion occasionally arose.

It seemed as if there were numerous demons lurking under the night, attacking various homes!

"What's going on? Follow me!"

Cen Hongyue, along with her two disciples, rushed into a household where cries were heard and discovered a cluster of starlight preying upon several corpses, seemingly absorbing something.

Amidst the starlight was a dark-colored demon core, with light surrounding it forming its shape.

"So it's a Starlight Demon!"

Cen Hongyue looked up and only then realized the night sky seemed unusually bright tonight: "But Jinling has its array and protectors, how did so many Starlight Demons descend, could there be an insider?"

Swoosh!

Before she could finish, the Starlight Demon had already transformed into a streak of light, shooting towards her like an arrow.

"Hmph!"

Cen Hongyue snorted coldly, spitting out a thread-like flying sword from her mouth.

With a flash of sword light, the core of the Starlight Demon was cut in two, falling to the ground, shattered into pieces.

"They're all dead..."

Yingzi and Mo Gu looked at the bodies on the ground, their expressions filled with sadness, as though this scene had stirred up some painful memories.

"Don't be afraid, as long as your master is here, all these demons are throwing their lives away!"

Cen Hongyue had the confidence.

After all, the Doumu Scripture she practiced was of extremely high quality, vaguely related to the stellar system, and had a significant advantage against low-level stellar system demons.

This kind of positional suppression applies everywhere.

She returned to the street and was suddenly stunned.

The sky appeared like ink, with diamond-like starry lights descending from the night sky, akin to a magnificent meteor shower.

But each of these meteor showers represented danger!

Not only did they crash down like cannonballs, blasting deep pits, but within those pits emerged Starlight Demons and higher-level demons, frantically attacking the nearby crowd.

Even though experts from the Patrol Office and the City Defense Cavalry and Horse Department immediately sprang into action, it was like putting out a fire with a cup of water.

"Ah... let's fight them!"

In the crowd, a few Loose Cultivators rose up to resist, some managing to slay demons, while others were killed by the demons.

A Taoist wielded a talisman sword, shouting, "Taisu Dao Ancestor, by the mandate of the decree!"

The sword burst into flames, and wielding it, he slashed down a Starlight Demon.

But in the darkness, a larger demon, resembling an ox beetle with a body sparkling with starlight, suddenly appeared, severing him in half with massive mandibles. Its vibrant starry tendrils burrowed into his severed body's seven orifices, continuously extracting something.

"Upper Demon!"

Cen Hongyue's face showed a wary expression: "Disciples, there's no staying in Jinling, quickly follow your master and break out of the city!"

At that moment, a terrifying aura made Cen Hongyue tremble all over.

She seemed to feel the birth and demise of stars, witnessing scenes akin to the Big Bang, as the dazzling stars in the dark sky seemed to become eyes, peering at her, making her shiver, her body splitting open with seams, as if a starlight-like substance was going to wriggle out.

"Great Evil!"

"Great Evil Demon of the Stellar System!"

Cen Hongyue stiffly lifted her head, seeing a vast, resplendent star emitting purple-black light, which had somehow moved near the Ziwei Star Domain!

This star was majestic and ominous, as if its mere appearance would plunge the world into chaos.

"This is the 'Omen of Doom,' the 'Death Omen Star'... 'Jidu Star Lord'!"

Cen Hongyue almost moaned, uttering the name of this Great Evil Demon.

Fortunately, the Great Evils of the stellar system generally embody stars, not only is the main body extremely distant from the mortal world, but it is also shielded by a layer of meteors and crust on the surface.

Otherwise, just this night alone would have driven countless people insane!

At this moment, countless Taoist experts and Western astrologers looked up at the sky, faces filled with intense fear:

"Jidu encroaches on Ziwei, a great evil omen!"

"The 'Death Omen Star'! The Eastern 'Death Omen Star' has appeared!"

...

Tianluo County Princess Mansion.

"What's happening?"

Awoken in the middle of the night to find the stars changed, Princess Tianluo's hair was disheveled, her expression full of shock: "The Imperial Palace has great arrays for protection, how could they be breached? Where are the Royal Tributes?"

"Heaven-sent demons? Where are the City Defense Cavalry, Patrol Office, and Imperial City Army?"

Jinling, as a major city, should also have its protection.

At the very least, as of today, such a massive descent of demons was essentially impossible.

But tonight, everything happened!

"There are insiders; this is just so thrilling!"

Zhong Shenxiu understood everything clearly; the Iron Blood Society, through Hu Wei, used his father's access to the palace to infiltrate the Imperial City and employed some unknown means to render Jinling and the Imperial City's defenses ineffective.

Then, it was as if stars rained down!

The entire sky of meteors were in fact Stellar Demons!

"The one behind the Iron Blood Society is probably not a Great Saint, but... a Great Evil, right?"

Zhong Shenxiu quipped, then turned to Qin Weiyin behind him: "You want to break through the Ninth Realm, and you just happen to lack some accumulation. These demons are perfect prey, go ahead!"

"As you command!"

Qin Weiyin bowed, her body exploding into a mass of black-red light fluctuating between reality and illusion, with countless tendrils spreading around, clearly an information entity, a Civilization Demon!

Her body instantly faded into nothingness, disappearing without a trace.

In the distance, several Starlight Demons were about to rampage when their foreheads were pierced by tendrils, draining them of their demonic powers...

Zhong Shenxiu casually gazed towards the Imperial City.

Sure enough, not long after, a roar that reverberated for miles erupted from the Imperial City: "Demons are attacking the city, all Guards, Corps, Armies, Ministers, Freelancers heed the command... Exterminate the demons, tonight!"

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