Chapter 140 -139: Resisting the Demon Attack
He quickly looked up, seeing a gigantic bird circling in the sky with wings spread out measuring twenty to thirty feet. Its feathers were shiny black and exuded a faint black fog. It almost seemed like a demon.
Before Shen Luo observed carefully, the bird dove down towards the mountain pit. It disappeared from his sight swiftly.
Shen Luo was puzzled, so he quickened his pace, chasing in the direction where the bird had vanished.
He moved forward gradually for about a hundred steps, then he heard roars of beasts and constant cries of despair faintly coming from ahead.
“There are people!”
Shen Luo muttered to himself and accelerated down the mountain.
The closer he got, the louder the cries of despair and beast roars became.
Halfway up the mountain, he finally saw a village built against a massive mountain in the middle of the pit.
Although the village wasn’t big, its surroundings were fortified like a military camp. Tree trunks were sharpened at the top, formed into rows, and turned into sturdy wooden fences.
These walls made from wooden fences were about twenty feet high. Platforms were built inside them with teenagers of the human race standing every few feet, wearing coarse hemp clothes, and continuously shooting arrows and stabbing with spears.
Outside of the wooden fence, there were several gray-haired monkeys as tall as humans but ten times stronger. Some of these monkeys were throwing rocks at the wall. Each impact would produce loud bangs, expressing intense force.
The wooden fence on one side had two huge doors wrapped in iron. Several monkeys had gathered there, wielding large stone clubs and continuously smashing the door with their arms swinging around.
Someone noticed the door shaking severely due to their smashing and was about to break down. He leaned out and stabbed downwards with his spear to fend off the monkeys.
But shortly after showing his head, he was struck in the forehead by a rock, causing his brain to burst open. His body tilted and fell off the wall.
The monkeys gathered at the gate then abandoned their smashing, swarmed over, and fought for the man’s corpse. The body was going to be torn apart beneath their hands.
At this point, a purple-haired woman in coarse armor suddenly appeared on top of the wooden fence.
She quickly formed seals with her hands. There was an immediate whoosh in the void and a fireball as big as a human head descended from the sky, smashing towards the group of gray-haired monkeys.
The beasts seemed to know the danger of the fireball and abandoned the meat in their mouths, instantly scampering away.
As the fireball hit the corpse, a flame immediately rose, swallowing it comfortably.
Watching this, the monkeys became even more ferocious and started smashing the gate again. The others threw rocks, aiming at the woman.
“A cultivator…”
Shen Luo hesitated for a moment before focusing on the woman. He noticed how young and tender her face was, she was just a girl. Underneath her broken armor, on her arms and leg area, were wraps of white cloth. There were faint traces of black dried blood visible on them.
Just then, the bird cry rang in the sky.
Shen Luo looked up, seeing three or four huge birds similar to the one he saw before, circling over the village. Suddenly, they all swooped down one by one, flying over the wooden fences, and attacked the village.
Upon seeing this, the youths on the high fence wall quickly drew their bows and shot feathered arrows at them.
The arrows whizzed through the air at a seemingly fast speed, but when they reached the giant birds, the gusts of wind created by the birds’ flapping wings deviated them from their course. Not a single one hit its target.
The giant birds swooped into the village, demolishing mud and straw houses, pecking and hooking with their beaks and claws, dragging out the old, the young, and the helpless who had taken shelter in the houses.
Shrieks and screams filled the air.
Along the roadside in the village, some poor, emaciated villagers sat next to collapsed walls, unresponsive and dazed, with murky eyes devoid of any hint of life, seemingly lifeless.
A frail old woman staggered a few steps, then collapsed onto the ground, lacking even the strength to struggle back onto her feet. Her eyes, long since dry, could not even shed tears anymore.
Once outside the fence, the three giant birds opened their mouths and dropped their prey, leaving the weak and the unable bloodied and battered on the ground.
The gray-haired monkeys lept towards the prey, quickly rending them apart and picking their remains clean.
Feasting on human flesh seemed to have excited these beasts, who attacked the village with renewed vigor, and the giant birds too, took to the air, swooping back towards the village.
One giant bird flew over a cottage in the center of the village, a few flaps of its wings and a gust of wind swept away the entire roof.
A chorus of screams rang out from the house – there were thirteen or fourteen children, all huddling fearfully in a corner. Their faces were all stained with tears, their eyes filled with fear.
Upon seeing this, the giant bird screeched gleefully and immediately dived towards the terrified children.
At the same moment, an old woman with a face full of wrinkles suddenly rushed over, holding a wooden broomstick. Like a hen protecting its chicks, she stood in front of the children.
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The bird’s hooked talons swooped down, about to seize the old woman.
Then – “BOOM!”
A ball of fiery red flame suddenly fell diagonally from the sky and struck the bird’s back.
With a mournful screech, the bird was slammed away, crashing into a wall and getting buried in the rubble.
At the edge of the wall, the purple-haired girl, her face pale, slowly withdrew her hand. She smiled weakly at the old woman and children in the corner.
But before she could fully extend her smile, a swiftly propelled stone hit her in the back. She lost her balance and tumbled from the top of the wall, landing heavily on the ground, blood spewing from her mouth.
Without her assistance defending the wall, the young men were quickly suppressed by the monkey’s onslaught of stones, not daring to reveal themselves. Meanwhile, a couple of monkeys at the gate began to hammer even more enthusiastically.
The gate that was weather-beaten over time, could no longer hold, ready to shatter at any moment.
Once the gate was breached, the village would surely be destroyed and the lives of its inhabitants lost.
Despite the excruciating pain coursing through her body, the purple-haired girl struggled to her feet, intent on making her way towards the gate.
Her injuries were severe, her footing unsteady. She didn’t notice that the giant bird she had knocked down had risen from the mound of rubble. It fluttered its wings and swooped towards her, its sharp beak thrusting straight towards the back of her head.