The Lord of Void and Real

Chapter 28: Chapter 27: Life After the Calamity

With the addition of these few Immortal Masters, the situation on the city wall was instantly turned around.

Thunder and lightning, along with huge fireballs, were taking turns flying down, interspersed with imperceptible waves of qi and flashes of sword light. The wolf beasts that had reached the top of the wall were suddenly heavily wounded or killed. They had no choice but to start retreating.

Yu Meng finally managed to crawl out from under the huge corpse of the Black Wolf. He came over to Shen Luo, leaning on his huge sword, patting his shoulder gratefully, “Thank you, Brother.”

Shen Luo was still in awe of the Immortals, barely managing a smile. After a few steps, he walked to the edge of the wall and gazed into the distance.

The wolves below were fleeing away like a tide from beyond the moat. But amidst the dense pack of wolves, one place stood out.

He narrowed his eyes, carefully looking towards that spot and saw on a small hillside beyond the moat, amongst hundreds of Demon Wolves – none were Grey Wolves, surprisingly they were all massive Black Wolves. Mounted on the largest Black Wolf in the middle, was indeed a person.

To be precise, it should not be called a “person”, but a terrifying creature with a ferocious wolf head and a humanoid body. Wrapped in coarse clothing, its arms were bare.

As Shen Luo was staring at this sight, this wolf-headed humanoid turned its head, its eyes flashing green, revealing its terrifyingly sharp teeth through a wolfish grin.

Chills ran down Shen Luo’s spine at the sight!

This creature seemed to be laughing, although its laughter was truly frightening.

However, the creature only looked back once before it turned again. It raised one arm and waved it forward as if commanding something.

Immediately after this, the entire army of wolf beasts soared into motion, speeding away into the distance.

Just as Shen Luo was about to look away, he suddenly noticed something unusual and promptly took a closer look. In the middle of the black wolf pack, there seemed to be two wolves covered in a strange green hue.

They were not as large as the Black Wolves, just about the size of Gray Wolves, but as they ran swiftly, their bodies kept blurring and flickering, appearing and disappearing, making it hard to make out what they really looked like.

However, before Shen Luo could see them clearly, the wolf pack had already fled far away, disappearing from his sight.

The tension that Shen Luo had been holding onto finally relaxed, only for him to immediately feel an all-encompassing weakness and waves of pain from all over his body.

He quickly propped himself up against the wall, his eyes falling on the area below the outer wall of the city. What he saw was a mountain of wolf corpses stacked there, and all along the wall to the moat were the decimated remains of both the wolf beasts and the defending city’s youth; they were piled upon each other each layer heavier than the other.

Even within the moat, there was a large mass of floating corpses of both men and beasts, so many that the bloody water no longer flowed.

Clearly, there had been vicious fighting at the foot of the city and even in front of the moat before everyone withdrew to hold their position at the top of the wall.

This was truly a scene right out of hell on earth.

All around the city wall, cries of anguish filled the air. There were cries born out of sheer relief from those who had managed to survive, there were cries of bereavement for loved ones lost in the battle, and all this was intermingled with the sounds of gratitude directed towards the Immortal Masters.

Shen Luo, inhaling deeply the smell of thick blood in the air, felt dizzy and nauseous, and clutched his chest.

He leaned weakly against the wall and slid down, shaking uncontrollably. His gaze scanned over the lifeless bodies and the survivors on top of the city wall. The expressions of shock, joy and despair on their faces were so vivid; so intense!

Was this all just a dream?

Just then, Shen Luo’s gaze flickered as he suddenly realized he had overlooked something.

Earlier, when he was fully focussed on the life-and-death battle with the wolf pack, he had failed to notice that the dress and attire of the people on the city wall seemed unfamiliar compared to what he was used to seeing on a daily basis.

While most of them were still wearing round collared robes, the front and back of their robes seemed to have been significantly shortened. He didn’t know if this was for the convenience of battle, or they were originally like this.

“Brother Shen, are you alright?” Yu Meng saw that Shen Luo looked unwell, and he walked over to ask.

At this moment, Shen Luo felt too exhausted to even speak, and could only shake his head.

“As long as nothing’s wrong.” Yu Meng laughed.

“Brother Yu, you seem quite happy about what happened?” Shen Luo couldn’t muster up a smile.

“Life goes on this way. To survive is already fortunate. Moreover, we have just escaped death by the skin of our teeth, isn’t that something worth celebrating?” Yu Meng raised his brow, his gaze drifted to the distance.

Shen Luo could only return a bitter smile, but in his heart, a string of doubts remained unsettled.

He had clearly returned the jade pillow, but why did such a strange dream still occur?

Moreover, when he first appeared on the city wall this time, his clothes and even his injuries were exactly the same as when the previous dream ended.

The only difference was, after he joined forces with the little girl to kill the evil ghost last time, he was completely exhausted at the end. However, when he woke up from the dream this time, he still had all his strength and was unaffected.

This place was extremely dangerous, so naturally, it would be wise to return to reality as soon as possible.

However, he had no idea how to wake up.

Last time in the Ghost Village, he also died several times, and only after killing the ghost did he return. So did he have to die several more times this time, or kill all these wolf beasts to wake up?

Thinking about this, Shen Luo felt a headache as if his head was about to explode, and his wounds seemed to ache even more.

Just then, three armored men carried a man over on a plank.

When they got closer, he saw that the man being carried had a bloody hole in his chest that was torn open by a wolf claw. All around it was dried and coagulated filthy blood.

Seeing this, Yu Meng’s fists clenched tightly, and he strode over to them.

Shen Luo recognized the three men. They were Yu Meng’s attendants, and the one who had already died was the one who had been at the forefront trying to rescue them when the two of them were surrounded by the wolf pack.

Yu Meng’s hands shook slightly as he helped to wipe the blood from the deceased attendant’s face. He then bent down to pick up a blood-stained flag nearby and slowly covered him with it.

“This is my brother, Tian Chong…” He turned back to speak, his eyes already teary.

Shen Luo had a solemn face, barely managed to stand up, and respectfully bowed to the others.

The other three also solemnly nodded to him in return.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the city wall, the immortal masters who had chased the wolf beasts out of the city for more than a hundred miles, confirmed they had truly withdrawn and had flown back, landing on the city wall.

Among them was an old man who looked like a wealthy elder, leading several people patrolling the city wall, while two Taoist priests were examining the injuries of the survivors across the city wall.

For those who were severely injured and whose lives could not be saved by ordinary healing medicine, the powdered medicine and elixir pills they distributed could save them.

However, these elixirs were clearly limited and precious, not everyone could receive them.

Most of those treated were strong young men, as for those aged or whose limbs had been severed, they could only rely on ordinary herbs.

It really was up to fate whether these mortals survived or died at this moment.