World-saving Plan: The Only Savior

Chapter 1630 - 424: Wolf Demon

Xianyin City, inside the city.

A child dressed in plain clothes stood motionless on the street, blankly staring at the squads of soldiers standing on the city wall not far away.

Although the child was very young, only about five or six years old, this was not the first time he had seen patrolling soldiers.

But this time, these soldiers were obviously different from what he had seen before.

The soldiers each had shriveled skin, tall and imposing figures, a sickening brown color on the surface, looking fierce and evil, wearing only a few torn strips of cloth, looking entirely like corpses that had been dead for a long time.

Of course, it was naturally impossible for this child to know what was a corpse and what was a living person, but it didn’t prevent him from seeing how ferocious and fearful those soldiers on the city wall were.

As if it were an innate instinct, even without being taught, weak creatures would involuntarily feel a sense of fear when facing creatures stronger than themselves.

Though this child still had some of the fearlessness of a newborn calf, he was nonetheless petrified by the soldiers’ appearance, standing frozen in place, not daring to move.

"Little Bao! Why did you run out! Hurry inside!!"

Behind him, the door opened, and a woman dressed in yellow came out, grabbing the child and pulling him back inside.

"Clack."

As the door closed, the woman couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief, softly scolding her child as she cautiously observed the outside scene through the crack in the door.

Ten days ago, news that Prince Jing Heng’s rebel army was advancing south reached them, causing panic within the city.

Two days ago, the rebel army arrived outside Xianyin City, and the city’s defenses collapsed, unable to resist at all.

What shocked everyone was that the force attacking Xianyin City consisted entirely of a group of monsters that were neither ghost nor human, and after capturing the city, these monsters did not pillage or plunder but merely surrounded the city, making it impenetrable.

This tactic by the rebels baffled everyone, yet it was easy to figure that these monsters surely had no good intentions. Though they temporarily harmed no one inside the city, they must be plotting something.

Of course, many people in the city consoled themselves.

Despite how terrifying these monsters looked, they were, after all, Prince Jing Heng’s subordinates and should not go as far as to exterminate everyone, right?

However, as for Prince Jing Heng himself, who was "relied upon" by these people, he was now drenched in sweat.

Inside the city, within the City Lord Mansion.

Jing Heng looked at the demonic being before him, standing as tall as two men, his heart trembled uncontrollably.

It was a demon that looked remarkably like a Wolf Demon, surrounded by black mist, yet it was not a Wolf Demon, but a Wolf Demon instead.

This Wolf Demon’s front paws were unusually short, akin to underdeveloped, deformed arms, even appearing somewhat comical.

But Jing Heng dared not underestimate the other because of this.

For in this short span of ten days, the number of those killed by this entity had reached millions!

The unending black mist surrounding this demon was the malevolent energy formed from those millions of unjust deaths. To concentrate such malicious energy to this extent, one could only imagine how many people this monster had slaughtered.

The Wolf Demon fed on the entire population of Chang City, using a Secret Technique to sacrifice everyone as its nourishment and used this power to create a Corpse Puppet army transformed from living beings.

The Corpse Puppets, neither human nor demon, akin to servant ghosts, were at the Wolf Demon’s command.

Utilizing the Corpse Puppet army, the Wolf Demon marched southward, besieging cities and destroying villages, leaving not a single blade of grass where they passed, while all living beings were killed and transformed into nourishment to enhance its strength.

Initially, Prince Jing Heng was quite pleased with this turn of events since with the Wolf Demon’s assistance, the annihilation of Jing Xuan’s forces was within his grasp.

However, as the Wolf Demon slaughtered more and more people, Jing Heng grew increasingly uneasy.

He was a Prince of Da Fu, seeking to overthrow the Dynasty and seize control, not to annihilate it wholly.

Judging by the Wolf Demon’s methods, by the time they reached Fu Wud Capital, the citizens along the way might all be dead.

Without people, wouldn’t he be a lone emperor without subjects?

This was a conclusion he absolutely did not want to see.

Moreover, even the iron-blooded and ruthless Jing Heng felt a chill witnessing the Wolf Demon’s capability of slaughtering millions, given that the dead were as alive as him!

These people died in horrible ways after being drained of their essence blood, and as someone of the same race, seeing such an enormous number of humans being massacred, how could he remain indifferent?

He remembered when he first encountered this Wolf Demon; it seemed to be grievously wounded, fleeing for its life.

That was five years ago, coincidentally a few days after Han Yue City faced a crisis, and this Wolf Demon fled the city, heading east to Chang City, where Jing Heng resided.

When Jing Heng captured this Wolf Demon, he initially wanted to manipulate it, as it was the first demon of this kind he had ever seen. He planned to extract some information on the Cultivation World from it, hoping that if fortunate, he could embark on the path of cultivation.

However, Jing Heng overestimated his own Ability, and he was quickly reverse-controlled by this Wolf Demon.