Free Web Novel“Welcome, Holy Child, Elders, please bring forth the holy relic!” When Fang Ji shouted this, he used a large amount of Spiritual Energy, and his loud voice, as if soaring on a strong wind, effortlessly traveled more than ten kilometers.
More than ten kilometers away, a group of Miracle Order members, already in position, heard Fang Ji’s call and immediately rushed out from their hidden wind-eroded mounds, quickly advancing towards the suddenly appearing city pass.
Those figures in moon-white robes, led by the Elders holding the holy relic, formed winding long dragons, passing through the Gobi Desert where yellow sand filled the sky.
From time to time, members were swept away by tornados of hidden spatial rifts, their bodies shredded in heart-wrenching screams, and broken pieces of flesh and blood splattered onto the yellow sand.
As the thousands of figures in moon-white robes gradually approached the Yumen Pass city gate, the ballistas on the city walls and in the arrow towers, which only had solidified Spell runes left, seemed to sense something, erupting with strong light one by one, turning to aim at the figures outside the city gate.
Immediately after, the ballistas, which no longer had strings, all hummed in unison.
In the hum, streams of light resembling crossbow bolts, wrapped in countless Spells, shot out from the city wall, flying towards the Miracle Order members gradually approaching in the desert.
Overwhelming crossbow bolts flew through the air, thunderous roars exploded, and blazing flames shot up into the sky, illuminating the Gobi Desert shrouded in night.
The Miracle Order members who were hit instantly vanished.
They were melted, just like ice cubes falling into a furnace.
However, as if they hadn't seen the tragic deaths of their companions, the Miracle Order members who had luckily survived, protected by the fragrant scent of the miracle flower, did not stop.
Those unfortunate Miracle Order members who lost their lives were merely because the fragrant scent emitted by their miracle flower was not strong enough; there was nothing to care about...
They only focused on advancing towards the massive city gate inscribed with the words “Yumen Pass”, their eyes dazed and devout, continuously chanting the descriptions of the authority symbolizing the miracle.
Neat and low chants of authority descriptions sounded in their throats, then were scattered by the wind, turning into indistinct collective murmurs. freewebnovel.cσ๓
It looked like a fervent pilgrimage, and also like a spontaneous, tragic sacrifice.
The moon-white “long dragons” continuously advanced in the wind and sand, leaving crimson trails in their wake, as if they were the marks left by their winding crawl.
By the time the foremost Elders of the Miracle Order reached the city gate, more than half of the Miracle Order members had already suffered casualties.
There was no time to count the exact number of casualties. Several Elders simultaneously stepped forward, raising the ornate ceramic jars, shaped like soul urns, high in their hands, and forcefully smashed them onto the ground.
Accompanied by a shattering sound that almost merged into one, toes, a heart, a brain, a right eye... four streams of light shot up into the sky, converging with a finger that had already reached the city gate and was suspended in mid-air.
The next moment, an unbearable golden light erupted, dense Spells surged within the golden light, and in a trance, a tall, shadowy outline emerged from the golden light, slowly raising its hand and knocking on the city gate.
That phantom was precisely the legendary Holy Monk Hongbian, one of the participants in the construction of Yumen Pass, and only he could open the gate of the ownerless Yumen Pass, allowing Miracle Order members with varying Spiritual Energy fluctuation levels to enter Yumen Pass.
Otherwise, even a Calamity-level like Lord Huaiyuan would find it extremely difficult to enter.
“Boom—!”
A thunderous muffled sound, as if exploding in their minds, instantly made everyone briefly lose their focus.
The city gate vibrated, and a nearly solid wave of air, carrying immense pressure, swept over, instantly crushing the bodies of dozens of Miracle Order members, then continued to spread until it crashed into the distant wind-eroded mounds, creating countless cracks.
“Boom—boom—!”
After knocking on the city gate three times consecutively, the phantom slowly lowered its arm and gradually dissipated, leaving only five withered limbs still suspended in the distance.
During the wait, the three seconds of dead silence seemed very short, yet also seemed longer than thousands of centuries; everyone present held their breath.
Then, a low rumbling sound came from within the city, the door hinges turned, and the long-sealed city gate slowly opened, a cloud of dust permeated with an ancient aura diffused.
The next moment, a violent gale swept across the Gobi Desert, blowing everything in sight towards the city gate.
The Miracle Order members closest to the city gate instantly vanished.
The finally opened dilapidated city gate seemed to have transformed into a terrifying giant mouth, devouring everything...
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Shuiwei Town.
This small town, about thirty kilometers from Sanlongsha, was established in the 1960s and 1970s due to the discovery of coal and oil mines, and then abandoned as people's awareness of environmental and natural landscape protection increased.
To this day, only one coal mining enterprise remains in the town, barely surviving. Besides the employees of this coal mining enterprise, the town's residents number less than a thousand.
Earlier, the town issued a strong sandstorm warning. When night fell and strong winds began to blow, the workers returned to their residences early. Under the flickering dim yellow lights, the dilapidated streets were empty.
In this vicinity, there have always been legends of urban legend harming people during sandstorms. Although they were just legends and no one had ever truly seen them, no one was willing to risk their lives.
However, at the end of the town's only straight street, the town's sole small convenience store was still open, as if it wasn't afraid of the legendary urban legend.
The owner of the convenience store was a tall man with a thick beard. At this moment, he was leaning against the glass counter, gazing out at the street through the translucent sand-proof door curtain, lost in thought, as if waiting for someone.
After a long time, hurried footsteps came from a distance, followed by the sight of a thin, tall figure, one hand pressing down his hat, the other cradling something, rushing over, lifting the door curtain, shaking off the sand from his body, and throwing a kraft paper bag with a bao sang cang xiao badge on it onto the glass counter.
“Void, we received it, we really received it this time!”
Both the convenience store owner and the thin, tall man were members of the Night Watch’s Shuiwei Town outpost, usually responsible for resisting Half-Guitan that intruded into the town.
A few days ago, after the legendary Yumen Pass was damaged, and the Night Watch Guardian Lord Huaiyuan and the head of the Yumen Sand Sea lineage went to repair it and both disappeared, they gained a new task—monitoring Lord Huaiyuan’s bao sang cang xiao badge signal.
Although generally speaking, disappearing after entering Yumen Pass means a Calamity-level is also likely to meet a tragic end, and even treating them as having sacrificed themselves is fine, every Guardian is a valuable resource, and as long as there is a glimmer of hope, the Night Watch will not give up.
Therefore, even though Nameless Book had secretly picked out a welfare cemetery for Lord Huaiyuan near the Si Ye Hui Headquarters and booked a funeral for half a year later, she also contacted two Night Watch agents who frequently operated near Yumen Pass and assigned them the task.
It’s always right to be prepared on both fronts.
However, the two of them, taking turns on day and night shifts, monitored for many days without any results, until this evening, when the strong winds began to blow...
Initially, the signal from Lord Huaiyuan was very weak. The thin, tall man on night duty even thought there was a problem with the Spiritual Energy item used for monitoring. To ensure the accuracy of the monitoring results, he even drove to the Gobi Desert.
After waiting for two or three hours in the strong wind, just five minutes ago, the signal from Lord Huaiyuan suddenly became strong, which meant that Lord Huaiyuan might still be alive...
“That’s great!” The convenience store owner’s eyes lit up, and he straightened up, asking, “Have you notified our colleagues in the Gobi Desert? Since Lord Huaiyuan is likely still alive, we need to organize a rescue quickly!”
“I already contacted them on the way back,” the thin, tall man said. “They had already started moving towards Sanlongsha before I even contacted them.”
“Went to Sanlongsha? Did something happen?” The convenience store owner asked with a frown.
The thin, tall man pouted, “I heard that a large number of Half-Guitan were gathering towards Sanlongsha. Oh, right, and Miracle Order members... But I don’t know what exactly happened.”
“Honestly, I really want to go and see. More than fifty A-Level Spiritual Energy fluctuation agents! It’s been a long time since such a grand scene appeared, hasn’t it, since the last battle at Shanhai Pass?”
“...” The convenience store owner pondered for a few seconds, then shook his head with a bitter smile, “You can only dream about it. Even if something happened in the Gobi Desert, it has nothing to do with us, and we can’t help much.”
Reporting the information about Lord Huaiyuan’s suspected survival to Nameless Book, their task was considered complete. Other matters could be left to the high-level Night Watch agents stationed in the Gobi Desert.
One of them was a B-level Psychic and the other a C-level Psychic; normally, protecting the town from Half-Guitan was already very difficult for them. If they got involved in the matters of the Gobi Desert, they might even lose their lives.
“Alright, help me close the door, let’s have a couple of drinks...”
“Okay!” The thin, tall man laughed, “Oh, Elder brother, didn’t you go on a blind date a few days ago? Why was there no follow-up later?” freewebnoveℓ.com
“Don’t even mention it. Her condition was that I had to have a house in Dunhuang City, and it had to be in a bustling area, otherwise she was worried about encountering urban legend incidents...” The convenience store owner shook his head and said, “Tell me, as a Night Watch agent, would I let my /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ family be attacked by urban legend? It’s ridiculous!”
“My condolences, my condolences,” the thin, tall man said while helping the convenience store owner pull down the rolling shutter, comforting him. “This is how the world is now. Actually, not getting married isn’t bad either. Many young people aren’t getting married.”
“You think that’s a good thing?” The convenience store owner retorted, “I heard that last month, urban legend born from anti-marriage sentiment have already been discovered, and the higher-ups are racking their brains on how to deal with them!”
