The golden ripples, like a huge boulder cast down by a god, stirred up monstrous waves in the black ocean known as the beast tide.

But this wave did not merely surge forward.

Boom—!

An unmatched and tyrannical afterwave of energy, centered around that giant golden seal, rolled backward and slammed fiercely against the city walls of Donghai City!

The city walls themselves, reinforced by the Formation inscribed by Zhuge Kongming, did not suffer too much damage.

However, the Classer standing on the city walls suffered a disaster.

"Ah!"

"F*ck! Hold on tight!"

"We're going to fly out!"

Screams rose one after another.

That energy fluctuation, like an invisible giant hand, violently lifted thousands of Classer off the city walls!

Like falling leaves in a fierce wind, they were blown about haphazardly, looking utterly wretched.

Those with slightly weaker strength were even directly blown off the hundred-meter-high city walls, tracing a miserable parabola in mid-air and heavily slamming into the streets inside the city, leaving them battered and dizzy.

"Thud!"

A young Professional scrambled up from the ground in a fluster, ignoring the soreness all over his body, and scrambled back up the city walls.

Patting his chest with lingering fear and looking at the still dazzling golden scene outside the city, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

Only then did he suddenly understand.

No wonder the master of the Evernight Guild had specifically instructed them before setting out to protect themselves well and not fall off the city walls.

Turns out... he had anticipated this scene long ago.

This power... was simply too outrageous.

When the Classer on the city walls finally steadied themselves and cast their gazes back outside the city,

that shock was a thousand times more intense than when they had just been blown away!

Everyone's breathing stagnated at this moment.

One person, one Dragon, one seal.

Suppressing ten thousand beasts!

That silver-haired figure stood proudly atop the Dragon's head, clothes fluttering and expression indifferent, resembling a deity from the Nine Heavens looking down upon all living beings submitting beneath his feet.

And below him, that black beast tide that was once enough to destroy everything was now, as if cast with a body-immobilization curse, forcibly stagnated on its charging path.

Countless powerful exotic beasts were suppressed to death by that vast imperial might, kneeling on the ground, unable to move, and could only emit unwilling and painful wails.

The entire battlefield presented a bizarre stillness.

This scene, let alone seeing it with one's own eyes, no one would dare to dream of something so exaggerated even in their dreams!

The most crucial part is:

He actually did it!

With his own strength, he forcibly halted the charge of a million-strong beast tide!

"Gulp."

It was unknown who swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, breaking this dead silence.

Immediately after, tsunami-like discussions erupted with a bang!

"This master of the Evernight Guild... What... what on earth is his background?"

"Hey, if someone tells me now that he is Marshal Zhao's biological grandson wandering outside, I would believe it! If it were any other young master from the imperial capital's great Clan, who could have such a stroke?"

"Don't talk nonsense! Marshal Zhao has spent his entire life on horseback, not even starting a Clan for the Great Xia Nation, where would he get a grandson? Don't slander our Marshal Zhao's reputation here!"

Just as everyone was making all kinds of exclamations and guesses,

on the Dragon's back, the dazzling golden light of the Heaven-Suppressing Seal in Moria's palm began to gradually dim.

The giant seal phantom in the sky also slowly dissipated accordingly.

Demon Dragon Xiao Hei let out a low dragon roar, flapped its wings, and carried Moria flying back along the original path toward the direction of the city walls.

At the moment of turning around, Zhou Huai, who had always attached his consciousness to Da Yi, confirmed that Moria's action logic had no abnormalities before transferring his consciousness back.

As soon as he returned, Zhou Huai sensed that something was wrong.

A tearing sensation originating from inside the body, as if on the verge of collapse, was clearly transmitted.

Snap...

Snap...

An extremely faint sound, like ceramic cracking, sounded from within Moria's body.

Zhou Huai's heart tightened.

This sound...

He immediately lowered his head and looked at Moria's hands.

I saw that the originally fair and slender palms were now covered with spiderweb-like dense cracks, and they were spreading toward the arms at a slow yet firm speed!

Zhou Huai immediately controlled Moria, raising his hand to touch his own cheeks.

What was transmitted from the fingertips was similarly that rough touch like shattered porcelain.

Not just the hands and cheeks.

Through the gaps in the clothing, Zhou Huai could see that Moria's neck, chest, and even the skin of the entire body had developed such terrifying cracks.

As if in the next second, this body would completely shatter and turn into powder all over the ground.

What's worse:

Zhou Huai discovered that Moria's HP was steadily decreasing at a rate of 1 point per second.

Although the HP dropped very little, there was no intention of stopping at all.

He immediately took out a top-grade health recovery potion from the Storage Ring, and without thinking, poured it straight into his mouth.

The icy liquid medicine slid down his throat, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea.

The downward trend of HP did not slow down in the slightest.

Zhou Huai tried to mobilize the Demonic Qi in his body to perform self-repair, but the result was still invalid.

This feeling...

was exactly the same as Zhou Feng's condition before his death.

A bitter smile couldn't help but emerge on the corner of Zhou Huai's mouth.

Sure enough, the bug of a Divine Artifact was not so easy to exploit.

He had originally held a shred of luck, thinking that using a Avatar without a soul and Origin to activate the Heaven-Suppressing Seal could perfectly avoid that terrifying backlash.

Now it seemed he had thought things too simply.

However, upon careful thought, this didn't seem to be a bad thing either.

The good news was that as long as he transferred his consciousness in advance, this backlash force would not directly act upon his main body soul.

The bad news was that every time he used the Heaven-Suppressing Seal, a Avatar would likely be scrapped.

Zhou Huai even had a feeling.

With Moria's current state on the verge of collapse, if he were to forcibly activate a Heaven-Suppressing Seal of that scale again, he would probably turn into a pile of fragments on the spot.

No big problem.

Fortunately, the Avatar can be resurrected.

The price was merely a waiting time of one day.

Calculated this way, it was actually a blood profit.

Trading a Avatar that can be infinitely resurrected for one use right of a Divine Artifact—no matter how one calculated it, this deal wasn't a loss.

He had even begun to calculate that when Moria's HP was about to hit rock bottom, he would let him release the Heaven-Suppressing Seal one more time to squeeze the value of this Avatar to the extreme.

Just as Zhou Huai was pondering these issues,

Demon Dragon Xiao Hei had already carried him back up the city walls.

When the people on the city walls saw Moria's current appearance, none of them failed to gasp.

The originally handsome and unrestrained, deity-like silver-haired youth now had a face covered in dense cracks, resembling a delicate piece of porcelain about to shatter.

Everyone was terrified in their hearts.

Using such a heaven-defying means indeed required paying a terrifying price.

At this moment, everyone's gaze toward Moria no longer held the slightest bit of guesswork or doubt.

Only the purest admiration remained.

Li Gang stepped forward quickly; he didn't tactlessly inquire about the Origin of that black seal, and his tiger-like eyes were full of sincere concern.

"Little brother, is... is your body okay?"

Zhou Huai controlled Moria, gently shaking his head, his voice still indifferent.

"It's fine."

His casual and breezy appearance, falling into the eyes of the crowd, became a kind of forced resilience.

Several sharp-eyed healing-type Classer had long since noticed the continuously flowing life breath on Moria's body.

"Quick! Heal him!"

Several people hurriedly stepped forward, unsparingly releasing their strongest healing skills onto Moria's body.

Holy lights lit up one after another, shrouding Moria's body.

However, no matter how warm or sacred that light was, it could not stop the continuous decline of his HP.

At this point, even a fool could tell.

This was by no means fine.

This was clearly a huge issue!

If there were no heaven-defying means, this Eternal Night master who had just saved the entire city with his own strength would likely... not make it through tonight.

For a time, many sentimental Classer had moved expressions, and their eye sockets turned red.

"How could this happen..."

"Such an outstanding youth, blocking the beast tide army with his own strength without changing expression. Now, he can only watch him... walk toward death."

"On his face, there isn't even a trace of fear toward death... One might ask among the Prodigies of the world, how many can have his demeanor?"

"Heaven is jealous of talents! Truly Heaven is jealous of talents!"

Let alone others.

Even Li Gang, a man of iron bones, watching Moria's face full of cracks at this moment, found his throat somewhat choking up.

Zhou Huai felt the atmosphere was becoming more and more wrong.

He waved his hand somewhat helplessly, interrupting everyone's grief.

"Everyone, now is not the time to be sad."

"The exotic beasts are about to attack the city, we must make foolproof preparations."

As soon as his words fell,

as if to confirm his words,

outside the city, within that suppressed beast tide, earth-shaking roars sounded once again!

The rule mastered by the Heaven-Suppressing Seal was suppression, not slaughter.

After that vast imperial might dispersed, the exotic beasts whose Level and action abilities had been suppressed finally recovered.

In their scarlet eyes burned a fury and murderous intent even more frantic than before.

They moved their feet once again, converging into an even more violent black torrent, surging overwhelmingly toward the direction of Donghai City!

At this critical juncture!

Beneath the city walls, Zhuge Kongming finally completed the Formation inscription on the last wall!

With a wave of his feather fan, six carving knives flew back in reverse, sinking into his Storage Ring.

"Open!"

Following his soft shout,

the entire East City Wall, the Formation foundation several thousand meters long, burst out with dazzling dark blue light simultaneously at this moment!

Hum—!!!

A huge energy barrier, several times heavier and several times more solidified than before, rose from the ground instantly!

Like an indestructible blue canopy, it shroud-wrapped the entire East City Wall tightly inside!

That majestic and vast energy fluctuation made everyone on the city walls perk up!

It's done!

The new defensive Formation was finally completed at the very last moment when the beast tide approached the city!