Closing the City Gate

The violent trembling sound of the wasteland became more and more obvious.

A huge wave of green spider beasts formed by hundreds of thousands of spider beasts is approaching. It is less than ten or twenty miles away from the back of Li's caravan. It is feared that a large and fast wave will quickly overwhelm it.

Ye Fan's ice palm forced the green spider beast king back, not daring to look back. Together with the three Martial Kings, he escorted the Li's caravan to the Imperial Valley City at full speed.

The small group of green spider beasts chasing them was just a small and insignificant vanguard of the huge beast tide.

There were other small groups of fast green spider beasts that were already keeping pace with Li's caravan, and some even rushed to the front, engaging in chaotic battles with other fleeing martial cultivators.

For more than ten miles around Li's caravan, a large number of fleeing human martial cultivators could be seen everywhere. Their caravan had long been scattered by the green spider beast, causing heavy casualties. The remaining people could only flee desperately.

Under the joint protection of Xiong Zhi and several other Martial Kings, Li's caravan barely maintained an intact guard formation, which was no small miracle among the many caravans that collapsed.

Ahead, only about twenty miles away from Imperial Valley City, everyone in Li's caravan could already clearly see the tall and majestic walls of Imperial Valley City.

As long as we rush into Imperial Valley City, we will be safe.

Imperial Valley City is the most important city on the human frontier in Dongzhou. It has countless high-level martial arts cultivators and its city defense strength is even more astonishing. This huge wave of green spider beasts will never be able to attack this impregnable defense line.

"Everyone, hurry up and rush over with all your strength! It will be safe if you rush over!"

Li Qingyun shouted excitedly to everyone in the caravan.

"Thanks to Brother Ye's intervention, it seems that we were lucky this time and managed to escape safely!"

Xiong Zhi laughed.

Liao Wenhuo, Liao Hai, Miao Sheng and other hundreds of businessmen and Wuhou's bodyguards all showed excitement and joy, and their eyes were full of hope of escape.

…

Imperial Valley City is home to the ten heavy-duty regiments of the Zixuan Dynasty and is a top-ranking military town.

But not all the corps are always in Imperial Valley City. These corps will take turns leaving Imperial Valley City to "hunt" in Zhongzhou to earn some extra money to subsidize the corps.

Some of the remaining corps are responsible for guarding the city, while others will take a long-term rest due to war losses.

Usually there are only three corps in the city responsible for combat readiness.

On this day, the flag of the Fire Bull Corps was flying on the top of the Imperial Valley City. The flaming flag was as eye-catching as a bunch of burning torches. A large number of soldiers wearing mysterious armor were on duty on the top of the city.

This month, the Fire Bull Corps is on duty at Imperial Valley City and is responsible for the security of Imperial Valley City.

The great wasteland was a mess, and tens of thousands of panicked martial cultivators, merchants, and adventurers fled toward the Imperial Valley City.

The Imperial Valley City had already been alarmed by the green spider beast tide and the fleeing crowd outside the city.

The top of the city, which is thousands of feet high, has an excellent view and can see hundreds of miles away.

"Look, there are many people running for their lives in the wilderness. What happened?"

"It seems that there is a wave of green beasts chasing them!"

"Damn it, it's actually a tide of green spider beasts! ... The green spider beast clan is a common low-level beast clan and is not a problem. But once it reaches a large scale, it will be a big problem and a huge headache."

The officers and soldiers guarding the city looked at the huge green spider beast tide in the distance, their expressions changed slightly, and they started talking about it.

The defense of Imperial Valley City is extremely strong. It has been some years since a large wave of beasts dared to harass Imperial Valley City.

Today's wave of green spider beasts came very suddenly.

A stern-looking young general of King Wu was patrolling the city wall, and when he saw a large wave of green spider beasts breaking out outside the city approaching the Imperial Valley City at a rapid speed, his expression changed and he ordered in a deep voice: "Close the city gate immediately! Don't let the wave of green spider beasts rush in! I'll ask the Corps Commander for instructions on how to deal with it!"

"But General Zhou Jin, there are still tens of thousands of merchants running for their lives outside the city and have not escaped into the city! If they are locked up outside the city, they may lose their lives!"

Many lower-level soldiers asked in surprise.

For the safety of the city, Imperial Valley City is closed to air, and there are a large number of air defense facilities in the city. No one is allowed to climb over the city wall and fly through the air at any time, otherwise they will be killed by the city guards.

This also means that once the city gate is closed, Imperial Valley City will be completely closed.

The tens of thousands of merchants outside cannot enter Imperial Valley City and are likely to die under the tide of green spider beasts.

Tens of thousands of lives, this loss is huge.

"Is their lives more important? Or is the safety of Imperial Valley City more important? Close the door immediately! No one is allowed to open the city gate without the order of Commander Hong Bing, otherwise they will be punished under military law!"

The young general Zhou Jin snorted coldly, glanced at the soldiers with stern eyes, ignored them, and quickly went down to the city to inform the leader of the Fire Bull Corps, Hong Ran.

The soldiers did not dare to say anything, and hurriedly turned the mechanism hub, slowly lowered the million-kilogram heavy black iron gate, and "rumblingly" closed the ten gates of Imperial Valley City leading to Zhongzhou.

On the top of the city, all the soldiers were armed with weapons and prepared for a battle at any time with the green spider beasts attacking the Imperial Valley City.

…

Li's caravan and tens of thousands of martial arts merchants are getting closer and closer to Imperial Valley City. Seeing that there is only the last ten miles or so before they can rush into the city and escape with their lives, they can't help but feel so happy that they almost burst out. Shouts of cheers.

However, before they had time to be happy, they saw the gate of Imperial Valley City begin to fall.

Except for a few thousand martial arts cultivators and merchants who were very close to the city gate and were able to escape into the city in time. The remaining tens of thousands of people who fled were still far away from the city gate, and they could only watch the ten city gates falling.

"No—! Don't close the door!"

"Wait a minute, we don't have a city yet!"

The crowd of businessmen and martial arts cultivators in the distance who were fleeing for their lives in Imperial Valley City were suddenly frightened out of their wits and yelled in panic.

But, it's no use.

Their loud calls and shouts did nothing to prevent the gates from falling.

"boom!"

The heavy sound of Xuantie City Gate falling to the ground shocked the hearts of tens of thousands of merchants and martial cultivators who fled back outside the city.

Just as they were about to escape into Imperial Valley City, they were all locked outside the gate of Imperial Valley City!

"It's over, the caravan is over!!"

Li Qingyun looked at the heavily fallen gates of Imperial Valley City a few miles ahead. He couldn't help but stop running at full speed. The excitement on his face completely disappeared, replaced by despair on his face and coldness all over his body.

With only the last four or five miles to go, Li's caravan was about to rush into Imperial Valley City.

But at this moment, he was locked out of the city gate.

"closed?"

Ye Fan's expression also changed.

In his calculation, as long as the defense was properly defended, the Li's caravan could barely escape back to the Imperial Valley City before the wave of green spider beasts, thus minimizing the caravan's losses.

But the only thing missing is that Imperial Valley City will actually close all the city gates in advance!

His and Gu Xinyue's safety suddenly lost the most important guarantee.

"It's over! We can't enter Imperial Valley City! They actually closed the city gate. They want us to die outside the city."

"What can we do? How about we just fly up the city wall and escape back to the city?"

The fleeing crowd was frightened and desperate, and someone shouted out an idea.

Given that many martial arts cultivators are above the Wuhou realm, it is completely possible to fly directly up to a thousand-foot city wall.

The key is whether you dare to do it or not.

"You are crazy. Flying is strictly prohibited in the sky above Imperial Valley City. The city is surrounded by a heavily guarded army! If you dare to fly up, you will definitely be killed without mercy!"

Someone objected.

Most people know that there are a large number of city defense equipment and huge garrison formations on the walls of the Imperial Valley. If you fly directly up, it will impact and interfere with the city garrison formation. Regardless of whether it is a human or an orc, attacking the army formation will be killing. No forgiveness.

The tens of thousands of people who fled did not dare to fly directly to the top of Shengu City.

"I don't believe it. There are tens of thousands of us here, and they dare to kill innocent people indiscriminately! It's a dead end under the city, and it's a dead end flying up to the city. It depends on whether they dare to kill us!"

Some martial arts cultivators yelled crazily.

Immediately, more than a dozen Wuhou who were not afraid of death flew up to the top of the Imperial Valley City, which was thousands of feet high, and wanted to leap over the city wall and enter the city.