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Demon Dragon Dongye was certainly not one to take a beating without retaliation. However, the Sky-Reaching Tower possessed boundless energy, making a battle of attrition utterly meaningless. Thus, the six-winged Demon Dragon arced through the sky, bypassing the explosive airspace and ascending diagonally. Yet, the tower's bombardment did not cease, relentlessly pursuing the dragon with another volley of massive cyan-blue magical shells, firing over a thousand rounds in mere seconds.

For a time, the Demon Dragon could not breach the barrier of magical artillery, nor could the Sky-Reaching Tower fully repel Chen Xuanfeng. Locked in this stalemate, the dragon continuously altered its course, circling the tower in a vast orbit six to seven kilometers in diameter, spiraling ever upward.

Meanwhile, the beastmen below, freed from the threat of the Sky-Reaching Tower's overhead attacks, spread their formation and surged toward Shattered Star Abyss. Of course, even without the tower, the city walls were armed with thousands of magical cannons, among which the eighty-six strongest—the "Star-Shattering Cannons"—could unleash attacks rivaling 10th-level magic. Aside from their lengthy cooldown, they were no less formidable than eighty-six 10th-level mages. Combined with physical projectiles, the protective "Guardian Totems" became nearly meaningless for the beastmen forces. Thus, warriors from various clans charged beyond the totems' coverage, relying solely on their Combat Energy and physical resilience to endure the magical barrage as they launched a fierce assault on the city.

In truth, had Chen Xuanfeng infiltrated Shattered Star Abyss alone without the army, destroying the Sky-Reaching Tower might have been easier. With time and effort, he could have annihilated the city and its hundreds of thousands of inhabitants in days. However, as the Supreme Sword Saint, his pride disdained such methods. Moreover, to secure a foothold for the beastmen's prolonged war against the humans in the desert, he needed to preserve the city's core. Thus, he chose to confront the tower head-on while his army stormed Shattered Star Abyss.

Though the city's artillery was devastating, the beastmen were renowned for their resilience—"even the Great Demon King could not exterminate them." Their charge across several kilometers cost only thousands of lives before they reached the city's moat.

Shattered Star Abyss's moat, though called a river, held no water—instead, it was filled with viscous black petroleum, a desert specialty. Before the beastmen could cross, fireballs from the city ignited the oil, sending flames roaring seven to eight meters high, forming a fiery barrier.

Yet, this defense was designed for human armies and proved less effective against elite beastmen. The eagle tribe soared above, while the leopard clan dashed through unscathed. The lion tribe, all masters of Combat Energy, could briefly shield themselves and leap across. As for the slower bear tribe, six tenth-tier war Behemoths, dozens of ninth-tier blackstone Behemoths, and hundreds of eighth-tier gravel Behemoths, clad in earth-attribute protective magic, strode through the flames, dumping sand and rocks into the moat to carve a fire-free path for their comrades. By the time the Shamans arrived, the towering flames were fully suppressed by totems and war god divine arts.

Soon, the beastmen assaulted the twenty-meter-high walls. The eagle and leopard tribes scaled them effortlessly, the lion tribe climbed slopes conjured by Shamans, and the bear tribe stepped on Behemoth shoulders, swiftly engaging the human garrison in brutal combat.

Above, the clash between Chen Xuanfeng and the Sky-Reaching Tower took a turn.

As the six-winged Demon Dragon spiraled higher, now a kilometer above the tower, the mages inside grew uneasy. "What is he planning?" they wondered, sensing a Sword Saint's tactics would not be so limited.

Their fears materialized when the dragon suddenly veered away, and Chen Xuanfeng's white figure leapt from its back, diving straight toward the tower.

The mages instantly targeted him, but this time, their compressed magical shells failed to intercept him. Mid-descent, Chen Xuanfeng sheathed his sword and drew his saber—the Tiger Soul Saber. An amethyst-black saber glow erupted, pulling all dark energy from the heavens. In an instant, clear skies turned stormy, and a colossal vortex of darkness formed, spanning thousands of miles with Chen Xuanfeng at its heart.

This was the city-destroying technique—Chaos Reopened: Violet Calamity!

Heroic Werewolf Scroll, Chapter 112: Fall for the Sword, Pride in the Void

Chaos Reopened: Violet Calamity fused the peerless saber technique One Blade Severing Heaven and Earth with the supreme dark magic Doomsday Natality, executable only with the cursed Tiger Soul Saber. Originally crafted by the Great Demon King Bato to obliterate hell's magically fortified cities, it was a true "city-killer"—not only devastatingly powerful but capable of absorbing defensive magic to fuel its own destruction. The stronger a city's wards, the more utterly it fell.

Though no dark magic grandmaster like the Great Demon King Bato, Chen Xuanfeng, now a Saint, had absorbed fragments of the demon king's power and soul through Tiger Soul Saber. His version of Chaos Reopened: Violet Calamity, while less potent than the original, was refined with unique finesse—perfect to counter the Sky-Reaching Tower's boundless energy.

The amethyst-black saber glow coalesced a hundred-meter-wide black sphere from the vortex—a tear of the heavens or the birth of a Demon King. Its emergence stifled the tower's energy flow, and mages specializing in light or dark magic vomited blood under its oppressive might. For a thousand miles, daylight vanished, flames and magical lights flickered weakly, and shadows writhed like living serpents.