Arrival of the devil's army

"Baili, spare him; you've beaten him enough. Don't make him unrecognizable to his mom," a kid called out to a red-haired kid who was holding another kid that looked 14 and thrashing him on the ground.

"I guess this one is enough, Dai ko. The next time you dare to call me a bastard again, I will make sure your mom doesn't recognize you," the red-haired kid called Baili said.

The kid called Dai Ko looked at him with a ferocious gaze but didn't dare to say another word.

The other kids looked at Baili in awe. The children of the Dai family had just returned from picking wild flowers for the festival before the fight broke out. They all continued their journey after the small interruption.

"Baili, you could have gone easy on him," one of the kids said.

"He was the one who called me a bastard. I don't know why that idiot and his mother always find me as an eyesore," Baili replied, not looking bothered.

"Well, it's because of your monstrous talent. Who wouldn't be jealous?" another kid commented. The rest all nodded in agreement. There was no doubting his talent; it was terrifying.

The silhouette of Ornifal could be seen in the distance. The city is adorned with tall and magnificent buildings, but it isn't considered one of the top cities in the West Lu Empire of the Cang continent.

The city is controlled by the Dai family. From the way the city was constructed, one could tell that it used to be very prosperous in the past. However, now, the Dai family has slightly declined.

There are many races in Ornifal, but the most dominant race is the fey. Of these, the Dai main family consists of werewolves, fey beasts. Their bloodline is the purest in Ornifal.

Today is the spring festival of Ornifal, and the whole city is in a festive period.

"Baili, slow down; stop walking faster. We aren't as strong as you," the fey beasts always considered humans to be weak and having a very weak body. They always looked at humans with disdain. Baili is an exception; his strength is very inhuman, and he easily dominated the younger generation of the Dai family with his body strength alone.

The Dai family members normally looked at humans with disdain and would not allow them to be members of the prestigious Dai family. But Baili is an exception; he is the adopted child of a Dai family couple, Dai Luoshang and Dai Xin, coupled with his strength, he has an exceptional status in the Dai family.

The children soon returned to the family manor, carrying their baskets. Miss Dai Xin, Baili's adopted mother, caught sight of Baili and pulled him to herself.

"Why did you follow the other kids again to gather flowers? How many times have I told you to stop going to the wild? It's very dangerous," she reprimanded him, with love in her eyes. Among those that went to gather flowers, Baili was actually the youngest, looking only 12.

He hugged his mother, "Mom, I won't do it again, I promise."

"Hmph! Who will believe you? Didn't you say so the last time? I will have to convince your father to find a guard for you," Dai Xin said, pulling Baili with her down to the inner compound.

"Dai Xin, couldn't it be that you want the boy to simply freeload? Isn't it right that he does something for the clan?" A woman's unpleasant voice rang.

Dai Xin's mood changed. She turned to the woman, Dai Luo, who is also Dai Ko's mother. She is an important member of the Dai family, but her status and that of her husband didn't match the status of Dai Xin and her husband.

She has been harboring resentment over the way Baili was treated in the clan.

"Dai Luo, if you repeat what you just said now, I will make sure you don't sit for this spring festival this season. Dare me if you have the guts."

Dai Luo was shocked. She didn't expect that Dai Xin would act like this. Wasn't she overreacting? There are some other members of the family around; if she concedes and doesn't say a word, she will be losing face.

But if she insists, this madwoman Dai Luo might really go through with her threat and make her unable to attend the festival. She is clearly no match for Dai Xin, who has reached the fifth layer of the origin realm.

After contemplating for a while, she decided to let the sleeping dog lie. So she turned and left without saying a word, her face burning red from the stares the other members of the family gave her.

But this didn't change her conviction. What a joke; even her husband, who is only at the third level of the origin realm, isn't a match for her, let alone her, who is only in the second realm.

Dai Xin took her son to the inner courtyard. The clan is very bustling and busy at that moment, so she left him to attend to other matters.

In the distance, a man is busily training with his sword. It seems like all the commotions in the manor don't have a thing to do with him.

His sword stance looked magnificent as he performed a beautiful sword dance.

"Uncle Javis' sword stance is still as beautiful as ever. I really wish I could learn the ways of the sword one day," Baili praised.

Javis was elated on hearing the praise. "Ah, yes, I am sure you can learn it one day and might even do better."

He said, waving his hand animatedly. Baili pulled out a wooden sword from the side.

"I might as well learn it now," Baili said, holding the wooden sword.

Javis smiled bitterly, "I will teach you, but not today. Today is the clan spring festival. If your mother finds out that I am teaching you sword fighting on a special day like this, I can't imagine what she will do to me."

Baili didn't look convinced, yet he decided not to make things difficult for his Uncle Javis. The two were quite close.

"Ok then, let me go and prepare for the festival," he said as he ran off.

He didn't head for his quarters as expected but instead headed straight for the clan tower. Standing on the roof of the tower, he brought out his sword and started training the seven sword mantra.

He is currently in the eighth level of body tempering, so he could only cultivate up to the third level. The other levels can only be cultivated once he reaches the spirit-gathering realm.

In the clan, his talent is easily the best. He is still ten years old, yet he is already in the eighth level of body tempering. While others would be considered geniuses if they can reach it at twelve years of age.

He had trained the sword mantra to the peak of the third level. Swinging his sword, he was lost in the sword art when all of a sudden the sky darkened.

The sky became a bloody hue with a thick scarlet color. The air smelled of blood, and the wind roared as it blew everything in sight. There was a huge torrent. Baili was scared out of his wits.

"What the hell is happening?" he couldn't help but ask himself.

The Dai clan experts are alerted. The silhouette of Dai Luoshang, Baili's adopted father, could be seen among the experts. In the whole clan, Dai Luoshang could be considered to rank third in both strength and status.

Aside from the clan leader and grand elder, he is the most powerful in the clan. Leading a group of experts, he rushed to the city gate to see what is happening.

They were shocked by what they saw. A large army of imps running from the deserted road to the city gate; they are all red-colored, making it look like a turbulent red tide swarming towards the city gate. The imps are all wielding short spears. They have two horns on their heads and short tails with the tips shaped like a spear, containing a very dangerous poison.

The silhouette of other beings could be seen; the imps looked a little bit like cows and looked fat. Although they are two meters tall, they actually looked like dwarves if you looked at them from afar.

But these beings looked like humans; they have one horn each on their heads, resembling the horn of a unicorn. Their skin is red like the imps, and they also possessed a tail like the imps, albeit a much taller one. They are the devil's race.

They were riding red beasts that looked like horses but had a head resembling that of a ferocious beast. The beasts have long and very thick tails; the power they showcased while running is very scary and frightening.

The hearts of the experts of Ornifal tightened. The city is in total chaos; there was great fear and terror in their eyes.

"The devil's army from hell." That was the sentence that came to the experts' hearts.

What is the devil's army doing here? Weren't they supposed to be in hell and torturing the dead souls? How come they are now here attacking the small city of Ornifal?

To talk more of Ornifal, even the strongest factions in the Cang continent wouldn't be able to withstand the devil's army. The guardians of hell. Even though they knew this must be a small part of the devil's army, they knew that Ornifal would be destroyed today.