Imperial God Emperor

Time passed by quickly, and in the blink of an eye night had fallen.

Ye Qingyu and Hu Bugui decided to stay at the inn for now. 

At nightfall. 

A white beam of flowing light flashed, arriving at the inn, and entered into Ye Qingyu’s room. 一

In the guest room.  

“Woof... woof woof... Master, Woof is back!” 

Silly dog Little Nine was panting with his tongue out as he rushed into Ye Qingyu’s arms. 

“What's the situation?” Ye Qingyu asked, lightly stroking the  the silly dog. 

The silly dog rubbed his head against Ye Qingyu’s cheek for a while, before climbing on his shoulder and whispered something to his ear.

Ye Qingyu, after hearing, nodded thoughtfully. 

The number of heroes imprisoned by the Demon Race was too many, and they were divided into several prisons, guarded heavily. It would be incredibly difficult to rescue them all at once. In other words, they could not act tonight and needed to wait til tomorrow on the execution ground.

This night was strangely quiet.

The wind whistled through gaps in the window, and occasionally there was the snap of branches being broken from the weight of the snow. 

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Early morning of the next day. 

After a night of heavy snow, Flowing Light City, for the first time in hundreds of years, was covered in snow.

The city was blanketed with pure white snow, as though Flowing Light City had become a world of snow and ice overnight. 

Outside the inn, some of the deserted stalls were concealed in thick snow, and the snow on the road was ankle-deep. 

For the people of Flowing Light City, such a beautiful scenery was rarely seen in a century, but obviously they did not have the mood to appreciate such landscapes. Even the pure snowflakes were unable to conceal the corpses and blood that were everywhere across Flowing Light City, and also could not make the surviving people avoid the Demon Spider Race’s ravages, The cold air only made many people feel more and more difficult and distressed.

Early in the morning, they dared not to waste any time, braving the wind and snow they hastily headed in the direction of the ruins of the City Lord’s residence.  

The Flowing Light City before being overrun had nearly one million residents. After the outbreak of war, many people had fled, but a number of them had died. Now, the people remaining in the city were probably about 100,000.  

With a military order from the Demon Spider Race, all people, including those who were lingering on in the last days of their life, must go to the ruins of the City Lord's residence to view the executions. 

Under the tyrannical abuse of the Demon Spider Race, all people were quivering in fear.

When Ye Qingyu and Hu Bugui came out of the inn, snow was still fluttering about in the sky.

Looking around, a lot of shivering people were still pushing their way through the restless wind and snow, wrapped in tattered thick robes, and some in worn-out blankets from their house. 

Everyone had a look of horror, despair, and numbness on their faces. 

The crowd that was hurrying toward the City Lord’s residence did not even have the time to look towards the sides of the snow-covered path, where refugees were frozen into ice sculptures.

The inn was close to the ruins of the City Lord's residence. 

Ye Qingyu and Hu Bugui followed the stream of people, coming to the front of the ruins. 

The Demon Spider Race was highly efficient. Overnight, the former buildings within thousands of meters of the City Lord's residence were all flattened, and a newly created crude square plaza that can accommodate 100,000 people was built. In the east, south, and west, there were armour-clad and weapon-wielding elite Demon Spider Race troops guarding the area. The tall Demon Spider soldiers, as if they were a black wall, were terrifying and intimidating. 

And in the northern side of the public square was a newly built execution stage. 

And further away from the execution stage was a higher observation stage.

The atmosphere of the public square, where tens of thousands of people had gathered, was incredibly tense. Crowding together in the snow, everyone's face was pale with horror and fear. They did not even dare to breath loudly for fear of attracting the Demon Spider's attention. 

“There are so many civilians trapped in the city.” 

Ye Qingyu, looking at the people shuddering in the cold weather but dared not run off, felt a heavy heart.

He and Hu Bugui had slipped into the crowd, and without much effort, squeezed to the front, directly facing the huge execution platform. 

He observed his surroundings for a moment, but did not see the innkeeper and other people's figure, and did not know where they had gone.

Time went by. 

The atmosphere was getting more and more oppressive. 

There were more and more people in the public square, forming a dense dark mass, but it was still deathly quiet, no one spoke, no one moved, everyone was extremely nervous and fearful that the Demon Spider Race’s plot this time was to gather them all in one area to massacre them all. 

Another thirty minutes had passed. 

The number of people gathered on the square had exceeded 100,000. 

Suddenly, a deafening sound of an explosion erupted in the air.

Everyone was shocked. 

The orderly footsteps and the noise of sword and armour tapping against each other reverberated in the surroundings, an indescribable blood qi began to diffuse, and the Demon Spider soldiers standing in the square slowly changed formation, gathering from different sides, like a black current, completely surrounded the whole square and circled around everyone. 

The crowd immediately broke into cries of confusion and fell into a commotion.

At the same time——  

“They’re here.” 

The crowd did not know who it was that suddenly gave a soft shout.

But a dangerous and overbearing aura struck like a hurricane.

Ye Qingyu turned to the left. 

A team of black armour-clad, sword-wielding Demon Spider soldiers appeared in the distance.

This was obviously a team of extremely elite troops, their armours and weapons were much more rigid than those of the soldiers on the public square. Their steps were orderly and rhythmic, and their majestic pace quaked the earth, causing the people around the ruins to involuntarily tremble, like an armoured combat vehicle that can instantly crush mountains. The footsteps were well-coordinated, threatening and solemn. 

In the lead to the left was a burly flag carrier with a height of nearly three meters.

He was holding up a military flag, where the three characters of Demon Spider Racce were as though inscribed with blood ——

Devouring Heaven Camp. 

The Demon Spider corps that occupied Flowing Light City was the Devouring Heaven Camp military division.

The flag carrier on the right side was roughly the same built as the one on the left side, holding up a black dragon-like long banner embroidered with a black Demon Spider totem.

At the forefront, three medium-sized tiger demon beasts were clearing the way. They looked like tigers, but possessed a pair of bony wings, were more than three meters tall, and their eyes glowed with a frightening red light. A low roar sounded from their throat as they swept their sight over the onlookers, saliva trickling down their mouths.

On the demon beast-drawn combat vehicle behind, there stood three generals. 

In addition to the red demon captain that Ye Qingyu met in the inn, there were two other captain-level demons.

The captain on the left side had a pale complexion, and his dark green eyebrows were intertwined with a few strands of spider silk, emitting a gloomy aura.

The other demon captain was enormous, two times taller than the other two, and had a spider resting on the top of his head. The head of the spider was a few times bigger than its body, and its eyes were suffused with a dazzling green light.

More than two hundred elite fighters surrounded the demon beast combat vehicle, heading to the execution platform. 

At the very back of the line of soldiers was a dozen of Human Race traitors. Among them, a few Ye Qingyu had seen yesterday outside the ruins, the arrogant Gongzi Chen and the others. They were all putting on airs, wearing similar black leather armour, swaggering around with a superior look hung on their faces.

Under the gazes of innumerable eyes, the demon beast combat vehicle came to a stop before the execution platform.

As the three demon generals mounted the execution platform, the elite soldiers were lined up around the platform to guard the entire platform.

And the few human scums trotted up to the execution platform and began to arrange torture instruments on the execution platform.  

The first assembled torture instrument was a giant guillotine of two meters long and eight meters wide. The guillotine blade was blunt, rusty, and covered with bloodstains. If such a blunt knife was to be used to cut through flesh and bones, most likely that the neck wouldn’t be completely severed, until after dozens of strikes. A giant spider's back was carved on the table beneath the guillotine, and on the dark tabletop were marks of blood that trickled down from above. 

A large terrace was placed on the left of the guillotine.

On the terrace, five giant living spiders were crawling in different directions. The spider's bodies were tied with many different coloured ropes twisted from connected strands of spider silk. The five spiders were crawling in five different directions, as if to pull the rope until it snaps. 

This should be a torture instrument used to tear off a person's four limbs and head.

And on the right side of guillotine was another piece of torture instrument. It looked like a conical spiral pillar. The pillar, covered with steel barbs, was ten meters tall, one meter in diameter, and the cone top was as fine and sharp as the tip of a needle, while spiraling down to the bottom was a barbed lotus base. It can be imagined how painful it would be if someone were placed at the top and forcibly pulled down. This sort of torture really maked one shudder all over.

More than half of the torture instruments next to the pillar were extremely peculiar. There was a square, dark bronze base sat on a giant copper funnel pot, with many red-hot charcoals in the pot.

On both sides there were several instruments being constructed, and its specific appearance was not clear at the moment. 

Even a bandit leader like Hu Bugui, after seeing such torture equipments, felt his hair standing on their ends, goose bumps spreading across his frozen face.

“Their torture instruments, it clearly is to be used for brutal killing. They might as well end them quickly...” Ye Qingyu said quietly.

His eyes were fixed on the torture instruments before him, and the chill in his eyes was superior to the snow swirling in the air.  

“Alert!” 

A thunderous voice sounded. 

The red demon captain on the execution platform suddenly issued a command. 

Che!

The soldiers that were guarding the ruins coordinately clasped their blade and stood in a defensive stance. 

A sound came from the end of the street.

Originally, all eyes were fixed with a look of fear at the torture instruments, but the crowd, at this moment, turned to the end of the street.

A wooden prisoner cart was pushed through the snow.

The cart was imprisoning the last batch of human resistors of Flowing Light City.

As far as the eye can see, prisoner carts, one after another, were being transported to the ruins, neatly parked in the heavily guarded area.

After a short while. 

Arranged in a formation of columns of ten a row of twelve, prisoner carts were pulled to an empty land on the left side of the platform. 

In the prisoner carts were all Human Race heroes, shackled, riddled with scars, and had their cultivation sealed.

Seeing these prisoner carts appear, the tens of thousands of people became noticeably restless and agitated.

These resisting heroes, after all, were once influential people of Flowing Light City, and many were positive people loved by the civilians. Seeing them end up like this, at their last gasp from the torture of the Demon Spiders, even insensitive and apathetic people would get emotional. 

The gaze of Ye Qingyu and Hu Bugui also landed on the prisoner carts at the first moment——