Two crimson eyes locked onto Ye Xian before the figure suddenly lunged at him.
Ye Xian instinctively grabbed something(Lu Shi) and hurled him at the attacker.
Crack!*
The figure was sent flying back toward the fissure it had emerged from.
On the other hand, whatever Ye Xian had thrown felt broken in his grip. He looked down and saw an unconscious Lu Shi.
Only a moment had passed, but everyone's attention was drawn to the chaos. They couldn't understand what had just happened.
Looking at the scene before them, all the audience felt horrified when they saw several more figures jumping out from the fissures and attacking nearby audience.
People screamed and ran for the exits. Those too slow or too stunned became the first victims.
Crunch*
One cultivator barely had time to turn before a Red eyed figure pounced on him, teeth sinking into his neck with a wet crunch.
Another Red eyed tore through a cultivator ki armor like it was paper, impaling him on clawed hands and hurling his body into the crowd like garbage.
"Demons?! No—those aren't beasts!" someone shrieked.
The figures were also human, but their eyes glowed crimson, and dark cracks spread outward from their eye sockets like spiderwebs.
Ye Xian didn't have time to feel bad for Lu Shi as he picked him up and threw him at his father, Patriarch Lu, who was running towards them like a mad man.
Patriarch Lu was fuming with anger when he saw Ye Xian using Lu Shi as a baseball bat.
He caught his son, but didn't have time to teach Ye Xian a lesson when he saw the Red-eyed cultivators attacking other cultivators.
A few also rushed towards him. He cursed Ye Xian and simply thrust his palm forward.
A Fire Palm burst into existence and shot toward the incoming Red eyed cultivators.
Boom!
One of them took the full hit, blasted into the air as the flames exploded on impact, his chest torn open while he burned alive.
Patriarch Lu took out his whip, which instantly wrapped itself in raging flames. He lashed out at the incoming Red eyed cultivators with the flaming whip.
He could tell the approaching Red eyes cultivators were at the Ki Refining Realm, so taking care of them should have been easy since he was in the Element Master Realm.
But when he had attacked with his Palm technique, he was sure that Red eyed cultivator would have exploded completely on the spot. Yet he didn't.
Some of the cultivators started to fight the Red eyed cultivators.
They were able to push them back initially, but after some exchanges, they found that the Rrd eyed cultivators were getting stronger than before.
Pah!
Their hearts were beating faster in fear. One of the cultivators who has brown hair punched at a crimson-eyed demon, but it didn't budge an inch when the attack landed.
On the contrary, the brown hair cultivator felt pain in his hand as if he had hit an iron wall.
The Red eyed cultivator clawed at brown hair cultivator face, ripping out his eyes and nose as deep gashes slashed across his face.
"Ahhh!"
He let out bloodcurdling screams of agony. Another claw came down, tearing his mouth into shreds of flesh and splattering blood across the ground.
Seeing this, those who had stood to fight against the Red eyed cultivators felt terror.
Some fled in terror, while the strong willed stayed behind, attacking the Red eyed cultivators with heightened caution.
Meanwhile, Ye Xian had already dashed toward Sheng Qianying and Ye Ling'er, his eyes narrowing as more red-eyed cultivators poured out from the fissure on the stage.
Ye Xian's heart pounded in his chest as he watched the red eyed cultivators slaughter others like chickens, despite having lower cultivation levels.
Their cultivation was the same or even lower than those present, yet their strength defied logic. They fought like wild beasts, not intelligent beings.
A red eyed cultivator seized the arm of a fleeing man. The victim barely had time to resist before his arm was ripped clean off at the shoulder.
Blood sprayed as he screamed, but the next strike came like lightning—his head was sent flying, leaving behind a twitching corpse.
Ye Xian's heart turned cold. He threw a punch at the red-eyed cultivator who had just decapitated a man.
The red-eyed cultivator was at the Ki Warrior realm. He sensed Ye Xian and lunged at him, swinging his claws to tear him apart.
But before his claws could reach Ye Xian, he was already being crushed by the air pressure from Ye Xian's fist.
Ye Xian punch hit his solar plexus. His body twisted from the impact and was sent flying through the air.
He arrived at Sheng Qianying, who was saving a young girl from a red-eyed cultivator.
She had first used her light element to blind the red-eyed cultivator, then slashed at him with her saber.
Ye Xian simply kicked him away. He looked at Sheng Qianying and asked.
"Are you okay?"
"Yes. But this child is unconscious. She just saw her mother killed by that beast," she said, pointing at the red-eyed cultivator she had slashed and Ye Xian had kicked.
"I couldn't save this little girl's mother," she said, holding the child who had fainted after watching her mother get brutally killed right in front of her.
"It's not your fault. You already saved this child. Even if her mother couldn't survive, she would still be grateful that you protected her daughter," Ye Xian said, trying to comfort her.
She nodded.
"Where is Ye Ling'er?" he asked, worried, as he looked around. People were running out of the arena, heading for the exits.
"She ran off toward the City Lord's residence, saying she was looking for her father. I tried to stop her but..."
She looked down, feeling sad and guilty. She hadn't been able to stop Ye Ling'er, who had run off alone toward the City Lord's residence.
Where a pillar of white light had shot up earlier. Now, that same light had formed a glowing dome over the entire mansion.
Ye Xian's gaze locked on the City Lord's mansion at the center of the chaos. The dome of white light shimmered above them, stretching far overhead like a cage of divinity.
The arena, once a place of celebration, now lay in ruins, burning, bloody, crawling with red-eyed cultivators.