In the first half of the night, the news that a night demon was killing people spread throughout the city, causing panic in a large area.

In the second half of the night, the movement of the night demon not only did not stop, but became more and more noisy, and the news of the night demon slaughtering came from several places at the same time. The adventurers and caravans hid in the inn and did not dare to go out, and the soldiers were even more nervous, but under the orders of the commanders at all levels, they had to patrol the streets hard, and rushed over to support wherever there was movement, running around like fighting a fire, and there was no time to breathe.

Hong Yuan personally acted and used his courage and bravery to create panic and put strong pressure on Chu Yannan and Zhou Tiejun;

Zhao Xuemin, on the contrary, hid behind the scenes and planned to plan, and on the basis of the panic at the Ghost Gate, he commanded many followers to create a large-scale turmoil, giving people the illusion that there was far more than a night demon in the Ghost Gate. Chu Yannan and Ghost Wu knew that this was an illusion and knew that it was Hong Yuan's conspiracy, but unfortunately, the soldiers at the bottom were convinced, and the more they explained, the darker the depiction became.

In the Ghost Gate General's Mansion, groups of cavalry went in and out, taking turns to go into battle and the whole city was under martial law, and they often went into battle again before they had time to drink saliva. Everyone gritted their teeth and persisted, but slowly, when it was almost dawn, they couldn't hold on, and when they returned to the barracks, they fell asleep on their beds, and some even fell asleep on the road outside. Tossed all night, all unable to hold on.

Hong Yuan, who was waiting patiently by the artificial lake, finally took action and quietly came to the outside of the Ghost Gate Palace.

In the majestic hall, the commander Zhou Tiejun kept walking back and forth, anxious, and drank from time to time to relieve his sorrows. Others drink with a wine glass, but he uses a flask. In the past, he covered the sky with one hand in the ghost gate, but now he is also under great pressure, and he is a lot haggard overnight. Trading with Chu Yannan can bring him huge benefits, but the risks are also obvious. With the identity of the commander of the Ghost Gate Pass, there is no problem in blocking the city gate in a short period of time, and he is not afraid of someone going to Night Dragon City to complain, but if he can't control it and cause a riot, mutiny, or the city gate is breached, he will be finished, and no one can withstand the wrath of the three alliance giants of Hua Yueye, Ge Hong, and Ye Qingtian.

The sudden outbreak of the python wave caught Zhou Tiejun off guard;

The revolt of the adventurers and caravans, though forcibly suppressed, was always a major nuisance;

These two pressures alone made Zhou Tiejun worried, and the sudden arrival of the night demon gave him even heavier pressure. Regardless of whether this night demon is true or not, if you can't quickly expel it from the city or kill it, a terrible disaster will break out at any time, and once people decide that the city is extremely dangerous and they can't stay any longer, this ghost gate will be broken!

Zhou Tiejun was worried, and kept drinking to relieve his worries, without the domineering and strong of the past.

Hong Yuan lurked in a forest outside the Ghost Gate Hall, coldly looking at Zhou Tiejun who was drinking to drown his sorrows, this was exactly the result he wanted. Soon it would be dawn, and he still patiently watched and waited.

At a glance, the vigilance of the Ghost Gate Hall was much looser, and most of the elite soldiers were dispatched to patrol. All the guards and sentries outside the Ghost Gate Hall add up to only two hundred people at most, and in the barracks not far away, there will be no more than two thousand six hundred people at most. Now, the strength of the entire general's palace will not exceed three thousand, and it is the time when the number of people is the least and the defense is the emptiest. In a certain secret room of the General's Mansion, there may still be a powerful offering lurking, but the number of people is definitely not large.

Hong Yuan patiently observed, calculating over and over again in his mind.

"My lord, if you don't do it, it's going to be dawn!" Zhu Wuji frequently looked up at the sky.

Among the many powerful war pets around Hong Yuan, his cultivation can be said to be one of the best, but his courage is the smallest. However, now even he, a pig demon, is in a hurry, worried about missing the opportunity.

"What if it's dawn? Who said you have to do it at night?"

Hong Yuan waited patiently, and after a while, he saw another group of flame knights rushing out of the general's mansion in a hurry, and then he gave the order to move.

The Python Legion, which had been waiting for a long time, quickly attacked, and under the command of the snake demon Hong Python, the troops were divided into two ways, one was led by Zhu Wuji, and went straight to the barracks to surround and kill the exhausted soldiers who fell asleep on the bed;

In the direction of the barracks, the sound of fighting and screams was heard first, and the pig demon Zhu Wuji made the first move.

The guards outside the Ghost Gate Hall also quickly noticed something unusual, and the sentries lurking nearby suddenly did not respond, and the surroundings were terrifyingly quiet. One of the squad leaders was extra vigilant and rushed into the woods to see what the sentries were doing, only to see a horrible scene.

The woods were full of pythons, the sentinels were all dead, some were torn to pieces, some had no bones left but a pool of blood, and one sentry was even more terrifying, swallowed by a python in the mouth, perhaps the neck had been twisted, and the mouth was open wide to cry for help but could not scream, there was no longer a head visible from the neck down, only one head was exposed, and his hands were struggling in vain to grasp something, and the python swallowed it alive little by little.

"Ah...... Snakes, all snakes......"

The squad leader screamed in shock, turned around and fled. The guards under his command rushed over when they heard the sound, and just happened to see the squad leader being chased by a python, and then quickly coiled around him tighter and tighter. After a click, the squad leader died of exhaustion, and under the brute force of the giant python, the bones were broken, the internal organs were broken, and the body was bleeding profusely.

The guards standing outside the woods were stunned for a moment, and then dispersed. Behind him, countless pythons came out of the darkness and hit the Ghost Gate Hall where Zhou Tiejun was.

"Pythons, all pythons!"

"Stop, protect the Grand Commander, stop!"

......

The guards were in a chaotic formation, and the guy standing at the edge of the woods reacted a little faster to pick up a life, and the slow half beat became food for the python. Suddenly, seeing so many pythons, the hair on the rest of the guards stood up, some people hurriedly retreated into the main hall of the ghost gate and prepared to defend it, and more people rushed to escape, no matter how the commanders roared, it was useless.

When the soldiers were most lax, Hong Yuan launched a ferocious attack, and he continued to lurk in the woods without moving, but the mighty python made the soldiers tremble. Soon, all the guards outside the Ghost Gate Hall were killed, and the Python Legion had already laid an encirclement without leaving any way out, and the faster the soldiers panicked and ran, the faster they died. On the contrary, the soldiers who retreated into the main hall of the Ghost Gate avoided the first wave of attacks from the snakes, but because of this, they saw a more terrifying scene.

Outside the Ghost Gate Hall, an eight-hundred-meter-long super python suddenly appeared, rushing up viciously, hitting the Ghost Gate Hall again and again, and each time it hit, the ground shook the mountain.

The Ghost Gate Pass is a military town, and the most important Ghost Gate Hall is even stronger, the gate is a heavy one-meter-thick stone slab, and it is superimposed with a powerful ancient prohibition, which is claimed to be safe and sound if it is attacked by a hundred thousand troops. Under the impact of the super python, this gate really did not disappoint Zhou Tiejun and the others, and blocked the brute force of the Hong python. However, after repeated violent impacts, the door was fine, but the window panes around the main hall were cracked one after another, and many pythons poured in. These windows were no less than ten meters above the ground, and the python rushed in like a tide, and before it had time to climb down the wall, it jumped directly from the windows like raindrops, launching a crazy attack. As far as the eye can see, it is all pythons, and the Ghost Gate General's Mansion seems to have turned into a huge snake nest.

Anaconda scourge!

Hong Yuan did not take action in person, lurking in the woods to suppress the formation, but the Python Legion, which had just been formed under his command, showed amazing combat effectiveness under the leadership of Hong Python. Especially in melee hand-to-hand combat, the lethality shown is far above that of the Scorpion Legion and the Bat Legion, giving people unprecedented tension and strong shock.

"It's here, it must be that kid from Hong Yuan!"

"Torrent Float, it turns out that this is the so-called Torrent Float!"

Zhou Tiejun muttered, he had always been confident in the defense of the Ghost Gate Palace, his face suddenly turned pale, and he roared hoarsely, "Quick, order the soldiers to come back to support!" Tell Ghost Wu that he can't come back within a quarter of an hour, and come to see me with his head!"

Zhou Tiejun was also in a mess, retreating again and again under the protection of his own soldiers, someone hurriedly acted on orders, and sent out arrows to urgently summon soldiers and horses to come back to support, and a series of nine arrows roared straight into the sky, exploded in the sky, and condensed into a blood-red word 'order'. This is the highest level of the order of the Ghost Gate Pass, and upon seeing the order, all the soldiers and horses must immediately gather to the place where the arrows were fired. This move was originally a sharp weapon used by Zhou Tiejun to lead the army to fight on the battlefield and order the unified action of the army, but now it has become an emergency signal for help.

In a dark and narrow alley in the city, Ghost Wu, who was chasing Zhao Xuemin, suddenly raised his head.

"Someone is attacking the General's Mansion, brothers, follow me!"

Zhou Tiejun drank hard, turned around and rushed towards the General's Mansion, not daring to delay in the slightest. Behind him, three thousand ghost gate guards rode horses to follow, and the wind galloped back to help. The mighty pursuers suddenly left most of the way, leaving only Chu Yannan and his retinue brought from Night Dragon City.

"Damn, it's just a little bit close to catching Zhao Xuemin's witch, damn ......"

Chu Yannan gritted his teeth and raised his head and roared loudly. Looking at the direction in which Zhao Xuemin and Piaoxue disappeared, and then at the entourage that had been significantly reduced behind them, he stopped helplessly.

After being retreated by Hong Yuan under his nose and never being found again, he came up with a plan and persuaded Ghost Wu to go all out to arrest Zhao Xuemin, who escaped for Hong Yuan, and to use him as a hostage to force Hong Yuan out. As a result, he finally managed to find Zhao Xuemin, but when he was about to succeed, he fell short.

"Sir, what should I do?" asked one of the guards.

"Go to the General's Mansion, go!"

Chu Yannan pondered for a while, then ordered in a deep voice, and led the disciples of the Chu family to the Ghost Gate General's Mansion to see what was going on there, and the vague feeling was that it was probably related to Hong Yuan.