The protagonist committed numerous evil deeds.

Chapter 139 Half Moon (3)

Wen Li's clothes were also stained with blood, but her dark red attire concealed the blood within.

The crimson color traveled upwards, staining her pale skin.

The blood came from that burly man who had just been crying. One second he was cursing and calling for his mother, the next second…

His head was smashed in front of her.

Wen Li's body was actually trembling slightly.

"Protect Miss Wen!"

"Protect Miss Wen!"

"Quick! Push up! Push up now!"

The sky was beginning to lighten, and the number of people guarding her had dwindled from two thousand at the beginning to less than a hundred now.

The barrier grew smaller and smaller, and everyone huddled together around Wen Li.

Wen Li was unsettled, noticing that the barrier in front of her was beginning to crack.

"General Yan! Can you hold on?"

"We can hold on! We can hold on! We'll hold on even if it kills us!"

The soldier standing beside Wen Li gripped his sword, ready to rush out and buy time. He could also tell that the barrier wouldn't last long.

He suddenly asked Wen Li, "Miss Wen, this formation can kill all the demons here, right? So we will win, right? Our sacrifices are all meaningful! We saved more people! We reclaimed the Moon Half and protected all living beings! Isn't that right, Miss Wen?"

Wen Li rotated her wrist, and the spiritual energy at her fingertips continued to be slowly output.

She felt like she couldn't breathe, as if she had returned to her previous life, to those ten years of wandering alone.

People once thought that the Half Moon War was the beginning of humanity's reclaiming of the human world, but little did they know that it was just a fierce battle of resistance.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Guigu Valley was unsealed, and demons and monsters roamed everywhere.

The number of deaths will only increase, and Yueban's victory is nothing more than a drop in the ocean.

And soon Yueban will fall into the hands of demons again.

Their deaths were utterly meaningless.

"Yes! You are heroes! You have reclaimed the Moon! You have protected the people!"

This is how Wen Li answered.

"General Yan wants me to go out. I have no spiritual power. Without me, this barrier will be smaller, and you can hold out a little longer. I'll go out and try to live as long as possible, to disrupt them, to push them far away, and to kill at least one of them!"

"I am coming too!"

"I am coming too!"

"I'll go too! We don't have spiritual roots, so our defense isn't as good as yours, but our offense is no worse than yours, you cultivators!"

General Yan glanced at them; it seemed that only a few of the Ninth Battalion remained.

"Alright! You all get out from my side!"

Wen Li watched with wide eyes as they rushed out with ropes, pushing the demons several meters away. They screamed as if they felt no pain, gripping their swords and recklessly charging at the demons.

"Aaaaaaaaaa..."

"Get the hell away from me!"

"Come over here, grandpa! I'm here!"

They darted about among the demons, using their bodies and lives to buy time for their companions.

In an instant, the demons outside chased after them, tearing them apart and tormenting them.

As dawn broke, there seemed to be fewer than ten people surrounding Wen Li.

The barrier finally broke...

"Protect Miss Wen!"

Wen Li remained motionless, while the remaining ten people, carrying shields, tightly embraced their companions.

They surrounded and protected Wenli tightly.

The incense burner in front of them was still burning, and the flames from the burning paper money ignited the hem of the person's clothes.

The sound of horses seemed to come from afar. Wen Li looked at the female general protecting her and leaned closer to ask, "General Yan, what's your name?"

General Yan had blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, her eyes were tightly closed, and her lips were moving up and down.

She thought Wen Li was scared.

“Miss Wen, don’t be afraid, they can’t pull me away.”

"What's your name?"

Wen Li's voice grew a little louder.

"Don't worry, others will be here to take our place soon, and they will definitely do a better job than us."

After saying that, no matter how much Wen Li called out, the person remained silent.

"Drive! Drive! Drive..."

Someone else has arrived...

The person was pulled away, and Wen Li's vision returned.

"Miss Wen! Miss Wen! Are you alright?!"

Wen Li seemed to suddenly come to her senses. She stared at the person in front of her and thought for a long time before she remembered that this was Asagao.

The girl who climbed to the top without any spiritual roots will die here, and they will all die here!

"Si Xiaxia! Si Xiaxia!"

"Ok?"

Si Xiaxia was a little taken aback when she was suddenly called; she hadn't expected to be called.

"What's wrong with the host?"

“I… I suddenly remembered when I was little, so very little, I think I had just learned to walk. Back then, I was confined in the Wen family's old house. The walls of that courtyard were incredibly high, and stones or food would be thrown in from outside every now and then. My mother never let me go out; I was trapped in the courtyard from the moment I was born. I was trapped; I didn't know what the outside world was like. I even felt that the world consisted only of my mother and me…”

Si Xiaxia didn't understand why she would bring these things up, especially under these circumstances. She should know that all she had to do was set up the formation properly, and that she wouldn't die.

It's someone else who will die.

Si Xiaxia did not interrupt her, but listened quietly to what she was saying.

"When I got a little older, I wanted to go out, but my mother told me that the outside world was very dangerous, and it wasn't safe to go out. She also said that everyone outside hated us, that they all hated us..."

"But! But Mother also told me that I have to protect them, I have to protect those who hate me. Because I am a demon hunter, because I am talented, because I am a member of the Jiang family, because the Jiang family is destined to wield divine power, so... so I also have to protect them, protect those who have no spiritual power. Shouldn't the matter of killing demons have nothing to do with these people who have no spiritual roots?"

"As long as I find out the truth, they won't hate me anymore. I can revive the Jiang family, and the Jiang family will once again be the number one demon-catching family praised by everyone. I will also be the great hero Jiang, who is supported by thousands and saves the world!"

A scene from her childhood seemed to float into Wen Li's mind: she was sitting in her mother's lap, gesturing wildly as she talked.

She said she wanted to be a hero, a hero that everyone liked, a hero who would save the world!

It turns out that before she knew anything, she wanted to be a good person, a hero.

“Si Xiaxia, since my rebirth, I’ve met many people along the way, and none of them have rejected me because of my identity. I knew perfectly well that this battle was meant to send them to their deaths, yet I still followed them into the city without a second thought. I thought, what does it have to do with me? Dying on the battlefield is their destiny, isn’t it? So what does it have to do with me? What does it have to do with me…”

Si Xiaxia couldn't understand what she was saying, but kept comforting her: "Yes! Host, this has nothing to do with you. This is their fate in the book. If they don't die, the formation can't be completed, and the demons of Moon Half City will continue to harm more people, and Xi Yu will kill more people... So, so it's okay, host. Just do your own thing. There's nothing you can do. You've done your best, but no one can save them..."

Really? Really?

Yes, there's nothing she can do, there's nothing she can do...

But, but...

Wen Li really had no other choice, but she wouldn't sit idly by and watch them repeat the fate of her previous life!

"Asagao! Asagao! Come here! Get over here right now!"

Asagao was setting up the characters and the barrier when she heard Wenli's cursing. She was too lazy to care at first, but then Wenli started yelling louder and louder.

She squatted down, somewhat annoyed, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Come closer."

Asagao crouched down, getting closer, and a gentle female voice came from inside, making her tremble involuntarily.

"The reason why the Soul-Repelling Array is a forbidden technique is that the condition for its activation is to offer up tens of thousands of heroic souls every day for seven days until the Gate to the Underworld opens."

"The 70,000 Northern Desert Iron Cavalry were chosen early on as Yueban's burial offerings."