God of Pets

Chapter 668 Taking the City
“Zi Donglai, we have no intention of being your enemy. You should resolve your own grievances with the Gong and Shang families. We will not interfere.” A member of another family said from the city gate tower.

“Fine, drive the Gong and Shang families out of Taishan City, and this matter will be none of your concern,” Chen Guan said calmly.

"This..." The other families fell silent. They couldn't really drive the Gong and Shang families out, because that would offend both of them.

A cold smile appeared on Chen Guan's lips. When someone's silence is detrimental to you, then their silence means they have chosen to stand on the opposite side of you.

Therefore, silence never means innocence.

Without further ado, Chen Guan pulled out his mountain-splitting axe, activated the power of the Divine Realm, and swung the axe horizontally towards Taishan City.

The reason he slashed horizontally instead of vertically was because Chen Guan originally wanted to occupy Taishan City and take it completely, not destroy it.

The people in Taishan City were surprised that Chen Guan actually acted without saying a word.

However, since only Chen Guan made a move, they were not worried.

A city's defensive shield cannot be broken by one person alone; it usually requires a legion of troops to launch a combined attack.

However, the mountain-splitting axe in Chen Guan's hand possesses the indestructible mountain-splitting properties, and with the blessing of the God, its destructive power is far beyond that of ordinary cultivators.

As Chen Guan swung his axe, a terrifying axe light swept straight across the top of the city wall.

In an instant, the city's defensive shield was shaved off from the top of the city wall, like a head having its skull shaved off.

After the axe light broke through the city's defensive shield, it slashed across the city, cutting down any buildings taller than the city walls, as if giving Taishan City a buzz cut.

The young men from various families on the city wall and the people from the city lord's mansion were all terrified and turned pale.

Fortunately, they managed to dodge quickly when the city's defensive shield broke, lying prone on the city wall passageway, thus avoiding the misfortune of being cut in half.

When they saw Taishan City with its heads shaved, they were all terrified and turned pale.

The power of Zi Donglai's axe strike was so terrifying; this was simply not the kind of power a cave heaven should possess.

One man and one axe can destroy a city; what incredible power that is.

Now they finally understood why the Gong and Shang families, despite sending so many powerful individuals, were completely wiped out by Zi Donglai and his group. Such power was already invincible in the entire realm.

"Since you are not my friends, then you are my enemies. Let's fight to the death!" With Chen Guan's order, Jin Taohua led the Blood Spirit Army into the city.

Seeing the surging Blood Spirit army charging towards them, the crowd, already terrified by Chen Guan's axe strike, had no will to fight. Almost simultaneously, they led their own people, some fleeing and others running away.

In less than an hour, Taishan City was completely deserted, having been utterly occupied by the Blood Spirit Army.

However, not many people died. Most of the members of the major families fought their way out of Taishan City and fled to other places.

Chen Guan's ultimate goal was to occupy the city, not to truly exterminate them; otherwise, they wouldn't have broken through the Blood Spirit army's encirclement so easily.

Taishan City has a geographical advantage, as it was originally the gateway for humankind in the north.

Now that Chen Guan has captured Taishan City, as long as he holds it, it will not be so easy for the ten major families to cross Taishan City and attack other cities in the north.

Chen Guan himself couldn't stay behind to guard Taishan City, so he appointed Chen Si as the city lord, ordering him to lead 20,000 veterans from the former Dumb City to garrison the city. With these 20,000 veterans trained in Ziyang City stationed there, as long as the city's defenses were maintained, it wouldn't be so easy for others to breach Taishan City.

As long as Taishan City can transmit the message to Ziyang City in time, then Taishan City will have served its purpose. Every day that can be delayed will give Ziyang City one more day to prepare.

Chen Guan naturally couldn't use his own equipment to arm these soldiers. Fortunately, after capturing Taishan City, he also obtained many resources that the ten great families hadn't had time to take with them.

Chen Guan left most of the resources to Chen Si and asked Meng Man to stay here to assist him, instructing him to make sure that Taishan City was well protected.

Now the entire northern coastal plain has fallen under Chen Guan's control. However, Chen Guan is short of manpower. In addition to having Chen Si guard Taishan City, there is another key strategic location, the place that was originally the Dumb City, which can only be guarded by Chen Suo with his troops.

While it was called a garrison, it was actually a reconstruction of the mute city.

Thus, the southern and western gateways were guarded by Chen Guan's men, but many cities in the vast central region were left unguarded and instead became strongholds of the remaining demons.

Chen Guan didn't have enough manpower, so he wasn't in a hurry to guard those cities. He just needed to guard the southern and western gates, preventing humans from entering and demons from leaving.

As for the north and east, they are both part of the Kunwu Sea, with such a long coastline that Chen Guan has even less manpower to guard them, so he can only proceed step by step.

The news that Zi Donglai and Jin Taohua had conquered Taishan City had spread throughout the land.

No one had ever heard of anyone daring to offend the ten major families and the ancestral court in this way.

Since the great demon lord stormed the ancestral court, this has become a very novel and significant event.

"Zi Donglai has offended everyone to death. He and Jin Taohua can only rule the Pengxuan Cave Heaven from now on. As long as they dare to come out, the powerful experts from the Great Cave Heavens of the Ten Great Families will be waiting for them outside."

"How many people in this world can be so powerful as to reign supreme in a grotto-heaven and not even put the ten great families in their eyes? Zi Donglai's life has been worthwhile. Even if he doesn't advance to the Great Grotto-Heaven, he can still go down in history."

"I heard that the Gong family sent many invincible experts to kill Zi Donglai and Jin Taohua, but they were all killed by them. The strength of those two is unfathomable."

……

Chen Guan finally understood why it was impossible for one person to dominate the world.

No matter how strong a person is, it is impossible for them to be in multiple places at once, or to do everything.

To dominate the world, you need people.

But Chen Guan really has nowhere to find people. Having such a large territory is useless if there are no people there.

But given his current situation, he has nowhere to recruit people.

Now everyone knows he is the public enemy of the ten major families and the ancestral court, so who would dare to come here and seek refuge with him?

Chen Guan had no way to solve this problem, so he could only take it one step at a time and focus on leveling up his own character first.

Without the constraints of awakening, Chen Guan used rare and precious materials to level up every day, and his level increase was not slow. However, the further he progressed, the slower his level increase became.

By the time he reached level 48, he had almost exhausted all the rare and precious materials he had saved up, and his spiritual power had reached 131072 points.

(End of this chapter)