# 1143
Chapter 1144: Besieged at the Last Stand
"Will 【Night Watch Squad】 disappear after we die?" Jiang Er couldn't help but ask.
"...No." Lin Qiye spoke slowly.
"According to the Night Watch regulations, a squad is only automatically dissolved when its initial members fall below three. The squad designation is preserved but exists only in name. However, as long as there are three or more members, the squad can continue to exist by supplementing new members."
"Cao Yuan and Pangpang are still in Heavenly Court. Jialan is in a dormant state but can still be counted. Plus the body you left behind, An Qingyu... 【Night Watch Squad】 will still have four members. It won't be dissolved. As long as we add two more new members, it can still carry out missions for Great Xia."
Lin Qiye turned around, looked into An Qingyu's eyes, and said seriously:
"An Qingyu, from now on, you will be the captain of 【Night Watch Squad】... Do you understand?"
An Qingyu gazed at Lin Qiye, neither nodding nor shaking his head, only standing in silence.
There were words he wanted to say, but now wasn't the time.
Without Lin Qiye, Shen Qingzhu, Jiang Er... even if more new members were added, that 【Night Watch Squad】 would no longer be the 【Night Watch Squad】.
An Qingyu had joined the Night Watch because of Lin Qiye, had become the vice-captain of 【Night Watch Squad】 because of him. If Lin Qiye was gone, what meaning would such a squad still have?
"It's poor Cao Yuan though." Lin Qiye seemed to have thought of something, smiling helplessly. "He好不容易才恢复一些理智，听到我们战死的消息，估计又要变成只会嘿嘿嘿的傻子了……"
Hearing this sentence, the corners of everyone's lips couldn't help but curve into a smile.
They stood with their backs to each other, facing four different directions. Pitch-black clouds surged down from the heavens. They looked up at the thousands of devastating demons, their grotesque and dense eerie laughter surging forward like a tide.
"Hee hee hee..."
"Chirp chirp chirp..."
"Hehehe..."
The smile on Lin Qiye's face gradually faded, replaced by a burning fighting spirit of desperate resolve!
"KILL!!"
He bellowed, and four figures simultaneously dashed forward like lightning toward the swarming demons.
Jiang Er transformed into a white shadow, crashing into one of the demons and controlling its body, madly slaughtering the surrounding demons.
By catching them off guard, she killed two demons in succession and wounded several more. When the demon she possessed was besieged by others, she once again turned into a white shadow and crashed into another demon's body,疯狂背刺.
Jiang Er's true body was on An Qingyu. The current her was merely a magnetic field. No matter how the demons围剿, they couldn't harm her in the slightest. She could only possess and stab from behind at will.
Under the continuous backstabbing and body-switching, the demon ranks soon fell into chaos. Countless black wings fluttered in the sky, one demon after another falling from the heavens—all killed by their own kind.
An Qingyu carried the black coffin on his back, his figure darting rapidly through the demons.
Frost, silk threads, thunder, poison fog... Endless strange abilities poured out from within him. Whenever a demon rushed toward him, his body would sway gently like a tumbler, causing the attack's trajectory to naturally deflect, landing on some other demon behind him.
After dodging several demons' encirclement attacks with the tumbler technique, An Qingyu reached out and pressed on the void.
Centered on him, the three-dimensional space around collapsed, as if an invisible giant hand had flattened several demons' bodies, turning them into sheets of paper floating in the air.
An Qingyu's frost sword slashed, cutting these demons to pieces.
Snap--!!
A crisp finger snap rang out, and raging flames instantly consumed the forms of the foremost demons.
Shen Qingzhu held a cigarette between his lips, his fingertips lifting slightly. The surrounding air was like part of his body, rapidly compressing, along with the flames within forming countless raging tornadoes that coiled at his side.
These demons were originally corpses. Depleting their air had no effect on them. The only thing that could harm them was the compressed-to-extremity flames.
Shen Qingzhu snapped his fingers again, and the fire tornadoes instantly drowned half the sky.
One magical brilliance after another bloomed in the sky.
The high-level guardians who had initially been used to draw away the demons rushed out from beside Lin Qiye one after another, clashing with the hordes of demons.
Lin Qiye held Ame-no-Murakumo in one hand and 【White Slash】 in the other, his form ghostlike as he wandered through the void. Every time he struck, a demon's head would be severed.
Ssshhk--!
Just as Lin Qiye was reaping a harvest, a blood-colored lightning bolt tore through the sky and slammed directly into the massive form of the Flame-Vein Earth Dragon.
Hongyan, struck by the lightning, immediately bore a mottled scorch mark on her body. Her dragon form was knocked backward, returning to human form and was pulled back into the asylum.
That blood-colored lightning didn't stop there. It consecutively wounded several guardians, tracing a Z-shaped trajectory across the sky, instantly flashing to Lin Qiye's front.
Lin Qiye had long noticed this lightning's presence. He stepped forward in advance, slashing Ame-no-Murakumo toward the front, chopping off a corner of the lightning.
A pitch-black severed wing fell from the sky.
It wasn't until this moment that Lin Qiye saw the true form of this blood-colored lightning. It was a demon with four black wings on its back.
From its appearance, it was vastly different from those resentful soul demons. Its body was more human-like, entirely crimson. If one ignored the scarlet worm eye on its forehead, its features were no less beautiful than an angel's—it was truly stunning.
This was a genuine demon... and a fourth-winged high-ranking demon at that.
The appearance of this demon seemed like some ill omen. Lin Qiye looked up at the sky, where dozens of fourth-winged demons came flying from the distance, hovering beneath the crimson heavens.
Each and every one of them radiated the aura of Klein-realm apex.
Not only that, above them, two charred angel corpses bearing six snow-white wings, along with three fallen angel corpses bearing six pitch-black wings, came stepping through the air.
Their bodies were covered in wounds, and clusters of red worms squirmed within the injuries. Their eyes were tightly closed, only those massive worm eyes slightly rotating as they gazed down at Lin Qiye and the others, as if looking at a group of weak ants.
"The troublesome ones are here..." Lin Qiye resisted the terrifying pressure, gritting his teeth as he spoke.
BANG--!!
A dull sound came from behind him. Lin Qiye turned his head.
He saw Shen Qingzhu's body being slapped down from the sky by two fourth-winged demons, crashing onto the ground beside the blood pool, instantly cracking the ground into terrifying fissures.
Shen Qingzhu violently spat out a mouthful of blood. On his arm and waist, two grotesque wounds had already appeared.