Chapter 226 – Defense Breached, Continuous Bad News (
Chapter 226 – Defense Line Broken, Consecutive Bad News (
“Not bad.”
Hearing Bai Mingshan’s words, the crowd couldn’t help but nod their heads.
“So, in order to avoid letting the Demonic Beast side, notice the existence of the remaining few of you and me.
I suggest that for the following patrols at intervals, it would be best for you and I not to show up.”
Bai Mingshan continued to speak.
“Instead, I’ll leave it to the three of you, Zi Xuan, Fellow Daoist Li Fei, and Fellow Daoist Rendao, to take turns hosting.
During this period, to make up for their loss of time, we can double their credits, I wonder what everyone thinks?”
It had to be said that Bai Mingshan’s suggestion was deeply secure in the essence of low-profile.
After all, their main purpose here was to guard Gu Yuan City from being overrun by demonic beasts.
On the side of the demonic beasts, they were still unable to feel how much strength they had within the city for the time being, so they were bound to not come out in full force.
In this way, they would be able to delay a lot of time.
Although in the end, the existence of their few remaining people would definitely not be able to be concealed for long.
But if they could conceal it for this reason for one more day, delaying it for them for one more day, then it would all be good.
It was not possible to say that at that time, just because of these few days of delay, some kind of turnaround would happen.
This is all a very possible thing, and a more secure arrangement.
It was just that, for Jiang Rendao, Li Fei, and Bai Zixuan, this matter would inevitably be that much more unfair, and would also require more time and effort for this.
Therefore.
If one wanted to reach this matter, one would first have to obtain the approval of the three of them.
So at this moment, the gazes of all the people couldn’t help but turn to the three of them.
Only to hear Hua Mengyou say, “Senior Brother Li Fei, what do you think of this matter?”
Li Fei thought about it briefly, then nodded slightly and said:
“It can be.
But if a battle occurs during the period, some corresponding losses, I need you all to make up for me.”
Regarding this request from Li Fei, the people present did not reject it.
Soon, Bai Zixuan of the Bai Family and Jiang Rendao of the Jiang Family all agreed to the same as Li Fei.
Just like that.
In the time that followed, the three of them, Jiang Rendao, Li Fei, and Bai Zixuan, began to take charge of the regular patrols of Ancient Yuan City.
As for Jiang Chengxuan and the others, they were hidden within the city.
Time passed in a flash.
Half a year had passed since the last time the demonic beasts attacked the city.
During these half a year, the demonic beast side had launched four more sieges.
In two of them, there were third-order demonic beasts involved.
They were all demonic beasts that had appeared in the first place, such as the Blistering Wind Rhinoceros, the Earth Savage Bear, the Red Spirit Giant Rat, and the Black Wind Cloud Striped Leopard.
They did not pose any substantial threat to Ancient Yuan City.
The two sides, for the time being, were still in a relatively balanced state.
It was in such an environment that Jiang Chengxuan, who was located within Gu Yuan City’s own cave, had raised his alchemy cultivation to the third rank middle grade.
Moreover, he had also traveled a long distance at this level.
It was believed that with another half a year to a year’s time, he would almost be able to attempt to impact the alchemist bottleneck of the Third Order Upper Grade.
On top of that, during these half a year, Jiang Chengxuan had also pushed the might of his divine ability, the Green Emperor Heaven Slashing Blade, another step forward.
Once it was used, it was enough to truly threaten cultivators at the False Dan realm.
Just as Jiang Chengxuan was about to try to improve his own alchemy cultivation, the summoning jade talisman on his body suddenly lit up.
Taking out the summoning jade talisman and taking a look, Jiang Chengxuan’s brows immediately frowned.
The message was sent to him by Hua Mengyue.
The content was an invitation to all the Purple Mansion cultivators here to go to the Council Hall of Gu Yuan City, saying that there was something extremely important to discuss with them.
In response, Jiang Chengxuan didn’t do too much hesitation and quickly left his own cave.
Just in time, he bumped into Shen Ruyan who was outside.
Obviously, on Shen Ruyan’s side, it was also because she had received Hua Mengyue’s summons that she had left from her own cave.
The couple spoke briefly.
Without a moment’s effort, they had already arrived at the Ancient Yuan City’s conference hall.
At this time, only Hua Mengyue and Li Fei were inside the grand hall.
When they saw Jiang Chengxuan and Shen Ruyan coming over, they immediately nodded at them.
Jiang Chengxuan had wanted to ask Hua Mengyue what she had called them over for this time, but thought that after everyone arrived in a while, Hua Mengyue would naturally say.
So he didn’t open his mouth.
The four of them sat in the great hall and didn’t wait for too long.
Jiang Rendao, as well as the three members of the Bai Clan, then arrived one after another.
It was also not until then that Hua Mengyue took out a piece of information from her own body, and then handed it to the crowd, saying:
“I just got some news about this Demon Beast Rebellion, everyone take a look.”
As the words fell, the people present quickly picked up the information one by one and read it over.
After reading it, no matter who it was, a look of gravity appeared on their faces.
Just in this half a year or so.
The defense line on their Human Race side had actually retreated again and again.
Not to mention the situation of Yun and Yan Liang countries.
The situation of their Liang Kingdom alone was quite unsatisfactory.
So far, two of their Liang’s defenses had been breached.
Three counties have been ravaged by those demonic beasts.
Nearly thirteen million mortals under their jurisdiction have been massacred by those demonic beasts, and have been reduced to eating in their bellies.
Thousands and thousands of low-ranking cultivators perished in this wave of fighting.
This was like a vicious slap in the face of the Bishui Sword Pavilion and the Tian Yue Sect, and even each and every one of them.
It was agreed that the demonic beasts would be warded off from the front line.
Not to let the demonic beasts rush into their Liang hinterland.
But what happened?
Now it seemed like a joke.
Making the faces of everyone present, a little gloomy.
This was because for them, the entire battle of the Demon Beast Rebellion could be considered as a matter of one hair affecting the whole body.
Now that the two Immortal Cities on the frontline had been breached, this could definitely not be considered good news for their Ancient Yuan City side.
After all, according to the original situation, those two Immortal Cities were responsible for guarding the two areas where they were located.
But now that they had been breached, who could guarantee that the demonic beasts that existed in those two areas on the other side wouldn’t invade their Ancient Yuan City’s side?
The entire hall, for a moment, could not help but fall into silence.
It wasn’t until a few moments later that Hua Mengyue took the lead in breaking the silence, looking at everyone present with a grave expression:
“Everyone, right now, besides this news, there is also a bad news from my side that I need to tell everyone.”
Hmm?
Upon hearing her words, the faces of everyone present couldn’t help but change slightly.
The piece of news that they had just seen was already as bad as it could be.
As a result, you told me.
There is another bad news behind this?
……
Everyone was silent, waiting for Hua Mengyue’s next words.
Then they heard Hua Mengyue say, “According to the news that came back from the people I sent out earlier, who were responsible for spying on the movements of the demonic beast side.
Recently, the number of demonic beasts targeting our Ancient Yuan City’s demonic beast side has a clear trend of increasing.
If my guess is good, I’m afraid that the scale of the next wave of attacks against our Ancient Yuan City will far exceed the previous ones.”
As soon as these words fell, the faces of everyone present couldn’t help but to become a few more points heavier.
If all of this was true.
Then this time, what Hua Mengyue had said would have a high possibility of happening.
In the end, I’m afraid that the situation would be even more severe than what they were guessing right now.
“So ……”
Hua Mengyue’s beautiful eyes slowly looked at everyone present.
“Taking over, we can’t be the same as before, we have to be in the spirit of twelve points and be ready to deal with unexpected situations at any time.”
The implication was that Jiang Rendao, Li Fei, and Bai Zixuan, once a situation arises that they can’t cope with, the rest of them, must be the first to meet it.
As for this, specifically what to do at that time, a group of people present, could not help but discuss and arrange according to each person’s strength.
In the end, it was decided that if a situation arose where Jiang Rendao’s trio was unable to cope, Bai Yuanchen of the Bai Clan would be the first to take over.
Next was she, Hua Mengyue and Jiang Chengxuan, and lastly, Bai Mingshan and Shen Ruyan, whose cultivation had reached the ninth level of the Purple Mansion.
At this, everyone, including Jiang Chengxuan, did not have any opinions.
Time passed in a flash.
In the blink of an eye, it was another three months later.
During these three months, the demonic beast side had launched two more attacks one after another.
Only these two attacks were not large in scale.
There wasn’t even the figure of a third-order demonic beast.
But it was precisely this point that caused Jiang Chengxuan and the others’ moods to become unusually heavy.
It was like the calm before a storm.
The side of the demonic beasts was also clearly building up their strength for a larger scale beast tide.
It was conceivable that by the time the next beast tide, or the next beast tide came, it would certainly break the sky.
This was also the case.
When this time, another month had passed.
The Bai Clan cultivators who were patrolling the east gate wall suddenly saw a densely packed demonic beast figure appear hundreds of miles outside the city.
This immediately caused their pupils to shrink fiercely.
They, who had already dealt with this sort of thing several times, immediately sent out a summons at the first opportunity.
In a flash, the entire Ancient Yuan City immediately moved.
However, it was also at this exact moment that the cultivators of the Aqua Sword Pavilion, which was located at the north gate wall this time, suddenly sent out an emergency summons of the same magnitude as well.
This caused all the cultivators in the city to be taken aback.
One must know that in the past, whenever the demonic beasts attacked, they did so from the east gate.
This was mainly related to the orientation of Gu Yuan City.
Apart from the east gate, the remaining three gates of Gu Yuan City all had corresponding natural barriers in place.
It was almost impossible for the demonic beast side to bypass those natural barriers and launch an attack on their Gu Yuan City in a silent manner.
However, right now.
This seemingly unlikely thing just happened.
In the direction of the northern gate of their Ancient Yuan City, countless densely packed demonic beast figures had unexpectedly appeared as well.
What in the world was going on here?
“No…… is not right!”
Suddenly, a cultivator sensed something strange.
Only to see them point their fingers at the demonic beasts that had appeared, their tone of voice he said with shock:
“They aren’t demonic beasts that exist in the Ancient Yuan Mountain Range at all!”
Being reminded in this way, many people also realized the problem.
Especially some cultivators who knew quite a bit about demonic beasts, they even instantly widened their eyes and said with a slightly trembling tone:
“It …… them, the demonic beasts that came over from the side of Songhai City!”
“What? Pine Sea City?”
As soon as these words fell, the hearts of many people present could not help but be startled.
Obviously, many of the people present knew that the Songhai City mentioned here was a frontline defense immortal city just like their Ancient Yuan City.
Now that those demonic beasts were coming from the direction of Songhai City, wasn’t this saying that Songhai City, which had the same significance as them, had now fallen?
This news was undoubtedly a fatal blow to the morale of the people present.
Just ask, if Songhai City, which was the same as them, had already fallen, then would their Gu Yuan City still be far away?
Unconsciously, in everyone’s hearts, a hint of pessimism could not help but rise.
It had to be said that the demonic beast side had indeed played this hand ruthlessly.
Not only did it cause tremendous pressure on the Ancient Yuan City side, but it also dealt an almost fatal blow to their confidence.
The Bishui Sword Pavilion cultivators who were responsible for patrolling this area noticed that the situation was not right, and one by one, they immediately flew into the air and began to speak out to straighten out their morale.
Only the effect was not too ideal.
Especially when they saw that on the side of the demonic beasts, four third-order demonic beasts suddenly appeared, the panic on their faces could no longer be concealed.
It was also at the same time.
Located in the direction of the eastern gate wall of Gu Yuan City, a sudden clamor came from the city.
It was only because at this moment, outside of the eastern gate wall of Gu Yuan City, in addition to the densely packed army of demonic beasts, seven third-order demonic beasts had appeared in one breath.
All of them were at the middle grade of the third rank.
This made Jiang Rendao, Li Fei, and Bai Zixuan, who were responsible for guarding this place, instantly feel a great pressure.
With the three of them dealing with seven Third Order Middle Grade demonic beasts.
It was definitely something very difficult.
If they didn’t get it right, someone might fall as a result.
So in the next moment, Li Fei immediately transmitted his voice to Bai Zixuan and said in a deep voice:
“Fellow Daoist Zixuan, in a moment, please also contact Fellow Daoist Profound Chen and have him stand by in the dark.
If we can take them by surprise this time and kill one or two demonic beasts, it will definitely be of great help to our Ancient Yuan City’s subsequent defense.”
Bai Zixuan also knew that the situation in front of them was already the most dangerous they had faced since the Demon Beast Rebellion.
At that moment, she nodded with a solemn expression and transmitted her voice to Li Fei as well as Jiang Rendao:
“Please don’t worry, please don’t worry, please don’t worry, please don’t worry, please don’t worry, please don’t worry, please don’t worry, please don’t worry, please don’t worry.
If nothing unexpected happens, at this time, he should already be hidden in the shadows.
As long as the timing is right, he will make a decisive move, striving to kill one or two third-ranked demonic beasts when the demonic beast side is unprepared.”
“That’s very good.”
Jiang Rendao and Li Fei could not help but both secretly nodded.
At this moment, they were already up against the seven third rank demonic beasts that had come.
In addition to the original Blistering Wind Rhinoceros, Earth Savage Bear, Red Spirit Giant Rat, Black Wind Cloud Striped Leopard, and Silver Ringed Poison Python.
There was also a double-winged demonic wolf, and an iron skinned giant ape.
As soon as the two sides collided, Jiang Rendao, Li Fei and Bai Zixuan immediately fell into a disadvantage.
Especially Jiang Rendao.
His cultivation was the lowest among the three.
If it wasn’t for that third-order mid-grade defensive magic treasure, as well as the protection of his own Ancient Yuan City Grand Formation, I’m afraid that he would have quickly lost in a fight of this tier.
Then looking at Bai Zixuan and Li Fei’s side.
Bai Zixuan was battling two third rank demonic beasts by herself.
The situation was obviously a bit strained as well.
After all, her cultivation was only at the fifth level of the Violet Mansion, and she hadn’t reached the peak of the middle stage.
Taking on two third stage demonic beasts at the same time was already her limit.
On the contrary, it was Li Fei’s side.
Although he was up against the largest number of third rank demonic beasts.
However, because he was a late stage Purple Mansion cultivator and a sword cultivator who was proficient in attacking.
Responding to it.
Although it also failed to take any advantage.
But for a while, it was able to temporarily support it.
However, they also understood very well in their hearts.
This kind of situation, they couldn’t hold on for too long.
As long as there was a deviation in the defense line of one person on their side, then it was only a matter of time before they were defeated.
Fortunately, at this time, the Purple Mansion cultivators that their Gu Yuan City could utilize were not just the three of them.
Just when Jiang Rendao and Bai Zixuan were vaguely about to lose their grip.
The demonic beasts that were attacking the two of them were already placing all their attention on the two of them.
A flash of the naked eye’s imperceptible spear awn suddenly appeared in front of Jiang Rendao at the back of the Red Spirit Giant Mouse.
Buzz!
The Red Spirit Giant Rat that was frantically attacking Jiang Rendao’s body, its sweaty hairs violently rose up.
Squeak-squeak-
A horrified and inexplicable hiss escaped from its mouth.
The entire huge body, just wanted to move horizontally, but unexpectedly, Jiang Rendao, who was still struggling to resist its attack a moment ago, changed his defensive stance, and the “Shadow Chopper” sword in his hand violently erupted with an extremely dazzling blade light, which covered the sky and earth towards the Red Spirit Giant Mouse!
“Roar!”
The Red Spirit Giant Rat’s eyes instantly turned red.
The sudden threat of death that was approaching was already causing its entire body to burn up.
A large mass of orange-red flames was seen rising violently in mid-air.
Kakaka…
These flames quickly condensed into a shield in front of its body in an attempt to block this wave of sneak attacks.
Bang Bang Bang–
However, the strength of the incoming person was clearly far beyond its imagination.
Under that slash of the spear’s awn, those shields that the Red Spirit Giant Mouse had briefly condensed all shattered.
The terrifying power was even more so as it set off a gale in midair.
Before the Red Spirit Giant Rat had time to have any reaction, the gunwraps quickly broke through the sturdy flesh that it relied on to take pride in, and in the middle of its abdomen, opened up a bloody hole with a diameter of five or six meters that ran through it from front to back.
Clatter…
In an instant, the internal organs of the Red Spirit Giant Rat immediately flowed down from the huge blood hole that had been broken open.
The red blindness in its eyes also rapidly became dim.
Brush-
It was also at the same time.
A long spear with a black and silver colored surface, engraved with countless strange patterns, openly pierced into the eye sockets of the Red Spirit Giant Mouse, and ultimately flew out from the back of its head.
Before the many demonic beasts present could return to their senses.
The lance that flew out from the back of the Red Spirit Giant Rat’s head was already flying straight towards the Earth Savage Bear at its back!
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