Chapter 96: Something’s Wrong
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Kill them!”
With the appearance of a new force of Devil-slaying practitioners, the morale of all the soldiers in Moon Mountain Pass instantly soared.
Under the attack of the blood slaves of the Xueyang Sect, the city walls of Moonlight Mountain were in danger.
This was because these so-called blood slaves not only had almost invulnerable bodies, but they also had the means to replenish their vitality and recover from injuries by drinking the blood of their enemies.
Not to mention that a single blood slave was comparable to a level three Qi Cultivation stage or a martial artist with thirty years of cultivation.
Such a monster was naturally not something that ordinary soldiers could fight against.
Once hundreds of blood slaves charged at the same time and on top of their fearlessness to death, it would not be difficult for them to charge up the city wall of Moon Mountain Pass.
After all, most of the soldiers guarding the city were just ordinary people and lacked effective means to fight against demons.
However, just because ordinary people could not deal with these blood slaves did not mean that practitioners could not.
Although the blood slaves were powerful and fearless, they had a fatal weakness.
That was that the bodies of these blood slaves had very low resistance to spells and divine ability.
This was because the bodies of these fellows were actually a special product formed by combining the bodies of animals and humans by the cultivators of Xueyang Sect.
This also caused the spiritual energy in their bodies to be chaotic.
As long as an external force intervened, the fragile spiritual energy balance in their bodies would be instantly broken.
Although the cultivation of the practitioners was not high, they were all people who had experienced hundreds of battles.
After a few simple trials, they found the weakness of the blood slaves and quickly came up with a way to quickly kill them.
After the problem of the blood slaves was resolved by the practitioners, the soldiers of Moon Mountain Pass used the advantage of the city wall and quickly drove the other soldiers of the Liang Kingdom off the city wall.
Seeing that this siege had failed, the cultivators of Xueyang Sect behind them did not choose to continue the attack. Instead, they blew the horn to signal their retreat.
Not long after, the black mass of people instantly retreated from the city wall. Seeing that the enemy had finally retreated, the soldiers who had survived the disaster cheered.
This feeling of being surrounded by danger a second ago and escaping death in the next second. It was not exaggerated to say that it was of great sorrow and joy-
Such a strong change in emotions caused many soldiers who were already tense and only supported by their will to instantly collapse to the ground. Many of them even fainted on the spot.
In response, Lu Yuan also sent out a portion of practitioners with healing abilities to help the guards of Moon Mountain Pass and treat them.
Not long after Lu Yuan arrived at Moon Mountain Pass, a messenger came from the military camp.
“May I ask if you are Director Green Flame?”
“Yes, I am.” Lu Yuan nodded.
“Director Green Flame, the General heard that you are here and has been waiting for you in the camp for a long time. Please come with me.”
Hearing this, Lu Yuan brought Xu Wan’er, Lion-ape and Iron-ox and went along with the messenger to the main camp of the guards.
As for the other practitioners, they dispersed on the spot to see if there was anything that needed their help.
Not long after, Lu Yuan and the others arrived at the tent and saw the General of Moonlight Mountain, Zheng Lun.
“I, Zheng Lun, pay my respects to Director Green Flame.”
“No need to be so polite. Tell me why did you call me over.”
Seeing Lu Yuan being so direct, Zheng Lun did not bother with the formalities. He started to talk about the situation at Moon Mountain Pass and the problems they were currently facing.
“Lord Green Flame, to be honest, there are already 500,000 soldiers of the Liang Kingdom gathered outside the pass. Among them, 5,000 are blood slaves similar to the ones you encountered on the city wall.”
“These blood slaves are extremely powerful and invulnerable. Ordinary soldiers are no match for them.”
“Right now, only a few centurions and martial arts heroes in our army can fight against these blood slaves.”
“It is also because of these people that we are able to hold on until today.”
“Actually, if that’s all, I’m confident that I can keep these guys outside the pass.”
“But these animals from the Liang Kingdom don’t care about martial ethics. They rely on the high mobility of the blood slaves and have already scattered nearly a thousand blood slaves into the borders of Great Xia Kingdom.”
“They are not attacking the surrounding towns either. They are focusing on attacking our supply routes and obstructing our logistics.”
“Under such circumstances, the food reserves in Moon Mountain Pass can only last the soldiers for another half a month.”
“After half a month, we will face a situation where we will run out of food.”
“Therefore, I hope that you can send some practitioners to deal with the blood slaves who have entered our kingdom’s borders to ensure that the food for the soldiers can be delivered smoothly.”
Hearing Zheng Lun’s words, Lu Yuan did not give an immediate reply. Instead, he looked at the map below and fell into deep thought.
Seeing Lu Yuan looking at the map, Zheng Lun was puzzled.
He did not know why Lu Yuan kept staring at the map. Could it be that there was something on the map that he had not discovered?
Lu Yuan tapped his fingers on the table as he pondered.
A moment later, Lu Yuan suddenly asked, “General Zheng, do you think the target of these blood slaves of the Liang Kingdom… Is it really just your food supply routes?”
Zheng Lun was stunned momentarily before carefully looking at the map.
As he stared at the map, Zheng Lun’s expression instantly changed.
He suddenly realized that the places marked on the map as being attacked almost formed a circle, surrounding the entire Moon Mountain Pass.
The so-called Moon Mountain Pass was actually a special checkpoint stuck between two peaks.
On both sides of the checkpoint were huge mountains that reached into the clouds. It was difficult for ordinary people to cross.
However, the mountains on both sides that were natural barriers for ordinary people were not for cultivators.
If the Liang Kingdom really wanted to make a move against the Great Xia Kingdom, they only need to send out a few Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators who could fly directly over the mountain ranges on both sides and would be very difficult to stop.
If the purpose of these blood slaves was to attract the attention of the guards of Moon Mountain Pass so that the devil cultivators could better enter the back of Moon Mountain Pass, this would undoubtedly surround them.
Once such an encirclement was formed, the 300,000 soldiers of the Great Xia Kingdom in the mountain pass would be doomed.
Thinking of this, Zheng Lun instantly felt a chill run down his spine.
No wonder, no wonder the intensity of the recent siege by the Liang Kingdom was much smaller than a few days ago.
So this group of people actually wanted to make them an easy target.
If that was the case, it would be equivalent to a battle to the death.
Since the founding of the Great Xia Kingdom, such a situation had never happened before.
Although the two countries had conflicts, they were still restrained.
However, the current situation was clearly different from before.
These people of the Liang Kingdom really wanted to take over the entire Great Xia Kingdom!
And it had to be the three devilish sects behind them that gave them the courage for them to dare do so.
Lu Yuan even felt that the ambition of the three devilish sects might not be limited to this.
If Lu Yuan was right, there should be quite a number of Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators within the army of the Liang Kingdom.
Because only Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators… could ride a flying sword!
The more Lu Yuan thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.
This was because the intensity of this battle was completely different from what he had imagined!
How was this a battle between mortals? It seemed to be developing in the direction of a battle between cultivators!