Chapter 431: Chapter 223: Slaying the Inborn Formation_2
Translator: 549690339
However, those who fled hadn’t escaped far before they were quickly stopped by military officers behind them, and then driven back, rushing again towards the colorful smoke.
This was entirely using people’s lives to delay the enemy’s advance.
Even when all the soldiers were dead, the military officers had to grit their teeth, lower their heads, and charge forward.
Though they were able to hold on longer than the soldiers, they also often couldn’t endure for more than a few breaths before collapsing within the colorful smoke.
It has to be said that Lan Cai’er’s Ten Thousand Poison True Qi might not perform outstandingly when facing opponents of the same level.
But when used to harvest the low-level soldiers, it’s an unparalleled sharp tool.
At this time, with just a slight display of her prowess, she took away thousands of lives. If she continued killing for a while longer, more than half of the ten thousand Zhou soldiers in the camp would surely die.
The reason only half would die was because Lan Cai’er’s true pneuma was insufficient. If she had enough true pneuma, even if there were tens of thousands of people, she would kill them all.
Against an Inborn Grandmaster, low-level soldiers were simply powerless.
Fortunately, although there was no ability to fight back, the South City managed to pin down Lan Cai’er using the method of completely using up people’s lives, preventing the battle situation from collapsing all at once.
At the same time, a similar scene was also taking place in North City.
Lu Yuan transformed into a Red Sun, with raging flames following his every moment, burning everything in the vicinity to ashes.
Zhou soldiers who were approached by him were burned to ashes before they could even let out a scream.
Behind him, a large number of soldiers followed closely, ruthlessly slaughtering into the scattered formation of the Zhou people.
The entire North City camp had already approached the brink of collapse.
“Hahaha, thrilling! Thrilling!”
Lu Yuan quickly moved, burning Zhou soldiers who were fleeing in panic around him to ashes, and then looked around at the scorched earth, unable to help but burst into laughter.
After killing for a moment, more than a thousand Zhou people had already died at his hands.
If one were to count those who were killed by his own soldiers due to the breach in the formation, the casualties of the Zhou people would be even greater.
At this time, looking around, in just a short while, almost half of the Zhou camp in North City had been broken through by him.
Furthermore, the Zhou people’s casualties amounted to three or four thousand. The remaining defeated soldiers were hiding in the remaining camps, trembling and looking around in a panic.
It seemed that after experiencing this ruthless killing, the Zhou people had already lost their courage.
However, after dispersing this wave of Zhou warriors, Lu Yuan didn’t continue searching for the next target. Instead, he stopped to recuperate, and at the same time started to calculate the time in his heart.
“Calculating the time, there should be results over there at the western city by now.”
According to the arrangements made before the battle,
Yang Jing led twenty thousand troops to launch the first attack to attract Gui Lianyun’s attention.
After a while, Lan Cai’er launched the second round of attacks at the southern city.
Then it was Lu Yuan here, after a while, launching an attack at the North City.
As for Zhou Qing, he was waiting for the result of Lu Yuan’s side before launching an attack at the eastern city to finish the job.
Now that Lu Yuan’s side had launched an attack and even fought for a while,
according to the time calculation, it had been almost half an hour since the Southern City launched the attack, and there should be news coming by now.
As he was thinking this, Lu Yuan recuperated for a while, slightly recovering some true pneuma, and finally news came from the rear.
“Reporting to Great King. News comes from Martial Proclamation Marquis that the Marquis attacked Western City and fought the Zhou Pillar State Grand General.”
However, after hundreds of fights, the Marquis was injured and had to retreat.
Gui Lianyun has already led his troops south, and the Marquis said that Gui Lianyun’s strength had suddenly increased, so he must have used a life-threatening secret technique which couldn’t last long.
After the secret technique, his vitality would be greatly damaged and it would be the weakest time. The Marquis hopes that Great King can seize the opportunity, strike the enemy when he is weak, and severely wound this thief.”
The personal guard who came from Western City passed on Yang Jing’s information.
After hearing this, Lu Yuan nodded and said, “I understand. You go back and tell Martial Proclamation Marquis that with me here, Gui Lianyun, this thief, won’t get away with it.”
“Yes!” The personal guard replied and hurried away.
Watching his departing figure, Lu Yuan stared at him for a while before retracting his gaze and continuing to recuperate.
He had just fought for a while, and although he had wiped out thousands of Zhou people, his own true pneuma consumption was also extremely great.
In just a short period of time, more than thirty percent of his true pneuma was consumed.
Using martial arts external body to kill enemies is thrilling, but sustaining it is still a problem.
“With my current true pneuma, I can only maintain the martial arts external body for half an hour at most, and then I won’t be able to hold on any longer.”
Lu Yuan thought of his own or most Inborn Grandmasters’ shortcomings and couldn’t help shaking his head and sighing, “Maybe it’s only at the second state of Inborn that one can sustain the consumption of martial arts external body for more than an hour.”
He had previously chatted with Lan Cai’er and Yan Wangqiu about how long they could maintain their martial arts external body at full strength.
However, whether it was Lan Cai’er, who had just advanced to Inborn, or Yan Wangqiu, who had been in Inborn for a hundred years, neither of them could answer that they could last more than an hour.
As an old lord, Yan Wangqiu had a deep true pneuma and could hold on for a longer time than Lu Yuan and the others.
But even he could only last for an additional quarter or two quarters of an hour, far from reaching a transformative level.
They had discussed this issue with each other and, with reference to the records of the Nanhai Sect, Nine River Sword Sect, and Five Poisons Sect, had finally come to a conclusion.