Chapter 294
Li Ming was feeling a bit nervous at first, but as Bing Tuozi stood beside him, all his pressure seemed to vanish. He didn’t even have to pretend to be relaxed anymore.
More importantly,
Bing Tuozi’s aura was utterly majestic, towering at a height of three meters and eight centimeters. Just her presence alone was enough to intimidate anyone who dared to oppose her.
As her enemy, who wouldn’t feel a chill run down their spine?
The "Empty City Strategy" had taken on a new flavor, and after the enhancement from the fighting king’s secret techniques, it was now at an epic level!
Seizing the moment,
“Donglai, don’t leave just yet,” Li Mo whispered.
Huang Donglai paused in his tracks.
He knew that the next phase of the plan was about to begin.
On the city wall,
the best male lead had just welcomed his best female lead!
“.....”
The soldiers present suddenly felt a bit full; they could no longer stomach the skewers they had been devouring.
If it weren’t for the military orders they were under, they would have felt it was absurd to sit there, as if they were on pins and needles.
“?”
Below the city wall,
the enemy forces, composed of disaster beasts and various tribes, numbering over a hundred thousand, were momentarily silent.
No,
we’re already shivering in the cold wind, which is pitiful enough.
And you up there, eating those delicious skewers right in front of us, that’s just cruel.
Afraid we might starve, and you’re feeding us dog food, huh?
How heartwarming.
“It's her!”
Han Zhen’s eyes suddenly lit up.
This girl bore the essence of the Jade Phoenix, the Blood Phoenix, and the Radiant Phoenix!
She had already acquired three of the ancestral spirits! And she was one of the legendary Ten Absolute Bodies, a natural Phoenix body!
“Could she be... the Ice Fairy Ying Bing?” Helian Wu swallowed hard, astonished.
“What a pity, what a pity. If she were willing to join the sect, we could have been equals.”
Han Zhen squinted and sighed deeply.
“Master Han, the flying scouts were all taken down by this girl. Are we really going to just sit here?”
The Beast Hall Master frowned.
Though he knew the Qingmu defenders might not have enough supplies, they couldn’t afford to waste time here.
If the King of the South arrived, the situation would turn dire.
“I’ll use secret techniques to probe the city, but it will take some time.”
Han Zhen made up his mind, biting his tongue, and the shadow of the bronze divine tree appeared behind him.
Among them, a dim shadow of a divine bird brightened with a splash of blood after being covered by his fresh blood.
The blood and killing intent of the army would weaken the will of the spirit.
Using secret techniques forcibly came at a great cost.
Meanwhile, atop the city gate,
Ying Bing said softly, “Han Zhen has used blood witchcraft.”
Li Mo nodded, understanding her meaning.
“It seems this barbecue strategy can’t go on much longer.”
As he spoke, he glanced at the soldiers who had already left the barbecue stand, standing at the ready, and at the smoke being blown away by the northern wind.
“We’ve done everything we can...”
“Li Mo.”
Ying Bing’s slender hand gripped the Heavenly Frost, ready for battle, but her crimson lips hinted at a slight smile.
“Remember that day you gave me a candy? I actually have something I want to give you too.”
“What is it?”
“There are too many people here. I’ll tell you after the battle.”
Ying Bing opened her doll-like figure and placed the candy from her pocket inside.
“??!”
Li Mo realized that the Bing Tuozi who said this was the mischievous one.
And it seemed she didn’t know about something called a flag...
Before long,
with just a quarter of an hour left until the hour was up,
Han Zhen’s face turned pale, but he suddenly opened his eyes wide, his voice sharp:
“This kid is bluffing us!”
“All troops, attack the city!”
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P.S.: I want to change the update time to earlier; staying up late is too much for this little writer to handle. What do you all think?
The chapter from early this morning will be postponed to tomorrow.
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Chapter 320: The Toxic Barbecue Siege
“Attack the city! Attack the city!!”
Han Zhen’s eyes darkened with anger.
He had just used the power of all living beings he had accumulated over ten years to forcibly connect with a discarded witch spirit in the city.
And what did he see? A large number of logistics troops were busily setting up various weapons.
This kid was clearly just bluffing!
Moreover, he noticed a general in the Inner Scene realm using a wind domain to blow the barbecue smoke toward them.
What was going on?
Hmm?
Finally, they were about to attack the city, but the army below didn’t charge out like a pack of wolves as expected; instead, they were in complete disarray.
“Damn it, we’ve been smelling this barbecue for ages. Are we finally attacking the city?”
“It smells so good; I’m almost dizzy from the aroma.”
“Someone has passed out from the smell!”
“Medic! Medic! Our captain is foaming at the mouth!”
Han Zhen snapped back to reality from his fury. He sniffed the barbecue aroma and suddenly changed his expression.
At first, he was just curious about how the barbecue could smell so good, but he had been distracted by that kid on the city wall and Ying Bing, so he hadn’t thought much of it. Now he finally realized.
This barbecue smell is toxic!
It’s Soft Muscle Powder!
This wasn’t just an Empty City Strategy; it was a combination attack!
“This kid is playing us?!” The Beast Hall Master stared intently at Li Mo on the city wall. He wasn’t too affected, mainly because it was the ordinary soldiers who were.
But to be honest, as a member of the Demon Sect, he had schemed against countless people in his life.
But adding Soft Muscle Powder to barbecue smoke, first using the barbecue to numb the enemy, then using the barbecue to numb the enemy again—what a devious trick...
He was truly seeing things in a new light.
“What a pity, even though this kid is our enemy, he’s indeed talented...”
“I told you, true odorlessness and tastelessness isn’t about having no smell; it’s about blending into the environment, making people suspicious.”
On the city wall, Li Mo raised an eyebrow at Huang Donglai.
Huang Donglai fell into deep thought, realizing that Li Mo had a point.
It was time to improve his theories on poison.
All his stock, along with the dozens of boxes of Soft Muscle Powder that Li Mo had bought, were used up in this one go.
“Commander Qu, from here on out, it’s going to be a tough battle.”
Li Mo turned back solemnly.
“......”
The soldiers wiped the sweat from their brows.
“Li Shaoxia has done enough.”
Qu Sheng gripped the hilt of his sword, wanting to take a deep breath but held back, shouting:
“Soldiers, the enemy has already fallen for Li Shaoxia’s brilliant scheme!”
“Brothers, behind us is Qingmu City. The witch tribes are cruel; if the city falls, they will surely massacre it, leaving no one alive. We have only one path: to hold out until the prince arrives to aid us.”
“Years ago, the prince fought alongside us, which is why we have today’s Qingmu City. Now, with both Li Shaoxia and the Ice Fairy, two prodigies here, do you have confidence?”
The soldiers inside the city walls erupted in a response like a tidal wave.
Meanwhile, below the city,
the last moments were finally dragged out by the Soft Muscle Powder.
Woo—
The great horn sounded, echoing through the heavens and the earth.
After a moment of chaos, the rear enemy troops, who were less affected, took on the task of storming the city, with a large number of siege vehicles and arrow towers pressing toward the city.
Boom—Boom—Boom—
On the city wall, the thunderous drums made from thunder beast hides roared, as if the heart of this massive city was pounding violently.
The sound of bowstrings being drawn was incessant.
A wave of powerful crossbows, infused with the inner energy of elite archers, transformed into a fierce wind, with astonishing penetrating power, capable of piercing even the enemy’s vine armor.
And the archers in the Divine Vision realm had divine intent manifesting behind them, making even the Inner Scene experts wary of their cold arrows.
Below, it turned into a scene of hellish carnage, with many enemy soldiers falling to the ground, trampled into mush by their own comrades.
In a short time, two thousand enemy soldiers had perished under the rain of arrows.
Yet their cries of agony were drowned out by the thunderous horn and the booming war drums.
It was their lives that accompanied the heavily armed siege equipment and the war witch spirit giants, slowly closing in on the city walls.
The warmth of life one moment, crushed into dust the next.
This is war.
“Their role is to die, using their lives to escort the siege equipment and war witch giants closer to the city walls.”
Still organizing the defense atop the city wall, Qu Sheng looked at the massive dark shadows approaching.
But his voice was lost in the cacophony of battle.
“The flying disaster beasts are coming!”
Wu Lang shouted.
This time, it wasn’t scouts; it was an elite force led by high-grade disaster beasts.
Their bloodline power was immense, capable of scattering a whole squad of soldiers.
If they were allowed to invade the city wall, they would disrupt the defenses, ruin the formation of the archers and other city defenses, creating an opening for the enemy troops and siege equipment below to attack.
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