Chapter 1012: Chapter 1006: The Wu Tribe… Is Attacking
With Highsun City’s logistical supplies stolen, the entire city was plunged into panic.
In just four short days, the most overwhelmed person in all of Highsun City was none other than City Lord Feng Tu.
The three cities of Deston Prefecture had always been strategic locations, serving as an important defensive line against the Wu tribe since ancient times.
Even in eras of peace, when Divinity Transformation experts from other prefectures rarely showed themselves, Deston Prefecture already had Void Refinement experts presiding as City Lords.
Feng Tu hailed from the military camps of the Northern Border.
At twenty thousand years old, having finally achieved the Void Refinement realm on the battlefield against the Northern Border Demon race, he had come here to enjoy a comfortable life.
He never expected to run into an era of a great war between the two races.
He had worked diligently and conscientiously, never suffering a loss at the hands of the Wu tribe, only to have his logistical supplies stolen by the Yun Clan’s Old Ancestor.
“Old bastard refusing to die, inviting wolves into the house… I’ll smash his damn head in!”
Inside the Li Clan’s Chamber of Commerce, Feng Tu faced the members of the Li Clan.
His usually youthful appearance, maintained through techniques of preserving youth, was filled with fury.
“I told him they were deserters, deserters!
That son of a bitch Ba Siyu raised a massive thief who stole my Highsun City’s treasury!
I’m completely finished this time.
I won’t be able to keep my official position, and the old comrades who fought alongside me in the Northern Border will laugh themselves to death at me!”
Feng Tu launched into a tirade of curses the moment he arrived, speaking without any filter.
The three Li Clan members looked at each other in dismay.
“At least Ba Siyu has a bit of a conscience, bringing out treasures to exchange for resources with your Azure Cloud Li Clan.”
Feng Tu took a fierce gulp of water, chattering endlessly. How did he look like a mid-stage Void Refinement mighty figure in the slightest?
“The battle at the Shadowfell Prefecture came suddenly, so only twenty percent of the people remain in the city.
They are all just merchants from various parts of the dynasty and local cultivators.
Once the supplies were stolen, half of them ran away again.
Right now, the troops I can deploy add up to no more than thirty thousand cultivators, and they are all just scattered stragglers.
I kept ten thousand soldiers in the city myself—they are the only immortal soldiers who have trained in array tactics.”
“Now we have Yun Hongcai wanting to devour Spiritual power and eat people, and even Bi Shihu’s whereabouts are unknown.
There are Wu tribesmen in all directions around the Central Plains. Who knows when they might attack? We’ll all be finished!”
Seeing Feng Tu’s furious appearance, Li Xinnian smiled.
“City Lord Feng, don’t be anxious. My clan’s Golden Toad Divine Palace is not entering the front-line battlefield; it is currently hurrying toward Highsun City.”
“You guys are still the reliable ones.” Feng Tu downed another gulp of tea.
“When will they arrive? Let me give you the bottom line: there are three other Void Refinement experts in the city, all of whom are my close friends.
We have a total of forty thousand immortal soldiers on full alert. Your Azure Cloud Army are experts at fighting the Wu tribe and haven’t slacked on their training for centuries.
Besides, the logistical supplies are being bought from your Li Clan anyway. When the time comes, I will follow your orders completely.”
“The Golden Toad Divine Palace is on the way. Sunfall City is in chaos, and the journey is long, so it will take a little time.”
Li Xinnian replied.
In Deston Prefecture, the clan was most familiar with this Feng Tu.
This was because wherever the Li Clan’s Chamber of Commerce was established, it would receive the protection of local experts; the backer of the Highsun City Chamber of Commerce was Feng Tu.
Li Xinnian exchanged a glance with his two elders.
The Golden Toad Divine Palace had waited in Sunfall City for two days.
What they were waiting for was for Bi Shihu and the Yun Clan members to take the initiative to attack during this great war, so they could catch them like turtles in a jar.
However, Yun Hongcai simply transformed from a clan’s Old Ancestor into a rogue cultivator.
The Void Refinement cultivators the Yun Clan had invited, whom the clan had been monitoring, vanished completely in the blink of an eye.
Bi Shihu truly lived up to his title as Marshal; he had concealed his tracks well in advance, making his ten thousand elite soldiers nearly impossible to trace.
The people of the Shadowfell Prefecture from back then might not have had other skills, but their methods of running away were absolutely top-tier.
Feng Tu had come here specifically to lay his cards on the table with the Li Clan members.
Seeing that the Li Clan members had matters to discuss, he stood up. “You three, since that’s the case, I will quietly await the Li Clan’s…”
But just as his words fell.
Everyone looked simultaneously out the window of the Chamber of Commerce.
In the cloudy sky, over a dozen cultivators were rushing over in a panic, their faces filled with terror as they shouted.
“The Wu tribe… is attacking!”
“They came from near our Deston Prefecture and suddenly appeared in our rear!”
At this moment, the experts of Highsun City, along with the reporting scout, hovered in the air, sending out their Primal Souls to investigate.
Under Feng Tu’s orders, Highsun City had already activated its grand defensive array.
The scout who discovered the intelligence had eyes filled with terror and disbelief.
“Three hundred thousand men.
Our rear has always been a strategic location; there are over a hundred scouts like me, specifically to guard against the Wu tribe intruding into the Central Plains.”
“Where these three hundred thousand men popped out from, we couldn’t find out.
My Lord, they… they are here! Out of over a hundred scouts, only the few of us managed to escape back!”
The scout’s voice trembled.
The expressions of the Li Clan members were extremely ugly.
Where this army came from, and how they managed to hide near Deston Prefecture to launch a sudden attack—none of that mattered anymore.
Hundreds of miles outside Highsun City, there were some villages that had long been evacuated.
Suddenly, fierce winds howled, and sand and dust flew into the air. A dense, oppressive shadow shattered the silence of the dilapidated villages.
The three hundred thousand-strong Wu tribe’s grand army blotted out the sky and covered the earth.
As they advanced rapidly, their footsteps sounded like rolling thunder, crushing the entire village to pieces.
The earth trembled.
The densely packed Wu tribesmen, all with towering physiques, roared as they charged toward Highsun City.
The Wu tribesmen beat animal skin war drums; it wouldn’t be long before the booming sound reached the entirety of Highsun City.
Their Wu Spiritual power was already prepared, and as the Wu tribesmen advanced, the mountain rocks, vegetation, and clouds were bent to their use.
“15 minutes, it will only take 15 minutes!”
Unlike Li Changsheng and Li Changyao, Li Xinnian had not experienced the era of the great war against the Wu tribe, nor had he seen the Wu tribesmen’s way of fighting.
The sky-filling dust and sand were like gathering dark clouds, growing increasingly massive.
Equally massive was the number of Wu tribesmen. Their Wu Spiritual power linked together.
Li Xinnian could even sense that the aggregation of their Wu Spiritual power was no different from a military array formation; his Void Refinement realm Spiritual power dared not clash with it directly.
“City Lord Feng, can the grand array in the city stop them?” Li Changsheng asked calmly.
“The city has a Grade 4 grand array, the Giant Spirit Divine Flame Array.
Even if it can’t stop them, it must! Otherwise, if they use their methods to turn this place into a forest and then dispatch the Wu tribe’s Body Integration mighty figures here, our army will be doomed!”
Feng Tu’s voice carried a tremble.
He was relatively fine, having fought the Demon race in the Northern Border, but the cultivators beside him were dead silent.
Feng Tu could hear their heavy breathing and rapid heartbeats, which inevitably made him nervous as well.
Feng Tu gritted his teeth and said, “The call for reinforcements has been sent out. Hold the line for seven days. Just seven days, and the experts from Sunfall City and Dawnspire City will definitely arrive!”
But just as his words fell, everyone’s expressions changed again.
They saw majestic Spiritual power booming on the other side of Highsun City.
The array formation Highsun City had just activated trembled, rippling like waves from a large stone dropped into a well.
Li Xinnian turned his head.
Gazing with his Primal Soul, he saw tens of thousands of soldiers flying through the air outside Highsun City.
Beneath the feet of these ten thousand immortal soldiers were spinning discs, which were also flying guillotines, emitting piercing sounds as they tore through the air.
“Bi Shihu!”
Feng Tu had already shouted angrily.
These were Bi Shihu’s most elite soldiers. All ten thousand immortal soldiers possessed the Spiritual artifact “Head Catcher,” which were the flying guillotines they used to ride the wind.
Bi Shihu could be seen sitting on the back of a giant black tiger.
This tiger had a pair of giant wings like those of a roc, two massive, ferocious fangs, and the tip of its tail was like a spiked heavy mace.
The tiger’s eyes glared angrily at Highsun City, and its roar made the immortal soldiers on the city walls turn pale.
Pagoda Ge Li, Tracker Cai Yongzhen, and Divine Archer Guan Mingxuan were all present.
Guan Mingxuan was currently maintaining the posture of having just drawn his bow, the afterglow of Spiritual power still lingering on his body; the fluctuation just now was clearly his doing.
Furthermore, there was a woman, also at the Void Refinement realm, who was looking admiringly at the awe-inspiring Bi Shihu.
Leading his three armies, Bi Shihu silently blocked the main gate, completely cutting off Highsun City’s escape route.
Yet, he merely looked calmly at the terrified cultivators inside Highsun City without making the slightest move.
“Defend Highsun City! The Wu tribesmen will not leave us a way out.
In order to turn the rear into a forest so their people can station themselves there, your lives are their greatest source of nourishment.
If you want to live, fight the Wu tribesmen with me!”
Truly worthy of someone hailing from the Northern Border, Feng Tu transmitted his voice using Spiritual power to summon everyone in Highsun City.
“Don’t even think about hiding. No matter what realm you are at, get your asses up on the city wall!
If I see a single person prioritizing their own life, I swear, I’ll be the first one to run for my life, and I’ll leave you all to die!!”
The words were harsh, but as soon as they were spoken, the originally panicked cultivators and even commoners in the city all scrambled out in a flurry.
Feng Tu had the ability to escape, but how many people present had the confidence to run for their lives?
“Granduncle.”
With the entire city in chaos, Li Xinnian suppressed the nervousness in his heart and looked at Li Changsheng.
Although his Granduncle had slept in the ancient tree for hundreds of years, Li Xinnian knew that no one understood the Wu tribe better than the elders of that era.
“Boom!”
The Wu Spiritual Power of the Wu tribesmen had already bombarded the grand array.
Highsun City’s Grade 4 array, the “Giant Spirit Divine Flame Array,” had already flared up.
Raging fires rose at the edges of the entire city, swallowing the long-range Wu Spiritual power launched by the Wu tribesmen and illuminating the whole city in a bright red glow.
Sitting in his wheelchair, Li Changsheng’s expression remained calm as he surveyed the surroundings in all directions.
“There is nowhere to run. Feng Tu’s Giant Spirit Divine Flame Array defends against the Wu tribe, but it also seals off the escape route for the people in the city.
This Feng Tu is not bad; while guarding against the Wu tribe, he is also guarding against us, cutting off our hope of fleeing.
Of course, I have the confidence to break open the array. We could escape, but the entire city would fall.”
“Brother, Xinnian wasn’t asking about that. What do we do now?”
Li Changyao stared intently at Bi Shihu in the rear.
“The Golden Toad Divine Palace will take at least three days to arrive. Feng Tu said to hold for seven days, but he won’t be able to hold it.
Twelve Void Refinement experts can break his array in less than a day.
Three hundred thousand Wu tribesmen are about to charge into Highsun City…”
Hundreds of years had passed, yet Li Changyao still remembered the ferocity of the Wu tribesmen.
When the Wu tribesmen invaded the Azure Cloud Region back then, it was an absolute massacre.
Enduring for decades, almost all the survivors in the Azure Cloud Region were experts.
They gradually imitated the Wu tribesmen, familiarizing themselves with heaven, earth, and nature to fight against them.
What about Highsun City? In Li Changyao’s eyes, they were just a bunch of rabbits.
“Highsun City cannot fall!”
Li Changyao clenched her fists tightly, a rare look of fear showing in her eyes.
“We can’t let them take Deston Prefecture. Brother, I… I don’t want to carry you on my back begging people for help everywhere ever again.”
Li Xinnian frowned.
“Mm.”
Li Changsheng let out a long, drawn-out sigh.
Back then, Changyao was still young, and he was asleep year-round. When the Wu tribe came, she carried him on her shoulders and went around begging for troops to save them.
They rushed about everywhere…
Those were not easy days.
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