Chapter 41

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Lixianghai unleashed a thunderbolt to collapse the wall of the stone fort.

As long as a breach was torn in the double-peak stone fort, the rebels would not be able to calmly throw rocks and logs down. However, among the six people who were entangled with Chen Qing and others' spirit swords, one suddenly raised his sword and shouted, "Brothers, remember to avenge me!" and leaped out of the wall to strike the thunderbolt as thick as a child's arm!

After leaping out of the wall, the next moment he was enveloped in blinding lightning, his body twisting and struggling in mid-air, and was soon blasted into a charred lump and fell to the ground...

Seeing this, Chen Hai remained silent for a while, inwardly feeling that no matter how high or refined a swordsman's martial arts were, they were still mere mortals, and ordinary flesh and blood could never withstand the heavenly lightning controlled by Lixianghai.

What moved Chen Hai even more was that he did not expect this person to leap out alone to prevent the wall from being destroyed, willing to sacrifice his life to block the heavenly lightning with his body.

Seeing this person die, the other five people on the wall seemed to be greatly stimulated, screaming and spitting blood onto their weapons, as if using some secret method to stimulate the essence and energy within their bodies, and fiercely attacked the spirit swords controlled by Chen Qing, Jie Wenzhuo, and Lu Hongqian.

With a series of "bangs," they attacked dozens of times in a blink, and the five people quickly exhausted their essence and energy, falling back to the wall. At this moment, Chen Qing, Jie Wenzhuo, and Lu Hongqian also did not look good, their three spirit swords wobbling several hundred meters away, seemingly about to fall off the cliff.

Chen Qing barely managed to收回念月灵剑, but she could not control her panting, probably not expecting to be forced to retreat by a few mere mortals.

Upon closer inspection, the 念月灵剑 had several grain-sized notches cut by these mere mortals, making her expression even uglier, unable to imagine how mere mortals could burst with such terrifying strength.

Seeing Chen Qing, Jie Wenzhuo, and Lu Hongqian retreat to the cliff to take elixirs and recover their true essence, Chen Hai quietly asked Shen Kun, "How many such wandering swordsmen do you think there are in Huanglong Abyss?"

The 5,000 troops of Yulong Prefecture were defeated by the rebels, with only a hundred or so escaping. Chen Hai had long suspected that such a large-scale annihilation battle was not something a mob could accomplish.

Seeing the performance of these six wandering swordsmen, Chen Hai's doubts grew even more. He felt that if there were a hundred or two such swordsmen among the hundreds of thousands of rebels, the cost of capturing the double-peak stone fort would be much greater than he had imagined. He thought he needed to be more cautious when charging into battle.

Moreover, every time the sect's dao soldiers broke a fort, they would slaughter all the rebels inside, leaving no survivors. This might force the rebels in Huanglong Abyss to fight to the death, meaning they would encounter even stronger resistance.

Regardless of what Chen Hai was thinking, the central army and the right flank army quickly advanced to the same height, and even the 400 dao soldiers of the vanguard stationed in place moved forward, seemingly waiting for the wall to be breached so they could rush in and annihilate the rebels, competing for battle achievements.

Chen Hai initially worried that there might be over a hundred wandering swordsmen hidden in the double-peak stone fort, but his fears did not materialize. When the central army, mainly composed of inner disciples and direct-line attendants, approached the double-peak stone fort, over a hundred spirit swords and magical treasures were unleashed, instantly cutting and chopping the wall, which was over ten meters high and as hard as metal, creating a breach several meters wide.

The remains of the rebel defenders, along with the fallen rocks, rolled down the stone slope.

At this moment, Chen Hai noticed Chen Qing, not far from him, frowning slightly. He also saw that after the wall was breached, the rebel defenders were in chaos, but he did not have time to ponder why Chen Qing was frowning. He followed the dao soldiers and martial troops of the left flank, leaping from behind the cliff, climbing the steep and slippery stone slope, and charging towards the double-peak stone fort.

In addition to Lixianghai frequently unleashing thunderbolts to strike the double-peak stone fort in Huanglong Abyss, the sect also had two other Mingqiao Realm elders leading the charge:

One of them controlled six spirit swords, forming a sword array around his body. Chanting mantras, the sword array unleashed waves of snow-white sword qi, like thunder striking the double-peak stone fort. Each wave of sword qi killed dozens or even hundreds of rebel soldiers.

The other elder activated a magical treasure in the shape of a seal, extracting threads of mystic cold yuan sha from the air, transforming them into thousands of ice spikes, covering the double-peak stone fort, with even greater destructive power.

Seeing this, Chen Hai was secretly alarmed, thinking that even if he cultivated his martial arts to the extreme, he might be able to match a Pili Realm disciple, but he could never face a Mingqiao Realm expert, who could sense the world with their mind, in direct combat.

The inner disciples and direct-line attendants, at this moment, unleashed over a hundred spirit swords and magical treasures, like a meat grinder, sweeping over the heads of the rebel defenders, taking lives.

By the time Chen Hai and the other dao soldiers and martial troops charged to the ruins of the double-peak stone fort in Huanglong Abyss, it took only thirty to forty seconds to see the fort filled with broken bodies and blood, with thousands of rebels mercilessly annihilated.

This could be called a massacre; the power of the sect's mystic cultivators was absolutely not something ordinary mortals could resist.

Although Chen Hai had already hunted forty-seven Raksha demons in the Blood Cloud Wasteland, seeing the bloodshed before him still made his stomach churn and his heart twitch; many dao soldier disciples, like him, had never truly been on a battlefield, and they all looked pale at the sight.

For a moment, no one was eager to rush into the slaughterhouse to chase the rebels who were either on their last breath or fleeing south.

Soon, Lixianghai and the other two Mingqiao Realm elders, along with the central army mainly composed of inner disciples, also rushed into the fort.

Seeing a large number of rebels fleeing through the southern gate of the double-peak stone fort to the other side of the Tianmen peaks in Huanglong Abyss, Lixianghai and the three Mingqiao Realm elders naturally would not let them off. They urged the left and right flank armies to clear the flanks and led the central army, composed of inner disciples, to quickly pass through the double-peak stone fort, planning to head towards the mountain lake of Huanglong Abyss...

At this moment, no one thought the rebels still posed a threat!

However, at this moment, Chen Hai saw Chen Qing, who had just entered the double-peak stone fort, frown deeply, as if enduring great pain, and stagger, almost tripping over a corpse. If not for Su Ziling's timely support, she would have fallen.

In addition to Chen Qing, Jie Wenzhuo and Lu Hongqian also frowned, their faces alternating between red and white.

Chen Hai did not know what was happening, but at this moment, he vaguely heard the sound of footsteps coming from deep within the mountains on both sides...

How strange! Chen Hai's hair stood on end.

If not for the fact that Chen Hai had recently killed forty-seven Raksha demons in the Blood Cloud Wasteland, using the blood refinement secret method to fuse their life essence, making his divine soul and will extremely powerful, and his five senses extremely sensitive, he would never have been able to hear these extremely faint footsteps amidst the chaotic cheers of slaughter.

The double-peak stone fort was sandwiched between two stone peaks, so if footsteps were coming from both sides, it meant that there were hidden troops in the caves of the two stone peaks...

Chen Hai's ears perked up, as if he could see thousands of rebels holding weapons rushing towards them.

It was a trap!

The real hidden troops were hiding in the caves of the stone peaks on both sides of the fort.

"Shen Kun, Ge Tong, there are hidden troops in the mountain!" Chen Hai waved his shield and spear, shouting to Shen Kun, Ge Tong, and others to join him and head towards Chen Qing.

"Yao Xing!" Zhou Jun did not hear clearly what Chen Hai was shouting, but he saw Chen Hai, Shen Kun, and Ge Tong inexplicably retreating, and shouted to stop them, as deserting the battlefield was a serious offense.

"Hidden troops, hidden troops!" Chen Hai raised his arm and shouted, warning the dao soldier disciples on both flanks to be alert and tighten their formation!

"Rubbish, what hidden troops!" Zhou Jun's left arm was hit by a rock and was bandaging his wound on the wall. He walked over to stop Chen Hai from disrupting the morale, but the next moment he saw the wall on the left front side making "cracking" sounds, and a crack opened like a giant door...

Thousands of neatly dressed rebel soldiers stood behind the crack.

Seeing this, Zhou Jun was terrified.

No matter how strong a Pili Realm disciple was, they could not withstand being hacked by thousands of blades, let alone he had not yet opened the secret palace of the spirit sea and officially entered the Pili Realm. He could only shout loudly to the other dao soldier disciples to gather around him, Chen Hai, Ge Tong, and Shen Kun.

Lixianghai and the three Mingqiao Realm elders, along with the inner disciples forming the central army, had not yet rushed out of the double-peak stone fort, but they had already unleashed their magical treasures and spirit swords to chase the rebels fleeing to the mountain lake of Huanglong Abyss. Seeing thousands of hidden troops emerging from the caves on both sides of the stone peaks, they were also terrified and quickly retracted their magical treasures and spirit swords.

At such close range and caught off guard, the left and right flank armies, which were spread out to protect the flanks, were in an unfavorable position...

The hidden troops in the caves on both sides of the stone fort looked like elite soldiers, mostly wearing armor and holding finely crafted swords, spears, and halberds, surging out like a tide—these were the weapons and armor seized from the local troops of Yulong Prefecture, and few had expected the rebels to use these seized weapons and armor to form a well-organized elite force.

This was not good news.

"Left and right flank armies, tighten the formation on both flanks!" Lixianghai, although not the highest-ranking among the three Mingqiao Realm elders, was the chief of the Iron Stream Ridge Dao Academy and also the chief of the Iron Stream Camp, and had more experience in dealing with sudden chaos.

At this moment, Lixianghai disregarded the hierarchy, gave a stern order, and raised his hand to unleash the Thunder Control Spirit Flag from his sleeve. Hundreds of thunderbolts shot out from the flag, forming two huge, crackling thunder nets that covered both flanks, blocking the hidden troops that had rushed out from the breached wall, preventing them from directly attacking the formation of the dao soldier disciples, buying time for the left and right flank armies to tighten their formation.

Lixianghai had previously killed rebels without restraint, using the Thunder Control Spirit Flag multiple times, and his true essence and magical power in the secret palace of the spirit sea were more than half depleted. At this moment, he did not know how many hidden troops were in the caves on both flanks, and he feared a real fierce battle was coming. He closely watched the movements on both flanks, reached into his chest, and took out a jade bottle, pouring out two pills and swallowing them.

When Lixianghai wanted to refine the pure yang energy of the two pills through his spirit meridians into true essence, his heart suddenly skipped a beat, and he felt his blood and qi reverse in his organs for a moment. Lixianghai did not think much about it and continued to refine the pill's energy, but something mysterious seemed to blend with the pill's energy and was refined through his spirit meridians into true essence, flowing into the secret palace of the spirit sea.

At this moment, the spirit sea, which was calm like a mountain lake, seemed to have a drop of water fall into a boiling pot of oil, and the true essence instantly boiled uncontrollably, rushing back into his spirit meridians...

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