bookrandom Chapter 242 The City Walls Shattered
Chapter 242 The City Walls Shattered
Zhong Ming quickly hid behind the wall. The shards of ice fell like a torrential rain, clanging and clattering incessantly. Although they didn't hit him, each collision with the hard city bricks produced a high-frequency sonic boom, repeatedly assaulting his eardrums.
The warriors on the city walls were having a hard time, and the merfolk weren't doing much better.
The city's defenders were no pushovers either. They added some special "ingredients" to the wind. These colorless and odorless "good stuff" dissolved instantly upon contact with the water. Immediately, the mermaids who breathed in the water felt a tingling sensation all over their bodies, their bodies felt light and airy, and their consciousness became hazy.
As the saying goes, when gods fight, mortals suffer. The battle was so fierce that it was basically divided into three battlefields.
The two Golden Core cultivators, possessing immense Daoist power, clashed fiercely amidst a great storm.
A group of Foundation Establishment cultivators fought each other in the air, while the merfolk tried to break into the city from the air and destroy the key aerial restrictions.
The Qi Refining stage cultivators, led by a small number of Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, launched a fierce attack on the city walls. They raced around the city, relentlessly attacking the weakest points in the city's defenses.
The difficulty lies in the fact that while they can concentrate their forces to launch rapid attacks, their defensive forces are scattered throughout the city, and no single force is sufficient to completely defend against the enemy.
The area where Zhong Ming was located was relatively better. After the initial probing, the main force of merfolk headed in other directions, and soon the area was filled with the sounds of battle.
After several battles, the cultivators in the city also joined the reserve force, recruiting cultivators with fast movement speed along the way and moving along the city wall. Wherever the main enemy force went, this force followed.
The war below suddenly turned into a marathon.
Merfolk are physically strong and have excellent endurance, giving them a significant advantage when their cultivation level is low. However, due to the limitations of their natural talents, most of them can only use water magic. Other coastal forces have prepared techniques to counter them, resulting in a shortage of high-level combat power and the clan barely surviving on the coast.
After venturing deep into the interior, they discovered that not every human could restrain their powerful spells.
The golden-core merman was overjoyed; it had been a long time since he had enjoyed such a satisfying magical exchange.
The opponent was very strong, and not in a way that allowed him to control himself. The two fought back and forth, locked in a fierce and evenly matched battle.
Zhong Ming was very bored, the kind of boredom where everyone around him seemed busy, but he had nothing to do.
The four of them were responsible for guarding a distance of about ten zhang (approximately 33 meters), which sounded quite difficult, but unfortunately the enemy did not attack.
They all hid below, throwing spells and bone arrows, but refused to climb up.
The winds and waters in the sky converged, turning into a torrential downpour, making it difficult to determine the exact time.
Occasionally, attacks from Foundation Establishment stage battles would land on the city walls, sending bricks and stones flying. Several times, injured Foundation Establishment stage merfolk fell onto the city walls, but they were all too far from the bell.
Yue Kaishan said in a muffled voice, "We're not going to just finish the mission like this, are we? We won't earn many military merit points that way."
"Be patient, you'll get what's coming to you when the fight breaks out."
The city wall beneath my feet trembled slightly, and I could see a rapid-mobility force running towards us in the distance.
It's unclear how many times this has happened, but they've been waiting with their weapons, waiting for the battle to begin.
Suddenly, just a few dozen feet away from them, a Foundation Establishment stage merman leaped onto the city wall, holding a bright blue-white sphere in his arms, and slammed it down hard on the city wall.
The group there hadn't fully reacted yet; the only monk turned his shield around, while the others hadn't looked in that direction.
In an instant, terrifying spiritual power erupted, and the dazzling light swallowed up one life after another. The merman opened and closed its mouth a few times, as if it were laughing heartily, and all the spiritual power condensed on the scales on its chest.
"Boom~~"
He came quickly and left even faster. All the scales on his chest shattered, and blood kept flowing out, leaving a bloody line in the air. His body flew straight towards the water curtain behind him.
A great achievement!
Just as he was enjoying the pain and feeling smug, an arrow suddenly arrived, as fast as if it had been teleported right in front of his face.
The merman's body cracked apart inch by inch, turning into fist-sized pieces in the air, which scattered across the battlefield littered with corpses.
The massive explosion blasted a large crater in the city wall, and several powerful merfolk rushed to the edge of the broken wall, forming a simple defensive formation. Each merfolk held a rare, enormous bone shield made from the bones of a giant sea monster, which was incredibly hard.
A group of Foundation Establishment stage merfolk were determined to cover their descendants' entry into the city.
Countless Qi Refining stage merfolk filed in through the abyss, out of sight of those on the city wall.
"Da Hai, quick, provide cover fire!"
Compared to the numerous Foundation Establishment stage cultivators who were hindering the rapid movement of the troops, this single Foundation Establishment stage merman who jumped up was far more deadly.
The four-man squad in front swallowed hard. A charred body and a shield with a large hole in it landed in front of them. The four men took several steps back, throwing talismans forward as if they were free.
"Idiot." Xuan Jing cursed and immediately flashed behind Yue Kaishan. "Cover me." He began to take out a large number of talismans and string them together in a special way. This was a secret technique taught to him by his master. The drawback was that if it was not thrown out within a few breaths after it was made, it would explode on its own.
It's like a time bomb that starts counting down as soon as it's finished.
Zhong Ming suddenly felt a sense of unease; they hadn't yet learned how to use military formations to fight the enemy.
The only option now is to quickly rush to the front and join the team next door...
The idea had barely formed when the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.
The powerful merman adjusted his position amidst the smoke of the explosion, rushed out quickly, and grabbed the nearest cultivator with his simple, unadorned hand. His speed was so fast that it was difficult for anyone to react.
In the blink of an eye, he grabbed a man by the neck. Spiritual energy coiled around his thick arm, and the fine scales rippled. With a forceful twist, before the necklace treasure around the human cultivator's neck could be activated, his neck was snapped.
Seeing this, his comrades had no time to mourn. They immediately adjusted their positions to form a three-person formation, with one casting a fireball spell and the other using vines to bind the enemy.
The two were an excellent combination, but the merman overcame all magic with sheer force. He punched out and scattered the fireball, casually tore off the vines, and his eyes sharpened. A strange chill slowly appeared, making the air momentarily still.
The group retreated step by step, their minds turning to retreat. According to military law, if there were not enough people in the formation to form an enemy of a higher realm, they would not be held responsible for retreating.
The Yunzhou army believed in the principle of "preserving people even if land is lost, then both people and land can be preserved; preserving land even if people are lost, then both people and land can be lost." They maintained their strength and waited for the great cultivators to arrive before launching a counterattack.