Demon Sword Sect’s Undercover
Chapter 595 - 595 594 Undead Army 6

595: Chapter 594 Undead Army 6 595: Chapter 594 Undead Army 6 The battle suddenly erupted.

The Undead Army roared like a tsunami, unexpectedly not with chaotic, bounding attacks, but rather forming bone array chains in organized formations.

Although the formation was simple and the movement still somewhat chaotic, perhaps not achieving perfect unity, a formation was still a formation.

This was the first time human cultivators had seen another side of the undead creatures, indirectly proving that these beings were indeed organized.

The organization might still be primitive, but once formed, it would eventually mature.

A collective formation of seven thousand undead creatures, not to mention these beings, would be difficult for humans to fully exert their collective strength.

Regarding Arrays, this is an exceptionally profound area of knowledge, requiring adherence to the same Daoist lineage, a deep understanding of techniques, long-term intimate cooperation, as well as strict discipline, and the self-awareness to forsake individual gains for the group’s achievement.

Thus, the difficulty in forming small arrays is directly related to the number of people involved, the more people, the harder it is, the best scenario being managing the array single-handedly.

The notion that three people in an array can amplify the power of five, that ten can resist a hundred, and a hundred can dominate invincibly, and a thousand…

is very naive.

In fact, the more people there are, the more they interfere with each other.

The more there are, the worse it gets.

This situation would fundamentally change only once the cultivators reached the Nascent Transformation Realm and grasped the Great Dao Imagination.

If this is true for humans, all the more so for undead creatures, pure cultivation creatures driven by instinct.

If all seven thousand undead creatures were to form and engage in combat together, most of their power would likely be lost to internal friction.

An Array attack is a highly profound discipline.

The Undead Army only organized one large array because they were unable to coordinate multiple formations effectively; a single straightforward approach was better.

Not all undead creatures participated in the assault, only about two thousand in the front row engaged, while thousands behind them shouted and waved flags.

Shadows loomed heavy, and skeletons trembled in the air, as if tens of thousands of accountants were fiddling with abaci…

The Undead Army departed from its usual tactics, opting out of skirmishes for clustered bombardment instead, causing a truly unexpected turn of events.

But human cultivators were all too familiar with this form of combat, numbly familiar, merely curious how the opposite Undead Army suddenly bore a semblance to human Pill Cultivation.

For such an attack, they had plenty of ways to cope.

Hundreds of human cultivators released their techniques simultaneously, creating spectacular fireworks and loud noises as both sides’ attacks collided between their formations.

While the undead had the advantage of numbers, the human cultivators excelled in the sophistication of their techniques.

When the two forces collided, the Undead Army might have had a slight upper hand, but they were far from achieving a decisive breakthrough.

After the first collision of techniques, neither side paused nor changed their battle mode.

Both sides began exchanging fire, keeping the distance in check and seemingly unwilling to change tactics for the time being.

This was somewhat strange, but since the Undead Army fought this way, the human cultivators could only respond.

This is the nature of cannon exchanges; once started, it doesn’t stop easily.

Whoever seeks to change first loses.

In such a battle, Golden Core cultivators astonishingly found no role to play.

No monsters emerged to provoke, and humans, limited in number, certainly would not seek trouble themselves.

But something was very wrong!

Yu Zhengxing was very sharp.

“There’s something amiss here.

Who can tell me how many eyeless monsters are in the enemy camp?”

No wonder he couldn’t see clearly.

With seven thousand undead creatures, dim and indistinct, eyeless monsters blending among the many-eyed creatures, the aura was mixed.

If eyeless monsters didn’t reveal themselves actively, they were hard to differentiate.

Several human Golden Core cultivators couldn’t provide an accurate number, but one conjectured, “In the front row of the Undead Army’s formation, there are probably about thirty eyeless monsters in charge of coordination.

Given the characteristics of the undead creatures that they easily lapse into chaos without regulation, there must be at least seventy or eighty more eyeless monsters in the rear formation.

Combined, there are about a hundred, which aligns with the initial scout reports…”

Among the opposing armies, the only clear distinction they could make out was the group of eyeless monsters in the very front, coordinating the attack based on this.

However, Elder Brother Wan harbored doubts.

“This is the norm, but we can’t rule out unusual possibilities.

We’ve always regarded the undead as creatures of low intelligence, but now they’ve learned to deploy troops and form lines?

“If the opposite side were human, would you still think the same?”

Yu Zhengxing grew increasingly worried.

“If it were humans commanding on the other side, I’d definitely suspect they were employing deception!

Scouts reported tens of thousands of undead creatures; where did those three thousand go?

It might seem on the surface that the eyeless monsters in their formation are intact, but if those seventy or eighty have other destinations, we might not notice right away…

And the Undead Army’s unusually tactical combat style, it’s as if they’re stalling for time.

So, what are they waiting for?”

The Golden Core cultivators looked at each other, fear written across their faces, chorusing, “The Dark River underground!”

This was speculation, but everyone knew deep down that this speculation was very likely to be fact.

It came from the intuition of cultivators; when various coincidences accumulate, they no longer form a mere coincidence but a deliberate scheme.

Their battle with the Undead Army unfolded above the Protective Forest, and wars between cultivation creatures, unlike mortal wars, would not usually spread over the ground.

The result was a lack of awareness about underground conditions, especially under such intense fluctuations of spirit in the sky—who could pay attention to the movement in the Dark River dozens of feet below the desert?

To concentrate their forces, they hadn’t even deployed personnel in the Dark River.

After all, cultivators proficient in Earth Escape were extremely few…

A dilemma arose, where should the primary focus be between the two battlegrounds?

The absolute difference in numbers prevented them from covering all bases, attempting to be thorough in all aspects was the most foolish of tactics…

Several people turned their eyes to Yu Zhengxing, such a painful decision could only be made by him, as no one else could replace him,

Yu Zhengxing took a deep breath, knowing his gamble had failed; theoretically, if defeat was inevitable, then it should ensure the most critical aspect.

For humans, the most important thing was the Dark River underground; without it, there would be no future.

But the problem was that defending the Dark River was the most impractical.

If three thousand of the Undead Army were underground, along with dozens of Golden Core eyeless monsters, then sending too few people down would be utterly useless.

But how many of the current human cultivators were skilled in Earth Escape?

In the sky, every human cultivator could at least handle several undead creatures, the stronger ones even more.

But once underground, all advantages would vanish, resulting in a disastrous one-sided massacre.

He belonged to a faction of daring strategy, not one of foolish plays, and could not afford to misuse his precious human resources.