Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 204 - 185: Mere Flour_1

Chapter 204: Chapter 185: Mere Flour_1

The test was successful. Li Yan and the others began to discuss battle strategies in earnest at the top of the city wall.

Li Yan first asked, "Is there a specific condition for the dust explosion? It can’t just explode as soon as it’s scattered, right?"

"Of course not."

Li Xuan shook his head and said, "The density of the flour is required, a minimum must be maintained for every——".

He was about to blurt out that every cubic meter of air should contain at least 9.7g of flour dust, but quickly realized it was inappropriate. Instead, he manipulated the Zhenyuan to throw up a portion of the flour, causing it to hang in the air.

"Roughly to this extent, it also can’t be too dense, we need to ensure there is sufficient air within it. Furthermore, a fairly enclosed space is needed. However, we can create some pressure within the range covered by the dust through wind control. Finally, there must be a source of ignition of sufficient heat."

"The destructive power of 1,900 stone of flour, if all scattered, can indeed cover the entire battlefield, even Mount Beigu."

With a look of difficulty, Su Zhaojun crossed her arms and said, "There’s a tricky part. Lin Ziyang is known as Master Feng. If this flour is scattered over there, even if he doesn’t take precautions, he will surely disperse it and won’t let the flour get close to his army."

"This indeed is a problem."

Li Yan nodded slightly, "But we also have a wind expert here, Li Xuan said Yangzhou Longjun will help this time."

"Wind and Water Spell are the basis of the dragon clan, and it is also the capital they rely on to move clouds and rain."

Shi Shishi knitted his brows slightly, "But this dragon king, can he suppress Lin Ziyang in controlling wind?"

Li Xuan thought for a while and then took out a specially made incense stick from his bosom, "Whether he can or not, we’ll know if we ask the dragon king."

With the incense stick burning, a cloud of smoke soon detaches into a Jiao Dragon with five claws, "You’re asking who is stronger in the ability to control the wind, me or Lin Ziyang? Of course, I’m stronger! Who does he think he is?"

"You want the wind to blow? Hah! Although I’m stronger, it’s only a very limited advantage. If he is about half a weight, I’m probably around ten teal (old unit of measure, sixteen teal to one weight). The problem is, today the wind is blowing from the west! I can blow it, but it will be very slow, probably forming a large tornado that will slowly blow towards the opposite side. Also, in the enemy army, aren’t there supposed to be two Maitreya Teaching’s Third Door Technique Masters?"

"More than that! There are more than ten from the Second Door."

Xue Yunrou nodded slightly, she had been fighting against the two mages all the while. Only due to the top-grade magical implement she had, and the consumption of many valuable top-grade talismans, could she barely maintain the situation.

"This is more difficult then." Yangzhou Longjun said with a wry smile, "Unless the current westerly wind can change to easterly or northerly wind, I guarantee that Lin Ziyang won’t find his way."

Li Yan and the others exchanged glances and all furrowed their brows without prior agreement, as the initial excitement gradually subsided.

Only Li Xuan was still stroking his chin, his eyes still shining brightly, "As long as we can hold it back, this strategy will mostly be successful. I have an idea now——"

Everyone present involuntarily looked at Li Xuan, and when Li Xuan spoke the following words, almost everyone’s eyes showed a renewed brightness.

"This plan can work!" Shi Shishi’s eyes expressed delight once again, "The problem is the cannons are relentless, also brother Li, once they and his wife get their hands on it, it’s difficult to avoid detonating the dust."

"That’s easy to handle, in the beginning we just need to control the density of the dust."

Li Yan slapped the parapet abruptly, "That’s what we’ll do! Time is pressing, let’s work out the details and start. We’ll have to ask the Dragon King to work hard next. Xiaowei Jiang, you have to let the captured get the flour out of the warehouse first!"

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About a quarter of an hour later, Lin Ziyang saw large clusters of white powder being scattered from the top of the walls of Tieweng City.

"Is that... flour?"

Lin Ziyang took a sniff of his nose and then looked puzzled, "What are they trying to do?"

Soon he saw the flour swept up, forming a large cloud of white smoke above the city walls of Tieweng City, gradually covering more than half of Tieweng City.

And as more and more dust was sprinkled, the coverage area of the white smoke was also gradually expanding.

"Could it be that they want to escape?" This was said by a man dressed in monk robes but with short hair. His chest was bare, tattooed with a swastika.

Lin Ziyang glanced at this Maitreya Teaching’s mage, then contemplated, "Possible! But they evidently underestimate me, Lin Ziyang."

He raised his hand and the originally gentle west wind suddenly became much stronger, instantly blowing away most of the white dust on the walls of Tieweng City.

But just then, a strong wind blew from the east. It was even stronger than theirs, forming a stalemate of the west wind above Tieweng City, and soon after, a huge white whirlwind was formed.

"Yangzhou Dragon King?"

Lin Ziyang’s eyes turned cold, his eyes only slightly open, "I wonder, he must have decided to oppose me, Lin—"

The Maitreya Teaching mage furrowed his brows, "They are still dispersing flour, the covered area is expanding."

Not only was the amount of flour in the sky increasing, but the white whirlwind was also expanding. It not only covered the whole Tieweng City, but also encased a good part of Beigu Mountain within it.

The speed at which the flour was being dispersed on the opposing side was extremely fast, enough to obstruct one’s vision.

At this moment, the cannons at the foot of the mountain had ceased firing, and the Mountain Spirits had stopped throwing rocks.

Partly because they could no longer see their targets clearly, and partly because the wind force was affecting their precision.

"But isn’t this situation a bit suspicious?" asked a Zhihui Tongzhi under Lin Ziyang’s command, "General, under such wind forces, ordinary people would find it difficult to move."

"Ordinary people might find it difficult to move, but the city is full of elite soldiers clad in heavy armor. With a few spells from a skilled mage, they can move freely."

The Maitreya Teaching mage pondered, "General, hesitation and indecision take their toll. But if you think there’s a risk, you can just let it be and wait until the wind ceases."

"The wind won’t stop anytime soon, even though the Yangzhou Longjun is a hollow shell. But his mana can support this for a day or two. We have nothing to fear, it’s merely flour."

Lin Ziyang chuckled, then pondered, "Get in touch with Ganlu Temple, tell them to focus on blocking Li Yan and the others’ retreat route. They don’t want to leave any openings, do they? Now that the flour is filling the sky and vision is obstructed, it’s the perfect opportunity for them to strike."

"Yes!" The Maitreya Teaching mage agreed, then asked, "What about Master Faxing’s conditions?"

"You just go ahead and agree to them."

Lin Ziyang chuckled again, "Give my orders, have the Dantu and Danyang Guards ready to ascend the mountain in full armor. Master Xuanye, can you manage a ’little Vedha Mantra’ for seven thousand? Tell Ye Daoquan to lead the team personally and bring some capable hands. And tell the Tiger Lord to send his monster soldiers to take a look."

His ’Spirit Eye’ had already noticed that there were no soldiers on the walls of Tieweng City.

He couldn’t see anything further away, as he was not a mage and the ’Spirit Eye’ of a Wu cultivator, even at his level, was limited.

"We can!" The Maitreya Teaching mage replied without hesitation, "But it will take some time."

He looked at the ever-expanding white whirlwind in front of him and said with certainty: "At most a quarter of an hour!"

He thought Zongbing Lin was very cautious. Although the refugees under his command were all strong and vigorous, and had been training for more than a month, they were still new to the army and their morale wasn’t solid.

Should they be ambushed in the whirlwind in which they were unable to see far, it was uncertain how these people would react.

And Dantu and Danyang Guards, two of the finest units in the Zhenjiang army, could make an appropriate response under any adverse situation.

As for Ye Daoquan, he was not only the Zhihuishi of the Danyang Guard but also a Wu Cultivator of the eighth house level, who was the most formidable general under Lin Ziyang’s command.

About a quarter of an hour later, a large golden light covered the formation of seven thousand elite soldiers.

Vedha was the protector Bodhisattva of Buddhism, one of the thirty-two Divine Generals under the Four Heavenly Kings. The ’little Veda Mantra’ of Buddhism could not only strengthen human power but also enhance humans’ resistance to hits, although it had a disadvantage of increasing one’s body weight considerably and made movement difficult.

However, in this wild wind, the side effect of the ’little Veda Mantra’ was no longer a downside, but an indispensable advantage.

The only thing was that the marching speed of these Zhenjiang elite soldiers had been slowed down considerably and their physical exhaustion had greatly increased. It had taken them nearly half a quarter of an hour to reach Tieweng City, which was located twenty meters up the mountain.

However, the ensuing message coming from the front made Lin Ziyang look puzzled: "No one is on the city wall? And no one in Tieweng City either?"

This was actually very normal and had not surprised Lin Ziyang.

If Li Yan and others decided to pull out completely, it was clearly best to remove everyone from the city.

What puzzled him was the message from Ganlu Temple. The naval ships that Li Yan brought over were still anchored by the shore, and they found no trace of the naval soldiers under Li Yan, or of Dantu Guards led by Shi Shishi.

This message was obviously contradictory to the situation inside Tieweng City, prompting Lin Ziyang to wonder whether people from the Ganlu Temple were deceiving him.

"I’ll go and check."

After briefly meditating, Lin Ziyang got up with vigor, flew off the back of the Earth Dragon, and headed straight into Tieweng City.

His reluctance to act before the city was breached was due to the repaired ’Shifang Tiebi Array’ in the city. He was worried that Li Yan and his wife’s desperate effort might backfire.

So he preferred to take some time to overcome the stubborn enemy with overwhelming momentum.

Before he gathered his troops by the canal and assembled a hundred thousand soldiers, Lin Ziyang was reluctant to take any injuries himself.

But now that Tieweng City was empty of people, and the ’Shifang Tiebi Array’ was no longer an obstacle, he had no reservations left.