Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 570 - 460: A Desperate Struggle_1

Chapter 570: Chapter 460: A Desperate Struggle_1

When the golden flames spread, the numerous lamas and shamans among the troops were frantically using their mana to extinguish the flames.

They continuously churned the soil, burying all those ignition points into the ground.

Luckily, they were not in the air or on a ship filled with plenty of wood, and Zhang Guanlan’s Wind Suppression Tower suppressed the wind.

The so-called ’undying fire’ is a marvelous flame from above the ninth heaven. But in reality, it’s simply a fuel recipe similar to Menghuo Oil, owned exclusively by the Shenqi Union.

About thirty breaths later, the flames in the valley were finally extinguished.

However, at this time, not only were two thousand Mongol warriors killed by the exploding ’thousand Scatter Bombs’, but over a thousand people were tainted by the ’undying fire’. They either turned into torches and burned directly into ashes, or they were buried deep in the ground during the burning process.

"Beasts!"

Ashitiemuer’s eyes were bloodshot, his face filled with endless murderous intent.

In front of this Nankou Pass, nearly six thousand seven hundred of his seventy thousand Iron Cavalry had perished before they even started to attack the city. This pain and anger drove Ashitiemuer to the point of madness.

"Prince!" Zhang Guanlan looked worriedly towards Ashitiemuer, fearing that this ’Thousand Scatter Bomb’ would cause him to become fearful of battle.

However, Ashitiemuer retorted furiously: "Tell the left wing’s three ten-thousand household units, and the left wing’s four ten-thousand household units, to assault the walls immediately! The rest will provide arrow support."

He then gave Zhang Guanlan a cold look: "Is the Heavenly Master worried that this king will waver? This king is not a fool.

They probably don’t have many of these thousand Scatter Bombs, otherwise, they would have used them by now. Just four more rounds, and my entire army will collapse. In this battle, this king will take a gamble with you."

The saying ’the lenient cannot lead troops’ applies here, Ashitiemuer had prepared to lose over twenty thousand cavalry in this siege battle.

As long as they conquered this Nankou Pass, the Mongols would still anticipate a great victory.

They could rely on the Juyong Pass to the north and connect with the region of Tangshan to the south. His two uncles, Borayantimur Chrolus, and Mengwu Khan Borzigin Tuotuobuhua, and their seventeen ten-thousand Iron Cavalry, could create an unbeatable position.

Zhang Guanlan couldn’t help but admire him: "The prince’s perception is truly exceptional!"

At this time, in the mountains behind Nankou Pass, Li Xuan had transferred control of the super electromagnetic cannon to Leng Yurou.

"Yurou, it’s up to you now. Just aim it at where there are lots of people."

The Mongols were already set on giving their life in this fight, and the cannonballs from the super electromagnetic cannon could no longer determine the course of the battle.

The reason why these conical bullets could cause large wind blades was that Leng Yurou had drilled several curved holes in the bullets, which compressed the air during their high-speed flight.

But Zhang Guanlan took away the footing of the operation, directly suppressing the surrounding air and wind force with the Wind Suppression Tower, reducing the destructive power of these bullets.

Being a part of the ’Tianji Dihe Yin-Yang Knife’ and the Canjiang general responsible for the ’force of ten thousand armies’ in the Nankou Pass, Li Xuan could not be absent in the upcoming battle.

After Leng Yurou took over, she furrowed her brows: "But we don’t have many bullets left, I only have seven."

"It doesn’t have to be bullets." Li Xuan chuckled: "Anything that can be shot from this gun will do severe damage."

Li Xuan only regretted that the propulsion force of this super electromagnetic gun was too strong and the trajectory too straight, with a too slim firing plane resulting in the inability to use ’buckshot’.

Further to this, if he had four more ’Thousand Scatter Bombs’ or ’shattering shells’ specific for causing large-scale casualties, he could directly blow up the tens of thousands of Mongol Iron Cavalry.

Shattering shells, also known as blooming shells, as the name suggests, contain thousands of shots, just like a ’pomegranate’. Although it sounds similar to ’Thousand Scatter Bomb’, shattering shells mainly target area damage and are more lethal to humans and animals than ’Thousand Scatter Bomb’.

The problem is that the ’Thousand Scatter Bomb’ and ’blooming shells’ for the super electromagnetic gun are even harder to cast. The metal that can withstand a high speed of one hundred and fifty Machs without deforming or melting into vapor is rare in this world.

So all the bullets that Li Xuan fired earlier were solid.

The hollow structure of the ’Thousand Scatter Bomb’ and ’blooming shells’ makes the bullet production more difficult and demands more from the materials.

"Anything would work?" Leng Yurou thought so too. This isn’t an artillery shell with a range of three hundred miles. If the range and target are reduced to within fifty miles, the requirements for the bullet’s shape and material would be much simpler.

Given the super electromagnetic cannon’s strong propulsion, even the simplified metal jet can cause immense damage.

"Then there’s no need for these bullets, I’ll keep them for later."

"As you wish!"

Li Xuan shook his head slightly, wondering where he would need to use them in the future. Would the Imperial Court let such a significant weapon remain in his hands?

But he could sell them to the Imperial Court later.

Li Xuan then ascended into the sky and landed on the top of the Nankou Pass.

By the time he arrived, Jiang Yunqi and Yu Hongchang had already left the city to battle. They intended to destroy the three ’Giant Spirit Statues’ outside the city, but they were stopped by the opponents of the Heavenly position.

Aside from the man in the black Mapo hat, there was also a young lama in a red robe.

Li Xuan was well-acquainted with all fifteen of the heavenly level Mongwu people, and he instantly recognized Zongkabba, the ’Dharma King of the Longxiang Temple,’ with just one glance.

At the moment, the nine dragons and ten elephants controlled by Zongkabba roared in the air, pouring immense power into him. He launched a ferocious assault on Hongshang. A punch from him could shatter the void, a kick could split mountains and rivers, and his fierceness was akin to a mad elephant or a rampaging dragon.

Moreover, the three great Buddha wheels representing ’the four truths’, ’Prajna’, and ’Grandeur’ revolved around Zongkabba, making his defense nearly impregnable.

Zongkabba attained his heavenly position through external forces, and his combat strength was supposedly inferior to Honghsang, who had mastered the Extreme Yin and Yang Power.

But the legacy of Longxiang Temple was tremendously extensive, far surpassing another Dharma King, ’Luosang Zundanba.’ Zongkabba owned four holy implements of the Esoteric Sect and had received the consecration from seven generations of Longxiang Dharma Kings. His Wuyi was vast and powerful, surpassing many genuine heavenly-level individuals.

On the contrary, Hongshang hadn’t yet resolved the symptom of Yin-Yang Counterflow. Furthermore, having fought against Borayantimur in Shanhai Pass and Tangshan for seven shichen, she was now on the brink of her limits.

At this moment, under the fiercely surging offensive of ’Longxiang Dharma King’ Zongkabba, which was like waves or a mountain, Hongshang could only maintain a defensive stance. She had to rely on Jiang Yunqi’s intermittent assistance to barely hold on.

Jiang Yunqi’s enemy was also formidable. The black-clothed, bamboo-hat man’s evasion technique was exceptional. Moreover, he relentlessly expended his Zhenyuan, persistently splitting the void with the ’Thousand-Year God-Splitting Knife,’ disrupting Jiang Yunqi’s Superconductive Style.

This revealed the shortcomings of Jiang Yunqi, an early-rising heavenly level. Although he was able to suppress his opponent and consistently maintain an advantage in the battle, he couldn’t transform this advantage into a winning position.

The black-clothed, bamboo-hat man fought self-destructively, and Jiang Yunqi’s heavenly Zhenyuan – in both quantity and quality – was far inferior to his opponent.

This was a deficiency at the foundational level, which could only be compensated over time.

Looking at the area in front of the pass city, Li Xuan saw that tens of thousands of Mongwu Iron Cavalry were racing up a mound. They were densely packed like a cloud, fearlessly charging towards the city wall.

Although Xue Yunrou had been continuously suppressing them, making sure the height of the mound was always lower than the city wall by three zhang, this height was no longer a hurdle for the Dragon-blood Horses and Earth Dragons.

"Fire!"

With the command of Wang Yuan, the Youji General of Nankou Pass, a series of flames appeared on the city wall. Nine thousand flintlock rifles formed the dense rain of buckshot that reverberated with explosive sounds, and the gunpowder smoke from the gun barrel almost covered the whole wall.

The eight Red General cannons and twenty-four Hudun cannons on the city wall also simultaneously fired, spewing countless buckshot.

This caused the onslaught of the iron cavalry, who were akin to a swarm of locusts, to appear momentarily hammered by an invisible iron mallet. Their formation collapsed inward, and countless Mongwu knights fell off their horses.

However, this only momentarily halted their momentum before they charged towards the city wall again.

At this moment, the inadequate training of the city’s defending soldiers was exposed. Only three thousand soldiers could perform the second-round salvo under Wang Yuan’s command. The rest were satisfied if they could accurately load the gunpowder and bullets. They took advantage of the cover provided by the battlements and shot their guns randomly. Their firepower against the Mongwu cavalry had deteriorated significantly.

Moreover, in front of the seven li long wall of the Nankou Pass, numerous fourth-level powerhouses had started clashing.

The seven Wanhu of the Mongwu people, equivalent to seven fourth-levels, along with many formidable Wu cultivators formed the imposing spirit of ten thousand armies, putting immense pressure on every inch of the city wall.

At this moment, within the city capable of fighting against them were only Jade Qilin, Fumo Vajra, Kongque Qianji, Xuanchenzi, Yue Qianqian, and Zuo Daoxing comprising three humans, two creatures, and one beast. They were all fiercely engaging in battle against these Mongwu Wanhu, relying on the defensive array within the city.

Regrettably, the defensive array of the city could not provide much power at this moment, even turning the struggle of Zuo Daoxing, who held a false heavenly position, distressing.

Jade Qilin alone appeared leisurely and carefree. It condensed a layer of solid stone armor around its body, leaving the opponents powerless despite their relentless bombardment. It charged freely amongst the cavalry, leaving destruction in its wake.

"Begin!"

Luo Yan was already growing impatient. She knew that at this moment, the biggest threat to Nankou Pass was the three ’Giant Spirit Statues.’

Though they each possessed near heavenly-level power, they were mere snacks in front of a true heavenly-level. They could be easily disposed of. They were too colossal, not unlike the ’Multi-Arms Maitreya’. The latter might be wooden and seemed even clumsier with its thousand zhang tall figure and cross-legged stance, but it could grow thousands of arms from any part of its body, completely devoid of blind spots.

When these three ’Giant Spirit Statues’ are used in the battlefield, they become terrifyingly lethal weapons.

At this moment, the only ones capable of dealing with the three ’Giant Spirit Statues’ were Luo Yan and Li Xuan.

Without verbal communication, the two shared an understanding. With one shared desire, they each wielded a saber into the sky. The red saber light they each controlled crisscrossed, beheading all the heads of a ’Giant Spirit Statue’ and dropping them to the ground.

However, both of them harbored no intention to get entangled with the ’Giant Spirit Statues,’ and their dual red rays continued blazing straight towards Zhang Guanlan, the Heavenly Master Qianyuan.

That was the source of the ’Giant Spirit Statues’. Just by eliminating him, all the issues of the giant spirit statues, the mound, and even the Wind Suppression Tower could easily be dealt with.

Zhang Guanlan had already anticipated this and watched the sky with a sneer in his eyes, his gaze full of unrestrained killing intent.

Just at this instant, behind him, a disciple wearing purple gold Taoist attire suddenly took out a silver mirror and aimed it at the sky towards Luo Yan.

Boom!

With the shattering of the silver mirror, Luo Yan disappeared from the battlefield, having been teleported to another unknown location by the void.

Zhang Guanlan chuckled coldly. They were no match for the duo wielding the ’Tianji Dihe Yin-Yang Knife,’ but if they were willing to pay the price, it wouldn’t be hard to break this combined-saber technique.

For instance, right now, they had used up a supreme magical implement that had a remaining lifespan of three hundred years to teleport Luo Yan away to a place two hundred li away.

Just then, Zhang Tianyuan slowly drew his pair of long knives, his eyes filled with bloodlust, and even the nearby Ashtimur seemed invigorated, his battle spirit high.