Heavenly Dao Engine
Chapter 295 - 295 0238 Is It for Calcium Supplement_2

Chapter 295: Chapter 0238: Is It for Calcium Supplement_2? Chapter 295: Chapter 0238: Is It for Calcium Supplement_2? Qi Tian asked urgently: “Is there no other way then?”

“Sure, there is. Courage always emerges under great reward. As long as you, the commander, are willing to pay the price, not to mention scouting the Chi Di, even inviting a Gold Core powerhouse to kill all the generals of the Chi Di with one slap can be done. But you need to pay up. This is a matter of state affairs, are you going to dig into your own pocket to fund it?” Nie Xiaowei asked.

Qi Tian smirked, really not knowing how to answer Nie Xiaowei’s question. Out of options, he could only wave his hand, asking Nie Xiaowei and the others to leave for now. He needed to contemplate on how to arrange things.

About half an hour later, reconnoitres began to return to Tongmen West Pass one after another. They had found traces of the Chi Di army, who were less than twenty miles away from Tongmen West Pass.

Suddenly, the atmosphere at Tongmen West Pass became tense. Huang Zhiwei personally went up to the border wall for the final patrol, ensuring everything was in order.

Compared to the tense atmosphere, the cultivators led by Qi Tian seemed much more relaxed. Most of them were eager and ready, wishing they could immediately engage in a fight with the cultivators among the Chi Di, kill them, and seize their cultivation resources.

After some deliberation, Qi Tian decided to hold his troops back for the time being. The first wave of attack from the Chi Di was about to come, and it was deep into the night. It was dark and inconvenient to do anything. He decided to first hold out through the night before making further plans.

The Chi Di, possibly aware that preparations had been made at Tongmen West Pass, hastened their pace. After reaching Tongmen West Pass, they immediately launched a fierce attack.

The Chi Di were mentally prepared, equipped with all sorts of siege weapons. Among them, catapults posed the greatest threat to the city walls.

The Chi Di’s catapults were enormous, each one almost ten meters tall. The stones they launched were as big as small cars, whistling through the air. The sight of them would make anyone’s legs wobble.

At first, Qi Tian just stood inside Tongmen West Pass, looking out at the city wall. He watched a huge stone fly over and hit the city wall, creating a loud rumble. The impact killed a group of border guards, and immediately after, another stone flew over, blasting a chunk off the wall.

Qi Tian shook his head secretly. Each of these huge stones weighed at least a few thousand pounds. With the speed from the catapult fast enough that not even border guards could withstand it, let alone a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Stage. A cultivator at the first layer of Foundation Establishment would certainly be killed or severely injured once hit.

Zhang Lei was also participating in this kind of secular military siege for the first time. She stood beside Qi Tian with lingering fear, pulling his arm and saying, “Junior Brother, it’s too dangerous here, let’s retreat a bit.”

Qi Tian wasn’t afraid of these huge stones, but he didn’t plan to act tough either. Just as he was about to retreat, a huge stone suddenly flew over the city wall, heading right towards him and Zhang Lei.

“Watch out.” Zhang Lei shouted in surprise.

Qi Tian squinted his eyes, pulled Zhang Lei back, and then walked towards the stone. He suddenly threw a punch at the incoming stone.

Zhang Lei gasped in surprise, and then, to her astonishment, with a loud rumble, Qi Tian blasted the huge stone into pieces.

Zhang Lei was still in shock, but she was also greatly astonished as she looked at Qi Tian. She knew that Qi Tian was a formidable character, but she did not know that he was so potent that he was able to shatter a gigantic stone weighing thousands of pounds that had been launched by a catapult. It was simply not humanly possible.

Before Zhang Lei could even praise Qi Tian, she noticed something strange. Qi Tian suddenly crouched down to pick up a fragment from the boulder he had just smashed, a look of surprise crossing his face.

“Junior Brother, what’s the matter?” Zhang Lei quickly asked.

Qi Tian passed the stone in his hand to Zhang Lei, asking, “Senior Sister, can you please tell me if you recognize this type of stone?”

Zhang Lei took it, briefly examined it, and then shook her head, “Isn’t it just a regular stone?” As a pill refinement master, Zhang Lei had seen plenty of natural treasures, many of which were minerals.

A regular stone?” Qi Tian said, holding the stone with a frown. He felt these stones were very ordinary too. He could not sense any Spirit Qi from them, and based on the visual observation of the breaks, colors, and other features, they looked no different from ordinary rocks. The baffling part was that these stones aroused the interest, or appetite, of the Heavenly Dao Engine. It was transmitting to Qi Tian its desire to swallow these stones.

It was not a short period since Qi Tian had acquired the Heavenly Dao Engine, and he had fed all sorts of things to it as fuel. These things were varied, but they all had one thing in common — they all contained Spirit Qi. This was the first time the Heavenly Dao Engine showed interest in a stone without Spirit Qi.

For some reason, Qi Tian suddenly thought of chickens. Domesticated or wild chickens would eat small stones and other hard objects when feeding. There were two purposes for this – one was to grind difficult-to-digest food like corn kernels, and the other was to supplement calcium. Could it be that the Heavenly Dao Engine was eating these stones to supplement calcium?

This idea was wild, but Qi Tian knew one thing – the Heavenly Dao Engine was the foundation of his life. If it had needs, he had to make every effort to meet them, and if possible, understand the reason behind it.

Qi Tian didn’t have time to think too much. He asked Zhang Lei to stay under the city wall temporarily and lead the cultivators while he collected all the shattered boulders and put them into the Storage Bag before running towards the city wall.

Zhang Lei didn’t know what Qi Tian was up to. Before she let him go, she could only remind him to be careful.

Qi Tian quickly climbed the city wall and found that the defenders were all hiding behind the crenels. The huge stones launched by the Chi Di people’s catapults kept them from even raising their heads. The alleyway on the city wall was in a mess, with broken city defense equipment everywhere, along with a few unlucky defenders’ corpses.

Qi Tian found that the Heavenly Dao Engine was also interested in the broken boulders. He hurriedly collected these fragments into his Storage Bag. However, the number of boulders launched by the Chi Di people was too large, and Qi Tian’s Storage Bags were quickly filled. But it didn’t matter, Qi Tian had plenty of Storage Bags. He took out a few more and continued to collect the fragments of the boulders.

As he collected the fragments, he carefully dodged the incoming huge stones. The defenders, all hiding behind the crenels, were puzzled by Qi Tian’s fearless behavior. Some even shouted at him to take cover.

The Chi Di people didn’t use the catapult for a long time, approximately half an hour, during which they launched about three hundred boulders. Though this type of siege weapon was effective, it put great pressure on the Chi Di people’s logisticians. After all, each boulder weighed thousands of pounds and was difficult to transport. Being able to deliver three hundred boulders was already quite impressive.

Seeing the Chi Di people stop launching the boulders, Huang Zhiwei immediately stood up from behind a crenel, instructing everyone to prepare for the confrontation.