Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 1039 - 647: Showdown_2

Chapter 1039: Chapter 647: Showdown_2

The city defense heavy equipment is designed to target high-rank cultivators and other high-value targets, but the cultivation of the operators is generally so low that they can’t even see the clothing hems of high-rank cultivators. So, during combat, a part of the formation’s authority is granted to them for aiming.

"Tap...."

"Tap...."

"Tap...."

Inside the city chaos, the city walls remain silent, the footsteps echo.

After a few breaths,

the stature of General Liu suddenly halted.

He realized something seemed off.

Something was wrong with the sound.

The faint tapping wasn’t his footsteps but came from behind him.

A sense of doubt rose in his heart, and General Liu instinctively turned his gaze toward the city tower.

Then,

his pupils suddenly contracted.

In his field of vision,

Li Mazi had already rotated the heavy bed crossbow 180 degrees, aiming it inside the city.

What does it mean?

His brain, which usually turns fast, suddenly crashed at this moment, but his body instinctively moved.

He broke into the fastest speed in his life, rushing toward the city tower.

He didn’t know why Li Mazi turned the crossbow but knew this heavy weapon must not fire inside the city!

The cultivation technique began to operate,

his soldiers, after receiving the signal, responded quickly.

Their speed sharply increased at this moment.

The sound of wind and the humming of the crossbow charging reached his ears together, the city tower grew closer in his sight, but everything seemed too late.

And at this moment,

a shadow, so fast it was almost invisible, suddenly swept past him from below the city tower, arriving almost instantly in front of the crossbow that was about to fire.

In the next instant,

the Jade Sword was unsheathed.

"Swoosh——"

A familiar head flew off before General Liu’s eyes, falling with a "thud," rolling to his feet, and crimson blood drew an arc on the ground.

Time, which seemed to halt, began to flow again at this moment. General Liu looked at Li Mazi’s head, then at the ghostly swift figure.

Zhou Chen, wiping the bloodstains from the Jade Sword, glanced at the garrison general below and said calmly:

"This person betrayed the country, take it as a warning."

After saying this, he quickly sped towards the next location, leaving General Liu standing there stunned.

A few breaths later,

General Liu seemed to awaken from a dream, his eyes lowered in sorrow, and he punched the battlements.

He couldn’t understand why Li Mazi betrayed.

Nor did he understand why that high-rank cultivator seemed to have known about Li Mazi’s betrayal beforehand.

When he looked up again, he saw a scene he would never forget.

The city tower stood tall on the stretch of city walls, now lit up with dots of light, aligning like stars.

Under the gaze of the garrison general Liu, many of the lit-up points quickly dimmed, but at the same time, many points shot into Zhenxi Prefecture City faster than he could see.

As a garrison general, he clearly understood what those points represented.

But as a garrison general, he didn’t understand what Zhenxi Prefecture City was about to face?

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When the walls were changing, Xu Yuanzheng was being swept quickly along the low altitude by Sizi Jing, but almost simultaneously, Sizi Jing noticed something unusual.

The cultivation of Mortal Transcendence allowed him to clearly see everything happening on the city tower, but the long distance made it impossible for him to handle it promptly.

Seeing everything over there, Sizi Jing subconsciously cursed:

"What is Huang Shiwei, that useless man, doing on the city walls?! Hurry and kill those who are operating the crossbows!"

Upon hearing this, Xu Yuan immediately looked towards the city walls, his cultivation technique began operating, and a slight dread arose in his heart as the faintly visible light points entered his sight.

He had considered that the sect’s insiders within the prefecture city would use city defense heavy equipment to assassinate him and had made arrangements ahead of time, but he truly hadn’t expected to see a scene where most of Zhenxi Prefecture City’s heavy equipment aimed at him alone...

"Third Young Master.... Mr. Wen once said the entire Zhenxi Prefecture is ours; what do you have to fight me?"

As thoughts raced through his mind, a gentle laughing female voice suddenly rang up from the block below: "Does this return gift from Mr. Wen satisfy you?"

The Wen Surname Confucian Scholar?

Upon hearing this voice, Xu Yuan instinctively responded by looking towards it, and at the end of the voice, a mediocre-looking woman was smilingly gazing at the sky.

Her cultivation was not high, only Soul Condensation.

Before she could speak again, an energy mechanism shot out from Sizi Jing’s palm, peculiar patterns instantly appeared on the woman’s face.

In the next moment,

the voiced woman’s figure collapsed as quickly as tofu, captured by Sizi Jing in mid-air.

Seeing this scene, Xu Yuan swiftly thought and quickly said without any hesitation:

"This is an avatar, just kill her."

"Bang!"

Flesh and blood splattered towards the ground.

Almost simultaneously with the woman’s death, the first crystal giant arrow from the city wall charged towards the two speeding individuals at low altitude.

Sizi Jing stood in mid-air, a talisman condensed in the void, blocking the path of the giant arrow, but it only delayed the crystal giant arrow for an instant.

The city defense heavy equipment is meant to kill high-rank cultivators!

The sharp arrow is engraved with demon-breaking patterns, ordinary spells dissipate upon contact.

Knowing this, Sizi Jing’s talisman was aimed for this momentary delay.

In a fleeting moment,

traces of purple patterns already clung to his right hand, and he swung this hand towards the arrow’s edge.

"Boom——"

A strong shock wave spread from the sky, and merely the aftermath leveled half a city block below, at the cost of Sizi Jing’s half missing forearm.

Sizi Jing kept pondering countermeasures, his urgency almost spilling from his eyes.

What to do?

Now the Qilin Wolf guards the Commandery Princess and the Great Desert Goddess in the government office, they can’t come in time.

Huang Shiwei was pre-arranged by the Third Young Master to handle potential traitors on the city walls, but now it seems almost all garrison generals have rebelled, they can’t be dealt with in a short time.

And he, being a law cultivator, whose cultivated techniques specialize in stealth assassination, these city defense heavy equipment are virtually his bane, even if the Dao Domain unfolds, it can be pierced by these crystal giant arrows.

The only hope might be the Commandery Princess in the government office discovering changes on the city wall.

Although judging by the formation patterns, it’s too late to reclaim control over the rebellious garrison generals, but it is possible to manipulate the city defense array to block the bombardment of these city defense heavy equipment.

Sizi Jing glanced at the heavenly canopy, layers of ripples slowly emerged on it.

It seems the Commandery Princess has already responded, but using the city defense formation to form a shield also takes time, unless the city defense formation directly blows up those array pattern ballistae.

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Government Office, Military Hub Hall.

"Get lost, Jin Shaoxiu, do you want to die?!"

Li Junwu’s angry roar resounded both inside and out, trying to jerk free from the other’s wrist grip: "We must destroy those crossbows immediately, or Xu Yuan is doomed!"

The older general with the surname Jin not only didn’t let go of his grip but increased his strength, disrupting the energy mechanism within the opponent, also shouting loudly:

"Commandery Princess, with your temperament, how will you bear the future of millions in Zhenxi Prefecture?!

"Zhan Xian’an and Lu Bozou are both dead, there’s no one in the city with the cultivation to take command of the town’s troops, if we destroy all those crossbows, what will we use to counter the six attacking Saints?!

"You’ve already sent the Qilin Wolf, and the Third Young Master surely has other cards up his sleeve!"

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"Boom!!!"

Another explosion echoed in the sky, this time Sizi Jing’s entire right arm was gone.

Looking at Sizi Jing shielding him, Xu Yuan couldn’t help but furrow his brows.

These two attacks from the crystal giant arrows made a doubt rise in his heart.

With the power of city defense heavy equipment, if they fired in a full volley, Sizi Jing, even if dying and dao dissipated, couldn’t withstand it.

If the Wen Surname Confucian Scholar chose to activate this trump card simultaneously, the traitorous garrison generals Huang Shiwei could handle would drop to a negligible level.

At that time, the volleys from dozens of ballistae can almost ensure a kill against Xu Yuan instantly.

Sizi Jing could not hold.

With this quantity and power, even if the Qilin Wolf came, he would have a hard time.

Glimpsing at the female avatar who was blown into blood earlier, Xu Yuan had basically realized the other party’s intent.

This act of the Wen Surname Confucian Scholar wasn’t to kill him but to force him to reveal his trump card for self-rescue before the battle.

To put it more bluntly,

the target was the Dao Domain from that time of Tian Ye!