Shennong Dao Master
Chapter 422 - 38: Capturing Fire Dragon Pass, Military Realm’s Battle Achievement Assessment (6K)_3

Chapter 422: Chapter 38: Capturing Fire Dragon Pass, Military Realm’s Battle Achievement Assessment (6K)_3

The entire city vaulted into the sky, soaring a hundred meters high in an instant, and then Pang Guangyao watched in horror as it disintegrated in a blink, disappearing completely.

Gone without a trace, not a single fragment remained!

Only then did a blinding light burst forth from where Round Moon City once stood.

The intense light forced Pang Guangyao to raise his hand instinctively to shield his eyes.

The shockwave visibly swept through the surroundings.

A mushroom cloud rose, and the ground seemed to boil, the earth surging like ocean waves in all directions.

"What?!" Pang Guangyao was taken aback and immediately retreated, soaring higher into the air.

"Boom!"

He heard a massive blast only after a shockwave rushed through the mountains and forests.

"Sssss~"

"Rumble~"

"Crackle~"

It was then that Pang Guangyao saw the shockwave had flung the trees below into the air.

The shockwave carried flames, instantly igniting the forest.

The sounds of burning, exploding, and shouting orders mixed together.

Dumbstruck, Pang Guangyao followed "Xia Jing" in retreat.

The vanguard camp had three hastily assembled makeshift Flying Boats, each capable of carrying a thousand people.

At that moment, the three Flying Boats were like candles in the wind, swaying violently.

They hadn’t flown far before they crashed harshly to the ground.

Fortunately, they were far enough away for the shockwave’s power to have significantly weakened.

The Flying Boats did not fall apart.

Pang Guangyao flew beside "Xia Jing", shouting loudly, "Princely Heir, what on earth happened!"

"Round Moon City, how is it just... gone?"

Zhao Xing looked toward the vanished Round Moon City, his heart had also been in turmoil just now, but he still spoke calmly, "As you see, we blew it up."

"Blew it up?" Pang Guangyao couldn’t fathom Zhao Xing’s words.

How could a mechanical city spanning a hundred thousand acres simply be blown up?

Chen Shijie watched the scene ahead with lingering fear.

"Damn, we really have to test the Firecrackers more in different terrains in the future; the quantity this time was too much."

The effect of these Firecrackers was extraordinarily good!

First, the Firecrackers Zhao Xing cultivated were all Fifth-tier Firecrackers, inherently a notch above those Chen Shijie had used before, mostly top-quality, with only a few of average or lower quality.

Second, Round Moon City sat atop a fire vein, drawing on the Earth Fire.

Third, due to Hope and others cutting corners, the Firecrackers’ power wasn’t contained by the city’s defensive Array and was fully unleashed.

Expecting the worst, Chen Shijie and Zhao Xing had thought too highly of Round Moon City’s strength when formulating the plan.

So they prepared an excessive amount of Firecrackers.

All these factors combined to create the result they were witnessing now.

Round Moon City and the dozens of fortresses surrounding it were obliterated in this single explosion.

Not even stones were left; they had melted away.

If they had not made a swift retreat after sensing something was amiss, their own forces might have sustained considerable losses in the explosion.

"Yeah, we’ll need to use less in the future," Zhao Xing also replied.

This event had conclusively cured both of their concerns about insufficient firepower.

Next time, they would need to allocate quantities more carefully.

"Princely Heir, who... who exactly are you?" Pang Guangyao couldn’t help but ask as he now looked at Zhao Xing as one would a demon.

With a mere flip of his hand, Round Moon City was gone, instilling a deep fear in Pang Guangyao.

What kind of person had he been following?

"Now that things have come to this, there’s no need for me to keep it from you any longer," Zhao Xing clapped his hands, stood up, "Before you stands Zhao Xing, Nine-section Captain of the Great Zhou Divine Might Army, belonging to the Nine-Section Camp under the command of Capital Commandant Liao Rulong of Divine Might Army’s Ninth Vertical."

"Divine Might Army?" Pang Guangyao was dumbfounded, realizing he had indeed boarded the wrong ’ship’!

"But one thing I didn’t deceive you about, I do have a connection with Xia Jing, he’s a life-and-death friend of mine. We trained together in Ten Suns Cave Heaven, and this time our forces fought side by side," Zhao Xing continued.

"The promise I made to you is as good as one made by Xia Jing. The Minotaur that delivered your message, wasn’t his name Ye Chongxian?"

Pang Guangyao nodded in agreement.

He did indeed know Ye Chongxian’s real name.

"That settles it then." Zhao Xing looked toward the Gang Wind Layer lighting up the sky with streaks of lightning, a slight smile on his face as he came over and patted Pang Guangyao’s shoulder, "General Pang, our arm

ies will soon breach the defenses. Whether you can truly claim the title of a Great Zhou General rests on your shoulders."

...

On September 16th, the Divine Might Army, Xuanjia Army, and Zhenhai Army closed in on Fire Dragon Pass.

What was thought to be a suicidal assault by these Great Zhou troops turned on its head when suddenly, the southern section of Fire Dragon Pass erupted with an earth-shaking blast.

The Array unexpectedly failed for a full eight hours!

Liao Rulong’s Unit led the charge with the Dragon Head Tower Ship breaking through the pass, and five thousand soldiers ascended the kilometer-high Fire Dragon Pass.

The commander defending the pass, Yue Hai Sheng, hurriedly went to supervise the battle, leading ten thousand barbarian soldiers trying to extinguish the enemy and ordering the repair of the Arrays inside and outside the pass.

The fierce fight lasted less than half an hour.

Then, one by one, the Arrays at the North Pass Mountain section of the pass also failed.

The overall effectiveness of the Gate Defense Array dropped to its lowest in almost two centuries.

Zhenhai Army’s hundreds of warships reached above Fire Dragon Pass unobstructed.

Netherflame Warships, Three-leaf Warships, Dragon Head Tower Ships...

Destroying God Crossbows, Spirit-breaking Crossbow Carts, Returning Spirit Shield Carriages, Heavy Water Catapults, Heavenly Net Array... Great Zhou’s pinnacle of craftsmanship intensely bombarded the Gate Defense Array.

The barrier grew dim and in an instant, rendered Fire Dragon Pass’s Gate Defense Array entirely ineffective.

Wen Shaoyang’s Division of the Great Halberd Soldier Camp, along with the Xuanjia Army’s Dragon Rider Camp, followed Liao Rulong’s Unit in rapid succession to take the pass.