The Demonic World I designed
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170: Chapter 163: Kidnapped!

“Sir…

are you sure you want the entire army to retreat?”

Deputy General Lan Xiang looked at the other party in shock.

Earlier when the man asked for a private audience with his lord, he knew this guy wanted Duke to send reinforcements to Jiangnan.

He had considered the possibility of the Duke being convinced, for he knew his own general well — if asked who among the dukes of the great nations cared most for the common people, it would undoubtedly be his own lord.

If the other party argued for rescuing the common people of Jiangnan, there was a chance his lord would be persuaded.

Therefore, he had been waiting here early, ready to quickly allocate troops to the other party.

But what the man had actually requested was beyond his expectations.

The entire army?

In his mind, at most his lord would allocate ten thousand troops, or five thousand if being stingy.

What nonsense was this entire army?

And what did he mean by retreat?

Did that scholar even know how to use words correctly?

That term was reserved for a defeated army, wasn’t it?

“There’s no time to explain!” Wang Ye said gravely, “Please, General, take the order!”

“This…” Looking at the military token that was clearly not counterfeit, the Deputy General frowned deeply, but still said cautiously, “I will take the order, but given the gravity of the situation, I must confirm this with Duke himself!”

He didn’t believe the other party would dare to be so audacious.

After all, the Duke was just nearby, and such an easily exposed lie was meaningless.

Yet, for something so critical, it was still wiser to confirm.

“We don’t have the time…” Wang Ye shook his head, looking toward the southwest.

“Hmm?” Lan Xiang was startled, following the man’s gaze, and then felt the hairs on his body stand on end!

What was that?

A faint mist was coming, enveloping everything under the skies.

Within the fog, countless crimson eyes shone with a beastly and terrifying coldness, already surging toward them!

“Enemy attack!!”

War drums resounded in the distance.

The sudden appearance of the mist had caught the front-line soldiers off-guard before they could even react, engulfed by the fog, screams immediately spread throughout the camp.

“All troops, prepare!” Lan Xiang broke into a cold sweat and shouted loudly.

“General, we can’t fight!” Wang Ye immediately grabbed his shoulder, “Those monsters are coming with a Mist Magic Array.

Once we’re enveloped, our formation will be divided.

In the ensuing chaos, we would stand no chance.

General, you must be able to feel it, right?

The creatures attacking us are not ordinary undead.

They are incredibly terrifying monsters!”

Lan Xiang fell silent upon hearing this.

With his Jade Bat Bloodline, his sensing abilities were extremely strong, and he could feel from afar what kind of monstrosities those creatures were!

They were the Golden Dragon Guard!

The Golden Dragon Guard turned into monsters!

And the oppressive aura was unquestionably more than ten times more terrifying than any Golden Dragon Guard he had seen in the Capital City.

His instincts told him that their chances of victory in a direct clash were almost non-existent!!

“What is actually happening?

Do you know something?” Lan Xiang asked Wang Ye, his gaze ice-cold.

“The Imperial Court is in league with the sea monsters, resolute on eradicating the Duke of Qin’s lineage.

Minister Shen of the Ministry of War is the inside man.

I don’t have time to explain the details now, please, General, you must lead your men and follow me immediately!”

“And…

what about Duke?” When Lan Xiang heard that it was a setup by the Imperial Court, he was inclined to believe it to a great extent.

He was well aware of how insane Emperor Siao was.

Some things weren’t beyond him to do!

“The front has suffered heavy losses.

It’s not feasible for the Duke to retreat immediately.

He temporarily sent me here to ensure the safety of the Tian Family’s troops.

He will meet up with us afterward!”

“One last question…

why retreat to Jiangnan?

Why not go to West Sea City to regroup with Lumings?”

“The West Sea already has a hundred thousand soldiers deployed, and the Duke has judged that gathering everyone at the West Sea might be a trap.

It’s not wise to put all eggs in one basket.

If the General truly doesn’t believe me, then please go and confirm with the Duke immediately.

I’ll wait here for him to come.”

I’ll believe you when hell freezes over!

Lan Xiang, filled with indignation, knew the stakes were too high to leave in such chaos, especially with his seconds-in-command gone.

If he left too, it would be like dragons without a head, and holding the military token, the other party might just run off with his troops!

Seeing the terrifying roars getting closer, Lan Xiang finally gritted his teeth and ran to the rear camp, “All units, line up, retreat to Jiangnan!”

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“Dammit, what the hell is going on?”

At the southwestern frontline, two dukes with their Personal Soldiers’ bloodline fully unleashed were fighting fiercely, covered in blood, a brutally intense scene!

The assisting Tian Heng, with his bloodline activated, caused a sudden change in the landscape with a muffled bang, and hundreds of undead were blown away, giving the two retreating dukes a much-needed breather.

“Old Tian, what the hell is going on?

These monsters…

why are they wearing the Golden Dragon Guard’s armor?”

“They are the Golden Dragon Guard!” Tian Heng arrived with an extremely grim expression, knowing now why they had been deceived to move away the Duke of Qin!

So this was it?

Had the Imperial Court gone mad?

To exterminate these military families, they would stoop to such merciless tactics?

Three hundred thousand Golden Dragon Guard!!

But considering Emperor Siao’s ruthless and insane nature, this could very well be possible!

“We can’t fight!”

As one of the reputed generals of the time, rising from a minor family to the top echelons, Tian Heng judged the situation almost instantly!

The monsters were leading the charge with the mist following behind them.

Engaging in battle would drag them into the fog, and within the confines of the Mist Magic Array, whatever unknown factors existed were completely out of their ealm of knowledge, with no advantage of the terrain left.

The timing chosen by the other side was perfect.

They clearly knew all the deployment positions of their army, striking at the moment their troops were cooking, thus losing the advantage of natural conditions.

With natural conditions and terrain lost, a traitor within, and the Duke of Qin, a pinnacle combatant, absent, unity was not on their side.

Facing this battle head-on, their forces were likely to be completely wiped out!

“Retreat!” Tian Heng immediately dragged the two still eager to fight dukes back, “Immediately gather our men and withdraw to the West Sea!”

The two dukes, realizing the gravity, were about to act when a phoenix cry pierced the sky.

In an instant, a flame sword that could almost completely illuminate the night sky descended from above!

The flame of the Golden Crow?

Has that member of the Siao Family also arrived?

Two dukes roared in anger, withstanding the surge of their blood energy, forcibly catching that terrifying slash, and in an instant, they were both cleaved and sent flying a hundred meters away!

The overbearing power caused the location where the two dukes were knocked back to be engulfed in a sea of flames, where any soldier who was touched by it was burned to ash in just a few moments!

Tian Heng’s pupils shrank, naturally he didn’t dare to face that member of the Siao Family alone, albeit despising the person’s character, but he was very clear about the strength of that member of the Siao Family.

In today’s world, the pinnacle of warriors, unless the former King of Qin was resurrected, no one else under the heavens would be a match for that individual!

Tian Heng, forced to retreat to the other side, initially wanted to find an opportunity to join forces with the two dukes that were knocked away, assemble the strength of three and break through, but then he saw a very familiar figure appearing at the location where the two were knocked back.

“Dukes, this way!”

The familiar voice, with a buffering force, steadied the two flying dukes, allowing the two to relax a bit upon seeing who had come.

“Minister Shen!”

“Look ahead, don’t be scared, it’s not His Majesty who has come!”

The two were stunned, then turned their heads to see that, emerging from within the fierce flames of the Golden Crow, was a group of tall women clad in dark armor, their heroic figures striding out from the flames!

“Princess Chang?”

The two dukes had faces full of incredulous shock, but deep down they sighed a huge sigh of relief!

To be frank, without Luming present, facing the Emperor himself would mean they had barely any chance of victory, but with Princess Chang…

Although they also knew that Princess Chang was among the top warriors of the age, compared to that member of the Siao Family, there was still some distance!

There was a chance!

The two dukes exchanged glances, thinking about how to cooperate and capture the opposing side, when in the distance Tian Heng saw this scene and hurriedly bellowed, “Beware of that Shen!”

Almost the instant he saw that scene, Tian Heng knew, his two old friends had been outsmarted!

Who was the most suspect for leaking the military array?

Do they even need to say?

Obviously, it was the one who previously seemed most impartial, the Minister of War!

Indeed, at the next moment, they saw Fifth Master Shen sneer, his hand forming a technique, unveiling an incredibly mysterious force around him.

Suddenly, everything within a ten-meter radius seemed to slow down, the whirling dust, the flames, even the blowing wind all noticeably slowed!

Fifth Master Shen’s technique…

wasn’t it the Star Celestial Technique?

Tian Heng stared dumbfounded ahead, but clearly, it was already too late to investigate, because within the technique employed by the Minister of War, everything had slowed down, including the two dukes!

The dukes, now slower, obviously stood no chance against Princess Chang.

Even among peers of equal skill level, the dukes, slowed down nearly tenfold, were as insignificant as ants in the eyes of their opponent.

The flame blade flashed by extremely quickly, and without any resistance, the two dukes were cleaved into two halves!

The heads of two noble families, under such scheming, met their end so effortlessly, which once again made Tian Heng feel the terror of this world!

Without any hesitation, Tian Heng turned and fled!

Princess Chang, being among the top five warriors in the world, combined with Fifth Master Shen’s inexplicable technique, and now that his two old friends had been outwitted, he would have no chance of survival facing them alone!

The pressing matter now was to see how many personal soldiers he could lead to escape this catastrophe!

However, what was strange was that despite the battle having been so fierce for so long, why had none of his soldiers come over?

“Shall we pursue?”

Fifth Master Shen turned to Princess Chang and asked.

Princess Chang, with closed eyes, was stabilizing the raging blood energy within her body.

To mimic the Emperor, she had used her flame blade too domineeringly the first time, and then for the second strike, to behead with one blow, she had used her full strength.

The Siao Family’s cultivation technique was domineering but also harmful to the body.

In fact, if Tian Heng hadn’t been overly cautious, there might have been some chance of success if he had charged over then.

“No rush…” Princess Chang swallowed a mouthful of blood and said: “He can’t escape.

Have the West Sea been sealed off?”

“It’s already been sealed!”

“Good!”

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Tian Heng, with an extremely anxious heart, rushed over to his own military camp, only to see several deputy generals standing outside the camp, looking confused.

He immediately couldn’t hold back his anger, yelling from afar, “What are you still doing standing here?

Call the soldiers and retreat quickly!”

The deputy generals, hearing the order, looked towards their commanding officer, then glanced at the letter left by Lan Xiang in the camp, and after a long while, it dawned on them that Lan Xiang wasn’t joking?

Was the general really calling for a retreat?

“What are you dawdling for?” Tian Heng arrived before them, about to shout angrily but suddenly saw, the camp was completely empty, not a single soul in sight…

What was happening?

Tian Heng was stunned as well!

“General…

why didn’t you give us any heads-up about Lan Xiang’s retreat?” The leading deputy general, holding the letter, asked blankly.

Hearing this, Tian Heng’s eyes widened with fury, I haven’t received any notice at all!

He snatched the letter from the other’s hand.

He saw it roughly written: General, we have obeyed orders and retreated towards Jiangnan.

We hope you will join us as soon as possible!

It was Deputy General Lan Xiang’s handwriting!

Tian Heng looked down at the letter, reflecting on the recent events, he roughly understood what had happened…

My soldiers…

had been lured away by that youngster Wang Ye!!