The Dragon Boat glided slowly at a low altitude, countless spirit crystal cannons continuously spitting fire. This Dragon Boat was extremely expensive and consumed a great deal. It was said that a single salvo from the spirit crystal cannons cost over a thousand Qing Fu coins. Fortunately, the Snow Domain Heavenly Pond possessed a large spirit crystal mine, and the Mo Family's ancestral home constantly gifted spirit crystals to the Snow Domain Heavenly Pond, thus supporting such expenditures.
On both sides of the Dragon Boat, the great Sword Immortals Xu Zhi and Huang Ting Yu flew low, their swords held aloft, casting streaks of sword light onto the battlefield. However, the demons' resistance was quite fierce. Swarms of cultivators rushed to the battlefield, using sorcery to annihilate the Snow Domain cavalry. Feng Quan's Tenth Army Camp was an outstanding unit among the demon army camps, with formidable combat strength. Many battalions refused to retreat even in the face of death, and units of tens of thousands were annihilated one by one by the Snow Domain cavalry. This led even Lin Zhao to feel surprised that he, leading thirty thousand cavalry, a Dragon Boat, and a group of cultivators above the Fifth Realm, had suffered heavy losses without even seeing the Rock Army.
This time, they had indeed underestimated the strength of these demon army camps.
Furthermore, in addition to the Tenth Army Camp, Shi Jun Gang had also recalled the Ninth Army Camp, which was heading south. With the Ninth Army Camp's reinforcements, the Tenth Army Camp seemed to have come back to life, resisting to the death. Coupled with the relentless siege of nearly a hundred thousand troops from the Sixth Army Camp, the pressure on the Snow Domain Legion was exceptionally immense.
Lin Zhao looked up at the sky, vaguely sensing that Xu Zhi and Huang Ting Yu were getting tired from continuously swinging their swords. Although they were Sword Cultivators of the Twelfth Realm, they couldn't withstand such intense consumption. Four army camps with seven to eight hundred thousand soldiers couldn't be killed by personal strength alone.
"Xiao Ke."
Lin Zhao gently flicked his sleeve and said, "Can you still fight?"
From within his sleeve, the little green snake wriggled its body and said with conviction, "If Young Master Lin Zhao thinks you can fight, then you can fight! Xiao Ke is willing to go through fire and water for Young Master, without any hesitation!"
"Then let's fight again!"
Lin Zhao said in a deep voice, "Help me break through the Tenth Army Camp's encampment, and we can rendezvous with the Rock Army!"
"Alright, leave it to Xiao Ke!"
The next moment, the monstrous body of a Thirteenth Realm Flood Dragon erupted from the ground once more. Lin Zhao stood atop the head of this Thirteenth Realm Flood Dragon, his left hand gripping its single horn, his right hand holding the Li Quan sword. He pointed the blade forward and shouted, "Snow Domain Legion, follow me forward, carve a path through them, and rendezvous with the Rock Army!"
"Yes, my lord!"
Everyone was fighting arduously. Many Snow Domain cavalrymen watched their companions of many years fall one by one into pools of blood. Many died gruesome deaths, impaled on sharpened stakes in pit traps, lifted into the air by barbed spears during charges, or bisected by a single slash from a demon of the Middle Fifth Realm. Their various deaths were unspeakable. When they were at the Snow Domain Heavenly Pond, they had achieved so many victories that everyone felt like they were invincible after becoming Snow Domain cavalry. But this battle had thoroughly awakened them. The demons were ferocious and cruel, their combat strength unimaginable. If human armored soldiers couldn't conquer their inner demons, overcome their fear, and unleash power beyond their limits, they couldn't even talk about killing demons.
Now, Lin Zhao's roar pointed the way forward, and countless Snow Domain cavalrymen rallied their spirits, all charging forward fiercely.
Xiao Ke slithered forward, unleashing various sorceries that bombarded the demon positions. He had now firmly decided to follow the Lady and the Young Master. He had killed so many demons, even swallowing the commander of the Eleventh Army Camp, a Great Demon of the Eleventh Realm, whole. The Demon Ancestral Mountain would surely remember this account. There was no turning back, so he might as well kill to his heart's content. As a member of the human race, he, Xiao Ke, was willing to shed his blood for the human world!
In the night sky, a radiance suddenly erupted, like a golden thread piercing the wind and arriving directly at Xiao Ke's head.
"Huh?"
Xiao Ke looked up, his gaze falling upon a figure that had vanished into the night. The figure wore a green dress, held a green umbrella, and had already fled after unleashing a sword strike. It was Long Zheng, a Twelfth Realm Sword Cultivator. As expected, the demons had still dispatched troops. Under normal circumstances, Xiao Ke would never have taken this mere Twelfth Realm Flood Dragon seriously. But now, Xiao Ke was covered in wounds after continuous battles, and his spiritual energy was almost depleted. For Xiao Ke at this moment, Long Zheng's sneak attack was not weak at all!
"Come on!"
Xiao Ke abruptly lowered his head slightly and roared, "My head is the hardest, you Long Zheng can chop if you want, but don't let me catch you alone later, or I'll skin you alive!"
"No need."
Lin Zhao directly raised his hand. His flying sword, Hao Ran, conjured a small world, enveloping Long Zheng's sneak attack. Instantly, the sword did not strike Xiao Ke but landed within the Hao Ran world, where it was dissolved into nothingness by strands of Confucian true intent.
Xiao Ke took a deep breath, "Thank you, Young Master, for protecting this lowly body. Xiao Ke is willing to repay you with his life!"
"Less nonsense, hurry up and charge!"
"Yes!"
...
Eastern Battlefield.
Under the relentless assault of countless players, the demon cavalry's offensive was immediately hampered. Especially the slow-down and control effects from the ranged players prevented the demon cavalry from maintaining their speed, thus nullifying their advantage. Subsequently, being encircled and annihilated by the players, even the most elite demon cavalry would become walking experience points.
On a snow-covered hill, Yu Feng, clad in golden armor and riding a Cloud Horse, frowned as he looked into the distance. "Those people?"
"They are humans from another world."
A Myriad Commander said in a deep voice, "It is said that a Daoist master used a divine ability to build a White Jade Bridge between the two worlds, allowing people from the other world to come to ours. Hmph, those who have come are a group of self-proclaimed righteous do-gooders. Their combat power is average, but they are quite troublesome."
"Since that is the case, then destroy them."
Yu Feng said in a deep voice, "Order the Third and Fourth Legions to charge them head-on. Dispatch all the cultivators above the Fifth Realm and those in the Middle Fifth Realm. Since these people wish to die in place of the Rock Army, we, the Divine Race, have no reason not to fulfill their wish."
"Yes!"
Shortly thereafter, one hundred thousand cavalry rolled westward, directly charging into the formation of the vanguard guild, Lin Yuan Xian Yu. In an instant, the defense line ordered by Sword Emperor collapsed like rotten bridges in a flood, one after another. Subsequently, over twenty thousand players became sacrifices under the iron hooves.
Many players didn't even have time to react before they were knocked aside by the charging demon cavalry, then impaled by the successive attacks of the cavalry and reduced to low health. Within seconds, they turned into dust on the battlefield. Even some experts ranked within the top one thousand in the national server met the same fate. The level of these demon cavalry was 140+, and the players' advantage was negligible.
Following that, several more guilds encountered the demon's frontal assault.
Moreover, this time it wasn't just cavalry charges. In the air, figures above the Fifth Realm and in the Middle Fifth Realm could be seen. Yu Feng, with the title of Divine Cavalry Captain, had obtained the Demon Emperor's permission to lead a thirty-thousand-strong army south to assist the demons in annihilating the Rock Army. He had personally selected generals from the court. There were as many as four cultivators of the Eleventh Realm from the Neon Sky Realm, plus Yu Feng himself. In fact, this army had a total of four Eleventh Realm demon experts, not to mention countless cultivators in the Star River Realm, Nascent Soul Realm, and Golden Core Realm!
Then, a group of bosses in the Middle Fifth Realm and above fiercely attacked the players' positions, creating a scene of bloodshed everywhere. Even guilds like Cang Long, Sheng Tian, and Xing He couldn't hold on for long before their formations were torn apart one by one. Chen Xue led the Scarlet Moon Knights in a desperate resistance, but they were still continuously pierced through. The demon cavalry was too powerful. It wasn't until the formations of several guilds reputed to be T1 were riddled with holes that everyone truly realized how strong the demon cavalry was. However, the guilds still fought to delay, as they had no choice. Since they had come, they had to do something. Fleeing like the Ji Han Legion was not something they could afford to do in terms of face.
The situation on the eastern battlefield gradually stabilized. Yu Feng dispatched one hundred fifty thousand demon cavalry to constantly engage and fight with the player forces, while another one hundred thousand cavalry were sent to attack the Rock Army's positions, determined to completely crush the Rock Army!
...
Gu Yao Pass.
A city pass. The passage in front was already narrow, and now twenty thousand troops from the Ji Han Legion were trying to rush in, completely blocking the road in front of the pass. The commander, Wang Ling, was carried by cultivators from the army and arrived at the pass in advance. Standing on the city pass, Wang Ling looked at the chaotic Ji Han Legion in the distance, his heart as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, yet powerless.
The reason the Ji Han Legion was in disarray was because fifty thousand demon cavalry were following behind them. These fifty thousand demon cavalry were divided into five routes, ten thousand per route, slaughtering the soldiers of the Ji Han Legion, who no longer had the courage to resist. Outside Gu Yao Pass, the ground was already a river of blood, littered with corpses. It was a brutal process, but the Ji Han Legion could only pay the price for their mistakes.
"What should we do?"
Wang Ling's face was pale, and his voice began to tremble. "The Ji Han Legion... is finished. These twenty thousand men of the Great Shang Dynasty are gone just like that. The Grand Commander will surely have my head, Wang Ling... Even if the Grand Commander spares me, the Ministry of War and His Majesty will absolutely not let me off. A defeated general, how can I face myself?"
"My lord."
A strategist in green clothes frowned and said, "This is a critical moment, my lord must not panic, otherwise even a divine immortal can't save you. My lord, think about it, the demon's thirty thousand cavalry are so powerful, coupled with the five army camps of the demons. Shi Jun Gang is a famous general personally appointed by the Ancestral Mountain. If our Ji Han Legion is annihilated, can the Rock Army not be annihilated as well? The war in the northern region, besides us, no one will know about it. Since that is the case..."
He gritted his teeth and sneered, "Why not shift the blame to Lin Ruo? Say that Lin Ruo acted recklessly, and after his camp was broken through by the demons, he fled in panic. The deserters from the Rock Army disrupted our Ji Han Legion's main army, which led to the Ji Han Legion being broken through by the thirty thousand demon cavalry. My lord then led us to fight desperately, killing over a hundred thousand demon cavalry, and finally led the elite remnants of the Ji Han Legion to defend Gu Yao Pass, making up for his mistakes by guarding the northern gate of Great Shang. How about that?"
"Ah?!"
Wang Ling's expression was astonished, then he broke into a smile. "Brilliant, sir, you are truly a celestial being!"