Chapter 2801

Only hearing a loud boom, something slammed hard onto him from above and behind.

The force was unmatched; even Xiu Tu, that great mountain of flesh, couldn't withstand it, being dragged and slammed hard into the city wall fifteen zhang away!

During this process, he even consecutively knocked flying three squads of troops.

At this time, Xu Shichu had just landed, pressing his chest and repeatedly expressing relief. If he hadn't dodged quickly just now, he would by now be like Xiu Tu, slammed against the wall.

The mighty Ming Sha Lin fortress wall trembled violently, not only did the soldiers on the battlements lower their heads to look, but even the guardian beasts crouched inside the wall were startled.

Yes, Ming Sha Lin's fortress wall naturally has guardian beasts; though not as famous as Pan Long City's black dragon stone carvings, they played an equally crucial role in this battle. Although the Between Between Between Beijia army hasn't yet reached the foot of the city, flying creatures, arrows, and chain-linked projectiles often strike the battlements, and demons and immortals frequently unleash divine powers from behind the wall—this all requires the guardian beasts to come out and oppose and intercept.

Now, two stone-carved giant apes protruded their heads from inside the fortress wall, assessing the danger of this shock attack. After all, the fortress wall had been punched inwards over five chi deep, carving out the shape of a mountain of flesh.

At this time, the culprit who slammed Xiu Tu against the wall moved, even jumping to the ground, though his movements were not very agile.

He Lingchuan.

He was struck down by Bai Zhan Tian, but having Xiu Tu, that elastic mountain of flesh, as a cushion reduced the impact he received by much.

He Lingchuan lowered his head to look near his hip; this area, both outer armor and flesh gone, revealed the stark white bone beneath, its surface still covered with blood vessels.

Earlier, he had taken Bai Zhan Tian's "Annihilation" strike head-on; not only was his great shield completely shattered, but he was also split by the axe wind. Only a little more, and he would have been crippled in the lower limbs.

The killing move of the Heavenly God is truly not something easily taken.

He Lingchuan forced himself to take two steps; black qi wrapped around his wound, squeezing out threads of red smoke, and his flesh also quickly healed.

This is the marvelous use of Yuan Li.

He Lingchuan's Yuan Li is richer than Zhao Jing and He's; thus, the speed of dispelling the Annihilation force is faster. The remaining mere flesh wounds, He Lingchuan can handle himself.

Next, even the surface battle armor repaired itself completely. At least from the surface, the Tiger Wing General's injury appears unnoticeable.

Bai Zhan Tian in the sky also hooked his finger toward him.

He Lingchuan glanced at Xiu Tu behind him, then nodded at Xu Shichu, and again charged toward Bai Zhan Tian.

Xu Shichu looked again at Xiu Tu; the latter was completely embedded in the wall, his arms and left leg twisted in extremely unnatural postures.

It turns out even the toughest fat armor has its limit; once exceeded, it cannot withstand.

The two stone-carved giant apes showed him no courtesy, kicking and stomping twice, sending him back to the ground.

With the blocking object gone, the cracks in the fortress wall finally closed up again.

Xu Shichu felt his heart turn cold.

Even the thick-skinned, fatty Xiu Tu suffered such heavy damage; if he himself had been a step slower to dodge, would his small frame not have been slapped into minced meat?

The battle between the Tiger Wing General and Bai Zhan Tian has no fancy divine powers, only hard, fist-to-flesh clashes; each strike is of absolute power.

Know that Ming Sha Lin's fortress wall not only has self-healing ability, but is also protected by layered formations. Even if a siege hammer struck it, it would at most leave a white mark, vanishing in an instant. Bai Zhan Tian, by his own power, could smash the wall and leave a pit—what exquisite power is that!

Xu Shichu worries more that Bai Zhan Tian's strength seems to have grown again.

Earlier, when the Tiger Wing General tangled with him, it seemed not so strenuous.

Ah, Bai Zhan Tian has arranged "this wanes, that waxes" divine seals in the fiercest battleground of the two armies' mutual slaughter.

On this bloody battlefield, at every moment someone bleeds, gets injured, sacrifices; and that lost power is absorbed by the seal, becoming Bai Zhan Tian's nourishment.

Others' hell is his heaven; others' suffering only achieves his strength. If this continues, Bai Zhan Tian will only grow stronger and stronger, gaining more and more advantage.

Xu Shichu already feels that the Tiger Wing General's movements are no longer as agile as at the start; facing Bai Zhan Tian, he gradually makes more mistakes, some left and right at a loss.

He had just been split against the wall by Bai Zhan Tian's axe; if not for Xiu Tu as a meat shield, he should now be seriously injured.

What is going on? Could it be...

At the same time, Xu Shichu still heard Chen En Ya's message coming from his ear:

"The Dragon Binding Formation was lifted early; the giant elephant retreated."

Zhong Shengguang immediately ordered: "Good, all elites on that front line retreat!"

The Dragon Binding Formation was lifted so quickly?

Xu Shichu was startled.

According to Zhong Shengguang's requirement, this great formation could originally last about eighty breaths; now only forty breaths have passed, still half the time left—this is too early a withdrawal.

"Your Majesty?"

Zhong Shengguang, via real-time transmission, said in a deep voice: "Yuan Li is tight; we can only cut off supply to the Dragon Binding Formation."

Xu Shichu felt his heart turn cold, suddenly realizing something:

The reserves of Yuan Li are also limited.

Xu Shichu, though Dean of the Shu Min Academy and holding high position in Pan Long, does not need to mobilize troops or allocate Yuan Li; thus, in his impression, Pan Long's Yuan Li has always been abnormally abundant, never lacking.

Even before, during the dozens of bloody great battles around Dragon Throat Pass, no matter how fierce the situation or how long the duration, Pan Long soldiers never had to worry about Yuan Li.

But now, he suddenly realizes: the present is different from the past:

In the past two years of war, Pan Long lost the land of Xi Luo, then lost the Mao He Plain; even Between Between Between Beijia invaded Dragon Throat Pass and broke through into the southern wilderness.

Today's Pan Long territory is less than one quarter of its former peak.

Territory small, population few. Whether Xu Shichu emotionally wishes to admit it or not, today's Pan Long is merely the scale of a small country. Even though its united military and civilian spirit causes its Yuan Li to be very rich, in terms of stockpile it is no longer comparable to the former Pan Long!

If in ordinary battles, this point could still be well concealed.

However, today's battle is the Heavenly God plus Huai Yuan's desperate last stand, plus the Between Between Between Beijia army of nearly a million fiercely attacking Ming Sha Lin, plus the Great Heavenly Demon descending to the mortal realm for the first time in thousands of years!

To cope with such a battle, Pan Long's consumption of Yuan Li is like opening a sluice to release floodwaters, quickly revealing the shortage.

To support the fierce battle in the central route of Ming Sha Lin, to supply the Tiger Wing General and the Heavenly God's entanglement, Zhong Shengguang had no choice but to recall Yuan Li from other regions, thus revealing the state of being stretched thin.

Xu Shichu drenched in cold sweat, only three words turning in his mind:

What to do?

Yuan Li is Pan Long's most important trump card against the Between Between Between Beijia army, the basis for the few opposing the many, the weak opposing the strong.

If Yuan Li is soon exhausted, what will Pan Long use to resist Between Between Between Beijia, what to block the Heavenly God's steps in seizing the Great Fang Hu?