Chapter 1408: Attack Begins, Drawing Qingluan Nation

"That man is simply terrifying!"

Even after several days had passed, the members of the Fire Phoenix Legion still trembled with lingering fear when recalling that day's battle.

"After General Feng Yu's death, our people had no resistance at all…"

Li Kui took a deep breath.

He couldn't fathom how strong someone had to be to wipe out a hundred thousand Fire Phoenix Legion troops single-handedly, to scare a royal-level soldier into such a state.

"You can calm down a bit before speaking!"

"You don't understand—I even suspect he's a God-tier Beast Tamer!" The Beast Tamer's eyes turned red. "General Feng Yu couldn't hold out long. I saw them fight—and right then, General Feng Yu was gone…"

"Mm!"

Li Kui was Heavy-hearted and distressed as well.

Feng Yu wasn't just the supreme prodigy of the Qingluan Nation, overshadowing many veteran elders with her potential to become a God-tier Beast Tamer—she was also the Qingluan Nation's most beautiful woman!

Even the Emperor himself had been unable to win her affection!

Feng Yu enjoyed immense popularity in the Qingluan Nation and was the dream woman of countless Qingluan men.

Moreover, she was a military genius, accumulating countless battle merits to become the Qingluan Nation's third Grand General!

Li Kui had seen Feng Yu once—and he still couldn't forget her.

Ten minutes later, after drinking a sip of hot tea, the Beast Tamer regained his composure and slowly recounted the mysterious man's intelligence, which Li Kui recorded personally.

"You mean, that mysterious man possesses a terrifying blood-red plant-type pet beast?"

When recording this intelligence, Li Kui immediately noticed the significance of this pet beast.

"Yes! That blood-red plant-type pet beast is enormous, immune to fire, and possesses incredibly strong defense... It can command countless similar plant-type ferocious beasts—some are extremely powerful, reaching Emperor rank, others weak, even down to Black Iron rank—but their numbers are endless, stretching beyond sight... It's even more terrifying than a beast disaster!"

Li Kui cautiously asked: "Do these plant-type ferocious beasts shoot thorns, use leaves as weapons, and release paralyzing toxins?"

The Fire Phoenix Legion general exclaimed in surprise: "How do you know? Do you know what kind of ferocious beast this is?"

"Do they parasitize wounds?"

"You've seen them?" The Fire Phoenix Legion general pointed to his chest. "I was slashed by their leaves—halfway through, they sprouted right out of the wound. I barely survived because I treated it in time—if I hadn't, I'd be dead!"

"We've seen them too, but didn't know their name—we'd never encountered them before!" Li Kui scratched his head. "Recently, Beast Tamers returning from the Green Cloud Mountains mentioned a rampant blood-red plant-type ferocious beast there—similar to what you described. But I never imagined their growth potential could reach Emperor rank!"

Li Kui said in disbelief: "How could a ferocious beast with Emperor-tier potential become rampant?"

Keep in mind that, in most cases.

The stronger the ferocious beast, the weaker its reproductive energy.

Occasionally, some powerful ferocious beasts have decent reproduction—but never to the point of rampant proliferation…

Li Kui even had the urge to immediately seek out a blood-red plant-type ferocious beast and form a pact with it.

Keep in mind that high-potential ferocious beasts are simply too rare!

The Fire Phoenix Legion Beast Tamer said: "Could it be that the mysterious Beast Tamer is near your Xiong Cheng?"

"It's not impossible!" Li Kui had just thought of the same possibility. "But why hasn't he acted yet?"

"No matter what, please, my lord, prepare for the worst and send word to the capital about the Fire Phoenix Legion's destruction!" The Beast Tamer's voice cracked. "I believe our Emperor will avenge us—our brothers cannot die in vain! General Feng Yu cannot die in vain! That son of a bitch!"

"Understood!"

Just as Li Kui prepared to send men to confirm the battlefield situation before reporting the Fire Phoenix Legion's annihilation to the Emperor, more surviving soldiers from the Fire Phoenix Legion fled into Xiong Cheng.

Confirming the situation was necessary.

Li Kui still couldn't fully trust the severely wounded Fire Phoenix Legion general.

After questioning them, the two fleeing soldiers' accounts matched almost perfectly—Li Kui even used hypnosis himself and became nearly certain… General Feng Yu was truly gone!

With grief and fury, he wrote his memorial.

Just after the Lord of Xiong Cheng finished writing the memorial, Su Yang stood atop the mountain, gazing at the distant walls of Luanyun City.

After long hesitation, he sighed and said to the blood-clad girl beside him: "Xue Li, no need to target these cities—they're not worth much. Better to kill the ferocious beasts and Beast Tamers outside the walls."

"Alright!" Xue Li nodded. "I follow my master's orders."

Xue Li knew what Su Yang was thinking.

Probably just softened his heart.

But Xue Li didn't care.

She certainly wouldn't oppose Su Yang's command.

Honestly, for her, whether or not to kill the people in these cities made no difference.

Just as Su Yang said—killing them yields little meat and brings no great gain.

She had no reason to make Su Yang unhappy.

"Then should I scare them? Trap them inside the city?"

"Yes!" Su Yang nodded. "Let them send word—draw more Qingluan Nation experts here!"

"Understood!"

Having a pet beast who was so obedient, so clever, and so terrifyingly strong—Su Yang was satisfied.

"Then I'll leave first!"

"Master, go with peace of mind—I'll hold this place!"

The Hellblood Vines boldly advanced toward the villages near Luanyun City.

Many Luanyun City patrol squads attempted to attack the Hellblood Vines—all were slaughtered on the spot.

Civilians began fleeing in panic, while the Hellblood Vines directed their Black Iron-tier offshoots to trail them, slowly and steadily pushing forward.

As for the stronger offshoots, she had placed them all underground.

The civilians soon fled into Luanyun City.

Luanyun City sounded its alarm horn; the City Guard took their positions and launched the first attack…

Not long after, City Lord Yinshi climbed the city wall and met Xu Cheng, commander of the City Guard Army.

The walls of Yuncheng stood seventy meters tall, yet all that met their eyes was a sheet of blood-red.

All around Yuncheng, dense swarms of blood-red plant-type fierce beasts writhed and squirmed.

Even two veteran generals like Yinshi and Xu Cheng, who had weathered countless battles, felt their scalps prickle at the sight of them.

Yinshi looked at Xu Cheng in puzzlement: "They're all Black Iron–grade fierce beasts?"

"No, there are even stronger ones lurking underground!"

"Why don't we attack them?"

"The moment we attack them, they'll strike back. Among them are Sovereign-grade fierce beasts — they could breach our walls with ease!" Xu Cheng swallowed hard and said, "But they seem to be waiting for something, and I don't dare provoke them either!"