Chapter 281: Fighting Outside the City

"Master, Hu Dameng and the others are likely waiting for my father to arrive before launching a full-scale attack," Lang Jiao said.

Meng Yifan felt immense pressure; although there is only a one-level difference between the Fifth Grade and Fourth Grade, the disparity in strength is vast.

Zhang Sanfeng had declined from Fifth Grade to Fourth Grade Peak, yet he could still manifest the Black and White Grinding Disc for a short time and easily crush a Fourth Grade High-level Expert; from this, it is evident that the combat power of a Fifth-Grade Expert is far superior to that of a Fourth-grade Expert.

Even a Fifth Grade Low Stage Demon Beast could easily defeat ten Fourth Grade High-Grade Demon Beasts.

If Lang Batian and Hu Dameng were to join forces and launch a decapitation strike, there is truly no one on Meng Yifan's side who could stop them.

"Lang Jiao, if I asked you to fight against your father, would you be willing?" Meng Yifan asked.

"Master, in Lang Jiao's heart, Master is the greatest existence. If Father is your enemy, he is also my enemy. Lang Jiao will use her claws and fangs to defend Master's majesty."

Lang Jiao spoke with ironclad certainty; for Meng Yifan, she could fight anyone.

This is the formidable nature of the Soul Imprint, far stronger than the brainwashing of those pyramid schemes on Earth.

Now that Lang Jiao's life is in Meng Yifan's hands, even if Lang Batian comes, he will have concerns and dare not easily kill Meng Yifan; this provides the leverage for negotiations.

However, Lang Batian is powerful; even if he does not kill Meng Yifan, he could use Meng Yifan's relatives to make a deal with him. For instance, if Lang Batian captured Meng Dayong and used his life to exchange for Lang Jiao, would Meng Yifan release her or not?

As for the ten thousand or so refugees outside the city, Meng Yifan is a total stranger to them and could ignore their survival, but Meng Dayong is his own father and has supported Meng Yifan without reservation; no matter what, Meng Yifan could never abandon Meng Dayong.

Moreover, Lang Batian could also capture Meng Yifan and, without killing him, simply imprison him; that alone would be enough to make Meng Yifan miserable.

Everything else is hollow; only by being strong oneself can one fear no challenge.

"Must increase my strength as soon as possible?" Meng Yifan pondered for a moment, looked at the Game Panel, and discovered that the Experience Value was still insufficient to upgrade to a Fourth Grade High Rank Immortal Cultivator. The battle just now lasted over twenty minutes and wiped out over eight thousand Demon Beasts in total.

If he could kill another twenty thousand or so Demon Beasts, Meng Yifan could upgrade to Fourth Grade Peak, and then he could find an opportunity to undergo the Thunder Tribulation and break through to the Fifth Grade realm.

"Assemble all experts of Second Grade and above; prepare to go out of the city to fight with me," Meng Yifan said.

Meng Dayong asked with confusion: "Yifan, there are still over a hundred thousand of the Monster Army outside the city. If we hold the city and defend, we still have a chance to keep holding out. If we go out of the city to fight now, isn't it too risky? If we get surrounded by the Demon Race, wouldn't we all die on the battlefield?"

"Father, a Level 5 Demon Beast is coming. If we go fight for our lives now, there is still a glimmer of hope. Once the Level 5 Demon Beast arrives, we will truly have no power to resist," Meng Yifan said.

Meng Dayong did not have much of an opinion and had always followed Meng Yifan's words implicitly. Now that Meng Yifan insisted on going out of the city to fight, he, as a father, no longer opposed it and prepared to follow his son to kill.

Soon, Kong Sanqiang brought his Vampire Descendants before Meng Yifan. During this period, Meng Yifan had provided him with a large amount of Demon Race blood.

Kong Sanqiang kept devouring Demon Race blood and then converting Vampire Descendants from the severely wounded. Now, among his descendants, there are already five Level 2 High-Rank Vampires, eight Second-Grade Middle-Tier Vampires, twelve Second-Grade Lower-Tier Vampires, and fifteen First-Grade Vampires.

More importantly, by absorbing a large amount of Demon Race blood, Kong Sanqiang's strength had also increased to Third Grade Middle Stage. Meng Yifan used Experience Value to raise his cultivation by one level, and now Kong Sanqiang is already at Third Grade Peak, capable of breaking through to the Fourth Grade realm at any time.

Vampires are similar to Zombies and are also not tolerated by the Heaven; wanting to break through to the Fourth Grade also requires undergoing the Thunder Tribulation, but to Meng Yifan, none of this is an issue.

With the three great tribulation-transcending artifacts—the Generator, transformer, and Lightning Rod—as long as Kong Sanqiang is given some time, Meng Yifan is confident he can let Kong Sanqiang safely pass the Thunder Tribulation.

With the increase in strength, Kong Sanqiang realized the secret techniques of vampires from Carlisle's bloodline inheritance and had already learned the Transformation Skill Carlisle once had. He can grow bat wings on his back, fly in the sky, and also transform into nine phantoms, greatly increasing his survival ability.

Vampires possess an immortal body; as long as the Blood Core is not shattered, they can be reborn in blood.

Although this Vampire Squad is not large in number, their combat power cannot be underestimated. Meng Yifan equipped each of them with an AK47, ten magazines, and ten M67 Grenades to carry. With the speed of vampires combined with these modern weapons and equipment, it is definitely enough to give the opposing Monster Army a hard time.

Meng Shuangdao, Meng Da, and Meng Er, these three great Zombies, also walked to Meng Yifan's side. Meng Shuangdao is a Fourth Grade Lower Tier Zombie, and Meng Da and Meng Er are now both Third Grade High Stage Zombies.

Meng Da and Meng Er have immense strength; although they are only Third Grade High Stage, if comparing strength alone, they are stronger than Fourth-grade High-level Experts like Meng Yifan. The big hammers and Big Guan Blade they use have been upgraded and have become even more massive.

The hammer is even larger than a grinding disc, forged from refined steel, and weighs twenty tons. Such a heavy weapon, when swung, is unstoppable; even if a Fourth Grade Beast were hit head-on, it would be heavily injured if not killed.

The Big Guan Blade is fifteen meters long. Meng Da is a bit clumsy and not very bright, so Meng Yifan did not teach him other moves, just one: hold the Big Guan Blade with both hands and spin at high speed, similar to a Sword Saint Storm. Enemies within a fifteen-meter range die if they touch it and are injured if they graze it; the destructive power is extremely formidable.

As for Meng Shuangdao, he is even more powerful. Not only has he mastered the Black and Red Fire Domain, but he is also proficient in the Taiji Saber Technique. With two long sabers, one hard and one soft, one yin and one yang, one moving and one still, one attacking and one defending, his saber technique is exquisite. Coupled with the coordination of the Fire Domain, it can be said that in a head-on confrontation, even Meng Yifan might not necessarily be Meng Shuangdao's match.

Shen Dahu and Liu Sheng, these two Third-grade Experts, also arrived, and Wang Dachui and over fifty other Second-grade Experts were all fully armed, ready to set out with Meng Yifan.

Zhang Shagen brought all the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guard Company to Meng Yifan's side and said: "Sir, we are your Imperial Guard Company. If you go out of the city to fight, you must take us with you."

Meng Yifan did not intend to take the Imperial Guard Company out of the city because this time it was a surprise attack on the Monster Army outside the city, relying on speed to strike, hit and run, and then continue fighting elsewhere. There are a large number of soldiers in the Imperial Guard Company who are First Grade Martial Artists; their speed clearly cannot keep up with the Second Grade Martial Artists. In high-speed maneuvers, they would easily be left in the rear, where they would be surrounded by the Monster Army and could only die on the battlefield.