Chapter 45: A Tragic Result

Above the hundred-mile battlefield!

Everyone's mind was a complete blank.

It fled!

The dignified Hei Diao Wang actually fled without a fight!

What on earth happened?

At this moment, there was no fighting, no slaughter, no death... even the air seemed to have come to a standstill.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, the first beast roar broke the silence.

Immediately following, countless more beast roars rang out across the battlefield; the fierce beasts were like a tide, and the moment after the Hei Diao Wang departed, they all retreated rapidly toward the Wujin Huangye like a torrential flood.

"Damn it!"

High above in the sky.

The Baihu Wang and the Lingshi Wang both roared in anger simultaneously.

The three-pronged army had continued for several days, and countless fierce beasts had died or been injured without ever taking Qian City, until the three kings struck together, only then did they have this situation.

But, at this moment when success was imminent!

The Hei Diao Wang actually fled!

Ten thousand fierce beasts roared through their hearts at once!

With the tenacity of the human race, missing this branch of the army, let alone maintaining the current advantage to invade Qian City, even whether they could return unscathed in the end could not be guaranteed.

"Retreat!"

They were extremely unwilling.

But facing this situation, they were helpless.

If they did not retreat now, once the human army entangled them, it would truly be too late.

Furthermore, this battle was led by the Hei Diao Wang, and they were merely assisting from the sidelines; they could not bring themselves to make the decision to fight the humans to the death.

Rumble!

Ten thousand beasts surged and retreated!

A moment later, led by the Baihu Wang and the Lingshi Wang, there was not a single fierce beast left on this hundred-mile battlefield.

"They've retreated!"

"The fierce beasts have retreated!"

"We won, we drove away the fierce beasts!"

A hundred miles as the boundary.

Amidst that boundless blood-red color, everyone roared with excitement until they collapsed to the ground.

The Qian King had left!

The three-pronged fierce beast army had arrived together!

In this battle, they had finally held on.

Very quickly.

Half a day passed.

Above Heishi Cheng, the Hei Diao Wang arrived in a rush of fury.

He looked at the pitch-black ghost mist that shrouded the sky above Heishi Cheng and had not yet completely dissipated.

He stepped forward.

He arrived deep within the great hall!

Here, there was no longer any trace of the Wutong Sacred Tree!

"Ahhh..."

The Hei Diao Wang roared madly.

It cultivated alongside the Wutong Sacred Tree and could perceive everything about it; it had sensed it the instant the Wutong Sacred Tree was taken away, and now that it saw it with its own eyes, there was no longer any doubt.

With a wave of its large hand, it furiously destroyed the corpse of the Purple-Gold Fierce Falcon nearby.

The Purple-Gold Fierce Falcon had failed to defend the city!

It deserved to die!

But the Wutong Sacred Tree was the foundation of its martial path!

Whether he could step into that legendary Saint Realm depended entirely on the Wutong Sacred Tree!

Compared to this, what was invading Qian City, what was the fierce beast army... everything was not worth mentioning!

"Roar!"

The Hei Diao Wang let out another angry roar.

It flashed to the sky above Heishi Cheng, and a King's Decree spread in all directions once more.

"All fierce beast armies, hear my command: seal the entire territory! You must find the human who destroyed my Heishi Cheng; I will grind him to dust to vent my hatred!"

In the blink of an eye.

Another three days passed.

Within these three days, within a million-mile radius of the Hei Diao Wang's power, the fierce beast armies dispersed in all directions to seal the entire territory; even the fierce beast armies that had retreated with the Baihu Wang and the Lingshi Wang underwent strict and thorough inspections.

For a time, this Wujin Huangye was filled with panic, and no fierce beast dared to move recklessly.

But it was at this moment that Lu Li, hiding his figure, crossed the endless wilderness and returned to within a hundred miles of Qian City.

Ever since that day he destroyed Heishi Cheng!

He knew it would inevitably alarm the Hei Diao Wang and draw out an army of countless fierce beasts to blockade the area, so he and the Five-Colored Sparrow left the Hei Diao Wang's sphere of influence at top speed, carefully taking a wide detour before returning here.

He stepped into the sphere of influence of Qian City!

Lu Li should have been happy.

But seeing the scene before him, his heart felt heavy.

In this hundred-mile stretch, the air was permeated with the scent of blood; even after several days, it had not dissipated in the slightest. Beneath that blood-mist were piles of corpse pits—a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand...

Countless powerhouses were buried within!

Even though Lu Li was accustomed to slaughter in the army, he had never seen such a tragic scene.

"I wonder if any people I know are buried among them!"

Lu Li knew very well.

The Qian King was not here!

Three armies of kings had attacked Qian City simultaneously.

In this battle, no one could be spared!

Although he had a solitary personality and was focused solely on cultivation, he did have some acquaintances, such as his former captain Zhao Tieyi, Zheng Mingfeng of the Martial Arts Zheng family, Jiang Wuyan of Linghong Residential District, and the students he had only recently begun to teach, among others.

Lu Li did not want anything to happen to them!

In his heart, the excitement and thrill of having destroyed Heishi Cheng had vanished completely!

He quickened his pace!

He returned all the way to Tiansheng Academy!

"Teacher, you've returned." The academy was also shrouded in gloom; welcoming Lu Li were Zhang Chi, Mo Lingfei, and other students he had taught.

"You all..."

The words "are you alright" did not leave Lu Li's mouth.

Because he saw that among these students, besides the newly joined Ouyang Xue, several familiar figures were missing.

"Teacher, Wang Ling, Jiang Chao, and He Xiaotong have all died in battle!"

Among the group.

It was unclear who spoke first.

Then, Lin Xiu'er, Li Lanxin, and a few other girls began to sob softly.

This battle had been too tragic; even though several days had passed, they could not control themselves when they recalled it!

Lu Li did not stop them, only sighing softly in his heart.

Three dead!

In the end, he was still too late!

Back when he was in the army, Lu Li had already known that as long as the fierce beasts were not eradicated, the war between humanity and the fierce beasts would never cease.

The fierce beasts would make a comeback!

A tragic, massive war would appear sooner or later!

That was why, after the system was activated, he had taken on twenty students to the best of his ability.

Amidst that vast army of fierce beasts!

Unless one possessed power that transcended the ultimate, the strength of a single person was ultimately limited.

What Lu Li had hoped for was that these twenty students could grow alongside him, and in the future, once they matured, they could fight side-by-side with him and become the vanguard attacking the fierce beast armies.

But he had not expected that just as this idea was beginning, he had already lost three of them!

This filled him with great regret!

"I understand!"

Lu Li nodded gently.

After a moment of silence, his voice came again.

"Tell me about the situation of the previous battle."

Following that.

Under the students' explanation.

Lu Li gained a rough understanding of the process of this great battle.

It turned out that after he parted ways with the six members of the Ouyang family that day, they had indeed lived up to the task, and under the encirclement of the heavy fierce beast armies, they finally brought the news back.

Vice City Lord Yu Wuji, who was in charge of the city's major affairs, prepared immediately after verifying the information in time.

Before the fierce beast armies arrived, they dealt them a head-on blow.

But, in the end, there were three armies of kings.

With the strength currently available in Qian City, they simply could not rout them.

After experiencing the initial setback, the three fierce beast armies finally reacted.

Then, there was a series of intense, scorching battles.

Finally, a few days ago, the three king-level fierce beasts found an opportunity and surrounded Yu Wuji in one fell swoop; in order to rescue Yu Wuji, Cang Yuanzi and the principals of the eight great academies resolutely stepped forward.

That was how the previous decisive battle came to be!

"So, in that battle, even the principals suffered heavy injuries?"

(End of this chapter)