Chapter 46: 46. Chapter 46: Zhao Xuanfeng's Injuries

46. Chapter 46: Zhao Xuanfeng's Injuries

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 after, countless more beast roars rang out across the battlefield; the fierce beasts were like a tide, and the moment after the Hei Diao Wang left, they all retreated rapidly toward the endless wilderness like a monstrous flood.

"Damn it!"

High in the sky.

The Baihu Wang and the Lingshi Wang 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 attacked together, only then did they have this situation.

But, at this moment when success was imminent!

The Hei Diao Wang actually fled!

In their hearts, ten thousand fierce beasts roared past 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, they couldn't even guarantee whether they could return unscathed in the end.

"Retreat!"

They were extremely unwilling.

But facing this situation, they were helpless.

If they didn't 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; if they really had to fight the humans to the death, they couldn't bring themselves to make that decision.

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 the fierce beasts away!"

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.

Soon.

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 took a step forward.

He arrived in the depths of the great hall!

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

"Ahhh..."

The Hei Diao Wang roared crazily.

It cultivated alongside the Wutong Sacred Tree and could perceive everything about it; the moment the Wutong Sacred Tree was taken away, it had already sensed it, and now seeing 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 guard the city!

It deserved to die!

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

Whether it 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 roared again.

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

"All fierce beast armies, listen to 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 radius of a million miles of the Hei Diao Wang's territory, the fierce beast armies dispersed in all directions to seal the entire territory, and even the fierce beast armies that had retreated under the Baihu Wang and the Lingshi Wang underwent strict inspections.

For a time, this stretch of endless wilderness was filled with panic, and no ferocious beast dared to move recklessly.

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

That was after he had destroyed Heishi Cheng that day!

He knew it would inevitably alarm the Hei Diao Wang and draw out countless armies of ferocious 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 scent of blood permeated the sky, and even after several days, it had not dissipated in the slightest; beneath that blood-scent were pits piled high with corpses—a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand...

Countless experts were buried among them!

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 was very clear.

The Qian King was not there!

Three armies of kings had attacked Qian City together.

In this battle, no one could be spared!

Although he had a solitary personality and was focused 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're back." The academy was also shrouded in gloom, and greeting Lu Li were Zhang Chi, Mo Lingfei, and other students who were under his tutelage.

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

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

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

Three were 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 ferocious beasts were not extinct, the war between humans and ferocious beasts would never cease.

The ferocious 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 in twenty students to the best of his ability.

Amidst that vast army of ferocious beasts!

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

What Lu Li hoped for was that these twenty students could grow alongside him, and in the future, when they were grown, they could fight side-by-side with him and become the vanguard attacking the ferocious beast army.

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

This left him feeling deeply regretful!

"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 introduction of these students.

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 ferocious beast army, they finally brought the news back.

Vice City Lord Yu Wuji presided over the major affairs of the city, and after investigating clearly in time, he immediately made preparations.

Before the ferocious beast army arrived, he gave them a head-on blow.

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

With the current strength of Qian City, it was impossible to rout them.

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

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

Finally, a few days ago, those three King-realm ferocious beasts found an opportunity to surround Yu Wuji in one fell swoop; in order to rescue Yu Wuji, Cang Yuanzi and the principals of the eight academies resolutely stepped forward.

That was how the previous decisive battle came to be!

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