Chapter 288

With the speed of Long Xuan and Di Xin, it didn't take long for them to overtake the group of people in front who were destroying spiritual herbs.

However, just as the two walked past that group of people, a gust of wind suddenly came from behind.

The expressions of the two changed, and they hurriedly dodged to one side. Two Gu worms flew past them and blocked their path.

"Yo! Your soul perception is not bad; you were actually able to dodge that."

About ten or so people wearing white clothes ran over and surrounded the two.

"What is the meaning of this?" Long Xuan scanned the circle and asked with a frown.

The leading man in white said, "If you are behind us, you are the ones drinking the soup. If we are behind you, then we are the ones drinking the soup. What do you think we are doing?"

"How could I let you pass? And there are only two of you. Since we can bully the few with the many, then we definitely can't let you pass." The leading man in white sneered.

"You also want to bully the few with the many? Do you know that the last person who said this to me is already dead? Don't you know who I am?" Long Xuan was stunned.

He truly couldn't imagine that he had made such a big splash on the island, yet there were still people who weren't afraid of him and dared to come and find trouble with him.

"I don't care who you are. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for insisting on walking in front of us! Die!"

As soon as he finished speaking, this group of men in white killed their way toward the two.

Hearing this, Long Xuan finally understood completely. This group of people truly didn't know who he was; they must have arrived on the island later and hadn't seen that chaotic battle.

It was also possible that they hadn't boarded the island at all. After all, not every ship that went to the Heavenly Island had to land on that island. If they came late, they could just wait by the sea trench.

If this was the case, then he didn't need to worry. He was only afraid that this group of people knew him. If this group of people dared to attack him while knowing who he was, then they would definitely be very difficult to deal with.

At this time, quite a few more ships had already arrived on the island behind. Long Xuan was afraid that others would walk in front of him, so he didn't intend to hold back and decided to finish the battle quickly.

As a Ten Extremes Body, when he was in the late Essence Refining stage, he could already kill Essence Refining peak Gu cultivators across levels. Even Jun Zaitian, an invincible Essence Refining peak Gu cultivator of the same level, was no match for him.

Now that he was already at the Essence Refining peak, encountering another Essence Refining peak was truly like slaughtering a dog. With his full strength, not many could survive three moves from him.

Not to mention that he had Di Xin beside him, who was also not a person to be trifled with. With the two of them joining forces, how could these ten or so people be their match?

Thus, in less than a minute, the five clones returned, and there were no survivors among the white-clad Gu cultivators.

However, Long Xuan looked at the blood all over the ground but didn't find a single corpse, and he furrowed his brows deeply.

Good fellow, the bodies of people who died on the Heavenly Island really would disappear into thin air.

The spiritual herbs whose roots had been destroyed by this group of selfish people were all not ordinary items. He had originally wanted to take them back, but who would have thought that all the corpses would instantly disappear into thin air? He hadn't gained a single thing, having been busy for a long time for nothing, wasting so much time in vain.

"Damn it! That old guy actually dared to steal the fruits of my labor!" Long Xuan cursed inwardly.

"Let's go! This time we are truly walking at the very front. We don't need to waste time collecting spiritual herbs of low value; pick only the rare varieties."

Long Xuan scanned the distance with his Heavenly Mechanism Eye, and after quickly finding his target, he immediately rushed in that direction...

The collection of spiritual herbs lasted for about three days. With over ten thousand people entering the island, three days were enough to scrape the spiritual herb resources on the island clean.

Originally, the people who came to the Heavenly Island to hunt for treasures came from all over the world, and there were definitely one hundred thousand of them. But after being filtered by those four huge waterfalls, the number of people who successfully landed on the island was already less than one hundred thousand.

And the Gu cultivators who had scraped the entire island's spiritual herbs clean began to slowly gather toward the Divine Mechanism City.

According to the previous agreement, Cai Shao and the Nine Prince were the alliance leaders, responsible for commanding one-fourth of the Gu cultivator army to attack the east gate of the Divine Mechanism City.

At this time, about twenty thousand people had already gathered here, and large batches of Gu cultivators were still continuously gathering here.

Looking at this magnificent giant city in front of them, everyone gathered outside the city felt shocked in their hearts.

The giant city was black, and the city body was built from precious black iron. The hardness of black iron was second only to secret silver.

The entire city wall was built from black iron. How much black iron would that consume?

It was no exaggeration to say that even if they didn't want anything else in the city, just melting all the black iron on the city wall would be enough to buy who knows how many empires.

The Divine Mechanism City's city wall alone was so valuable; how astonishing would the treasures hidden inside be? Everyone couldn't help but click their tongues, revealing burning gazes.

Long Xuan also looked at this black iron giant city in shock, once again feeling shocked by the wealth of that old guy.

There was no harm without comparison. He thought he was rich enough, but compared to that existence in the city, he was simply a poor wretch. Even the woman Di Xin beside him was richer than him, not to mention the young masters of the Qian Clan Merchant Association.

"Is the black iron on the city wall not something that can be chipped off?" Long Xuan suddenly asked.

"What do you think?" Di Xin rolled her eyes at him and said, "If the black iron on the city wall could be chipped off, it would have been chipped clean long ago. That guy in the center of the city absolutely wouldn't allow anyone to do such a thing."

Di Xin looked at the city wall and added, "Do you see the puppets standing on the city wall?"

"The black puppets are built entirely from black iron. With your strength, they should be easy to deal with."

"You need to be careful about the silver puppets and the golden puppets."

"The silver puppets are built entirely from secret silver, roughly equivalent to the strength of the early Spirit Sea stage."

"Among them, puppets built from secret silver essence are equivalent to the strength of the mid Spirit Sea stage."

"The golden puppets are built entirely from Geng metal, roughly equivalent to the strength of the late Spirit Sea stage."

"And the puppet generals are built entirely from Geng metal essence. There are about twelve of them in the city. How many that terrifying existence in the center of the city has hidden away, who knows."

"Essence Refining Gu cultivators can't beat these two colors of puppets; they can only use human sea tactics to surround them. Only after a bunch of people die can those puppets be fought to the death."

"And after the puppets die, they will also disappear into thin air. You won't be able to get a single bit of the secret silver and Geng metal on them."

Hearing this, Long Xuan couldn't help but gasp. Puppets built entirely from Geng metal essence, and there were twelve of them! How much Geng metal essence would that require?

He knew deeply how difficult it was to obtain Geng metal essence. Even through cheating methods to mine, he had only mined a basketball-sized piece of Geng metal essence, at most enough to make the head of one puppet.

He couldn't remain calm. Was the gap between rich and poor this big?

Leng Yan's expression at this time was quite calm, forming a sharp contrast with the shocked faces around her.

"It's very normal. Do you know that in the ancient era, materials were divided into twelve grades, and Geng metal was only a fourth-grade material, belonging to absolute trash materials."

"Trash materials were as many as you wanted in the ancient era. Geng metal was simply worthless at that time, belonging to things that were everywhere."

"And this ancient city comes from the ancient era. It's no surprise how many trash materials are inside."

"However, the predecessors enjoyed the blessings, and the successors suffered. The predecessors wasted the Geng metal clean. By our era, Geng metal has become a rare treasure."

"So you must never compare yourselves with the ancients; it's simply incomparable. We are poor because we weren't born in a good era." Leng Yan sighed.

Long Xuan glanced at her. Leng Yan had said similar things more than once. She yearned for the most glorious ancient era of Gu cultivation civilization. The more this scholar studied the ancient classics, the more she yearned for the era in the books.

Being told this by her, he even had the thought of wanting to invent a time-travel Gu and directly travel to the past. What kind of broken place was this? The resources were so thin that even dogs wouldn't stay here.

On the other side, Cai Shao and the Nine Prince were both looking at the city wall with serious expressions. A large number of Gu cultivators had gathered behind them, just waiting for the two to give the order, and they would kill their way into this city.

"Damn it, the number of puppets on the city wall has actually increased again. Just on this east city wall alone, there are already fifty thousand puppets."

"Four city walls, that's two hundred thousand puppets. Who knows how many puppets are guarding each room in the city? How is this supposed to be fought?"

"I have never fought such a difficult battle. Two thousand people attacking a city wall guarded by fifty thousand puppets. The attacking side has always had more people than the defending side. How can there be a reason for the side with fewer people to attack the city!"

The Nine Prince looked at the puppets on the city wall with an ugly expression and couldn't help but curse angrily.

He was a businessman, emphasizing profit, and never did business that lost money.

But now it seemed that they would have to die a massive number of people to take this sturdy city.

Once too many family experts died, the losses would be greater than the harvest in the city. Then this was a deal that didn't make money. How could he be willing to do this kind of losing business?

He was rational and saw at a glance that attacking this city would be a loss, but unfortunately, there was a Golden Toad he needed in the city, making him unable to even have the thought of leaving.

At this time, he still didn't know that there was a certain existence in the city who must let more than half of the people who entered the island die, so that the treasures in the city could achieve sustainable circulation. If this could make him money, then it would be a ghost.

This city-attacking operation was definitely a loss overall, but for those who survived, it was definitely a profit.

Cai Shao glanced at him and said, "Isn't this already something within expectations?"

"However, although the number of puppets is far greater than our side, puppets are dead, and people are alive. The combat power of puppets is far inferior to a Gu cultivator."

"Puppets come from the profession of puppet masters. A puppet master only needs to control a bunch of puppets to be on par with a Gu cultivator. A black iron puppet in the city is roughly equivalent to an outer Gu in the hands of a Gu cultivator; it's simply not worth worrying about."

"What's difficult are those silver puppets and golden puppets in the city. Those are the existences that truly give us a headache."

"According to the intelligence description, whether it's silver puppets or golden puppets, they all have the strength of Spirit Sea stage Gu cultivators."

"It just so happens that the Gu cultivators who can enter the Heavenly Island are all Essence Refining stage Gu cultivators. One-on-one, they are definitely no match. They can only use human sea tactics to surround them."

"If we really want to surround and kill all those puppets, we will have to die a lot, a lot of people."

"If we don't fight until we are hurt to the bones, it's simply impossible for us to take this city." Looking at the gold and silver puppets on the city wall, Cai Shao revealed a solemn expression.

(End of chapter)