Chapter 2073: A Chaos

All the defending troops and the Profound Heaven Sect disciples also prepared for battle.

Ye Liuyun told Elder Yujian and Liu Xing, Li Xingrou and others that the formation eye's energy had already been dismantled, and they could finally relax.

Liu Xing also led the disciples of the Formation Pavilion to set up defensive formations, strengthening the city wall's defense.

Ye Liuyun then slipped out of the city, hurrying toward the Imperial Guard ambushed around the perimeter. Upon reaching the cave entrance, he began to have his clones use a staff to release poison.

Then he and his clones rushed into the cave, together with the Magic Vine, launching a Spiritual Soul Attack on the Martial Cultivators who were not poisoned.

This time, his Divine Soul Power was not lacking in consumption, and the Book Demon also rejoiced for him.

After eliminating the Martial Cultivators here, he took away the stored Crystal Stones and Crystal Stone Cannon, then rushed toward the next cave.

To prevent any soldiers from transmitting news before death, he also dispatched Jin Hui and Ning Fei to guard the other two entrances. If the Imperial Guard inside surged outward, they could stand at the entrance and kill them outright.

When Ye Liuyun attacked the next cave, the Imperial Guard in the other two caves indeed received orders to withdraw immediately.

The cave entrance was relatively narrow, with two Mid-Eighth Realm Martial Cultivators defending; they could not break through at all.

After Ye Liuyun swiftly exterminated the Imperial Guard here, he hurried to the other two caves one by one, primarily using poison killing, supplemented by the Magic Vine's devouring.

On the Imperial Guard side, no reinforcements arrived. Their main army lacked any Mid-Eighth Realm Martial Cultivators. There were two Mid-Eighth Realm cultivators, but they felt they could not solve the problem even if they came, so they could only watch the ambushed Imperial Guard be wiped out.

The Eastern Dynasty also learned that their ambushes around the mountains had been exposed, and asked the Martial Cultivator stationed in the Library inside the city whether the formation had any issues.

The Martial Cultivator, following Ye Liuyun's instructions, restored everything to normal.

They were somewhat uneasy and wanted to send someone to inspect, but Yu Xiaofeng's vanguard rushed quickly to the foot of Mist Hidden City.

As a result, the Eastern Dynasty could no longer come over to inspect.

While they hesitated whether to follow the original plan to encircle and annihilate the Death Legion, Xiao Yunfang and He Lian Xiu suddenly appeared with troops behind the ambushes on both sides of Mist Hidden City.

Yu Xiaofeng's main army suddenly accelerated, splitting into two routes: one charging straight toward Mist Hidden City, the other looping around to surround the army behind Mist Hidden City.

The Eastern Dynasty was now in complete chaos. They did not expect their carefully laid traps to be so easily uncovered by the Death Legion.

The Dynasty's ambushes on both flanks were counter‑encircled by Xiao Yunfang and He Lian Xiu, forcing them to retreat toward Mist Hidden City.

The only forces not targeted by the Death Legion were the twenty‑thousand Imperial Guard and fifty‑thousand main army they had left ambushed behind Mist Hidden City.

If they also withdrew, once Yu Xiaofeng seized this place, the armies on their left and right would be unable to break out at all.

If these ambushes did not retreat, they feared even these people would be wiped out by the Death Legion.

"Retreat!" the East Sea King reluctantly ordered.

He also knew that even if those soldiers stayed there, they were no match for the Death Legion. They could not hold the advantage of the city walls, let alone fight on open ground.

Thus, the rear route of Mist Hidden City fell smoothly into Yu Xiaofeng's hands.

The forty‑thousand Imperial Guard and fifty‑thousand main army on both sides were being driven toward Mist Hidden City. The front of Mist Hidden City, together with the Death Legion's armies on both flanks, were all pursuing them toward the city.

The surrounded Dynasty Army was now in chaos; some advocated defending the city, others suggested breaking out together from the rear.

The soldiers were only concerned with fleeing, and the entire army descended into disorder.

The Death Legion's vanguard squad was right in front of Mist Hidden City, yet they dared not attack; instead, some soldiers rushed straight to the city's two sides, hoping to enter first.

"Everyone, gather to the sides for defense!" Ye Liuyun commanded at once.

Thus all the soldiers and Profound Heaven Sect disciples gathered at the two sides of the wall, focusing on defending against the Dynasty's defeated troops.

"We are the Imperial Guard of the Eastern Dynasty; open the gates quickly and let us in!" the first Imperial Guard to arrive shouted at the defenders on the wall.

"Fire an arrow!" Ye Liuyun ordered, letting loose the first arrow that struck the shouting Leader dead.

The rain of arrows from the wall immediately poured down, killing a large group of unprepared Imperial Guard.

Those Imperial Guard, frightened, turned and fled, colliding with the soldiers arriving from behind, creating a chaotic scene.

In the midst of the chaos, even their Leader could not command the defeated troops. So some fled toward the breach Yu Xiaofeng had just taken, because Yu Xiaofeng had not launched an attack but left a flank only for ambush, waiting for them to charge here.

Some soldiers continued to try to enter the city, beginning an assault.

However, they lacked organization, strategy, or siege equipment, merely charging recklessly; they were blocked by the formations set by Ye Liuyun's side and repeatedly knocked down by the arrow rain.

Behind these defeated troops, three columns of Death Legion soldiers were desperately rushing here.

They all knew Ye Liuyun's city had few people and could not hold out long, so they wanted to quickly drive these defeated troops toward Yu Xiaofeng.

At this moment, despite Ye Liuyun's side holding firm, the sheer number of defeated troops was so great that some had already surged onto the wall, engaging in close combat.

Soon, the Death Legion's main force at the front of Mist Hidden City charged in, first relieving Ye Liuyun's encirclement and driving those defeated troops toward Yu Xiaofeng.

Then Xiao Yunfang and He Lian Xiu's army arrived, completely pushing those defeated troops toward Yu Xiaofeng's direction.

The Eastern Dynasty still fantasized that their arrangement worked, urging the Martial Cultivator guarding the Library to activate the formation, disregarding even their own soldiers' lives.

However, Ye Liuyun made that Martial Cultivator discard the Transmission Talisman, no longer obeying their orders.

The city's defenders and Profound Heaven Sect disciples, though just relieved from the siege, were now even more nervous.

Because when they faced the several Death Legion armies before them, they realized how powerful this force truly was.

The soldiers simply standing quietly at the foot of the city already made their hearts race.

Some defenders, upon seeing this, dropped their weapons outright, ready to surrender.

At this moment, a member of the Death Legion shouted to the Martial Cultivators inside: "Profound Heaven Sect disciples inside, listen: your Holy Son Murong Tian's team has been completely annihilated by us. Murong Tian has been slain on the spot."

While saying so, he lifted Murong Tian's severed head on a spear to display it.

Then he continued: "We do not wish to indiscriminately kill the innocent. After the fighting here ends, you are limited to withdraw from Mist Hidden City to beyond ten thousand li within three days, and immediately return to the Profound Heaven Sect."

"We guarantee we will not attack you. If you are concerned, your Team Leader may personally come to our main camp to supervise."

"The city's defenders, you have also borrowed light. Either withdraw together with the Profound Heaven Sect, or stay and surrender!"