Chapter 2304: Brutal Battle

Lei Ming doesn't understand battle formations, but she has never seen such a long standoff without launching an attack.

After tossing about for half a day, the local martial cultivators finally arranged their ranks and quieted down.

"The time for revenge has come! Kill these beasts!"

One martial cultivator shouted loudly, and these martial cultivators finally launched an attack.

"Kill!"

Martial cultivators roared in unison; the first unit on each side began to charge toward the city wall.

However, the Holy Land soldiers stationed inside the city did not engage, but directly activated the defense array, letting them attack.

"The Holy Land army wants to wear down their morale and true essence!"

Yuan Hao explained to everyone.

Ye Liuyun then released Qiong Qi, who was currently refining artifacts, to let him observe the enemy's defense array.

"The formation is set up quite well!"

Upon seeing it, Qiong Qi also exclaimed in admiration: "They have a fairly formidable formation master."

"I'll catch him later and interrogate him!"

He obviously wants to capture that formation master to learn from him, but he's unwilling to admit he's not as good as others.

Upon hearing this, Ye Liuyun immediately inquired about that formation master's information via the slave seal to Han Mutong.

"Just an ordinary formation master, not a notable figure!"

Han Mutong, however, basically didn't care much and told Ye Liuyun the formation master's appearance.

"It seems the Holy Land's formation, pill-refining, and artifact-refining techniques are all much stronger than ours!"

Ye Liuyun secretly thought: "Even someone as proud as Qiong Qi is interested in their formations, which shows their level is considerably higher than ours."

Ye Liuyun now also began to worry: if the Holy Land people treat other worlds with this attitude, how should we respond?

You should know that those two halls capable of receiving treasures are likely supplied by the Holy Land.

If these two sources were cut off, they would lack many high-end resources.

But he quickly set aside this problem, deciding to take things step by step.

The immediate problem is still to increase strength.

He originally thought his own legions were strong enough, but now seeing the Holy Land definitely has even stronger troops.

Their current opponent is merely a relatively weak troop.

The local martial cultivators are still taking turns launching attacks on the defense array.

One unit attacks for a while, then is swapped out with another unit, allowing the previous attackers time to recover their true essence.

"If they keep attacking at this pace, they'll have to fight for at least half a day! By then, their true essence will have been depleted by at least half!"

Qiong Qi analyzed.

He also asked Ye Liuyun: "Why aren't you making a move now?"

Ye Liuyun could only bitterly say: "The locals don't trust us, and they also have confidence they can breach the city, so our agreement with them is to wait for their notice."

Without their notice, we cannot act.

"These idiots are preparing to go to their deaths! Never mind them—just focus on helping me capture that formation master!"

After saying that, Qiong Qi couldn't be bothered to look further and returned to the Space World to continue refining artifacts.

Ye Liuyun also told the soldiers ready for battle that they had half a day before they would engage, telling them to maintain formation and rest in place.

The momentum of the local martial cultivators was also gradually being worn down in the process of attacking the defense array.

After half a day, the defense array was finally blasted apart, and the Holy Land army's soldiers also began to go up onto the city wall to start defending; only then did the bloody battle truly begin.

As expected, not beyond Ye Liuyun's expectation, the local martial cultivators suffered heavy losses in the process of storming the city.

The five teams they had previously divided into had already taken turns fighting in a round, yet they still hadn't broken through the defense on the city wall.

On the surface, the local martial cultivators fought vigorously, but in fact the enemy was also orderly rotating their defenses, and casualties were not large.

Ye Liuyun and company patiently waited for nearly two hours, after which the local martial cultivators finally mounted the city wall and began to slaughter their way inside.

The local martial cultivators also began to cheer, as if they had already won, all rushing together into the city, and the original five-team formation was instantly thrown into disorder.

However, this chaos also caught the city's defenders somewhat off guard, indeed causing some confusion.

Ye Liuyun knew this confusion of the Holy Land army was only temporary; he immediately issued the order: "The Shock Troops and Death Legion prepare to enter the city, use equipment to break defenses, preserve strength! The Beastmen Legion will wait until they enter the city, then encircle it."

The army behind Ye Liuyun had also made ready to sortie, just waiting for the transmission talisman in Ye Liuyun's hand to convey information.

Shouts of killing continuously came from within the city; Ye Liuyun and company opened their divine sense to scout the battlefield inside.

The local martial cultivators were indeed fighting desperately; the two sides engaged in melee, and for a moment flesh and blood flew everywhere, casualties immediately began to increase greatly.

Under the assault of the Holy Land legion's formation, the local martial cultivators had to sacrifice the lives of three to five people to gain a chance to kill a single Holy Land soldier.

The local martial cultivators had lost unified command, their eyes red with killing, and they were merely charging forward blindly driven by hatred of the Holy Land soldiers.

"These people are indeed fierce! It's just a pity they die so needlessly!"

Zhao Hu, upon seeing this, continually felt regret.

Everyone else also sighed, but Ye Liuyun, Ye Tiandao, and Yuan Hao were fixated on monitoring the Holy Land army's movements.

Their central forces were as solid as rock, and the local martial cultivators couldn't even break through their outer perimeter.

"The defense is quite perfect; we can only forcefully tear a gap!"

Yuan Hao couldn't help but praise.

"Hmm."

Ye Liuyun also agreed with Yuan Hao's statement, but he also said: "Even the tightest defense is still made of flesh and blood."

Using puppet beasts and war chariots to charge will easily disrupt their formation."

"When will we act?"

Ye Tiandao then asked Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun shook the transmission talisman in his hand.

"They haven't made a move yet, just wait!"

"They've already suffered over ten thousand casualties!"

Ye Tiandao said.

She was a bit soft-hearted, wanting to persuade Ye Liuyun to act early.

Ye Liuyun also understood her meaning, and explained to her: "We cannot act prematurely.

Otherwise, even if we win, they won't be grateful to us; instead, they'll say we didn't keep the agreement.

"Let them fight to their heart's content! Unless they suffer a big loss, they will never realize how great the price they must pay is."

Then Ye Tiandao stopped speaking, merely silently observing the movements of the holy land's great army.

Ye Liuyun, meanwhile, was searching for that formation master.

For that formation master, he must personally deal with him, using the Red Eye or a spiritual soul attack; if he manages to activate his attack or defense formation first, then there's nothing we can do to capture him.

The battle within the city continued, with local martial cultivators being bombarded and killed one after another by the garrison troops.

Under their desperate assault, the garrison troops also gradually retreated inward, likewise leaving behind many corpses.

The ground where they fought had already been stained red with blood.