Chapter 2305: Too Late for Aid

Inside the city, a brutal melee raged, but Ye Liuyun and his companions could only watch.

Ye Liuyun kept watching the Transmission Talisman, fearing they'd miss a plea for aid, yet there was never any sign.

Soon, the number of local Martial Cultivators killed approached thirty thousand.

But there was still no indication of a request for aid.

Each step the local Martial Cultivators took was a charge over the corpses of their comrades.

At that moment, the opposing Leader gave an order, sending squads from their central army forward onto the battlefield, instantly pushing back the local Martial Cultivators, then ordering the defending soldiers to fall back and rest while they continued to resist the assault.

The Holy Land soldiers were replaced by fresh troops, while the local Martial Cultivators' True Essence was nearly exhausted.

Their subsequent attacks were far weaker, and the Martial Cultivators who charged were almost all sacrificing themselves.

Seeing this, the Leader immediately ordered the soldiers to launch a counterattack.

As those soldiers surged forward, they actually gave the local Martial Cultivators a chance.

The Martial Cultivators also showed their ferocity, burning their own core pills, willing to die together with those soldiers.

Each side exchanged lives one for one, instantly breaking the Holy Land soldiers' formation.

"Kill!"

The local Martial Cultivators let out another shout, tens of thousands burning their core pills, charging into the soldiers' ranks and fighting desperately, truly erasing the soldiers' formation advantage.

Other Martial Cultivators, seeing the formation's power vanish, immediately surged forward, dealing heavy blows to those soldiers.

"Damned ants! Defend!"

The Leader hadn't expected that these Martial Cultivators would use suicide tactics to shield them.

He immediately redeployed a batch of defensive soldiers from the central army, forming a new defensive line.

As for the previously assigned defensive soldiers, they could no longer be withdrawn and were left to fight the local Martial Cultivators to the death.

This desperate clash left the local Martial Cultivators without combat power, and their three‑sided siege finally converged.

Ye Liuyun looked at the numbers; they still had thirty to forty thousand left.

Now both sides were in a stalemate; the Holy Land's main force had just suffered a heavy loss and dared not rashly attack them.

"Should we go in now?"

Zhao Hu and the others speculated on the side.

However, the Transmission Talisman still showed no sign.

Ye Liuyun and his group were becoming increasingly disappointed with these local Martial Cultivators.

The local Martial Cultivators were devouring pills, hastening Time Restoration.

Yet after a brief stalemate, the Holy Land's main force dispatched another squad from the central army, crossing their defensive line and attacking, giving them no chance to breathe.

The local Martial Cultivators immediately had countless of them charge out, depleting all their True Essence, then burning their core pills, recklessly rushing the squad, barely defending, determined to strike those soldiers even at the cost of their lives.

This death‑defying tactic left the Holy Land soldiers helpless.

They could only try to kill as many Martial Cultivators as possible.

This gave the local Martial Cultivators a 1‑to‑3 death ratio, an improvement over before.

But after several rounds of attacks, they were down to fewer than twenty thousand.

Zheng Huan had several times suggested to the city‑state's Elder to request aid, but they were all rejected.

"We Martial Cultivators of the Sky Wolf Realm must carve out our own glory and personally avenge our kin!"

The Elders said this with lofty righteousness.

Zheng Huan could do nothing but wait for the Elders' orders.

Of the more than twenty Martial Cultivators beside him, only seven or eight remained.

At that moment, the Holy Land's main force altered its formation, began to encircle them, trapping them at the foot of the city wall.

If they didn't withdraw now, they would surely be annihilated.

Yet having fought so hard to break in, they could not possibly retreat.

"Fight them! Come up with us!"

Several city‑state Elders this time personally led a group of Martial Cultivators forward.

Zheng Huan and those with him were left behind.

Because the Transmission Talisman was in Zheng Huan's hands.

And until now, they still left a city‑state Elder to watch Zheng Huan, preventing him from seeking aid.

"Elder, if we don't request aid now, we'll be wiped out."

"Even if Ye Liuyun and his group come to reinforce, they need time; once we can't hold, they'll assault the city again!"

Zheng Huan tried to persuade that Elder.

"Then let them assault the city! We've lost so many, yet they're so strong; if we don't wear them down a bit, it does no good for our world!"

The Elder said coldly.

Zheng Huan hadn't expected that their city‑state Elder would still entertain such a plan.

The shouts of killing and the booming of True Essence ceased again after a short while.

The batch of Martial Cultivators that had just surged forward were all spent fighting the Holy Land soldiers.

The Holy Land soldiers also suffered considerable casualties.

The soldiers who had just fought immediately began to fall back, letting the next rotation take the front, preparing to launch another attack.

At this point, the last city‑state Elder stepped forward, leading half of the Martial Cultivators, ready for battle.

"After we die in battle, you will immediately withdraw from this city and then request aid from Ye Liuyun."

The Elder instructed Zheng Huan.

"Do we really have to let them assault the city again?"

Zheng Huan thought this was somewhat unfair.

"We must do it! Otherwise, you're a traitor to the Heavenly Wolf Realm!"

The Elder threatened.

"Yes!"

Zheng Huan could only agree.

Only then did the Elder lead those Martial Cultivators forward.

By Zheng Huan's side, only five thousand Martial Cultivators remained at this moment.

At this time, the people around Ye Liuyun also began to discuss.

"These people aren't planning to send everyone to their deaths, are they?"

"The remaining five thousand are of no great use!"

"Should we dispatch troops first?

Otherwise we'll have to attack the Defense Array again later?"

Ye Liuyun, however, was calmly analyzing the situation together with Ye Tiandao, Yuan Hao, and the Tiger King.

"I wonder why these people seem to want us to attack the Defense Array again?"

Yuan Hao asked Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun sneered, "Heh heh, I guess they're afraid our strength is too great and want us to be worn out just like them!"

"Then do we still need to rescue the remaining people?"

Ye Tiandao asked Ye Liuyun.

"As long as they request aid, we must rescue them.

Otherwise we'd be violating the agreement!"

Ye Liuyun said, "But since they're being cunning, we don't need to follow them into a desperate fight.

We'll take it slow!"

"Isn't that basically a trap for us?"

Yuan Hao asked, puzzled.

Ye Liuyun replied indifferently, "What are we afraid of? The resources we lose in the siege, they'll compensate us fivefold!

Moreover, isn't this a good chance to train our troops?

Finding opponents of comparable level is hard.

I reckon these little schemes aren't something Zheng Huan and his men could devise.

Those of them are still very straightforward.

It must be the idea of those Elders!"