Chapter 950: War of Wealth and Strength (2)

Yin Wu Shuang's outrage.

In the Supreme Demon State, he was the cousin of Yin Wu Ying, and hardly anyone dared provoke him.

In the Fufeng Divine Dynasty, as the most ferocious hound beside Yin Wu Ying, his fearsome reputation was widespread, enough to stop children's night crying.

He had never been insulted like this from childhood to adulthood.

"Kill him!" Yin Wu Shuang let out a low growl, then he suddenly grinned and shook his head: "No, capture him alive… This brat may be a bit lewd, but upon closer look, he's actually tender-skinned and fresh-fleshed."

Li Ergouzi on the city wall clearly heard Yin Wu Shuang's evaluation of him.

He instantly shuddered all over, and the hairs on his body stood up one by one.

"This… damn it." Li Ergouzi muttered: "I thought you were just eyeing Wuguo's wealth, but I didn't expect you to also take a liking to this old dog's beauty."

Shaking his head, Li Ergouzi suddenly gave a slightly self-satisfied smile: "However, you do have some taste. I never imagined that this old dog, so suave and charming, would be appreciated only by his enemies."

Beneath the city, in the huge cavern, Wu Tie heard Yin Wu Shuang's order clearly, and also heard Li Ergouzi's shameless self-praise. He curled his lip, feeling disgusted inside: "Li Ergouzi, if you think you're really a beauty that could topple nations… heh, how about I kick you out of the city with one foot?"

Wu Tie said with a sinister tone: "In ancient times, there was a saying called marriage alliance… Perhaps sending this suave and charming Li Ergouzi to that bastard outside the city could avert this war."

Wu Tie's voice sounded gloomy and cold beside Li Ergouzi's ears.

Li Ergouzi's body jerked, he let out a strange cry from fright, and began to scream: "Enough, enough, this day is unbearable… Bastards, you won't let this old dog have an easy time; this old dog will stake all his possessions and fight you to the death."

Yin Wu Shuang stood there outside the city, dazed.

"Stake all his possessions?"

"What does that mean?"

Shouldn't it be—"stake all his possessions and life" to "fight to the death"?

You just "stake all his possessions"?

"'Possessions' probably means 'wealth'?"

Yin Wu Shuang was pondering this saying when he saw his thirty-thousand-strong Imperial Guard demon army's formation strike again heavily; hearing a huge boom, the City Defense Grand Formation of Slay Ghost City 108 was once again breached by over ten layers.

The city walls trembled slightly; the self-detonation of over two hundred artillery platforms earlier had not only killed more than ten thousand demon troops, but also affected the walls. Thus, several places on the walls saw the sealing runes crack open tiny gaps, from which flames continually spewed.

The City Defense Grand Formation had been considerably weakened, making the Imperial Guard demon army's attacks more effective.

Yin Wu Shuang smirked coldly, watching Li Ergouzi shouting on the city wall, and began to plot how to deal with him.

The Imperial Guard demon army let out a low, menacing laugh; the thirty thousand demon troops were all invigorated, and the huge demon god phantom on the formation brandished its long blade, chopping down once more at the City Defense Grand Formation.

The demon troops dazed by the artillery self-detonation also rallied; twenty-seven demon units quickly combined, forming from the twenty-seven scattered units three massive, fiercely imposing grand formations.

Altogether four demon grand formations, taking advantage of the shaken foundation of the City Defense Grand Formation, all launched fierce assaults on the city.

Watching layer after layer of the City Defense Grand Formation's light clusters explode, turning into scattered specks of light filling the sky.

Behind Yin Wu Shuang, a close aide who had not rushed forward to fight exclaimed in surprise: "Strange, this formation's appearance is extraordinary, but its defensive power seems not to have reached the proper level."

Before his voice faded, on the city wall a white-robed formation master staggered up the horse path behind the wall, shouting at Li Ergouzi: "Old dog, old dog, we told you before, the crystals in the City Defense Grand Formation must not be embezzled, must not be embezzled……"

"The number of crystals in the formation is insufficient, not enough……"

"The power of the City Defense Grand Formation is only thirty percent of its peak!"

"Only thirty percent……"

The white-robed formation master wept, tears and snot streaming down together.

Yin Wu Shuang stared, then turned to look at his close aide, silently sneering with bared teeth: "As for Wuguo, brothers, any other ideas?"

Over a dozen commanders closely following Yin Wu Shuang fell silent for a moment, then simultaneously made a throat-cutting gesture.

If everyone in Wuguo were like Li Ergouzi… heh, heh!

The next moment, Li Ergouzi screamed hysterically: "Enough, enough, this day really is unbearable… stake all my possessions… stake everything, all my possessions!"

Li Ergouzi waved his hand, and a meatball the size of a water jar, entirely dark green, its surface uneven, with thumb-thick blood vessels bulging out, flew from the ring on his finger and crashed heavily to the ground.

"What is…?" Yin Wu Shuang stared blankly, and his dozen or so close aides behind him also stared blankly.

With a muffled "boom," the dark green meatball exploded, spewing vast dark green smoke that instantly enveloped a formation of ninety thousand demon troops.

Amidst the hissing sounds, over a thousand of the nearest demon troops immediately howled and collapsed; their armor and flesh were instantly corroded to a rotten state, especially their flesh, which turned into green poisonous water that sprayed everywhere.

Then three or four thousand demon troops inhaled the dark green smoke, and green poisonous water immediately poured out of their seven orifices.

"Poison! Deadly poison!" The nine demon commanders controlling that formation all shouted hoarsely: "Take the detox pill!"

As an elite force of the Supreme Demon State, this demon troop's equipment was top-notch, and its logistical supply was first-rate.

The tens of thousands of demon troops enveloped by the dark green smoke all pulled out medicine, producing uniform thumb-sized, crimson-red detox pills with curling red smoke on the surface, and shoved them into their mouths as fast as possible.

"Useless!" Li Ergouzi half his body protruded from the battlements, screaming hysterically: "Useless… you poor ghosts! If your detox pill isn't a Grand Dao Treasure Pill, you might as well wait to die!"

Li Ergouzi roared loudly: "This is the main ingredient this old dog uses to concoct the 'Thousand Toxic Myriad Miasma Return Yang Pill'—the inner core of a ten-thousand-year-cultivated underground black calamity ghost-face black spider!"

"Either one must have the cultivation of a tenfold heavenly divine realm with an indestructible vajra body, or else take a specially detoxifying Grand Dao Treasure Pill… otherwise, you might as well wait to die!"

Li Ergouzi pounded his chest hard, even taking off his breastplate and undoing his clothes to reveal a patch of white, skin-and-bones chest where each rib was clearly visible, and he howled hysterically toward the outside.

"This inner core alone is worth three prefectures!"

"This old dog just threw it out like that—I really did throw it out!"

"Did this old dog blink? No!"

Li Ergouzi, saliva spraying everywhere, screamed hysterically: "This old dog didn't blink, didn't blink… this old dog was so generous as to throw it out! Just a casual toss—splash—and you lot have died so many!"

"Isn't it satisfying?"

"Isn't it exciting?"

"Want more?"

Li Ergouzi leapt onto the battlements, began to sway his withered hips in an extremely flirtatious manner, shouting at the outside: "This old dog is right here… beg this old dog, let this old dog give you guys a little more of a kick!"

Below, the demon troops shrouded in the dark green smoke had already collapsed in droves, over ten thousand of them; each one spewed poisonous water from their seven orifices, then quickly turned into a puddle of deadly toxic pus and blood that sprayed everywhere.

"Retreat!" Yin Wu Shuang barked in a cold, sinister tone.

The demon troop enveloped by the poisonous smoke rapidly withdrew backward, while retreating, demon soldiers kept falling dead on the spot; after they left the smoke's range, fewer than sixty thousand demon troops remained.

Moreover, these sixty thousand people were all poisoned; their skin turned green, and toxic fluid continually seeped from their pores.

Yin Wu Shuang looked grimly at these poisoned soldiers, he fell silent for a moment, then said in a low voice: "Losing half is better than losing all."

He raised his right hand and swung it downward.

Then a chorus of wails rang out; in the withdrawn demon unit, exactly half of the demon troops simultaneously turned into pus and sprayed.

The remaining half of the demon troops instantly became uninjured, with all internal poison completely gone. Moreover, their vital energy surged greatly, and everyone's cultivation rapidly increased.

These elite demon troops originally had strength ranging from advanced to peak Fetal Storage Realm.

Yin Wu Shuang used an extremely vicious demon technique, directly sacrificing half the demon troops so they bore all the poisonous damage. The sacrificed half's vital energy and cultivation were transferred one-to-one into the bodies of their nearby comrades.

Most of the advanced Fetal Storage Realm demon troops made a rapid breakthrough, directly reaching the peak of the Fetal Storage Realm.

And over a thousand peak Fetal Storage Realm demon troops suddenly had their aura break through; streams of black demonic energy shot up to the heavens, twisted demonic path patterns writhed across their bodies, and they instantly crossed the threshold into the Divine Realm.

Yin Wu Shuang raised his head and coldly smirked at Li Ergouzi: "Thanks… sacrificing thirty thousand Fetal Storage Realm troops to gain over a thousand Divine Realm beings—this deal, General, I don't lose out."

Yin Wu Shuang pointed at Li Ergouzi and laughed: "That ten‑million‑year Black Spider Inner Elixir of yours is a bit of a waste. It didn't inflict even a scratch on my troops."

Li Ergouzi's face twitched slightly, and he sneered: "Your ninety‑thousand‑strong force now numbers less than thirty thousand; over sixty‑plus thousand were wiped out by me, Old Dog, and you claim there's no harm at all?"

Yin Wu Shuang snorted repeatedly: "My Supreme Demon State values only practical gain, not empty fame. Over a thousand Divine Realm beings are worth far more than a million Fetal Storage Realm troops—so, General, I've profited from this deal!"

Li Ergouzi stared in shock at Yin Wu Shuang: "What about the lives of over sixty thousand?"

Yin Wu Shuang looked at Li Ergouzi with a delighted smile: "You think I, as General, or my Supreme Demon State, would care about a mere sixty thousand people?"

Yin Wu Shuang's body was shrouded in black qi; on his rather hideous face, a trace of extremely cold smile appeared: "What do you think a demon is?"

"Keep attacking!" Yin Wu Shuang gave a strange laugh, then forcefully swung his right hand toward the city wall.

Over a thousand demon troops in the midst of breaking through remained motionless; the remaining twenty‑plus thousand demon troops gave a shout, split into two groups, merged into two other armies each formed from ninety‑thousand demon troops, and continued to launch a fierce assault on the city.

The white‑robed formation master screamed hoarsely: "Old Dog, we can't hold them, we can't hold them……"

Li Ergouzi kicked the white‑robed formation master away, pointing at him and shouting furiously: "You bastard, if you weren't the father of the fifth concubine‑maid of my ninety‑eighth concubine, Old Dog would have chopped you up."

"What are you crying and shouting for? Mourning? I'm not dead yet! Old Dog, I'm as vigorous as a dragon and tiger!"

Li Ergouzi shouted angrily: "You bunch of idiots, eyes wide open, watch how Old Dog overcomes the enemy and defeats the strong foe!"

Gritting his teeth, Li Ergouzi muttered: "If we win this battle and the emperor doesn't grant us a dukedom, it'll be a loss."

Underground, in the cellar, Wu Tie rolled his eyes.

Below the city wall, the inner pellet that had just exploded released a dark‑green smoke that only covered an area of several li; this mass of smoke was unusually dense, heavy and yin in nature, and even a gale could not stir it.

The three demon armies avoided the smoke's shrouded area and wildly hacked at the city‑defending grand formation again.

Watching the city defense formation's layers of light shatter one after another, seeing its rebound speed slow more and more, until the last two or three layers seemed about to collapse, Li Ergouzi roared again: "It's over, it's over…… what's it matter if I'm a prodigal son? Old Dog, I am a prodigal son…… who made Old Dog an only son?"

"A single sprout in ten thousand acres of field…… Old Dog, I've gone to ruin!"

With a great shout, Li Ergouzi shook his hand and tossed several water‑jar‑sized objects toward the outside of the city.

With a shout, the three besieging demon armies outside the city hastily retreated.

With a few muffled "thuds", the several water‑jar‑sized objects hit the ground and slammed heavily into it.

The three demon armies came and went like the wind; they retreated backward, and in a moment they had withdrawn nearly a hundred li, whereupon several hundred thousand demon troops simultaneously turned to look, and instantly every face showed extreme astonishment.

That was…… piles upon piles of red‑, pink‑, and green‑colored bellybands and sweat‑cloths, bound together by soft cords of ambiguous hue and strong fragrance, tightly tied into water‑jar‑sized "brocade silk embroidered balls".

On those several embroidered balls, traces of unknown origin rouge and powder clearly clung, and furthermore, various inexplicable…… strange marks were densely spread across them.

Including Yin Wu Shuang, the faces of all the demon troops turned extremely splendid.

Li Ergouzi stared blankly, then suddenly laughed: "Ha, ha, ha, Gouye really is a genius, hahaha, these items are treasures sent by Gouye's lovers to keep as mementos; they actually managed to scare you lot away."

Twenty-some thousand burly men, actually scared away by a bunch of ladies' items.

Li Ergouzi pointed at the demon army outside the city and shouted loudly: "You lot, do you still have the nerve to attack the city?"

Whether they have face or not, Yin Wu Shuang's face has already turned black with anger.

They drew the saber at their waist, let out a loud shout, and personally charged on horseback toward the city.

Twenty-some thousand demon troops, thrown into disarray, grim-faced, each as if they had a blood feud with Li Ergouzi, roared hoarsely as they fiercely charged the city wall.