Chapter 119: The Beginning of the Great Battle

"If trenches are dug like this, we can hide in other areas when the blood curse falls. As long as we lure the Wu Yu tribe into the trench position, we can weaken their advantage. What we need now is to drag out time; as long as we aren't crushed by their first wave, we have a chance!"

Yun Feifei and Xu Waner both felt there were still some problems. What if the Wu Yu tribe didn't enter the trenches and just stood on top and fought you? But before they could question him, Wei Yuan said, "It's decided! Start working!"

Since Wei Yuan had already decided, Yun Feifei and Xu Waner, although puzzled, had to execute it. Perhaps the high-level cultivators of the Tai Chu Palace had their own deep meaning.

Following his instructions, they gathered all the guards who had surrendered and assigned tasks to each of them. Dozens of cultivators were also confused by this order, but thinking that the high-level cultivators of the Tai Chu Palace must have deep meaning, they all honestly went to dig ditches.

Wei Yuan looked at Xu Wenwu's physique and dismissed the idea of letting this guy dig ditches, saying, "You stay here and think carefully again to see if you can come up with something useful."

Xu Wenwu was flattered and hurriedly sat down to rack his brains.

Wei Yuan rose into the air and saw nearly a hundred cultivators scattered everywhere, already digging hard, and even the Dao Foundation cultivators were no exception. Yun Feifei and Xu Waner didn't spare their Dao power; one Dao technique would move away mud and stones a square foot in size.

The ordinary warriors of the Wu Yu tribe moved like flying, agile and nimble, and could even fly over water in swamps. What they were best at were curse techniques and poison techniques, not physical strength. Luring them into trenches could limit their speed and force them to fight hand-to-hand in a narrow space. This was the reason Wei Yuan used to convince them.

But in reality, there was another reason: Wei Yuan discovered that he couldn't let those guards rest anymore; he had to make them do something. These people initially followed Wei Yuan based on a burst of hot blood and being intimidated by him, but now some had begun to waver, remembering the power of the Xu family and the terror of their methods. At this moment, some were already in groups of three or five, whispering and discussing how to escape.

So Wei Yuan had to quickly find something for them to do, so they wouldn't have time to think about those things. At the very least, he had to tie these people to his war chariot first. Fortunately, under Jia Wood Gives Birth to Xuan, the recovery speed was accelerated, so this group of people could persist much longer than normal when digging ditches.

Wei Yuan called Yun Feifei over again, asking her to go around the surrounding towns to notify them that the Wu Yu tribe's army was about to arrive, then call all those with cultivation to supplement the defense, and let those without cultivation disperse into the mountains and forests to hide, waiting for the Wu Yu tribe's army to retreat.

Yun Feifei didn't stop for a moment and flew away. An hour later, she returned with over a hundred cultivators, among whom there were actually a dozen or so Dao Foundation cultivators. Although they were all at the early stage of the Human Foundation and not even one was at the middle stage, it was still a force not to be underestimated.

According to Yun Feifei, there were hundreds more who had achieved Body Forging on their way; they couldn't fly and weren't as fast as those who had achieved Body Forging. So they would arrive one after another.

According to Yun Feifei, hearing that a cultivator from the Tai Chu Palace had taken action, resolutely established a Boundary Stone, and reopened this region, the people in the surrounding towns were moved to tears, running around to tell each other, and countless people were competing to come and assist in the defense. It was just that the blood curse of the Wu tribe was too lethal to ordinary people, so Yun Feifei didn't let them come, but only picked those who had achieved Body Forging.

With these people, Wei Yuan felt a little more confident.

Over the next few hours, cultivators arrived one after another. Yun Feifei and Xu Waner gathered these people, organized them into several teams, and went to dig trenches together. After several hours of continuous digging, ten layers of trench groups, like a huge spider web, had formed on the ground. Yun Feifei selected a captain and a deputy captain for each team and then assigned initial combat areas.

Taking advantage of this gap, Wei Yuan carefully communicated with the Azure Void.

The Boundary Stone's transformation of heaven and earth was not achieved overnight, but expanded gradually from the Boundary Stone as the center until it reached the limit. An ordinary Boundary Stone could expand half a mile outward a day, while the Azure Void could expand ten miles.

Wei Yuan's heart moved, and he let the Azure Void shrink the area. Sure enough, the surrounding poisonous miasma and dampness spread rapidly, and the surroundings became the same as before the Azure Void was planted. Wei Yuan expanded the area again, and this time the speed of heaven and earth transformation was much faster, changing into a human-clear domain in less than a quarter of an hour. At this moment, Wei Yuan was not idle in his sea of consciousness, either; he molded stones into flying swords one by one, lining them up around the Jade Mountain. Several hours passed, and he had already molded over a hundred flying swords. At this moment, Wei Yuan felt a bit regretful; the letter to Xiaoyu was written too conservatively. He should have written: "My Dao Foundation has newly forged a hundred immortal swords; dare you come and take a look?"

While still preparing for battle, a beacon smoke suddenly rose in the distance. That was an alarm device set up by Yun Feifei. Small groups of Wu Yu troops might be able to infiltrate, but a large army could not sneak in and would inevitably trigger the alarm.

The place where the beacon smoke rose was still two hundred miles away. Wei Yuan communicated with the Azure Void and retracted the boundary domain. A moment later, this heaven and earth was occupied by damp poisonous fog again. At this moment, hundreds of cultivators were already waiting in their respective positions, their faces filled with tension and the impassioned spirit of being ready to die.

Many of them didn't think they could win at all; they just knew they had no way out. Since someone had established a Boundary Stone, they might as well fight to the death!

Wei Yuan was on high ground, surrounded by a dozen selected cultivators. These cultivators were all physically strong and could wear heavy armor to charge. Beside Wei Yuan stood a horse; this horse was entirely crimson, with only some white and cyan mixed colors on its four hooves, nearly ten feet tall, and extremely majestic.

This horse originally belonged to Xu Wenwu, but a small amount of the luck Wei Yuan had sent over twice had not been taken back, and this horse was also significantly stronger; at this moment, it was a famous breed among ordinary horses, looking extraordinary. Wei Yuan needed a mount to charge, so he took this horse.

A large black cloud appeared on the distant horizon, rolling over, and faint blood light could be seen in the clouds. That was the sign of the arrival of the Wu Yu tribe's army. At this moment, a middle-aged man beside him looked at the blood cloud from afar, his expression solemn, and said, "Looking at this cloud, the Wu tribe has brought at least ten thousand people, and there is a Great Shaman!"

Another man sneered, "What, are you afraid?"

The middle-aged man was furious and said, "Everyone who dares to stand here now is prepared to die, right? You saying this is truly meaningless!"

That person's expression straightened, and he said, "Then I wronged you, Daoist Brother; I apologize."

The middle-aged man snorted and said, "That's not necessary; why don't we compete later to see who kills more!"

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The black cloud approached in the blink of an eye, and under the cloud was a dark mass of the Wu Yu tribe's army. In the center of the army was a huge platform, on the upper level of which stood a throne, where a Great Shaman wrapped in a black robe sat, surrounded by dozens of shaman curses and generals, each of them wreathed in blood energy. At the four corners of the platform stood four high fire pillars, and in the fire basins at the top of the pillars burned eerie green fires, constantly throwing some invisible things into the sky.

The Great Shaman looked at the old site of the Lan Shen Palace not far away and saw a streak of clear energy rising, though it was still dim, struggling against the surrounding ink-green aura.

The Great Shaman was furious and said, "Sure enough, a Boundary Stone has been established. What great courage! But it has just been established and has not yet formed a boundary domain. There are quite a few strong offerings hidden there; go, catch them all and bring them back! After this battle ends, I want to offer them to heaven immediately!"

The Great Shaman's voice was low and hoarse, accompanied by bursts of hissing sounds, as if countless insects were rubbing their wings. Following his order, four thousand soldiers of the Wu tribe's vanguard immediately accelerated, like a swarm of insects crawling on the ground, ferociously crashing into the old site of the Lan Shen Palace.

One by one, the strangely shaped Wu tribe warriors ran at full speed, faster than galloping horses. When the first row of warriors approached the trenches, they leaped into the air one after another, charging directly into the human position.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 120 =====