Chapter 495: Imminent

Waves of Shaman warriors, like a green tide, surged toward the domain.

Ding'an City was like a reef, persisting without falling in the scouring of the green tide. There were too many tides, and they rolled to both sides. Ding'an City was built on the mountainside, with flat land to the east and undulating mountains to the west and south.

The Shaman army split into two wings to outflank. On the plains, Little Wei Yuan had already built seven or eight small bunkers, each equipped with five or six cannons and a thousand warriors, forming a solid line of defense.

However, there were too many Shaman soldiers. There were 600,000 besieging Ding'an City, and 200,000 outflanking on each side. The two small bunkers distributed at the very front were captured by the Shaman tribe in an instant. The green tide washed over, and the people inside were instantly torn into pieces.

Two Great Shamans killed with excitement, jumped directly into the third small bunker, and began to slaughter the defenders. One of the Great Shamans turned his left hand into a blade of a *zhang* long, and with a casual wave, he could cut seven or eight human warriors into two!

At this time, three or five ordinary human warriors in front of him were scared pale and shrank into a place.

The Great Shaman liked people who huddled together the most, stuck out his two-foot-long tongue to lick the blood on the blade, and was about to slash down with one blow, when suddenly a large hand grasped his head and directly tore his head off!

The other Great Shaman saw the figure clearly and turned to flee!

The person walked out from behind the Great Shaman; it was Little Wei Yuan.

He reached out and removed the Great Shaman's blade, threw it with force. The blade was like electricity, instantly piercing the fleeing Great Shaman's body, taking away all his vitality.

Little Wei Yuan stood on the city wall of the bunker, a halo exploded in front of him, and a water blade with brilliant golden light shot out from his hand, sweeping across the endless Shaman army.

Little Wei Yuan's golden light water blade could dig rapidly underground. When it hit ordinary Shaman soldiers, it was completely irresistible. Wherever the water blade touched, the flesh and blood there would disappear instantly. The thick water blade swept horizontally, and an open space instantly appeared within dozens of *zhang* in front of Little Wei Yuan, with broken limbs, muddy flesh and blood, and rolling heads all over the ground.

A hundred *zhang* away, a large flag stood, and the flag was the identification of the Legion Commander. The Shaman tribe generally required five or six 10,000-man teams to form a legion, and then multiple legions combined into a large legion.

Little Wei Yuan saw the large flag, and the water blade immediately changed direction, shooting straight at the large flag, crushing and cutting along the way, shattering countless Shaman army warriors into meat mud!

This way of dying was too terrifying, and the morale of this legion was immediately shaken. And when the Legion Commander watched the water blade cut through the army and approach, he was already scared out of his wits and turned to run.

Although his position was high, he was only a Great Shaman himself. He was able to sit in this position entirely because of his noble bloodline, not because his ability was much stronger than others. He had just seen Little Wei Yuan tear two Great Shamans apart with his hands, so how could he dare to take Little Wei Yuan's blow?

Once the Legion Commander fled, the large flag moved with him, the legion's morale collapsed instantly, and large groups of Shaman warriors began to retreat. And there were two more legions pressing up behind them, and the two sides collided with each other, resulting in countless casualties.

The city wall of Ding'an City was already covered with Shaman troops at this moment, the bunkers were completely surrounded, and one by one began to misfire, only the city tower was still firing desperately, constantly killing the Shaman tribe.

Shaman warriors had already jumped from the city wall into the city, and the reserve troops in the shelter could not show their heads at all, let alone rush into the bunker to support.

In the City Lord's Mansion, Bao Yun finally gave the order, and a blood-colored smoke column went straight into the sky!

The tarpaulins on the tops of more than a dozen high towers behind Ding'an City were lifted, revealing dozens of modified city defense cannons. All the cannons fired at the same time, currently hitting the city wall in the front of Ding'an City!

The shells landed and exploded, and hundreds of shrapnel instantly cut countless Shaman warriors on the city wall into pieces, and the shock wave directly blew the surrounding Shaman army away. And the surviving human warriors hid in bunkers built of cement and steel plates, not afraid of shelling.

Immediately afterward, a sharp whistling sound rang out in the air, and more than a dozen missiles shot toward the Shaman army's central army. The Great Shamans in the Shaman army immediately took action, and hundreds of Shaman techniques wove a colorful flowing cloud in front, blocking the path of the missiles.

However, all the missiles changed direction at the same time, straight down, and finally exploded in front of Ding'an City, just falling into the densest place of the Shaman army!

More than a dozen huge fireballs rose slowly, and more than a dozen huge blanks suddenly appeared in the dense Shaman army formation. This wave of missile attacks directly took the lives of tens of thousands of Shaman army soldiers.

The cannons on the high towers behind Ding'an City roared continuously, continuously bombarding the Shaman army on the city wall. The Shaman army behind was pushed and squeezed to climb the city, but there was no cover or shelter on the bare city wall, and they were blown into ghosts and wolves, and some jumped directly from the city wall. Anyway, the city wall was not high, and they wouldn't die from jumping down.

But the Shaman army that rushed into the city was not so lucky. Taking advantage of the artillery fire blocking the reinforcements, the large Qingming heavy-armored elite appeared at this time, surrounded these light-armored Shaman warriors and killed them fiercely, and in the blink of an eye, all the thousands of Shaman troops who entered the city were beheaded.

The city defense cannons roared non-stop, and the artillery fire cleaned the city wall over and over again. This kind of shell with a lot of shrapnel had very limited damage to solid buildings, but its lethality to Shaman personnel was quite terrifying.

The Shaman tribe's giant beasts were originally hit hard by the first round of shelling during the siege, and now they were pulled out one by one. The city defense cannons on the city wall had all been destroyed, and the range of the high towers behind was limited and could not reach them, so the Shaman tribe drove the giant beasts to the front of the city again. There were also pack beasts pulling large carts following, and the carts were full of poison water leather balls. The giant beasts picked up the leather balls one by one, and this time they threw them directly into the city!

The leather balls landed and shattered, and the poison water flowed everywhere, which was particularly corrosive to wood. The wooden houses in the city collapsed in pieces. Some warriors accidentally stepped on the black water, immediately unable to stand, fell into the black water, and immediately let out heart-piercing screams.

The captain next to him stopped the subordinate who wanted to save the person, and then swung an ice blade, ending the subordinate's pain.

Little Wei Yuan's expression was cold, and he ignored the tragic situation in Ding'an City, just harvesting the fleeing Shaman army with the golden light water blade while waiting for the giant beasts to finish moving and gather in one place, and then his spiritual sense moved.

The whistling sound crossed the battlefield again, and more than ten missiles came at high speed, shooting at the Shaman central army again. And this time the Great Shamans learned to be smart. The interception Shaman techniques were not concentrated in one place, and many flying self-destructing Shaman insects were released. Wherever the Shaman army formation on the ground was too dense, the generals would immediately disperse, for fear of becoming a target for missiles.

But this time the missiles were guided by multiple cultivators, the trajectory was erratic, and then they scattered and fell into the Shaman army formation. Only two missiles flying slowly in the air suddenly accelerated, finally successfully broke through the interception, and landed in the giant beast group!

Each missile was loaded with a thousand *jin* of gunpowder, and it could be said that there was no grass growing within a radius of 50 *zhang*. Although the giant beasts were thick-skinned and fleshy, they could not withstand the explosion impact, and the shrapnel was infinitely powerful, capable of piercing through two or three giant beasts in a row.

The two missiles fell and immediately blew up half of the Shaman tribe's extremely precious war giant beasts, leaving less than a hundred. In contrast, the thousands of corpses and hundreds of divine archers brought by other missiles were nothing.

On the east side of Ding'an City, Little Wei Yuan was like a Dinghai Divine Needle, relying on the firepower of multiple small bunkers to hold off the attack of this wing of the Shaman army, while he also had to be distracted to control the overall situation.

On the west side of Ding'an City, Li Zhi led his direct troops to build positions here relying on the mountain terrain, and Little Wei Yuan specifically supplemented them with a large amount of firearms and ammunition.

But in the blink of an eye, all the ammunition was used up, and the Shaman army came all over the mountains and plains, rushed into the position, and began to fight hand-to-hand with Li Zhi's troops. At this time, an invisible force descended from the sky, and all the warriors were like they had been injected with chicken blood, the power in their bodies surged and boiled, and killing the Shaman army was like chopping melons and vegetables.

Although this force did not last long, totaling less than 30 breaths, it was enough for Li Zhi's troops to kill all the Shaman troops who rushed onto the position, forcing them to retreat and reorganize.

Looking one by one...

Little Wei Yuan was like the stingiest landlord, carefully calculating the nourishing power accumulated by Qingming, activating the "Moment of All Living Beings" as accurately as possible, and unwilling to open it for even a breath more.

At this time, he suddenly felt some abnormal and subtle changes between heaven and earth. A channel seemed to have opened above the sky, constantly sucking in something from below.

The colors deep in Little Wei Yuan's pupils changed, turning into one black and one white, and then he saw a scene that ordinary people and even the vast majority of cultivators could not see.

A huge vortex appeared in the sky, and a huge beam of light hung down from the center. Countless souls of the Shaman tribe who died in battle were drawn and flew toward the beam of light, and then flew up in the beam of light, flying out of the sky all the way!

The beam of light fell almost close to the Qingming domain, so it drew almost all the souls of the Shaman tribe who died in battle.

Little Wei Yuan didn't know what happened, but instinctively felt that it shouldn't be a good thing. What are they doing by taking these Shaman souls back?

Reincarnated as puppets? Refined into more powerful souls? Turned into fierce ghosts?

Little Wei Yuan's mind moved, and the young girl Yin-Yang in the earthly smoke and fire suddenly moved. Black and white areas extended from her feet, turning into two huge Yin-Yang fish. At the fish eyes, one was a Yang eye, faintly rising with flames, and the other was a Yin eye, floating with water light.

The distorted heaven and earth around her suddenly opened, and two black and white beams of light rushed straight into the sky!

Two faint Yin-Yang fish appeared under Little Wei Yuan's feet, rotating slowly. The Shaman souls that were close by immediately changed direction and threw themselves into the black and white light curtain one after another. Then many Shaman souls that were clearly entangled with dark red resentment also abandoned the beam of light hanging down from the sky and turned to throw themselves toward Little Wei Yuan.

For a time, the two forces repeatedly competed at a level close to the Dao, fighting for the wandering Shaman souls!

This was the competition between the young girl Yin-Yang and the magnificent will outside the sky, actually letting her grab back 20% of the souls.

Hongye on the altar 900 *li* away suddenly looked toward Qingming. In his perception, many Shaman souls disappeared inexplicably. Hongye's gaze pierced through layers of obstacles and saw the black and white light curtain around Little Wei Yuan.

"How dare you snatch the souls of my tribe!" A cold light flashed in Hongye's eyes, and with a wave of his large hand, two One You Wu were dispatched immediately and flew toward Qingming.

As the One You Wu entered the battlefield, the curtain of war had been fully opened.

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