Chapter 2148 - 2133: Pursuers and Ambushers

Chapter 2148: Chapter 2133: Pursuers and Ambushers

When thousands of streams of light from the central army and the left and right wing corps of the Demon Clan rushed toward the Vanguard Army Camp, two breaths later, the three thousand elite soldiers of the North Sea Heavenly Wave Army who were left behind began rapidly organizing their retreat.

But during the retreat, each of these three thousand elite soldiers of the North Sea Heavenly Wave Army held a Wind Winged Hunting Crossbow and, before flying out of range, they rapidly fired three consecutive shots.

They used the most ordinary crossbow bolts.

However, in the previous barrage, not all Demon Clan warriors were killed on the spot.

On the contrary, the proportion of Demon Clan soldiers who died on the spot was not high.

Among the eighty thousand Demon Clan vanguards, at most just over ten thousand were killed on the spot.

The others were mostly seriously wounded or injured, wounded but not dead.

The previous charge of these three thousand elite soldiers of the North Sea Heavenly Wave Army was precisely to harvest the lives of these wounded but not dead Demon vanguard soldiers.

Wounded beforehand, the effect of Ye Zhen’s Geomagnetic Field remained, and the influence of Ye Zhen’s Mystical Mechanism Avatar’s Nightmare Roar had not been completely dispelled, so these vanguard soldiers of the Demon Clan were almost like lambs to the slaughter for these three thousand elite soldiers of the North Sea Heavenly Wave Army.

As for the elite among the vanguards, they were all precisely hunted down by the Heavenly Patrol Divine Generals and the Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunters brought by Ye Zhen.

Even the mighty Demon Tribe of Realm King Realm, apart from some being hunted by the Heavenly Patrol Divine Generals, the most troublesome were personally dealt with by Ye Zhen, Sunx Ba, Niu Er, Liao Feibai, and the Little Demon.

In these few breaths of time, this place was like an Asura Slaughterhouse.

But the time was too short.

Two breaths later, the three thousand elite troops retreated, and three breaths later, the five hundred Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunters retreated.

By this time, the number of wounded but not dead Demon vanguard soldiers killed had exceeded thirty-five thousand.

The remaining elite soldiers killed on average about seven Demon Clan soldiers each.

However, before retreating, these three thousand elite soldiers of the North Sea Heavenly Wave Army used the Wind Winged Hunting Crossbow for three rounds of precise attacks, the hit rate on these slow-moving and wounded Demon soldiers was over sixty percent.

Three rounds of precise hunting killed at least another five thousand.

As the three thousand elite soldiers of the North Sea Heavenly Wave Army retreated, a team of about a hundred black-robed military judges also followed suit.

"Senior Sister, Brother Monkey, let’s retreat!"

Liao Feibai glanced at Ye Zhen, and the Profound Ice Immortal Sword in his hand suddenly burst out with dazzling cold light, the pale blue Sword Light flying out like a whirlwind, and in an instant, within a radius of a thousand meters, everything was filled with chilly Sword Light.

Within a radius of a thousand meters, all Demon soldiers either turned into ice sculptures or were pierced by the icy blue Sword Light.

With this one move, Liao Feibai killed at least fifteen hundred soldiers of the Demon Clan.

After executing this move, Liao Feibai’s Spiritual Power aura rapidly declined, this move consumed seventy percent of Liao Feibai’s internal Spiritual Power.

"Not bad comprehension, she can already manifest three-tenths of the power of my Ice Sword Rain move, she indeed has a talent for the Sword Dao!"

In Ye Zhen’s Dark Palace, the sound of the Purple Spirit Immortal Sword rang out.

Liao Feibai mainly cultivates Ice Element Cultivation Technique and Sword Dao, the Ice Element Cultivation Technique is straightforward, but finding a master of Sword Dao is difficult.

With time, the Purple Spirit became both Liao Feibai’s mentor and sister, often hanging out together, especially when Ye Zhen was cultivating inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

According to Liao Feibai, the Purple Spirit is guiding her in Sword Dao.

Ye Zhen acknowledges the Purple Spirit’s Sword Dao, so he pays no mind.

If you calculate the time inside the Mirage Dragon Pearl, the Purple Spirit has been guiding Liao Feibai in Sword Dao for more than ten years.

Ye Zhen is not sure to what extent Senior Sister Liao Feibai’s Sword Dao cultivation has reached.

But what he saw today left Ye Zhen astonished.

With a cultivation at the Ninth Stage of the Dark Palace Realm, one slash could kill even a Third Stage Realm King Realm Demon Clan, the combat power is truly astonishing.

Amidst the shouts, Ye Zhen rolled up a sleeve, collecting the exhausted Senior Sister Liao Feibai into the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

As for the Long-Armed Fire Monkey King Sunx Ba, he let out a discontented roar, and in an instant of retreat, his two long arms suddenly extended to a thousand meters or more, sweeping in a wide arc like giant arms, crushing everything in the opposite direction.

Where the double arms passed, any Demon Clan below Realm King Realm turned into a mush of bones and flesh on the spot!

The Nine-Headed Beast, in the midst of a delightful slaughter, hearing Ye Zhen’s command, shook its nine heads wildly, spewing beams of multicolored brilliance, and then flew towards Ye Zhen.

Within the multicolored brilliance, there was the Five Elements Spiritual Power and various poisonous gases, the demons covered in the area were immediately annihilated.

In a swift motion towards Ye Zhen, the Nine-Headed Beast revealed its massive body, slithering across the ground, while the sound of plops echoed incessantly, the sound of Demon soldiers being crushed.

By the time it reached Ye Zhen, the Nine-Headed Beast had five Demon soldier corpses clamped in its mouth, chewing viciously, exhibiting extreme ferocity.

Seeing this, Ye Zhen was somewhat stunned.

Today was the first time Ye Zhen allowed the Nine-Headed Beast to go all-out; its fierceness was fully unleashed.

This is what an Ancient Fierce Beast is all about!

At the same moment, ten thousand or more razor-sharp, black glowing poisonous thorns were swiftly ejected from the frantically ascending vines emerging from the underground, accurately striking the heads of the wounded but not dead Demon soldiers.

Under the full force attack by the Little Demon at the peak of Early Dao Realm, without any resistance, more than ten thousand Demon soldiers instantly perished.

Almost simultaneously, a green light emerged from the ground, transforming into a wooden hairpin that circled above Ye Zhen’s head.

"Little Cat!"

In the instant Ye Zhen soared into the sky, the innate fire spirit of the Bone-attached Poison Flame Pearl, prompted by Ye Zhen, flew out once more, as if sneezing, magnificently spewing out thousands of fire dragons, directly draining the Spiritual Power from the Fire Spirit Palace within Ye Zhen’s Seven Mysterious Spirit Palace.

Yet at the same time, it turned the entire Vanguard Camp into a sea of fire.

A sea of fire that was inextinguishable and clung like bone.

In the sky, the War Soul Blood Flag unfurled once more, devouring the Divine Souls of the last wave of slain Demon Clan soldiers, and with Xuan Ji’s avatar, transformed into a streak of blood light, merging into Ye Zhen, who was astride Little Cat’s back.

By this time, Ye Zhen could already see clearly the furious faces of thousands of elite soldiers charging from the Left Wing, Right Wing, and Central Army camps of the Demon Clan.

He could even hear the angry roars of more than a dozen Dao Realm experts rushing fastest.

Twenty miles!

The nearest Dao Realm expert was already less than twenty miles from Ye Zhen!

However, at this moment, Ye Zhen was not at all nervous, a slight smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. Casually, he tossed out a pre-prepared stele, lightly tapped Little Cat’s head, and the void quivered slightly, allowing Little Cat to vanish into thin air with Ye Zhen!

A breath later, the vast Divine Soul waves of more than a dozen Dao Realm experts instantly covered the entire space of Ye Zhen’s disappearance direction, also enveloping the entire Vanguard Camp.

Their faces turned ashen in an instant!

The Vanguard Army, the casualties... were extremely severe!

Over sixty-five thousand were killed on the spot!

Of the remaining fifteen thousand, ten thousand were severely injured, and how many of these severely injured could survive was still uncertain.

This loss, for a corps, was already infinitely close to complete annihilation!

In just a breath afterward, the corps leader of this Demon Army, a mid-stage Dao Realm Moon Demon Corps Leader, Yue Dai, who had just rushed over, immediately started asking the survivors at lightning speed.

After quickly querying the survivors, Corps Leader Yue Dai was so enraged that he shouted out loud!

"A surprise attack of around sixty thousand!"

"They couldn’t have gone far, pursue them, concentrate the most elite forces, and chase them for me!"

Soon, elite tracking Shadow Demons pointed out the direction of Ye Zhen’s army’s retreat, and more than four thousand experts, all at or above the Late-stage Dark Palace Realm cultivation level, pursued along the retreat direction of Ye Zhen’s Heavenly Wave Army of North Sea.

The speed of these pursuers was, compared to Ye Zhen’s Heavenly Wave Army of North Sea, even though Ye Zhen’s army used a Spirit Boat, still two to three times faster.

Especially the speeds of those more than a dozen Dao Realm experts, which were currently four times that of the Spirit Boat, quickly following the trail.

However, just five hundred miles into their pursuit, the dozen or so Dao Realm experts suddenly appeared as if they were startled, with Spiritual Power surging violently around them.

"Stop!"

"Stop"

"Stop immediately!"

The more than a dozen Dao Realm experts shouted sharply, and in the midst of their cries, each forcibly halted in place, or changed direction, or rushed into the clouds, or into the ground, but none moved forward.

Some Dao Realm Demon Lords, because of this intense Spiritual Power fluctuation, sustained internal injuries then and there, coughing up blood.

The approaching Realm King Realm and Dark Palace Realm Demons suddenly halted, each one looking towards the roiling fog opposite!

A glance was all it took for them to be tremendously alarmed. Those that were closer frantically retreated several miles before feeling safe.

In the rolling mist, hundreds of Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows loomed indistinctly, and the massive crossbow bolts, ten zhang long, flashed with mysterious talisman light, emitting an imposing aura.

Behind the hundreds of Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows, there were no fewer than three thousand Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbows, the bolts on them flickering with firelight, emanating a terrifying aura.

This was the reason the more than a dozen Dao Realm experts had urgently halted and changed direction, even at the cost of sustaining internal injuries.

Because Ye Zhen’s army was already in position with heavy weaponry!

The Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbow, long known as the Great Zhou Dynasty’s ultimate weapon.

A single Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbow might not be able to kill a Dao Realm expert, but if ten or twenty crossbows hit simultaneously, even a Dao Realm expert would meet their end on the spot.

And there were at least two hundred and fifty Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows here.

The Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbow was another of the Great Zhou Dynasty’s most intimidating weapons; under the covering fire of three thousand Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbows, anything below the Dao Realm would surely perish.

And even a Dao Realm Demon Lord would suffer severe injury.

If, at this moment, any of the opposition’s experts dared charge over, the consequences would be unimaginable...

Seeing this setup, the elite experts of the pursuing Demon Clan troops were completely dumbfounded, hastily retreating to a safe distance.

Corps Leader Yue Dai of the Moon Demon, who had just arrived in pursuit, looked at this setup, his face changing to an extremely unsightly expression in an instant.

How could the enemy’s equipment be so strong?