Chapter 2149 - 2134: Meeting Gift

Chapter 2149: Chapter 2134: Meeting Gift

The Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbow, an immense weapon that can heavily wound or even obliterate Realm King Realm experts with a single shot, and dozens aimed together could heavily damage or even kill Dao Realm experts, is a highly valuable piece of equipment even in the military of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The materials required for its crafting are extremely precious. For instance, the main body of the crossbow must be made from the spine of Ancient Fierce Beasts or four-clawed and five-clawed Dragons. As for the bowstring, at the very least, it must be crafted from the tendons and fascia of Ancient Fierce Beasts or Dragon Clan.

Apart from the precious materials, the crafting process is also exceedingly complex.

It is said that it requires at least ten Great Sun Priests of the Ancestor God Temple to inscribe countless engravings on it over several attempts to succeed.

Therefore, although the Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbow has been invented and continuously manufactured by the Great Zhou Dynasty for many years now, and has reached the twenty-fourth generation, in practice, even the tenth-generation Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbow has not been retired.

This shows its preciousness.

Under normal circumstances, according to the standard equipment of the Border Army of Great Zhou, ten Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows are allocated per ten thousand soldiers, and thirty per army with thirty thousand soldiers.

If it is a city-guarding army, several extra Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows are allocated according to the size of the city it defends.

According to the intelligence gathered by Corps Leader Yue Dai, the Heavenly Wave Army of North Sea stationed at the Blood River Fortress is equipped with two hundred and twenty Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows as standard, with an additional thirty for the fortress itself, and each of the four great fortresses belonging to Blood River Fortress is additionally equipped with ten Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows.

Essentially, the Blood River Fortress possesses about three hundred Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows.

However, how many are there in the rolling fog before them?

About three hundred.

In other words, unless all the Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows of the entire Blood River Fortress, including those for city defense, have been gathered here, it would not reach such a scale.

Although the possibility is not very high, there are countless commanders who gamble all with bold moves in warfare.

In this situation, no one dares to take a chance!

Therefore, upon discovering the ambush and formation, it was almost instinctive for Corps Leader Yue Dai to command the pursued elites to stop far from the range of the Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbow and stand in a distant stalemate with the ambushers shrouded in mist.

"Convey my military order, dispatch twenty thousand Iron-armored Demons, ten thousand Bone Demons, five thousand Naga, twenty thousand Snake Demons, and two thousand Winged Demons as quickly as possible. This Marshal intends to annihilate this ambush force today!"

Corps Leader Yue Dai’s mouth was twitching slightly at the corners.

As the arrival of the Seventh Prince draws near, his Vanguard Army is nearly annihilated. If he does not redeem himself, he is certain that in the eyes of the Seventh Prince Congyun, he will undoubtedly be labeled as incompetent.

For Yue Dai, who wants to seize this opportunity to ingratiate himself with the Seventh Prince Congyun amidst the power transition, this is definitely not good news.

And now, if he wants to recover from this bad impression, he must regain his footing here.

To say nothing else, just these three hundred Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows and three thousand Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbows before him, if they are encircled and wiped out, it would be a major achievement.

"Go, probe them, find out how many of these ambushers there are and whether they have any arrangements!" Corps Leader Yue Dai casually instructed two Dao Realm individuals.

As a Corps Leader, he was still quite cautious in his attack.

It wasn’t long before the two probes at the Dao Realm returned with strange expressions, "My Lord, it’s a bit peculiar."

"How so?"

"Looking in all directions, it’s all dense fog, unclear upon specific probing. Even using Divine Sense, it’s the same, yet the power fluctuations inside are very minimal. Normally, if there were a large number of soldiers, under my Divine Sense probing, even with formation protection, I could sense numerous faint power fluctuations!

So, I suspect...."

"Suspect what?" Corps Leader Yue Dai’s face suddenly became grim.

"An Illusory Realm, it might be a large-scale Illusory Realm or Bewildering Formation!"

"What?"

Corps Leader Yue Dai’s face suddenly turned extremely unsightly, and with a flash of brilliance in his hand, a Giant Bow appeared.

Whoosh!

Amidst the piercing whistle, three blood-colored arrows shot out like three streams of blood arrows, surging into the rolling fog ahead, each locking onto a Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbow!

The next instant, seeing no change as the blood-colored arrows pierced through, Corps Leader Yue Dai suddenly tilted his head back and roared in anger at the sky.

"Despicable Human Clan, I must tear you to pieces!"

"Pursue!"

"Pursue them for me!"

Amidst the angry shouts, Corps Leader Yue Dai, having been delayed here for nearly half a quarter-hour, along with dozens of Dao Realm, several hundred Realm King Realm experts, and over three thousand Dark Palace Realm elites, with their spiritual power flickering, they charged into the rolling fog like the wind.

The Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows and Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbows in the fog shattered and disintegrated under their spiritual power surges!

Corps Leader Yue Dai was even more infuriated.

He had been tricked!

He had been played by the enemy’s master of illusion!

Yet, such a sophisticated illusion was unprecedented!

In another direction a thousand miles away, the voice of the Mirage Dragon Primordial Spirit Achou echoed in Ye Zhen’s mind, "Damn it, these bastards have seen through the illusion and charged ahead. Is the time we bought enough?"

"Enough, it’s almost half a quarter-hour now, how could it not be!" Ye Zhen’s voice was cold in the cloudy night sky.

"Grand Marshal, should we act?" Niu Er’s voice sounded beside Ye Zhen.

"Deploy your forces now. This time, we have a full half a quarter-hour of.....time!" Ye Zhen’s eyes were filled with Evil Qi.

"Senior sister, Brother Monkey, how is your recovery?" Ye Zhen’s voice resounded in the Temporal Sequence Space of the Mirage Dragon Pearl.

"In the Temporal Sequence Space, after recovering for more than two hours, my spiritual power has recovered to seventy percent!" Senior Sister Liao Feibai said.

"Eighty percent, it’s enough!" Long-Armed Fire Monkey King Sunx Ba replied as straightforward as always.

Ye Zhen gazed at the spiritual power in his Spirit Palace, which had recovered to less than seventy percent, silently swallowed a few pills, then said softly, "Zheng Dangshi, prepare for battle!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Zhen’s figure disappeared once again!

Ten breaths later, as the screams arose in the camp of the Left Wing Corps of the Demon Clan, flames soared into the sky, and silver ripples echoed like the howling of fierce ghosts throughout the area.

Subsequently, twenty-four thousand Wind-Fire Crossbow Arrows rained down on the Left Wing Corps’ encampment like a meteor shower.

Among the elite Demon Clan troops several thousand miles away, pursuing aimlessly by aura, a Dao Realm who accidentally turned his head saw the meteor shower-like flames.

"Grand Marshal, look behind!"

"What?"

Upon hearing this, Corps Leader Yue Dai instinctively turned around. At the moment he saw the meteor shower-like flames, his body trembled suddenly, revealing an expression of disbelief in his eyes.

"That.....that is.....the Left Wing camp!"

"They, they led the tiger away from the mountain!" A Dao Realm individual suddenly realized!

"Cunning scoundrels!"

Corps Leader Yue Dai stomped his foot angrily and shouted, "Quick, return to reinforce the Left Wing Corps immediately!"

As soon as the words fell, Corps Leader Yue Dai shot towards the Left Wing Corps’ camp like an arrow.

This time, he truly was desperate.

The nearly annihilated Vanguard Army, having been played and still trying to recover his position, to then allow the Left Wing Corps to be wiped out, would tarnish his reputation in the eyes of the Seventh Prince Congyun of the Demon Emperor beyond repair.

At this moment, he did not care about anything else, leaving the bulk of his force behind, taking along over a dozen Dao Realm, rushing madly towards the Left Wing camp.

Every bit the flames grew fierce there, Corps Leader Yue Dai’s heart sank further.

The distance of five thousand miles, even at maximum speed, took him over half a quarter-hour to cover.

When they finally arrived, the Left Wing Corps’ camp was filled with the strong scent of grilled meat and a stench of blood that seemed slightly altered.

The countless corpses on the ground were glaringly conspicuous.

But the most striking was in the midst of the Left Wing camp, a line of large characters spelled out by headless Demon Clan soldiers’ bodies!

Seventh Prince, do you like this meeting gift?