Chapter 851 - 850: Is There an Ambush Behind Gu Yuexi? There Really Isn’t, Believe It or Not!

On the walls of the Southwest Defense Line.

Gu Yuexi lowered her sword and stood still. Her white skirt fluttered wildly in the sea breeze, and the corpses of Sea Demons lay haphazardly around her feet.

The Sea Demon Commander stared at her from below the city walls. Its expression grew increasingly dark, looking as thunderous as a brewing storm. The Void Refinement Realm envoy it had just sent up had been instantly beheaded. Unresigned, it dispatched over a hundred more Sea Demons in successive waves to charge the wall.

These Sea Demons varied in strength, ranging from the Divinity Transformation Realm to the Integration Realm. Sometimes a single one would go up alone; other times, a dozen would charge together. It figured that even a battle of attrition would eventually exhaust and kill this mere Divinity Transformation Realm First Layer human female cultivator.

But without exception, every Sea Demon that charged up was slain by Gu Yuexi with a single sword strike. Not a single Sea Demon could last more than a single move against her blade! In fact, most of the Sea Demons couldn’t even get within three meters of her!

Just moments ago, the Sea Demon Commander had sent an Integration Realm Peak Sea Demon general to charge up. The Sea Demon general’s scales had stood on end, exuding a monstrous aura. The Sea Demon Commander had believed that this time, it would easily crush this little Divinity Transformation Realm female cultivator. But instead, Gu Yuexi merely raised her hand and donned a suit of dark-gold Empress Battle Armor. She also switched to a longer sword with a sharper edge. With a backhanded strike, she cleaved the Sea Demon general in two! It was clean and precise, without a single wasted movement!

Witnessing this scene, the Sea Demon Commander was utterly dumbfounded. It racked its brains but couldn’t understand. Why would a Divinity Transformation Realm Human Race female cultivator be so powerful? This was simply absurd!

It wasn’t that it hadn’t thought of ordering the entire army to push forward. Hundreds of thousands of Sea Demons charging together. No matter how strong Gu Yuexi was, she couldn’t possibly make any waves under the impact of hundreds of thousands of Sea Demons. She wouldn’t even be able to take down a few enemies as collateral under the army’s charge! After all, a battlefield was a battlefield, and an arena was an arena. No matter how strong you were in a one-on-one fight, as long as your strength wasn’t enough to crush an entire army, it would be absolutely impossible to survive the charge of an army numbering in the hundreds of thousands!

But the Sea Demon Commander didn’t do that. Because the city wall was far too quiet. Gu Yuexi had held her ground alone for so long, killing over a hundred of its Sea Demons, yet not a single other Human Race cultivator had stepped up to help her block the attacks. It hadn’t even seen a shadow of an ambush. It seemed that on the walls of the entire Southwest Front, there was indeed only Gu Yuexi, a lowly Divinity Transformation Realm cultivator, defending the city.

How could this be possible?!!!

Even a fully-staffed City Guard Army, filled with experts like clouds, couldn’t stop the Sea Demon Army’s attack. How could the Human Race’s commander possibly let a Divinity Transformation Realm cultivator defend the city?!! It couldn’t possibly be an Empty Fort Strategy!

Precisely because Gu Yuexi was too calm, the Sea Demon Commander was even more certain. There must be an ambush waiting behind Gu Yuexi. Furthermore, it must be a massive Human Race conspiracy!

The Sea Demon Commander had fought the Human Race many times. It knew very well that the Human Race loved playing this trick of luring the enemy in deep. They would first set out a bait, wait for the army to charge in, and then surround them from all sides, catching them all in one net. This ambush might even be capable of directly wiping out their entire Sea Demon Army!

Therefore, the Sea Demon Commander hadn’t dared to order the army to charge directly. It could only continuously dispatch individual, powerful Sea Demons to charge up and fight Gu Yuexi. On one hand, to probe Gu Yuexi’s background; on the other hand, to force out the hidden ambush.

The result was that as many as were sent up, that many died. Not a single Sea Demon could block one strike from Gu Yuexi. And the more and stronger the Sea Demons that died, the more the Sea Demon Commander believed that this time’s ambush must be incredibly terrifying. To have such a powerful female cultivator willingly act as bait—how big must the scheme behind this be?!!

The more it thought about it, the more wary it became, and the less it dared to rashly launch an all-out attack. But the Sea Demon Commander also grew increasingly angry as it pondered, unable to resist roaring loudly toward the city wall.

"You despicable Human Race, do you dare to fight us head-on?

"Sneaking around like cowards—what kind of heroes are you?

"If you have the guts, come out and fight us in a real battle!"

Gu Yuexi looked down at it and spoke expressionlessly. Her voice wasn’t loud, yet it entered the Sea Demon Commander’s ears clearly.

"There is no ambush here. Feel free to attack.

"Besides, you are the invaders. You are the ones stealing territory and slaughtering people.

"How do you even have the nerve to speak the word ’heroes’?"

Although the Sea Demon Commander had learned a lot of Human Race language and culture, being called out so bluntly by Gu Yuexi, it didn’t know how to respond.

"Damn it!" The Sea Demon Commander held it in for a long time, finally only able to furiously smash a millstone-sized boulder by its feet with a single punch. "Damnable Human Race cultivator! I will definitely slice you into a thousand pieces and hack your corpse into ten thousand fragments!"

It roared, turning its head to shout at a corner of the army, "Flying Shark Brothers, attack on my command! Hack this ignorant female cultivator who doesn’t know her place to death! Let her know the might of our Sea Demons!"

The place the Sea Demon Commander was looking at had an independent space formed by condensed seawater. From the outside, it looked like a moving pool of water. Faintly, one could see a few large marine creatures swimming inside, though their specific appearances couldn’t be clearly seen.

As the Sea Demon Commander’s order fell, that patch of seawater slowly descended, revealing the figures of the three creatures inside.

The Flying Shark Brothers.

Three powerful shark Sea Demons.

The largest among them was over a hundred meters long, with a tall, straight figure. It had a striking white dot on its forehead and long, wavy dark-blue hair that cascaded like ocean waves, making it look quite imposing. Slightly smaller than the eldest was the second brother. It had a slender and stretched-out figure, with an extremely long tuft of bright-red hair standing straight up on its head, making it look exceptionally eye-catching. The smallest in size was the third brother, yet it was still over eighty meters long. Its body was nearly oval-shaped, and it had a head of fluffy, coffee-colored short hair, making it look quite good-natured and simple.

The three shark Sea Demons rode the waves, leisurely charging toward the walls of the Southwest Defense Line. Wherever they passed, the seawater followed like a shadow, full of momentum.

Watching their backs, the Sea Demon Commander snorted coldly, feeling even more confident.

"The Flying Shark Brothers each possess Integration Realm Peak cultivation.

"The individual strength of any one of them is much greater than that trash who just died.

"Furthermore, the three brothers are especially skilled at coordinated combat.

"Their three-on-one abilities are incredibly strong; they are best at dealing with experts who fight alone.

"Combined, the three brothers can even exchange a few blows with a Human Race True God Realm cultivator without falling into a disadvantage.

"Dealing with a little Divinity Transformation Realm female cultivator like you is already doing you too much honor!"

The Sea Demon Commander was certain. Gu Yuexi would absolutely not be able to block the Flying Shark Brothers’ attack. Even if there was an ambush, with the strength of the Flying Shark Brothers, they would be able to hold out until the army could react.

Watching the three shark Sea Demons approaching on the waves, Gu Yuexi slightly moved her wrist, her expression growing a bit more solemn.

With a stir of her Divine Thought, the golden light on her Empress Battle Armor instantly became even more radiant, its dark-gold plates glinting with a cold light. The Godslaying Ruins Sword in her hand also let out a soft hum, cold light flowing across its blade, its sharp edge fully revealed.

In truth, from the very beginning when she killed the three giant Sea Demons, all the way until that Integration Realm Peak Sea Demon charged up just now, she had been using a common Long Sword Treasure and hadn’t worn the Empress Battle Armor.

Because of the Cultivation Technique she cultivated, the greater the extreme pressure she was under, the faster she would improve.

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