Chapter 109: Countdown begins
Chapter 109: Countdown begins
——(POV third person, the fort, three days left from the trial)——
“Does the east side have enough manpower?” Hou Shuqing asked no one in particular. He shouted so that his voice could be heard over the fights that were happening just outside the outer walls. He was on the west side of the fort and from the projection that was displayed in the center of the fort, right above the keep, he could see that many beasts were also attacking the east side so he wanted to know if they need reinforcement for their operations or not.
The formation that the monks of the Temple of Emptiness created, [True Dharma Eye], was the best thing that could happen to them as it would act as a centralized watchtower that was much much stronger than other watchtowers that they had. With this formation distributing the disciples to where ever they were needed was very easy as everyone could see where the beasts were attacking and where every other disciple was…
“From what I have heard, Heavenly Sword sect and the Blue Bulls sect teams are there, they shouldn’t have much difficulty.” One of the disciples answered Hou Shuqing. They had implemented a rotation system that would make everyone switch places every once in a while so there is always someone with fresh information about each side in a group on the walls. This would help them handle situations like this with more ease.
“Good, next one who is going to the east side tell them that we could use their help here if they are finished with their side…” Hou Shuqing said and at the same time, he draw his bowstring without notching the arrow to it. He then injected some of his weapon Qi into the bow and an arrow was formed from his Qi and after finding his target, he let the arrow loose.
This technique was really hard to execute as you had to solidify your weapon Qi to a level that it can be used as the arrow itself. Those who can’t do such a thing would often use an arrow as a base and infuse it with Qi or the weapon Qi to add to its power.
The weapon Qi arrow hit several beasts as it was still under the control of Hou Shuqing. This too was a show of his talent as you have to reach a good level of comprehension to be able to control your Qi outside your body to this level.
“”Yes.”” Every disciple in the surroundings said in unison. They could see that the beasts here number in tens of thousands so they knew that the reinforcement could help with the situation immensely.
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On the other side of the battlefield, the situation was the same as the beasts kept on coming toward the wall even though the disciples kept killing them. The fortunate thing was that for each beast that would die, only one new beast would enter the battlefield so the disciples were not getting overwhelmed.
“Junior uncle, I think you should use some of your resources now…” Hu Anjing said as she was fighting the beasts with twin blades.
“Alright.” Li Huang said and got ready to attack the beasts again. He was using the [Eclipse Devourer] sword art to finish off the beasts fast as he really didn’t have much time on his hand to think about using this fight as learning material.
Checking out the projection of the battlefield to see if the horde is near its end, Li Huang smiled because it was indeed so. They only had 45,000 or so beasts to defeat and that was it. It was at that moment that his communication device and others around him received a message from the walls.
~’The west side needs reinforcement, please head there when this horde is finished.’~ the disciple on the wall said. They had set up these sorts of communication devices so that the walls and the ‘infantry unit’ could get the news easily as they are fighting.
“Now we really have to finish them fast.” Cai ZhenKang said with a grunt. He still couldn’t believe that Li Huang and others forgot about him. When he was getting back to the fort a beast horde attacked the fort and he was caught in the fight with them.
Li Huang and others who just finished and tested the [True Dharma Eye] formation and the projection system, found out about the beast horde and rushed to handle it as it could become a big problem if it got closer. It was then that they found Cai ZhenKang who was fighting the beasts before them. They helped him get out of the encirclement that he was in and they fought the beasts together after that.
Cai ZhenKang was a little grumpy after that as he couldn’t believe that everyone forgot about him and he had to fight for his life in that beast horde. Deep down he was glad that they joined this alliance because they couldn’t fight all the beasts on their own but that wouldn’t change the fact that he was left behind.
“Well, let’s do it then.” Li Huang said. Cai ZhenKang kept on telling him and others that they should fight with more intensity but Li Huang and Hu Anjing didn’t agree with him. They had 3 more days to fight so they have to fight in a way that they can keep going for 3 days. If they were to fight with their 100%, they couldn’t make it to the third day.
What they also talked about was using scrolls. This plan was really good but as they had a finite number of scrolls they didn’t want to waste them for a fight that they can finish eventually. So the policy to use them is like this; you will only use scrolls when there is a major benefit in finishing the fight early or their fight would be lost without using them.
This was one of those cases because they had to finish this fight as the west side needed reinforcement. Everyone in the four groups that were here took a scroll out of their storage rings, got in a line and targeted the beasts and activated the scrolls.
The poor beasts didn’t see this coming and were swept away by different rules that each scroll had. Some died with fire and some by thunder, the only constant was that they all died.
“HAHAHA, it is almost as satisfying as when we collected materials.” Cai ZhenKang laughed and rushed toward the couple of thousands of beasts that were lucky enough to stay alive. Well, with the way Cai ZhenKang was looking at them, maybe lucky is not the right word to describe them…
“Time for a cleanup.” Li Huang said and he too went to finish these beasts.
The north side and the south side are fighting small numbers of beasts. They have less than 20,000 beasts to handle so their work is easier but from what Li Huang saw on the projection, the west side was facing at least 60,000 beasts and counting.
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“My team, Hu Anjing’s, and Cai ZhenKang’s team will go to reinforce the others at the western outer walls.” Li Huang said. He didn’t want to leave this wall empty so he opted to leave one team of the Blue Bull sect here while taking the team with Cai ZhenKang with him as he could really help when fighting large numbers.
“Let’s finish it fast and come back. I really like the view here.” Cai ZhenKang said and beckoned his team to follow him. The view that he was talking about was a forest that could be seen from the eastern walls and it wasn’t hard to guess why he liked this view…
Li Huang just shook his head and walked toward the wall with Hu Anjing and their teams.
Giving a sign to the disciples on the wall, they activated a portal for them to get to the western outer wall. Walking inside the portal the teams found themselves on the west side of the wall.
Everyone on this side was fighting as the number of the beasts was very high. Li Huang and others didn’t waste time and opened a portal to the outside of the fort and ran inside it.
What greeted them on the other side was the beasts who tried to enter this portal. Lai Xinyue dodged an attack and sank her sword into the eye of the closest beast.
Li Huang killed another one and was going for the second kill that he felt an incoming attack toward his head. Tilting his head, he let the attack pass him, and now he could see that this attack was one of Cai ZhenKang’s throwing axes. The hurlbat hit a beast right between the eyes.
Li Huang knew that Cai ZhenKang was still angry because of the beast horde incident, so he let this one slide. As they say; no harm, no foul.
- There is a time skip from the previous chapter