Chapter 96

Yun Xuzhou stood on top of the city wall. Her back was ramrod straight, and her cloak fluttered in the cold wind.

Sang Yuanyuan stood beside her. Her breathing unconsciously quickened.

She was already used to having You Wuming standing behind her, giving her a sense of security. But now that he wasn't there, she only felt that the space behind her was empty, and the cold wind was constantly blowing.

Her body in the Spiritual Brilliance Realm was not afraid of cold or heat, but she still felt the chill.

Someone once said that if there was no fear in one's heart, then it wasn't true bravery. True bravery was clearly feeling fear. Her whole body was trembling, and her hands and feet were weak, but she still forced herself to straighten her back and wave her fist.

She turned her eyes and glanced at Yun Xuzhou.

She saw that the corners of the female monarch's lips were slightly pursed, and her cheeks were covered with small goosebumps. Her fingertips were slightly trembling, but her gaze didn't waver for a moment.

"I'll stay here with you." Sang Yuanyuan felt that her voice was a little stiff.

Her flowers couldn't stop such a large army from attacking. They would only be crushed by the iron hooves.

If You Wuming didn't have a backup plan and didn't come to save her, she could only fight with Yun Xuzhou here until the end. Or if she escaped now, it was still not too late.

Sang Yuanyuan: "…" Could she apply to take back what she just said?

The Blood Red Army quickly approached.

A voice full of energy passed through the ice field and echoed above and below the city wall.

"Prince Regent Yun Xuzhou, we are here on the orders of the Emperor to punish you, you traitor!"

"The North Camp Guards are here. Why aren't you obediently waiting to be captured?"

The iron hooves rumbled, and the crossbows in the hands of the soldiers on the city wall trembled slightly.

The Blood Red Army was about to enter their shooting range!

The formation began to change. The vanguard army of 50 riders carried huge spiritual iron shields and led the charge to the city gate.

The archers in the back quickly took their positions. Powerful arrows whistled sharply and smashed towards the city wall like locusts!

The enemy's crossbows and archers were much better than Yunzhou's.

The crossbowmen on the walls of Cloud State City could only shoot at the vanguard of the North Camp Guards.

On the other hand, the crossbows in the back row had already flown up the city walls like locusts. In an instant, hundreds of soldiers were shot to death between the battlements.

The charging speed of the shield-wielding vanguard was not much slower than the flying arrows. The first wave of arrows rained down on the city wall, but before it could be repositioned, a loud bang came from under the broken city gate. It was the charging force of the giant spirit iron shields hitting the simple and crude city gate.

The city gate fell with the sound. The Shield Cavalrymen rushed under the city gate and collided with the Shield Matrix set up by the Cloud State.

Everyone was thrown off their feet.

Sang Yuanyuan and Yun Xuzhou were on top of the city wall. They couldn't see the scene below the city gate, but they could imagine the countless distorted and broken shields just by listening to the sound.

Battle cries could be heard everywhere.

After the collision, the masters of the North Camp Guards on the beast mounts leaped into the air and landed in the Cloud State's shield formation to begin their massacre.

"Very strong." Yun Xuzhou secretly clenched his fists.

"How long can they last?" Sang Yuanyuan asked.

Yun Xuzhou took a deep breath. "At most an hour, the city gate will fall!

It shouldn't be so fast! "

She could guard against the old Emperor Yun's people attacking her, but she didn't expect that these people would disregard their home country and blow up the city gate.

As long as the North Camp Guards of Tiandu rushed into the city gate, Cloud State's defensive advantage would be gone!

There were only twenty to thirty thousand soldiers stationed in Yunwu City, and they weren't the most elite soldiers. Other than Tiandu, no one would leave the most elite soldiers in Yunwu City to retire. Treasured swords were meant to be used to kill the enemy.

The elites with the surname "Yun" were still at the Great Wall of the East and South Border. They didn't have time to return to Cloud State to help.

"When will the reinforcements arrive?" Sang Yuanyuan asked.

Yun Xuzhou said, "The North and South Cities have transferred seventy thousand people each. They are rushing over and will take six hours.

The East City has thirty thousand people. They will arrive in an hour. "

She narrowed her eyes. "But these aren't the elites of my Yun family. They are just using their heads to buy time.

It will take two days for the Imperial Advisor of Yun to return.

Sang Guo, you don't have to accompany me here. Quickly go to the ancestral temple and take the secret that they are so afraid of. You Wuming and leave through the East Gate. I will do my best to escort you out of the city. "

There were soldiers falling around her at every moment.

"Abandon the city wall and prepare for street battle!" Yun Xuzhou ordered coldly.

The difference in crossbows and arrows between the two sides was too big. The archers suffered heavy casualties. The death ratio of both sides was close to twenty to one. Defending here would consume too much energy. If they fought in the streets, it wouldn't be difficult to exchange four or five lives for one of the enemy's lives.

"Sang Yuanyuan, you go."

Sang Yuanyuan nodded. "Prince Regent, take care!"

She couldn't help the situation if she stayed here.

Under the city gate, the heavy cavalry continued to charge. People stepped on people, and beasts stepped on beasts. After the first person broke through the defense line and rushed into Yun City, there were more people who broke into the city one after another. Although they were quickly killed, the line in the hearts of the Yunzhou army had been broken.

Soon, the shield formation under the city gate completely collapsed. The cavalry rushed into the city one after another and wantonly killed.

Sang Yuanyuan, who had just walked down the city wall, quickly turned back.

"… It's a little difficult to walk down there."

A group of North Camp Guards chased her up the city wall.

"Fate Challenger Yun Xuzhou is here!" A soldier shouted excitedly.

Sang Yuanyuan threw a flower and threw him down the city wall.

She was a little worried.

"I lack a normal attack skill …"

It had always been lacking. It didn't look like it was about to have an epiphany.

It was worrying.

She threw out a flower to block the entrance. She turned to Yun Xuzhou and said, "Go down the wall from another place!"

The two of them hurriedly retreated to the south under the protection of the Yunzhou guards.

The crimson North Camp Guards had already rushed into the city like a tide. The Yunzhou army had no way to fight back.

Yun Xuzhou was extremely sullen. "Do they dare to fight with my elite Master Yun in the ice field!"

Unfortunately, the enemy didn't intend to talk about fairness with her.

In an instant, the snow was dyed red with blood.

The commoners had already been evacuated. The North Camp Guard Iron Cavalry had no intention of fighting in the alleys of the Cloud Region. Wherever they passed, the ice houses were flattened by their shield formation. Wherever the red tide passed, the red ice and snow would spread out densely, and the icy mist would rise several zhang high.

Yun Xuzhou's nails dug deep into her palms.

At this moment, there was no fear in her heart, only anger.

Seeing the iron wave quickly approaching the palace, Yun Xuzhou could only watch. Her eyes were red with anger. She gritted her teeth and said, "My army is killing demons, my army is killing demons …"

Sang Yuanyuan's heart was also filled with endless sorrow. "Prince Regent, do you hate me?"

"Why do I hate you?"

"If You Wuming and I hadn't tricked you into the ancestral temple and discovered those secrets, today, we wouldn't …"

Yun Xuzhou raised her hand and interrupted her.

"The people who made mistakes are them. Why do we have to find the reason for it on ourselves?

If we lose today, we can only sigh at the unfairness of the heavens!

Why do I have a reason to blame you? "

The heavens were unfair.

It was time for someone to set things right.

But today, who could resolve the danger of Yundu?

You Wuming?

Sang Yuanyuan shook her head lightly.

You Wuming can't fight against ten thousand people.

The only way to survive was to hold on for six hours.

Hold on until the south, north, and east reinforcements of Yunzhou arrived. Hold on until Huangfu Xiong's army reached Tiandu. The North Camp Guards had no choice but to return …

But based on the current situation, not to mention six hours, the North Camp Guards would be able to raze the entire Yundu to the ground in another hour!

"Quick, we're going to be surrounded like dumplings," Yun Xuzhou said hatefully.

The armored cavalry wave had already spread to the south of the city. If they were any later, it would be difficult to even get down the wall.

Yun Xuzhou pursed her lips tightly and led Sang Yuanyuan into the passage stairs.

Her movements suddenly paused.

Sang Yuanyuan's eyes were sharp and her hands were quick. She summoned a giant face flower to block in front of her.

A terrifying shock wave hit the face plate of the big face flower. The spiritual essence was like a wave, trembling in front of her eyes.

The guard walking in front was blasted into pieces. A few mouthfuls of blood poured down like a torrential rain, scattering on the swaying face plate of the big face flower.

A series of fine 'ding ding' sounds rang out.

Small white metal needles that were like cow hair slid down the face plate like rain.

"Spiritual Brilliance Realm, metal element, above Level Five." Yun Xuzhou sucked in a breath of cold air.

"Wang Zhengqing, the head of the North Camp Guards, is here to take the head of the Fate Challenger."

A voice came from below the passage. It floated through the passage that was filled with pieces of flesh and was tainted with the thick smell of blood.

Sang Yuanyuan didn't hesitate. She put away the big face flower and threw down countless man-eating flowers along the passage.

"Let's go!"

They retreated to the east.

Spiritual Brilliance Realm cultivators couldn't fly. By the time he destroyed the man-eating flowers and rushed up the wall, they had already escaped through another passage.

From time to time, stray arrows would fly up the wall. Sang Yuanyuan and Yun Xuzhou ducked and quickly retreated to the east.

"Yundu can still hold on for a while."

Yun Xuzhou said, "I hope You Wuming has already taken care of that bastard and found the secret hidden below!"

Sang Yuanyuan nodded silently.

She suddenly stopped in her tracks.

"Did you hear anything?"

Yun Xuzhou frowned. "No. Let's go.

If we don't leave now … "

Sang Yuanyuan raised her hand and looked out from the battlements.

She sucked in a breath of cold air and shouted, "Run!"

The metal attribute expert Wang Zhengqing, who was at least at the fifth layer of the Spirit Brilliance Realm, had already turned his hands into metal. Like a spider man, he clawed his way up the city wall and was about to reach the battlements!

"You Wuming, if you don't hurry up, your wife will be gone!" Sang Yuanyuan couldn't help but mutter.

Yun Xuzhou's personal guards rushed to the back to stop this person.

This time, there was no return.

"He's too strong." Yun Xuzhou gritted her teeth.

The two of them held hands and continued to escape to the other side of the wall.

Wang Zhengqing obviously had his eyes on Yun Xuzhou.

He didn't want to fight. He just casually grabbed the guards blocking the way and turned them into a pool of blood. His footsteps didn't stop at all as he chased along the wall.

Seeing that the distance between the two of them was getting closer and closer, Sang Yuanyuan felt the hair on her back all stand up.

She didn't want to be blown into a pool of blood at all.

She threw the man-eating flowers behind her one after another. The big-faced flower waved its green leaves and tried to bind Wang Zhengqing with the Spirit Containment Vines.

Unfortunately, the difference in strength was too great. It couldn't stop the man with the small mustache.

White light burst out from the Gold Containment Vines. Wang Zhengqing was like an agile monkey, jumping up and down. He avoided the obstruction of the big-faced flower and the man-eating flowers. His speed wasn't affected much.

The distance was getting closer and closer!

Sang Yuanyuan didn't even dare to look back. She ran hand in hand with Yun Xuzhou while throwing flowers behind her.

Without a powerful single target killing technique, the most frightening thing was to fight with a top expert.

Wang Zhengqing's laughter passed through the sea of flowers. "What a little girl playing with flowers. When I catch you alive, I'll definitely imprison you on the bed. I'll let you see what a man playing with needles looks like!

Ten slender fingers, the feeling of needles piercing in, tsk!

And those two red cherry blossoms … "

Sang Yuanyuan cursed fiercely in her heart. She shouted back, "Oh, so the dignified leader of the North Camp Guards is actually an embroidery needle!

Sorry for the disrespect! "

"You're courting death!"

The Gold Containment Vines, as dense as cow hair, came crashing down.

Sang Yuanyuan hurriedly used flowers to block them.

"Sang Guo, go!

I'll stop him for a while! "

Yun Xuzhou pushed her fiercely.

Sang Yuanyuan looked left and right and made up her mind. "Get ready to jump over the wall!

I'll throw the flowers below and catch them. There's an 80% chance I won't die! "

There was no other way!

Just as the two of them were about to jump out of the battlements, they suddenly heard an earth-shattering explosion coming from the King City to the north of Cloud City.

Even Wang Zhengqing was startled. He unconsciously stopped in his tracks and turned his head to look.

Yundu's city was breached so quickly?

This was beyond his expectations.

"Yunzhou is too weak." He bared his teeth in disdain.

"Boom!" Another loud explosion was heard.

Icy mist filled the air. Looking at the rising ice and mist, it was clear that one of the city walls had been breached.

Yun Xuzhou took a deep breath. "How is this possible!

Yundu's city walls are all made of ice cores!

How could it be breached? "

Under the dense icy mist, a small mountain could be vaguely seen coming out of Yundu's city.

"It's that bastard!" Yun Xuzhou was stunned.

They saw a giant tortoise with black flames around its body arrogantly raising its head and swinging its left foreleg.

The tortoise's leg, which was like a small mountain range, swept across. A small group of North Camp Guards cavalry of nearly a hundred people was directly hit and smashed into a pool of blood.

Pieces of Profound Armor flew to the left and right like tiny iron shavings.

The North Camp Guards reacted extremely quickly. The arrow formation immediately lined up in the ruins. Countless arrows flew toward the giant black flame tortoise like locusts.

Instead of retreating, it advanced and faced the rain of arrows with its huge mouth. Although the roar was silent, its ferocious aura enveloped the heads of the archers below, causing them to feel an extremely deep and primitive instinctive fear. It was as if a predator had their throats in its mouth. In an instant, their minds went blank.

The giant black flame tortoise stomped its foot and swept across again.

A small group of arrows instantly disappeared into the ruins.

Looking at the tortoise again, hundreds of arrows were scattered on its body, but it was not painful at all.

It arrogantly tilted its head, and a huge inorganic eye coldly looked down.

"Mon … Monster!"

"What is this thing!"

"Quick!

Quickly report to the Guard Master! "

The North Camp Guards of Tiandu were scared out of their wits. They were completely flustered.

The giant black flame tortoise narrowed its eyes and climbed toward the city wall with large strides.

Its tail was almost as long as its body. It was densely covered with huge barbs, and the tip of the barbs burned with black flames. Every time it swung its tail, it could flatten a group of North Camp Guards.

In just a few moves, the North Camp Guards, who were like gods of slaughter, had lost nearly two thousand people!

"He really knows how to surprise people!"

Seeing that the tortoise was approaching the city wall, Sang Yuanyuan grinned happily. He grabbed Yun Xuzhou and jumped down from the city wall.

Wang Zhengqing then realized what was going on. He threw a bunch of Metal Spirit Blades at the place where Sang Yuanyuan and Yun Xuzhou were standing just now.

The two of them had already jumped down from the city wall.

Wang Zhengqing rushed toward the battlements and looked over.

Instead, he was met with a huge, lazy eye.

The black pupil was surrounded by yellowish-green colored glaze patterns. It was distant, indifferent, and primitive.

It was slowly closing its mouth, and a piece of its skirt disappeared from the edge of the huge tortoise's beak.

Wang Zhengqing, "… It was eaten?!"

While he was in a daze, the huge tortoise's eyes slowly narrowed, and a cold light flashed in its eyes.

Wang Zhengqing only felt a terrifying sense of danger descending from the sky. He didn't dare to think at all. He hugged his head and rolled away like a lazy donkey.

He saw a tortoise tail full of barbs coming down, and with a boom, the city wall in front of him was split into two halves. The impact exploded to the left and right, and the expert at the fifth level of the Spirit Glory Realm was pulled dozens of feet away by the strong wind.

When he stabilized his body, his heart and liver were already trembling.

The black flame tortoise glanced at him lazily, then turned around and crawled toward the vast battlefield.

Wang Zhengqing strangely understood what it meant — "I'll deal with you later."

…

Sang Yuanyuan used 'kelp' to hold Yun Xuzhou and slid straight to the heart of the giant tortoise.

Yun Xuzhou was already completely dumbfounded.

When a creature was swallowed by a predator, its protective mechanism would often be triggered, and it would lose the ability to think and feel fear. It was as if its soul had left its body, and it would die unknowingly.

Yun Xuzhou was currently in such a state of absent-mindedness.

Sang Yuanyuan waved his hand in front of her for a long time before she came back to her senses.

She murmured, "Sang Guo, this is the place people go after they die?"

She continued to murmur, "Eh?

So You Wuming also died, no wonder he didn't come to save you. "

After a moment of silence, she sighed, "Dying like this is better than falling into Wang Zhengqing's hands. The words he said to you just now were really shameless."

Sang Yuanyuan followed Yun Xuzhou's lifeless gaze and looked forward, and saw You Wuming.

His eyes were tightly closed, and he was still holding the knife that pierced into the tortoise's heart with one hand. The black flame connected him to the giant ice tortoise, and he looked like he wasn't conscious.

He was using all his strength to control this giant tortoise!

She suddenly wanted to kiss him on the cheek.

She wanted to tell him that he was really too powerful.

He really was a treasure trove!

… …

The giant ice tortoise with black flames burning all over its body was like the legendary black tortoise that had descended into the human world. It rampaged through the ruins, sweeping everything before it.

Although the North Camp Guard had rich battle experience, they weren't so rich that they had fought across species before.

Wang Zhengqing used all his strength to maintain the formation, fighting and retreating.

When he charged into the city, he wanted to catch the tortoise in a jar, but he didn't expect that he would be pecked by the tortoise!

"Attack its neck and elbows with all your strength!"

After all, the army of tens of thousands was not to be trifled with.

At first, they were indeed in a mess. They were slaughtered like chickens and dogs. In a short period of time, they lost thousands of men. However, they quickly came back to their senses. As they retreated, they quickly formed a formation and gradually became more and more stable.

A rain of locust-like arrows pounced on the giant black flame tortoise. The arrows were dense, and like locusts and hailstones, they quickly stopped the tortoise's advance.

That seven-colored power wasn't truly invincible. After being refined by You Wuming, its attack became even fiercer, but its defensive ability was much weaker than before — You Wuming didn't care about defense, only attacking. Therefore, although the flame tortoise was very fierce, its defensive ability was only average.

Those weak parts of the tortoise were quickly pierced by many arrows.

There were also iron chains that were as thick as a thumb on the arrows. The soldiers dragged the chains, greatly restricting the flame tortoise's ability to move, and it could no longer kill without restraint.

A long battle of attrition began.

"Wear it to death!" Wang Zhengqing fiercely spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm.

The attack from the tortoise's tail just now had actually caused him some internal injuries.

The flame tortoise counterattacked a few times, and took nearly a thousand lives.

The battle with the giant tortoise became a long battle of attrition.

It was blocking the front of King City. If they wanted to go around it and attack King City, they would suffer a surprise attack from the tortoise's tail that was like a barbed glacier. Moreover, the rebellion in King City had been quelled, and the Cloud State Army was calm and unruffled in the midst of chaos, waiting for their scattered deaths.

The 30,000 reinforcements from the East City of Cloud State had also arrived, and successfully joined forces with the King City Army.

Yun Xuzhou quickly regained his senses.

"You Wuming controlled this tortoise, and we're in its stomach?"

"Yes." Sang Yuanyuan revealed a smile that said 'you've finally understood'.

Yun Xuzhou nodded, took out a jade scroll, and began to issue orders.

Soon, the Cloud State Army charged out from the broken walls of King City. Relying on the flame tortoise, they officially started the battle with the North Camp Guards!

The flame tortoise was no longer alone. It quickly broke free from its restraints, and led a group of Cloud State Army to continuously attack the North Camp Guards' fine iron formation.

The battle gradually tilted in their favor.

The dark battle lasted for an unknown period of time. Suddenly, there was a continuous rumble. Even Sang Yuanyuan, who was in the tortoise's stomach, felt it.

"The reinforcements from the North and South City have arrived!" Yun Xuzhou's face revealed a cold smile. "Seal the city!

Fight to the death with the North Camp Guards! "

At this moment, the North Camp Guards' leader, Wang Zhengqing, had already received the news that Huangfu Xiong had brought 200,000 troops south from Ji State to take Tiandu!

"Retreat!"

At this moment, the North and South Gates opened simultaneously. Two torrents of water surged and converged in the half-flattened city. The sound of battle shook the sky, and the entire world of ice and snow trembled.

The North Camp Guards were completely caught in a jar.

They used the barbed shields to flatten the main road, and it was convenient for the two groups of Cloud State Cavalry to charge.

You Wuming opened his eyes.

Black flames flickered in his eyes.

"Little Sang Guo, I'm going to kill Wang Zhengqing. I'll be back soon."

His voice was completely hoarse, like coarse sand rolling over her soft heart. She couldn't help but tremble, and the tips of her ears gradually became hot.

She looked up and saw the smile on his lips. It was sinister and cold. With one look, she knew that someone was going to be in big trouble.

Hm?

Did someone provoke him?

This terrifying expression made Yun Xuzhou tremble a few times.

When You Wuming spread his wings and disappeared, Yun Xuzhou finally took a few impudent breaths and said, "I'm afraid he heard what I said just now."

Just now, Yun Xuzhou had muttered that Wang Zhengqing had said some shameless things to Sang Yuanyuan.

Sang Yuanyuan let out an 'oh' and shrugged. "Embroidery Needle is dead meat."

After You Wuming released the control, the ice tortoise seemed to have extinguished its fire. It lay on the ground softly and didn't move.

At this moment, it was very chaotic outside. The three groups of Cloud State Army were already locked in a fierce battle with the North Camp Guards.

Wang Zhengqing has already escaped from the west gate of Yundu, which has been blown up.

It didn't matter … Huangfu Xiong dared to attack Tiandu, so it must be another earth-shattering battle. As long as he obtained more military achievements, he could make up for his mistakes and make up for his loss in Cloud State …

Wang Zhengqing constantly comforted himself, but he found that endless darkness was covering the sky, following him like a shadow. There was no way to escape.