Chapter 39: The Nether Bird and the Red-scaled Snake Tide
When Xia Mu appeared at the south gate of the city, he found that in addition to the thousands of monks and warriors who were in charge of defending that day, the number of middle-level monks who were responsible for sitting in the tower had also increased a lot, and one by one they were vigorous, obviously not ordinary middle-level monks, and those monks who were riding one-horned giant elephants were finally sent to the battlefield at this time, and many of them were lined aside.
These people are obviously all elite people who have been trained in Jingyuan City for a long time.
Seeing this kind of battle, Xia Mu frowned, and walked silently into the crowd.
Moments later, the group of thousands of men departed, but the battlefield shifted to the east of the city, where the defenses were tight and they needed to be transferred to strengthen the defense.
When Xia Mu and the others arrived in the east of the city, there were already more than a dozen team leaders waiting there, and when they saw Xia Mu and the others coming, they immediately divided them up according to the predetermined distribution, and then immediately led them to the various sections of the city wall.
In this way, Xia Mu became an ordinary monk defending at the head of the city, and those monks who were originally defending with Xia Mu in the south of the city were naturally scattered, and only a few people were assigned to the same echelon as Xia Mu.
Leading Xia Mu was a young man in black armor, judging from the aura emanating from his body, he was in the fetal palace realm, but he was not an ordinary fetal palace realm monk, he belonged to the Jing Yuanwei reserve group, and once he broke through to the Shentai realm, he could become a member of Jing Yuanwei.
This person is extremely kind to those monks in the realm of the womb palace, especially Xia Mu, there are three middle-level monks in this wave, which makes him extremely polite to these three people, and he relies on these three people a lot.
And Xia Mu's power, except for a few monks who had fought side by side together, others naturally didn't know anything, but wondered how a monk from the realm of enlightenment could appear in the defensive battle at the head of the city, but no one talked about it.
Hundreds of people followed the leading young man onto the wall they were responsible for defending.
As a result, the scene in front of them made everyone's faces change greatly.
Smoke rose from the top of the city, and the originally smooth and smooth surface of the rock hill was corroded into pits, and green smoke came out, and even the towers where the mid-ranking monks were sitting were partially broken and collapsed.
"Is this caused by those Nether Birds?" a mid-level monk asked in a deep voice as he glanced at the potholes on the ground.
"Yes, but it was caused by Nether Birds, and most of the more than 200 monks who fell under my command died at the hands of these Nether Birds. When the young man heard this, he smiled bitterly.
"Isn't there a middle-level monk in charge, how can there be such a heavy loss?" another old woman who was also a middle-level monk asked with a move in her heart.
"Senior Chen didn't know that there were indeed middle-level monks in the tower, but there were also elite-level fierce beasts in the beast tide, plus this ghost bird appeared in the beast tide for the first time, and we were caught off guard, which caused such heavy casualties. The young man finished explaining in a few words.
"This is indeed a bit troublesome, these Nether Birds are not strong, but the black poisonous mist spewing out of their mouths is unguardable, it is difficult for ordinary fetal palace realm monks to resist, and the only mid-level monk who can compete is restrained by elite-level fierce beasts, it is really difficult to defend. The big man beside Xia Mu said worriedly.
"If it weren't for the Nether Bird being so difficult to deal with, how could the three seniors be assigned here, I heard that the situation in the west of the city is even more serious, the main force of the Nether Bird is over there, and we only have a small group here. The young man sighed.
Hearing the young man say this, everyone else couldn't help but look at each other, just a small flock of Nether Birds made the defense of the city head so difficult, and the battle situation in the west of the city, which was the focus of the fierce beast's attack, was so miserable.
"Okay, you don't need to worry too much, the Nether Bird can only spit out poisonous mist once every three hours, and then it will deplete the poisonous gas in its body, and after yesterday's battle, the number of this Nether Bird has been greatly reduced under the key care of several seniors, as for the above arrangement for these three seniors to come over, it is mainly just in case, so as not to have excessive casualties again, after all, this beast tide is very different from the past, and no one can predict whether there will be a new group of fierce beasts. When the young man saw the solemn expressions of the crowd, he immediately spoke of relief.
As soon as his words fell, there was a sudden commotion on the city, and in the sky outside the city walls, there was a sudden hoarse birdsong like a crow, which made people feel terrified.
At the same time, a black line also appeared on the horizon, as the distance gradually narrowed, everyone finally saw the true face of this black line, it was a red python, four or five meters long, all with the thickness of an arm, was looking up and spitting out the snake core, they moved extremely fast, and in a blink of an eye, they flooded the land, forming a red snake sea, with no end in sight.
The conversation of everyone in the city stopped abruptly, and their faces suddenly became solemn and nervous.
"It's the third wave of beasts, and everyone is ready to fight. The young man's face turned pale, and he opened his throat and shouted loudly, and the monks and warriors on the city wall immediately reacted, and they all stepped into their respective defensive positions under the sound of vigilant horns, and waited for the battle.
At this time, Xia Mu stood alone in front of a battlement, looking at the distant sky, looking extremely peaceful.
Not long after, thousands of black dots suddenly appeared in the air in the distance, flying rapidly towards the city, and that strange cry came from the mouths of these black dots.
Almost at the same time, on a tall building behind the city, hundreds of cannons and thousands of crossbows were fired in unison, and hundreds of balls of light and thousands of ice arrows flew out at once, heading straight for the thousands of black dots and the endless sea of snakes under the black dots.
It was the warriors in the city who controlled the Spirit Yuan Cannon and the Crystal Burst Crossbow to launch the first wave of attacks.
The Nether Bird in the distance flew a few miles away from the city, and its rapid movement suddenly stopped, and Qi Qi spat out a thick black poisonous mist, rolling like a landslide and tsunami.
In an instant, the light ball ice arrow and the black poisonous mist collided together, and the rumbling sound was loud, and the black poisonous mist was instantly blown away by the power generated by the explosion of the light ball ice arrow, and nearly a thousand ghost birds were torn apart by the aftermath of the explosion, but the original most lethal spirit yuan cannon and crystal blasting crossbow were also consumed in this encounter, and they could only be used again after a period of spiritual power accumulation, which could not cause effective damage and deterrence to the red scale snake group below.
At this time, the monks standing at the head of the city could already see the true appearance of these ghost birds, which were actually fierce birds that looked like skeletons, with a white body, only a pair of skeleton wings were purple and black, and there were two white flames beating in the hollow skeleton eye sockets, which was extremely weird.
Although after the first wave of confrontation, these Nether Birds suffered heavy losses, but there were still hundreds of them that survived unharmed, and they still rushed towards the city without fear of death.
And below these hundreds of ghost birds, a python four or five meters long with red scale armor followed, and in a blink of an eye, they came to the city, and a big battle was about to break out.
At this moment, the group of red-scaled snakes suddenly divided, and an even larger giant python appeared.
They are four or five feet long, and the snake scales on their bodies are also different from ordinary red-scaled snakes, which are faint silver, and what is even more peculiar is that there is a pair of pink fleshy wings on the back of these giant pythons.
In addition to being several times larger than ordinary red-scaled snakes, the aura emitted by these silver pythons is also extremely fierce, and they are definitely not ordinary beasts.
Just after these silver pythons appeared, a dragon-like roar came from behind the snakes, and then both the Nether Birds in the air and the pythons on the ground began to attack the city wall as if they had received an order.
The Nether Bird can fly in the air, and its speed is naturally far faster than that of the python on the ground, and it is one step closer to the city.
They croaked in their mouths, and clusters of white demonic fire appeared on their bodies, and then opened their mouths to spit out clusters of white fire clouds, which were just a ball at first, but immediately these white fire clouds were connected into a piece, and swept towards the city head, and the scene was terrifying.
"Evil animal, look for death!"
With a wave of his hands, the young man in black armor took out a horse chopping knife from the Qiankun bag and took the lead to meet him, followed by other monks who also drove spiritual weapons to follow.
After being less than a few dozen zhang away from the white fire cloud, they all poured spiritual power and pinched the blades in their hands with a wave of the magic trick. Suddenly, all kinds of rainbow rays suddenly lit up, and the sword qi flew, and the sword qi was vertical and horizontal, all of which disappeared into the white fire clouds.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and many fire clouds were immediately blown apart, and the Terran monks immediately pinched the magic technique again without hesitation and sacrificed their respective spiritual weapons.
Flying knives, flying swords, Buddha beads, silver needles, short daggers and other various things immediately appeared densely in the air, and after a burst of buzzing sounds, they shot together towards the hundreds of Nether Birds.
But at this moment, the sound of snakes roaring on the head of the city was loud, and some of the red-scaled snakes had climbed onto the city, and under the shaking of the snake's body, countless red scales **** came out, turning into a red glow in the sky, and they collided with these spiritual weapons first, looking evenly matched.
The monks defending the city were naturally not to be outdone, and they urged the spirit weapons to crush those red scales, but as more and more red-scaled snakes climbed to the top of the city, the red scales seemed to be endless, and the commander of the human race seemed unwilling to make his own monks consume too much spiritual power in this confrontation, so after a stalemate with the snakes for a while, he ordered an attack and fought with those red-scaled snakes in close quarters.