Chapter Ninety-Nine: Tragic Spirits

Light or darkness.

Good or evil.

Morality or original sin.

When the shadow of war hangs over the earth,

Only life or death is the eternal theme.

It doesn't matter if you're a high-flying being, or you're a wretched creature who can only survive in the stinking gutter.

In the shadow of the sword,

All beings are equal.

The sun is shining brightly on the earth, the snow and ice of the mountains are melting into the clear water, and the hillsides are full of colorful wildflowers and warblers.

But in the south, just a city away, the smoke of gunpowder filled the endless land, the broken weapons, the blood-soaked creatures, from heaven to hell, but only a city apart.

A white wolf with brown fur in it opened its mouth wide, revealing its yellowish but sharp teeth, foaming at the mouth, splashing dust on its limbs on the ground, and its brown tail swaying and sweeping through the flesh and blood.

The half-breed white wolf leapfrogged over its kind, its limbs stomping the horns of a long-dead bull, and the stinking saliva spilled through the tight space around it with the opening of its large mouth.

The limbs of the half-blood white wolf were exerting force at the same time, trying to rush towards the high city wall in front of it, it was confident enough, as long as it could jump to the side of the city wall, with its sharp wolf claws, it could easily climb to the city wall, and it wanted to let those humans taste the power of its claws.

The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is skinny.

A black glowing arrow shot straight through the right eye of the half-blood white wolf with the sound of the wind, the half-blood white wolf whimpered, lost the momentum to move forward, and fell down fiercely from mid-air, before he struggled to stand up, the monster beasts swarming up behind him trampled on the head of the half-blood white wolf, and only a pile of minced meat was left on the scene.

And this is just a small scene on the battlefield. An insignificant scene that can't turn up a little wave.

On the fifty-meter-high city wall, Qin Chen and the other Immortal Masters of the Transformation Spirit Realm stood quietly, looking indifferently like this, without a trace of emotion in their eyes, as if all this had nothing to do with themselves.

The Guards worked closely with the City Guards to defend themselves against all external attacks from the battlements, and the Guards raised their crossbow arrows to eliminate monsters one by one. Of course, in this case, a random shot can also kill a large area.

And in front of the city walls. The tide of demon beasts seemed to be boundless, and countless demon beasts poured out from behind the demon beast king of the Spirit Transformation Realm, and in Qin Chen's eyes, they were reincarnated in hell.

A huge demon beast with a thick body, ignoring the crossbow arrows and iron ball cannons that were shot, hit the city wall with a solid body, fortunately, this Chaoxi City is unusually strong, it is really like the legend says, the palace of the gods in the world, the city wall is not damaged in the slightest. And after the dense arrow attack on the city wall, these demon beasts finally closed their eyes unwillingly, and behind these demon beasts, there are still countless demon beasts with thick fur to come to the city wall. Fearless to the death, he slammed into the city wall.

And high in the sky, the birds that cover the sky and the sun are flapping their wings, making terrible calls, and clutching small stones in their claws. They threw stones from their claws out of range of the mystical army's crossbow arrows, and with the force of inertia, they smashed them into the guards on the walls.

Although the quasi-head is extremely low. Only a very small number of stones smashed into the city wall, and most of the stones smashed into the demon beast group outside the city and the reserve army inside the city, but there were too many of them.

Countless soldiers were hit in the shoulders by stones, helplessly replaced by their companions, and some unlucky ghosts were directly hit in the head, and their brains flowed to the ground, completely silent.

The wounded soldiers rushed out and carried the soldiers off the battlefield one by one to carry them out of the rough bandage, while the logisticians picked up the stones on the city wall and threw them down the city wall frantically.

The giant trebuchet is still like an ancient giant beast, releasing unprecedented power, and the huge round stones have caused countless demon beasts to suffer heavy losses, even those giant demon beasts, under the huge impact, they are also not lightly injured.

Countless huge monsters rolled up the trebuchet and threw out the round stones, and threw them back with a vengeance.

The huge round stones have caused great damage to the human side, although they can't be thrown into the city wall, as long as one piece falls on the city wall, the soldiers around it will inevitably die and not be spared, and most of the stones are thrown under the city wall, providing an excellent foothold for the demon beasts behind.

Zhao Wenchuan, who was standing next to Qin Chen, shrugged his shoulders helplessly, this was extremely rude for the identity of the emperor of the Great Qi Kingdom, but Zhao Wenchuan did so, and Qin Chen was no longer surprised.

"That's why we've been refraining from using trebuchets, in the Iron Blood, the use of trebuchets can certainly be used for a while, but the effect of the city walls, which provides us with great convenience, has been weakened a little, and the chances of those demon beasts attacking the city are a little greater. ”

Then Zhao Wenchuan sighed again, "But you can't use it now! If you don't use it, it's possible, and you won't have a chance to use it in the future." ”

Qin Chen could understand Zhao Wenchuan's distress, guarding a weapon with such a great lethality, but he couldn't use it easily, and anyone would be depressed.

There is no such thing as the best of both worlds in this world, and no matter which one you choose, you will pay a certain price.

Finally, the tide of battle took a turn, but not outside the city, but inside the city.

The repeating crossbows of the mysterious army finally went out, and in order to suppress the superiority of the demon beast in the air, under such a dense attack of crossbow arrows, the arrows were finally exhausted.

Under Zhao Wenchuan's muttering, Qin Chen finally figured out the true identity of this army.

This is the secret guard of the Great Qi State, the secret guard that should never appear in front of the world, once they appear, it will inevitably mean that the Great Qi State will have a crisis of annihilation.

Every year, the Great Qi Kingdom collects orphans and beggars under the age of ten from all over the country.

They were secretly sent to the Great Qi Kingdom to train secret guards, where the mortality rate is extremely high, and the little ones will face life and death crises every day, but they can obtain extremely rich resources, so that they have great potential for development.

When they are qualified to become a Dark Guard, they will be sent to the Xiyi Hundred Tribes to become a member of the Secret Guard. There's a mysterious mission going on.

Since the day they were chosen, the secret guards have been instilled with the idea of loyalty to the Great Qi State, brainwashing every day, so that when they grow up, they are not so much people as puppets.

The high mortality rate has kept the number of secret guards at around 20,000.

Since they all choose the offspring of some beggars, orphans, and crimes, the qualifications of the secret guards are not high. The chances of them becoming warriors are extremely small.

But rigorous training has made them war machines that are not affected by any outside world.

The crossbow arrows were extinguished almost at the same time, and all the dark guards put down the crossbow arrows in their hands, took out the bends around their waists, formed a strange formation, and rushed to the city gate in an orderly manner. And so they stood at the gate of the city, and did not move.

In the back, a large number of logisticians began to replenish the arrows for these dark guards.

The birds let out strange cries after losing the suppression of their crossbow arrows. They rushed to the city walls, and in their hearts, only human blood could wash away the shame of the birds, as the overlord of the sky. It is absolutely impermissible to be suppressed in this way.

Qin Chen stared at these birds tightly, the human side was very weak in terms of air strength, and it could even be said that there was no strength at all. If these birds are allowed to rush into the city, I don't know what disaster will be caused by the road.

But Zhao Wenchuan next to him didn't care at all, and those Spirit Transformation Realm Immortal Masters didn't care either. Qin Chen was also relieved, it seemed that they had some kind of backhand.

One military order after another was issued in an orderly manner, although there was a trace of turmoil caused by the attack of the demon beast, but it quickly subsided, and the Great Qi Kingdom, the well-deserved overlord of the land of a hundred countries, now showed its fangs.

When the flocks of birds pounced down, there was not even a trace of resistance on the city wall, as if there was no resistance, a large number of birds pounced on the city wall, three or four birds joined forces, directly grabbed the soldiers, flew into the air and threw them down, and disappeared in the group of demon beasts.

More and more monsters pounced on the walls, and some flew into the city, charging at the reserve legions.

Qin Chen's eyes were red, and he held the bloody knife on his back, if this was the case, it would be better to rush out of the gang and kill it himself, so that because of the lamb-like slaughter of birds, this is definitely not what Qin Chen wants to see.

Zhao Wenchuan pressed Qin Chen's shoulder and shook his head firmly, Qin Chen's eyes changed for a long time, and finally weakly put down the hand holding the hilt.

The giant eagle and demon beast king in the sky let out an eagle roar, and endless demon beasts and birds flew from the rear of the demon beast group, unlike these birds in front, this is an army composed of all demon beasts and birds, and the combat power is very strong.

The overwhelming number of demon beasts and birds that were countless times more than the original flew towards the city wall, and under the orders of the giant eagle demon beast king, they flew towards the city.

Qin Chen watched all this dumbfounded, and after inadvertently touching a smile on the corner of Zhao Wenchuan's mouth, Qin Chen could only mourn silently for these demon beasts and birds, but at the same time, he was shocked by the ruthlessness of these high-ranking people. No matter what plan they had to deal with these monster beasts and birds, they had already sacrificed the lives of thousands of soldiers.

As the beasts and birds were about to reach the city walls, the giant trebuchets began to drop a new round of bombs, but this time their ammunition was not round stones, but mysterious things covered in black cloth.

The soldiers lifted the black cloth, revealing the contents inside, it was a white thing, with the pull of the mechanism, countless white things flew towards the demon beast birds, but the demon beasts and birds were easily avoided, on the one hand, because their strength was far from those ordinary birds, and secondly, the trebuchet was still relatively too evacuated.

When the white object flew in the middle of the demon beast and bird, it suddenly burst open at the same time, and exploded into white dust that filled the entire sky.

Almost all the demon beasts and birds were surrounded by them, and those demon beasts and birds frantically flapped their wings, flying aimlessly in the sky, countless birds collided together, and the huge impact sound was followed by a rain of blood.

Qin Chen squinted at all this, what was that white dust?

Zhao Wenchuan coughed, "This is a strange thing researched by the Elixir Mountain, the effect is similar to lime in the human world, but the effect is countless times better than lime, these demon beasts and birds have all injured their eyes, and they may never be able to see, although there is no trouble with demon beasts and birds." But because of this, the Elixir Mountain forcibly demanded half of the county's territory from our hands. ”

Qin Chen looked at Wang Huatian and Wang Huadi in the distance, especially the irrepressible smile on Wang Huadi's face.

Although the Elixir Mountain has selfish intentions, they have made great contributions to the human race in the land of a hundred countries, and the territory of half of the county is indeed in line with their contribution, but it is also a little less.

Countless invisible white dust drifted to the city wall with the wind, countless soldiers covered their eyes in pain, and some medics with special spars on their eyes hurriedly rushed up and carried down those soldiers whose eyes were hurt by the white dust.

Zhao Wenchuan and Qin Chen at this time all had this strange lens on their eyes.

Shrugged helplessly. Zhao Wenchuan blinked, "It's because this kind of dust is harmful to the eyes of any living being, so the Elixir Mountain only has half a county's territory, otherwise, it is at least a county's territory." ”

The Guards and the city guards suffered heavy casualties, and the Reserve Legion finally struck, quickly occupying various positions on the city wall and began to strike frantically at the monsters.

The birds on the walls were swept away, and countless birds were thrown off the walls.

The Giant Eagle Demon Beast King let out a burst of eagle roars. wanted to control the army of those demon beasts and birds, but the blind demon beasts and birds were unusually furious, and they did not obey any orders and rushed in all directions. Rushed into the group of demon beasts, broke out into a riot, rushed into the city, and was quickly killed by the reserve legion.

There was an unwilling eagle chirping. The giant eagle demon beast king reluctantly led the surviving demon beast birds to fly back to the original way.

The Giant Ape Demon Beast King thumped his shoulders, let out an angry howl, and lifted the boulder beside him casually. Just threw it at the giant eagle demon beast king, and the boulder flew out a hundred meters away, but the last one fell to the ground helplessly, killing more than a dozen demon beasts, but the giant ape demon beast king didn't care.

After the Giant Eagle Demon Beast King retreated with all his subordinates, Zhao Wenchuan breathed a sigh of relief, and a smug smile appeared on his face, "Okay now, let's start a war of equal strength! ”

The enthusiastic sun unconcernedly exuded its own amazing heat, as if it was cheering on the two armies below.

The scorching sun roasted the earth wantonly, and a trace of blood evaporated, leaving only a rotten meat with a hint of mush.

The attack of the demon beasts outside the city has slowed down, although they live in the hot vast mountains all year round, but there are towering ancient trees everywhere, and the demon beasts choose shady places to build their nests, so they don't really feel the power of the heat.

But now, there was not the slightest shelter outside the city, the fierce sun was scorching the earth, and the thick fur on their bodies had become their lifeline at this time, and countless demon beasts ran and suddenly fell down, and could no longer stand up.

Inside the city, however, it was a different story.

At this time, Qin Chen felt more and more the benefits brought by Chaoxi City, although the sun outside was scorching, but the city was unusually cool, all the soldiers did not feel the slightest discomfort, and unscrupulously laughed at the demon beasts that fell from time to time under the city.

Despite this, the demon beast army did not stop attacking at all, and the endless army of demon beasts came without stopping, not giving humans the slightest time to rest.

Countless soldiers were replaced, and countless soldiers came up with injuries, and there were only 100,000 troops in Chaoxi City at this time, which was still the private army that was in great power.

"Bring in some troops from the other walls. Zhao Wenchuan finally gave the order. Anyway, looking at the appearance of the demon beast, it is necessary to break through the south gate, and on the other city walls, as long as there are enough guards left.

Soldiers continued to fall, and the claws of the demon beasts left scars on the city walls, but none of them could climb the walls.

Under the city wall, an endless embankment of flesh and blood ten meters high has been pushed up, which contains the bones of both demon beasts and humans.

The giant trebuchets had become intermittent, and the city's soldiers began to dismantle the houses, using the boulders that had laid the foundation as weapons.

The war has entered a stalemate, humans and monsters are dying every moment, and the ground within a kilometer outside the city has been completely covered with blood and rotten flesh, and the original appearance cannot be seen, and the flies are buzzing in the rotten flesh.

Countless soldiers with bandages on their bodies still stubbornly pulled the bows and arrows in their hands, and even among them, Qin Chen saw those blind soldiers, under the guidance of the soldiers next to them, shooting arrows towards the demon beast army.

In a place that Qin Chen didn't notice, a Du Yuewei wearing white soft armor with a dirty face mixed with a private army was staring at him, but most of his energy was focused on the demon beasts outside the city.

Huihui in the Du Mansion hugged Qin Bai, holding her little head and waiting for her brother's return.

In the depths of the vast mountain range, the pig flapped its huge wings, and all the injuries it had suffered a few days ago disappeared, and it flew to the north with a hideous face.

It was also in the depths of the vast mountain range, next to the Ruined Immortal Palace, at this time, Cai Lao, who had an unusually strong aura all over his body, was sitting on the ground, and the Caiyun Fairy was guarding him.

With a long beard, long eyebrows, and a snow-white head, Cai Lao came to the end of his life.

Regardless of these circumstances, the war outside Chaoxi City is still in full swing. (To be continued......)