Chapter 1688 (1/2)

Chapter 1688: Compa.s.sion Cannot Lead Troops

The numbers of devil creatures had grown explosively, and giant beetles had suddenly appeared amongst them as well. These beetles were covered in golden armor.

Each of them was only three meters. They mixed in with the previous giant lizards.

The lizards possessed dangerous killing power, while these golden beetles were the opposite, with immense defensive strength. Now that the two of them appeared at once, the Xuantian Dao Sect’s disciples were thrown into slight confusion.

“Should I interfere?” asked Meng Qi.

As a soul cultivator, she instantly saw that these golden beetles’ fatal defensive flaw was their spiritual defense. If she attacked, they would all collapse.

“No need. This is their battlefield.” Long Chen shook his head.

The Empyreans naturally didn’t feel any pressure from these beetles. Rank nine Celestials also didn’t feel much threat. However, the pressure on the rank seven and rank eight Celestials increased. Quite a few people were injured in their panic, and casualties appeared.

“The strong survive. This is the law of this world. It’s cruel. Even if you helped them now, you wouldn’t be able to help them for a lifetime. Each person has to fight for their own fate,” said Long Chen. This cruel reality was something each person from the Dragonblood Legion had already experienced.

As for the greenhouse flowers in front of them, they had to experience it too. Whoever’s life was tougher would be the one to survive.

Hua s.h.i.+yu immediately grew anxious upon seeing the casualties. Her panic caused her to make several errors with her orders, resulting in more casualties

“Long Chen!” shouted Hua s.h.i.+yu, sweating.

“Compa.s.sion cannot lead troops.”

Long Chen shook his head and only indifferently said one thing. It wasn’t that he had a heart of stone, but that if he wanted Hua s.h.i.+yu to grow up as fast as possible, she had to experience some setbacks.

“These golden beetles just have a slightly better defense. They look like a good combination with the lizards. However, in front of the Dragonblood Legion, they aren’t worth c.r.a.p. Any member of the Dragonblood Legion could have slaughtered them easily at the Foundation Forging realm. The reason you’re panicking is because you don’t know what a real battle is, and what true slaughter is. If you hold a saber or sword and then brainlessly hack with it, that’s not a real battle. You’re just wasting your energy and lives. Zhao Lin!” shouted Long Chen.

“Present.”

The one who responded to his call was actually a woman, a wood cultivator who didn’t specialize in fighting amongst the Dragonblood Legion. She was a healer and she walked over with a wooden staff.

“Go and demonstrate what a real battle is.” Long Chen gestured to the battlefield.

“Yes.” Zhao Lin shot past the formation of the Xuantian Dao Sect’s with just a few graceful steps, charging straight into the army of devil creatures.

“She…!” Seeing Zhao Lin charge into that ma.s.s of devil creatures with a wooden staff, the Xuantian Dao Sect’s disciples were dumbfounded. Was she going to fight a physical battle with the devil creatures?

“The strong should hold the line. Let the others watch closely!” shouted Long Chen.

Zhao Lin charged in, and a golden beetle attacked her first. When it approached her, it curled into its sh.e.l.l and used its body to directly smash into her.

This was the most irritating thing about these golden beetles. Even if you killed it with your weapon while it was hurling itself at you, the power of this impact was enough to stagger a person and open them to the lizards’ attacks.

What startled people was that as the golden beetle crashed toward her, Zhao Lin didn’t use her staff to attack it. Instead, she lithely jumped up and pressed on the edge of its sh.e.l.l with her foot.

The golden beetle easily flipped over, and Zhao Lin lightly pressed her staff down on its head. Its head instantly exploded.

Just as the golden beetle was killed in one attack, several of the lizards charged toward Zhao Lin. Her staff struck like a viper, striking a protrusion right below the front claws of the lizards.

With just a press of her wooden staff, those lizards instantly stiffened and fell to the ground. They died just like that.

Zhao Lin’s figure continued to weave through the ma.s.s of devil creatures. Her staff accurately struck repeatedly. She was like a small boat soaring through the wild waves of a sea. But no matter how turbulent the sea grew, it was unable to sink her. On the contrary, it was the devil creatures that were constantly slain by her.

A small mountain of devil creatures’ corpses appeared beneath Zhao Lin’s feet as more and more of them charged at her. She easily dodged all their attacks without leaving her mountain, not forgetting to make the mountain grow continuously larger.

The Xuantian Dao Sect’s disciples were filled with reverence and wors.h.i.+p for Zhao Lin upon seeing her kill the devil creatures so easily. She hadn’t even summoned her manifestation. Just relying on a wooden staff, she killed the devil creatures easily.