Chapter 374: Chaotic Evil Villains (1/2)
Wei Xiong stared at Xuan City's wall and the metal monsters on the battlements.
It had been a week since he had started attacking minor towns north of Siren City. He managed to conquer small villages and abandoned towns. However, he couldn't capture two strategic locations.
One was the Tian Long Forest, which was an infamous forbidden region for cultivators. Even after the beastmen had migrated, the forest was still the home of many territorial man-eating insects and plants.
As for another troublesome strategic location, aka Xuan City, an unknown force had occupied it before Wei Xiong had reached there.
Currently, Xuan City's walls were made of metallic plates, which could reflect Qi attacks back to the attackers. However, it couldn't defend against elemental Qi.
Wei Xiong had been besieged the city for only five minutes, but the golems on the battlements were too strong for him and his men.
Furthermore, they used scary weapons.
TATATATATATATATA
Barrages of light-speed yellowish needle rain showered upon Wei Xiong's charging men. Even though they had transformed into massive crimson Onis, the strange black weapons in the Golems' hands fired unstoppable shells that could penetrate the hardened skin of the red giants.
Wei Xiong's men were never afraid of dying. However, the battle was too one-sided.
One after another, giant onis fell.
They died in vain. None of them could even reach one of the metal golems on the wall.
Wei Xiong was decisive. Upon realizing that he couldn't fight, he sounded the order.
”Retreat!!”
Unfortunately, his order came late. Out of 100 elites, 20 had left.
Though Wei Xiong made several blunders, he was still calm enough to appoint rear guards and organized the fleeing squad.
As Wei Xiong flew away from the city with his men, he heard the telepathic voice of the new city owner. His accent was strange as well.
[Where are you going? Come back! I still have many more weapons to test on you!]
Suddenly, a thousand metal golems were equipped with strange metal backpacks. Then, their jetpacks released a stream of fire.
Then, they took flight!
The heavy golems flew!
A thousand metal golems shuttled to the sky randomly at first. But suddenly, they mastered the control and chased after Wei Xiong and his men.
”WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY!?”
Panicked, Wei Xiong didn't look back as they fled for their lives. He even ignored the sounds of gunshot and the bullets that came for him and his men.
…
= Two weeks later =
Wei Xiong had been hiding in Anding City, northwest of Chicken Ann City.
Because of the failure, Wei Xiong didn't dare to report his progress to his parent or his grandfather.
After all, he was the sole survivor!
Outside of the city walls, many strange golems patrolled the area, chopping trees and collecting stones back to Xuan City. Every time the golems found his men, they immediately killed them and stole their spatial rings.
Wei Xiong, for the first time in his life, was in despair. He wished that he never participated in this hellish war. Even with his current cultivation base and the newly awakened domain power, he couldn't do anything to these monsters.
He wished to return to the old days when he endlessly partied at Mountain Goose Sect and commanded all disciples like slaves. He started to question why he was even here.
”I was so sure that we were the strongest in the world after we had Kishin Douji's support. Why does it end like this!?”
Wei Xiong lamented, unable to accept the reality.
Then, he heard the voice of his dao god. He heard Kishin Douji's voice in his head.
'Do you wanna know why you failed?'
Wei Xiong was delighted when he heard the voice of his savior, ”Yes! Please tell me! Why did I fail!?”
'That's because you ran into…'
Wei Xiong continued to listen to his god's explanation and the revelation. He widened his eyes in astonishment for several minutes. Afterward, he laughed hysterically.
RUMBLE
Wei Xiong transformed back to his Oni form. But now, his skin was pitch black as he had received another blessing from his god.
The man couldn't stop laughing while he looked at the sky. A dark beacon shone upon him, disintegrating his body and teleporting him to another realm.
…
It was the end of January, a month after the first surprise attack from Mount Hua Sect.
A large army of cultivators in silver armors formed ranks, organizing their formation and preparing support arrays before they could approach Siren City, located one kilometer north of here.
A total of 5,000 4th-stage experts, 1,000 5th-stage elites, and ten 6th-stage masters gathered as ordered by the emissary of the Holy Land's Great Zhang Clan.
A 7th-stage cultivator, who was the representative of the Great Zhang Clan, led this army here.
The middle-aged man in ancient Chinese military general gears stood in front of his men, gazing toward Siren City. His droopy eyelids seemed to be closed as if he was sleeping, but that was his natural look as his eyes were too narrow.
Zhang Ren looked neither skinny nor fat as his cheekbone shape was visible on his face, yet his well-built body couldn't be hidden under the thick armor plates.
The general patiently waited for the others to arrive. He had been also waiting for his scout to assess the general situation and map the entire region.
RUMBLE
While Zhang Ren had been waiting, he sensed two large fleets of flying battleships approaching from the east.
A small fleet with 10 battleships belonged to Liu Biao, another agent from the Holy Land's Great Liu Clan. He finally brought his men here to hunt Miaomiao and his family due to the recent warrant, issued by the main branch of the Liu Clan.
On one of their battleships, a supreme expert was there with them.
Huang Hansheng, aka Huang Zhong, one of the few 9th-stage cultivators in this world, escorted the fleet to oversee the general situation. He was also in charge of commanding the entire fleet.
Should he see Miaomiao anywhere, he was ordered to kill the wanted criminal on sight!
Meanwhile, the bigger fleet of battleships was even more impressive. As a flying island had been at the center of the fleet formation, it looked like an entire alternate plane had decided to invade this continent with their great forces.
Sun Wentai and his sect had arrived.
”Even the Great Huang Hansheng is here.”
Zhang Ren turned east, gazing at his ally forces. He faintly smiled, ”This battle should be easy. We probably don't need to do anything.”
Like others, Zhang Ren planned to let Yuan Shaoqing and others initiate the battle first. Then, if Siren City were to fall, he would mobilize his forces to plunder the city.
Once the dust was settled, he should be able to claim some war trophies, aka women, beast slaves, elixir, essence cores, and precious treasures, without losing his men.
…
As Sun Wentai and Huang Zhong had arrived, a massive army with Yuan Clan's flags also appeared and camped one kilometer east of Siren City.
Yuan Shaoqing amassed a crusade army of 50,000 essence gathering realm experts, 20,000 foundation establishment experts, and 500 core pillar realm experts using his name. All of them came from small sects and clans, hoping to tag along with Yuan Shaoqing and plunder Siren City without risking their lives.