Divine Brilliance - Chapter 668
Chapter 668: Great Understanding
Sitting on that golden throne, Zong Shou was carefully looking at the situation below. Four hours passed and he hadn’t shifted his eyes away.
One could feel that the current strength of their attacks was numerous percentage points higher than before.
They stopped avoiding places where dead bodies piled up high and instead used life after life to push through.
Some stone castles which were predicted to at least last for a night were forced to be abandoned in just a short amount of time.
The entire formation seemed like it was being hit by a hammer, forced back to retreat to the foot of the mountain until they had no more path to go back to.
The only place that was calm were the plains to the left.
The 300,000 troops with the Blood Cloud Cavalry at the helm weren’t thrown into the battlefield from start to now.
However, it restricted close to 600,000 troops, amongst which there were 2 towns of Grade-5. There were 14 Grade-4 towns which were spread out left and right to lock down Zong Yuan’s Iron Cavalry.
The close guards of Jia Mingluo, a full 2,000 Grade-6 Night Demon Cultivators were hidden within.
These were the only Elites that could compare to the Blood Cloud Cavalry, only they were less in number, unable to go head to head. In the numerous engagements, they suffered many losses.
Naturally, his Blood Cavalry also suffered some losses.
Only in the few recent months, there were close to 400 Grade-5 and 6 experts who were added in. Some came from Donglin while some came from Huizhou.
Three months of battling and this Blood Cavalry still managed to maintain at 5,000, becoming stronger and more valiant.
The training and grinding on the battlefield along with the newly refined Dragon Salamander Blood Essence Pill that Xuanyuan Yiren crafted, their cultivations were all greatly increased. Out of the original 4,000, half of them had advancements.
There were a total of a thousand Grade-6 Cultivators within!
These were undoubtedly the strongest powers in his hand. Although the few months of battles were dangerous, they were one of the only pillars that were undefeated.
At this moment, those 60 Night Demon towns didn’t move and were unable to be tossed into the battle.
It wasn’t because they were being careful but because of their aura and prestige that Zong Yuan and this Iron Cavalry gained.
Such that those Night Demon Generals were all worried and didn’t want the same things to occur.
Just looking at the situation, Zong Shou’s brow tightened up.
Apart from this cavalry army led by Zong Yuan, it was extremely intense all around.
The native surrendered troops that Zong Gang brought back were in fact Elites, none of them below Grade-2. With their retreat path canceled out and then also defending their homeland, their morale was not bad.
However, their combat strength was still a little weaker than those Night Demons.
Relying on the stone walls and castles, they could still fight. Once the Spiritual Formation and those structures were destroyed, they weren’t good enough. They needed more troops to block the enemy.
Looking out, pretty much each moment there would be hundreds and thousands of troops who died under the weapons of the Night Demons.
Zong Shou was shaking his head slightly as he looked at the sky. The moonlight shone down like water.
At this moment, he didn’t have the heart to enjoy the scenery. It was also the first time he felt the night was so long. He really wished for this sparkly star night to end, the sooner, the better.
“Ruler are you regretting?”
Kong Yao looked toward Zong Shou with a weird expression. Her sensitive feelings could sense the sadness in his eyes. She didn’t understand and shook her head.
To Donglin, they had to fight this battle.
The current Gantian Army was already threatened by the enemy. The Night Demon Race suffered heavy losses and they wouldn’t dare to offend them and attack.
Once the Night Demon Race had a foundation in the Cloud World, their reinforcements would be endless.
Sooner or later, they would eye Donglin and a war would be unavoidable.
They needed to smack back the claws right as the Night Demons stretched them out.
Zong Shou broke out into a laugh. Just now, he noticed that the war matter he went through as Tanqiu in the future was a little different.
What was drawing close and slowly disappearing at the foot of the mountain were true human lives.
In the God Emperor Game, after one died they could be revived. NPCs could also be refreshed.
In the past, when he led armies to war, he had at least thousands of deaths but he never felt so emotional before.
However, these millions of people fighting to the death caused his Heart Realm to shake a little.
If he wasn’t sad, that would mean he had lost his humanity. If he cared too much then he wasn’t fit to be the Gantian Mountain King. He wasn’t good enough to chase for the peak of the Martial Path.
As a soldier, as a Ruler, the path of life and death shouldn’t be feared and shouldn’t be neglected!
Such a sentence flashed across his heart. He had never felt so deeply about it in his life.
War was dangerous, to him it might be just simple numbers, how many losses and how many funds he used. However, a million soldiers of Donglin were linked to it by their lives!
In the future, he had to be really careful when he used troops!
“Looking at the Generals, General Ren has been keeping strength and has something up his sleeves. As for those Night Demons, they have really run out of grain…”
Kong Yao said impassively. She knew that Zong Shou himself was an unparalleled general talent. In wars, his troop leading ability was even higher than hers. He could definitely see through what was going on now.
Her heart moved as she looked toward Zong Shou’s chest, at the red glow shining.
Was it the necklace she gave Zong Shou?
Kong Yao’s eyes lit up, her lips curled and she relaxed slightly.
That was due to King Energy being too intense such that even this treasure needed to go all out to suppress it.
Although she couldn’t see his energy, she knew that his fate and luck was definitely changing.
If it was turning for the worse, then this treasure would have no movement.
Such a situation was a sign of King Energy gathering and rising.
But why was the reaction so strong?
Following this, she didn’t mind much about it as she looked downward.
If one felt that they definitely won this battle then they would be wrong.
One still couldn’t be careless with the battle proceeding to this stage.
This battle was the one that would allow her name to spread far and wide.
She could only win and couldn’t lose!
Suddenly, explosions could be heard from tens of miles away. A stone castle was collapsing.
It was right in front, the foremost stone castle of the middle army.
Ten minutes ago the defending troops within had retreated. Although the castle collapsed, there weren’t many casualties.
With this castle broken, a ten thousand feet breach instantly appeared in the defense line.
Kong Yao looked on coldly and didn’t speak, she didn’t show any signs of sending an order.
In the next instant, 40 formations of 10,000 men each, lined up from within the castle. They didn’t use the structures nor power of the Spiritual Formation, just standing in front of the Night Demon Army.
What was surprising was that they didn’t wait solemnly. They spread out like a steel wall, pressing forward without hesitation.
It was obvious they were weaker but when the red and black waves collided, the ten over square formations of the Night Demons were forced back.
Kong Yao smiled when she saw that, “General Ren really knows how to grasp the timing…”
Zong Shou nodded his head. Four hours of intense battling, using the stone castle to consume the stamina of the Night Demon Army. A few hundred thousand people were actually saving their strength at the back.
At this moment, although the stone castle was broken, it was also when these Night Demons were the weakest.
This was why in the following battle, these red armor warriors had the advantage.
Zong Shou didn’t have high hopes. As expected, after the tough beginning, the back few Night Demon army formations took over.
The situation ended up at a standstill, the aura and momentum of those few hundred thousand red armor warriors faded.
Just at this moment, 2 formations of 10,000 men each, with slightly different armor, suddenly came out of the formation and into the Night Demon formation.
At the start, the Night Demon General didn’t care.
However, these 20,000 Big Dipper Sword Soldiers cut through like a knife through butter, killing their way in.
Pretty much everyone focused their eyes over.
The red swords rose up in an orderly manner and slashed down altogether.
Even if one was strong and could block one, two, but he wouldn’t be able to block three or four!
Breakthrough! Kill! Breakthrough! Kill!
They broke through several formations and were nearly going to totally pierce through the enemy formation.
Right as the Night Demon Army started to panic, the other areas added strength too. A few hundred thousand red armor soldiers once again forced the enemy back.
Although they were spread out over hundreds of thousands of feet, they were in great coordination with one another. They push forward and retreated at the same time.
They were also able to maintain the pressure on the Big Dipper Sword Soldiers to a minimum.
Where those 20,000 red swords headed, most of the Night Demons flew up in panic to try to avoid the onslaught. Some tried to toss down spears from the sky to stop the footsteps of the 20,000.
However, in the next instance tens of thousands of red arrows covered the sky.
They were the Big Dipper Crossbow Soldiers!
In an instant, the Night Demons in the air were all cleared out. Close to 10,000 of them fell from the sky.
A few hundred thousand red armored soldiers went on the offensive, causing them to retreat and face the risk of collapsing.
Maybe because they felt that they couldn’t take it, there were 6 Grade-4 square formations opposite Zong Yuan who were made to retreat to where the close to million infantry troops were fighting.
At this instant, Zong Yuan’s cavalry finally moved. A few hundred thousand cavalry galloped, 1.2 million hooves rumbling. They surged like a wave, coincidentally it was when those Grade-4 Elites left and showed weakness.
They charged in easily, with clouds of blood spewing. Where the 300,000 passed, a patch of white bones remained.
In just ten minutes, numerous Night Demon formations collapsed, their casualties reaching 30,000.
Zong Shou’s eyes flashed. At this moment, even he couldn’t help but praise!
Although Ren Tianxing and Zong Yuan didn’t have much interaction, their great cooperation made one impressed.
