Burning the City, Storming the Stronghold

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Before long, movement also came from the huge tunnel entrances on the left and right.

The Ximen Family's forces surged out under the lead of an elderly man with a deep, steady presence, a cold, stern face, and a fiery-red long blade in hand. It was none other than the level eighty-three Ximen Wenye!

Behind him, the Ximen Family's Blade Soul Masters all had eyes like lightning, their Soul Power sharp and intimidating.

Almost at the same time, the Yang Family's forces arrived under the lead of a tall elderly man with clear eyes and a radiant longbow in hand—level eighty-two Yang Zhicheng.

The arrival of the two families instantly swelled the allied army's momentum.

A short while later, Ma Zhibin led roughly thirty Ma Family Flying Soul Masters out from the tunnel behind the Yang Family's formation as well.

Most of them possessed bird-type martial souls, their wings all different. Though the majority were branches of the Nine Heavens Rainbow Phoenix, gathering thirty Flying Soul Masters was already no small mobile force.

There were not many members of the Ma Family in Heaven Dou City. Uh, they had also split off twenty or so people to help the Li family block reinforcements.

Looking at the powerful soldiers and fierce generals gathered together, Zhu Yanfeng's heroic spirit surged. He said to Chen Zhang, "Fifth Master, all right, everyone's here! Shall we get to work?"

Chen Zhang nodded and said in a low voice, "Uncle Wenye, Uncle Zhicheng, Zhibin, shall we begin?"

All three wore grim, murderous expressions and nodded heavily. The flaming long blade behind Ximen Wenye gave off a low hum.

"Move out!" Chen Zhang ordered.

Zhu Yanfeng let out an enraged roar. His seventh soul ring suddenly lit up, and his entire body instantly transformed into a stone giant dozens of meters tall—his Martial Soul Avatar!

With a sweep of his enormous stone arm, a giant earthen-yellow Stone Armor Shield as thick and heavy as a city wall condensed out of thin air. He took the lead, rumbling forward as he crushed toward the front gate of the ancient fortress.

Behind him, Zhu Changyun and the other Defense Type Soul Masters followed closely, releasing shield skills one after another. Layer upon layer, they formed an indestructible moving defensive line.

Following right behind the Defense Types were the Ximen Family Blade Soul Masters led by Ximen Wenye, Soul Power surging across their blades like volcanoes on the verge of eruption!

Qin Luguang, Yang Guisan, Ding Bingming, and the other Chen Clan Power Attack Type Battle Soul Masters, along with the close-combat Soul Masters of the Seven Absolute Bow Yang Family, were also poised to strike, killing intent sharp and cold.

On the flanks and outer edges of the battle formation, the Agility Attack Type Soul Masters roamed like ghosts, ready at any moment to tear open weak points in the enemy formation.

Farther back was the Control Type Soul Master corps formed by the Chen Clan, the Yang Family, and the Ximen Family. Most of them were Plant-type Control Soul Masters, with the light of soul skills such as vines, thorns, and spores faintly appearing, led by Xia Yun.

In the position even farther behind them, Jian Hezhi commanded the Support Type Soul Masters and began applying buffs to the entire allied army. Halos that amplified Soul Power, barriers, and the light of lightening techniques lit up one after another.

However, the first to sound the prelude of destruction was not close combat!

A brilliant light flashed in Yang Zhicheng's eyes, and the Seven Absolute Bow in his hand erupted with dazzling seven-colored radiance!

He let out a long cry. "Men of the Yang Family! Ten Thousand Arrows Pierce the Clouds!"

Behind him, the Yang Family bow-type Soul Masters—no matter what attribute their bow and arrow martial souls had—erupted with astonishing auras at that moment, activating the Yang Family's secret art. Bowstrings cracked like thunder, and countless streaks of light tore through the gloom of the underground space.

In the next instant, a dark, magnificent, lethal rain of arrows blotted out the "underground sky."

Tens of thousands of sharp arrows converged into a torrent of death. Metal arrows were incomparably keen, wood arrows coiled with thorns, water arrows carried a chilling cold, fire arrows burned with towering flames, earth arrows were heavy and forceful, Wind Arrows were swift as lightning, and thunder arrows boomed with peals of thunder.

Arrows of every attribute wove together, forming a destructive waterfall of light. With ear-piercing shrieks as they split the air, they poured down viciously toward Iron Jaw Fortress hundreds of meters away.

Boom! Boom! Rumble! Rumble—!!!

An unprecedented, violent explosion shook the entire underground cavern. The arrow rain precisely covered the stronghold gate area and the defensive installations around it.

The towering arrow towers were blasted to pieces like rotten wood; the huge catapults were overturned and torn apart; the heavy metal-edged stronghold gate twisted and deformed under the ravaging flames and thunder, letting out a teeth-aching groan; the soul tool ballistae arranged along the wall were uprooted before they could display their power... Broken stones, wood chips, and metal fragments mixed with firelight shot into the sky as thick smoke billowed.

On top of the stronghold wall, the Bone Excavation Group bandits, who had originally been waiting in tight formation, instantly met with disaster.

Under the dazzling yet deadly rain of arrows, they fell in swathes like harvested wheat.

Shrill screams, terrified cries, the roar of explosions, and the thunderous crashes of collapsing buildings all mixed together, resounding into the clouds.

The defensive system that had seemed impregnable just moments ago was torn open in an instant by this terrifying round of long-range strikes, leaving a huge, mangled gap.

Just as the arrow rain had fallen, while the stronghold gate was in chaos and the smoke and dust had yet to disperse—

"Flying division, follow me! Cut off their reinforcements!"

Ma Zhibin shouted sharply. A pair of gorgeous phoenix wings wreathed in flames spread from his back, and he was the first to shoot into the sky!

Behind him, the fifty or so Flying Soul Masters from the Chen Clan and Yang Family beat their wings and sped after him. Dozens of flight trails in different colors cut across the smoke-filled air above the battlefield, heading straight for the skies over Iron Jaw Fortress.

They did not charge directly at the stronghold gate. Instead, they precisely took position above the vital passageway inside the gate that led toward the fortress's core area.

One fierce soul skill after another—wind blades, fireballs, ice cones, feather arrows—smashed down like hail at the Bone Excavation Group bandits below who were trying to surge toward the breach in the gate as reinforcements.

At the same time, they nimbly avoided the scattered counterattacks from below, pouring chaotic flames mercilessly into the interior of the fortress.

Very soon, the Bone Excavation Group's Flying Soul Masters took to the air and charged toward them, while long-range attacks from below arrived at the same time.

"Kill—!!!"

Below, under the cover of the giant Stone Armor Shield formed by Zhu Yanfeng's Martial Soul Avatar, the main land combat force had already begun attacking uphill toward the tottering stronghold gate that had been blasted half to ruins.

The surviving members of the Bone Excavation Group were still badly shaken and could only rely on what will they had left, using the war machinery that had not yet been completely destroyed to send rolling logs and falling stones crashing down wildly in an attempt to stop the allied army from approaching.

"Whoever blocks me dies!" A furious shout drowned out all other noise.

A bloody shadow suddenly sprang up from behind Zhu Yanfeng's giant shield—it was Qin Luguang!

He was still in midair when the Sixth Soul Ring on the Blood Shadow Demon Spear in his hand blazed with light—"Sixth Soul Skill: Red Tassel Storm!"

The spear shaft spun at high speed, dragging along dense Blood Fiend Qi and turning into a spiral storm of spear shadows that seemed to tear through space, crashing fiercely toward the Bone Excavation Group members still putting up a desperate resistance at the gap in the stronghold gate!

Right behind him, Yang Guisan's Soul Breaking Spear also erupted with blood-red radiance, and his Fifth Soul Skill, "Shatter," activated!

Over a hundred energy spear shadows condensed to the extreme shot out like a pear-blossom rainstorm, striking with precision at the openings in the defensive line torn open by the storm of spear shadows.

And in that chaotic moment, Ximen Wenye, who had remained Steady as a Mountain all along, finally moved.

The blade of his Karma Fire Demon Blade instantly ignited with raging karmic fire, giving off a terrifying pressure that seemed capable of burning the eight wastelands to ash.

Gripping the blade with both hands, he aimed at the heavily damaged stronghold gate and the chaotic defensive line behind it, then slashed down with savage force—"Karma Fire Red Lotus Slash!"

A gigantic blade ray formed from hellish Red Lotus Karmic Fire tore across the sky, twisting and burning the air wherever it passed.

That blade ray slammed viciously into the stronghold gate, which had long since been unable to bear any more strain.

Boom—!!!!!!!!!

With an earth-shaking explosion, that huge metal-bound stronghold gate, which symbolized the Bone Excavation Group's authority and the core of its defenses, along with a large stretch of wall behind it, was utterly blasted apart, melted, and collapsed under the matchless sharpness and extreme heat of the Karma Fire Red Lotus Slash, as if it were made of paper.

A huge, flame-wreathed breach appeared hideously in the front of Iron Jaw Fortress.

Rolling waves of heat and smoke, carrying shards of iron, broken wood, and charred severed limbs and arms, surged backward into the fortress!