The farmer sent as a messenger was burned by a fireball into a charred corpse, and countless soldiers on Fanlu'er City's walls erupted in cheers.
Within the Yin Clan's encampment, a red-eyed raven shot into the sky. It rose straight up to an altitude of a thousand meters, then began lazily circling Fanlu'er City. Inside the magic chariot where Yin Xuege sat, a Yin Clan sorcerer held up a crystal ball the size of a human head with both hands and softly chanted an incantation.
The crystal ball gradually gave off a faint glow before lightly floating into the air. A halo several meters across spread out from within it, projecting everything the raven saw through the curtain of light. As the sorcerer worked his spell, Yin Xuege and the others could even make out every single eyebrow on the soldiers atop the walls.
Then a figure Yin Xuege knew all too well made him leap to his feet!
"Damn it, what is that woman doing here?" Yin Xuege gripped the hilt of the Blood Spirit Sword. The Blood Spirit Sword, already refined and subdued by him, sensed the fury and Killing Intent in his heart and immediately rang out with a clear cry. Wave after wave of dense, bloody Killing Intent spread from the Blood Spirit Sword, forcing all the Yin Clan experts inside the magic chariot to lower their heads in awe.
The Blood Spirit Sword had accompanied Yin Tianjue for three hundred years and slaughtered countless beings. After Yin Tianjue established the Yin Clan's vast foundation, he placed this fiendish weapon in the Blood Transformation Pool to nurture it. Over the centuries, no one knew how much blood essence and vicious souls it had devoured. The Blood Spirit Sword had come from the Eastern Cultivation World before the Era of Dharma Decline. It was already a divine weapon that had developed a spirit of its own, and now it was even more fiendishly vicious.
Even though several Yin Clan powerhouses at the marquis level were present in the magic chariot, they still trembled all over under the Blood Spirit Sword's Killing Intent. They did not even dare raise their heads to look at Yin Xuege.
"Fennice!" Clutching the Blood Spirit Sword tightly, Yin Xuege called out that person's name one word at a time. "She actually killed even the messenger we sent? Was that farmer not human? Why would humans casually slaughter other humans like this?"
Standing beside Yin Xuege, Yin Wufeng, the Grand Steward of the Internal Affairs Hall whom the Yin Clan had sent to assist him, chuckled softly.
"Young Master Xuege, the courses taught in the Children's Hall may not have covered this particular subject."
"To be precise, among the Human Alliance, those individuals who control the power of various natural elements do not actually regard themselves as human! They claim to be descendants of the Deities, and they are immensely proud of the blood flowing through their veins. So in truth, they regard humans as servants!"
Yin Wufeng curled his lips in disdain and sneered. "The Yin Clan and the other Blood Demon nobles kidnap humans and turn them into Blood Servants and Blood Slaves. We do it openly! We have no fear of letting people know what we have done! But those people who claim to be descendants of the Deities? They keep saying that they are part of humanity, yet in truth, they have never treated humans as human!"
"So that's how it is!" Yin Xuege looked at Fennice standing atop the walls. The countless schemes and stratagems taught in the Children's Hall surged into his mind. But soon, he cast all those schemes and stratagems beyond the ninth heaven.
If he played around with schemes and stratagems, what difference would there be between him and the father-and-son pair Yin Xuejiao and Yin Jiwu? Fanlu'er City was merely a city. He could conquer it directly through force. There was no need for him to step forward and use those underhanded tricks!
"That woman is named Fennice! The white-robed man beside her is Bright, and the blond man in golden robes is Sander! Bright controls the power of light, so he poses the greatest threat to our people! Sander controls the power of thunder. Just be careful not to get struck by him!"
With a loud crack, Wumu bit the bone of the beast leg in his hand in two, then dug out and ate the bloody marrow inside. He slowly donned a heavy enclosed helmet before picking up the Two-handed Horse-slaying Sword the Yin Clan had specially forged for him.
"Let me go kill those little brats!" Wumu roared in a deep, rumbling voice. "That woman once set fire to my beautiful fur in the Blood Prison! That Bright tortured me countless times! As for that Sander—well, getting struck by lightning doesn't feel very good!"
"Let me lead people in attacking the city. I want to eat the hearts of those two pretty boys. And that red-haired girl—hehe, I want her to bear me a wolf cub!" Wumu snickered. "I am the great Silver Wolf Commander Wumu. My people even call me 'Pervert' Wumu! Hey, that girl named Fennice is quite pretty, isn't she?"
Yin Xuege glanced sideways at Wumu and nodded. "Blast open their walls, then have Wumu lead people inside! Be careful. Don't injure too many humans by mistake. To our Yin Clan, they are all precious resources!"
Wumu let out a strange, cackling laugh and impatiently carried the two-meter-long greatsword out of the carriage.
The red-eyed raven continued circling high above, and everything within Fanlu'er City lay under Yin Xuege's control.
On Fanlu'er City's walls, Fennice disdainfully shook her tender hand, from which wisps of heat still rose. She glanced at the charred corpse outside the city and smiled coldly. "Those idiots actually served as messengers for Blood Demons. They deserve to die! Chief, and Sander, how long do you think it will take us to defeat this Blood Demon hunting party?"
Sander said nothing. His expression solemn, he watched the Yin Clan army standing ready outside the city.
Bright gripped his cross and pressed the silver cross tightly against his heart. Hearing Fennice's question, he gently shook his head. "Not defeat them, but annihilate them. We must kill every last one of them. I will not let a single person escape! These damned Blood Demons, these fallen humans—they all deserve to die!"
Bright sneered several times before saying darkly, "The Grand Arbiters and those people from the East are busy preparing something extremely important. We will have to deal with these Blood Demons ourselves!"
Sander suddenly spoke. "But Chief, don't you think so? The actions of these Blood Demons are too strange this time. They are practically afraid we won't know where they are. They deliberately made a grand show of coming to Fanlu'er City, even leaving us enough time to send additional reinforcements! What exactly are they trying to do?"
Bright swept Sander an unhappy glance, his tone turning especially stern. "Don't waste time thinking about useless questions, Sander. You think too much! Our only task is to hold Fanlu'er. As for everything else, we don't need to figure it out."
On several of the main streets inside Fanlu'er City, countless soldiers from the Great Berlin City-State's security forces stood in neat ranks, dressed in enclosed combat uniforms. Large numbers of hunters in black trench coats, carrying long blades and spears, stood among them. Viewed from above, the Great Berlin City-State's security forces numbered at least fifty thousand, while the hunters numbered more than ten thousand.
Mixed among the soldiers and hunters were large numbers of young men and women in robes of various colors. They were scattered lazily throughout the area, and bursts of natural energy—flames, frost, and the like—occasionally erupted from their bodies.
Yin Xuege and the others saw all of this clearly. Bright and the others seemed to have no intention of concealing their strength. The reinforcements from the Great Berlin City-State, combined with Fanlu'er City's own force of more than a hundred thousand soldiers and militia, formed an extremely powerful armed force—one capable of contending with the Yin Clan army outside the city.
"Begin the attack. Since this is Operation 'Startled Insects,' we might as well make some noise!" Yin Xuege issued the order for an all-out assault.
Dozens of heavy Mortar Cannons had already been set up. The Yin Clan had plundered countless human designers and workers, then ordered them to design these heavy weapons specifically for breaking through humanity's sturdy city defenses. Each Mortar Cannon had a muzzle roughly a meter in diameter, and every shot could hurl a bomb weighing several tons dozens of kilometers away.
These Mortar Cannons were astonishingly heavy, but the Yin Clan's Formation Masters had inscribed them with the unique Levitation Formation used by Flying Magic Chariots. As a result, transporting and setting them up was exceptionally easy. Several dozen ordinary Blood Servant soldiers could operate these enormous machines with ease.
Accompanied by a low grinding sound, dozens of bombs, likewise hovering half a foot above the ground, were laboriously dragged by the Blood Servant soldiers toward the Mortar Cannons. They lowered the cannon bodies, stuffed the huge bombs into the barrels, then slowly raised the barrels again.
The raven circling high above gave a low cry. It had already determined the wind speed and direction at high altitude and transmitted the data through its soul connection to the Yin Clan sorcerer beside Yin Xuege.
The data was quickly relayed to the Blood Servant soldiers operating the Mortar Cannons. They swiftly adjusted the barrels' angles and locked onto Fanlu'er City's walls ten kilometers away. The atmosphere across the plain suddenly grew still. Whether Yin Clan soldiers or the humans atop Fanlu'er City's walls, everyone held their breath and stared at the enormous Mortar Cannons.
A violent roar suddenly erupted. The massive bodies of the Mortar Cannons lurched, and the ground for hundreds of meters around them trembled faintly. A ring of shockwaves howled outward. Dozens of enormous bombs shot into the sky with tigerish roars like hurricanes, rising straight to an altitude of a thousand meters before tracing a savage arc and plunging headfirst toward Fanlu'er City's walls.
From such a height, once bombs weighing several tons fell, they could sink dozens of meters into the earth. The force of their explosions could reduce everything within several hundred meters to ashes. These were powerful weapons of war created by humans, yet the Yin Clan was using them against metal walls also created by humans.
Bright's sharp shout rang out from the walls. Several towers inside Fanlu'er City suddenly flashed with dazzling light, and a resplendent barrier of flowing radiance firmly wrapped around the section of wall facing Yin Xuege and the others.
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