Soul Force Field

The moment Wu Yuan killed the giant monster, Zhang Yang's side's morale soared through the roof!

The twelve Elite Archers and nineteen Elite Soldiers kept shooting and throwing!

At this distance, with the high ground advantage, the damage from thrown wooden spears was even far greater than that of arrows. Basically, three wooden spears could kill an Azure Wolf, while the Elite Archers needed six consecutive shots to bring one down.

Wu Yuan also leaped back inside the stockade wall and, like the other soldiers, began killing with ordinary thrown wooden spears!

With his strength, anything within two hundred meters was in his killing range, and he had a hundred percent hit rate. Whether it was an Azure Wolf or an armored deer demon, there was no suspense at all—they were all blown apart by a spear to the head.

In just over ten seconds, more than a hundred of the charging Azure Wolves and armored deer demons had died. They could not even get close. After all, Zhang Yang and Wu Yuan had stocked up on two thousand wooden spears beforehand. With sufficiently advantageous terrain, a sufficiently clear view, and enough strength and skill, the deer demon army had practically come to deliver their heads.

But just as more than half of the Azure Wolves and armored deer demons had fallen, and the rest no longer dared to charge and were turning to flee, something happened inside the protective barrier three hundred meters away, where the deer demon stood. No one knew what the deer demon had done, but the enormous antlers rising at least eight meters above its head suddenly burst into flames and turned to ash. Then, accompanied by a shrill ghostly wail, a mass of black smoke shot into the sky. It writhed and clawed in midair, roaring without end.

This black-smoke monster, born from the sacrifice of the deer demon's enormous antlers, was exceptionally savage. The moment it took shape, it swallowed three Azure Wolves under the deer demon's command. Those Azure Wolf Demons could not resist at all, and in the blink of an eye, only scraps of bone remained.

Then the enormous black-smoke monster let out a whoosh, crossed the three-hundred-meter distance, and swallowed Wu Yuan whole in a single bite. He had no chance to dodge.

The change had come too quickly. Zhang Yang was dumbfounded. It could do this too? Damn, this deer demon really had a trump card.

What should they do?

Some soldiers tried to rescue Wu Yuan, but the moment they rushed up to the black-smoke monster, they collapsed with a clang as if they had fallen under a nightmare's spell.

Everything descended into chaos.

At that moment, the deer demon's side seized the opportunity and began counterattacking.

Even the deer demon, which had lost its enormous antlers and now stood only seven meters tall, charged forward viciously. With its huge frame and powerful hooves pounding the ground, its momentum was in no way inferior to that of the mountain monster.

"Imprisonment Spell!"

Amid the chaos, Zhang Yang reacted quickly. Without a word, he cast the Imprisonment Spell at Wu Yuan, who was wrapped in black smoke, because he had no other choice.

To his delight, the Imprisonment Spell's vaunted ability to bind both body and soul was no joke. The spell was released successfully in an instant, and the black-smoke monster was bound together with Wu Yuan's body.

The side effect, however, was that Zhang Yang felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar. Countless shrill wails and ghostly cries rang in his ears, and for a moment, he even began hallucinating.

But in the end, all those demonic sounds and hallucinations vanished. Zhang Yang returned to normal, and Wu Yuan's body appeared before him. The black-smoke monster was gone.

Before Zhang Yang could examine him carefully, an Azure Wolf Demon had already leaped over the stockade wall and pounced straight at him.

"My lord, watch out!"

An Elite Sword and Shield Soldier shouted and rushed over, cutting the Azure Wolf Demon attacking Zhang Yang in two with a single slash.

But the situation was extremely grim. Without a powerhouse like Wu Yuan holding the line, and with the chaos caused by the black-smoke monster, the Azure Wolf Demons on the deer demon's side had already surged up. Worse still, the deer demon, which had suddenly changed tactics, had charged within a hundred meters. If they could not find a solution, a bloody massacre was sure to follow.

The thought flashed through Zhang Yang's mind, and he shouted.

"Throw the Imprisonment Spears! Concentrate fire on that deer demon!"

But at this point, none of the soldiers had any room to spare. Forget coming over to throw the Imprisonment Spears—even launching a counterattack was impossible. There were simply too many enemies, and they had been completely suppressed.

"Whoosh!"

Wind whipped past his ears. An Azure Wolf Demon leaped over the soldiers protecting Zhang Yang and pounced at him. Even if he went to retrieve a weapon now, it would be too late, and against such a massive body, close combat was out of the question.

At the critical moment, Zhang Yang somehow remembered the little bug that had been crushed to pieces when he had previously tried releasing his Soul Power outward.

That's right—soul projection!

In an instant, the battlefield around him slowed to a crawl, and even the cries of battle grew distant. Time itself had not slowed; rather, Zhang Yang's senses had accelerated by an unknown number of times because he had projected his soul outward.

In this slowed battlefield, he sensed the remaining five Imprisonment Spears lying five meters away.

They were his arms, his flesh and blood, a part of his body.

He needed only a thought.

"Rise!"

An Imprisonment Spear suddenly rose into the air. Like a nimble flying bird or swimming fish, it darted rapidly through Zhang Yang's projected Soul Force Field!

Everything was so natural, yet so wondrous.

Wherever Zhang Yang's thoughts went, the Imprisonment Spear arrived in an instant. It passed gently through the bodies of Azure Wolves and armored deer demons one after another, and bursts of blood and filth bloomed like romantic fireworks igniting in the night!

When everything returned to normal the next second and the Imprisonment Spear lost its power, thirteen Azure Wolves and two armored deer demons had already been killed in an instant!

The tide had turned completely.

Everyone froze at that moment. It was simply inconceivable. The demons they had just been fighting for their lives against had suddenly dropped dead. What the hell?

Zhang Yang, however, paid them no attention. He was so excited he nearly threw back his head and gave a long howl. He had been wrong. Wu Yuan had been right. This kind of magic artifact was meant to be used this way, not thrown like a cold weapon!

That would be throwing it away!

The Soul Force Field spread across a fifty-meter radius once more. The second Imprisonment Spear rose like a ghost, and every Azure Wolf and armored deer demon within its range was wiped out in a single second. They did not even know how they had died.

But at that very moment, the old leader of the deer demons also charged into Zhang Yang's Soul Force Field. No one knew why—perhaps its soul was stronger than Zhang Yang's—but wherever it passed, the soul threads Zhang Yang had projected snapped apart.

The second Imprisonment Spear even dropped automatically before it could approach. Damn it, it broke my spell?

Fortunately, the soldiers on Zhang Yang's side had regained the initiative and automatically began concentrating fire on the deer demon. In an instant, dozens of arrows and more than ten wooden spears blasted toward it like a torrential storm, but the result was merely a slight disruption.

Even the Elite Archers' arrows only left white marks on the deer demon, while the thrown wooden spears penetrated only a few centimeters. They could not break through its defenses at all.

"My lord! Give me one!"

At that moment, an Elite Sword and Shield Soldier suddenly rushed over, picked up an Imprisonment Spear, aimed it at the deer demon, and threw it!

This guy is so cool and clever! Zhang Yang was so excited he wanted to hug him and take a bite.

Exactly. Because his Soul Power was weaker than the deer demon's, Zhang Yang could not use it to drive the Imprisonment Spear and attack the creature. But the other soldiers' attacks could not penetrate its defenses. In that case, this Elite Sword and Shield Soldier's method of throwing it like a cold weapon could naturally ignore the deer demon's soul strength and pose a fatal threat!

It happened in the blink of an eye!

The Imprisonment Spear shot out like lightning. Sure enough, the deer demon immediately activated Level 3 Protection. But how could Level 3 Protection possibly stop an Imprisonment Spear capable of blasting even a mountain monster to death?

"Boom!"

A deafening explosion rang out like thunder erupting from flat ground. The Level 3 Protection barrier burst apart on its own, stunning many nearby Azure Wolves. Even the deer demon itself staggered in a daze. One had to admit, this creature was truly formidable!

But that single moment of daze was enough!

Zhang Yang's Soul Force Field instantly swept over it. Driven desperately by him, two Imprisonment Spears shot forward like twin bolts of lightning, one after the other, piercing into the deer demon's chest. Two attacks, one wound. Even though the deer demon was a being versed in both civil and martial arts, skilled in both magic and martial combat, possessed extremely high defenses, and wielded bizarre methods, it could not turn the tide now. A bloodied hole the size of a face was blasted into its chest!

And it had struck the vital point in its chest, mangling its entire abdominal cavity and internal organs.

In the end, the deer demon could only widen its eyes in utter disbelief before collapsing to the ground with a clang.

Killed!

In an instant, a streak of white light larger and more dazzling than ever before shot into the sky. As if afraid the deer demon's soul might escape, it enveloped the corpse completely. Only after a full five seconds did the kill notifications appear.

"Successfully killed the Level 15 Great Horned Deer Lord."

"Successfully captured one complete Great Horned Deer Demon Soul."

"Successfully obtained one fragmentary Village Building Order (Black)."

"Successfully obtained one Fragment of Hope (White)."

"Obtained 3,000 energy points."

"Obtained one fragmentary Great Horned Deer Civilization Code Blueprint."

"Obtained one unknown object. Identification required."

"Obtained 300 units of Great Horned Deer Essence Blood. Can be sold."

"Obtained 500 units of Great Horned Deer Essence Flesh. Can be sold."