War Expert

Hearing that his own backyard had suffered losses, Chen Xuan immediately grew angry.

But he was also intrigued by the arts those rogue cultivators had used. Liu Shuyue had mentioned that during one battle against several of them, one had transformed into a giant bear and kept her occupied while another sprayed vast quantities of spider silk to restrict her movements. The strands were nearly invisible but harder than steel. She had been momentarily distracted while dodging the bear's attack, and a strand had sliced her neck.

Then there was a blood-sword version of the Thousand Thoughts Sword altered by Divergence, and armor of spiritual light that could break a binding spell. Every one of them was new to him.

Chen Xuan could see that as the number of hostile cultivators grew, their attacks would become more varied and harder to handle. Only five days had passed, and Liu Shuyue was already showing signs of fatigue. If the fighting dragged into a war of attrition and she could not recover her Spiritual Energy as fast as she spent it, her combat strength would suffer badly.

He guessed the enemy was thinking the same thing.

As long as Liu Shuyue refused to abandon the people of Jiufeng City, they could surround it and wear her down until one side finally collapsed.

The warning letter from the King of Qi had probably been meant to force her out of the Myriad Mountain Great Wilderness, too.

Fortunately, the fluctuating time difference between the two worlds had been shrinking. Five days for Liu Shuyue had amounted to only two and a half on his side. He had arrived just in time.

"Don't worry. I've already prepared weapons for Mala Village. They're enough to close the gap between the villagers and Qi's army," Chen Xuan