The third-realm Wind-and-Rain Dream Battle took shape. Snow fell from the sky to greet the chrysanthemums, blossoms drifting through the snow in a scene of extraordinary beauty.
Chrysanthemums fell, and killing intent rose.
"Kill!"
The lance-wielding Cold-Iron Knights charged, while the Longbow Knights began a skirmishing campaign, continually lofting cold-iron arrows into Zhang Chengxuan's army of ten thousand war-poem soldiers.
Fang Yun's brow twitched slightly. Without the mist butterfly, he could not use the power of his Star Position. Without the Ink Maiden and Inkstone Turtle's power, the Ice Knights were somewhat weak, their strength uneven. Of more than fifteen hundred War-Poem Cavalry, only a little over three hundred had reached the strength of Demon Marquises; the rest were merely Demon Marshals.
Fang Yun was about to use Break Loulan to create the ancient battlefield of Loulan, granting his soldiers a powerful enhancement that would destroy the enemy, but he rejected the idea. Break Loulan not only weakened enemies but also possessed tremendous destructive power. Using it would amount to breaking the rules.
Fang Yun was not discouraged. He tried using the same Hanlin Academician War Poetry as Zhang Chengxuan, Storming the Linked Camps, summoning a powerful cavalry force. But it was only at the first realm, and both its numbers and strength fell far short of Grand Academician Zhang Chengxuan's. It was inferior even to his third-realm Wind-and-Rain Dream Battle, which at least consumed less literary qi.
Thus, Fang Yun began repeating his earlier actions, continually using Wind-and-Rain Dream Battle to summon War-Poem Cavalry, then relying on his Literary Heart, Take a Mile from an Inch, to strengthen them with poems such as Protection Enhancement and Strengthen Soldiers.
A thousand horsemen collided with ten thousand troops. Fang Yun's Cold-Iron Cavalry were like a sharp sword, tearing an opening through