Even the weakest Rat Barbarians had arms thicker than an adult human's legs.
An extremely faint, red, mistlike thread rose from every barbarian's body. All the red threads connected to a great blood-red banner high in the sky.
The Blood-Qi Demon Banner.
Unless their bodies were severed outright or their weak points grievously injured, their injuries would be shared by every barbarian beneath the Blood-Qi Demon Banner, and their wounds would heal within a few breaths.
Suddenly, the earth shook, and dust billowed up ahead to the left.
The Deer Gate Army's many military banners did not obstruct the view to the side. Fang Yun turned to look, and it seemed as though a small sandstorm had risen there.
Inside the sandstorm was an enormous black silhouette.
A giant thirty feet tall was running, but his head was that of an elephant.
"It's an Elephant Barbarian King!"
"Among the five Barbarian Kings originally at Lotus Mountain Pass, there was one named Xiang Ba. They say he has a terrible temper!"
"What is he doing?"
The Elephant Barbarian King charged to within a few li of the army, then suddenly leaped high into the air and came crashing down.
Boom!
Surging blood-qi power spread from his feet along the ground in every direction.
Countless cracks appeared in the ground within a one-li radius of the Elephant Barbarian King. Some places sank while others bulged upward, turning the once-level ground into a jagged, uneven expanse.
Xiang Ba jumped again, landing a thousand feet away, then continued leaping, trampling the earth again and again.
We're finished... Fang Yun sighed silently.
The army's only way to break out was to gather all its cavalry and drive a charge straight through the enemy, staking everything on one desperate attempt. There might still have been a