With the fall of the nodes in the Haoyu Mountain Range and Phoenix Mausoleum Mountain, the situation in Central Province grew even worse. Some small sects were utterly unable to withstand the Netherworld Cultivators' attacks and were wiped out overnight!
Even Zhonglü City was not spared. Its cultivators either died or fled, and in the blink of an eye, it became an empty city!
Xu Qingtong could do nothing about it, either, because Netherworld Cultivators had also appeared outside Juxian Academy's Mountain-Guarding Grand Array.
He ordered Ximen Wanyan, Guo Tianyu, Lei Wei, and Zhuang Shengren to each lead twenty guards from the Garrison Camp and defend one city gate apiece.
The Garrison Camp originally had only fifty people. With the twenty-odd people Xu Qingtong had brought back from Wei City, plus Guo Tianding and the others, they had at least scraped together twenty people for each gate.
Xu Qingtong distributed all the Yuanrong Bolts he had to the Garrison Camp's guards, leaving each person with fewer than ten.
"Wanyan, Shengren, make sure your men understand: Yuanrong Bolts must not be used lightly. Every one used is one fewer left! No matter what, you must hold out for ten months. Only after ten months can I supply you with another small batch. Unless the enemy is at the body shaping middle stage or above, don't use the Yuanrong Crossbows!"
They nodded silently upon hearing this and said nothing more. They also knew how dangerous the situation was. The Yuanrong Bolts were their means of staying alive, and they had to avoid using them whenever possible!
The war had lasted eight months, and Juxian Academy had already lost many people. A third of the Garrison Camp's guards alone had already been replaced.
Xu Qingtong was anxious, too. If only he had enough