The atmosphere was as cold as an ice cellar; the moment King Chujiang uttered those words, the surrounding temperature naturally began to plummet.
The Quefeng lowered her head and didn't look at the other person, and the other person didn't say anything provocative, but the two seemed to understand each other perfectly well.
"Those guys... damn it!!" Quefeng gritted her teeth.
"Whether someone should die or not is not something we can decide." King Chujiang sighed. At this moment, he no longer had the domineering aura of the Ghost King and looked more like a lonely old man.
"It's already quite good to be able to live comfortably in this world. Actually, you shouldn't have come out. The place you were sealed in has beautiful mountains and rivers. What's wrong with staying there? Why did you have to wade into these muddy waters?"
"So... it's really happening?" The Quefeng's eyes lit up. " The Reshuffling Plan?"
"What do you think?" King Chujiang said coldly, "Those people up there have waited so long, it's almost harvest time, how could they miss it?"
"Harvesting, huh?" The Quefeng looked up at the top of the Ghost Temple, its gaze piercing through the stone ceiling and staring directly at the night sky, as if there was something worthy of its attention there. "Up there... it's laughable. Perhaps those self-important players don't even realize that those who truly control the resources..."
"Shut up!!" King Chujiang's face instantly turned icy cold.
The Quefeng paused for a moment, then stopped talking and just stared blankly at the sky.
After a long silence, he finally said, " Brother Chao, I'm not reconciled."
King Chujiang finally managed a long sigh, his icy demeanor dissolving into a deep sigh, "It's always been the same for us. We've never been free. Why are you so resentful?"
"Yes." The Quefeng looked upwards, lost in thought, and simply said, "Why be resentful?"
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At midnight, the siege began. The battle was not particularly fierce, but it terrified the generals on the city gate.
The soldiers from Jiangnan were extremely strong, most of them being First Rank- rank soldiers. Fortunately, Tiannan Pass was built high enough and its surface was coated with some kind of demonic material, making the walls incredibly slippery and impossible to use for leverage. Otherwise, those fierce warriors could have rushed up in just a few steps!
But even this formidable city wall, considered the best in the world, couldn't stop those soldiers for more than a few steps. After all, they were First Rank warriors. In the past, even in the Great Jin Dynasty, First Rank warrior was a general!
They used a special device that allowed them to leap ten zhang (approximately 33 meters) high. Equipped with sharp objects that could be driven into the city wall, they could reach the top of the wall in just two leaps.
If it weren't for the highly poisonous insect abyss on both sides of the mountain, these monster soldiers probably wouldn't have needed to fight their way through this pass; they could have simply climbed over it by hand from the cliffs on either side.
"Throw spears!!" the general on the city wall roared madly.
The Southern Barbarians spearmen are quite famous. The enhanced soldiers throw spears from their high vantage point, which are more terrifying than cannonballs. The key is that they come down with the wind. When the city walls cannot be used for leverage, once a soldier is hit by those spears, he can only be knocked down.
The force of inertia would cause even First Rank martial artist to become unstable after falling from a height of over twenty zhang. If they were accidentally hit in a vital spot, they could suffer injuries from the fall.
Even if this possibility is relatively small, the enemy has enough spearmen.
After several rounds of attacks, at least a hundred soldiers died with their lives hanging in the balance beneath the city walls.
This sight caused Tian Heng immense heartache from afar!
Chen Qing felt sorry for them, but he had no choice. To force them to use the Second Blessing, he had to apply intense pressure to make them make up their minds.
Ao Zhen frowned as she watched, but like Chen Qing, she refrained from making a move.
With such a large-scale military operation, the opposing side couldn't possibly be without experts in charge. Those hidden ancient forces must be waiting for them to make their move. Both Ao Zhen and Chen Qing understood that they couldn't act rashly.
Between Transcendent, rushing forward against the tide without knowing the opponent's location is extremely dangerous. Even if both of them have the ability to fly, it's still not advisable. Floating in the air is like being a target, and if there is a powerful figure lurking in the shadows, it's not impossible for them to kill you with a single blow.
In fact, Chen Qing had already discovered on the first day that there were hidden experts inside Tiannan Pass.
Several high-intensity spells were directly sucked into the city by the city walls. Without even thinking, Chen Qing knew that the old dragon girl was inside!
"My lord, should we try a spell-based attack again?" Tian Heng couldn't help but ask, "Using soldiers to launch a direct assault like this is really..."
Chen Qing shook his head. " The Heaven-Devouring Technique is the nemesis of high-intensity elemental spells. As long as that woman is still inside, my spell will never be able to successfully destroy Tiannan Pass."
Ao Zhen was helpless. She was a martial arts major and although she had the talent for dragon techniques, she was not very good at casting spells. Chen Qing also felt that his forces seemed to lack a long-range firepower legion.
"Let's call it a day." Chen Qing finally gave the order after glancing at the approaching dawn.
Tian Heng breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ordered his subordinates to sound the retreat!
Chen Qing looked at the majestic Tiannan Pass, his envy growing even stronger.
It is truly a uniquely advantageous pass. The setting of this Southern Wilderness is that there are terrifying insect nests and miasma on both sides of the long border of the mountains. Another ancient force is sealed there. Ordinary soldiers who have not reached the Transcendent cannot cross the two sides at all. This Tiannan is the only passage between the Southern Wilderness and the Central Plains.
That's why the Great Jin spared no expense in building this checkpoint, using extremely precious materials, including a kind of Heavenly Gold Stone that can absorb the energy of magical techniques!
Such a thing, when combined with any defensive technique, can achieve an extremely high defensive effect, not to mention when combined with the Heavenly Python Palace's virtually unbeatable Heaven-Devouring Technique.
The more this happened, the more determined Chen Qing became to take this level. Once he captured it and equipped it with high-level gatekeepers, the south would be basically safe, and he could then focus on competing for resources in the north. Otherwise, if he was attacked from both the north and the south, he would have to develop conservatively. However, with the arrival of the ancient era, his foundation was already shallow. If he wanted to compete with those players with deep foundations, being conservative would be a slow death!
"Let the soldiers rest well; we'll continue the siege at noon tomorrow!"
Tian Heng was taken aback, but finally said, "Yes!"
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"It will take another three days to get here?"
Inside Tiannan Pass, Meng Yan's eyes turned red with anger upon seeing the news. "From the very beginning, your Azi Kingdom never intended to send troops, did you?"
At this moment, the envoy from the Azi Kingdom couldn't help but retort, "Look at what the general is saying! You were the ones who wouldn't let us come to the front lines immediately, and now you're complaining that we're too slow. What's wrong? Back then, you thought the Central Plains was a piece of fat meat, and you didn't complain about how far away we were when you were ostracizing us. Now you're complaining that we're too slow?"
These words made the faces of the Southern Barbarians generals turn ashen, but they didn't know how to refute them for a moment, because it was indeed the six kingdoms that deliberately ostracized the Azi Kingdom in the past, and now they were asking the Az Kingdom to rush to support the front line, which was indeed unreasonable.
Meng Yan took a breath. "We went too far before, but now we're all in this together. If Tiannan Pass falls to Jiangnan, it will be much harder for us to conquer the Central Plains in the future!"
Seeing that the other party's tone had softened, the envoy straightened his back for the first time in many days, but his tone was still not too harsh. He simply said, "Please rest assured, General, our king has dispatched troops immediately. But as you know, our Azi Kingdom is far from here, and it will be impossible for them to arrive in a short time."
"What about within three days? Can you guarantee you'll arrive?" Meng Yan asked seriously.
"The king said he would arrive within three days, and he certainly will!"
"Alright," Meng Yan nodded, "Then please begin your consultation with your superiors today, and we will hold the Second Blessing three days from now!"
The generals of the surrounding countries hesitated upon hearing this. "Is this really necessary?"
"Otherwise, do you think you can hold out for three days?" Meng Yan said coldly. "Look at the soldiers' condition, do you think they can hold out for three days?"
Everyone fell silent. It was difficult for the outside to attack, but their situation wasn't easy either. They needed a sufficient number of spearmen of the Third Rank martial arts to prevent those formidable soldiers from charging up. Otherwise, if they were to capture the city walls, judging from the strength displayed by the other side, it would be an absolute one-sided massacre!
So the enemy dared to withdraw their troops and go back to rest, while their soldiers could only be on standby around the clock.
You don't know when the enemy will attack the city, but once they do, not a single one of the six thousand soldiers can be lost!
In this situation, while others can rest, their soldiers can only endure it, feeling like each day is an eternity under immense pressure.
Three days is basically the limit; without Second Blessing, they probably won't last until reinforcements arrive!