The battlefield instantly devolved into utter chaos. A three-way melee erupted, leaving behind nothing but brutal slaughter.
The Wu tribe cultivators had waited for an hour.
The moment Bi Shihu's three armies charged into the city, they launched their attack.
The Spiritual power of over two hundred thousand exhausted Wu tribe cultivators completely submerged Bi Shihu's three armies.
The Azure Cloud Army silently marched out of the Golden Toad Divine Palace.
As the two armies slaughtered each other, they silently grabbed one of the three long spears slung across their backs, channeled their Spiritual power, and hurled them toward the city.
Two hundred thousand long spears floated in the air, emitting a fierce, piercing whistle as they rained down like a torrential downpour.
Meanwhile.
A massive hole tore open in the ground behind Highsun City.
Li Changyao, pushing Li Changsheng, was the first to emerge, closely followed by the fleeing cultivators of Highsun City one after another.
Feng Tu, who had fled alongside Li Changsheng without a second's hesitation, saw the sky-filling rain of spears link their Spiritual power the moment he emerged.
In an instant, they formed an array formation that suppressed downward into Highsun City.
The combined Spiritual power of two hundred thousand cultivators, spearheaded by numerous Divinity Transformation cultivators, was enough to even suppress Void Refinement experts!
Feng Tu was covered in cold sweat.
"I've long known that the combat power of the Azure Cloud Army was astonishing, but to think your grand array is this formidable?"
"How could it not be formidable? This is the foundational array formation every Azure Cloud person must learn upon joining the Azure Cloud Army—the Spear Forest Array Tactics.
I heard from the elders that our Li Clan obtained it from a Foundation Establishment clan when we first rose to power.
It has been improved and brought to great heights over hundreds of years, costing the diligent efforts of who knows how many generations."
Li Changyao said this while unhooking her pink longbow from her back.
This minister of the Heavenly Principle Hall's Shadow Division casually remarked,
"City Lord Feng, tell the cultivators of the city to encircle them alongside our Azure Cloud Li Clan. Do not let a single Wu tribe cultivator or anyone from Bi Shihu's three armies escape."
"This time..."
Li Changyao drew her bow and nocked an arrow, aiming at Divine Archer Guan Mingxuan, who had taken to the sky. "I want to see how they escape!"
"Alright."
Feng Tu nodded without hesitation and hurriedly made the arrangements.
He also secretly rejoiced; if Li Changsheng hadn't led them to escape into the tunnel, he feared he would have been the one suffering right now.
Taking another look at Li Changsheng, he saw that the man sitting in the wheelchair had already changed into a new set of clothes, smeared himself with blood from who knows where, and was leaning on a crutch as he blended into the crowd.
"..."
The corners of Feng Tu's mouth twitched. "What a talent."
As the City Lord of Highsun City, Feng Tu had been in utter disbelief when Li Changsheng opened the massive cavern beneath the Li Clan's Chamber of Commerce.
Upon asking, he found out that in the decades since this kid Li Changsheng had arrived in Highsun City, he had only studied one thing: how to stay alive.
For decades, right under everyone's noses, Li Changsheng would show his face in the city at random times every day, and immediately afterward, he would return to the Chamber of Commerce and dig tunnels.
The tunnels beneath Highsun City were a labyrinth of twists and turns, with a total of three exits.
The furthest one was eight hundred miles away from Silver Wolf Lake.
But how could Feng Tu know that ever since Li Changsheng came out of the Tian Xing Grotto-Heaven, no matter where he stayed for an extended period, he would always leave himself a way out.
Digging tunnels was one of Li Changsheng's most fundamental survival skills.
On his very first day in Highsun City, he had strolled around the city with Li Changyao and had explicitly stated that he needed to leave a way out for their clan members.
...
Meanwhile.
In the void above the cloudy sky of Highsun City, a man was drenched in sweat: Li Wei.
"Phew."
Looking at Bi Shihu's three armies, who were already encircled and being slaughtered by the Wu tribe with nowhere to run, and then at the Azure Cloud Army that had completely surrounded both sides, Li Wei finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"This kid Changsheng... he's capable."
Thinking back to how Li Changsheng had been continuously digging tunnels for the past few decades, Li Wei had felt somewhat speechless.
But today, even Li Wei had to admit that this kid was simply a genius.
And the Golden Toad Divine Palace...
Li Wei raised an eyebrow, glancing at the Spiritual power within his body, which was almost entirely depleted.
Over these past thirty-odd years, the clan hadn't just been cultivating using Yaoqing's pills; they hadn't slacked on their scheming either.
Since Ba Siyu didn't favor the Azure Cloud Li Clan, they went to cooperate with Spear Saint Gu Fenghua.
Compared to Ba Siyu, Gu Fenghua truly treated their Azure Cloud Li Clan as human beings.
[Special Event — Lightning war against the Wu Tribe]
[Your clan has cooperated with Spear Saint Gu Fenghua.
Your descendants, Li Yunlin and Li Yunbing, have become Spear Saint Gu Fenghua's confidants, scheming alongside the Spear Saint for years to launch a Lightning war against the Wu tribe.
Spear Saint Gu Fenghua has entrusted the heavy responsibility of guarding the rear of Deston Prefecture to the Li Clan.]
A trap.
This was inherently a trap that Spear Saint Gu Fenghua and the Li Clan had plotted for decades.
Deston Prefecture was commanded by the Imperial Protectors Guard, and there were three mighty figures among the three cities; how could the Li Clan's only choice be Ba Siyu?
This time, regardless of what Bi Shihu did, the Azure Cloud Army in Sunfall City was equally a chess piece!
"With the rear emptied out, only by keeping the Golden Toad Divine Palace far away could these people be lured out!"
And Li Wei was the key!
Li Wei let out a long breath.
For over thirty years, he had been continuously strengthening himself through spiritual medicines. Unwittingly, he had already reached the peak of the Void Refinement realm.
His spatial Spiritual power had also grown increasingly formidable.
Yet, even so, he had to re-enter the game world three times before finally managing to use spatial laws to bring the Golden Toad Divine Palace to Highsun City within a short period.
Carrying the Golden Toad Divine Palace was like carrying a massive mountain on his back...
"Whoosh!"
The sound of something tearing through the void interrupted Li Wei's thoughts.
Li Wei narrowed his eyes and looked down. He saw Bi Shihu and the others fleeing rapidly.
Li Changyao had fired her first arrow at them, a Blue Phoenix streaking across the vast sky.
Back in the Shadowfell Prefecture, when Bi Shihu became a deserter, if he claimed it was to preserve the lives of the soldiers of his three armies, Li Wei, although unable to forgive him, could at least understand it.
But this time...
Bi Shihu abandoned even his own subordinates and chose to flee without the slightest hesitation.
"Trying to escape?"
At this moment, the gazes of the numerous Li Clan members in Highsun City were all fixed upon Bi Shihu.
Li Wei had been refined and scholarly for centuries, but today, he broke character. "Fuck your grandmother, Bi Shihu!"
At the same time.
Among the Wu tribe, Venerable Elder Yuanliang took to the sky wielding his twin swords.
"Bi Shihu, don't you dare run!"
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