pjbooks Chapter 241 Water Curtain and Gale
Chapter 241 Water Curtain and Gale
Zhong Ming crouched at the edge of the wall, peeking out slightly, wanting to see how badly he had blown up the other side.
Not only him, but Yue Kaishan and Xuan Jing were also very curious. Just as they were about to show themselves, a pair of hands forcefully pressed down on Zhong Ming's head, forcibly pushing him back down.
That female cultivator wanted to slap each member of the team; weren't they just asking for trouble?
The large gourd fell down and smashed into Yue Kaishan, knocking him to the ground.
"Are you crazy? Aren't you afraid of other enemies watching you from below?"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a "ding" was heard, and Xuan Jing collapsed.
"Xuanjing! Xuanjing, are you still alive?" Zhong Ming rushed over to check, then remembered that the enemy's attack was also aimed at this side, so he bent over and scurried over to Xuanjing's side like a mouse.
A straight bone arrow was stuck in Xuan Jing's forehead. The bone was as hard as jade and it was obviously very expensive. There was a hole in his scalp, but no blood was flowing out.
"Ouch, that hurts so much!"
Xuan Jing shook his head. His entire body was protected by iron armor, which had saved his life. His forehead was covered with multiple layers of protection: one layer of iron armor, one layer of talisman, and one layer of dummy skin. This perfectly illustrated his fear of death.
"Quick, quick, let me pick it for you." Zhong Ming's lips curled into a strange smile as he lunged at Xuan Jing.
To be honest, he had never seen what Xuan Jing looked like without his mask. He only knew that his armored mask was fat and resembled that of Maitreya Buddha.
Startled, Xuan Jing immediately turned his head to protect it. Because he turned too hard, the bone arrow stuck in his head swished past with a "whoosh," crashing heavily to the ground like a whip. It bent into a huge arc, and after gathering its full force, it bounced up along with Xuan Jing's head, hitting Zhong Ming's chin.
"I... ah... I bit my tongue."
The captain of the third squad, who had barely sustained any injuries in the battle with the merfolk, was now clutching his face in agony, practically rolling on the ground with Xuan Jing.
The female cultivator in charge of repairing the city wall glanced at the group and felt a headache coming on; they were complete greenhorns.
"This is your first time fighting a city defense battle? Which wolf army are you from?"
"Yes, we are new recruits."
"A new recruit." The female cultivator almost choked. You're a new recruit...you...you're at the seventh level of Qi Refining?
Is there any justice?
When I was a new recruit, I was only at the peak of the fifth level of Qi Refining!
She smoothed the hair from her forehead and said, "Then remember this well: don't peek out from the city wall. After you peek out this time, be sure to change your position next time. Nobody knows if there are enemies below aiming at the spot where you just peeked out."
The situation is now extremely critical. The merfolk have pressed down to the city walls, and the main force is on the river, doing everything they can to drive the enemy onto land. However, the forces on land are not enough, which has caused the city to suffer heavy blows.
Before she could finish speaking, her superior officer called out to her urgently from behind.
"I'm leaving. Take care of yourselves."
Zhong Ming tried to reply, but he stammered and couldn't get anything out; the bleeding on his tongue hadn't stopped yet.
The battle did not end with the departure of the clan's enemies. A steady stream of merfolk were rushing up from the water. For them, it was fine to go ashore here or swim further down the river. Humans did not live in the river, so they still had to go ashore to do their business.
Soon, even more powerful enemies began to appear. A mermaid at the Golden Core stage actually broke through the blockade of Pingzhou and rushed into the territory of Yushu City with some minor injuries.
"Look, there's a huge merman." Xuan Jing wasn't afraid at all. With the bone arrow still in his head, he poked his head out again and saw the Golden Core level merman.
Yue Kaishan also looked over and said, "I don't think it could be a fifth-rank demon."
"They're not monsters, are they?"
"Look at them, do they even look human?" Yue Kaishan curled his lips. He hadn't had enough fun killing them earlier, having only smashed three low-level merfolk. The weak couldn't stop his punches at all, but the strong ones went to find Zhong Ming first because of their cultivation level.
Really unpleasant.
"If only he hadn't reached the Foundation Establishment stage, I think it would have been so much fun to fight that big guy. I would have smashed him into boneless fish balls."
Xuan Jing wanted to take one more look, but a bone arrow shot over at an even faster speed, and he fell to the ground again.
Okay, now you have two sticks on your forehead.
Upon seeing such a magnificent city, the Golden Core Merman was overjoyed. He immediately gathered his power, cutting off half of the river's flow. Amidst the towering waves, countless ice spikes condensed and formed, hidden within the snow-white spray, crashing against the city walls.
He roared, and countless merfolk leaped onto the crests of the waves. They appeared to be surfers battling the raging waves, but in reality, they were all standing on ice spikes that moved with the waves, their bodies extremely stable. They raised their bone spears high, aiming at the human cultivators on the city walls.
Since ancient times, those on higher ground have always had a natural advantage. When ordinary people attack a city, they like to build battering rams, which are as high as the city wall or even higher than the top of the wall. The archers on them can use them to suppress the enemies on the top of the wall. When the people below push the battering rams to the side of the city wall, the soldiers on the upper level rush up to seize the top of the wall.
Now, the huge wave was like a battering ram. The merfolk at the top threw out bone spears. Most of them were blocked by the sky barrier, but some bone spears still pierced the city wall, and screams of agony filled the air.
The powerful cultivators in the city naturally wouldn't tolerate them. They all used their flying spells to soar high into the air and confront the enemy on the waves. The merfolk who were lying in ambush on the ground saw that the enemy had exposed themselves by flying into the air, so they immediately launched a sneak attack. As soon as they made their move, they were exposed as well, and the counterattack from the city wall came immediately.
The entire battlefield turned into a mess.
"You thief, how dare you!"
Not to be outdone, a powerful figure in the city, a gaunt man wearing a mask, stepped through the air, his white robe billowing, and a fierce wind howled from his sleeves. Instantly, a bizarre scene appeared on the city wall: a ten feet above the wall, the gale was like a knife, tearing everything to shreds, while below remained calm and peaceful.
Zhong Ming didn't understand, but he was deeply shocked.
Is this the power of the Golden Core? A casual spell can have the power to seize the creation of heaven and earth. The advantages of timing and location that mortals rely on in military books seem like a joke now.
One move, and the world is transformed.
The gale collided with the tide, instantly creating thousands of waves. The huge waves and the wind wall collided violently, and the subsequent waves piled up the water level higher and higher, as if erecting a water curtain that reached the sky.
The merfolk were thrown about, their horses and men thrown into disarray. They were forcibly stopped by their own Golden Core cultivators and prevented from entering the area of the raging wind. However, the ice spikes under their feet moved even faster, being propelled by the chaotic water flow. They pierced through the wind wall and shattered into more and smaller ice fragments amidst the terrifying interplay of spiritual energy, which shot towards the city walls.
"Quickly, get behind the wall."