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Chapter 93: Chapter 93 Siege
"Ding ding dong dong."
The roaring of the Short Range Defense Cannon ceased, making the sound of the falling flying sword fragments hitting the ground so clear.
Even the ghastly screams seemed to reverberate endlessly in the air, mournful and unceasing.
"Zzzz."
The barrel spun with inertia for a moment before coming to a halt.
By its side, spent metal cartridges had already poured onto the ground.
Countless, no less than a thousand.
But...
Compared to this glorious achievement, the expenditure of thousands of bullets was totally worth it.
"We stopped it! Did we... stop it?"
"Patriarch... blocked the ’Thousand Mountains Bird Flying Extinct’ flying sword attack of Shi Chen?"
"Incredible... absolutely incredible..."
Gu Chifeng, Gu Luochen, Gu Qingmei, and the others gazed at the robust figure standing in front of the Short Range Defense Cannon. At this moment, he was so mighty.
Like a towering Divine Mountain, capable of withstanding all dangers of the world.
Untouchable by wind and rain.
Impervious to blizzards.
Thunder could not strike.
And fierce flames dared not devour.
At this moment, he had indeed dominated the battle; he had transcended into godhood!
"Huff!"
Gu Jinlai exhaled deeply.
He withdrew his hand from the Short Range Defense Cannon.
His expression, solemn and gradually turning icy, and his gaze, exceedingly sharp.
"His flying sword, I’ve intercepted it."
Gu Jinlai looked at the shattered fragments.
Divinity Transformation Cultivator exercises his Yin God, controls the flying sword with this Yin God, roaming across the sky, beheading from ten miles away.
But when the flying sword is shattered, their Yin Gods attached to the swords are equally crushed and seriously injured.
For a Divinity Transformation Cultivator, this type of injury is tantamount to a Heavenly Master exhausting his True Spirit.
Therefore...
"Now, it’s my turn to counterattack."
Gu Jinlai took the Short Range Defense Cannon squarely onto his shoulders and uttered a low command, " Hear my order!"
Gu Chifeng, Gu Luochen, Gu Qingmei, and the others suddenly felt a surge of spirit, their eyes fanatically fixed on their venerable patriarch.
"Follow me in the charge, attack Yuanhua City, and leave no revolter alive!"
With his command, his form swelled immensely.
Against the sunlight, he manifested the Great Sun True Demon Body, carrying the Short Range Defense Cannon, and with giant strides, he marched towards Yuanhua City, only three miles away.
Seeing Gu Jinlai leading the charge, Gu Chifeng, Gu Luochen, Gu Qingmei, and the others felt their blood boiling, as if their bodies were filled with boundless strength.
Their morale, at this moment, soared to its peak.
The will to battle violently bubbled within them, fiercely burning.
"Kill!"
"Follow the Patriarch! Break through the formation and seize the city!"
"After today, the land of Star State will belong to our Gu family, and our flames will shine until they are glorious!"
The few yelled loudly.
Ten warriors wearing customized Mystic Steel Armor, armed with Thunder Machine Guns, charged forward.
Behind them, twenty Demon Martial Artists and over one hundred elites followed closely.
One hundred thirty-two people charging to seize the city?!
And to capture a city guarded by at least seven or eight thousand men?!
It sounded utterly fantastical.
Yet at this moment, none of the more than one hundred thirty people had any hesitation.
Instead, there was a firm belief in victory in their hearts.
It seemed...
As long as the Patriarch was with them, nothing in this world could stop their progress.
...
Inside Yuanhua City.
Not long ago, Elder Shi Chen of the Purgatory Sect, a Divinity Transformation Realm cultivator, was sitting leisurely in the courtyard, sipping tea.
Outside the city...
The Yin God controlled the flying sword, which seemed to effortlessly recreate the same scene of capturing Yuanhua City by beheading a Venerable Daoist of Heavenly Gang Sect with one sword strike.
But in the next second, his expression changed dramatically.
He looked shocked as if he had seen something unbelievable.
"Master?"
Noticing her master’s unusual state, Fang Ling, who worshipfully awaited outside, asked with concern and confusion.
Immediately after...
"Awoo!"
A gruesome, painful howl came from the mouth of this Purgatory Sect elder.
He staggered, his right hand clutching his head and his left hand propping against the ground, his face turning deathly pale.
In just a few seconds, fine cold sweat had already seeped from his forehead.
"My sword... my sword..."
Shi Chen trembled, his lips quivering as he spoke.
Disbelief and terror filled his eyes.
"Master, what’s wrong?"
Fang Ling couldn’t help but ask again.
But Shi Chen completely ignored her. 𝖓𝖔𝖛𝔭𝖚𝖇.𝔠𝖔𝔪
He widened his eyes as if trying to discern something.
The Yin God is essentially an extension of a Divinity Transformation Great Cultivator’s Divine Thought. Therefore...
He might be in Yuanhua City, but he had already personally confronted the battlefield and the Short Range Defense Cannon.
The outcome...
Speaks for itself.
"What is that thing!? What on Earth is that thing!? A fire-spewing devil!?"
Shi Chen cried out loud.
The terror and horror in his eyes were so evident that even Fang Ling could clearly see them.
At this moment, she did not even need to ask again, as a thought she had never considered before emerged in her mind.
Could it be...
Had her master’s Cold Feather Sword been blocked?
Wrong!
If it were just blocked, why not just recall the flying sword and look for another chance to strike? With the advantage of length, a Divinity Transformation Cultivator could advance or retreat, inherently suppressing a Refining God Immortal. Her master would not be so perturbed.
Considering her master’s frantic cries of "my sword" and his fear, could it be...
The Cold Feather Sword had been shattered?!
At that moment, Shi Chen seemingly sensed something again, his face suddenly changing drastically.
"Run!"
He rose without a moment’s hesitation, dashing out of the courtyard at his highest speed, hurrying toward another city gate.
"Master!"
Fang Ling cried out in alarm, hastily following him.
As they left the courtyard, they happened to run into Lin Xiao who had been waiting outside, ready to inquire about the situation.
Seeing Elder Shi Chen appear, Lin Xiao greeted him with a smile and a clasped fist, "Congratulations to the Elder, for settling the matter with a single sword stroke and slaying the traitor Gu Jinlai outside Yuanhua City..."
But Shi Chen just gave him a glance and said not a word, speeding towards the direction of the city gate at full pace.
That demeanor...
Had all the appearances of a fleeing in utter panic.
"Elder?"
Lin Xiao was stunned.
Immediately after, he realized something.
There was something off about the Divine Thought Fluctuations on Elder Shi Chen.
That kind of weakness and fluctuation...
Could it be that the Yin God had been crushed?
Wait a minute!
Just now, Elder Shi Chen had attacked with his Yin God Sword, launching it from the city to assassinate Gu Jinlai, but the next second he ended up in this condition...
Could it be!?
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Lin Xiao couldn’t help but let out a low roar.
Suddenly, from the distant city walls came a loud shouting commotion.
Then came a barrage of "dadada" roaring sounds, followed by piercing screams.
Lin Xiao’s face changed, and he exerted force on his feet, leaping and bounding, using the walls and beams of several buildings to propel himself quickly to the top of a four-story building.
As he looked in the direction of the city wall...
Light!
He could clearly see bursts of starlight shooting out from beneath the city walls.
That light...
Resembled the fireworks and firecrackers people released during the New Year.
Only, compared to the decorative brilliance of fireworks, the starlight shooting from below the wall contained the power to pulverize everything, blasting the guarding soldiers on the wall into bits.
Anyone struck by those fiery lights directly burst into a cloud of blood mist, with their flesh exploding from the wound, splattering in all directions.
Even the elite soldiers wearing Iron Armor were useless against the onslaught of starlight, like paper mache being shredded and pierced through.
The interweaving of metallic starlight and splashing blood created a scene of a ghastly, dazzling dance of death.
This sight left Lin Xiao...
Feeling a chill down his spine.
How many were lost!?
In just one glance...
In a second or two, how many of his Lin Family’s elite defending the city had died!? Sixty? Eighty? Or a hundred!?
The terrifying rate of loss, the horrifying efficiency of slaughter, chilled Lin Xiao, the Vice Sect Master of Purgatory Sect, a Refining God Peak True Man, to the core.
"What’s happening, what’s happening, what on earth has occurred!?"
Lin Xiao trembled all over.
The next moment, a towering figure leaped up abruptly onto the city wall, casting a giant shadow.
He was three meters tall with armor that shimmered metallic and carried on his shoulder a cold and fierce metallic machinery...
Making him seem like a mechanical double-headed colossus, exuding a suffocating aura of oppression.
"That is..."
Lin Xiao suddenly widened his eyes.
He recognized the figure that was like a mechanical double-headed colossus.
"Gu Jinlai!"
It was Gu Jinlai!
The Demon True Body form of Gu Jinlai!
He...
Had he truly blocked Elder Shi Chen’s flying sword assassination attempt!?
And still had the strength to attack Yuanhua City!?
"How can this be..."
Gu Jinlai, who had just soared to the city wall, did not see Lin Xiao’s incredulity.
No!
He didn’t soar onto the city wall; his jump was eight or nine meters above it!
Then, using this height advantage, he looked down from above, that mechanical metal Short Range Defense Cannon on his other shoulder...
Firing!
"zzzzz!"
Flames burst forth.
The Short Range Defense Cannon that shared a resemblance with a double-headed colossus sprayed flames carrying a dense metal storm, plowing straight from above the city wall.
There were originally forty or fifty elite members of the Lin Family stationed on that section of the wall.
But with that metallic torrent sweeping through, everyone...
Whether they were Body Refining elites or refining organ Fierce Warriors, even the steel armor-clad blood exchange Hundred-man Captains, there was no distinction.
Like cutting wheat, they were blasted en masse.
Literally blasted!
Despite the elites wearing Iron Armor, they were torn and turned into blood mist by the metallic torrent that erupted from within the flames.
The numerous bullets that missed their target hit the crenelations, and their terrifying penetration power shattered the one-foot-thick bluestones, sending chunks flying everywhere.
"Boom!"
Upon clearing a stretch of the city wall, Gu Jinlai’s figure heavily landed upon it as debris flew wildly.
Then...
The ground cracked.
Accompanying another leap, his massive body stirred up a wave of air, and he actually jumped onto the top of the city gatehouse.
"Monster! Die!"
At the side, a number of Lin Family experts roared, charging at Gu Jinlai on the city gatehouse.
But the caliber of the Short Range Defense Cannon was much larger than the Gatling.
A gatling could kill Hugging Pill cultivators, let alone a Short Range Defense Cannon?
As Gu Jinlai slightly shifted the angle of the Short Range Defense Cannon, without even activating the aiming system, the approaching Hugging Pill and Gang Condensation cultivators attempting to fly close were all blasted away.
People in the Void, already burst into blood mist.
After shooting a dozen or so of the closer Hugging Pill and Gang Condensation cultivators, the rapidly rotating barrel, spewing flames, turned towards the city wall.
"zzzzz!"
Countless shell casings poured down from one side of the Short Range Defense Cannon, landing on the top of the gatehouse roof, then sliding down the tiles, forming a spectacular metallic waterfall under the sunlight.
And the section of the city wall targeted by the Short Range Defense Cannon...
Blood, screams, debris, wails, dust, flames—all were entwined, composing a cruel symphony of death.
This suffocating scenario made Lin Xiao feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
It was over.
The elites of the Lin Family...
They were all gone.
