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Chapter 1057: Chapter 997: Combined Attack_2
"Those with little Mana left, hurry up and recover!" Zhang Family cultivators loudly shouted.
In reality, they didn’t need reminding, as many cultivators with lower Cultivation had long been at their limit, but seeing the Great Array could not hold, they did not dare rest and recover, only gritting their teeth to endure.
Now with the support taking some of the pressure, naturally, they would not continue to fight desperately.
"Jiu, who do you think will win this time?" Cang curiously asked.
"The side of the cultivators, but if the Zhang Family does not give it their full effort, even if they win, it will be a Pyrrhic victory." Li Zhirui said without hesitation.
The strength of the Devil Race from the mountains is not weak, but there’s a fatal flaw!
That is their geographical position is too poor, surrounded by cultivators on all sides, without any possibility of receiving support, how could they possibly win?
However, thankfully, the number and strength are there; if cultivators want to win, they will definitely have to pay a huge price, and only the Zhang Family in Shanyuan State has the strength and heritage to face the Devil Race head-on.
So what Li Zhirui needed to do was to ensure the safety of his clan members as much as possible, not to suffer heavy losses and bring back a large number of his clan members’ corpses to Mount Wanxian.
Boom, boom, boom—
Accompanied by a series of tremendous booming sounds, hundreds of Devil Beasts instantly evaporated and disappeared, leaving no ashes, just a blackened ground, and hollows appearing in the beast tide, indicating a horrifying attack had taken place here.
Noticing this, Li Zhirui quickly focused his gaze on one of the Zhang Family’s Divine Transformation cultivators, his gaze slightly intense, thinking that the caster’s Cultivation was not enough; otherwise, the range would have been much larger.
At the same time, he couldn’t help but admire, worthy of an old established Integration force, a Divine Transformation cultivator possessing such terrifying Divine Power.
"Damn Devil Beasts, today you will taste my methods."
A Zhang Family Nascent Soul cultivator loudly shouted, bringing out three deep blue Treasure Beads, with a flash of Spirit Light, a surging huge wave instantly smashed towards the Devil Beast Army.
Other Zhang Family cultivators displayed their techniques, attacking the Devil Beasts outside the Formation.
But there were too many Devil Beasts, and their Divine Powers needed time to accumulate, giving the Devil Beasts time to react, easily breaking through the combined effort.
Of course, their attacks were not without lethality, still managing to eliminate some Devil Beasts.
Li Zhirui observed the techniques and strengths of various cultivators, focusing on the group of Zhang Family cultivators.
Soon, he noticed a problem!
The strength of those Void Refinement and Divine Transformation cultivators from the Zhang Family was generally not very strong, even in terms of battle consciousness and response techniques, not better than those Nascent Soul clansmen.
"What’s going on?" Li Zhirui murmured softly.
If it was just one or two, it could be explained as inconsistency within their generations; after all, which family doesn’t have a few ineffective youngsters? But it was strange that most of them were like this.
Li Zhirui looked carefully, gradually forming a speculation.
Although it’s almost impossible to judge a cultivator’s age by appearance, from their eyes, temperament, etc., one can make a rough estimate, not too widely off.
These Void Refinement and Divine Transformation likely represented the current middle-aged generation of Zhang Family, and thinking back to the past Great Battle at East Sea, Zhang Family’s protection of their own clansPeople, Li Zhirui understood what the reason was.
And this matter also gave him a profound lesson.
There should be protection for clanspeople, but not too excessive, otherwise, it would end up like the Zhang Family, almost completely ruining a generation!
The Zhang Family has a profound heritage, even if they really ruined a generation, it wouldn’t impact their strength too much, but Li Family is different, not having so much capital, and it would cause huge destruction to the development of Li Family.
At the same time, Li Zhirui also understood the main purpose of the Zhang Family in this battle, wanting to use the cruel Devil Race as a whetstone, to properly train this generation of cultivators.
Screech!
A sharp, piercing shriek awakened Li Zhirui.
Only to see tens of thousands of Devil Birds appearing in the sky, various attacks raining down from above, fortunately being blocked by the Formation, otherwise, there would have been massive casualties.
The devil birds in the sky kept casting spells, and as soon as the cultivators made a move to deal with them, they would immediately soar higher, causing the intensity of the cultivators’ attacks to be weakened during this process, and then they could easily resolve the situation.
Their attacks from high to low, combined with extremely fast speeds, instead made it very hard for the cultivators to resist, only to watch as ripples erupted on the defensive Great Array.
The devil beasts on the ground naturally did not want to watch the devil birds gaining reputation while becoming mere side characters, so they immediately initiated another round of the great battle.
In an instant, colorful Spirit Light appeared above the Formation, then instantly poured out, and even if the cultivators increased their casting speed, still half of it fell onto the defensive Great Array.
"It seems, we need to continue retreating," Li Zhirui glanced at the swaying, dimly lit Formation and sighed helplessly.
He didn’t use his own powerful strength in the great battle, so he had enough energy to watch the battles of other cultivators, as well as the overall situation.
But the following actions of the Zhang Family greatly surprised Li Zhirui!
"Follow me into the battle, let these beasts witness our strength!"
Rather than retreating, the Zhang Family took the lead in charging out of the Great Array, and not just one person, hundreds of Zhang Family cultivators left the Formation.
"Kill!"
Accompanied by ferocious roars, those Zhang Family cultivators of Void Refinement and Divine Transformation realms used their most powerful techniques to fight fiercely against the devil beasts.
"He really is willing!" Li Zhirui sighed with heavy emotion.
In the Li family, those of Void Refinement and Divine Transformation were incredibly precious, especially members of the Void Refinement Clan; the fall of one could greatly impact the family.
But in the eyes of the Zhang Family, these hundreds of Void Refinement and Divine Transformation cultivators were worthless; dead meant dead.
Yet such an action by the Zhang Family greatly boosted the morale of the cultivators, with many cultivators following and charging out of the Formation.
But without the protection of the Formation, faced with an attack by hundreds of thousands of devil beasts, the Zhang Family cultivators only managed to hold on with difficulty when united, let alone those hot-headed cultivators, who suffered heavy casualties in just an instant.
The surviving cultivators, naturally sobered up and wanted to return to the safety of the Formation, but it was easy to leave and hard to return unless they were members of the Zhang Family; otherwise, the Formation would not let them through.
Thus, their fate was already sealed — to be slaughtered by the devil beasts!
The hundreds of Zhang Family cultivators simultaneously took action, each deploying the Divine Power they were proficient in, and soon, projections of small mountains and rivers appeared, which could continually overlap, and eventually formed a scene of a hundred-foot mountain and a ten-mile river.
Boom boom boom!
As the mountain toppled and the river roared, it was like the sky was falling and the earth was splitting. The dreadful attack smashed into the midst of the Devil Race army.
Countless devil beasts, as if sensing a threat to their lives, roared and desperately manipulated their Mana, trying to stop this attack.
The actions of the devil beasts were not ineffective; the mountains and rivers were somewhat weakened, but the power was still impressive, falling among the Devil Race and instantly raising a mushroom cloud, stirring up the sky full of dust.
When the dust settled, whether it was cultivators or devil beasts, all were tremendously frightened, shocked by the scene before their eyes.
Within a radius of several miles, the tens of thousands of devil beasts had all turned into ashes, and the ground also had a giant pit ten feet deep!
"Jiu, the Combined Assault Technique of the Zhang Family is too terrifying!"
Cang said solemnly: "And it must be extremely simple, otherwise it couldn’t be deployed so easily."
Li Zhirui slowly nodded, faced with that strike just now, aside from hiding in a space refuge, there was no possibility of survival!
What’s more important was that he sensed a pressure comparable to that of the Integration Realm from it, and not just any ordinary Integration cultivator.
And this was precisely why Li Zhirui’s expression was so grave.
Hundreds of Void Refinement and Divine Transformation cultivators joining hands could deliver an attack more powerful than usual Integration cultivators, so if the number of cultivators continued to increase, wouldn’t the power become even greater?
If the entire Zhang Family joined hands to deploy the Combined Assault Technique, wouldn’t it be able to rival Mahayana, even Tribulation Transcendence?
