"They came from near our Deston Prefecture and suddenly appeared in our rear!"
At this moment, the experts of Highsun City, along with the reporting scout, hovered in the air, sending out their Primal Souls to investigate.
Under Feng Tu's orders, Highsun City had already activated its grand defensive array.
The scout who discovered the intelligence had eyes filled with terror and disbelief.
"Three hundred thousand men.
Our rear has always been a strategic location; there are over a hundred scouts like me, specifically to guard against the Wu tribe intruding into the Central Plains."
"Where these three hundred thousand men popped out from, we couldn't find out.
My Lord, they... they are here! Out of over a hundred scouts, only the few of us managed to escape back!"
The scout's voice trembled.
The expressions of the Li Clan members were extremely ugly.
Where this army came from, and how they managed to hide near Deston Prefecture to launch a sudden attack—none of that mattered anymore.
Hundreds of miles outside Highsun City, there were some villages that had long been evacuated.
Suddenly, fierce winds howled, and sand and dust flew into the air. A dense, oppressive shadow shattered the silence of the dilapidated villages.
The three hundred thousand-strong Wu tribe's grand army blotted out the sky and covered the earth.
As they advanced rapidly, their footsteps sounded like rolling thunder, crushing the entire village to pieces.
The earth trembled.
The densely packed Wu tribesmen, all with towering physiques, roared as they charged toward Highsun City.
The Wu tribesmen beat animal skin war drums; it wouldn't be long before the booming sound reached the entirety of Highsun City.
Their Wu Spiritual power was already prepared, and as the Wu tribesmen advanced, the mountain rocks, vegetation, and clouds were bent to their use.
"15 minutes, it will only take 15 minutes!"
Unlike Li Changsheng and Li Changyao, Li Xinnian had not experienced the era of the great war against the Wu tribe, nor had he seen the Wu tribesmen's way of fighting.
The sky-filling dust and sand were like gathering dark clouds, growing increasingly massive.
Equally massive was the number of Wu tribesmen. Their Wu Spiritual power linked together.
Li Xinnian could even sense that the aggregation of their Wu Spiritual power was no different from a military array formation; his Void Refinement realm Spiritual power dared not clash with it directly.
"City Lord Feng, can the grand array in the city stop them?" Li Changsheng asked calmly.
"The city has a Grade 4 grand array, the Giant Spirit Divine Flame Array.
Even if it can't stop them, it must! Otherwise, if they use their methods to turn this place into a forest and then dispatch the Wu tribe's Body Integration mighty figures here, our army will be doomed!"
Feng Tu's voice carried a tremble.
He was relatively fine, having fought the Demon race in the Northern Border, but the cultivators beside him were dead silent.
Feng Tu could hear their heavy breathing and rapid heartbeats, which inevitably made him nervous as well.
Feng Tu gritted his teeth and said, "The call for reinforcements has been sent out. Hold the line for seven days. Just seven days, and the experts from Sunfall City and Dawnspire City will definitely arrive!"
But just as his words fell, everyone's expressions changed again.
They saw majestic Spiritual power booming on the other side of Highsun City.
The array formation Highsun City had just activated trembled, rippling like waves from a large stone dropped into a well.
Li Xinnian turned his head.
Gazing with his Primal Soul, he saw tens of thousands of soldiers flying through the air outside Highsun City.
Beneath the feet of these ten thousand immortal soldiers were spinning discs, which were also flying guillotines, emitting piercing sounds as they tore through the air.
"Bi Shihu!"
Feng Tu had already shouted angrily.
These were Bi Shihu's most elite soldiers. All ten thousand immortal soldiers possessed the Spiritual artifact "Head Catcher," which were the flying guillotines they used to ride the wind.
Bi Shihu could be seen sitting on the back of a giant black tiger.
This tiger had a pair of giant wings like those of a roc, two massive, ferocious fangs, and the tip of its tail was like a spiked heavy mace.
The tiger's eyes glared angrily at Highsun City, and its roar made the immortal soldiers on the city walls turn pale.
Pagoda Ge Li, Tracker Cai Yongzhen, and Divine Archer Guan Mingxuan were all present.
Guan Mingxuan was currently maintaining the posture of having just drawn his bow, the afterglow of Spiritual power still lingering on his body; the fluctuation just now was clearly his doing.
Furthermore, there was a woman, also at the Void Refinement realm, who was looking admiringly at the awe-inspiring Bi Shihu.
Leading his three armies, Bi Shihu silently blocked the main gate, completely cutting off Highsun City's escape route.
Yet, he merely looked calmly at the terrified cultivators inside Highsun City without making the slightest move.
"Defend Highsun City! The Wu tribesmen will not leave us a way out.
In order to turn the rear into a forest so their people can station themselves there, your lives are their greatest source of nourishment.
If you want to live, fight the Wu tribesmen with me!"
Truly worthy of someone hailing from the Northern Border, Feng Tu transmitted his voice using Spiritual power to summon everyone in Highsun City.
"Don't even think about hiding. No matter what realm you are at, get your asses up on the city wall!
If I see a single person prioritizing their own life, I swear, I'll be the first one to run for my life, and I'll leave you all to die!!"
The words were harsh, but as soon as they were spoken, the originally panicked cultivators and even commoners in the city all scrambled out in a flurry.
Feng Tu had the ability to escape, but how many people present had the confidence to run for their lives?
"Granduncle."
With the entire city in chaos, Li Xinnian suppressed the nervousness in his heart and looked at Li Changsheng.
Although his Granduncle had slept in the ancient tree for hundreds of years, Li Xinnian knew that no one understood the Wu tribe better than the elders of that era.
"Boom!"
The Wu Spiritual Power of the Wu tribesmen had already bombarded the grand array.
Highsun City's Grade 4 array, the "Giant Spirit Divine Flame Array," had already flared up.
Raging fires rose at the edges of the entire city, swallowing the long-range Wu Spiritual power launched by the Wu tribesmen and illuminating the whole city in a bright red glow.
Sitting in his wheelchair, Li Changsheng's expression remained calm as he surveyed the surroundings in all directions.
"There is nowhere to run. Feng Tu's Giant Spirit Divine Flame Array defends against the Wu tribe, but it also seals off the escape route for the people in the city.
This Feng Tu is not bad; while guarding against the Wu tribe, he is also guarding against us, cutting off our hope of fleeing.
Of course, I have the confidence to break open the array. We could escape, but the entire city would fall."
"Brother, Xinnian wasn't asking about that. What do we do now?"
Li Changyao stared intently at Bi Shihu in the rear.
"The Golden Toad Divine Palace will take at least three days to arrive. Feng Tu said to hold for seven days, but he won't be able to hold it.
Twelve Void Refinement experts can break his array in less than a day.
Three hundred thousand Wu tribesmen are about to charge into Highsun City..."
Hundreds of years had passed, yet Li Changyao still remembered the ferocity of the Wu tribesmen.
When the Wu tribesmen invaded the Azure Cloud Region back then, it was an absolute massacre.
Enduring for decades, almost all the survivors in the Azure Cloud Region were experts.
They gradually imitated the Wu tribesmen, familiarizing themselves with heaven, earth, and nature to fight against them.
What about Highsun City? In Li Changyao's eyes, they were just a bunch of rabbits.
"Highsun City cannot fall!"
Li Changyao clenched her fists tightly, a rare look of fear showing in her eyes.
"We can't let them take Deston Prefecture. Brother, I... I don't want to carry you on my back begging people for help everywhere ever again."
Li Xinnian frowned.
"Mm."
Li Changsheng let out a long, drawn-out sigh.
Back then, Changyao was still young, and he was asleep year-round. When the Wu tribe came, she carried him on her shoulders and went around begging for troops to save them.
They rushed about everywhere...
Those were not easy days.
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