Returning from the abyss

Chapter 1404 "All Laws"

There is nothing in this scene that can intercept so many huge rocks bombarding. As we all know, the more unpretentious the attack method is, the fewer ways to crack it. And the stone cannon, which is full of ancient simple and powerful tricks to break all the methods, has really become a death-like existence after overcoming so many weaknesses.

Lu Ning reacted a moment earlier than the others and ordered everyone to retreat to the city wall. But how could people retreat so quickly? Several flashes of flames flashed on the city wall, but these flames only blew up a few stones far away from the city wall and failed to intercept them.

The process was not long, from the volley of stone cannons, the mid-air interception by the flaming array, to the huge stones directly hitting the city wall - the movement was truly earth-shaking. Even though the soldiers were well-trained, when they saw the people around them being smashed into meat paste by the huge stones, some of them directly lost their will to fight and began to run towards the city in panic.

Lowering the city wall was indeed what had to be done now. After the first round of stone cannon bombardment, there was a relatively long interval, and after the second earthquake, the bombardment came again.

The walls of Gou Chen were built strong enough that even with this pile of huge rocks falling down, the walls were only slightly damaged. But one can imagine what "slight damage" would look like to a person for a wall that is more than 20 meters thick.

What surprised Lu Ning the most was the accuracy of the artillery fire.

She had experienced the maze outside the Gou Chen City many times. Anyone without authority would get lost in it. This was also the reason why those demons had searched the mountain for a long time but could not find the Gou Chen City Wall. But at this moment, these stone cannons far outside the maze could actually accurately cover the range of the city wall?
"damn thing!"

At this moment, a gray ring suddenly appeared around everyone around Lu Ning. She turned her head and saw that Qin Shu had opened the Soul Falling Formation. Gray shadows rose from the ground around her. Some fragile gray hands reached out to Lu Ning and pulled a small soul from her waist and pulled it into the formation. Not only Lu Ning, but almost everyone outside the Soul Falling Formation had a soul pulled off them.

"They are taking advantage of the Absolute Array's ability to collect souls!" Qin Shu shouted sternly, "Everyone, don't get confused! Move closer to the Soul-Falling Array's palm orders and pull away the souls attached to you!"

Soul shock controlled everyone as she shouted. In the chaotic situation, people unconsciously began to act according to this order, and it was obvious that the Soul-Falling Formation commanders on other city walls had also noticed this problem.

The army's morale must not be disrupted, and Lu Ning climbed up a collapsed section of the city wall and used his demon eyes to look into the distance again.

She saw an undisguised arrogance rising into the sky behind the stone cannon formation. The red light of fire broke through the haze of sand and dust. It was the demon king who led the army and completely released his aura.

"Behold... that is the titular king."

Among the demon army, there were also many soldiers who were seeing the demon king fully unleashing his power for the first time. On a giant chariot pulled by sixteen giant demons, a large amount of wood had been piled up to form a huge bonfire. A man was sitting in the bonfire, and the flames were burning his body, but it could not cause any harm to him.

The attack on the city was divided into three routes, and the generals of the three sieges were all appointed by the demon star Huang Kui. The one in charge of Gou Chen City was the demon king named Di Xin.

"There are no mediocre people in Gou Chen. Although this is the first time to manipulate the soul, they have already noticed the problem. Rivet, Xishan, Sheti, and Qimei obey orders."

The flames ignited above the heads of the four named demon kings, who were not near the artillery position, but had already been deployed to other locations. Emperor Xin simply ignited a flame in the heart of each of his demon kings to ensure that his orders could be delivered in time. He did not intend to attack Gou Chen himself, and Huang Kui did not expect him to be able to capture this strong city in a short time. After the soul mark disappeared, even if the artillery was fired at the same position as before, it would probably not be able to accurately hit the place where the people were concentrated.

"Rivet, release the MOA cavalry and drop the demonic bombs. Xishan, trace the effects of the last two rounds of bombardment and give it to Sheti to analyze the state of the outer city of Gou Chen and find the flaws of the maze. Qimei... prepare to meet the enemy. After suffering such a big loss, they also need to counterattack us to boost morale. This is the unwillingness to accept the victory that has been engraved in their bones for a long time."

After saying that, Emperor Xin chuckled, propped up his head with one hand, and looked at the mountains not far away. Gou Chen was in the mountains. Although the location of the soul had been completely lost, it was no problem. This was just a greeting at the beginning of the war - isn't this the case with human wars?
"Third round loaded!"

The report sounded on the burning throne. Emperor Xin nodded slightly and said, "Let's slow down this round. After all, we don't have that many shells. It's time to let the human race have a taste of our other methods. They are not the only ones who can offer sacrifices."

After being beaten for so many years, it would be fine if the ordinary monsters had no personality, but those who got together with Huang Kui might have enough emotions and would naturally feel angry.

"Juque, let's begin."

The flame sent a signal. Juque brought a special team and stood farther away from Gouchen. At this distance, the Ten Absolute Formations could no longer reach them.

A total of five thousand demons were leaning over here, and the hunters holding ice swords stood neatly on the side, holding the ice swords tightly in their hands, waiting for orders.

Juque raised his arm and all the ice sword hunters looked at him. The moment he swung his arm, the gray ice sword began to kill from one side. All the demons did not resist at all. It did not take much time to gather a sacrifice of 5,000 people.

The flesh and blood merged into the earth, and the soul returned to the ice lake. Gathering such a large amount of sacrificial materials at one time was something that the people of the Great Wei in Lingzhou could never do.

Muffled thunder sounded in the air, and the sky became even darker. The bodies of the dead demons quickly rotted on the selected ground, engraved into a huge pattern of sacrificial offering.

"Let's go."

Juque bowed deeply to his dead compatriots, then rushed to the battlefield with his ice swords.

The surging power was injected into his body, but Juque did not accept it, but sent it out directly, allowing it to strengthen the Ice Sword Hunter under his command. He did not like power that did not belong to him, and he was one of the few exceptions among the demons.

For example, the colleague outside the Gou Chen City, the one with the strongest brow likes strength very much, the stronger the better.

When the terror bird cavalry flew across the sky, the flame array also responded immediately. The time of the sacrifice was just right. When the flames of the flame array exploded, about half of the terror birds avoided the fatal attack, passed through the curtain of flames, and threw the balls filled with demonic energy in their claws to the location of the city that had been locked in the maze. The maze deviated from the direction of the demonic energy bombs, causing all these bombs to explode outside the city, but Qi Mei, who had lurked near the foot of the mountain, could still judge the situation inside the mountain through the exploding demonic energy. With a clear guide, he could clearly determine the location of Gou Chen, and the clear omissions between the demonic energy basically indicated the location of Gou Chen - but this was useless. After all, everyone knew that Gou Chen was in the mountains, but this external way of revealing it would never find its correct location.

"Follow me..." Qi Mei picked up the weapon, sneered, and jumped into the mountains.

At the same time, the attack of the terror bird knights also caused chaos in the city. Air forces are still too rare in this era. Fortunately, Gou Chen's defense has already considered this problem. However, Qin Shu, Lu Ning and others are still counting the damage. Lu Ning has explained the general situation of the artillery position outside the city to Qin Shu. There are only two people in this section of the city wall area who are in charge of the command, and they can also be said to be the highest commanders of this area. If there is any situation, the two must communicate with each other.

"Demon King? Enemy general? Damn demon... He has so many hidden tricks..." Qin Shu climbed up the city wall angrily. Unfortunately, she couldn't see that far. "Why did you stop? With that kind of powerful attack just now, you should be able to fight for at least four or five more rounds. Otherwise - it's bad!"

Lu Ning realized the problem a little slower than Qin Shu did. After all, she still lacked experience in large-scale wars.

"The enemy is at the gate!"

Artillery bombardment and then the army's attack, this is already the simplest tactic, but when Lu Ning was in the battle, he found that it was not so easy to react.

Fortunately, she didn't need to command this. Three teams immediately left the city, led by a commander, to deal with the demons that sneaked into the vicinity of the city. Soon, the team met a group of about 200 demons through the guidance of the main field of the maze, and started a fierce battle in the mountains.

With the Commander in Chief leading the team, ordinary demons simply had no ability to fight against them. As long as the Demon King did not come out, even a few demon generals could not resist the full power of the formation. These two hundred demons were killed in just one stick of incense.

However, just when the commander was about to retreat, a second group of demons rushed out, and the two sides started fighting again. The strength of this group of demons was not much different from the previous one, and after some effort, they were also destroyed.

But for one thing or another, the commander-in-chief who was leading the team had sensed that something was not right.

"Our demon race's foundation in rituals is not as deep as yours... We can't produce a powerful weapon like the Ten Absolute Formation."

Qi Mei walked out of the forest, followed by a few demons in plain clothes. They were demon generals, but they had all changed into human appearance.

"The commander-in-chief...haha, he's a pretty good opponent." Qi Mei turned the spear in his hand. This kind of weapon is not so easy to use in the mountains and forests. Anyone who dares to use it must be a master.

"Demon, what are you going to do?" The commander was not afraid. Although he was a little tired from the previous two battles, his overall condition was still intact, and facing the Demon King was within his expectations.

"We can only use one to deal with a city. What a tight situation..."

Qi Mei laughed loudly towards the sky, then grabbed the handle of the gun, tapped the ground with his toes, and his figure came in an instant. The commander's reaction was also very fast. A strong wind blew up and he was on guard all around, but only a scream was heard, and an ordinary soldier standing on the edge was knocked to the ground by a bullet.

As Qi Mei took action, several demon generals also shouted in unison, and then rushed towards the army formation of the commander-in-chief at a very fast speed. The commander-in-chief could certainly react, but only his subordinates in the Wind Howl Formation had enough reaction speed to deal with the demons. The other two teams of ordinary soldiers who came to help were only wearing equipment that could deal with ordinary demons. For a group of demon kings and demon generals who actually picked on the weak, their ability to resist was negligible.

This is the first time I have seen a demon king leaving the opponent's main general alone and killing his soldiers.

"Despicable and shameless!" The commander shouted and waved his finger, sending a fierce wind towards the demon generals. His soldiers were already skilled in cooperating with the commander's actions, and gathered the strong wind in an instant. With a roar, the two demon generals exploded on the spot and shattered into pieces. The remaining demon generals were also swept away by the strong wind. Since they had penetrated deep into the enemy's formation, they were restricted at this moment, and were shot in the head by several soldiers with cursed blood arrows, followed by random slashes, and in an instant, all the demon generals were chopped into meat paste.

Qi Mei saw this and smiled even more. Kuang Feng also came to his side, but his footsteps were like ghosts, and no wind could get close to him.

"Now, all my men will die here."

Under the astonished gaze of the commander, Qi Mei's speed increased again, and this time, there was a hint of some other power in his movements.

"This is a sacrifice, all Dharma!"

The commander suddenly thought of a problem. The monsters that had been killed before, in addition to their thick skin and flesh, had the ability to increase their movement speed in common in various ways.

As for those demon generals just now, apart from killing some ordinary soldiers at a high speed, they did not show any special abilities until they died.

Why are their abilities so uniform?
The experience gained from many years of fighting allowed the commander to immediately activate the connection between himself and the commander. At the same time, the mysterious demon king had disappeared from his sight.

"General, the demons should have started sacrifices to strengthen their combat capabilities. During battlefield assessment, please be careful of large numbers of demons with similar abilities acting together. The sacrifices are suspected to be a sacrifice of demons with the same abilities in order to strengthen the abilities of a single individual. I'm afraid I can't..."

The barrier of wind was torn apart by the sharp weapon. At a speed that could not be captured by vision, the spear was raised and turned, and the head of the palm commander flew high. The remaining movement of his hand was to gather the last violent wind to fall from the sky.

boom!
The storm hit the ground under his feet, and the palm order made the final prediction completely correct. Qi Mei had to withstand the attack. When the strong wind dissipated, the roar of the wind gradually became distant. The soldiers around him had already been blown away by the storm, and no one could be seen.

Qi Mei looked at the headless corpse still standing in the swirling wind with some dissatisfaction, then sneered: "What a man..."