Endless Winter: My Camp Infinite Upgrades

Chapter 494 The Great Battle Begins, the Looting Fails
As soon as the sound came from behind, everyone instinctively turned their heads to look. Unfortunately, they were too slow. Before they could turn around, three figures had already passed them and blocked Xia Yusheng's way.

"It's Lord Meng!"

"Lord Cheng and Lord Jiang are also here."

"There's a battle going on to the west! Look up at the sky!"

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In the eighth month of the third year of the Great Xia Dynasty, when the two princes were born, Li Tiancheng, the then chief director of the prison department who was still alive, took the initiative to request that six guards be assigned to the two princes. These six guards were Meng Ying, Cheng Guang, Jiang Ping, Sun Yan, Yue Qian and Song Kang, who were originally the Eight Vajras of Longshan.

Nine years have passed, and the six men are no longer just ordinary guards. They are now the exclusive secret guards of the Xia Palace, under the command of Lady Gui, Li Xuanling, and are proper fourth-rank officials in the Great Xia Dynasty.

It's not hard to understand if you think about it. The Eight Vajras of Longshan were originally loyal to Li Tianhua, the founder of Longshan. With the destruction of Longshan, the only two surviving members of the second generation of the Li family, Li Xuanyan and Li Xuandu, left the southern foothills. Li Tiancheng switched to the Great Xia. Li Tianhua's only daughter, Li Xuanling, naturally became the object of their loyalty.

During the conquest of Longshan by the Great Xia, only one of the Eight Vajras, He Tu, died. The remaining seven who survived all defected to the Great Xia. Zhou Yuan has remarkable military leadership skills and currently serves in the Ministry of War. The remaining six have been hiding in the shadows since the third year of the Great Xia's reign, protecting the safety of the two princes.

To be honest, not many people in the entire Great Xia Dynasty know about these six secret guards.

However, the Dragon Guards are different. They are originally the imperial guards of the Summer Palace, and the vast majority of their soldiers are scions of the top families in the Great Xia Dynasty. Therefore, most people are aware of the Six Great Dark Guards.

The six secret guards have now been divided into two groups: Meng Ying, Jiang Ping, and Cheng Guang are specifically responsible for protecting the Second Prince Xia Yusheng; while Sun Yan, Yue Qian, and Song Kang are specifically responsible for protecting the First Prince Xia Yuyao.

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Let's return to the west side of the Tiger Grove.

Upon hearing the exclamation and discovering that it was Meng Ying and the other two who had appeared, Tie Xinchuan, Yuan Bai, and the others' expressions changed drastically.

Along with the other Dragon Guard soldiers, Tie Xinchuan and Yuan Bai, along with ten others, had no time to observe the battle in the western sky. They rushed forward almost immediately to support Xia Yusheng and Han Yue. Tie Xinchuan picked up Xia Yusheng and quickly retreated to the carriage behind them.

"What are you all standing there for? Quickly surround the wagons and get back to the city!"

Tie Xinchuan roared, and the five hundred Dragon Guards belatedly realized what was happening. They quickly rushed forward and surrounded the carriage. Once Xia Yusheng and Han Yue boarded the carriage, the Dragon Guards responsible for pulling it immediately began to pull it eastward with all their might.

"It's only four or five kilometers. Wouldn't it be faster to carry the Second Prince straight back to the city?"

"Yeah! How slow would it be to pull the cart back like this?"

"Carry the Second Prince back to the city first! It will be safe once we get back to the city."

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As soon as the carriage started moving, many of the Imperial Guards noticed that the speed was a bit slow and immediately questioned it, feeling that it would be faster to carry Xia Yusheng back to the city directly.

"There's no need for you all to ramble on. Just follow my orders!"

Tie Xinchuan, who was guarding the rear of the carriage, interrupted everyone with a roar.

He turned his head to look to the west. In the northwest and southwest of the Tiger Breeding Forest, there were six beast kings, each over thirty feet long, entangled with dozens of beams of light. The beams of light were roughly divided into two camps, one of which was helping the beast kings fight the other.

"Those are the lord's twelve Frost Beast Stakes, all of them have been deployed!"

"Not only that, Madam, Yuan Sizheng, Qiu Sizheng, Lord Xu, Lord Xiang, almost all the Xianyang-level officials in the city have come. How many people have they sent?"

"Twenty of them, there are twenty in total. What are they planning to do?"

"They all came by flying, and they're all at the Manifestation Yang level!"

"Are they from the three northern towns?"

"It must be them. Who else could it be?"

"There aren't that many Xianyang-level beings in the three towns, so I guess the Xianyang-level beings from Chencang and Caiqiu have also come."

"The target is... His Highness the Second Prince?"

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"Is it any of your business to worry about this? All of you, make sure you surround yourselves tightly, stay alert, and watch out for anyone taking advantage of the situation!"

Seeing that everyone was turning their heads to look at the battle in the sky to the west as they walked, Tie Xinchuan's face turned extremely gloomy, and he interrupted them a second time.

He could get a general idea of ​​the battle in the sky to the west with just a sidelong glance. There were a total of twenty Xianyang-level enemies on both battlefields. This alone was enough to tell that this raid on the Second Prince was anything but simple.

Would Meng Ying and the other two not have expected that they would carry the Second Prince back to the city so quickly?
Meng Ying was standing on top of the carriage, while Jiang Ping and Cheng Guang stood on the left and right sides of the carriage. Seeing the three of them looking like they were facing a formidable enemy, Tie Xinchuan's expression also became more and more solemn.

"The three lords, Meng, Jiang, and Cheng, have all broken through to the Manifest Yang level. If even they are making such a move, then there are definitely more than just those 20 Manifest Yang level people coming tonight. We are not afraid of them coming openly and honestly, but we are afraid of some unpredictable and cunning tricks!"

Tie Xinchuan had long understood Meng Ying's intentions.

Their location was indeed only four to five kilometers away from Xia City. Logically speaking, if Meng Ying had taken action, he could have carried Xia Yusheng directly back to the city in less than ten breaths. The fact that Meng Ying and the other two dared not do so proves that they were not confident that they could safely send Xia Yusheng back to the city within those ten breaths.

"Returning to the carriage is indeed the safest option. With the protection of Lords Meng Ying and the other two, plus our Dragon Guards, we should be fine. We should be back in the city in about a hundred breaths!"

Dozens of Imperial Guards pulled the cart together at great speed. In just over forty breaths, Chi Yan Zhu Hong had covered more than half the distance, leaving only two kilometers from Xia City.

Even so, Tie Xinchuan dared not relax in the slightest. Moreover, not only him, but also Meng Ying and the other two, including Yuan Bai and many other commanders surrounding the carriage, all had extremely solemn expressions.

More and more Imperial Guards soldiers also realized what was happening, especially noticing the increasingly intense battle in the sky to the west. They realized that they were racing against time and pressed themselves tightly against the carriages, rushing towards the city.

call…………

Suddenly, a cold wind blew down from above.

In an environment like the Ice Abyss, cold winds are a normal occurrence. Unlike other places, Xia City is located east of the Twin Dragons Broken Wall, and is home to millions of people. In addition, the Holy Cauldron has been heating the city for a long time, so the temperature and airflow in the surrounding area are extremely stable.

Such a cold wind blowing down from the sky is extremely rare, if not nonexistent. At this moment, the Dragon Guard soldiers, already in a state of high alert, realized that the cold wind was aimed at the carriage, and their reaction was understandably intense.

"Fire arrows!"

Boom... Boom... Boom...

Swish swish swish…………

Before Tie Xinchuan could sternly signal Long Jinwei to fire arrows at the cold wind, Meng Ying and the other two had already reacted before him. Their bones were bursting with energy, and their auras surged. They drew their broadswords at the first moment and slashed at the cold wind blowing from above almost simultaneously.

All three were at the Manifestation Yang level of cultivation. With their full power, the blades instantly dispelled the cold wind. At the same time, the silver arrows fired by the Dragon Guard instantly sealed off the space around the cold wind.

It should be noted that as soon as the battle broke out in the sky above the west side of the Tiger Forest, the Dragon Guards who were originally scattered around immediately surrounded the carriage. So, although the Dragon Guards surrounding the carriage were not yet at full strength, there were at least eight hundred of them.

Let alone that little cold wind, even the strongest hurricane couldn't withstand the blades of the three Xianyang-level warriors and the rain of arrows fired by the eight hundred Dragon Guards.

Blades and arrows rained down simultaneously, instantly blocking out the cold wind and all the air currents above the carriage, even dispelling the snow mist in mid-air.

"Be careful to the north..."

However, seeing this scene, Meng Ying, who was standing on top of the carriage, did not relax at all. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Cheng Guang, who was guarding the north side of the carriage, suddenly issued a warning.

Meng Ying turned his head to look to the north, and his pupils suddenly narrowed.

Not only him, but Tie Xinchuan and the other Dragon Guards were also suddenly shocked.

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call!
Above the western side of the Tiger Breeding Forest, Li Xuanling, dressed in a white palace gown and wielding the black Heavenly Transformation Sword, was engaged in battle with Yang Jian when she noticed out of the corner of her eye that an enemy was being held captive by a white bear conjured from a Frost Beast Stake, rendering him immobile. She immediately abandoned Yang Jian and swiftly flew towards the white bear. With each graceful leap, the Heavenly Transformation Sword drew a black, blazing line in mid-air, covering over a hundred meters in an instant, piercing straight through the body of the enemy in the white bear's arms.

Pfft...

Of course, it wasn't just about passing through. Li Xuanling flipped her wrist, and the Heavenly Transformation Sword changed course in mid-air, beheading the Xianyang-level person with a single strike. She even lifted the person's head and, seeing the unfamiliar face, immediately guessed that the person came from a vassal state.

She tossed the man's head aside, then turned to look at Yang Jian, who was being entangled by a Beast King-level Frost Wolf not far away, and sneered, "Yang Zun... no, it should be Yang Laosan, you three towns have run out of tricks and have actually started to resort to such crooked thoughts!"

That Frost Wolf, a Beast King-level creature, was naturally a manifestation of the Frost Beast Stake.

Yang Jian, wielding a long spear, did not fall behind in the battle against the Frost Wolf King; in fact, he could be said to have gained an absolute advantage, as evidenced by the more than ten spear holes on the Frost Wolf King's body.

The problem is, it's useless for him to have the upper hand alone.

In the southwestern battlefield of the Tiger Forest where he was, the other nine Xianyang-level warriors who had come with him were being relentlessly attacked by four beast kings—two Lei Kui and two Demon Sheep—along with the other twelve Xianyang-level warriors from the Great Xia Dynasty.

With Li Xuanling killing one of them, the Beast King-level White Bear, now free to fight, rejoined the battle, putting even more pressure on the remaining eight.

"You scoundrels from the three towns, daring to cause trouble in Xia City, shall die!"

Not far from Li Xuanling, Yuan Cheng, wielding a giant axe, took advantage of a Xianyang-level being held back by the demonic ram's horns. With a roar, he suddenly cleaved down from mid-air, dislocating the man's arm. Then, pressing his advantage, he coordinated with the demonic ram's sudden descent to stomp on the man's head. With a swift axe strike, another Xianyang-level being beheaded.

laugh…………

Yang Jian, braving the icy wind blades exhaled by the Frost Wolf King, suddenly vanished from his spot. The next second, he stepped on the Frost Wolf King's head and thrust his spear downwards, slamming the Frost Wolf King into the ground with a loud thud.

boom…………

He had no time to pay attention to Li Xuanling's taunts. Seeing two of his own men killed, he glanced at the battlefield to the northwest, his eyes filled with horror and his heart trembling.

"Thirteen here, fifteen there, how can there be so many? How can Great Xia have so many Manifestation Yang level beings? It's over, it's over..."

Before he came, he calculated that, excluding Xia Chuan, Yuwen Tao, Xiang Fuhai and Mu Longhe who were stationed in the north, Xia City should only have 20 Xianyang level. He even made a worst-case scenario plan and raised the number by 3 to 5.

But 28 was still far beyond his expectations!
There are many Xianyang-level officials in the vassal states, but they are still vassal states.

To break through to the Manifestation Yang level, the threshold of top-grade battle physique alone is enough to stop most people. Not to mention that battle physique is only one of the thresholds. The bone tempering process after the peak of the Cold Resistance level and the flesh and blood are perfected is dozens of times more difficult than reshaping the skin membrane.

The key issue is that currently, no elixir capable of helping one break through to the Manifest Yang level has been developed in the entire southern foothills region. The only known elixir that can help with this breakthrough is a spiritual plant called the Heavenly Yang Fruit. This elixir does exist in Mo'aochuan, but the four vassal states have extremely strict control over elixir production, and ordinary people cannot buy it even if they have money.

Human activity in the southern foothills has been ongoing for quite some time. According to the Mo'ao calendar, it has been at least 130 years. In those 130 years, only about 20 Xianyang-level beings have emerged in the Nine Towns.

How could there be so many Xianyang-level beings in such a short history as the Great Xia Dynasty?

"A pill? The Great Xia has developed a pill for breaking through to the Manifestation Yang level? How is that possible? It's only been a camp for twelve years, how is this possible..."

At this moment, Yang Jian was completely numb. Looking at the twenty-eight Manifestation Yang level warriors from the Great Xia Dynasty on the two battlefields, he clenched his fists under his sleeves. In addition to jealousy, his eyes were filled with deep panic and fear.

With such a terrifying Great Xia Dynasty, do the three northern towns still have a future?
Yang Jian had already figured it out. Of the 28 Manifestation Yang level beings in the Great Xia Dynasty, apart from Li Xuanling with a strength of 24 jun, the rest were not very strong. At least the twelve people on the southwestern battlefield were mostly around 4 jun in strength, with only a very few of them having a strength of 6 to 8 jun.

The fifteen people in the northwest direction couldn't see what was happening, but they could basically deduce from the aftershocks of the fight that there were no particularly strong individuals among them.

However, their greatest threat was not the Great Xia's Manifestation Yang level beings, but the twelve Beast King level puppets.

Humans are inferior to cold beasts of the same level; this is common knowledge in the Ice Abyss. Excluding the weaker ones, the strength of a normal beast king is basically above 9 jun, while the strength of the twelve beast king-level puppets of Great Xia is at least above 12 jun. The Frost Wolf King that he knocked to the ground at this moment even has a strength of 18 jun.

They had just divided up in the cave. His group of ten consisted of himself, who was the strongest at 25 jun. The remaining nine were Xianyang level cultivators from Chencang. Apart from Chu Renjie, who had a strength of 21 jun, the other eight were between 10 and 15 jun.

Humans of the same level are inherently inferior to cold beasts, let alone six beast king-level puppets, and thirteen Great Xia Xianyang-level puppets, including Li Xuanling, assisting them.

This fight was completely unwinnable; the fact that two people were killed in less than a hundred breaths is clear proof of that.

Not only can they not fight, they can't even stall for long!
Yang Jian's gaze inadvertently swept towards the east side of the Tiger Forest, but he quickly concealed it. A cold glint flashed in his eyes, and after gritting his teeth, he pushed aside the Frost Wolf King that was charging towards him and charged towards Li Xuanling again.

"Twelve Beast Kings and twenty-eight Manifestation-level experts have all appeared, but Xia Hong is still nowhere to be seen. Brother is probably right; he's not even in the city. All the experts in Xia City have been mobilized, leaving that brat all alone. If we can just delay him a little longer, Elder Chu will surely succeed..."

Yang Jian's expression was extremely firm. The strength that Great Xia was showing at this moment had truly frightened him, but on the other hand, it also made him realize that if he didn't suppress Great Xia's momentum, the three northern towns would really be doomed.

The armies of Chencang and Caiqiu are unable to advance south. At most, they can only send some Xianyang-level troops to support the three northern towns. These people can only intimidate the Great Xia at best. It is impossible to completely reverse the current situation in the southern foothills.

Capture Xia Yusheng, deal with the 60,000 Xia troops first, buy enough time for the three northern towns, then inform Chencang and Caiqiu of the true situation of Great Xia, in exchange for stronger support from the vassal states, and then slowly deal with Great Xia.

So, right now, this is the only hope.

Can't give up!

Yang Jian made up his mind and fought Li Xuanling with increasing ferocity. He was even willing to risk injury rather than retreat. Not only did he relentlessly entangle Li Xuanling, but he also occasionally took the time to help the others, showing the attitude of a desperate fighter.

More than a hundred breaths passed. Although four of Yang Jian's group of ten had been killed, he had undoubtedly succeeded in holding off Li Xuanling and the others.

shhhhhh...

In mid-air, Yang Jian had already left seven or eight afterimages. Seeing that Li Xuanling was trying to kill another of his own Xianyang level cultivators, he left another afterimage in place and appeared behind Li Xuanling the next second, his spear suddenly sweeping horizontally.

Yang Jian's Blood Escape Technique had already been forced out by Xia Hong during the Battle of Hongmen four years ago. The more severe his injuries, the faster he could unleash his speed, something Li Xuanling was well aware of.

While it may seem clear, dealing with it is a different story.

Faced with this incredibly fast speed, Li Xuanling clearly had a hard time dealing with it. When Yang Jian's spear swept across, she had no choice but to give up on killing the man she had just killed and instead raised her sword to block.

Clang...

The two unleashed their strongest combat power, both around 24 jin (a unit of weight), so even though Li Xuanling managed to parry, his body was still swept away by the spear for over a hundred meters. If it weren't for the timely appearance of the Beast King-level puppet, which allowed Li Xuanling to use the force to cushion the impact, he would have crashed to the ground.

"Pfft... Why hasn't Elder Chu succeeded yet?"

Seeing Li Xuanling's effortless demeanor, Yang Jian, who was standing still, couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood. After hastily swallowing a healing pill, he clutched the sword wound on his neck that was constantly bleeding, his pupils filled with urgency and fear.

Blood Escape Technique, as the name suggests, is actually a trick used to save one's life in extreme situations. It is a secret technique that he obtained by merging with the Blood Demon after killing a Blood Demon with the help of his elder brother Yang Zun in his early years.

The more severe his injuries, the faster he could unleash his speed; conversely, the fact that he became so fast also indicated that his injuries were getting more and more serious.

The Xia army in the city has already moved. Zhu Yan's group of ten men in the northwest is in a worse situation than his side, with six of them dead.

In other words, half of the two groups of people have died.

If this keeps going, we'll really be defeated here.

Chu Xuankong still doesn't believe it. All the experts in Xia City are here. Is it really that difficult to capture a child who is only nine years old?
When people are anxious, they can't hide certain things anymore.

Yang Jian was in this situation. He was too anxious and kept looking to the east. Li Xuanling noticed his eager expression.

Li Xuanling sneered and said, "It seems you have some backup plan to capture Sheng'er. There's no need to look over there. No matter what your backup plan is, it's useless."

Upon hearing Li Xuanling's words, Yang Jian's expression suddenly froze.

Then, as if to confirm Li Xuanling's words.

A beam of light suddenly shot into the air from the ground on the east side of the Tiger Breeding Forest, and then rushed towards the west side in a panic.

"Pfft... This is hopeless, run!"

(End of this chapter)