Martial arts ascend to the gods

Chapter 462 Exception
"I went back to watch the videos of the Arrow Bearer and the Siren Killer."

"Even if he is a fly, he will buzz around on the battlefield and in front of the enemy."

"As I looked at it, many things that I couldn't understand before suddenly became clear."

"In fact, he knew he couldn't save the caravan, nor could he defeat the 100,000 monsters."

“From the beginning, he probably felt that everything was in vain.”

"He can only buzz."

"But he chose to buzz around on the battlefield."

"I suddenly realized that although I'm afraid of this and that..."

"Actually, I am still useful."

"In the face of billions of monsters, the siren killer and I are no different; we are both flies, two flies."

"I can also buzz around on the battlefield alongside the Siren Killer."

"Actually, I am quite disappointed in my past and also hopeless about my future."

"My life is pretty much over, nothing special."

"But I still have a little bit of hope for the future of the Chinese people."

“I hope that the people of China will have a better future, so I have to do something.”

Zhou Leng raised his hand, thought for a long time, and didn't know how to reply to Hu Yi.

Putting down the enchanted wristwatch, the Water Island Demon City gradually came into focus before my eyes.

Every person coming and going is so clear.

"Ok?"

Zhou Leng saw another familiar face, a thin, small person.

The other person also noticed and quickly walked over.

“Brother Zhou Leng,” Zhang Xiaoxiao asked.

“It’s dangerous for you here,” Zhou Leng said.

"It's not dangerous."

"Ok?"

“In every major battle, our Huang Meng faction and the Hell Knights secretly participate. At such times, the forces related to the Demon City Army forget our existence. You may not know, but most of our Huang Meng faction members have sacrificed their lives in wars against foreign powers.”

Zhou calmly looked at her. He learned from chatting with Tong Tianxia that she had sacrificed her life and only had five years left to live, which was why she had grown so fast.

"Be careful, go ahead." Zhou Leng ruffled Zhang Xiaoxiao's hair as usual.

Zhang Xiaoxiao's expression was stubborn, but her heart was warm.

"Okay." Zhang Xiaoxiao left, walked a distance away, turned around, and waved goodbye to Zhou Leng.

After making some preparations and taking a nap, Zhou Leng called Chen Shouhu.

"you……"

After Chen Shouhu finished ranting, Zhou Leng calmly recounted what had happened that day.

"I have a friend named Xue Chengsong..."

"There's another one named Feng Wenhao..."

"There's another one named Hu Yi..."

"And Zhang Xiaoxiao..."

"Finally, I have a girlfriend named Xu Qingjin."

"She is a very ordinary person. She has always been ordinary since we met, and so have I."

"Between her and me, apart from being childhood sweethearts, there probably wasn't anything worth mentioning."

"There's no romance, no life-or-death separations, and no melodramatic plot twists."

"Our experiences, like the people we are, are very ordinary."

"We're so ordinary that you'd probably get tired of the word 'ordinary'."

"There's nothing we can do, that's just how it is."

"She didn't have any big dreams. All she ever hoped for was to live a peaceful and safe life."

"She did not seek great wealth or high status, nor did she aspire to become a martial saint."

"She rarely talks to me about national affairs or grand narratives unless I really want to talk about them. She just goes along with me and is mostly just being perfunctory."

"Today, she has come to the Shuizhou base as a recruit of the fifth sequence."

I asked her, 'What are you doing here?'

She countered, 'Why can't I?'

"She felt that coming here was just an ordinary thing."

"Although she was holding me tightly, her fingertips were trembling."

"She still came."

“I have a hundred ways to get her out of here and back to the safe city of Rucheng.”

"I didn't do it."

"Because I couldn't refute her statement, 'Why can't I?'"

"So, I'd also like to ask, why can't I participate in the war?"

After a long pause, Chen Shouhu asked, "Don't you want to be an exception?"

"There should be no exceptions in the world."

"Go, you hidden warrior squad, carry out the mission with the next batch of reinforcements and recapture Tiger Hill Fortress."

"As ordered."

After making some preparations, Zhou Leng, masked, joined an army of 50,000 men with his old teammates the next day. The Fifth Brigade, led by Zhou Leng, came from Jinling City.

The army marched swiftly, defeating several enemy armies along the way, and successfully arrived.

Ahead lies the Tiger Hill Fortress, a city built of white stone, with towering buildings standing tall.

The former Tiger Hill Fortress was filled with traces of magic, with black, blue, and floral magic patterns.

The Tiger Hill Fortress today is filled with writhing flesh and blood in its cracks, and with severed limbs and broken arms stuffed into its gaps.

Thick, dark clouds hung over Tiger Hill Fortress, slowly swirling like a giant mushroom, pressing down on everyone's hearts. That was the demonic demigod artifact, the Cloud of Filth.

The power of the Demon Prison is continuously transferred to the Demon Blood Pool to nurture, nourish, and heal.

On the city walls, all sorts of demons roamed back and forth.

Outside the city walls, the earth was blood black.

Zhou Leng and the others went to their assigned camp and set up camp.

At this moment, an army of over 500,000 human warriors has gathered outside Tiger Hill Fortress.

The camps stretched as far as the eye could see.

Abandoning Tiger Hill Fortress means that the human race will lose its passage to other realms.

Just as Zhou Leng and the others finished tidying up, they received news that silenced the entire team.

Inside Tiger Hill Fortress, an Undead Knight and a Death Angel appear.

Everyone held their breath, as if their tracheas were blocked by something.

The madman said, "I know about the Death Angels. They're those modified monsters, self-destructing poison beings. Apart from being slow and few in number, they have almost no weaknesses. When they explode, they can poison everything within a radius of hundreds of meters. As for the Undead Knights, I've only heard of them, never seen one."

"I've seen it before," the cicada said.

Everyone looked at the experienced captain.

A storm raged in the cicada's eyes, and the corners of his mouth trembled slightly.

"I've not only seen it, I've also fought against it."

"I don't want to talk about the battle because I don't remember it at all."

"All I know is that our army of 10,000 warriors was being repeatedly attacked by a squad of undead knights, and we were completely powerless to fight back."

"At that time, I was only in the growth stage, not yet in the innate stage."

"I watched with my own eyes as those innate beings rushed forward to block the group of undead knights, and then fell one by one."

Zhou Leng asked, "How many are in a team? There's very little information about the Undead Knights. I remember they're usually in teams of ten."

Zhi said, "Later I learned that ten undead knights were a team, and also one."

"The Undead Knight is usually just a tall, black knight."

"His whole body was billowing with thick black smoke, he was holding a spiked spear, and he was riding a hellish warhorse that was five meters tall."

"Once you enter battle mode, you will multiply from one to ten."

"With the central chief knight at the center, nine secondary knights surround him."

"The master knight forms a blood-red link with each of his knights."

"The Undead Knights weren't particularly strong at first; they were only equivalent to ordinary demigods."

"But when an undead knight is on the battlefield, or rather, the moment the first dead is born, the undead knight becomes immortal."

"They will continuously absorb the power of the dead to strengthen themselves."

"The more enemies die, the stronger the Undead Knight becomes."

"Giants? Dragons? They are no match for those at the same cultivation level."

"A naturally immortal knight can easily kill an ordinary grandmaster after absorbing enough death power."

"There's no need to doubt it; I saw it with my own eyes."

The madman exclaimed in horror, "So strong? Does that mean we have no chance of winning?"

"Perhaps the higher-ups have found a way to counter them, but I still don't know how to defeat them."

The Weaver Girl asked, "If there were a large number of undead knights, wouldn't the demons be invincible?"

Zhi said, "Where in the world is there a perfect life? Undead Knights are few in number, and their cultivation is extremely difficult. They can generally only reach the Innate Realm. The possibility of them breaking through to the Grandmaster Realm is extremely slim. There should be very few Grandmaster Undead Knights in the entire Demon Prison. Even if there are, they will only be by the side of Great Demons or Lords. This is a stroke of luck amidst misfortune. If nothing unexpected happens, Tiger Hill Fortress will have at most one Undead Knight, or rather, one team."

"Is it really that strong?" Xiaoyaozi was a little skeptical.

Do you know why humanity has never had detailed information about the Undead Knights?

The crowd shook their heads.

"Because they have never been able to kill an entire squad of undead knights. I heard that the Grandmaster secretly hunted them down, but they managed to escape."

Zhou Leng said, "Besides demons, Tiger Hill Fortress should also have giant insects, which is a big problem. If there is a queen insect like the multi-headed ant queen, which will give birth to a continuous stream of giant insects, we may be dragged into this quagmire."

"I think the higher-ups must be trying to figure something out. Our task is to do our job well, buy more time, and kill more monsters," Zhi said.

"The captain has a higher level of awareness."

Zhou Leng asked, "Are we cooperating with the higher-ups this time, or are we acting on our own?"

The cicada said, "The scale last time and the scale this time are completely different. We can only follow orders. As for you, you should have some choice, but not much. As a physique-level innate being, you'll definitely have to tackle tough challenges."

The group gathered information about Tiger Hill Fortress while discussing it.

Before long, a new round of battle began, with human warriors charging towards Tiger Hill Fortress.

Since they had not received any orders, Zhou Leng and the others could only watch from a distance.

Humanity's demonized siege weapons relentlessly bombarded Tiger Hill Fortress.

Under the cover of the demonized machinery, the densely packed warriors, like ants, rushed to the front line.

On the monster side, orc shamans, orc archers, poison-spitting giant insects, demon warlocks, and others are on high alert.

Currently, both the offensive and defensive sides are almost entirely at a disadvantage.

At first glance, humans seem to be in a position of absolute disadvantage.

Monsters come in many different types and have a variety of defensive methods.

However, humanity's demonized machines are extremely powerful, suppressing technological strength, but the mindset of technology remains.

The magical energy bombs, created in collaboration with the Demon World, rained down on the city walls like hailstones.

Amidst the horde of monsters, the light of demonic artifacts flickered as demon warlocks cast spells in unison, creating a continuous protective force to weaken the magical energy bombs.

The sheer density of the magic bombs successfully suppressed the demon warlocks, preventing them from attacking the warriors outside the city walls.

Under the cover of overwhelming firepower, the charging human warriors suffered only minimal damage before reaching the city walls.

The two sides clashed in close combat.

The bloody battle has officially begun.

(End of this chapter)