Daqin Zhentiansi

"Roar—! Crush them all!"

Bloodfang's roar tore through the sky.

The first wave of over ten thousand demon wolf cannon fodder, composed of vassal clans, swept up a storm of blood and gore, crashing into the three nearest guardian temples like an out-of-control mudslide!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The deafening crashes continued one after another!
However, the anticipated scene of sawdust flying everywhere and bricks collapsing did not occur.

At the point of impact, the barrier formed by the giant black iron shield remained completely unmoved!

The earth-yellow rune aura emanating from the shield acted like a tough membrane, dissolving and dispersing the violent impact layer by layer.

The giant ape warrior behind the shield simply roared, his feet firmly planted on the ground, his muscles bulging like iron, forcefully channeling the shockwave into the earth.

The earth trembled, the giant shield hummed, but the shield array remained as solid as a rock!
Such defenses are truly impregnable!
"Shhhhh-"

Just as the demon wolf was being smashed and bleeding profusely, and was dizzy and disoriented, countless armor-piercing crossbow bolts, gleaming with a cold light, shot out like poisonous bees from the gaps in the shield formation and behind the arrow emplacements on the observation wall!

"call out--!"

The arrow pierced precisely through the wolf's chest, throat, and eye sockets, which were wide open due to the impact!
The poisoned arrowheads were lethal to the touch, and the explosive runes burst open in the wolf pack, creating clouds of blood mist.

The hundreds of demon wolves at the forefront were instantly killed, their howls drowned out by the surging waves behind them.

lost heavily!

The first wave of attack was like hitting a red-hot anvil; the vanguard of the vassal wolf pack was almost wiped out.

The corpses piled up like mountains beneath those viewing walls.

The scorched earth was soaked with filthy blood.

The wolf pack, whose momentum was halted, fell into brief chaos, trampling each other and leaving a trail of dead and wounded.

"Useless! All of you are useless! Get him! Use your sorcery to blast him apart! Tear down that lousy wall!"

Bloodfang was so angry that he was practically spitting fire, and his huge wolf claw smashed a piece of rock.

Being demons, once their demonic nature is awakened, they lose much of their rationality.

Otherwise, he would surely have wondered when the Thirty-Three Garrison Commands had acquired such combat power.

"Woo——"

Led by the Bloodclaw Wolf Clan, the assembled demon race launched their second attack.

This time, Bloodfang led his elite central army forward, along with numerous demon wolves capable of casting spells.

Fireballs, wind blades, poison stings, and stone spears rained down on the shield array and observation wall like a sudden downpour.

However, at the very moment the demonic light shone, a low incantation suddenly resounded from the Thirty-Three Temples!
"Spark Camp, rise!"

Countless crimson fire lines shot into the sky from behind the shield formation and atop the observation wall!

They did not directly confront the demonic magic, but rather intertwined and merged precisely, transforming into a scorching barrier of flames!

A sea of ​​fire!

The flames surged and rolled, carrying the resolute will to burn away all the evil magic in the world, detonating and burning most of the incoming demonic magic in mid-air!
Sparks flew and smoke filled the air!
"Boom boom boom——"

While the demonic magic was blocked and the wolf pack's path of attack was obstructed by smoke and flames, the ground suddenly changed!

Beneath those seemingly ordinary scorched earth and rubble, countless steel barbs gleaming with a cold, eerie blue light suddenly emerged, along with rune-covered spikes filled with malevolent energy!

This is precisely the "Bone-Eating Earth Fang Formation" that the "Ksitigarbha Camp" had laid out in advance!
"what--"

"what happened--"

The charging wolf was caught off guard, and its paws and abdomen were instantly pierced and torn apart!
A piercing scream echoed through the sky, and the formation was thrown into chaos!

In the chaos, small groups of "Youlong Camp" guards emerged from the shadows on the flanks like ghosts!
They worked in groups of three or five, like the most lethal scalpel, precisely cutting into the weak points of the wolf pack that had scattered as they tried to avoid traps.

A flash of light, and the wolf's head was severed.

The talisman exploded, sending blood and flesh flying everywhere!
They strike and retreat immediately, never lingering in battle.

What remained was an even more chaotic and fearful wolf pack.

Where is this the fighting style of the garrison commander in the garrison?
Such vicious and ruthless methods are even more vicious than those of the most cunning demons!
"retreat--"

"We can't get through."

"Chief, the chief is dead..."

The Bloodfang tribe's elite forces suffered relatively few losses in the two charges, but the vassal tribes, who served as the main attacking force, suffered nearly half their casualties!

Broken wolf carcasses littered the ground, their severed limbs and entrails scattered across the battlefield.

The surviving vassal wolves were utterly terrified. Howling in agony, they instinctively began to retreat, ignoring the bites of the overseer team.

The momentum of the entire demonic tide came to a standstill, filled with a heavy atmosphere of defeat and bloodshed.

"Roar—!!! I'll fight you to the death!"

Bloodfang went completely berserk, its hundred-foot-tall wolf body unleashing a terrifying aura of bloodlust. A massive cloud of blood gathered above its head, faintly forming a ferocious wolf head phantom!

It felt an unprecedented sense of shame and threat.

But he knew that he alone could not shake these thirty-three impregnable fortresses!

"Black Horned Rhinoceros Clan, what are you waiting for—"

Blood Tooth looked up at the sky and drank deeply.

“Moooooooooooo!!!”

With Bloodfang's shout, a deep, resonant roar, seemingly from the ancient wilderness, suddenly came from the horizon at the side and rear of the battlefield!
Its roar was so immense that it instantly drowned out all the fighting and wailing on the battlefield, making the air itself seem to freeze!

The earth began to tremble violently!
It looked as if countless mountains were moving!

Behind the Bloodfang Demon Tide, an even larger and thicker "dark cloud" appeared!

That wasn't mist, but—the Black Horned Rhinoceros Clan!
Tens of thousands of black rhinoceros warriors, each one like a small, mobile fortress!
They are generally over three zhang in size, covered with thick, rock-like black armor, and their huge single horns gleam with a cold metallic luster.

Their steps were heavy and uniform, each step cracking the earth and raising dust, converging into a steel torrent that changed the color of the sky and earth!
The intense earth elemental demonic energy mixed with wild and ferocious evil formed a dark gray-black demonic cloud that blotted out the sky, its power being several times stronger than that of the Bloodclaw Wolf Clan!
At the very front of this torrent of steel, two figures, as majestic as mountains, stood tall.

Even without the ability to stir up demonic energy, these two figures still exuded an aura that made the thirty-three guardians of Guanyuan Town, who were watching from dozens of miles away, feel suffocated!
The one on the left is the largest, nearly fifty feet tall, and resembles a giant rhinoceros.

Its entire body is covered with obsidian-like carapace covered with mysterious runes, and its huge horn seems to pierce the sky!

With each step it took, hard rock spikes automatically rose from the ground to pave its way. The pressure of the Venerable's second realm was released without reservation, like a tangible gravity field, causing the observers in the distance to feel their knees go weak, almost to the point of kneeling down!
That was the Supreme Elder of the Black Horned Rhinoceros Clan, Venerable Black Rock!
The one on the right is slightly smaller, about forty feet tall, and has already transformed into human form, but retains the rhinoceros head and the dark gold heavy armor covering his entire body.

His face was as hard as iron, his eyes indifferent and ruthless, and he held a huge black warhammer in his hand, the hammerhead of which seemed to be forged from the core of a star!
He was surrounded by extremely refined earth elemental laws, and the space around him was slightly distorted.

Another powerful being at the second level of the Venerable Realm, Venerable Xuanzhong!
"Black... Black Horned Rhinoceros! It's Venerable Black Rock and Venerable Xuanzhong!" On the cliff, the former abbots of the Thirty-Three Temples were pale and their voices trembled. "They... they actually came!"

"It's over, it's completely over..."

"This is... one of the overlords of the upper reaches of the Chensha River? This pressure is even more terrifying than the rumors!"

"Two Venerable Ones have personally arrived! And such a large army... We, we..."

Over the years, the prestige of the dominant clan in Chensha River has become deeply ingrained in people's minds.

At this moment, none of the thirty-three garrison commanders were not terrified.

"Fire General, can the Imperial Guards stop him?" Despair washed over the onlookers like a cold tide.

The arrival of the Black Horned Rhinoceros tribe was, in their eyes, tantamount to a death sentence for the Thirty-Three Views.

On the other side of the cliff, Qingfeng, the abbot of Qingyu Temple, and Xuanyan, the abbot of Xuanshi Temple, along with their thousands of elite troops, gripped their weapons tightly, their auras extremely concentrated.

They remained silent, their eyes fixed on the battlefield, their minds highly focused, waiting only for the command from the Fire Commander!

However, they had no confidence whatsoever in facing the Black Horned Rhinoceros tribe head-on.

Further away, the two Venerables guarding the Thousand Observations Hall were hidden in the void, their divine thoughts intertwined, their expressions solemn and with a hint of barely perceptible expectation, closely watching every change at the heart of the battlefield.

The thousands of powerful figures guarding the hall concealed their auras, like sharp swords about to be drawn.

Today's situation was exactly as predicted by Coach Zhang Yuan!

Inside the core main hall of the Thirty-Three Temples.

Zhang Yuan stood with his hands behind his back, his black Daoist robe fluttering even without wind.

He slowly raised his head, calmly "looking" at the Black Horned Rhinoceros army, and at the two Venerables who pressed down like two ancient demonic mountains.

"Hmph, a mere savage beast dares to act so arrogantly here?"

His voice wasn't loud, but it was like thunder, booming in the ears of every warrior and deep within the earth veins of the thirty-three guardian temples!
"Array up!"

At his command, the thirty-three guardian temples suddenly erupted with intense spiritual light that pierced the sky!

That was not a chaotic beam of light, but rather a condensation of countless pure earth vein powers, the boiling blood and qi of the martial warriors, their unwavering will, and the Great Qin Heavenly Dao will that Zhang Yuan had integrated into the military formation!

“Buzz——!!!”

A tremendous roar, ancient and vast, seemed to come from the depths of the primordial wilderness, resounded throughout the heavens and earth!

Thirty-three beams of spiritual light rapidly converged, intertwined, and solidified above the battlefield!
Military Spirit!

Xuanwu, the divine beast!

A gigantic phantom of an unimaginably large beast suddenly appeared between heaven and earth!
Its tortoise shell covers the sky, and mysterious runes flow endlessly on the shell, as if it supports the earth and mountains.

The snake's head is raised high, its cold, vertical pupils looking down upon all living beings. With each flick of its tongue, the space itself seems to freeze.

Its four legs are like pillars supporting the sky, carrying the weight and power to suppress all ages!

A vast, majestic, and immortal aura swept across the entire Blackrock Plains in an instant, like a tangible tsunami!
"Roar--!!!"

The Xuanwu Martial Soul let out a roar that shook the universe!

Invisible sound waves, mixed with the will to suppress all things, crashed like a tsunami onto the surging army of black rhinoceroses!

Repression!

The expressions of Venerable Black Rock and Venerable Xuanzhong, who were the first to be affected, changed drastically!
"Not good! Join forces!" Venerable Black Rock roared, his obsidian armor erupting with blinding black light, and his huge horn slammed into the void, attempting to break through the terrifying suppressive force!

Venerable Xuanzhong slammed his Star Hammer down!

The immense power of the Earth element law transformed into towering phantom mountains, attempting to directly confront the might of the Black Tortoise!
"Boom! Boom!"

Two earth-shattering explosions!
The light from the clash of laws was so blinding that people couldn't open their eyes!
However, the Xuanwu divine beast's claws, seemingly from the primordial era, carrying immense and unstoppable power, had already struck down!

"Boom——!!!"

Like the thunder of heavenly drums! Space itself crumbled inch by inch beneath his claws!

The defenses that Venerable Black Rock and Venerable Xuanzhong had built with all their might were shattered like paper under Xuanwu's claw!
The two Venerable Ones were struck as if by lightning. Their massive bodies trembled violently, and they were forced to retreat repeatedly by the irresistible force. Each step they took left a bottomless pit in the ground. Their blood and qi surged, and their eyes were filled with disbelief and horror!
Behind them, the tens of thousands of black rhinoceros troops, like a torrent of steel, were firmly imprisoned by this terrifying suppressive force!

The momentum of the charge came to an abrupt halt, as if they had sunk into an invisible quagmire!
All the Black Horned Rhinoceros warriors felt an immense burden pressing down on them, making movement extremely difficult. They could only let out angry and terrified growls, struggling desperately in place, but unable to make any progress!

The entire steel torrent was forcibly "nailed" to the battlefield!
"This...this is impossible!" Bloodfang's massive wolf head was filled with horror, replacing his previous rage.

His crimson wolf eyes were fixed on the colossal shadow of the Xuanwu that shrouded the sky.

"This...this is not the power of the Guardian Temple!"

A name that sent shivers down his spine escaped his lips: "This is...this is General Zhang Yuan's bodyguard!"

He finally understood why his people had suffered such heavy losses.

He finally realized that he was not facing a simple defensive fortification, but a terrifying army led by an unparalleled commander and possessing power that overturned all understanding!
Those thirty-three Taoist temples have long since been transformed into war fortresses that devour the demon race!

In the shadows of the distant cliffs, Zhao Kun, who had been intently watching the battlefield and searching for Zhang Yuan, was now deathly pale.

He was severely injured by Venerable Xuancheng, and his injuries were far from healed.

When he saw the Xuanwu Martial Soul appear, which blotted out the sky, and felt the oppressive power that made the world lose its color, his body trembled violently, not because of fear, but because of a morbid, twisted ecstasy and resentment!

"Zhang Yuan! It really is you! You finally... you finally showed up!"

Zhao Kun's eyes were bloodshot, and his face flushed an unnatural, sickly red, as if he were drunk. His breathing was rapid. "Using such power... let's see how you hide this time! You're dead! You're dead!"

This is astonishing; a power that even a Venerable One can suppress must not be allowed to exist by the Celestials!

He stopped looking at the battlefield suppressed by Xuanwu, turned around abruptly, as if using all his strength, and transformed into a streak of light that was both frantic and filled with a mad obsession.

This streak of light recklessly tore through the air, fleeing desperately towards the direction of the Patrol Guard Camp!

He had to report this "ironclad proof"—the news that Fire General Zhang Yuan had mobilized a large army and manifested a divine beast to fight against the demon race overlord—immediately and without delay.
At the center of the battlefield, the phantom of the Xuanwu divine beast stood proudly, its cold vertical pupils sweeping over the suppressed Black Horned Rhinoceros army and the horrified Bloodclaw Wolf clan in the distance.

Zhang Yuan's figure remained hidden within the Thirty-Three Temples, but his divine sense, amplified by the military formation, had already swept across a radius of 100,000 to 1 million miles!
"The Thunderfall Abyss, the power of the Kui Niu's Heaven-Shaking Drum... it's truly something to look forward to..." (End of Chapter)