You call this the way of the sword?

Seeing Fengtian standing in the air, the city defense troops stopped moving for a moment, but no one showed panic and no one fled.

Everyone was waiting, betting that the city's protective formation could withstand the sword explosion.

The thousands of demons and ghosts outside the city have already proven that the human wave tactic is ineffective. If even the city's protective formation cannot hold them off, no matter how many demons or ghosts are inside the city, they will only be easily wiped out by the enemy.

The city's defense troops on the city walls fell silent, while the demons and monsters inside the city became increasingly chaotic.

Those who thought they were capable have all died for the bounty. The rest are either lucky or self-aware enough to realize something was wrong and choose to flee immediately.

Throughout Yuncheng, more than a dozen teleportation points kept flashing, leaving only a messy street scene.

Yang Qingfeng looked down from his vantage point and saw this scene through the city's protective formation. His brows furrowed slightly beneath his mask, and he instantly changed his strategy.

On a whim, he released most of the rubble.

Skill: Sword Explosion!

With a deafening roar, the Yuncheng Grand Array erupted with dazzling light.

The city's garrison erupted in screams and roars, accompanied by the young commander's heart-wrenching command: "Central Spirit Division, hold on! Everyone connect to the formation, reinforce the formation!!"

An unparalleled explosive shockwave swept through the great formation, revealing an outline resembling an inverted bowl, before shattering, deforming, and teetering on the brink of collapse.

Eighty thousand city defense demons rushed into the array node, vying to unleash all their magic power. After struggling against the explosive impact for more than ten seconds, they finally restored the array to its original state.

"It's done!!"

"Ha, he can't get in!!"

"Damn it, I knew it couldn't be! What kind of bullshit Fengtian is this? Come on in!!"

Protecting the great formation was tantamount to protecting their own lives. The city defense troops who were holding the formation were all overjoyed and excited. Even the relatively calm young commander was flushed with excitement.

He looked up at Fengtian again, his heart filled with confidence, and he became more composed when issuing orders.

"Iron Mountain, prepare for the counterattack!"

The seemingly terrifying explosion ultimately failed to destroy the city's protective formation. The Iron Mountain troops on the city wall, being the closest to the formation, felt the impact most intensely, and their emotions were instantly stirred to the greatest excitement.

They didn't consider that the sword explosion could actually damage the great formation, nor did they notice that many of the rubble hadn't exploded; Yang Qingfeng had deliberately left them there.

In short, the Tieshan tribe reloaded their mountain-crushing crossbows and raised their heavy hammers.

Accompanied by various shouts and taunts, the psionic pressure spread across the city walls, unleashing a variety of defensive and siege-defense skills, as if the roles of offense and defense had been reversed from this moment on.

"What 'chosen one'? Bullshit!"

"Then why don't you go out and fight him one-on-one?"

"Damn it, this beast is a monster, who would want to play with him?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Hearing the demons' laughter and commotion, Yang Qingfeng also laughed. He stood still in mid-air for a long time, looking helpless, and then turned around and left before the Mountain-Shattering Crossbow could be detonated.

During this time, he activated the divine communication seal to confirm something.

In Yang Qingfeng's plan, he himself would take the lead and strike first, cooperating with Lin Tong and other ambushers to break through Yuncheng and the surrounding strongholds, causing battlefield turmoil, disrupting battlefield order, and forcing the demon army to send out a large army to suppress them.

As long as the great battle breaks out, I can gain a lot of Taoist cultivation in the final battle, thus achieving my original goal of making everyone a swordsman.

However, Yang Qingfeng realized he had overlooked one thing.

In just a few minutes, Yuncheng was completely empty.

Upon closer reflection, this is actually the normal phenomenon, but it doesn't meet my expectations.

If the demon army ultimately doesn't send a large force to subdue them, but instead directly launches a forced invasion and suppression, the cultivation I can gain will plummet, which is unacceptable.

Yang Qingfeng flew away from Yuncheng and contacted Li Qingxuan for the first time.

The call connected, and Li Qingxuan's voice sounded slightly tired, "Junior Brother Yang, is something the matter?"

Yang Qingfeng got straight to the point: "I have two questions for you, Senior Sister."

"Speak."

"I heard that you infiltrated the demons' stronghold last year, did you do so using their teleportation array?"

Li Qingxuan was silent for a moment, then said, "That's right. Some of their small outposts are not protected by formations. If you infiltrate their small outposts, you can use their teleportation arrays to attack the main city, but... it might not be that easy this year."

Li Qingxuan didn't elaborate further, but she had said everything she needed to say.

"A fall into a trap is a fall into a trap." Last year, the humans exploited a loophole, so the demons naturally dealt with it immediately.

Yang Qingfeng preferred either adding a protective formation to the small outpost or removing the teleportation array within it.

After all, even the bat demon's mountain camp has a teleportation array.

On the battlefield, a stronghold without a teleportation array cannot last long. The reason is that there is no guarantee of safety. If you can't escape when war breaks out, that is the most fatal thing.

"Also, if I enter the stronghold, approximately how long will it take before high-ranking demons force their way down?"

"That's hard to say."

Li Qingxuan truthfully stated, "I only entered their main city once, and I ran away after less than 5 minutes. However... later, after reviewing the situation, we came up with some ways to deal with it."

"Please give me some guidance, senior sister."

"The key is still the teleportation array. As long as the teleportation array is destroyed, their reinforcements that have forced their way down will not be able to reach the battlefield quickly, so you can kill more. Or you can use the teleportation array to teleport in different locations. When they teleport here, you teleport there, staying in their stronghold. You should be able to kill to your heart's content."

"Furthermore, the essence of forced crossing is to destroy and deceive the rules, and the rules will automatically repair themselves, so forced crossing has a time limit. Mid-level forced crossing can last for several hours, while high-level forced crossing may last for less than an hour."

Li Qingxuan spoke lightly, but Yang Qingfeng's lips twitched as he listened.

Simply put, staggered transfer is about exploiting time differences. Kill some demons and ghosts, then transfer; kill another batch, then transfer again. If you're lucky, you can avoid the high-level demons and ghosts that force their way down, or even delay them until they are sent back by the rules.

Yang Qingfeng had considered this method, but Li Qingxuan's tone sounded inexplicably cruel.

It's conceivable that last year they weren't after cultivation, but simply engaged in killing.

"Understood, thank you, senior sister."

Just as Yang Qingfeng was about to end the call, he heard Li Qingxuan call out, "Wait."

"What are your instructions, Senior Sister?"

Li Qingxuan hesitated for a moment, but finally changed her words, "Be careful."

After saying that, she ended the call.

Yang Qingfeng sensed that Li Qingxuan was not in good condition and must have encountered some trouble, but speed is of the essence on the battlefield, and now is not the time to meddle.

We were just a little late; all the demons and ghosts in Yuncheng had already fled.

We cannot give them time to react now; we must act swiftly and decisively to gain as much experience as possible.

Yang Qingfeng sensed that Lin Tong and the others were all within the maximum range of 5,000 meters.

He opened the team communication and asked directly, "Does anyone have a base nearby?"

Lin Tong quickly replied, "There's a place at the foot of this mountain where it seems like a lot of demons and ghosts have suddenly appeared."

The sudden increase in quantity indicates that a teleportation array is available, but the teleportation array is secondary.

If Yang Qingfeng only wanted to use the teleportation array of demons and ghosts, he could have simply attacked and destroyed Yuncheng.

The reason for keeping Yuncheng alive was to mislead the fleeing demons and ghosts, so that if they believed the city's protective formation could protect them, they would stop running around.

Yang Qingfeng immediately set off and said to everyone, "The plan has changed. Everyone, come and gather."