King of Creation Chapter 2162 - 2147: The Dignity of the Three-eyed Demon Clan

Inside the temporary command tent, Ye Zhen looked at the intelligence gathered by the Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunters serving as scouts, his brows furrowed into a line.

The scout forces of the three demon clan armies had all been deployed over five thousand miles, with both overt and covert operatives. Not only were the Shadow Demons, considered the kings of scouts, all released, but the underground areas were also densely populated with Snake Demons and Spider Demons capable of traversing the ground.

Along the advancing army’s rear and flanks, there were demon clan armies in a state of war readiness, constantly patrolling to react to possible sudden situations at the shortest notice.

"Isn’t this a bit too cautious? Looking at their actions, it seems like they’re the ones at a disadvantage, not us..." Commander Zheng Dangshi, standing nearby, had an expression that was somewhat a mix of amusement and frustration.

However, this smile carried a somewhat grim and fierce undertone at this moment.

Commander Zheng Dangshi was one of the commanders under Ye Zhen willing to merge with the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill, whose cultivation had already surged to the middle stage of the Fifth Stage of the Realm King Realm.

It’s just that, after refining the Beast Blood Spirit Pill to become a Demon Spirit Soldier, his aura and every move were somewhat influenced.

This was one of the influences of the Beast Blood Demon Spirit Pill.

"Grand Marshal, even if their scouts are deployed over five thousand miles, my forces are confident of resolving all of them in half a quarter-hour!" Niu Er said confidently.

"As long as it’s resolved, my forces are confident of launching a surprise attack within a quarter-hour!" Zheng Dangshi said.

"And what about that mobile unit that’s entered a state of readiness?"

Ye Zhen’s words made Zheng Dangshi ponder for a few moments, "The two thousand troops in battle-ready state should be completely resolved within a quarter-hour."

"But once we’ve dealt with these two thousand, our sixty thousand will be completely surrounded by the enemy’s main forces!"

Ye Zhen’s words made Zheng Dangshi open his mouth, only to end up looking crestfallen; Ye Zhen was right. A quarter-hour’s time was enough for the enemy’s main forces to encircle and counterattack.

The thirteen-thousand-strong elite army of demon warriors surrounding them could place this sixty-thousand-strong raiding force in an extremely dangerous position.

"Grand Marshal, what should we do?" Niu Er and Zheng Dangshi asked in unison.

After pondering for a moment, Ye Zhen quickly made a tactical change to the pre-existing strategy.

Initially, the plan was to take advantage of the enemy dividing their forces to conduct a mid-route surprise attack, seizing the chance to annihilate or heavily damage a single enemy force, thus alleviating the pressure on Blood River Fortress.

But seeing the enemy’s cautious stance now, this path seems unfeasible.

"Relay the order to Gu Tieqi, instruct him to execute according to my third strategy, allow the entire army to rest, and prepare for battle come nightfall!"

The person stationed at Cairo Fortress was Ye Zhen’s trusted Gu Tieqi.

By afternoon, the three demon army divisions arriving under the city walls almost simultaneously launched fierce attacks on Blood River Fortress, Yang Gate Fortress, and Cairo Fortress.

The guardian light screen atop the city walls had already been lit earlier. Ten miles outside the city, Iron-armored Demons with heights over three zhang emitted a glow of black intermixed with yellow, exuding a light that connected them with the earth. Holding giant shields over five zhang tall, they blocked countless arrows raining down from the city walls with a steady influx of light goods.

It was only under the shriek of the Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbow that one could pierce directly through a giant shield, slaying the Iron-armored Demon behind it.

But as soon as one Iron-armored Demon was slain, a new one immediately took their place.

However, the entire Cairo Fortress’ city walls, counting the twenty Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows later sent by Ye Zhen, had only sixty in total.

Moreover, only half of the Sky-Breaking Dragon-Slaying Crossbows dared to unleash full firepower, the other half remained on standby, prepared against surprise attacks from enemy Dao Realm experts.

This lack of stationed Dao Realm experts was their greatest shortcoming.

With wave upon wave of Iron-armored Demon fatalities, the demon clan army rapidly approached, and in the city, the priests of the Ancestor God Temple began to busy themselves rapidly.

Various enhancing talisman scrolls and secret techniques transformed into waves of light, quickly falling upon the soldiers atop the city walls.

The soldiers began to manifest strange transformations.

The earthy hue surrounding them made their armor more substantial, and the mysterious patterns imbued their skin with a weighty radiance.

The cyan light made their bodies lighter and more agile, with greater vitality.

The previously sharp blades and swords now gleamed in multicolored light, which was the deadly poisons distributed by the Ancestor God Temple, fatal upon blood contact.

In such racial warfare, no means were too extreme.

As the demon army continued its advance, their ranged forces had begun pressing in.

The Snake Demons hissed, spewing foul venom with terrifying speed, aiming for the city walls.

The Spider Demons relentlessly raised their heads, launching silver beams with their hands, their speed matching that of crossbow bolts.

The guardian light shattered again, having lasted only for sixty breaths!

"Sixty breaths per cycle, fight!"

Shouting angrily, Gu Tieqi, clad in heavy armor, charged to the frontline, with his blade illuminating an area within a hundred meters in a silver flash, shredding everything into pieces.

The overwhelming torrent of venomous arrows and spider silk arrows shredded through numerous heavy shields, followed by muffled groans from the soldiers.

Especially those venomous arrows, which inflicted arrow wounds, and as soon as they hit, the venom swiftly began to erode the soldiers’ flesh.

Priests garbed in robes moved through the military formation, casting specialized talisman scrolls and secret techniques in succession, removing the injuries from lightly wounded soldiers, while the gravely wounded were carried away swiftly for effective treatment.

War is brutal.

A luckless soldier’s head was blasted into fragments by a spider silk arrow, leaving the soldier beside him dumbfounded.

A Spider Demon with excellent eyesight under the distant city walls caught sight of this scene with its keen perception, a white flash in its hand followed by a spider silk arrow shooting at that soldier.

Watching as the soldier was about to be struck in the head, a massive hand extended from an adjacent officer wearing the attire of a Capital Commandant, crushing the spider silk arrow.

"If you don’t want to die, stop dazing off!"

Almost simultaneously, a priest muttered in a peculiar rhythm, emanating an extraordinarily mysterious power wave that covered within a thousand meters.

This was the blood valor secret technique, a secret of the Ancestor God Temple.

Enveloped in that instant, an unexplainable surge of blood qi arose within the previously fearful soldier’s heart, and with a loud shout, they unleashed dozens of fierce sword energies, dispersing the oncoming venom.

In the blink of an eye, sixty breaths had swiftly passed, and the just shattered guardian light screen rose again, withstanding countless venomous arrows and spider silk arrows.

Inside the light screen, the soldiers let out a sigh of relief, quickly tending to their injuries, moving bodies, and replenishing crossbow bolts.

All of this had been trained countless times, and today’s battle, after the initial panic, became incredibly skilled.

Once the sixty breaths of time passed, the guardian light screen shattered again, and endless poison liquid poured down from the sky.

This guardian light screen, reformed around sixty breaths after shattering, was one of the greatest reliance of the defending side on the Human Demon Battlefield.

It was also the core of the entire defensive system on the Human Demon Battlefield.

Countless earth veins full of spiritual power were moved to the underground of the Human Demon Battlefield’s defense line with great divine power at the start.

This allowed the battlefield to use military cities, strongholds, and fortresses as nodes, using countless earth veins as energy sources to form military bases with guardian light screens that could be breached but in a short time be restored.

This guardian light screen brought great advantages to the garrison.

However, as the breaches became more frequent, the power of the earth veins was extracted time and again, making the time needed to restore the guardian light screen longer each time.

Amid shouting filled with exhaustion, the Demon Clan’s army threw down large mounds of corpses under the city.

Below Cairo Fortress, watching the four thousand plus corpses in front of the fortress, the commanding Corps Leader Jii Qi slowly waved his hand, stopping the attack.

His purpose in leading the army to besiege Cairo Fortress was to tie up Cairo Fortress’ forces and defend against possible enemy reinforcements from this direction.

To buy time for the Seventh Prince to break through Blood River Fortress.

In fact, the core goal was to block any reinforcements coming from this direction.

The Seventh Prince estimated at least three days were needed to break through Blood River Fortress.

Three days later, when Blood River Fortress was breached, that would be the time to fully march against Cairo Fortress.

At that time, with elite forces in place, breaking through Cairo Fortress would take only half a day.

At present, he could muster no more than around 120,000 troops for continual siege, and if he forced an assault, it would cost at least 50,000 or more casualties to break through Cairo Fortress.

And after three days, once Blood River Fortress was breached, the garrison’s morale here would completely collapse, possibly crumbling on their own.

Therefore, according to the Seventh Prince’s orders, he maintained a low-intensity attack, ordering retreat as dusk fell.

However, an unexpected situation occurred.

Usually, in siege battles, whenever they retreated, it was something the human garrison commander would eagerly wish for.

But now, right when he ordered the retreat, that human garrison commander made a maddening move.

On the wall, Gu Tieqi hung the corpse of a recently deceased Early Dark Palace Realm Three-eyed Demon Clan member on the battlements. Then, all the soldiers, including Gu Tieqi, unbuckled their pants and urinated ten meters into the wind.

Their target was the corpse of that Three-eyed Demon.

"Trash like the Three-eyed Demon only deserves to drink piss!"

Amidst wanton laughter, Gu Tieqi led the way, pouring boiling hot urine onto the corpse of the Three-eyed Demon.

In an instant, the eyes of the Three-eyed Demons in the Demon Clan army turned red upon seeing this sight.

Each one roared angrily.

"Despicable slaves, you court death,"

"Kill them!"

The Three-eyed Demon belongs to the high-level Demon Clan, still possessing military discipline; despite their extreme anger, their gaze was still fixed on Corps Leader Jii Qi, waiting for his command.

Under the countless stares of the Three-eyed Demons, Corps Leader Jii Qi suddenly waved his hand and roared to the sky, "Vile slaves, you succeeded in enraging me!"

"You really enraged me!"

"I swear, regardless of the cost, today I will smash Cairo Fortress and make your head a night pot, and your divine soul will be tormented day and night!"

At this moment, Jii Qi had no other choice.

Because of Gu Tieqi’s action, he had successfully hit Jii Qi’s bottom line.

Dignity for the Demon Clan is complicated.

A Moon Demon would never defend the Three-eyed Demon Clan’s dignity.

However, if the dignity of the Three-eyed Demons was trampled before other demons, failing to restore their dignity meant their face would be utterly lost.

At this moment, should Jii Qi not act, he, as a Corps Leader, would be utterly disgraced, and his prestige would plummet.

Listening to Jii Qi’s roar, Gu Tieqi spat disdainfully at the corpse of the Three-eyed Demon.

"You demon bastards, Grandpa’s right here, come and kill me if you dare!"

"Kill!"

"Besiege!"

"Attack the city for me!"

"Leave no chicken or dog alive after breaking the city!"

Jii Qi’s furious roars were like the trumpet of war, driving the retreating Demon Clan army into a frenzy.

The powerful Three-eyed Demons charged the fastest and most fiercely!

This time, Corps Leader Jii Qi pressed all the troops he could onto the battlefield.

Yet, he remembered the strategic purpose of bringing the troops, to fend off possible reinforcements, so still, 30,000 troops patrolled outside the battlefield.

At the same moment, thousands of miles away, Ye Zhen received the jade scroll from Gu Tieqi.

"Grand Marshal, the planned tactic is complete; the Demon Clan army has launched a full assault!"