Chapter 1604: Blares of War

Clang!

A stirring sword chant resounded the moment the hole appeared on the array.

Shaohao stepped on the air, and his lofty figure shot up with a monstrous might. His long hair danced wildly.

“Rise!”

As he cried loudly, the divine sword rotated ten thousand feet in the void. It drew a round screen that dispensed a violet glow in the air that was filled with Law Power.

Rumble!

The violet sword screen blocked an array of attacks that came at it without shaking one bit.

“Slash!”

With another loud shout from Shaohao, a violet, horizontal sword qi emerged. Stretching thousands of feet like an iron rope across a boundless river, it swept out at an astonishing momentum.

In the distance, an exuberant group foreign enemies exploded to pieces mid-charge before they could get close. The blazing violet sword qi plowed out a long, bloody path!

One strike killed a hundred enemies!

Zhao Jingxuan, Ruowu, and the rest were awestruck when they saw it.

Shaohao was undoubtedly the most powerful expert of the Ancient Wasteland Camp besides Lin Xun!

However, there were just too many enemies packing the city’s surroundings. They were like a flood where the loss of a hundred-odd soldiers was but a small splash that quickly fizzled out.

On the contrary, the damage on the grand array had boosted their courage immensely. When one of them fell, another would immediately rush up like they weren’t afraid to die at all.

Rumble!

The void trembled. Heaven and earth dimmed. Raging killing intent covered the world.

When a hole appeared on a window, the cold winds outside would all rush in through it.

Such was the situation at hand. There was no lack of supreme Saints among the enemies with sharp perception. Almost immediately, they mobilized the entire force in the field and rushed toward the side where the hole was.

“Kill!”

“Kill!”

“Kill!”

Earth-splitting roars like the hissing of gods and devils stirred the region. Countless experts stormed toward the city like a rain of divine rainbows.

At this point, not only Shaohao, but also Ruowu, Zhao Jingxuan, Toady, A’lu, Xiao Cangtian, Ye Chen, Mi Hengzhen, Ye Mohe, and the rest of the supreme Saints had started attacking.

How terrifying was the combined power of over a dozen supreme Saints?

The attacks from outside the city were blown apart before they even arrived.

Those rushing enemies also died tragically in this bombardment.

Blood poured like a waterfall. Corpses kept exploding like firecrackers. The sight was incredibly tragic.

However, this didn’t last long, for a group of cultivators with monstrous might raced out from the enemy army like sky-cutting bolts.

There were men and women, old and young. It was clear from their powerful auras that these were a group of supreme Saints!

“This city is bound to lose. You lot are but mantises trying to block a chariot by putting up stiff resistance. Learn to accept your limits!” snorted one of them coldly.

“If Lin Xun was here, then we might have some apprehension. But you lot? You are nowhere near a threat,” another disdained.

“I happen to be short of a few slaves. Those two chicks will do!” A luxuriously dressed old man fervently scanned Ruowu and Zhao Jingxuan.

The group of over a dozen supreme Saints all gathered and stood in the air before the city. Their spirit senses had locked on Shaohao’s group.

The eight domains’ army behind them had also come to a halt, and no one was attacking anymore.

They didn’t dare to even dream of intervening in this kind of battle because just getting closer was already equivalent to getting themselves killed.

“F*ck you! Let’s kill that old bastard, A’lu!” roared Toady furiously.

Boom!

Dragging a huge iron rod, A’lu bolted out and left the city’s range!

He was like a barbaric god from an ancient time, overflowing with a berserk aura as he shot straight toward the luxuriously dressed old man who had thrown unscrupulous words about Zhao Jingxuan.

Clang!

The old man raised his hand and called upon a flying sword, but the iron rod knocked it flying with an ear-piercing sound.

The old man’s face changed drastically as he let out a gasp. He had not expected at all that this barbarian would not only be so bold to leave the city, but also possess such savage strength.

He wanted to dodge, but it was too late, so he could only harden himself and confront the attack.

Bang!

A horizontal swing of the rod sent the old man flying like a sandbag. Numerous bones in his body fractured with crackling sounds.

He flew back several thousand feet before barely managing to stabilize himself. However, the heavy injury sustained caused him to cough up a mouthful of blood.

It had been one shocking rod strike!

The faces of the foreign supreme Saints all changed color.

“Attack together!”

Without delay, they summoned treasures and executed combat arts, attacking with all their might.

The field rumbled in disarray and burst with dao light.

“Attack!”

“Kill them!”

Shaohao, Ruowu, Zhao Jingxuan, and the rest also made their moves. A chaotic battle among supreme Saints completely erupted.

It was simply terrifying and no longer something that weaker cultivators could even get involved in.

The eight domains’ army, however, didn’t stand around and do nothing. They continued to bombard the already shaky protective grand array.

The Ancient Wasteland cultivators in the city were all nervous, terrified, and restless to the extreme.

They were unable to intervene, much less escape, as the city had been tightly blocked from the outside. They could only pin all their hopes on the group of supreme Saints.

Unfortunately, as time passed, they began to despair as the power of the grand array around the City of Protection was collapsing at an alarming rate!

Boom!

Before long, in a spot that was tens of thousands of feet above the city wall, the array’s energy scattered and left another hole.

Countless buoyant cheers resounded outside, vicious and cruel.

“We need several people to block that place!” bellowed Shaohao, his voice thunderous.

Immediately, several supreme Saints rushed over to defend the new hole.

“Give up. Our army already has your city fully surrounded. There’s nothing you lot can do to turn this around anymore. If you don’t want to die an unsightly death, admit defeat now!” said a foreign supreme Saint icily from outside the city.

“I will slaughter you first!” Ye Chen leapt out wielding his sword with a crazy momentum. The sword aura pierced the nine heavens.

Rumble!

Very quickly, however, the array’s energy collapsed in another spot and left a new leak.

“Ruowu, take a few people to block it!” shouted Shaohao.

Without delay, Ruowu flashed away with several people.

But it was clear to everyone that this passive and scattered defense tactic was akin to drinking poison to quench thirst. As this war dragged on, the grand array’s energy would only collapse bit by bit until the whole thing crumbled.

By that time, how would they possibly be able to defend the entire city with just a dozen supreme Saints?

Everyone’s hearts grew heavy.

Was there really no way to turn this situation around?

“Keep killing! How can we give up without fighting till the very last moment?” Xiao Cangtian let out a long roar. There was only determination on his face. Like a mad blade immortal, he was slashing left and right.

With the passage of time, the grand array had collapsed in various areas around the city, and the openings kept getting bigger in size.

If the previous City of Protection was a seamless, heavenly coat, then at this moment, it was riddled with holes with still many more to appear!

The situation was precarious to the extreme!

It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that once a spot was completely breached, the city would surely fall as a result. At that time, the cultivators inside, who had no way to escape, would be doomed to be slaughtered wantonly.

“Pfff!”

Before long, Shaohao coughed up blood.

Their group had been scattered to the point that only four supreme Saints still remained on the city wall. They were himself, A’lu, Toady, and and Zhao Jingxuan.

Their opponents, on the other hand, were a group of more than ten dozen supreme Saints!

Clatter~

At this juncture, Shaohao once again resorted to the Emperor Dao Sacred Scripture shrouded in purple haze, and in doing so he barely withstood his opponent’s attack.

“Everyone, I’ll deal with these beasts and open up a path for you. Consider this to be my repaying Brother Lin’s favor.”

Shaohao transmitted to the other three. His voice was casual as he had come to completely disregard death.

“There’s no need to try and dissuade me. This city is bound to be broken through. If you three can survive, then there may still be a chance to make a comeback in the future!”

Hearing this, Toady, A’lu, and Zhao Jingxuan were emotional. They hadn’t thought that Shaohao would make such a decision. It was impossible for them to remain calm.

“No. If someone has to fight with their life on the line, then all of us shall do it together!” refused Zhao Jingxuan flatly.

Toady and A’lu were instantly anxious. How could they possibly watch Zhao Jingxuan fight to the death?

“Hmph! Still want to kill your way out? Not a chance!” snorted an enemy coldly.

“We’ve laid out a flawless net over the three thousand miles of land around this city. You lot have a Saint Dao Array, so do you think that we don’t have one as well to encircle this city?” scoffed another.

What?!

The faces of Shaohao’s group were drained of color, and their hearts sank to the bottom.

Since the enemy had come with their full force this time, it was apparent that they had exhausted all means to make sure to spare no one!

“It seems…you can only follow me and fight with our lives until the end…” sighed Shaohao heavily, somewhat apologetic that he couldn’t help Zhao Jingxuan and the others.

“It’s nothing more than death. Even if we die, we can drag some down to hell with us!” Zhao Jingxuan’s eyes were frosty.

𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

“F*ck it! Let’s go!” Toady’s expressions quickly shifted until he clenched his jaw and charged out with a roar, completely disregarding his life.

“Yeah! F*ck them up!” A’lu’s eyes were bloodshot in rage.

Rumble!

The fierce battle had been going on, but in this moment, it abruptly became much more tragic and horrifying than before with the entire city at the risk of danger of obliteration at any moment.

“Might as well let you know that nine layers of Saint Dao Array have been set up outside your city. Even if you kill your way out of here, you have almost no chance to escape those restrictive arrays!” said an enemy with a triumphant smile.

Shaohao kept coughing up blood. His face was pale, but the determined look on his face had never once wavered.

Zhao Jingxuan, Toady, and A’lu also wore frosty expressions and didn’t say a word.

However, none of them knew how long they could last, and how long the City of Protection could hold on…

“How good it would be if Big Brother was there!” Toady suddenly let out a long sigh. He didn’t dream that Lin Xun could come back to save him, it was just that the idea of not being able to see his big brother for one last time was too much to bear.

Someone commented snidely, “Hmph! No matter who comes here, they can’t do anything about the nine layers of Saint Dao Array encasing this city. I advise you to accept your fate!”

Rumble!

But as soon as these words dropped, there was an earth-shattering tremor from a distant place outside the city.

Immediately following, countless cries of alarm rang out.