1047: Chapter 643_2 1047: Chapter 643_2 They were very confident in their own disguises, yet they could not afford to overlook the need for caution, for the abilities of those Cultivators were stronger than theirs—not only must they avoid exposing themselves, but they also had to conceal themselves even better.
This time, in the stratagem of assassination, Huang Lei uncovered several women and other men who, after being controlled by them, were exposed as people from the Rabbit Country and the court.
Those women were from the Rabbit Country, and those men were subordinates of the court officials!
Huang Lei and his group watched from the shadows and dispatched Yingzi, an agent from the Rabbit Country, along with a few spies from other nations, to suddenly ambush the scholars sent by the court!
Thinking that their group of over 200 people were enough to deal with the weaker scholars, whose guards—numbering just over 100—lacked martial strength, they were very confident, considering themselves elites from another nation!
Leaving more people on the periphery, they wished to avoid revealing their tracks?
They would deal with other matters later on with a further-reaching stratagem!
After they had annihilated these people, they would then seize the moment to enter the southeastern and western regions of Ancient Xia Country, hoping to let their long-infiltrated agents within Ancient Xia Country obliterate the Dynasty in one fell swoop!
Initially, Yingzi was reluctant, but Huang Lei gradually resorted to numerous methods, leading her and her subordinates to lose control over themselves, despite her representing a nation.
Under this influence, the rest of their team was also exposed!
Huang Lei heard the information leaked by Yingzi and their exposure confirmed their suspicions—these women and the others on their team were still outside!
He shared the news with his father, who sent people to observe the exposed location.
Upon investigation, they discovered that those people had already moved, and with the snowfall, the previous traces had disappeared!
Huang Lei could not be concerned with this any longer; with the people from the Rabbit Country leading the spies—merely dozens of them—if he could utilize the armies of those three nations this time, they could make a difference!
Huang Lei’s thoughts were idealistic, but reality fell short; they had forgotten that the Cultivation World had even more powerful elites, who were merely spectating from the high skies!
The arrival of so many did not disrupt their formation; they quickly responded and came up with ways to deal with this ragtag bunch!
Luo Yaxuan, Lai Jianlin, and Jiang Shaojiang received the information and went to provide support.
Their first priority was not to aid the scholars, because with the addition of Ye Shi, Ye Qiu, and the others, the steady influx of newcomers had led to a precarious situation, which was now somewhat alleviated!
After consulting, they decided to first address those endless and unidentified newcomers!
These people, flying through the night, although the foreign Warriors ran silently and invisibly through the darkness!
Nevertheless, despite their light movements and the soft sounds of their footsteps in the snow, they left no trace, without the “squeak, squeak” noise on the snowy ground thanks to the spell Stepping on Snow Without a Trace!
This effect, inconvenient for ordinary people, turned their shadowy figures in the night into those resembling ghosts!
However, what they encountered were powerful Cultivators above the level of Golden Core, who could lock onto these faint traces of Qi with their Divine Sense the moment they released it!
It seemed like a lot of people were running densely along various paths!
But because it was a time of heavy snowfall, everything was covered in snow, and there were too many of them to walk on a single path; they split over tracks and slopes!
Or they charged here like thousands of horses and troops.
There were too many of them; they certainly couldn’t just capture and eliminate them one by one!
All of them were Martial Artists; if they engaged in a Spell battle, even their several dozen would find it tiring, so they discussed, and decided to simply seal off the roads ahead!
Casting walls of various Spells, they separated these people by distance!
These walls were very high, invisible in the darkness of night.
Several hundred people in the front had rushed through already; when the people following behind arrived, they found themselves crashing into walls!
The people in front had entered the encirclement, unaware, and lacking the support of those behind, they charged directly into enemy territory, commencing battle!
Ye Shi, Ye Qiu, and the others merely intercepted these people from high above, hundreds of Martial Artists against several hundred in the air!
They must employ various methods to win, but they are facing people flying in the sky, moving so swiftly, that rudimentary tactics simply won’t work!
These individuals can only band together to borrow strength, allowing them to fly higher and strike at those few dozen people!
Hundreds of them piled up into towering human pyramids, which had some effect against the few dozen opponents, enabling them to fly up and strike with borrowed momentum, except they were adept in saber techniques, but not in spells!
In the midst of sword and saber combat, they had to withstand the various spells of the enemy, which might manifest as a sudden gust of dust, followed by a surge of earth rushing toward them, burying them under its mass!
Once they uncovered the earth, they might encounter walls, ramming into them until they were dazed and confused!
It could also be possible, in the freezing cold, for water to be thrown at them, which then instantly turned to ice, chilling them to the bone!
These spells, alternating between cold and hot, not to mention fireballs singeing their hair and clothes, left them in a sorry state!
Tang Feiyang and his junior brothers, fighting the invaders, were also skilled in some spells.
The juniors were adept in martial strength, and though they couldn’t fly or use spells, they were not so weak!
He even felt gratified that more than a hundred of them were able to gain the upper hand against more than two hundred, driving the enemy to abject defeat!
They were using these opponents for practice now, not killing them instantly; if they did, there would be no opportunity to train.
Knowing that they had the support of those with even higher abilities, Tang Feiyang instructed his junior brothers and guards not to kill the enemies too quickly, but to use them as sparring tools!
Having these fearless foes as sparring partners was undoubtedly a fast track to improvement!
With support and no need to worry about their rear, they could playfully engage in the fight!
The students were overjoyed with no concerns for their safety, indulging in a grand battle and thrashing the sneak attackers until they cried for their fathers and mothers!
Among them were foreigners who thought that with an overwhelming army, even if controlled, they believed they were strong and numerous!
But they found that only they were left, as consecutive waves behind them were blocked.
The vanguard had no assistance, the rear couldn’t break through, and they were cut off section by section!
Ye Shi, Ye Qiu, and their people, although just a few dozen in number against several hundred adversaries, were powerful Cultivators from the Cultivation World.
These elites from other lands were mere practitioners of martial strength, not Cultivators!
Some wielded powerful artifacts, trying to use these Magical Treasures in battle, but they were effortlessly repelled by the formidable power of the Cultivators!
There were also foreigners who possessed Talismans, bought in shops, with someone among them adept at Talisman Drawing using salt water!
However, these were merely low-tier Talismans, effective against ordinary people or martial artists at best.
Against these slightly more powerful opponents, their Magical Treasures and Talismans were useless when directly confronted with spells!
When they saw others using these items, flying so high into the sky, up amongst the clouds, the warriors’ abilities were insufficient to launch their lethal weapons so high!
As they watched their Magical Treasures launched only to hit thin air, and their Talismans exploding ineffectively in the atmosphere!
Dozens were making sport of hundreds, and they were holding back to not kill them outright, preferring to capture them alive!
Luo Yaxuan, and Lai Jianlin’s few dozen people, faced tens of thousands and couldn’t afford to play around!
Luo Yaxuan directly used the Thunder spell from high above, conjuring a howling Gale, as the snow on the ground was whipped into a frenzy, and thunder “cracked” in the sky, illuminating the surroundings!
The people behind didn’t understand what was happening; they were just blocked in one place, as their numbers gradually accumulated!
Feeling they were up against formidable adversaries, they vigilantly looked around!
Just as the lightning was about to strike, illuminating the ground, it struck those people who had no chance to flee because the front was blocked, while increasingly more people arrived from behind, never receiving the order to stop!