Chapter 585: Chapter 585
After these flying Demonic Beasts were suppressed by the restricted airspace formation, they fell directly into the poison in front of the city wall.
Facing the descending prey, these poisons were not polite at all, each displaying their abilities to hunt these Demonic Beasts.
By the time these flying Demonic Beasts escaped the range of the poison, there were very few left.
This attack failed, and the Demon Clan quieted down for another day.
When the Demon Clan attacked again, they changed their tactics, feinting attacks in other places to distract while concentrating their forces to attack a section of the city wall.
This attack method caused some trouble for the defending army, but it was still unable to breach the city wall.
Both sides fiercely fought for a whole day, with heavy casualties on the Demon Clan's side, and the poison below the city wall suffered significant damage.
In the following days, the Demon Clan tried various tactics one after another, all of which were futile. Countless casualties occurred in the Demon Clan, while so far, there had been no casualties among the Cultivators on the city wall due to the distance between them.
Only some damage was done to the poison below the city wall, which was inevitable, as these poisons were relatively fragile, especially the newly spawned ones.
Now they no longer rushed to the bottom of the city wall, but actively attacked the poisons on the ground every time.
It seemed they were preparing to clear the area of poison in front of the city wall first, or at least establish several safe passages.
The Cultivators on the city wall naturally wouldn't allow this destruction to continue. Giant crossbows kept firing, bringing down batch after batch of Demon Clan members.
The high-level members of the Demon Clan didn't care much about the deaths of these low-tier Demonic Beasts, allowing their forces to advance over their corpses.
After a month of paying the price with many low-tier Demonic Beasts, the Demon Clan finally opened several safe passages in front of the city wall, leading directly to the city below.
Then, based on these safe passages, they launched targeted attacks on the city wall, continuously widening the passages to allow more Demonic Beasts to pass through.
Now these Demon Clan members could finally attack below the city wall, sometimes even managing to injure the human Cultivators on the city wall if lucky.
The high-level members of the Demon Clan were quite pleased with this development. At least their previous attacks were not in vain. As long as they persisted, even grinding could topple this layer of defense.
As for the dead Demonic Beasts, it's doubtful even their parents would mourn for them.
Most of these low-tier Demonic Beasts came from the sea. Their survival in this cruel Cultivation World wasn't due to the unity and care for the weak within their Demon Clan. The main reason was their strong reproductive ability. Despite being treated as food by high-tier Demonic Beasts every day, they still managed to survive through sheer numbers.
It's already quite commendable to achieve such results by sacrificing some low-tier Demonic Beasts.
The battle continued in this attrition manner. Three months passed in this manner, and a large area of poison below the city wall had been cleared by the Demonic Beasts.
The number of Demon Clan Beast Tide had decreased by at least twenty percent. Even cheap low-tier Demonic Beasts couldn't withstand such attrition.
In the past few days, the Demon Clan's attacks suddenly intensified, relentlessly assaulting for five consecutive days without pause.
Underneath the city wall, Demon Clan corpses piled higher and higher, almost reaching the height of the wall itself.
The Demon Clan's intention was clear: they aimed to pile up these low-tier Demonic Beast corpses into a slope, allowing them to charge up the city wall.
Though this method seemed crude, it proved effective.
Moreover, most of the sea-based Demonic Beasts had large bodies. Despite appearing to have suffered heavy losses, the casualties were actually fewer than when they opened safe passages earlier. S
At this point, some Demon Clan members had managed to reach the city wall, only to be slaughtered by the soldiers stationed there.
The main attack points of the Demon Clan were limited, and before they could ascend the city wall, they were shot down by countless arrows. Thıs content belongs to 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹·𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒·𝗇𝗲𝘁
Only a minority of the Demon Clan managed to breach the city wall alive.
The soldiers of the Great Chu Immortal Nation were no pushovers either. They were organized into formations, ready to confront the oncoming Demonic Beasts.
The few Demonic Beasts that managed to breach the city wall were swiftly dealt with.
Although the enemies in such battles weren't particularly formidable, the prolonged engagement was taxing. Despite rotating defense teams in three shifts, the continuous fighting left everyone feeling extremely fatigued.
Fortunately, Qizhou Island currently lacked no resources. Spiritual Power-boosting Spirit Wine and healing Pills were distributed promptly to all.
Maintaining this battle status quo for another five days, the Demon Clan had been assaulting the city for ten consecutive days without pause. During these ten days, Slopes made of Demonic Beast corpses grew increasingly abundant.
At this point, the soldiers on the first city wall were exhausted beyond measure.
The reason only they were exhausted after ten days of continuous fighting while the Demon Clan remained fresh was that the Demon Clan exchanged one batch of fighters for another. They couldn't tire out; they only had to persist.
At this moment, a group of Cultivators on the city wall was dismantling the giant crossbows mounted there, intending to carry them away in Storage Bags.
Given the current situation, if they insisted on defending, holding the first city wall for another ten days or half a month would be no issue.
However, the defensive advantage of the first city wall had already disappeared. The death zone comprised of poisons in front of the city wall had been nearly obliterated.
The height advantage of the city wall had also been filled by the Slope formed by Demonic Beast corpses, making it easy for the Demon Clan to storm the city wall.
Therefore, the decision had been made on the side of Qizhou Island to abandon the first layer of the city wall and retreat to the second layer.
Besides, there were still two identical layers of city walls behind. Even if all three layers were lost, Qizhou Island still had the Nine Matrix Formation at its disposal, providing sufficient strategic depth.
Since they planned to retreat, naturally, all the giant crossbows had to be dismantled and taken away.
These giant crossbows needed to be installed on the third layer of the city wall. The second layer of the city wall already had giant crossbows installed, with a military force stationed there awaiting orders.
Once all the giant crossbows on the first layer of the city wall were removed, the retreat would commence.
Under the current circumstances, safely withdrawing from the city wall was no easy task.
They could easily be pursued from behind by the Demon Clan, and the rear-guard teams left behind were generally in dire straits.
It seemed the Human Clan on the city wall also sensed the intention to retreat, as the Demon Clan's assault suddenly intensified.
Previously rare three-tier Demonic Beasts also emerged from the beast horde.
However, the fate of these three-tier Demonic Beasts wasn't much better. As soon as they appeared, they were met with dozens of Short Spears or Flying Swords aimed at them.
In the rear of the Demonic Beast horde, the golden-haired man of the human-demon alliance seemed quite pleased with the scene. "Hahaha! We haven't even begun, and this city wall is about to fall."
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