Chapter 1410: Chapter 1410: 1395: The Army Approaches (Second Update)
Chapter 1410: Chapter 1395: The Army Approaches (Second Update)
The three Realm King Realm tributors were successively slain, and more than four hundred Dark Palace Realm water demons were blasted by the Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbow Arrows from both sides. Under such terrifying battle results, the remaining water demons and water generals scattered in all directions to escape!
No matter how important Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s life was, it was not as important as their own lives.
Moreover, it was not a fault of war. Even three powerful Realm King Realm tributors were killed, so it was more important for them to save their own lives first.
In an instant, the remaining water demons and water generals scattered in all directions, leaving only the ten tortoise demons, whose defensive power was incredibly abnormal with their tortoise shells, protecting Dragon Prince Ao Zheng!
Seeing those water demons scatter and flee, Ye Zhen stared at Dragon Prince Ao Zheng, who was protected by the ten tortoise demons, and shouted, “Ao Zheng, I’m giving you ten seconds to surrender on your knees, or else, hmph!”
In shock and fear, Dragon Prince Ao Zheng suddenly let out a hysterical roar, “How dare you!”
“My father is the Blue-scaled Dragon King, a great general under the Dragon Lord of North Sea, commanding innumerable aquatic clans. If you dare to harm a hair on me, I’ll annihilate your nine clans!”
“Alas!”
Hearing this, Ye Zhen sighed lightly, “After all this, I overestimated you. You’re nothing but a brat who hasn’t even grown a full head of hair. All my scheming wasted!”
Ye Zhen’s words were no joke!
Initially, in Ye Zhen’s plan, he treated this as a hard battle, otherwise, why would he keep erecting defenses one after another as soon as the camp was set up?
Ye Zhen even made the worst-case scenario, preparing for more than half of his county soldiers to die in battle and even prepared to unleash at least ten thousand Spirit Void Fruit Tree Demons at a critical moment.
Unfortunately, with this Dragon Prince leading them, this group of fierce water demons of North Sea was utterly and inexplicably defeated.
“Boom! Let’s see how long he can last!”
With a wave of Ye Zhen’s hand, the Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbow Arrows rained down again like water.
But after a few rounds, Ye Zhen was stunned.
The defensive power of these tortoise demons’ shells was truly unparalleled.
They withstood three rounds of Flame Spirit Burst Demon Crossbow Arrows without any casualties.
These Dark Palace Realm tortoise demons shrunk tightly within their shells, huddled in a circle, unstoppable even by the blazing flames in the sky.
If there were more than a hundred of these tortoise demons, Ye Zhen’s initial assault on Fenglin Road might have failed!
However, the weakness of these tortoise demons was also evident!
Ye Zhen’s Cloud Winged Tiger King Kitten let out a furious roar, revealing its massive form and leaping like lightning, slapping each tortoise shell once, sending those tortoise demons spinning away like tops.
“Tie them up!”
Ye Zhen gave the order, and before Dragon Prince Ao Zheng could react, the arms of four Spirit Void Fruit Tree Demons suddenly extended hundreds of meters and tightly bound him!
Ye Zhen didn’t stay idle either; he rushed forward, diving beneath the bellies of those tortoise demons, and knocked each one out with an Evil Punishing Divine Thunder, capturing them with ease.
Ye Zhen suddenly realized that these tortoise demons, with their extraordinarily strong defensive capabilities, might prove very useful at key moments.
“Ye, be sensible and release me immediately! When my father arrives, he might grant you a complete corpse!”
“Otherwise, the entire North Sea will become a dead zone because of you!”
“Bastard, if you don’t want the entire North Sea annihilated, release me immediately!” The captured Dragon Prince Ao Zheng cursed Ye Zhen angrily.
“Naive indeed!”
With a cold laugh, Ye Zhen sent an Evil Punishing Divine Thunder from his fingertip, making Dragon Prince Ao Zheng tremble all over. Meanwhile, Fengg Jiumo, the Heavenly Patrol Divine General who had been instructed by Ye Zhen, was already swinging a heavy iron hammer at the back of Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s head.
The latter rolled his eyes and fainted on the spot.
“Anything unusual?” Ye Zhen glanced at Fengg Jiumo, the Heavenly Patrol Divine General, and asked.
Before the battle began, Fengg Jiumo had already returned from the Pingyi Border Defense Camp, but Ye Zhen didn’t have him join the battle; instead, he was tasked with having his Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunters seal off the entire void in the vicinity.
Ye Zhen didn’t want any details of this battle to be investigated by unrelated parties.
Of course, with such a large-scale battle, keeping it entirely secret was impossible, and the military armaments would undoubtedly be exposed, but that wasn’t the issue.
What Ye Zhen was guarding against was the Spirit Void Fruit Tree he just reluctantly deployed.
The Spirit Void Fruit Tree, the foundation of the Three-eyed Demon Clan’s establishment, would bring the entire Three-eyed Demon Clan down on Ye Zhen if any information leaked, risking a fight to the death.
Not to mention, if a Demon Clan Dao Realm elder came, Ye Zhen would have to flee.
“Reporting, sir, no abnormalities!” Fengg Jiumo was not entirely sure why Ye Zhen was so nervous.
“No abnormalities, good. After this battle, issue a gag order to all soldiers on these two Commander-level Heavenly Spirit Ships; anyone who dares to mention today’s battle will be executed without mercy!” Ye Zhen ordered.
Ye Zhen took a significant risk today by using the Spirit Void Fruit Tree, but fortunately, the Aquatic Race of North Sea had an incompetent leader like Dragon Prince Ao Zheng, allowing Ye Zhen to succeed with ease.
In the end, to deal with those two Realm King Realm powerhouses, he had to use twenty Spirit Void Fruit Tree Demons.
These Spirit Void Fruit Trees are extremely rare, even the Imperial Family of Great Zhou doesn’t have them. Ordinary people have never seen them and wouldn’t recognize them, and even the Heavenly Patrol Divine General Fengg Jiumo doesn’t have this knowledge.
As long as no one pays attention, no one should be able to discover this secret.
In front of everyone, Ye Zhen once again activated the Yimu Spiritual Communication Technique, causing the Spirit Void Fruit Tree Demons to slowly fall into a slumber, and then stored them one by one into the Mirage Dragon Space.
Although these Spirit Void Fruit Trees can be retrieved, awakening them each time greatly depletes their origin power.
Just this one awakening consumed at least a quarter of the origin power of these Spirit Void Fruit Trees, which have a lifespan of a million years.
“Return to camp!”
The battle continued as soldiers of North Sea County, under the command of County Captain Tang Biao, coordinated as units to clean up the scattered Water Demons.
Returning to the main camp, Ye Zhen casually took control of the Divine Souls of ten Tortoise Demons, then expelled them from the camp to guard the defense. Ye Zhen’s gaze fell on Dragon Prince Ao Zheng.
With a thought, Ye Zhen activated the Soul-locking Technique, sending a stream of Divine Soul Light toward Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s Spirit Palace, intending to forcibly capture his Innate Divine Soul.
Seeing this, the nearby Heavenly Patrol Divine General Fengg Jiumo was shocked and exclaimed, “My lord, you mustn’t!”
“My lord, if you do this, the Blue-scaled Dragon King might go mad! At that time, the entire North Sea County might really…”
Hearing this, Ye Zhen laughed coldly, “If we don’t capture his soul, then what do you suggest we do?”
“Release him like a coward?”
“Or wait for the Blue-scaled Dragon King to bring his water army to demand him back? And then beg for our lives?”
“Do you think that even if we release Ao Zheng, the Blue-scaled Dragon King would spare us? Even if he mercifully spares North Sea County, would this dragon cub spare us when he returns?” Ye Zhen said, kicking Ao Zheng, the Dragon Prince, at his feet.
Fengg Jiumo was stunned, his expression turning extremely bitter, “It seems we’re in a deadlock…”
“Since it’s a deadlock, we must go through hell to reach heaven!”
Saying this, Ye Zhen’s expression turned stern, as the four-colored Innate Soul Light drilled into Dragon Prince Ao Zheng’s Spirit Palace, causing his body to convulse inexplicably.
Fengg Jiumo’s lips moved, but in the end, he said nothing.
With his master’s style, he could neither understand nor fathom it with his experience.
While Ye Zhen was dealing with Dragon Prince Ao Zheng, County Captain Tang Biao brought back continuous victories.
The scattered divisions sent reports of victory one after another, with over thirty thousand more defeated Water Demons slain. Laughably, a portion of the fleeing Water Demons even retreated to Cow Heart Mountain. By Ye Zhen’s orders, County Captain Tang Biao swept through Cow Heart Mountain, rescuing the captured Human Clan residents, and in the process killed over twenty thousand more Water Demons and captured over ten thousand alive.
However, the real victory was rescuing seventy-six thousand Human captives!
A day later, after the numbers were totaled, County Captain Tang Biao almost rolled and crawled into Ye Zhen’s tent to report the celebration.
“My lord, great achievements indeed! This time, our North Sea County has accomplished a monumental feat!” Tang Biao said with a face full of joy.
Ye Zhen frowned, “Great achievements, what do you mean?”
“In this campaign, the total number of Water Demons we killed amounts to just over twenty thousand. According to the Military Law of Great Zhou, the military merit of Water Spirits and Mountain Demons is valued at a third.
All counted, it’s only over seventy thousand military merits. Divided among officers of various levels, even your share wouldn’t raise your rank even by a First Level, so what great achievements?”
“No, my lord, we rescued seventy-six thousand Human Clan residents! According to the Military Law of Great Zhou, rescuing a single captured civilian counts as one military merit, so this means seventy-six thousand military merits!
Moreover, our military merits in Great Zhou value expanding territories and protecting civilians the most. With our small county’s strength rescuing so many citizens, it can at least be worth a Second Transition, that’s over a million military merits.
Reporting this military achievement could potentially raise your noble rank by one level!” Tang Biao said joyfully.
Ye Zhen was a bit perplexed, “No, these seventy-six thousand civilians are merely refugees who fled into the mountains, they shouldn’t count as military merits!
If that’s considered military merit, then if I lead out the millions of refugees in the mountains, wouldn’t I secure a Third-rank Marquis?”
Tang Biao was taken aback, quickly explaining, “My lord, it indeed cannot! However, at this time, these seventy-six thousand refugees have been captured by the Water Demons, so they are no longer refugees but captives of the Human Clan held by the Demon, rescuing them counts for military merit!”
“My lord, there indeed is such a saying, and we’ve recorded it with Spirit Shadow, even the Military Merit Division can’t refute it,” said Fengg Jiumo.
Ye Zhen paused, then smiled, “Then report it, no one ever has enough of military merits and noble rankings…”
“My lord, urgent report from scouts, a fully armed army exceeding a hundred thousand is rapidly advancing toward our camp!” Gu Tieqi said, entering the tent with a tense expression.
Upon hearing this, Ye Zhen’s face changed drastically!