Bringing The Farm To Live In Another World - Chapter 16371

Chapter 16369. Attack

Xu Zhengqing stood inside a large magical artifact, holding a jade slip in his hand. He placed it directly onto the communication array, and a flash of white light followed, causing the jade slip to disappear.

After the jade slip vanished, Xu Zhengqing stood quietly waiting. The jade slip was for General Li; he was informing him that they were ready and could attack at any time.

About ten breaths later, a jade slip appeared on the communication array. Xu Zhengqing picked it up, glanced at it, and then said, “Action!” Immediately, disciples relayed the order, and everyone began to move. Eighty large magical artifacts, along with countless cultivators, rushed towards Wujiang City.

Their large-scale operation couldn’t possibly be concealed from the people inside Wujiang City, nor did they intend to. Therefore, many people concealed their whereabouts.

They quickly arrived at Wujiang City, which was indeed deserted. Xu Zhengqing ordered, “Send half of the men to guard Wujiang City. If anyone comes out, attack them immediately. It’s best to prevent them from forming a battle formation. The other half, search everywhere. Capture all ordinary people you can find and put them into large magical artifacts.”

Disciples immediately went to relay the orders, and the army quickly dispersed. This operation only had a general direction and no specific plans. These arrangements were all made by Xu Zhengqing himself; frontline commanders like them had a great deal of autonomy.

Not to mention them, even within the Blood Slaughter Sect, the actual frontline commanders have considerable autonomy. After all, the situation on the front lines changes rapidly, requiring timely adjustments from the commanders. Of course, the Blood Slaughter Sect’s frontline commanders are somewhat better off than Xu Zhengqing’s group, because they have numerous contingency plans to choose from. For their first operation, their advisory group prepares contingency plans for all possible scenarios, allowing them to adjust promptly when faced with corresponding situations.

After Xu Zhengqing made these arrangements, the Divine Kingdom’s army began its operation. Half of the army remained in Wujiang City, while the other half split up to capture ordinary people in Wujiang City. The

ordinary people in Wujiang City were divided into two groups. One group lived on the banks of the Wujiang River outside Wujiang City. Some of these people lived on the shore, while others lived on fishing boats on the river. These fishing boats served as both their fishing tools and their homes.

Others lived in various villages outside Wujiang City. Irrigation canals connected Wujiang City to these villages, drawing water directly from the Wujiang River to irrigate the fields. This is the origin of Wujiang City’s cold-water fish and cold-water rice. The people

of Wujiang City were clearly unprepared for an attack, and the ordinary people were captured by the rogue cultivators.

While the rogue cultivators were capturing people, Xu Zhengqing sent a letter to General Li. Not long after the capture began, many people emerged from underground in Wujiang City. However, upon seeing them, the people of the Divine Kingdom immediately rushed forward, engaging them in combat and preventing them from forming a battle formation.

While the two sides clashed, Xu Zhengqing sent another letter to General Li. Upon receiving this letter, General Li immediately wrote to Shi Yong.

Upon receiving General Li’s letter, Shi Yong immediately ordered the army to move out. The number of troops involved in this operation was relatively small: forty large magical artifacts, each carrying only 500,000 men, totaling 20 million. These 20 million men were all elites, not only from various sects but also from the most elite independent cultivators.

Because everyone was inside the large magical artifacts, the illusion arrays within them could be activated, causing all the artifacts to vanish instantly. Then, these large magical artifacts headed towards the territory occupied by the Blood Slaughter Sect.

They bypassed some cities within the Blood Slaughter Sect’s territory and flew directly towards Ten Thousand Beast Mountain. To increase their speed, they used divine light to fly immediately after entering the Blood Slaughter Sect’s territory, rendering the large magical artifacts’ stealth capabilities unusable, and also consuming a significant amount of energy from them.

After an hour of flying in divine light, they arrived at Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain. Upon arrival, Shi Yong immediately ordered, “Spread out immediately! Destroy all the medicinal gardens here on Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain! Capture everyone here!”

A disciple immediately responded and went to relay the order. Shi Yong continued, “Convert all the Creation Golden Wheels into teleportation arrays immediately! Send all captured ordinary people back here. Once they arrive, immediately send them to the teleportation array. Once enough people are there, teleport them away!” Another disciple responded and went to relay the order.

The battle quickly erupted. Countless cultivators flew out from large magical artifacts, directly attacking all the medicinal gardens in Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain. These gardens were defended, and the defenders put up a fight, but it was futile; their numbers were too few, no match for the cultivators from the Divine Kingdom.

The cultivators in the medicinal gardens were quickly wiped out, and the gardens were destroyed. At this time, more cultivators came to attack, but their numbers were small, and since those who came with Shi Yong were all elites, they were quickly eliminated. Meanwhile,

a large number of ordinary people were also sent here. These ordinary people were taken to the Golden Wheel of Creation; once the number reached one thousand, they could be teleported away.

Meanwhile, the Five Elements Dividing Light Realms of the Blood Slaughter Sect finally arrived in Wujiang City. Upon arrival, these realms immediately attacked the large magical artifacts. Wujiang and his forces could only deploy their own large magical artifacts to fight back. Soon, Xu Zhengqing discovered a problem: the Five Elements Dividing Light Realms couldn’t break through their large magical artifacts. This greatly surprised Xu Zhengqing.

He remembered that the Five Elements Dividing Light Realms could break through the protective array of a large city; how could they not break through their large magical artifacts? There was only one possibility: the shape-shifting protective shield wasn’t as terrifying as he had imagined.

Just then, Xu Zhengqing suddenly noticed that a shield that had transformed into a giant sword had crashed directly into a large magical artifact. With a deafening roar, the shield shattered, and everyone inside coughed up blood. This startled Xu Zhengqing; he hadn’t expected such a thing to happen. Then, a thought struck him: if the enemy’s shield couldn’t penetrate their large magical artifact, then they wouldn’t need to worry about it anymore.

As Xu Zhengqing pondered these things, he saw an even larger sword-shaped shield crash into another large magical artifact. This time, the artifact couldn’t withstand the impact; with a deafening roar, a huge gash was cleaved through it, and the artifact plummeted from the sky to the ground.

Upon seeing this, Xu Zhengqing’s expression changed. He immediately said, “Analyze why some sword-shaped shields can break through our large magical artifacts, while others cannot.”

His disciples immediately responded, and then they began to organize a group to analyze the situation. These disciples were essentially acting as advisors, though without official titles.

Soon, a disciple approached Xu Zhengqing and said, “Elder Xu, based on our rough estimation, it might be due to the number of people. Those shields that couldn’t break through our large magical artifacts likely contained only about ten thousand people, while those that did contain around one hundred thousand. It’s probably because of the larger number of people; more people provide more power to the shields, thus allowing them to break through the large magical artifacts.”

Xu Zhengqing nodded and then said, “I think so too, but how they actually did it is truly suspicious. Never mind…” “Let them study this further when we get back. Notify all the large magical artifacts to coordinate. If it’s a sword-shaped shield for 10,000 people, we can ignore it. But if it’s a sword-shaped shield for 100,000 people, we must be careful. Several large magical artifacts need to work together. Some should draw the shield from the front, while others should attack from the sides. Their sword-shaped shield is very strong from the front, but we don’t know how their side attacks will be. Make sure everyone coordinates well.”

A disciple immediately responded and went to relay the order. Soon, the large magical artifacts began to coordinate, and the Blood Slaughter Sect’s Five Elements Dividing Light Realm began to struggle.

However, the Five Elements Dividing Light Realm did not retreat but continued to attack, tightly entangled with the large magical artifacts, and more and more large magical artifacts were on their way.

Upon seeing this situation, Xu Zhengqing knew they should retreat. Thinking of this, he immediately said, “Pass down the order to retreat slowly.”

Everyone responded, and they began to retreat slowly. At the same time, Xu Zhengqing told General Li about the battle situation, and General Li told Shi Yong about it.

Some might find it strange that Xu Zhengqing didn’t communicate directly with Shi Yong, but instead had General Li forward the messages. The reason is quite simple: General Li is the commander-in-chief at the front. Both Xu Zhengqing and Shi Yong must maintain respect for him. Having General Li forward the messages allows him to give orders. If they didn’t, it would be tantamount to deviating from his command, which would be undesirable and would displease him. Don’t forget, although they have formed a coalition, internal conflicts still exist. If each side doesn’t want these conflicts to escalate, they must adhere to certain principles. For example, they must respect General Li as the commander-in-chief at the front. This is one such principle.