My Cultivation Starting from Archery-Chapter 724 - 226 Beiliang King_4

"Hmph!"

Hearing this, Li He snorted coldly, "I will personally lead a few Daoist friends to destroy the trail. If they repair it once, we’ll just destroy it again, ensuring they can never leave Qilin Mountain!"

"No!"

Prince Cao Rong raised his hand to veto, "Let them come over."

"This..."

Ling Yun cautioned, "Isn’t that ill-advised?"

"There’s nothing ill-advised about it."

Daoxuan discerned the other party’s intention, "Cao Dao You is planning to let them in and lure them into attacking the city and meeting their deaths."

"Our walls at Chunqiu Prefecture are high and solid, and the supply line from the rear is secure. I’ve also set up formations on the walls. Even if they get past Qilin Mountain, what then? Not to mention one hundred and fifty thousand troops, even if there were three hundred thousand, they wouldn’t be able to shake us!"

"We just need to hold out for a few months."

"Dongqing next door will certainly become restless, moving to attack and occupy Liangzhou. Then, they’ll find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place. Any slight mistake in their panic will lead to their downfall at our hands."

"Cao Dao You, is my analysis correct?"

Prince Cao Rong, a man of few words, did not respond, implicitly agreeing.

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Daoxuan, stroking his beard, chuckled, "It seems I do have some talent for leading troops after all."

"You should hurry and finalize the formations!"

Prince Cao Rong, unsmiling, dragged a broadsword thick as a palm with no sharp edge, slowly stepped out of the watchtower, and ascended the city walls, his gaze full of killing intent towards the distant Qilin Mountain.

This hatred!

The grudge for cutting off the path to Martial Arts was, for him, even deeper than the bloody vendetta for killing his parents!

One Chen Sansi, one Fang Qingyun!

These two men!

This time on the campaign, even if it costs my life!

Even if the mountain pass is left undefended, I will fight to the death to kill them!

...

In the midst of blizzards, the path over Qilin Mountain was finally repaired.

Leading as the vanguard, Chen Sansi, with troops from the Hongze Camp along with a portion of the Great Halberd Camp totaling twenty thousand soldiers, crossed the mountain pass one after another without encountering any obstructions or hindrances.

"That’s odd."

Song Guizhi, following close by, said, "At first, their cultivators would come every day to release spells, destroy the pass, and then flee. Why have they suddenly turned a blind eye and stopped caring?"

"Because it’s intentional."

Wolong Disciple Qi Cheng explained, "They are confident that we cannot take Chunqiu Prefecture in a short time, so they want to entice us in deeper. Once our rear is exposed, Dongqing will certainly take advantage of the void. When we want to retreat, they’ll cut off the mountain pass, trapping us to die within the embrace of Qilin Mountain."

"Hmph!"

Wei Xuan snorted coldly, "I’d like to see if they are really as tough as they believe!"

He and his wife had both broken through to the True Power Realm, possessing valuable combat strength. Moreover, in several large and small battles, they had proven themselves desperate fighters and had become candidates for important roles.

"If I may be so bold as to ask General Wei a question."

Qi Cheng respectfully said, "I heard that General Wei only met our Beiliang King once, and that it was merely some transactions, plus you are not from this world..."

"You want to ask why I am fighting for Brother Chen?"

Wei Xuan saw him assent and touched his beard, smiling, "Back at Guan Du, Brother Chen led us to fight desperately, and instead of support, your court stabbed us in the back and even tried to move against him. I couldn’t stand it, so I decided to lend a hand. As for later, there wasn’t much reason; I just enjoyed helping Brother Chen eliminate Spiritual Grain. It made me feel good!"

He learned Martial Arts as a youth with the Jiang Zuo Seven Heroes and later with various great heroes, spending half his life in Jianghu and comprehending the true essence of "the greatest heroes serve their country and their people." Afterwards, he took to guarding cities, living a life of heroism and justice.

But after going to the Cultivation World.

Wei Xuan no longer had the capacity to act as a hero.

He had watched cultivators torment and murder ordinary people for amusement and seen sects force commoners to plant half their fields with Spiritual Grain. But he could only watch, which was utterly depressing!

Not until after arriving in the Eastern Continent.

Did he see someone extract Spiritual Grain from the fields and kill a Shengyun Sect disciple.

Only then did he realize.

In this Great Thousand World, there was a place where someone was rebelling!

Wei Xuan, knowing that he had no hope of advancing beyond True Power in his last decades of life, decided he and his wife would use their remaining bodies to do what "heroes" are supposed to do.

"So that’s how it is."

Qi Cheng nodded thoughtfully, surprised to find that there were people in the world who acted purely for righteousness.

The twenty thousand of the vanguard army crossed the mountain pass of Qilin Mountain within ten days and set up camp at the easily defended but hard-to-assault base of the mountain.

"Whole army, follow me to attack the city!"

At Chen Sansi’s command.

...

Chunqiu Prefecture.

Atop the city walls.

The news of the Beiliang Army crossing Qilin Mountain quickly reached here.

"Report——"

"Chen Sansi himself is leading the vanguard army. After setting camp eighty miles from the city, they have already started heading straight for the city gates!"

"As expected."

Li He remarked, "This villain has done as you predicted, first settling a small force outside the mountain to secure the pass and the transport of supplies, then coming to assault us. Daoxuan, are you fully prepared?"

Daoxuan the Wanderer was seated cross-legged on the ground.

Surrounded by a variety of flags, array plates, and spirit stones, he said with assurance, "I have integrated the ’Golden Bell Array’ with the city walls of Chunqiu Prefecture!"

"This formation is a first-rank top-grade formation, capable of protecting the entire city walls. Even if parts get damaged, I can repair them quickly. Even if they try to breach the walls, it would take them at least ten days to half a month. The city is as secure as a fortress!"