Chapter 608 - 361: Earth-Shattering Strike, Number 1 on the Heaven’s Chosen Ranking
Chapter 608: Chapter 361: Earth-Shattering Strike, Number 1 on the Heaven’s Chosen Ranking
There’s no denying the Horned Demon People’s rapid response. In just half an hour, a dozen Celestial Immortals and one True Immortal had arrived, with more players above Foundation Establishment level teleporting in for support.
But it was all too sudden, and many Immortals weren’t necessarily in their own abodes or dojos, making it difficult to quickly muster enough forces for a counterattack.
Meanwhile, the Human Race took full advantage of this, amassing an overwhelmingly superior force, especially with Su Yu’s power, comparable to that of a Profound Immortal. Such strength was unparalleled in the region of the Fallen Star Islands.
Moreover, the four women of Xuanyue managed to lay down an innate great array, successfully encircling East Main City.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The four eight-armed Demon Gods swung their Xuanhuang giant hammers down repeatedly, causing ripples across the City Defense Array’s light screen. Outside, earth, fire, wind, and water surged, continually wearing down the array’s defense. Even the various flying swords, treasures, and Magic attacks from Horned Demon People players inside the city were obliterated upon passing through the screen, lost in the churning elements.
The City Defense Array of the Four Symbols City had a defense power as high as 600 billion, with an 80% damage reduction and a defense strength of 500,000.
Yet, with each hammer strike, its power reached 16 billion.
Each punch had an approximate power of 4 billion, with each round of six punches reaching a damaging force of 24 billion, totaling 40 billion. That’s about one-fifteenth of the total defensive strength of the array. Each punch created a massive dent in the light screen, terrifying the Horned Demon People players behind it, filling them with alarm and panic.
"This is too crazy."
"When will our experts arrive?"
"I heard they’ve arrived, but they’re not enough in number and are currently gathering strength in North City."
"Damn, even if they can’t beat them, at least harass them! Otherwise, the city will really fall."
Cries of despair filled the city, morale plummeted.
Amidst the countless cries, the City Defense Array’s defenses visibly weakened.
No surprises were left as East Main City’s defense array was forcefully breached by Su Yu in cooperation with the Four Symbols Chaos Array and various Celestial Immortals after holding out for a little over three hours.
As soon as the light screen shattered, the boiling earth, fire, wind, and water rushed into the city like a tide, submerging everything.
Buildings in the city quickly melted upon contact with the elements, their treacherous glows vanishing immediately, while one player after another was helplessly annihilated within the fire and water swirls.
It took over three hours to break the defenses, but only two minutes to annihilate more than one million Horned Demon People players inside East Main City.
"Move the array!"
Without waiting for the Horned Demon People players to respawn and guard the corpse, the four women of Xuanyue immediately dismantled the array, relocating toward the West Main City.
The primary strategic goal now was to destroy all the Horned Demon People’s main cities; killing was secondary.
This was because only main cities among all races contained long-distance teleportation arrays. Destroy all the main cities, and the various races would be unable to rapidly deploy reinforcements from their respective headquarters, forced to rely on Flying Ships to cross seas for support.
Even if Golden Core cultivators weren’t speed-oriented, crossing billions of kilometers of sea would take them at least half a month, if not longer.
As long as all the main cities were destroyed, the Horned Demon People on the Fallen Star Islands would be like rootless duckweed, utterly unable to match the Human Race, which could retreat to its own main cities.
Next, encircling West Main City mirrored the events at East Main City—one side sieging—and the other mounting resistance in a deadlock. However, the light screen of the Four Symbols Chaos Array continued spreading slowly and steadily, seemingly ready to complete the encirclement in over an hour.
"We can’t go on like this; waiting any longer means certain death."
By now, the eastern and western city had convened 27 Horned Demon Celestial Immortals, two True Immortals, and eight Celestial Immortal-level Spirit Puppets, totaling 52 Celestial Immortal combatants.
"It’s inevitable that the Four Symbols City will fall. Our high-end forces are insufficient to resist; we must withdraw."
"The Human Race came this time to utterly defeat us. Their next target will certainly be the Silver Flood Dragon Main City on the coast. We should retreat there first, gather our clan’s powerful to fight them off."
One Celestial Immortal immediately suggested:
"We still don’t have enough manpower. Retreating to the Silver Flood Dragon Main City will at most gather another 20 to 30 Celestial Immortal-level combat power, which is still far from enough."
"It’s different. Silver Flood Dragon Main City is not like Four Symbols Main City. It has a complete sixth-level top-grade City Defense Array, and a special Magic treasure within the city can enhance the array’s defense and damage reduction. The total defense exceeds a trillion, and damage reduction reaches 95%. With so many experts leading the array, they can’t breach it within two or three days."
"And in two or three days, the first batch of reinforcements from the clan will have arrived. Combined with those gathered here, we can assemble over a hundred Celestial Immortal combatants, capable of holding them off for some time."
Someone then raised a concern:
"What if they bypass us and siege Celestial Derivation Main City or Celestial Extreme Main City instead?"
"Let them bypass and attack. We only need to hold Silver Flood Dragon Main City."
"Moreover, their overwhelming dominance will inevitably threaten the Fire Race and Six-Eared People. I predict it won’t be long before those two races backstab the Human Race, creating enemies on all sides."
"Once those two races join, their advantage in the number of experts will become a disadvantage. Meanwhile, we will happen to have as many experts from our race assembled, offering us the superior numbers in expert combatants."
"When the three races join, the Human Race will have enemies on all sides. Then, not only will they need to relinquish all current occupied territories, but their original lands will also be difficult to defend. There’s even a possibility of the three races combining their forces to drive the Human Race off the Fallen Star Island completely."
"That makes sense!"
"Let’s first gather and rescue our colleagues trapped in Dingxi Main City."
"Alright!"
Upon reaching an agreement, the top brass of the Horned Demon People from the West Main City and North Main City immediately began preparations for retreat.