Chapter 1866: Chapter 1859: Attack the Weakness

Our side’s losses seemed to anger that Nascent Soul, and he began a reckless assault, but Fulajie’er, who was in charge of defense, was clearly no easy opponent.

After the experience of Liseya’s attack on the advance team, Fulajie’er made many plans on how to defend against Demigods injuring our team members.

The shield she deployed enveloped the entire advance team, even draining the magic within the shield, all to prevent Luo’er from experiencing a repeat of what had happened to him. Because Liseya had once successfully attacked Luo’er using this trick, this time Fulajie’er would not give that Nascent Soul such an opportunity.

Her shield was able to dissolve the magic gathered by the Nascent Soul and completely block it outside the shield. The reason Demigods are considered Demigods is primarily because of their reliance on magic. Once they cannot gain magical support, they pose no threat.

It was precisely because she understood this principle that Fulajie’er could defend so effectively, no longer at a loss as she had been in the past.

The battle was still ongoing, but the losses on both sides were disproportionate. The advance team was unharmed, while the Anxiang family had lost over a hundred people. To know these were elite government soldiers, losing more than a hundred was equivalent to the loss in a large-scale battle.

Liseya was going on a complete killing spree. She transformed into different forms with the help of magic, wantonly attacking these mere mortals. Their bodies, honed through hard cultivation, offered no advantage before Demigods. A single transparent attack sufficed to kill these elite cultivators.

On one side was an impregnable fortress, on the other a one-sided massacre. As the battle reached this stage, no matter how united the army was, they could no longer hold on.

These government soldiers finally scattered like birds and beasts, disregarding the shouts from Anxiang Yu, turning and running away in disgrace, wishing they had four legs.

When Liseya advanced near a carriage, the Nascent Soul, who had been ceaselessly attacking, seemed to sense an unprecedented fear and instantly turned into a bolt of lightning to assist, engaging in a struggle with Liseya.

This situation was keenly detected by Luo’er, who then shouted an order, pointing at the carriage: “The carriage might hold a vessel, lower the shield, fire at the carriage!”

When the soldiers were numerous, the carriage was surrounded and hidden among them, so the advance team did not spot it at first.

Hu Daoke was the first to respond to Luo’er’s order by immediately setting up the machine gun to sweep the carriage. However, his Yuanzi machine gun only tore the horse pulling the carriage into a bloody mess, causing fist-sized dents to burst open on the wooden carriage body, but not penetrating the wooden compartment.

The carriage was fixed in place. No matter how violently the horse pulling it behaved, it could not move the carriage even an inch, merely raging impotently, subjected to a barrage from the advance team’s firepower.

The advance team’s attack seemed to anger the Nascent Soul again, as he broke away from his entanglement with Liseya and struck towards the advance team like thunder.

Yet his attack was securely blocked by Fulajie’er again, as the luminous mass crashed into an invisible shield, magic dissipating instantly, and its light fading away.

“Old Hu!”

Cheng Ziang bent down to retrieve a Type 47 bullpup rifle from the carriage, quickly checking the magazine and chamber, while signaling to Hu Daoke and tossing the Type 47 rifle to him.

“Heh heh. You really know me!”

Hu Daoke unhesitatingly put down the Yuanzi machine gun, reached out to catch the Type 47 rifle, then skillfully disengaged the safety, pulled the bolt back, and fired at the carriage.

The 47-type rifles equipped by the advance team used Rune bullets, originally designed to counter mages’ shields. However, in combat, the team discovered these bullets were highly effective against unarmored soft targets, thus using them as their main ammunition.

Hu Daoke took just over two seconds to empty the magazine, as the Rune bullets howled, tearing through the wooden body of the carriage, and exploded inside. Thirty bullets almost turned the carriage into a sieve, with continuous explosions further blasting the wooden body into fragments.

The advance team’s attack was effective. The Nascent Soul, gathering magic in mid-air, let out a painful howl that everyone could hear clearly.

But upon careful listening, they discovered the howls did not reach their minds through their ears; instead, they were directly formed in their minds.

In other words, the Nascent Soul extended his domain and established a connection with everyone present, including the advance team members, allowing them to hear his voice of agony in their minds.

This was not an unusual phenomenon since Fulajie’er communicated with the advance team members through a domain connection without actually making a sound.

Everyone was stunned by the tragic howls, including the advance team members, who all stared wide-eyed at the Nascent Soul constantly gathering magic in mid-air.

The final attack was completed by Liseya. Ruthless as she was, how could she be frightened by mere screams? Upon discovering the advance team’s intention, she immediately launched the final assault on the carriage.

She gathered magic, flew above the carriage, and unfolded a glowing magical disc, enveloping the carriage and dropping points of light. In an instant, the entire carriage was completely wrapped in a cylindrical light.

After a brief delay, the magic was instantly transformed into plasma, and all the magic within the cylinder began to burn intensely, releasing an enormous amount of light and heat, almost illuminating the night sky and making the surrounding one square kilometer as bright as day.

Accompanied by the intense release of light and heat, the Nascent Soul finally dimmed, his light growing fainter and overshadowed by the nocturnal sunlight.

Such intense light and heat compelled even the advance team, hundreds of meters away, to shut their eyes, feeling as though their clothes were emitting a scorched smell, nearly catching fire.

The “sun” lasted about ten seconds before dimming, and once it faded, everything returned to tranquility. Everyone present was blinded by the strong light, rendering them unable to see anything, listening to the crackling of burning wood.

Luo’er, who managed to recover, strained to open his eyes and saw the nearby forest ablaze from the battle. Around the carriage, everything—be it vegetation or corpses—burned, emitting the stench of scorched protein.

Apart from the advance team, almost no living being could be found on the scene. Luo’er widened his eyes, trembling with fear at this sight.

Clearly, this battle ended in a complete victory for the advance team, defeating the Anxiang family soldiers who surrounded them without losing a single person.

Before launching the attack on the advance team, Anxiang Yu had evidently made ample preparations, engaging the Nascent Soul in a skirmish with Liseya while using the soldiers to seize the advance team.

However, he ultimately lost due to inaccurate intelligence; he didn’t even know how many Nascent Souls the advance team had, or who the Nascent Soul was.

He believed wholeheartedly that Luo’er was the Nascent Soul, and once Luo’er Nascent Soul exited, the advance team would surely face a reduction in numbers. But what he didn’t know was that the advance team consisted of five combat members and two Demigod members, totaling seven people, rather than the five he assumed.

The most critical error was his misjudgment of Luo’er as the Nascent Soul, leading to a series of misguided moves.

According to their initial plan, once Luo’er’s Nascent Soul exited, he would be unable to fight, and the advance team members would need to shield him. The soldiers only needed to break through the team’s defense and kill Luo’er, which would shift the battle decisively in their favor.

The pivotal point in this battle was to eliminate Luo’er, believed to be the Nascent Soul, as quickly as possible, ensuring their own Nascent Soul’s dominance.

Yet Luo’er wasn’t the Nascent Soul, nor were the other team members. From the start, Anxiang Yu targeted the wrong entity, and even if he killed all five advance team members, he couldn’t stop their Nascent Soul from continuing to fight.

The advance team’s Nascent Soul vessel was stored within two crystals, something Anxiang Yu could never have imagined, and it was the primary reason for his inevitable defeat.

Liseya’s flames burned the carriage and its horses to nothing but ash. The ancestor of the Anxiang family was obviously inside, and Liseya had directly incinerated him, the vessel, obliterating their trump card for certain victory.

With the battle over, everyone felt as if they were finally freed, their backs soaked in sweat, collapsing weakly to the ground as if they’d just passed through the Ghost Gate.