The Game with Fairies

As Shen Yan finished speaking, the tent fell abruptly silent.

Liu Hucheng, who had been anxious and impatient, was stunned.

“Yan Xiaoru’s direct disciple has run away?”

How could that be possible?

The range of the blood fog had stripped all cultivation within a radius of fifteen hundred li.

Without their cultivation, how did that direct disciple manage to escape from Tianjiao City and arrive at Bishui City, two thousand li away, in such a short time?

Liu Hucheng instinctively suspected that this was false information.

However, seeing the girl’s pale bloodless face before him, the words of doubt he had choked back in his throat.

Miss Shen’s words had never been wrong.

Seeing Liu Hucheng’s silence, Shen Yan sighed and said, “How Yan Xiaoru’s direct disciple managed to escape is currently unclear. But her ability to leave Tianjiao City and reach Bishui City means that the Demonic Sect will soon learn of the turmoil here and will dispatch military forces to come to the rescue.”

“This will disrupt our plans.”

“Although all the cities around Tianjiao City have now been taken down by our sect, the Demonic Sect will learn of this too quickly, and a large army will come to attack in a day or two.”

“Therefore, the sect leader made a decisive decision to find and kill all the Demonic Sect elders who have fled into the wilderness before the Demonic Sect’s army arrives.”

Shen Yan continued, “Whether it’s the one who used a demonic beast to escape or the one who took medicine to transform into a hawk and flew away, under the condition of sealed cultivation, their control over demonic beasts and the pills they’ve refined cannot last long.”

“Finding their hiding places in the wilderness as soon as possible and killing them is the most important thing right now.”

“The more Demonic Sect elders we can kill, the better. As for Tianjiao City…”

The girl looked in the direction of Tianjiao City and shook her head, “We just need to guard this place and ensure that no one escapes from the city.”

“With our current strength, attacking the city would be difficult, costly in lives, and would reveal our lack of manpower.”

“However, by surrounding the city without attacking and making a show of force, the people inside will feel pressured.”

“Under the pressure of life and death, they may choose to break out and fight for a way to survive.”

“At that moment, when they abandon the city’s defenses and come into the open, the Demonic Sect cultivators will lose all their advantages, and that will be the time for us to launch a full-scale attack.”

The girl spoke earnestly about this matter.

After hearing her words, Liu Hucheng fell silent for a moment before nodding, “Alright! I’ll go back and mobilize my men to prepare to meet the enemy!”

“Those Demonic Sect brats in the city might try to flee tonight. Among them is a freak who has cultivated his body to be impervious to swords and as hard as iron.”

“With that freak leading the charge, they might really dare to break out and fight for their lives. Once they dare to step out of Tianjiao City, I will trap them in the wilderness and slaughter them all!”

With a murderous aura, Liu Hucheng turned and left.

……

Meanwhile, inside Tianjiao City, torches with rising flames illuminated the streets under the night sky.

The flickering flames seemed to reflect the restless hearts of the people in the city.

The news of the sect leader’s disappearance and the elders’ escape during the day had visibly struck a blow to the morale of the city’s defenders.

Although the patrol camp soldiers had been gathered, each one of them was dispirited and full of worry.

After all, the soldiers of the patrol camp were mostly ordinary people or martial artists who had practiced for a few years, not cultivators.

In the past, they were lowly and poorly treated. Now, with the Blood Lotus Sect causing chaos and possibly attacking the city at any moment, it seemed terrifying, but even if the Blood Lotus Sect broke through Tianjiao City, these soldiers might not necessarily face certain death.

After all, the Blood Lotus Sect specifically targeted cultivators, and if these ordinary soldiers surrendered quickly enough, they could at least save their lives.

But if they followed the Demonic Sect powerhouses out of the city to fight, whether they would live or die on the battlefield was uncertain.

Seeing the low morale of the patrol camp soldiers, Yan Xiaoru frowned. She looked at Ou Ziyu, the lord of Tianjiao City, who gave her a wry smile in return.

The two most powerful figures in Tianjiao City had a brief exchange before temporarily leaving without issuing immediate orders to depart.

“It seems the army’s morale is unreliable,” Li Muyang said quietly.

He followed behind Yan Xiaoru and also saw the dispirited state of the patrol camp soldiers.

The combination of over sixty thousand soldiers and city officials had almost been broken by the chaos caused by just over a thousand Blood Lotus Sect warriors during the day.

Liu Hucheng, the Blood Lotus Sect Incense Master who had escaped from the prison, led his forces to kill people all over the city, breaking through several government offices and killing countless cultivators.

The over one thousand Blood Lotus Sect warriors he led were all vigorous and physically strong.

Despite being pursued and attacked by over sixty thousand people for an entire day, they only left behind more than two hundred corpses and broke through the encirclement to escape.

In contrast, the city’s soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

After chasing the Blood Lotus Sect rebels for a whole day, their own side had already lost over a thousand.

Such a stark difference in strength made the already uncertain soldiers even more hesitant.

Li Muyang said helplessly, “These guys might as well have ‘surrender as soon as we leave the city’ written on their faces.”

Ou Ziyu looked at Yan Xiaoru and hesitated, “Elder Yan, should we still proceed with the original plan?”

The original plan was to break out of Tianjiao City under the cover of night, leading an army of sixty thousand to break through the Blood Lotus Sect’s camp and fight for a way to survive.

But now, the difficulty of realizing this plan seemed high. The morale of the ordinary soldiers in the city had already plummeted due to successive blows.

If they couldn’t achieve a quick victory after leaving the city and rapidly break through the Blood Lotus Sect’s military formation, these guys might just kneel down and surrender on the spot.

Although the Demonic Sect cultivators inside the city, whose cultivation had been stripped away, were still eager to fight, at this point, the total number of Demonic Sect cultivators, which was less than a thousand, could no longer influence the outcome of the battle.

The cultivators, who were once high above, now had to rely on the ordinary people they used to look down upon.

After a moment of silence, Yan Xiaoru looked at Li Muyang.

Li Muyang also looked at her, their eyes meeting.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Finally, Yan Xiaoru said softly, “Proceed with the original plan.”

She spoke expressionlessly, “Let everyone eat and drink well, rest properly, and then we will break out from the west gate. We cannot stay in Tianjiao City any longer. If we delay further, the Blood Lotus Sect followers outside the city will gather more people, and our chances of breaking out will become even slimmer.”

Yan Xiaoru’s words relieved Li Muyang.

Although she had not responded to what he had said before, at this moment, Yan Xiaoru was still determined to leave the city.

Clearly, she had taken Li Muyang’s words to heart. Knowing that the army’s morale was unreliable, she still wanted to carry out the original plan.

Obviously, she did not plan to share life and death with the sixty thousand-strong army and had decided to abandon the Demonic Sect disciples if necessary.

If it were impossible, Li Muyang could have easily charged out of the chaos with her and escaped alone.

After being silent for a day, the aloof and arrogant Elder Yan finally responded to Li Muyang with her actions at this moment.

–If you want me to go with you, then I’ll go!