When Wind Chimes realized that she will surely die, aside from setting up the six great notes from Soul Breaking Sound around Mu Clan's branch, she also took extra care of them!
The first note caused the roof to explode!
They were not just caught off guard by the sudden explosion, but while they plummeted to the floor, the rapid zither sounds also left behind multiple wounds on their bodies fearlessly.
The person who killed Wind Chimes were instantly slaughtered.
The other four were heavily injured, and they were in a tragic state!
Once they fell from a high place, those four Dragon Sect elites stood up from the disorderly hall, and right then, dozens of Mu Clan members pounced on them.
Those four were instantly caught in a fight.
When they learned that they were in the meeting hall in the branch, they did not even dare rush out. They could only hope that the people from Towering Palace could hurry up and get in or hold back the people from outside!
But right when this thought rose in their heads, Little North and his group had already pounced over like the wind. The four who were already covered in wounds instantly had their faces turn pale, and they knew that they cannot escape from their disaster.
*****
Many of the elites were either killed by the sound blades or shot full of arrows.
The Mu Clan members stood resolutely outside the area of attack from the Soul Breaking Sounds while they quickly and mechanically drew their bows and shot at their enemies.
When the power from the sound blades gradually diminished, the branch had already been cleared of enemies.
That included Grim Green and the rest. That sudden Soul Breaking Song had killed them all.
Six Dragon Sect elites at the front yard died!
Those dozen or so Dragon Sect elites at the backyard were fortunate enough to return to their peak, and they had escaped in time, but three of them still died.
Then, there were those five from the roof.
Wind Chimes' explosion of power at her death had allowed her to kill more than ten top-class elites in one breath, not to mention more than one thousand Towering Palace and Class One Hall normal members, but there was a part of them who died under Mu Clan's arrow shower.
But it had to be said that her Soul Breaking Song had extinguished much of Towering Palace's aggression.
Even though a lot of Mu Clan's members had also been sacrificed to the point that they were left with only half of their original number, practically all of Towering Palace's elites died at the frontlines.
Dragon Sect only had those ten or so elites who ate Illusion Life and Death Pills left.
Mu Clan used a brutal truth to tell them a fact that they had no room for doubt.
If they wanted to take down Mu Clan, they must pay a devastating price!
Right now, that price was all the cities in the south of the coastal area, along with nearly ten thousand of their elites in Yangzhou City!
Clear Music was rendered speechless. She s.u.c.k.e.d in a deep breath, calmed down her raging blood, gritted her teeth, and said, "Lock down Guanlin Temple tightly! We will stop attacking temporarily! Once the Dragon Sect elites, Grim Green, and the rest are resurrected, we will prepare the final attack!"
Chapter 754 - Start All Over Again, Sadness
At the moment Towering Palace released the order to withdraw all their forces and stop attacking, the people in Mu Clan's branch released a long breath of relief, but the people still felt as if there was a heavy weight pushing down on their c.h.e.s.ts, and it was so heavy that they had a hard time breathing.
The strange firearm that shot out from the crowd caused one of the walls to collapse. They lost a lot of people at the front yard, and the backyard was also caught in its most dangerous situation.
Two sides were in a state of emergency!
The manpower from Mu Clan's branch had been reduced to less than two thousand!
Besides, Wind Chimes, who had always occupied a very important position in this battle, also died in here.
Even though her final Soul Breaking Song killed nearly two thousand enemies, right now, most of the people in Mu Clan's branch were injured, and they lost a lot of their elites. It was already very difficult for them to fight against Towering Palace and Class One Hall's next wave of attacks.
Mu Clan's branch will have a hard time escaping this disaster.
Each person was already ready for the worst outcome.
They will die with the branch.
Before the battle ended, they will try to kill as many enemies as possible!
*****
"Palace master, we've compiled the list of casualties and injured." During the cease fire, while they waited for Grim Green, Vast Speaker, and the others to come over from Guanlin Temple, Clear Music received the list of casualties from the war from a female elder.
The list was terrifying to behold.
The Dragon Sect elites had used up more than thirty Illusion Life and Death Pills. Along with the pills Towering Palace used, Towering Palace had used up almost half their stock…
And they had taken almost half a year to acc.u.mulate their number of Illusion Life and Death Pills.
Also, Towering Palace lost nearly fourteen thousand men!
They had also lost nearly ten thousand pieces of equipment. The equipment they dropped had all automatically gone into the branch's storage.
She had still thought about war in far too simple terms.
Fighting against an enemy's branch in their territory was in itself an invasion. The system never encouraged it, which was why they gave quite a lot of benefits and support for the weaker party.
Automatically retrieving the equipment their enemies dropped was one of them!
This time, they lost a large group of men, and they also used up a lot of equipment, and this was enough to make Towering Palace squeeze out tens of billions of taels of silver from their storage to compensate for the lost masterpieces and refined masterpieces.
It was indeed not easy to fund a war of a larger scale.
Clear Music had even begun estimating just how many people she lost among the tens of thousands of people at the south of the coastal area.
When she thought about this in depth, she could not help but shudder!
She had lost nearly thirty thousand people…
There were also more Towering Palace members who were continuously sacrificed because of the battle against Mu Clan, and the Towering Palace members at the south of the coastal area were in a worse situation!
Happy was already headed to Yangzhou City.
Clear Music said nothing. She s.u.c.k.e.d in a deep breath, and she cast a glance at Mu Clan's branch, which had now become severely damaged and had become much less imposing, but it was very hard for her to become excited.
Class One Hall had sacrificed nearly all two thousand of their men.
All Dragon Sect elites had died once.
Even though Towering Palace had an endless stream of people coming to join the battle because of their advantage at the headquarters. However, the losses they suffered were a little too devastating. Every person who was sacrificed will at least need to be compensated with more than one hundred thousand contribution points…
She fell silent.
*****
Inside Mu Clan's branch, Little North and his group arrived in front of the collapsed ceremonial hall with complicated gazes and heavy hearts. Silver Wolf sat in front of the stairs with a dazed expression and stared at the snow white robe that had yet to disappear.
"Big Brother Silver Wolf…"
He originally wanted to say something, but when he saw how Silver Wolf acted, the words that were already on Little North's tongue died away.
Silver Wolf suddenly spoke as if he was talking to himself, "Little North, do you know about Nine Yin Blocked Pulses?"
"Huh…?" Little North exchanged a questioning glance with the people around him, and all of them had confused expressions on the
ir faces.
"It's a unique body constitution," Silver Wolf said faintly, "Once she dies and Nine Yin Blocked Pulses is revived, it will get rid of all the martial artists the person has, and only their innate attributes will be left."
When they heard this, Little North and his group were stunned. Then, they understood what he meant, and their eyes turned red. "Are you saying that Wind Chimes…?"
"It's the same as her having her martial artists destroyed. Aside from keeping her innate attributes, she will have to do everything again." There was a deeply self-deprecating and guilty look on Silver Wolf's face. "That stupid girl… I told her not to bother about us! It's so much harder for her to train normal martial arts when she's already at Life and Death Realm! I—"
Before he finished speaking, the Mu Clan members around him were already shocked.
This was the first time they heard this news! Judging by what Silver Wolf said, if Wind Chimes wanted to recover to her current strength, she might need a few months or even half a year…
'What the heck?!'
"Towering Palace, those bastards!" Little North gasped and stared at the black mass of enemies outside with red-rimmed eyes. "Even if it's just for Wind Chimes, we must absolutely destroy Towering Palace! We have to use all of Towering Palace and Class One Hall to help Wind Chimes vent her hate!"
He stopped talking for a moment before he brought out a messenger pigeon, looking as if it was very difficult for him to get rid of his anger. "No, I can't accept this. I must tell our boss to hurry up. We can't let those Towering Palace bastards have their wish—"
"Don't rush him." Silver Wolf shook his head and stopped him. "Happy is too far away, and he'll need a few hours before he can get here. We won't be able to last until then."
They no longer had Wind Chimes, and they had also lost a large group of elites. It was already impossible for them to continue fighting even if they wanted to.
"But—" Little North still wanted to say something, but he saw Silver Wolf get up quickly, and the pained expression on his face was gone. He stared at the crowd outside with a cold glare on his face.
"We have one more way…"
The people around him had puzzled expressions appear on their faces.
They sensed a hint of determination and killing intent from Silver Wolf's words, and they gained a new drive.
Silver Wolf swept his gaze over the silent crowd outside.
Right now, the world had become bright.
The streets were full of people, and even the roofs were full of people.
"Judging by the looks, Towering Palace is thinking about using another batch of Illusion Life and Death Pills after their elites arrive for a final general charge."
Silver Wolf gradually returned to his former callousness. However, the killing intent in his eyes became incredibly strong and clear.
"Instead of sitting around here waiting for our deaths, it will be better to charge out before their elites arrive!"
The people were stunned silent for a short moment, but their eyes soon lit up.
"That's right! We'll slaughter our way out!"
"We've been defending for so long, and I've wanted to fight against those bastards outside for a long time!"
The Mu Clan members near Silver Wolf gathered around him when they heard this, and they agreed as well as supported his decision!
"They will need some time before they can head here from Guanlin Temple. If we're lucky, we might be able to get out of Yangzhou City!"
"Haha!"
"If we can really slaughter our way out, Towering Palace and Class One Hall will definitely have their dignity ruined."
"Big Brother Silver Wolf, give the order! We'll do as you said!"
Silver Wolf nodded in determination. "We can't afford to waste time! Send word, bring all the resources in the branch, and we'll all charge out from the front and back!"
Chapter 755 - “Slaughter Our Way Out!”
'Wind Chimes died?'
When Happy received this news from somewhere else, he remembered a petite and gentle figure in white who always followed Silver Wolf around while she carried around a ridiculously large sword casket.
Nine Yin Blocked Pulses…
He remembered that Wandering Know-it-all once mentioned to him that Wind Chimes' progress in training martial arts was much faster than other people, but that was because she had limits from her genetic predisposition. She cannot practice a lot of martial arts, and she also had a lot of inconveniences while she moved around the game. The most dangerous thing for her was that if she died because of a moment of carelessness, most of her previous hard work will be gone like the wind.
She will still be the successor of Six-fingered Demonic Zither, but after she played Soul Breaking Song, she will have to do everything over.
"Towering Palace, Class One Hall…"
Happy clamped his legs around the horse's side while he repeatedly said the two names he had mumbled countless times throughout this journey. The cold glare in his eyes grew sharper.
They had more than two thousand of their own die in Yangzhou City.
Aside from Happy, there were a lot of elites to whom Happy could remember their names also died.
Silver Wolf, Little North, and the others were in a very perilous situation!
All of this was because of a small oversight on his part.
He did not expect that Tang Feng will actually hand over one Heavenly Lightning and Fire to Class One Hall, who threw it into Mu Clan's branch in Yangzhou City!
Crack! Crack!
The clear sounds of horse wh.i.p.s rose. The wind howled. A cold chill charged swiftly to the end of the government-made road along with the galloping Hoof Shadow.
Flap flap flap.
Another messenger pigeon flew through the air and appeared in front of Happy. Happy quickly caught it, and when he saw the name written at the back of the letter, he frowned. He could not help but have a guilty look appear on his face.
It was Wandering Know-it-all's letter!
There were only two sentences written in a scrawl on the letter.
[I've already sent someone to retrieve Wind Chimes. Take revenge for her!]
The message was very simple and straightforward. At the same time, it revealed a caretaker's complicated and conflicted emotions.
Happy did not hesitate. He quickly wrote a reply, hesitated for a moment, before he still chose to send the letter!
*****
In Beijing was Wandering Know-it-all's mansion. There was a middle-aged man in a white robe that made him look like a scholar. He c.a.r.e.s.sed the messenger pigeon that was huddled up at his curled arm while he read the letter. He frowned before he mumbled, "What's the reason behind him only destroying Towering Palace…?"
Even though he could predict certain things in the game as if he was God himself, Wandering Know-it-all still could not perfectly read a person's mind.
For example, Mu Clan's branch in Yangzhou suffered a devastating loss. They lost nearly three thousand elites, but Happy still managed to hold back and promise to destroy Towering Palace while avoiding Class One Hall.
Wandering Know-it-all thought about this for a moment before he quickly received the second messenger pigeon.
It was still from Happy.
Some additional words were added in the letter. He stated that he will definitely destroy the foreign organization who joined the ambush of Mu Clan's branch this time, and he will not pardon anyone who killed Wind Chimes.
"Foreign organizations…" He mumbled to himself while Wandering Know-it-all read the second letter a few times. He finally gradually understood certain things from the words.
'Dragon Sect… Towering Palace…'
"I see!" Wandering Know-it-all released a sigh of relief once he obtained his answer. He wrote a reply and released a messenger pigeon.
*****
[Thank you for your understanding.]
Once Happy received Wandering Know-it-all's reply, he finall
y exhaled and became completely relieved of anxiousness.
This time, Class One Hall and Towering Palace took the initiative to declare war and stirred up a war in the Chinese server, even causing Mu Clan to suffer devastating losses, but Happy's first reaction was not to take revenge and completely destroy Class One Hall as well as Towering Palace.
Even though Chivalry Sect and other sects had all stated that they were willing to provide help and if they were to work with Mu Clan, they could absolutely destroy Class One Hall as well as Towering Palace, the war will not end within a short period of time!
Besides, at that time, Mu Clan and Chivalry Sect will be involved in the swamp of war. In fact, the entire Chinese server will be dragged in a chaotic war.
Even though Happy wanted to take revenge and give the most brutal lesson to Towering Palace, Class One Hall, Dragon Sect, and other such organizations, the lesson he learned from his previous life caused him to repeatedly warn himself that he was not to do this!
They were paying attention to Mu Clan and his reaction after he entered Yangzhou.
Once the four top-class sects in the Chinese world of martial artists were engaged in an all-out war, so much so that the flames of war extended to all of China, it will give the foreign organizations the perfect chance to enter their land.
At that time, the Chinese server will be in complete chaos!
And to tell the truth, Happy absolutely did not want that sort of thing happen.
Even if he had to tolerate this, he did not wish to use the most direct method to light up the fuse that will bring about the flames of war in the Chinese world of martial artists.
However, this time, since Towering Palace worked together with foreign organizations to create this storm, Happy will not easily spare them.
He believed that after the battle at Yangzhou City, Class One Hall will understand certain things, and Dream Clouds, Barren Murderer, as well as other people will not dare to leave Beijing so readily!
*****
The battlefield around Mu Clan's branch in Yangzhou had been silent for a long time. The people from Towering Palace had all sat down around the branch. While they waited for the final offense to be launched, they circulated their qi to heal their injuries or to restore the qi they used.
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