by Feng Yise
Deng Sheng could not help choking up when he heard that, feeling that he was completely not on the same level as these peerless geniuses at all.
Their improvement speed, he could not catch up to it even by whipping the horse.
"Lord Shangguan, although that Ye Yuan is formidable, in the battle previously, Lord Shangguan didn't use your full power, right? If Lord Shangguan went all out, how can that punk be milord's match?" Deng Sheng gave a compliment without leaving a trace.
But Shangguan Lingyun said with a smile, "Did you think that Ye Yuan went all out?"
Deng Sheng's expression changed, and he said, "The might of that one move, even I don't dare to clash head-on either. Could it be that that still wasn't his full strength?"
Shangguan Lingyun shook his head and said, "I don't know. That exchange previously, we just merely just both parties probing out the other party's strength. But I think that his strength should be more than that!"
Chapter 600 - Preserving Strength
A puny little Sea Transformation Realm with strength daunting to such a degree. This was something that Deng Sheng could not understand.
In his view, a person like Shangguan Lingyun was already monstrous to the peak.
An existence even more monstrous than him already surpassed the boundaries of his understanding.
The higher the realm, the greater the difficulty of crossing boundaries to battle.
Reaching the Soul Sea Realm, the difference between each minor boundary was huge.
Shangguan Lingyun was only Seventh Level Soul Sea and already hailed as the number one person beneath Divine Traversing. This was already very heaven-defying.
A Sea Transformation Realm brat was also so daunting. What kind of situation did this count as?
"Lord Shangguan, then what should we do now?" Deng Sheng could not refrain from asking.
The Endless World sent a boy with strength on par with Shangguan Lingyun. It was really quite troublesome.
Shangguan Lingyun only said coolly, "Wait!"
Deng Sheng was stunned as he said, "Wait?"
Shangguan Lingyun's gaze penetrated the central army's main tent and looked in the direction of Crimsonlight City and said, "Looks like, the war is going to escalate!"
. . . . . .
"Mister Ye, I wonder what means you have to preserve City Lord Manor?" Su Hu asked. In City Lord Manor, right after taking their seats, Su Hu started inquiring.
These few days, Su Hu had been like an ant on a hot pan all along. The suffering in his heart, probably only he himself could understand.
He had always been extremely cautious, sitting on pins and needles, anticipating that the alliance could resolve Crimsonlight City's crisis every day.
But he never would have thought that the alliance actually just sent five people over.
Ye Yuan seemed to have guessed what Su Hu was thinking in his heart and said smilingly, "City Lord's capital sunk these days, this Ye feels indebted as if I received it in person. It's just that . . . even though this Crimsonlight City is important, it's also a bottomless pit. The people inside the city are people. Aren't the people outside the city people too?"
Su Hu was stunned and asked perplexedly, "What do Mister Ye's words mean?"
"The Fierce Gale World's great army besieging Crimsonlight City, why do they surround and not attack all along?"
"Of course it's because we have a Tier 5 grand array protecting!" Su Hu said without thinking.
He felt more and more that Ye Yuan was unreliable. Such an obvious thing, was there still a need to ask?
But Ye Yuan shook his head and said, "Although a Tier 5 grand array is powerful, it isn't invincible. This Mystic Crystal Iron Chain Array is an array formation that prioritizes defense. Furthermore, you guys only have a Tier 4 array master presiding over the grand array. There is simply no way to unleash the power of this grand array. Even if Divine Traversing Realm experts don't take part in the battle, with the numbers of this five-way great army concentrating attacks on the grand array every day, how long can your essence crystals withstand for?"
No matter how powerful the grand array, it needed to expend essence energy too.
Even though Crimsonlight City was large, under the circ.u.mstances without assistance, how many essence crystals could there be to expend?
One had to know that to maintain a colossal array formation like this, especially under the circ.u.mstances where there were powerful attacks outside, the essence crystals expended every day was a very terrifying sum.
But why did the Fierce Gale World great army not do this?
Su Hu's heart thumped and had a feeling of falling into a pit.
"Although it's said that the strong reigns supreme in the martial artist world, and that as long as one's strength is strong enough, they could disregard everything. In a war like this, everyone's strength hasn't pulled apart to such a ridiculous degree. Sometimes, schemes are very effective! Using a fighting style of besieging a city to strike at their reinforcements at this time most likely proves effective every time!"
Ye Yuan's words crumbled Su Hu's mental line of defense bit by bit.
Sects stood in great numbers in the Endless World. This sort of large scale martial artist war, they had never experienced before.
But the Fierce Gale World was different. Their martial artists had absolute loyalty and were not much different from mortal world armies.
Plus, the Fierce Gale World martial artists' strengths were a notch stronger to begin with. The Endless World being utterly routed was also something within expectations.
And Crimsonlight City was merely just a small blade of grass along the advancement path of the Fierce Gale World; it was able to be uprooted at any time!
What the Fierce Gale World great army wanted was even greater results of battle!
Once the alliance sent a big army over to support Crimsonlight City, what awaited them would be a deadly blow!
This was also one of the reasons why Ye Yuan did not bring people over.
It was true that Crimsonlight City was important, but if countless martial artists that came to aid died because of Crimsonlight City, then the loss outweighed the gain.
"There's even a possibility that those cities' martial artists from before were deliberately released by the Fierce Gale World. The goal was in order to let them rush to Crimsonlight City and form this present sort of stranded situation!" Ye Yuan's gaze looked deeply towards the distance, seemingly wanting to see through just who was guiding this war.
Su Hu drew a cold breath. He discovered that his back was already drenched.
If it was really as Ye Yuan said, then the entire Endless World was being toyed with in the palm right now!
This person behind was too terrifying!
Furthermore, Su Hu increasingly felt that Ye Yuan's theory was very likely. Except, if it was him who was thinking, he could not figure it out no matter what.
At this time, how could Su Hu still have any doubt towards Ye Yuan? He even had a feeling of admiration.
This young man's strength was not only formidable, but the set-up was also not an ordinary kind of big!
Those old ancestors at the alliance probably could not think of this level either, right?
Using a very long time, Su Hu finally subsided the astonishment in his heart. His gaze when looking at Ye Yuan again became not quite the same.
"Then . . . what should we do now, Mister Ye? Could it be to let the martial artists in the entire city all die here?" Su Hu sought advice.
Ye Yuan said smilingly, "If the alliance planned to give up on Crimsonlight City, then I wouldn't have come! Since I came, I naturally have to bring you all out safely!"
Su Hu was also a clever person. It was just that those too involved could not see clearly. Many things were unable to be seen clearly.
Hearing Ye Yuan say so at this time, he immediately understood Ye Yuan's meaning and could not help saying in surprise, "Mister Ye's meaning is that . . . we break o
ut of the encirclement? No way, no way! You don't know how strong the Fierce Gale World martial artists are! We're simply not their match! Once we break out, even if we can escape, probably not many will survive as well."
"Hur hur, you fool! Brother Ye has been to the Fierce Gale World's Central Capital before. Do you think that he's familiar with Fierce Gale World martial artists or not?"
Qin Yan was enraged badly prior to this and could not find a place to vent all along. At this time, finally catching a topic, he retaliated without any hesitation.
Even though the few of them were followers, the pride in their bones were still there.
Them submitting to Ye Yuan did not represent that they were also willing to submit to a puny little Soul Sea Realm city lord.
Indeed, once Su Hu heard that Ye Yuan had been to the Fierce Gale World's Central Capital before, the expression on his face immediately changed.
"M-Mister Ye has truly been to the Central Capital before?" Su Hu said in amazement.
The war progressing until now, the Endless World martial artists more or less also knew some things about the Fierce Gale World.
And this Central Capital was precisely one of it. Because it was too famous!
At the thought that Ye Yuan could still return safely after going to the Central Capital, how could Su Hu not be shocked?
Ye Yuan smiled as he nodded and said, "The Fierce Gale World martial artists are not insurmountable. When we came in, didn't we litter the ground with the bodies of their men and horses too? As long as our forces are strong enough, why should we fear them?"
Su Hu's expression changed several times and finally heaved a long sigh and said, "Mister Ye, is there no other way?"
Ye Yuan shook his head and said, "The Fierce Gale World's goal is in order to kill people. So our best response right now is to not let them kill! We will preserve our strength for now. There will come a day to counterattack!"
Chapter 601 - Counter-Controlling Array Formation
"Then . . . when should we withdraw?" Su Hu asked powerlessly.
Him, as the city lord of a region, was naturally unwilling to leave his own territory.
Actually, in the end, he was still harboring some mentality of a fluke, hoping to be able to preserve Crimsonlight City.
How could Ye Yuan not perceive his thoughts? He said, "The sooner, the better. However . . . Wee have to make some preparations. Otherwise, leaving the city will be equivalent to courting death."
Su Hu became spirited when he heard that and asked, "What kind of preparations does Mister Ye need to do?"
"City Lord, Your Excellency, arrange all the martial artists in the city sorted out according to their respective realms. Three days later, gather all the martial artists above Crystal Formation Realm together. Is there any difficulty?" Ye Yuan said.
Ye Yuan originally thought that Su Hu would reveal a difficult look. Who knew that he answered without even thinking about it, "Okay, no problem! Three days later, practicing field north of the city, I'll gather everyone together."
Seeing Ye Yuan's expression, Su Hu said rather proudly, "When these martial artists entered the city, I already ordered people to register all the martial artists that swarmed into the city. What needs to be done now is merely sorting them out into categories. These few days, there were naturally also some people causing trouble in the city. They were all suppressed by me with strong means. Now, they all know my prowess, and nobody dares to cause trouble either."
Ye Yuan was rather surprised as he said, "Huhu, City Lord has such skill! Since that's the case, I'll start my closed-seclusion now. Three days later, meet at the practicing field north of the city!"
Right at this time, a young man barged into City Lord Manor unceremoniously and yelled out at the top of his voice, "City Lord, things are bad! The grand array has lost control!"
Su Hu's complexion darkened, and he reproached the youth who rush inside, "What's the shouting and wrangling for? Didn't you see there are guests present? The grand array is fine. No need for you to worry!"
This young man was precisely the young array master, Shao Siqi, who was managing the city protecting grand array. Only upon hearing Su Hu say so, did he notice the existence of Ye Yuan, the few of them.
But he still said in bafflement, "City Lord, how do you know that the grand array is fine? You sent a message earlier to let me mobilize the grand array to kill the people who barged into the formation. But I discovered that I simply couldn't control the array formation anymore! Ah . . . These people can't be . . . can't be . . ."
Shao Siqi suddenly understood something, his gaze looking at Ye Yuan oddly.
Ye Yuan said, "That's right. It's me."
Shao Siqi's eyes went wide, and he said in disbelief, "You? How is that possible? You're only Sea Transformation Realm! How can you possibly make me lose control of the array formation? Those four people behind you are more like it!"
"Shao Siqi, you shut your mouth for me! Do you know that . . ."
Su Hu had a face full of awkwardness. This Shao Siqi dragged his skeleton out of his closet, making him very embarrassed.
Although Ye Yuan definitely knew long ago this order of his, saying it out was not too nice.
Now, this Shao Siqi was bumbling about too. Offending Ye Yuan, this little ancestor, was not something fun.
He was just about to reprimand Shao Siqi but was stopped by Ye Yuan with a gesture.
Ye Yuan said to Shao Siqi, "Don't believe? We can give it a try! As long as your array formation can touch a corner of my sleeves, count it as me boasting earlier. I'll apologize to you. How about it?"
Shao Siqi also had the temperament of a young man. Moreover, he was a Tier 4 array master and a Soul Sea Realm existence. How could he possibly be afraid of Ye Yuan, a Sea Transformation Realm?
Furthermore, Ye Yuan actually dared to look down on him like so. This made him even more displeased.
"Fine. Try it out then. Am I scared of you?"
Shao Siqi got cracking right away, directly taking out a black-colored flag and was going to set up an array.
When Ye Yuan saw this black-colored flag, his expression could not help turning intent. This was actually a low-grade profound artifact!
A Tier 4 array master actually had a low-grade profound artifact in his hands. This made Ye Yuan very surprised.
"Scarlet Fire Formation!"
Shao Siqi gave a light cry. A miniature array formation immediately condensed and formed. Cl.u.s.ters of fire instantly engulfed Ye Yuan.
The might of a profound artifact! Instantly completing an array!
Seeing this scene, everyone's faces changed, while Shao Siqi had a look of being pleased with himself.
Shao Siqi was just angry and wanted to embarrass Ye Yuan. This fire naturally could not burn people to death. It was only to make Ye Yuan a little ragged.
"What are you smiling for?"
Ye Yuan's words made Shao Siqi jump in fright. Earlier, everyone's attention was focused on the center of that bundle of flames, but they did not know since when Ye Yuan already changed his position.
Ye Yuan walked in front of the array formation and casually tapped a few times on the array formation. The Scarlet Fire Formation directly dissipated into nothing.
Shao Siqi's expression changed, and he deployed the black-colored flag once again, yelling out, "Dragon Trapping Formation!"
"Seven Carnage Formation!"
"Mystic Moon Formation!"
. . . . . .
Shao Siqi instant-casted over a dozen array formations in succession, each one more formidable than the other. But he simply could not touch Ye Yuan at all!
One had to know that instantly casting array formations would be very sudden to martial artists, catching them off guard. It was simply impossible to guard against.
Furthermore, Shao Siqi could also make out that actually Ye Yuan waited for his array formations to form each time, and then instantly cracking the formation and exiting, and not avoiding the arr
ay formations!
Looking at it this way, Ye Yuan's Formations Path attainments was very terrifying!
He instant-casted array formations, while Ye Yuan instantly cracked the formations!
Even Master, his elderly self, can not do it with such ease either, right?
Shao Siqi gritted his teeth and yelled out once more, "Roaming Dragon Golden Sword Formation!"
It was still instantly forming the formation, but the power of the array formation this time was clearly much stronger compared to that Scarlet Fire Formation from before.
This was a Quasi-Tier 4 array formation. A Tier 4 array master instant-casting a Quasi-Tier 4 array formation, even if it was relying on the power of a profound artifact, was already very heaven-defying.
Ye Yuan was only a Sea Transformation Realm martial artist. If following logical sense, this Roaming Dragon Golden Sword Formation was sufficient to trap Ye Yuan in the formation and kill him. At least, it would also severely injure Ye Yuan.
When the array formation formed, Shao Siqi entire person was like drained, panting heavily in exhaustion.
However, Shao Siqi's pupils suddenly constricted, as if he saw something beyond comprehension.
Only to see several streaks of golden light radiate out from inside the array formation, shooting towards Shao Siqi!
"Argh!"
Shao Siqi's rear end plopped onto the ground in fright, looking miserable.
Focusing his eyes and looking at those several streaks of golden light already vanished in the air long ago. Ye Yuan did not have the intention of hurting him at all.
But Shao Siqi still felt that it was beyond logic and above reason. Because the array formation that he laid down was actually seized control of by Ye Yuan instantly and launched an attack towards him!
Such means were truly inconceivable!
Even though Su Hu had long known that Ye Yuan came by passing through the array formation, witnessing him counter-control the array formations with his own eyes still blew his mind.