Chapter 252
252 Golden Lotus in hand
After that, the three Condor brothers didn’t say anything more about the so-called ‘holding on for half a year’. They began to talk about the specific defensive measures.
Of course, these things sounded useful. After knowing the other party’s defensive measures, the human cultivators could naturally take some corresponding measures to deal with the subsequent attacks into Eagle Valley.
However, Lu Qing was more concerned about the so-called ‘holding on for half a year’.
Eagle Valley had set this as their goal in this defensive battle. However, Lu Qing was very concerned about this matter.
Why did they have to hold on for half a year? What was the point?
This meaning was definitely not in Eagle Valley. Lu Qing was 100% confident that the Eagle Valley would not be able to turn the tables even if they defended for 10000 years.
If this had happened outside of Eagle Valley, Lu Qing would not have been able to think of a way to settle this matter from the outside world.
“When the three brothers received the news, they should at least have a Messenger item to look for!”
Lu Qing started to search the entire Eagle Valley.
At the same time, Eagle Valley’s defensive array was broken.
Calculating the time, it was almost time.
In the past three months, the Eagle Valley’s protective shield had already been riddled with holes from the continuous bombardment of the formation-breaking cannons.
Outside the Eagle Valley, many cultivators were cheering.
In everyone’s impression, breaking the protective shield and getting an injection basically declared half the victory of the battle.
However, the higher-ups of the North troops, who had already heard about Eagle Valley’s internal preparations from Lu Qing, were not so optimistic.
They pressed down on the cultivators below and asked them to fight. It was secondary for these guys to request to fight one by one. The most important thing was to kill their way in earlier and obtain merit points.
If it was in the past, not only would he not suppress it, but he might even have some thoughts and want his own people to go first.
But now, they clearly knew that the Eagle Valley was not filled with naked girls, but a fortified iron bucket array. It would be too irresponsible to send people in to cause trouble.
After the defensive formation was broken, the north side carefully sent out three cultivator regiments into the formation. Li Yanling personally flew in the sky to keep watch, and the five initial enlightenment cultivators were all present.
After entering the vicinity of the Eagle Valley, all cultivators above the Foundation Stage felt a heavy gravitational pull. The higher they flew, the stronger the gravitational pull.
The foundation building and initial enlightenment cultivators were all dragged to the ground. Even Li Yanling, a golden core cultivator, could only maintain her body at a distance of a hundred meters or less, which was more comfortable. He could still fly higher, but the pressure would be greater, which was not conducive to fighting.
This was clearly one of the tricks of the demon race of Eagle Valley.
After they passed through the gate, the first thing they saw was a small fortress.
This place seemed to have been the residence of a demon. Wooden city walls about three meters tall were built, and hundreds of demons were gathered in it, maintaining a formation. As the human cultivators approached, the array took effect. A large number of wooden puppets, which were transformed from the surrounding plants, crawled out of the ground and rushed toward the human cultivators.
Li Yanling didn’t bother anyone else and directly attacked.
A Cloud Dragon suddenly appeared, and with a silent roar, it ran over the wooden puppets and directly hit the formation, destroying the formation and the wooden wall. Then, under the lead of many Foundation establishment cultivators, more than a hundred cultivators charged forward through the opened passage and began fighting with the demons inside.
Li Yanling and the five initial enlightenment cultivators also rushed in and started killing.
There were more than a Hundred Demons, and the strongest one was only a level-two demon. How could he withstand such an attack? They did not even have the time to form a line of defense before their ability to counterattack was destroyed in an instant. The stage two leader was also dodged behind Lu mingchao and killed with a casual stab.
However, the surviving demons scattered in all directions, but they didn’t go too far. Their will to fight was surprisingly strong. Thirty to twenty percent of them hid in a corner and attacked any human cultivator they saw. Most of the time, when human cultivators formed teams, the demons would be outnumbered. If they ran into the hands of high-level cultivators, they would definitely be killed easily. But occasionally, they could use their sneak attacks to injure some cultivators.
This was very troublesome. The cultivators had no choice but to stop their advance and start fighting the scattered monsters in this small fortress. If they didn’t clean up this place and continued to move forward, it would be more troublesome.
It was not difficult to clear them out, especially when there were many high-level cultivators on the Lu family’s side.
However, this small area that had been turned into a fortress was not considered small. Also, under the modification of the demons, the paths and the compact buildings inside the building were very complicated. There were also some colorless and odorless knockout drops, some poisonous creatures with a stinky smell, and some traps.
These things weren’t of high grade, but they were troublesome.
By the time the small fortress was cleared, more than two days had passed.
Looking at the entire Eagle Valley, there were no less than 30 such small-sized fortresses.
If they continued to fight their way through one by one, they would probably have to delay the demon race for two months.
In truth, this was not a big deal. However, Li Yanling, Lu chaoxi, and the others had all received a letter from LU Qing, telling them to settle the battle within two months.
Although they didn’t know why, they had to carry out this strategy.
As such, after clearing up the first small area, the couple, Li Yanling and Lu chaoxi, went straight for the big one when they attacked the second.
Yan Ling summoned the clouds while Lu chaoxi summoned the lightning. After that, the cloud Dragon descended. The lightning in the sky poured into the cloud Dragon. In an instant, a dozen cloud Dragons with dazzling lightning in the sky crashed into the area with a loud rumble.
The rumbling explosion almost deafened everyone’s ears.
When the smoke dispersed, people could see that this area had almost been flattened by this move.
The existence of high-level cultivators was completely overwhelming in this kind of low-level battle.
The two of them had joined hands and caused such a big commotion. Originally, there were probably close to a Hundred Demons inside. This wave of attacks would probably wipe out the entire group. There was no need to sweep the land inch by inch like last time.
However, Youyou’s heavy firepower on an entire area was not small. Even Li Yanling had to catch her breath.
She could do it two more times, but that would be more dangerous. If the three brothers took advantage of this opportunity to come out and cause trouble, it might be difficult for her to deal with them as she would be exhausted and her combat power would be damaged.
If he wanted to recover, he would need to use medicine and spirit stones, but he would also need a few days to adjust his breathing.
In short, it was possible for Li Yanling and Lu chaoxi to use this method of complete destruction to suppress the entire Xuanji group. However, it would not be too fast if one considered the overall situation.
Then, the human cultivators thought of a third move.
The Lu clan’s group and an elite sect’s group were led by two or three initial enlightenment cultivators and each of them had seven or eight foundation building cultivators. They formed two arrows and attacked the fortress areas one by one, breaking down the defenses and eliminating the enemy’s forces as much as possible in one go. Then, they would hand over the occupied areas to the follow-up teams to clean up.
This way, speed was guaranteed, and the North Army’s thousand cultivators could be fully utilized.
Of course, there was a price to pay.
After clearing out the remaining forces, the battlefield would basically fall into a melee battle between low-level cultivators and low-level demons. In the environment of urban warfare, although the human side generally had the advantage in numbers and the enemy’s defensive line was in a state of collapse, after all, they were on the enemy’s home ground and had all kinds of prepared facilities in advance to give them the home ground advantage. When the battle started, there would be a certain loss.
For example, the sect groups and the cultivation family groups were not a big problem. The cultivators in these groups were generally of higher overall quality, so their cooperation was more tacit, and the losses suffered were relatively small. On the other hand, the Rogue cultivators would definitely suffer some casualties.
But this was war. In war, how could there be no deaths?
Furthermore, when the forest of deer gods was taken down, the Lu family had generously distributed all kinds of resources and merit points, which were worth a total of 120000 spirit stones. They had not paid any price and had obtained a considerable amount of battle achievements. Now, it was time for them to go all out.
After adopting this method, they were able to fight for every inch of Eagle Valley’s land with the monster race much faster.
At this rate, it would only take about a month to completely clean up Eagle Valley.
This was not considered slow.
Moreover, on the sixth day after they had invaded Eagle Valley, under Lu Qing’s instructions, Li Yanling and Lu chaoxi personally led a team of cultivators to launch a surprise attack on a place-the Golden Lotus plantation.
Lu Qing was in such a hurry because he realized that the three godly Eagles were rather ruthless. They seemed to have given up on all their fantasies. These fifty golden lotuses were clearly very important to them, but it seemed that they could no longer keep them in their hands. Sooner or later, they would be taken over by humans.
Since that was the case, they decided to just destroy everything.
If I can’t get it, you can’t either!
It was a pity that Lu Qing had seen through this.
He immediately informed Yan Ling and chaoxi and had them lead a team over. They had to quickly think of a way to obtain the Golden lotuses.
Moreover, Lu Qing did not care about saving karma. He found an opportunity to summon a three-star sword talisman and kill the person that the three brothers had sent to destroy the Golden Lotus.
Lu Qing had chosen a rather remote place to kill. He had only killed them after ensuring that no one had seen them. There would probably be some time between the discovery of the corpse, the announcement, and the sending of a new person or the three brothers to personally destroy the Golden Lotus. Lu Qing’s goal of stalling for time had been achieved.
After that, Li Yanling and Lu chaoxi arrived at the scene. They killed the people and then guarded the Golden Lotus plantation.
The three Condor brothers noticed that something was wrong and came late. When they saw that Li Yanling, Lu chaoxi, and Bo Xin were all there, they immediately retreated.
Three on three, if he couldn’t win, what else could he do?
Unless the three of them attacked together with a large number of demons, they might not be able to take down the other party. At most, they would be forced to leave. However, they would definitely suffer heavy losses at the hands of a golden core cultivator, and they might not even be able to stop them from taking the Golden Lotus.
Doing this would simply not make up for the losses.
After the monster race had retreated, the spirit botanists that Li Yanling had brought along could safely deal with the Golden lotuses.
The Lu family did not have a level three spirit botanist, but that did not mean that the North Army did not have one.
One of the foundation building cultivators from the Han clan was a level three spirit botanist. He was going to help the Lu family get all these golden lotuses out of the ground and preserve them for future transplantation.
Of course, before this person came, he had already made a soul oath that he would never reveal today’s events. He and the family behind him were both under the control of the Lu clan. He did not have to worry too much about this.
Moreover, with the Lu family’s current strength, even if this sum of money was exposed, they would be able to protect it.
The entire transplant process took five days.
In order to cooperate, the North troops slowed down their actions in clearing Eagle Valley. All the cultivators gathered together. The three initial enlightenment cultivators who were outside also stayed together.
This was to prevent the Shen Ying brothers from taking the opportunity to attack the human cultivators while Li Yanling was at the Golden Lotus plantation. That would be troublesome.
Once they gathered together, this problem would not be a big one. They would be able to defend until Li Yanling’s reinforcements arrived. Moreover, Lu Qing could also get Li Yanling to come over the moment he noticed that they were about to make a move. He could even spend some karma to use some battle exchange items to help them in the battle. There would not be any major problems.
In fact, to a certain extent, Lu Qing even hoped that they would seize this opportunity.
Unfortunately, these three Eagle monsters maintained their vigilance and didn’t show themselves.
Five days later, all the Golden lotuses had been retrieved and stored.
Fifty golden lotuses were in his hands!
This also meant that the initial goal of the Lu clan, which was set by Lu Qing before he stood on the stage, had been achieved.
Of course, the Lu clan had already gained much more than expected from this Northern Expedition.
After Li Yanling returned to the group, the human cultivators began to attack again, clearing out and sweeping through the interior of Eagle Valley.
Another three days passed, and Lu Qing’s own actions had come to a conclusion. He had finally found Eagle Valley’s ultimate goal of defending for six months!
It was a thousand paper crane that seemed to be made of large leaves. The use of this thing was similar to the Golden Messenger sword of human cultivators. It was an object used to transmit messages over long distances at high speed.
However, it was a little difficult to read the message from the demon clan. Even Lu Qing had spent almost a day.
Lu Qing’s face darkened even though he was in his higher consciousness form after he finished reading.
The Demon King was about to arrive.
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