55: Chapter 55 Sitting on the Mountain and Watching the Tigers Fight

For ordinary creatures, a territory of a thousand miles was a long and distant journey, but for Su Ming now, it was merely a matter of an instant.

In just half a day, he quietly arrived outside Xuanming City.

Su Ming stood atop a distant mountain peak, overlooking the towering and majestic city ahead.

With its towering high walls, heavy bricks and stones, and strict fortifications, Xuanming City was worlds apart from the low and crude Taoyuan Town, exuding the heavy coercion of a majestic border city.

Su Ming's gaze towards Xuanming City was filled with absolute determination to win it.

However, Xuanming City had high walls, thick ramparts, and flawless defenses, while the garrison inside had a massive number of troops and a complete system. If he launched a frontal assault, even his Undead Army would inevitably pay a heavy price, making the gains not worth the losses.

Furthermore...

Su Ming's gaze shifted to another direction outside the city.

A blazing and scorching aura of flames faintly rose from there, carrying a faint divine coercion deep within the aura that was by no means something native forces could possess.

It was obvious that he was not the only one eyeing this Xuanming City.

"Interesting. This can just allow this friend to test the waters."

A playful smile curled the corners of Su Ming's lips, and a trace of calculation flashed through the depths of his eyes.

He had always been cautious and steady. As early as when he arrived at this place, he had recalled all his familiars back into his Divine Realm, shrouding himself in divine power to completely conceal his aura without any leakage.

And the other party was evidently extremely confident in his own strength, making no effort to conceal his aura at all.

"Yelie, go scout and figure out the other party's background and movements."

As the words fell, the shadow beneath Su Ming's feet rippled like water, and a pitch-black, silent shadow quietly peeled away, transforming into a traceless afterimage that darted into the mountain forest.

What had been dispatched was not Yelie's true body, but merely an avatar.

Yelie's avatar stealthily crept forward following the fiery aura, quickly locking onto the target location.

Amidst the open space in the mountain forest, dense rows of Fire Sprites stood quietly with raging flames burning all over their bodies.

In the center of the sprite legion, a gigantic giant covered in lava stood toweringly. Magma flowed and heat waves rolled, exuding a full sense of oppression.

Atop the Lava Giant, a youth in white stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes burning as he stared fixedly at Xuanming City in the distance.

"As long as I take this Xuanming City, I can completely gain a firm foothold in this Chaoming Realm, and using this as a foundation, gradually expand outward."

Liang Feifan muttered to himself in a low voice, his eyes filled with expectations.

Yet at the thought of Xuanming City's formidable garrison forces, a hint of hesitation arose between his brows.

He had quite a bit of confidence in his familiars combat power, but he also knew that launching a frontal assault on this majestic city would inevitably require a heavy price.

But looking down at the steadily standing Lava Giant beneath him, the anxiety in his heart instantly dissipated by more than half, giving birth to a full sense of confidence.

This Lava Giant was no ordinary familiar; it was an elite-quality hero familiar whose cultivation had even reached the eighth tier of Transcendence, boasting tyrannical combat power strong enough to crush those of the same rank.

It was specially nurtured by his family using massive resources.

The purpose was to allow him to get a good result in this trial and enter a good academy.

Liang Feifan took a deep breath, his gaze instantly turning incomparably firm without the slightest hesitation left.

"We can't delay any longer. Once it attracts the covetous eyes of other trials, trying to capture this city will only become even more difficult."

He waved his hand and gave the order!

Tens of thousands of Fire Sprites, red all over, moved out in unison. Blazing flames towered into the sky as they advanced grandly toward Xuanming City.

Liang Feifan was wholeheartedly plotting the siege and completely failed to notice that in the shadows of the dense forest not far away, a pitch-black figure was taking in his every move.

Atop the distant mountain peak, Su Ming comprehended everything through the vision of Yelie's avatar.

"It seems I don't need to push things. It's just that this person is too reckless, actually choosing a frontal assault on a fortified city."

Su Ming shook his head inwardly. If it were him breaking the game, he would never be so reckless.

He would first covertly sneak into the city, quietly unfold the door of his Divine Realm, detonate the battle from the inside, execute a pincer attack from both inside and outside, and capture the city at the smallest cost.

But he also understood that Liang Feifan obviously did not understand Xuanming City as well as he did.

He knew there was no city-protecting array in Xuanming City, which was why he dared to break it from the inside. If there were a city-protecting array and he rashly entered the city, once locked in by the formation, he would very likely be reduced to a turtle in a jar with no way out.

"Just right, let's see the strength of other trials."

Su Ming's gaze was calm as he quietly overlooked the distant battle.

Among the mountain ridges, raging flames surged across the sky as tens of thousands of Fire Sprites poured out in full force. Each of them possessed extraordinary combat power above the fourth tier of Transcendence, and the roaring fires burning all over their bodies scorched the air, sweeping heat waves in all directions.

Being able to cultivate familiars to such a scale and standard was enough to prove that among all the trial-takers, Liang Feifan already belonged to the upper tier and was by no means mediocre.

The grand momentum of the overwhelming fire tide was naturally noticed by the garrison on the ramparts of Xuanming City at the very first moment.

A sharp and urgent warning sound instantly pierced the sky, ringing through the entire city: "Enemy attack!!!"

The heavy dark-iron city gates slammed shut and locked, tightly sealing off the passage into the city. Countless garrison soldiers quickly climbed the ramparts; archers arrayed themselves, spearmen stood solemn, waiting in full battle array with a chilling murderous intent.

Without any extra probing, the garrison on the city walls directly raised their hands and released their arrows!

Swish, swish, swish—!

Wooden arrows filled the sky, pouring down like rain, blanketing the Fire Sprite legion.

However, before the arrows could even get close to the Fire Sprites, they were baked by the extreme high temperature and burned into flying ashes, completely unable to cause even a shred of damage.

Seeing this, the garrison on the city walls instantly fell into chaos, and everyone wore expressions of terror and dread.

They had guarded the city for many years and had never seen such a bizarre and unsolvable enemy.

At the critical moment, a calm and cold shout rang out from the city walls, stabilizing the morale of the army: "What are you panicking about! Wooden arrows are flammable, switch them all to iron arrows to meet the enemy!"

The garrison soldiers forcibly suppressed the panic in their hearts, quickly replaced them with iron arrows, and once again drew their bows for a volley.

Iron arrows were not afraid of high temperatures and successfully penetrated the flame barrier. However, Fire Sprites were purely elemental life forms with no physical skeletons and extremely strong physical resistance. When iron arrows hit their bodies, they could only cause weak injuries and were hardly fatal.

The scene that truly terrified all the garrison soldiers followed right after.

Countless Fire Sprites actually rose into the air, ignoring the obstruction of the towering city walls, and flew straight across the air, diving towards the city ramparts!

The high walls and ramparts were completely reduced to nothing!

On the distant mountain, a flash of surprise crossed Su Ming's eyes: "To think they can achieve brief air superiority; no wonder this person dared to launch a reckless frontal assault."

At the same moment, in the Realm Fortress, countless gazes stared fixedly at the two figures on the void light curtain, discussing animatedly with great interest.

"Interesting, now we're going to have a good show. Who do you guys think will ultimately capture this Xuanming City, Su Ming or Liang Feifan?"

"I favor Liang Feifan more! His Fire Sprites already belong to the top-tier D-rank familiars with formidable combat power. Most importantly, although the fire attribute is not as extreme as holy light or thunder, it naturally restrains netherworld and evil forces, perfectly suppressing Su Ming!"

"It really is a pity. Su Ming has exceptional potential, but his attributes are restrained, putting him at an inherent disadvantage."

"That's not necessarily true. Liang Feifan is launching a frontal assault first now, so his consumption will inevitably be quite heavy. Su Ming is resting while the enemy tires and watching the tigers fight from afar; his advantage in having a backup plan is massive. The outcome of this battle is really hard to say."

"That's right, and Su Ming's number of familiars is far superior to Liang Feifan's. Moreover, most importantly, those hero familiars by Su Ming's side are no pushovers either."