141: Chapter 141 The Fall of the Purple Mansion, Triple Replenishment
The continuous sieges depleted the alien inventory, yet the three alien deities did not back down; instead, they concentrated their remaining elites on the Western Front.
Tuya's gaze swept across the battlefield. The Crab Soldiers on the Eastern Front could not break through the zifu heavy cannons, and the Scale Demons on the Northern Front were also blocked by Wang Shan; only the Western Front still had a chance to break the Formation.
The Returning Origin Sword Curtain required Spirit Stones to maintain. As long as they used the Divine Kingdom Origin to tear open the Formation curtain, the Stinger Jellyfish would be able to cross the city wall and destroy the main Formation.
Outside the western city wall, the surviving forty thousand jellyfish legion dispersed their formation, voluntarily abandoning poison needle coverage, and approached several Formation nodes simultaneously.
Tuya stood up from the back of the giant jellyfish, its six bone spurs connecting to the veins of the poisonous sea, pouring all its remaining Origin into a single spear.
The spear was condensed from venom and Divine Power, and the surrounding air was corroded into gray smoke, with the spear tip constantly aiming at the seventh Formation node on the western wall.
The Purple Mansion officer responsible for garrisoning there was named Wang Chuan, hailing from the Third Academic City, and was also among the first batch of officers personally brought out by Wang Shan.
Wang Chuan led three hundred Sword Cultivators to guard the Formation node, having not left the western wall for ten consecutive days, and had already replaced his Flying Sword seven times.
When the spirit-detecting disk captured the changes in Tuya's Divine Power, the jellyfish legion also launched a charge, tens of thousands of tentacles pressing down from mid-air toward the sword curtain.
"The seventh Formation, contract! All spiritual power transfer into the Formation node! The jellyfish cannot charge in; do not waste swords on corpses!"
Wang Chuan recalled the three hundred Flying Swords, constructing a three-layered sword wheel around the Formation node, voluntarily yielding part of the defense line on the outer side of the city wall.
What Tuya was waiting for was precisely this opportunity. The six bone spurs behind its shoulders snapped simultaneously, and all its power was poured into the poisonous spear, hurling it toward the seventh Formation node.
The poisonous spear pierced through the jellyfish legion, hundreds of jellyfish along the way being drained of flesh and blood, their remains turning into venom adhering to the spear shaft.
The Returning Origin Sword Curtain and the poisonous spear collided in one place, the outer layer of sword light shattering one after another, and the three hundred Flying Swords snapping along the spear tip.
The Formation node beneath Wang Chuan's feet was already exposed, and right behind him was the main Formation Plate maintaining the defense of the Western Front. Once he stepped back, the poisonous spear would pierce through the Formation base.
He raised his hand to push the two deputy commanders to the left and right, single-handedly taking over all the spiritual power of the Formation node, and the damaged xueming mysterious armor lit up again with nine blood patterns.
"Everyone in the seventh Formation, retreat ten zhang! The Formation Plate cannot be lost! Whoever dares to contend with me for this position shall be dealt with by military law!"
The deputy commander still wanted to return to the Formation position, but Wang Chuan had already sealed the rear Formation patterns, and the three-layered sword wheel also pressed toward the poisonous spear at the same moment.
The poisonous spear pierced through the sword wheel, its tip stabbing into Wang Chuan's chest armor. The blood patterns only dispersed a portion of the power, and the remaining toxic force penetrated his body.
Wang Chuan's feet were nailed to the center of the Formation node, his hands gripping the spear shaft, forcibly jamming the poisonous spear in front of his chest, not letting it continue to approach the main Formation Plate.
The venom spread along the armor plates, the purifying soul bone patterns extinguishing one after another, yet he still sent his final spiritual power into the Formation patterns beneath his feet.
After losing the support of Tuya's Divine Power, the poisonous spear finally began to disintegrate, and Wang Chuan also collapsed to his knees before the Formation node, his palm still pressing against the Formation Plate.
"The seventh Formation node is still here! Fill the position!"
The deputy commander led the men to charge back into the Formation positions, the three hundred Sword Cultivators reconnected to the main Formation, and the Returning Origin Sword Curtain quickly sealed the gap above.
When Wang Shan rushed over from the Northern Front, Wang Chuan had already lost his breath, the xueming mysterious armor on his chest corroded by venom into a penetrating wound.
Hundreds of Tuya's personal guards took advantage of the sword curtain's reorganization to pounce into the city wall, their bone spurs targeting the Formation Masters directly, attempting to snatch away the opportunity defended by Wang Chuan.
Wang Shan did not stop, his crimson flame saber sweeping across the city wall, and the dozen or so jellyfish personal guards charging at the very front were instantly cut down.
Before the remaining personal guards could scatter, one thousand Extreme Realm Martial Artistss had already killed their way into the Western Front from the military road, blood-patterned spears sealing off all paths of retreat.
Wang Shan held his saber as he stood before Wang Chuan's corpse, the Qi and blood beneath his shoulder armor continuously impacting the Formation patterns, his voice suppressing the battle cries of the Western Front.
"Leave all of Tuya's personal guards behind! Not a single one is allowed to return! They must pay for this debt with their lives!"
The one thousand Extreme Realm Martial Artistss formed a spearhead array, advancing outward from the gap in the city wall, the crimson flame saber and spears sweeping across the jellyfish personal guards one after another.
Tuya's dispatched personal guards were originally meant to contend for the Formation node; now cut off from their retreat by the military array, the hundreds of people quickly fell beneath the city wall.
Wang Shan personally cleaved open the poison sac of the last personal guard, his saber blade not stopping as he continued to advance toward the jellyfish legion outside the city.
The Western Front's seventh Formation had lost Wang Chuan's garrisoning, and deviations appeared in the military array connections; the jellyfish legion seized the opportunity, squeezing toward the gap from both sides.
Tuya gazed at the Formation curtain that had not yet fully recovered, the bone patterns on its face rapidly bulging as it extracted the Origin of the poisonous sea once again.
"That Purple Mansion Cultivator is already dead! For every Purple Mansion Cultivator the Human Race loses, the Formation nodes lose one pillar! Press forward!"
Tens of thousands of the jellyfish legion unfolded their poison sacs, all remaining poison needles aiming at the seventh Formation, and ordinary jellyfish within the poisonous sea were also driven toward the battlefield.
Carlo stared at the western wall, dark green blood dripping down its scales, a roar rolling from its throat as it immediately mobilized twenty thousand Scale Demons to turn toward the western wall.
"With every one of them that dies, they decrease by one! Charge in, destroy the Formation node, and the supply route of the Human Race will belong to us!"
Baal raised his war hammer, and the Crab Soldiers on the Eastern Front also launched a new round of charge, attempting to force the Human Race to disperse their reserve forces.
The three battle lines were pressured simultaneously, and the vacancy left by Wang Chuan's death became the target for all alien armies to contend for.
The deputy commander of the seventh Formation only possessed Late Stage Purple Mansion cultivation, unable to shoulder the Formation node alone, and the Returning Origin Sword Curtain suffered damage once again.
Standing on the main platform, Wang Mu had already ordered two sub-formations to rush to the Western Front, but the two Formation positions were still more than ten miles away from the seventh Formation.
Poison needles crossed the breach, several Formation Masters were forced to withdraw from the Formation nodes, and the jellyfish legion also began to climb onto the western city wall.
Tuya raised its remaining bone spurs, the ferocity on its face suppressing its fatigue. "Die one more, and the Western Front of the Human Race will collapse!"
Before its words had faded, neat footsteps echoed from within the cross-border passage, and the sound of armaments clashing spread along the main outpost road toward the three-sided city walls.
Three Purple Mansion Extreme Realm Cultivators wearing brand-new xueming mysterious armor stepped out of the Formation gate first, the longswords behind them still carrying the lingering warmth of the casting furnace.
The three of them did not linger, heading straight for the seventh Formation on the Western Front along the military road, the Formation tokens at their waists already connected to the Returning Origin Sword Curtain in advance.
The leading Cultivator stepped onto the Formation node, drawing their sword to cleave apart the incoming poison needles, while the other two took charge of the spiritual power nodes on the left and right respectively.
"Third-term students of the Academy, by the order of the Divine Lord, to fill the battle line!"
The three of them shouted in unison, three streaks of Sword Qi slashing out in an intersection, cutting the jellyfish legion that had just climbed onto the city wall in half at the waist.
Supported by the three Purple Mansion Extreme Realm Cultivators, the seventh Formation node's damaged sword curtain was rapidly repaired, and the spiritual power output of the Returning Origin Formation also increased by several fractions.
Tuya's arm holding the bone spur trembled incessantly, the fierce light in the depths of its eyes stagnating, and its Divine Thought directly targeted the Human Race passage.
It originally thought that Wang Chuan's death in battle would cause the Human Race to have one fewer Purple Mansion officer, but in the blink of an eye, the Formation node had gained three more Extreme Realm Cultivators.
Carlo's shouting also stopped, and the Scale Demon army that had just been driven toward the Western Front stood under the artillery fire, their footsteps beginning to hesitate.
Baal was still urging the Crab Soldiers to charge, yet patches of footsteps came out from within the Human Race passage once again, their number far exceeding those previous three.
Team after team of Extreme Realm Cultivators walked out of the Formation gate, draped in new armor, holding newly forged weapons, their military array numbers having long since been assigned.
These people came from the Twelve Study Cities and were also the backbone of the new generation of legions grown within the century-long acceleration inside the Divine Kingdom.
Only ten days had passed in the outside world, yet they had Cultivated for decades inside the Divine Kingdom, experiencing the Academy, the Shura Field, and military array examinations.
The first batch of five hundred people entered the outpost, immediately scattering to the three battle lines to replace the veterans and officers with the heaviest injuries.
The second batch of five hundred people followed out of the Formation gate, supplementing the Artillery Battalion, Sword Qi Battalion, and Formation Maintenance Team, taking on the missing high-tier Formation positions.
After the third batch of five hundred people arrived, Wang Mu did not immediately disperse them, directly incorporating them into the central army reserve force.
The quartermaster submitted the new army roster to the main platform, and Wang Mu checked the cultivation, military array, and examination records page by page, confirming there were no temporary inflations.
Since the start of the war, the Immortal Martial Legion had accumulated five hundred Extreme Realm Cultivators killed in action, and those whose injuries prevented them from continuing to participate in the battle had also exceeded one thousand.
Yet the Divine Kingdom sent one thousand five hundred newly promoted Extreme Realm Cultivators all at once. For every one person killed in action, three were replenished; the number of Extreme Realm Cultivators at the outpost did not decrease but instead increased.
The veterans originally undertaking the three Formation positions obtained rotation, took Medicinal Pills and withdrew from the front line, and the new Extreme Realm Cultivators immediately took over the military array.
The Crab Soldiers on the Eastern Front had just bumped back a shield wall when hundreds of newly promoted Extreme Realm Martial Artistss stepped onto the Formation positions, jointly pushing the vehicle array back onto the mud road.
The Scale Demons on the Northern Front wanted to take advantage of Wang Shan's departure to expand the gap, but the newly supplemented spear battalion formed a military array, nailing two thousand Scale Demons dead outside the city.
The pressure on the Western Front was resolved right on the spot. Three Purple Mansion Extreme Realm Cultivators garrisoned the seventh Formation, and Sword Qi slashed backward into the jellyfish legion following the source of the poison needles.
Tuya's newly condensed round of offensive was shattered by the sword curtain, thousands of jellyfish lost their poison sacs and fell outside the western wall.
The alien armies gazed at those unfamiliar faces on the city wall, their footsteps stalling. What the Human Race passage sent was not just Medicinal Pills and weapons.
Even Purple Mansion Extreme Realm Cultivators could be replenished in batches; this war of attrition had lost all meaning, and continuing to fight would only exhaust the three divine kingdoms.
Baal stopped urging the mud waves, and a dozen or so Crab Soldier commanders no longer drove the vanguard, beginning to lead their respective subordinates to retreat toward the Eastern Front.
Tuya sat back down on the back of the giant jellyfish, holding its weapon with three broken bone spurs, its voice unable to control its trembling.
"What kind of monstrous divine kingdom is this! Could it be that their foundation has no end!"
Carlo did not answer. It knew clearer than the other two that this Human Race divine kingdom only had fifteen million population before the war started.
Ten days had passed, yet the legions, Medicinal Pills, armors, and Purple Mansion Cultivators became more and more the more they fought; this already exceeded its cognition of a Tier-1 divine kingdom.
The alien red dots on the three battle lines began to retreat outward. The vanguard lost its supervision, and the rear army also followed in breaking away from the coverage zone of the zifu heavy cannons.
Wang Shan handed Wang Chuan's corpse over to the Medical Cultivator Camp, turned around and walked up the western wall, his crimson flame saber pointing at the retreating jellyfish legion.
The new army within the outpost completed their grouping, the thirty-six sub-formations were once again at full capacity, and the central army had three extra sub-formations waiting for dispatch.
The Artillery Battalion completed a new round of loading, and four hundred zifu heavy cannons rotated their muzzle, locking on section by section along the alien retreat route.
Looking at the shrinking alien red dots on the spirit-detecting disk, Wang Mu raised his command flag: "The war of attrition is over. Prepare for a counter-offensive."
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