219: Chapter 219 All Three Parties Gather, Killing Formation Empty (2)

The surface of the fishnet was coated in a layer of extremely dark, dark-green slime; the slime reflected light very slowly under the sun, casting a dark green, oily sheen.

He draped the fishnet on the inside of the shield wall, ready to fling it over the top edge at any moment.

Once unfurled, the fishnet could cover a width of about three zhang at the narrow alley exit—enough to scoop up the front row of the charging Haiyuan Clan.

The moment the Black-Armored Commander saw the shield wall rise, a very low, underwater guttural sound emitted from his throat.

This was the combat preparation sound of the Haiyuan Clan's elite assault team—not a command word.

The preparation sound was deeper than a command word; the guttural sound could travel three li underwater, but less than fifty zhang in the air.

The distance it traveled was enough for all fifty elites behind him to hear it.

The fifty elites performed the same action simultaneously: bone shields lowered, bone spears extended forward, and bone hooks accelerated in circles above their heads.

The rotation speed of the hook blades accelerated from one circle per breath to three circles per breath; the faster they spun, the denser the Spiritual Qi fissures created by the hook edges slicing through the air became.

The Spiritual Qi fissures could not injure people, but they could disrupt the spiritual power environment around the target.

The spiritual power perception of a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator would slow down by nearly half in a disrupted environment; if their spell-casting speed could not keep up, they would have to rely on physical techniques and melee combat.

The Black-Armored Commander raised his bone spear. The spear tip aimed at the narrow alley exit—then he pointed forward.

"Charge."

The sixteen Haiyuan Clan members in the front row pressed forward simultaneously. The bone patterns on the bone shields emitted a dense, faint sound as they advanced—the bone shield faces, nearly two palms thick, completely covered the bodies of the front-row Haiyuan Clan from chest to knee.

The shield formation did not advance quickly—less than half a zhang per step. However, the spacing was extremely tight—the gap between shields was less than two palms wide.

The middle row extended their bone spears forward through the gaps in the shields, with the spear tips protruding beyond the shield formation. The outer layer of spear tips passed the shield formation first, followed by the inner layers. Three layers of spear tips formed a horizontal wall of bone spikes in front of the shield formation.

The Black-Armored Commander stood directly behind the shield formation—he himself did not charge toward the narrow alley. His position was between the shield formation and the rear row—bone spear held horizontally in his hands, his target locked onto Scarface behind the shield wall.

From the Black-Armored Commander's perspective—about fifty zhang behind the narrow alley's shield wall—was the back door of the Lords Mansion.

Twelve Human Race Cultivators were sneaking toward the back door of the Lords Mansion from the flank. The Blue Moon Island garrison at the front was all in the direction of the Ring Reef.

These people—the people of Blue Moon Island would not sneak toward the back door of the Lords Mansion from the flank on their own territory.

The Black-Armored Commander had seen enough types of enemies on the battlefield—this way of moving did not belong to a garrison.

They were another group. Another group that wanted to find something on Blue Moon Island.

It did not conflict with the Black-Armored Commander's goal—the order he received was to destroy the Blue Moon Island flank defense line, create chaos, and coordinate with the main force at the front to break through the Ring Reef.

The order did not contain the clause "first break through these Cultivators who snuck onto the island in the dark"—but it also did not contain the clause "cooperate with them."

The default engagement rules of the Haiyuan Clan—any non-Haiyuan Clan target appearing within the target sea area must be attacked without exception.

The Black-Armored Commander did not stop. The shield formation continued to press forward.

Inside the narrow alley—Scarface saw that the Haiyuan Clan shield formation showed no signs of stopping. He adjusted the long spears on the top edge of the shield wall—the spear tips were lowered from the throat position to the knee position.

When fighting the Haiyuan Clan—the thinnest part of their carapace was at the knees and ankles. The knee joint was the connection point of the bone armor—the carapace here was only one layer thick, and the seam was extremely fine.

The ankles—almost no bone armor coverage, only a layer of elastic bone membrane. The bone membrane could repel water but could not defend against blades.

"Aim for the knees and ankles. Don't hit the carapace—you can't hack through the carapace in three strikes."

Shorty draped the fishnet over the top edge of the shield wall—the edge of the net hung out about half a zhang. He pressed his left hand onto the drawstrings of the fishnet—ready to pull the net at any moment.

The Haiyuan Clan shield formation pressed to less than twenty zhang outside the narrow alley exit. At this distance—the Black-Armored Commander could see the scar on Scarface's face.

Scarface's scar was a faded, whitish color in the sunlight—not the same shade as the surrounding sun-tanned skin.

The skin texture at the edge of the scar indicated it was an old injury from over a decade ago—the edges of fresh injuries from recent years would not fade to this extent. This man had fought in wars—more than once.

Ten zhang.

The Black-Armored Commander pressed his bone spear down at the ten-zhang mark. The shield formation stopped in unison.

At the same time it stopped—the bases of the front-row shields slammed into the ground, and the bone patterns on the shield faces brightened by one layer from their dark color.

The speed and depth of the patterns brightening were perfectly synchronized with the release of Spiritual Pressure from a Late Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator—this was the Haiyuan Clan's combat Spiritual Pressure—pre-battle preparation, not a show of force.

The purpose of releasing Spiritual Pressure was to disrupt the spiritual power rhythm within the opponent's formation—just like releasing a circle of sonic vibrations before hunting large sea beasts underwater, causing the prey's nervous System to malfunction for an instant.

The Black-Armored Commander aimed the dark blue crystal fragments on his bone spear at Scarface's poison-coated dagger.

The detection array circuit of the crystal fragments was analyzing the Spiritual Vein composition of the poison on the dagger—the analysis results were out.

The poison was a complex type: the main component was a cold-natured poison that slowed nerve transmission, and the auxiliary component was a corrosive bacterial fluid that accelerated wound festering.

Wounds inflicted with this poison—hemostatic powder would not be effective, and the healing speed would be suppressed to less than twenty percent of normal.

The battlefield method—strive to make the opponent unable to continue fighting on the spot with a single strike.

The Black-Armored Commander's guttural sound changed pitch—shifting from the pre-battle preparation sound to the attack command sound.

The pitch of the attack command sound went up by nearly an octave—in the auditory System of the Haiyuan Clan, this tone meant "kill immediately." No prisoners.

Bone shields lowered. Bone spears thrust forward. Bone hooks flew into the sky—then plummeted down.

On the muddy, sandy open ground at the narrow alley exit—between the Haiyuan Clan shield formation and the Private Soldiers' shield wall—the ten-zhang distance was reduced to zero in less than two breaths.

The first bone shield in the front row collided with the first metal shield at the narrow alley exit.

A thin layer of Spiritual Qi explosion was squeezed out between the collision surfaces of the bone shield and the metal shield—two Magical Artifacts with completely incompatible Spiritual Vein attributes collided hard, and the scattered spiritual power fragments exploded into a circle of visible transparent ripples in the air.

The ripples spread outward—the old reinforcement array talismans on the stone walls on both sides of the narrow alley were shaken, jumping upward by the width of a talisman brush simultaneously.

The talisman paper jumped—then fell back down. The array talismans were not activated—there was still no spiritual power on the array path of the Geng Metal Sword Intent Killing Array.

The second, third, fourth—the Haiyuan Clan shield formation pressed onto the Private Soldiers' shield wall by pushing all the front-row shields forward simultaneously.

The direction of the push carried an inward angle of about twenty degrees—coordinating with the middle row of bone spears thrusting inward through the shield gaps.

When the metal shield was pushed back about two chi by the bone shield—Scarface vaulted over the top edge of the shield wall.

The moment he vaulted out—his left hand slapped the top edge of the shield wall for leverage, and his right hand switched the poison-coated dagger from a waist grip to a reverse grip.

Reverse grip—blade facing out, tip facing down. His landing spot was in the gap between the bone shield and the middle row of bone spears—less than one step away.

He stepped on the top edge of a bone shield—the surface of the bone shield was extremely slippery, and the treads of his anti-slip boots could only bite in less than two fen deep.

Utilizing this less-than-two-fen friction, he leaped up about half a chi—the poison-coated dagger thrust down from the reverse grip.

The stabbing position—the knee joint of the first-row bone-shield Haiyuan Clan warrior. The blade tip pierced in through the seam of the bone armor—the insertion depth was less than two cun. Then he pulled horizontally.

The bone armor membrane at the seam was torn open by the blade tip, creating a gap about three fingers wide. When the poison-coated blade tip was pulled out of the gap—the dark green poison had already seeped into the joint cavity.

The Haiyuan Clan warrior's knee turned from grayish-white to dark gray in less than half a breath—the poison blocked nerve transmission in the joint cavity, and the muscle groups below the lower leg simultaneously lost control.

That Haiyuan Clan warrior tilted to the side—the bone shield lost its support angle and skewed outward by about thirty degrees. Scarface slipped through this thirty-degree gap—directly facing the middle row of bone spears.

The middle row reacted extremely quickly—three bone spears thrust toward Scarface from three angles simultaneously.

One slanted diagonally toward the shoulder from the upper left—one thrust directly at the chest from the front—one thrust upward at the waist from the lower right.

The thrusting time of the three spears was almost perfectly synchronized—the spacing between the spear tips was adjusted twice mid-thrust.

The first adjustment—the one from the upper left raised about two degrees, sealing off Scarface's route of evasion to the left.

The second adjustment—the one from the lower right skewed inward by one degree, compressing the space for Scarface to retreat to only half a body's width.