173: Chapter 173 The Advantage Lies With Me!

High-tier plane, Floating City.

Xu Qin closed the vassal channel, opened the command panel, and found the interface of the Winter Sovereign.

"Winter."

"Present, Master."

Winter's voice popped out from the interface.

Xu Qin clicked the regional map and marked the coordinates of Su Yao and the others.

"A batch of new vassals is rushing to Yongyuan City. I have already sent you the coordinates."

"But someone wants to intercept and kill them."

"Take your troops to pick them up."

"As you command."

"Also," Xu Qin added, "try to maintain restraint and don't make a move."

The reason he made this arrangement was because once his talent triggered a battle settlement, the loot would double.

By then, Su Ying and those people would find out.

As a low-profile Lord of the Undead, he would rather keep this secret for a lifetime.

Moreover, at this stage, the lower-tier plane should keep as low a profile as possible.

Just let those people retreat in the face of difficulties on their own.

Having figured this out, he continued:

"If they are blind and insist on making a move... then leave no survivors, fight quickly and finish quickly. If push comes to shove... just eliminate those vassals together."

"Yes, Master."

Xu Qin closed the communication and let out a long breath.

"Alright, leave the lower-tier plane to Winter."

"I should also step it up on my end..."

He stood up and walked toward the Combat Readiness Platform.

Lower-tier plane.

Winter City.

After receiving the order, the Eternal Frost Domain slowly spread beneath the feet of the Winter Sovereign.

The temperature of the entire Winter City dropped by another three degrees the moment it stood up.

It transferred 35,000 skeleton infantry and 15,000 skeleton Archers from its direct troops to accompany it.

This army was enough to scare away any lord of the lower-tier plane.

It walked out of the main hall of Winter City and came outside the city gate.

The 50,000 undead had finished forming up.

The Winter Sovereign raised its hand and waved it forward.

"Set out!"

The army set out.

Rumble, rumble, rumble!

The 50,000 undead took a step simultaneously, and the sound of bone armor colliding merged into one.

Their marching direction was the coordinates sent by Su Yao.

With the marching speed of the Winter Sovereign and its familiarity with the surrounding terrain,

it could arrive in at most two days.

Meanwhile.

On the marching route of Su Yao and the others,

about 400 kilometers northwest of their starting point,

Zhang Yu stood on a high ground, looking at the reconnaissance report in his hand.

"The target trio has a total force of about 9,000 and is moving northwest."

"At their speed, they will pass our ambush point before tomorrow evening."

Zhang Yu nodded with satisfaction.

He turned his head to look behind him.

The 40,000-strong army was scattered on both sides of the canyon.

Liu Qiang's Zerg had already occupied the entire canyon entrance.

Two thousand spiked beetles were ambushed beneath the sandy ground.

Wang Lei's goblin legion was hidden behind the pile of rubble at the canyon exit, responsible for cutting off the retreat route.

Zhang Yu's own goblin sappers had already planted a hundred traps inside the canyon.

Zhang Yu sneered.

"Forty thousand against nine thousand, the advantage is mine!"

The next day, evening.

Su Yao walked at the very front of the team.

"Tiresome, we still have to walk for a dozen days." Zhou Ze rode on the back of the Bloodhoof ox, patting his face as he said,

"It's thirteen days." Su Yao looked at the map marker and said with a bitter smile.

Lin Feng, leading the Treant Guards, followed behind and suddenly spoke:

"Su Yao, that canyon ahead... I feel a bit of danger."

Su Yao looked up.

Seeing that about two kilometers ahead,

a long and narrow canyon lay across the marching route.

On both sides of the canyon were rock walls more than twenty meters high,

and in the middle was a passage less than fifty meters wide.

Su Yao pondered for a moment and said with a frown,

"To be safe, let's take a detour."

"A detour?"

Zhou Ze was stunned at first, then opened the regional map.

While looking, he planned the route.

"But if we take a detour, we'll have to walk thirty kilometers more."

"I know." Su Yao said in a firm tone, "This kind of terrain is too suitable for an ambush."

She recalled Zhang Yu's gloomy face.

"Let's take a detour. We've walked over 6,000 kilometers, are we lacking these thirty kilometers?"

Zhou Ze and Lin Feng exchanged glances and nodded.

That's right.

Safety was more important than anything else.

The army immediately turned and began to detour.

Half a day later, the next morning.

Su Yao's team was marching in a flat desert.

She deliberately chose this open area to avoid all suspicious terrain.

But right at this moment...

Hum!

The command panel suddenly popped up a red warning.

[Reconnaissance unit detected an abnormality!]

[A large number of units gathered 2 kilometers to the southwest!]

Su Yao's heart tightened.

She opened the regional map.

Southwest direction... densely packed red dots!

"Not good!"

She turned around and shouted.

"Whole army form up! Defensive posture!"

The 9,000-strong army moved immediately.

The Iron-spine Lizardmen warriors, Bloodhoof ox soldiers, and Treant Guards formed a defensive formation within thirty seconds.

Su Yao stared at the red dots on the map, her palms full of sweat.

"It really came..."

On the other side.

Zhang Yu stood on a sand dune two kilometers away,

watching the figure of Su Yao hurriedly forming up in the distance.

"Huh? Discovered?" Wang Lei frowned beside him.

"Doesn't matter." Zhang Yu sneered, "So what if we're discovered? Forty thousand against nine thousand, pushing through frontally is still a steamroll."

"Since we can't hide, let's just go straight up."

He raised his hand and said loudly,

"Whole army..."

But before he finished speaking,

Hum!

Zhang Yu felt a chill blowing from behind.

Immediately, he found that the breath he exhaled instantly condensed into white fog.

The sandy ground beneath his feet also began to frost over.

"What the hell..."

Zhang Yu suddenly turned back.

Then, his pupils shrank to pinpricks.

Seeing on the northern horizon,

an army was spreading and pressing over.

The entire northern horizon was shrouded in a layer of dark blue cold light.

Beneath the dark blue cold light were dense, boundless white skeletal phalanxes.

Three to forty thousand skeleton infantry lined up in neat rows, marching silently.

Behind them were one or two tens of thousands of skeleton Archers.

And in front of them was a six-meter-tall figure.

That figure was covered all over in heavy ice crystal armor,

and every step it took, a circle of white frost would condense on the ground beneath its feet.

[Eternal Frost Domain] naturally diffused around it.

Within a radius of three hundred meters, the temperature plummeted directly to minus forty degrees.

After seeing this group of undead clearly, Zhang Yu's teeth began to chatter involuntarily.

"What... what the fuck is this?!" Liu Qiang's voice came from the communication panel.

"Run! Run quickly!" After shouting, Wang Lei retreated with his own soldiers.

Zhang Yu stood in place, his legs weak.

Beep!

The command panel popped up a few lines of information.

[Detection failed.]

[Target level far exceeds the limit of reconnaissance units. Detailed information cannot be obtained.]

[Known information: Undead · City Lord-tier unit.]