168: Siege

The members of the Murong Family were guarding the walls of the Murong Family.

The Murong Family's walls were very high, no less than those of Qingmu County, and they were also extremely sturdy.

Unless a Foundation Establishment Cultivator took action, they could not be breached; otherwise, one could only climb the wall and open it from the inside...

However, the Murong Family had a great many hidden weapons; just the ones capable of harming those at the Qi Training Ninth Level were numerous.

The Yu Family Ancestor did not dare to break through.

The Yu Family Ancestor said, "Whoever enters the city first and opens the gates will be rewarded with 100,000 Spirit Stones!"

In warfare, there are four great merits, and this is the first to ascend!

But the situation the Yu Family Ancestor had anticipated, where everyone would scramble to climb the walls, did not happen.

Because these Cultivators were very shrewd; the Murong Family's city, with its steel and spiritual energy, was like a steel behemoth.

The Murong Family had fifty crossbows on the walls, including three heavy crossbows.

They were no less formidable than the heavy crossbows that the Qingmu County County Magistrate had used to suppress the Liu Family and the Yu Family Ancestor that day.

However, the Yu Family also had countermeasures, directly releasing fireballs to destroy the crossbows.

Tang Tian frowned at this scene and thought to himself, "I need to stay further away. If these heavy crossbows hit me, I will also be injured."

Tang Tian recalled the Liu and Yu Family Ancestors that day; only with a Foundation Establishment Weapon could they withstand two hits from the heavy crossbows.

However, this time it was different; Murong Qi did not have the augmentation of Literary Qi.

The Yu Family Ancestor laughed loudly and said, "Murong Qi, you don't have Literary Qi, so what if you have heavy crossbows!"

Murong Qi's voice came from the Murong Family's city: "Come and try."

The Yu Family Ancestor naturally would not be tricked; he snorted coldly and flew to the back of the formation to oversee the battle.

Battles between those at the Foundation Establishment Realm could end in an instant; Murong Qi did not make a move, and the Yu Family Ancestor did not make a move either.

Tang Tian had already charged to the very front of the city; his speed was already considered the slowest...

Tang Tian hesitated whether he should just slip away.

Then, Tang Tian thought to himself, "Forget it; if the Yu Family Ancestor decides to make an example of me for the sake of troop morale and severely injures me, that would be bad."

Tang Tian feigned an attack at the base of the city, and the other Cultivators did the same.

Everyone was here to earn Spirit Stones, and incidentally, to loot the Murong Family's Foundation Establishment Realm Artifact Refining Cultivation Technique; who would risk their lives for the Yu Family?

One ladder after another was propped up by the Yu Family members.

This scene stunned Tang Tian; not a single person walked up these ladders.

Whoever dared to go up first would become the Murong Family's target, and no matter who it was, they would die.

For a moment, the battle fell into an eerie silence.

The Yu Family's ladders were empty; no one dared to climb them, and the people of the Murong Family did not dare to risk the threat of Poison Pills to desperately destroy these ladders.

Tang Tian sighed and said, "Could it be that the Yu Family is going to lose..."

The Yu Family Ancestor roared, "Everyone, get up there!"

The Yu Family Ancestor had already staked everything the Yu Family had; he charged directly from the rear to the front and pointed his finger.

A Cultivator on the Yu Family's side died, and those Gang Cultivators who thought about escaping were also easily slaughtered by the Yu Family Ancestor.

Tang Tian was stunned by the cruelty of the Yu Family Ancestor; only ten of those Gang Cultivators had run, yet the Yu Family Ancestor had killed a full hundred.

The Yu Family Ancestor said grimly, "If anyone dares to flee, I will kill you first."

The Yu Family Ancestor released the might of his Foundation Establishment, and those Gang Cultivators were terrified, surging like a tide toward the thirty scaling ladders.

The Yu Family Ancestor said, "Yu Tian, Yu Ping, you will act as the supervision squad; whoever dares to retreat, kill them..."

The supervision squad was there to urge the group of Cultivators in front of them to die; they would either die at the front or die at the hands of the Yu Family members.

Although it was said that Tang Tian and Yu Ping were the supervision squad, those hundred Yu Family members were also members of the supervision squad.

Before Tang Tian and Yu Ping could even make a move, they had already slaughtered those who were retreating without hesitation.

Tang Tian sighed, "So this is a supervision squad? It's fortunate that the Yu Family Ancestor is the supreme authority here, so there is no fear of anyone stabbing me in the back."

The Yu Family had ten thousand Cultivators, and for a time, they swarmed the Murong Family's city like ants.

Meanwhile, Cultivators at the back continuously used fireball techniques to destroy the Murong Family's crossbows.

Murong Qi said, "What kind of skill is it to pile up the lives of Cultivators! If you have the ability, come up yourself!"

The Yu Family Ancestor said, "Do not try to disturb my state of mind!"

The Yu Family Ancestor did not move, and Murong Qi did not dare to move either.

They could only watch helplessly as those Cultivators climbed halfway up the Murong Family's city walls.

Murong Qi could have easily slaughtered these Cultivators by himself, but hindered by the presence of the Yu Family Ancestor, he did not dare to move...

Murong Qi was not afraid of these people breaking into the city, because even if they climbed the Murong Family's walls, they would not survive.

What he feared was that if enough Cultivators died, the remaining group of Cultivators could step on the corpses of those Cultivators to scale the Murong Family's city.

After all, the reason Murong Qi did not go out to fight the Yu Family Ancestor was simply that he could not defeat the Yu Family Ancestor.

Once this outer city was breached, Murong Qi would only be able to hide in the inner city, and defeat would be inevitable.

Tang Tian said, "After this battle, it is estimated that there will hardly be any Cultivators left in Qingmu County or Shashi County."

It was not that those climbing up were not afraid; rather, those who were afraid and went down were all killed by the supervision squad...

The Murong Family's crossbows were destroyed one by one, but the remaining three heavy crossbows remained steadfast.

With a single shot, dozens of Cultivators would die.

This was still without the augmentation of Literary Qi; if there were the bonus of Literary Qi, hundreds of Cultivators would die...

The Cultivators moving upward were terrified by those heavy crossbows, and as they kept going back down, they were continuously killed by the supervision squad.

A voice came from the Cultivators above: "It's not that we want to retreat, it's that those heavy crossbows are too strong!"

The Yu Family Ancestor's voice came through: "Yu Xu, you go and take care of that heavy crossbow."

There was a reason the Yu Family Ancestor did not call Tang Tian; because Tang Tian was the disciple of the Shopkeeper Yunshui Pavilion, and even if the Yu Family destroyed him, they could still survive, but he felt like a double agent.

He could only call Yu Xu first; only after Yu Xu destroyed one heavy crossbow could he call Tang Tian to go.

Yu Xu said, "Yes!"

Yu Xu instantly consumed a black Medicinal Pill, and his Cultivation stage went from Lianqi Fifth Level to Qi Refinement stage eight.

He had actually jumped three levels directly, which left Tang Tian stunned...

Those three heavy crossbows were right near the Murong Family's city walls; once anyone climbed up, they would be instantly pierced by the heavy crossbows.

Never mind ordinary Cultivators, even a Lianqi Fifth Level Cultivator without Body Refining would die instantly.

It wasn't that these Cultivators hadn't climbed up; it was that the Cultivators who had climbed up were all killed by the three heavy crossbows.

Yu Xu pushed aside the crowd of Cultivators in front, arrived at the scaling ladder beneath where one heavy crossbow was placed, and directly ordered twenty-some Lianqi Fifth Level Cultivators and three Lianqi Sixth Level Cultivators to climb first...

Yu Xu followed behind them.

Yu Ping asked, "Yu Tian, do you think my father can destroy that heavy crossbow?"

Tang Tian said, "It's hard to say; I don't know the medicinal properties of that Medicinal Pill, so it's unclear."

In just over ten minutes of the siege, more than three thousand Gang Cultivators had already died, and the Yu Family Ancestor had no choice but to take action.

That was why he had sent Yu Xu out.

If the Yu Family Ancestor's Medicinal Pill was very powerful, then Yu Xu would be the third strongest person, apart from the Yu Family Ancestor and Murong Qi!

But because the Murong Family was behind high walls and deep ramparts, the 100,000 Medicinal Pills the Yu Family had prepared could not be used, which was very frustrating...