169: Chapter 169 A mere giant? Does he even know of Erlang Shen's seventy-three transformations?

A Divine General of the Giant Race?

Rock Giant!

Combat power: mid-stage Peak Realm!

While Xu Xuan wasn't paying attention, these Zerg giants actually tried to pull off a deception by digging underground!

They dug a massive tunnel underground to slowly transport the Divine General of the Giant Race.

The Divine General of the Giant Race was curled into a ball, and beneath him were dense swarms of Army Ants, transporting this massive giant.

The Rock Giant's muscles were all shaped like rocks; even his pectoral muscles and other vital areas were covered in clumps of yellowish-brown rock.

Such a giant had actually been hidden underground, attempting to give Xu Xuan a surprise.

If they had truly finished digging an underground tunnel, they could have led the Zerg directly past the wall of trees formed by the camphor spirit wood.

That really would have been a "king-bomb" level surprise for everyone in the territory.

Fortunately, this scene was discovered by Yang Jian and Bai Qi; otherwise, the consequences would have been unthinkable.

The Zerg and the Giant Race truly wouldn't give up, constantly coming to harass them.

To be honest, Xu Xuan couldn't just ignore it anymore; at the very least, he had to uproot the nearby Zerg hives!

However, the immediate priority was to eliminate these bastards digging holes underground.

At this moment, within the fissure, the Rock Giant slowly opened his eyes. Realizing he could no longer hide, he simply stopped trying!

The Rock Giant lunged out of the fissure as countless stone fragments rose from the ground, coalescing into a massive rock hammer hundreds of meters long in his hands.

He swung it violently toward the city wall, attempting to destroy the wall and the camphor spirit wood behind it.

Just as the giant hammer was about to fall, a white shadow flew out and collided with it!

Yang Jian flew out, blocking the descending strike.

Before the massive rock hammer, Yang Jian's three-pointed double-edged spear was as tiny as a toothpick.

When the two weapons collided, they produced a visible shockwave.

Despite being minuscule compared to the Rock Giant, Yang Jian easily blocked this world-shattering hammer strike.

Though it looked easy, it was actually no simple feat.

The Rock Giant was a Divine General of the Giant Race, and his full-powered strike was incredibly potent.

Yet, the strength of his opponent only served to invigorate Yang Jian's spirit.

"None of you come over; I will deal with this giant!"

The Rock Giant was about a hundred zhang tall, which, converted to modern scales, was roughly over 330 meters.

His two eyeballs alone were already larger than Yang Jian.

The Rock Giant glared with wide eyes, looking at Yang Jian as if he were an ant.

"Just you, human runt? You're not even enough to fill the gaps between my teeth."

The Rock Giant possessed some intelligence and even knew how to mock the insignificance of the Human Race.

But by now, Xu Xuan had entered the mid-stage of the Spiritual Qi Recovery, and some of Erlang Shen's divine power had already begun to unlock.

Everyone knows Sun Wukong has Seventy-Two Transformations, but few know that Erlang Shen has one more than the Great Sage Sun; he knows Seventy-Three Transformations.

A mere giant?

Erlang Shen's lips moved slightly as he silently recited an incantation.

In the next moment, a giant god, nearly identical in size to the Rock Giant, suddenly rose from the ground.

The Rock Giant, who had just been looking down on Yang Jian, now had to lift his head and look up at Yang Jian, who was even taller than him.

Wait, what?

Hold on?

This is called the Human Race?

In the Struggle for Supremacy Among Ten Thousand Races, you call this the Human Race?

The Rock Giant's hard head stalled and stopped functioning the moment he saw Yang Jian's form.

It was...

quite sudden, to be honest.

But Yang Jian gave him no chance to daze out.

After Yang Jian grew larger, the three-pointed double-edged spear in his hand also became massive.

He delivered a swift and violent downward strike, smashing directly onto the Rock Giant's head.

Instantly, stone fragments shattered and scattered as a large chunk was broken off the Rock Giant's head.

Along with the shattering of the rock on his head, blood flowed from the cracks in the stone.

This Rock Giant was, after all, a being of flesh and blood; beneath the skin under the rock, blood still flowed.

"How dare you!"

The hundred-zhang-tall Rock Giant's eyes turned blood-red as he swung his massive rock hammer to collide with Yang Jian's divine weapon.

The battle between the two sides was exceptionally fierce, but Yang Jian had said that no one else should interfere.

Although the other Divine Generals were itching for a fight, they still gave Yang Jian his due respect.

As for the battle below, it was even more intense!

While Yang Jian dealt with the Rock Giant, his ten thousand soldiers from the Divine General Camp formed a human wall to block the Zerg Swarm and protect the weak laborers behind them.

The laborers fled in panic, while behind them were the elites of the Divine General Camp, personally trained by Yang Jian.

These elite soldiers were all clad in heavy armor and armed to the teeth.

In their hands, they held divine weapons forged from Vibranium metal, which could channel the Battle Qi from their bodies.

They coordinated with each other, with the front row holding sabers and shields and the back row holding long spears, forming a spear-and-shield formation.

The front-row soldiers raised their shields, their Battle Qi gathering on the shields to form a shield wall.

The back-row soldiers held long spears over three meters long, their tips condensing energy; a single thrust could easily pierce through the Zerg's hard shells.

The Army Ants charged forward wave after wave but were blocked outside the Battle Qi shield wall, as sabers and long spears harvested the Zerg Swarm.

"Three, two, one, push!"

As the officers in the unit shouted the command, the shield wall advanced three steps.

The Zerg Swarms pouring out of the underground fissures were forcibly pushed back underground by the Divine General Camp.

On the other side, Bai Qi noticed another fissure appearing in the distance.

He shouted, "Great Qin Elites! Set shields, ready crossbows!"

With a loud boom, the ten thousand Great Qin Elites slammed their shields into the soil and drew the crossbows from their backs.

Propping their crossbows on the shields, they began to aim at the distant fissure.

A large number of Army Ants crawled out from underground, attempting to attack the laborers with low combat power.

These ten thousand Great Qin Elites condensed their Battle Qi into arrows and fired them from their crossbows!

Ten thousand arrows were fired at once, and the arrows condensed from Battle Qi rained down.

The charging Zerg Swarms burst with green ichor one by one, wailing as they fell dead.

The arrows condensed from Battle Qi would explode directly after piercing into the Zerg shells.

One could see these Army Ants, as large as calves, their hard shells blasted full of holes and green juice flowing out.

The Great Qin Elites were frantically firing Battle Qi arrows; the Qin army loved using crossbows the most.

And when Bai Qi trained his soldiers, he also chose his own methods.

These Great Qin Elites were no ordinary ranged unit.

Not only did they have to master the skill of hitting a willow leaf from a hundred paces, but they also had to learn close-quarters combat techniques, with training even more rigorous than that of ordinary units.

And for the soldiers who could be selected, their benefits and treatment were also excellent.

Their wives and children could live in the city center and enjoy better benefits.

Under the cover of these soldiers, the vassal laborers like Jung Jae-soo were able to return safely inside the city walls.

From the high tower, Xu Xuan watched this scene, having essentially confirmed the results of his ten years of troop training.

The combat power of these newly nurtured soldiers was not something ordinary armies could compare to.

After briefly testing their practical combat capabilities, Xu Xuan did not want them to waste too much stamina.

"Throw smoke barrels! Smoke out all the insects in the tunnels!"

"Yang Jian, I'll give you ten minutes to wrap this up quickly! Otherwise, I'll let the other generals join in."

Xu Xuan had no time to watch Yang Jian duel the Rock Giant; he had to quickly slaughter these invaders and find their lair!