28: In terms of deployment of troops, the advantage is mine!

Playing human wave tactics in a Xuanhuan World?

If this were Jiang Feng’s previous life, upon hearing such news...

Everyone would probably rush to mock him immediately.

Are you crazy?

To play human wave tactics against Cultivators? Someone could casually cast a Spell and directly wipe out your entire group!

Even if Qi Refining Cultivators aren’t very skilled at using Spells, their Qi is almost infinite. They could kill you one by one, and no matter how many people you have, it wouldn’t be enough for them to kill.

However, in this current world, in the Huaxia Federation, people truly don’t understand this point.

Although Jiang Feng showed everyone the settings from Qi Refining to Golden Core, and even thoughtfully included some CG cutscenes.

But everyone just felt that Cultivators were indeed powerful, a bit like supermen, and the system was novel, but that was about it.

If I gather a few hundred or a few thousand people, and you only have a few dozen Cultivators, can you really turn the world upside down?

After all, in traditional Wuxia games, no matter how formidable a Martial Arts Great Master is, if he encounters an army, he still has to run away.

So, Watermelon Prince had a bit of path dependence. After triggering the pursuit quest, he immediately started making flashy moves, using Cultivation Techniques to win over the people of the town, uniting them to resist the pursuers together.

Watermelon Prince was quite manipulative; if some townspeople were unwilling to help, he would display his Qi Refining strength and force them to join.

This immediately sparked a flurry of discussion in the bullet comments:

“Damn, Prince is still such a scumbag!”

“He’s practically inhuman, really doesn’t treat these NPCs as people, does he?”

“Good heavens, that farmer just now didn’t want to help, and Prince immediately hit him three times in one second!”

“After seeing Prince’s actions, I finally understand why we need to oppose returning to ancient ways.”

Watermelon Prince was now a full-blown tyrant, frantically conscripting men, almost gathering everyone in the entire town.

The audience all expressed that if ancient times were like this, they definitely wouldn't want to return to them!

Moreover, Watermelon Prince was particularly inhumane; not only was he conscripting men, but he also demanded that these people dismantle their own houses and pile all the materials together to build defenses centered around the martial arts hall.

Good heavens, he alone was a calamity of war!

In fact, if one paid a little attention, they would be able to notice it now.

Watermelon Prince, merely a Qi Refining First Level, a newly initiated Cultivator, could command nearly ten thousand Mortals in an entire town.

He even ordered these Mortals to dismantle houses, and no one dared to resist.

This already indicated that the Mortals’ fear of Cultivators was ingrained in their bones.

And this fear came from repeated bloody suppressions and displays of immense power.

So... making these Mortals fight stronger Cultivators?

“We will win!”

Watermelon Prince stood on a high platform, full of confidence.

He glanced at the bullet comments, saw that streamers like Old Potato were also watching, and immediately laughed:

“Brothers, watch my moves this time. Once I clear this pursuit quest, you can all follow suit.

“Hey, when you use this tactic later, don’t forget to mention me for mutual traffic, alright!

“Old Potato, you ask what if these people don’t cooperate? Heh, simple. I’ll only let the able-bodied young men be the vanguard and main force, issuing them some weapons from the town’s warehouse. All the other children, elderly, and women will be rounded up and used specifically to threaten them!

“Who says I’m cruel? This is just a temporary measure. As long as we repel the pursuers, I will release the people afterwards.”

Good heavens.

Watermelon Prince was truly good at stirring up trouble.

He was also afraid that these Mortals would flee the battle at the last minute, breaking the formation for nothing.

So he specifically imprisoned the families of these able-bodied young men to threaten them, forcing them to fight the Cultivators.

“This time, it’s thousands against dozens. The advantage is mine!”

Watermelon Prince excitedly waved his fist towards the sky... Outside the town, the Cultivators from Duan Kong Cave had already arrived.

They observed for a while from a distance, then all burst into laughter.

“They want to resist us?”

“With just these Mortals?”

“Very imaginative.”

The Cultivators laughed heartily.

There was no worry, no anger, just amusement.

“Senior Brother, how should we handle this?”

Everyone’s gaze fell upon the leading Cultivator.

Luo Bi’an, who possessed a Qi Refining Ninth Level cultivation, narrowed his eyes:

“That kid should have no Spiritual Root, but he suddenly entered the Qi Refining Realm. Clearly, someone is secretly helping him.

“It seems someone wants to provoke our Duan Kong Cave, hmph.”

Luo Bi’an thought for a moment longer, then said, “This town cannot be left. Kill everyone, and make an example for other places, so they can weigh the consequences of provoking us.”

A single command to eradicate over ten thousand people was an extremely terrifying thing in any era.

But in the Xuanhuan World, it seemed so effortless, and no one even objected.

It was just a town of ten thousand people, what did it count for?

Many large cities of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people had also been annihilated by Cultivators, and no Cultivator was seen crying out for justice.

A Junior Brother asked, “Then, Senior Brother, should we go back and call Junior Martial Uncle and the others over? We have so few people; it might still take some time to clear out a town, and we don’t want them to escape.”

Luo Bi’an shook his head and pulled out a palm-sized Talisman from his embrace: “This is the Lightning Summoning Talisman bestowed upon me by my Master. It can be activated by a Qi Refining Cultivator. Although it takes a considerable amount of time to draw down heavenly lightning after activation, those Mortals will absolutely not be able to cause trouble during that time.”

The Lightning Summoning Talisman, a seventh-grade Talisman, could be activated by a Qi Refining Cultivator.

It required a long period of infusing spiritual energy to draw a massive thundercloud into the sky, unleashing heavenly lightning upon the ground.

It was generally used for Cultivators to familiarize themselves with the Lightning Tribulation in advance, but it could also be used against large-scale targets, such as cities.

With the Lightning Summoning Talisman, the annihilation of Qinghe Town was almost just a matter of time... At this moment, Watermelon Prince was still deploying his forces.

As expected of a strategy game streamer, in a very short time, he had assembled an army.

He directly opened the government warehouse in the town, finding many broadswords, long spears, and bows and arrows, and crucially, a hundred sets of armor.

He even specifically found craftsmen who could repair city walls among the townspeople, then immediately searched online for some rapid city-building methods, teaching them all to these craftsmen.

In a short while, proper castles were erected, much sturdier than those built by Midnight Gao Sou and his group. The most crucial part was that they were garrisoned by archers, and armored warriors were ready to sally forth from within.

Watermelon Prince even gathered warhorses, immediately forming a cavalry unit of about a hundred men.

If this were truly a traditional ancient-style game, his setup would be enough to start conquering cities and territories.

The bullet comments in the live stream also shifted from initial amusement to shock:

“Holy cow, Prince really knows how to play!”

“I originally thought he was just playing human wave tactics, but now it seems he really knows how to raise an army!”

“Wait a minute, don’t you guys think the martial spirit in this game world is a bit too abundant? A town of ten thousand people actually has thousands of knives, over a thousand bows, over a hundred sets of armor, and can even field over a hundred cavalry? Isn’t Qinghe Town supposed to be very peaceful?”

“The martial spirit does seem a bit abundant. Maybe Jiang Feng intended for players to break through from this aspect when he made it?”

“So Prince actually played it right?”

Watching the bullet comments, Watermelon Prince was also grinning happily.

If he could be the first on the entire network to break through the quest, his traffic would soar!

“Streamer, look at the sky!”

“What is that?”

“Dark clouds?”

Something was wrong?

Watermelon Prince quickly looked up, and was immediately dumbfounded.