Chapter 383 Siege of Yueqing Immortal City
Feng Buji's words brought smiles to everyone's faces, greatly lightening the mood. Yu Qingtan also smiled faintly, expressing her gratitude.
"Qing Tan, your heroic feat this time will surely be recorded in the annals of history, becoming a legendary tale of our Human Race against the Sea Clan invasion!" Star River True Immortal said with a sense of wonder.
Yu Qingtan shook her head gently, modestly saying, "I've only done what I ought to do, contributing my effort for the Human Race. Moreover, the success of this operation wouldn't have been possible without the support and coordination of all fellow Daoists here."
Soon, the cultivators of Immortal City all learned about Yu Qingtan single-handedly annihilating three cities of the Sea Clan, which greatly inspired them and filled them with awe for Qing Tan.
Yu Qingtan also successfully healed Fairy Chunzhen's injuries with the Revive the Dead, Exterminate the Living technique and treated other injured cultivators as well, leading everyone to hold even more respect for Qing Tan.
Three days later, as expected, the Sea Clan's vast army returned to Immortal City, determined to avenge the slaughter of the three cities.
In addition to those who had previously besieged Immortal City, the Sea Clan had called upon all others rampaging in different areas, making it so that, with the exception of the Sea Sovereign, all members of the Sea Clan attacking Wendao Sect had arrived.
The Sea Clan's mighty army was vast and formidable. Outside Immortal City, thirty-zhang high tidal surges caused by the Sea Clan enveloped the city, submerging more than half of its fifty-zhang high walls.
Up in the heavens, dark clouds crowded the sky, as if enveloping everything with an invisible oppressive force. The Canglong Clan's heads were held high, their dragon eyes flickering with ferocity. Their massive bodies churned in the sky, moving through the clouds like giant dragons.
The Bibo Kun Clan's Kunpeng spread their wings, eclipsing the sun and sky. With every flap, they raised huge waves from the water below. The Illusory Void Jellyfish of the jellyfish clan floated in the air, their transparent bodies emitting a faint blue glow, their beauty hiding deadly dangers within.
Beneath them, the lower-ranking members of the Sea Clan were numerous and densely packed, both in the sea and sky, forming an immense monster that threatened to swallow Immortal City whole.
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The eyes of the Sea Clan flickered with malevolent light, and their continuous roaring sounds shook the heavens and the earth.
The cultivators within the city felt a surge of tension and pressure as they watched the Sea Clan's army draw nearer.
They knew that the Sea Clan had come for vengeance, and their numbers and strength far exceeded those of the previous attack. The cultivators gripped their weapons tightly, determination gleaming in their eyes. They knew they had to unite and fend off the Sea Clan's onslaught together.
Atop the city walls, Yu Qingtan stood shoulder to shoulder with the other cultivators, her gaze intense as she stared at the distant Sea Clan army. She knew that this battle would be incredibly tough, yet she believed that with everyone's concerted efforts, they could defeat the Sea Clan.
To defend against the Sea Clan's counterattack, she had set up a Fourth-Stage superior Five Elements Qiankun Formation outside the existing Ten Extremes Protective Array of Immortal City.
Had time allowed, she would have arranged several more. However, she had distributed a stack of Attack Talismans and a stack of Defense Talismans to every cultivator in the city because she had so many resources at her disposal.
The two sides didn't waste words or engage in verbal battles. The Sea Clan army began its attack, surging towards the city walls like a tide.
The Canglong Clan's Dragon Breath was expelled forcefully, creating streams of black water that tried to corrode the city walls and the light membrane of the Formation.
The Bibo Kun Clan used their Tidal Surge to attack, while the other members of the Sea Clan either used their sharp claws and beaks or various spells to attack. The cultivators in the city relied on the Formation to counterattack.
The Fourth Stage Sea Kings also began to attack the Protective City Formation. With as many as eight hundred Fourth Stage Sea Kings in this assault, the cultivators within the city could not allow them to attack the formation unabated, otherwise, even the double-layered Fourth-Stage high-grade formations would not withstand.
Therefore, Yu Qingtan had most of the Nascent Soul True Immortals in the city head out to battle. However, except for invincible experts like True Immortal Wu Di and True Immortal Xu Fang, the rest primarily focused on containment warfare.
Yu Qingtan arranged for two Third Stage Array Master Nascent Soul True Immortals to preside over the city's formations, with True Immortal Xinghe and Fairy Qi Xun coordinating the entire battlefield before she herself also went out to kill.
Yu Qingtan used "Love's Protection" to elevate her cultivation level to the Nascent Soul Late Stage, then executed the Five Elements Qiankun Escape, instantly arriving beside an isolated Fourth Stage early-stage Bibo Kun King. She unleashed the Spirit Fixation Technique, Five Elements Primordial Fist, "Revive the Dead, Exterminate the Living" Technique, and the Soul-Purging Bewilderment Technique simultaneously.
This Bibo Kun King couldn't even let out a scream before losing its not-too-precious life, its body taken by Yu Qingtan as spoils of war.
Then, Yu Qingtan's figure disappeared as she searched for her next target.
Although Yu Qingtan was not convenient to openly use the techniques of Hundred Beasts Mountain, she still, by virtue of the Five Elements Qiankun Escape, Trace Concealment Technique, Spirit Fixation Technique, Five Elements Primordial Fist, "Revive the Dead, Exterminate the Living" Technique, and Soul-Purging Bewilderment Technique, became a ghostly assassin on the battlefield, reaping the lives of Fourth Stage Sea Kings.
Yu Qingtan's performance on the battlefield was like that of a ghostly assassin, her silhouette weaving through the enemy ranks, with each appearance followed by the fall of a Fourth Stage Sea King.
Her mastery of Dao Techniques was flawless, whether it was the instant displacement of the Five Elements Qiankun Escape or the invisibility of Trace Concealment Technique, both of which allowed her to move through the battlefield effortlessly.
As time passed, panic began to set in among the Sea Clan army. They noticed that every time a Fourth Stage Sea King was killed, Yu Qingtan's silhouette would vanish immediately, as if she had never been there at all.
The Fourth Stage Sea Kings started to stick together, but to no avail. Even when dozens of Sea Kings clustered together, Yu Qingtan could still find gaps in their defense and slay them one by one.
The invisible pressure caused the Sea Clan army to fall into disarray, and their offensive gradually weakened, while Yu Qingtan grew more and more valiant. Her figure continued to flit across the battlefield, each strike precise and lethal.
On the Human Race cultivators' side, boosted by Yu Qingtan's performance, morale surged enormously. It was only now that they were getting a concrete sense of the power of Fairy Qingtan, the one who slaughtered the Sea Clan of three cities.
However, under the command of True Immortal Xinghe and Fairy Qi Xun, they still primarily focused on defense and containment.
True Immortal Wu Di felt intense pressure. Once boasting to be invincible in the Southeast Region and having a ten-year agreement with Yu Qingtan, he now lacked the confidence that he could defeat Yu Qingtan.
Amongst Ah Ji's incessant chatter, True Immortal Wu Di also unleashed the majority of his strength, slaying one Sea King after another while secretly resolving to achieve Divinity Transformation before the battle with Yu Qingtan.
True Immortal Xu Fang, though lofty and aloof, subconsciously did not want to be thoroughly outdone by Fairy Qingtan, hence he also gave his full effort, seizing the lives of the Sea Kings.
Other powerful True Immortals, unwilling to be outdone, performed beyond their normal capabilities and killed Sea Kings. Under their concerted efforts, more than two hundred Sea Kings had fallen in just half a day.
As time went on, the tide of the battlefield began to tilt toward the Human Race cultivators. With Fairy Qingtan's ghostly figure weaving through the battleground, each appearance snatched away the life of a Fourth Stage Sea King, greatly demoralizing the Sea Clan army and further weakening their assault.
The commanders of the Sea Clan, those high-ranking powerful members, began to feel desperation and helplessness. They watched their own kin fall one after another, yet unable to find an effective countermeasure against this phantom-like assassin.