Chapter 245: What Does It Matter If I d*e a Thousand Times?
Accompanied by the thunderous sound of war drums, the scarred battlefield instantly fell into chaos.
On the battlefield, upon hearing Long Bang’s call, Shen Baiwei rushed towards the city gate without a second thought.
What is there to hesitate about?
She had witnessed the slaughter caused by the revived Shaman Queen a millennium later in the God Realm Yumen and knew how terrifying her power was.
And now, what was about to appear was the Shaman Queen in her prime!
However, crossing the battlefield to reach the walls of Yumen Pass was no easy task.
Ahead, the fear and despair created by the out-of-control Luxianbei drove the tribal warriors who rushed towards d*ath, trying to find a sliver of hope in d*ath. Under the assault of the defending Longxiang Army Armor Soldiers, they fell one by one like straw blown down by the wind, dwindling from tens of thousands to less than two thousand in less than a single breath.
Below the city wall, corpses lay scattered everywhere, leaving little room to stand.
Under the city wall, two thousand people clustered together, trampling over severed limbs and shattered flesh, even turning their blades on their fellow companions, trampling over those who were still alive and crying out for help, all in a desperate attempt to inch closer to that faint glimmer of hope.
As the war drums beat and news of the Shaman Queen’s approach spread, some among these two thousand began to place their hopes of survival towards the back and started to turn back towards the battlefield.
Some wanted to move forward, some were retreating, some were still in fear, and others were already prepared to fight to the d*ath… All gathered together, creating a scene of utter chaos.
On the periphery of the battlefield, Shen Baiwei, carrying the unconscious Luxianbei, drove the last remaining truck, charging in like a furious beast leaving.
In fact, her driving skills were poor; she could barely manage ordinary cars, and heavy vehicles like trucks were a bit much for her.
However…
In the current situation, driving skills had become irrelevant.
“d*mn it! Get out of my way, all of you!”
Shen Baiwei roared, slamming the accelerator to the floor as she barreled into a chaotic crowd.
In her ears, the dull sound of collisions, the ear-splitting noise of weapons scraping against each other, and the chilling screams arose one after another.
Before her eyes, the dazzling red of bl**d, internal organs, and shattered flesh ripped through the rolling thick smoke.
In the air, the acrid smell of burnt flesh mixed with the nauseating scent of bl**d surged violently.
The information and intense shocks brought by sight, hearing, and smell flooded into Shen Baiwei’s mind, causing her brain to feel as if it had short-circuited, briefly plunging her into a blank state.
It was as if she had become numb like many others on the battlefield, facing countless deaths, lost in a daze, just like a walking corpse.
When she stood beside Long Bang, she couldn’t even recall how she crawled out after the truck turned over among the crowd near the city wall, nor could she remember how she brought the unconscious Luxianbei through the vast crowd and climbed to the city wall.
Only the moon-white robe, stained dark red with bl**d, the bl**d-soaked arrow holes in her shoulder, the horrific injuries on her back exposing bone, her trembling hands from the slaughter and the intense consumption of spirit energy, and the fearful and awed gazes of the Longxiang Army Armor Soldiers… spoke silently of her passage through that chaotic crowd to the city wall.
Seeing Shen Baiwei, covered in bl**d, with a blank expression yet tightly holding onto Luxianbei, Long Bang furrowed his brows and patted her shoulder, saying, “Miss Shen, this place is not safe; let’s retreat!”
When Long Bang’s voice rang in Shen Baiwei’s ears, it jolted her awake from her daze, causing a sharp spasm in her stomach, almost making her vomit.
One must admit, the horrors created by a war are even more shocking and nauseating than the “waste room” piled with corpses in the Tethys Laboratory.
Seeing this, Long Bang stretched out his hands towards the ashen-faced, dazed Shen Baiwei, “Little Shen, leave it to me, alright? You are now…”
“…” Taking a few deep breaths to suppress the urge to vomit, Shen Baiwei looked at Long Bang, shook her head, and held Luxianbei even tighter.
“No need.”
That expression was just like a child who didn’t want anyone to take away their beloved doll.
Long Bang looked at Shen Baiwei and then at Luxianbei in her arms, sighed silently, turned around, and walked toward the nearby arrow tower, lifting the military flag lodged in it, shouting at the Longxiang Army Armor Soldiers on the city wall, “All listen up…”
“Archers and crossbowmen stay back to support our comrades outside the walls, the rest follow me as we retreat to the north!”
The military order was as solid as a mountain.
As Long Bang’s words fell, apart from the remaining two hundred archers and the thirty-six Longxiang Army Armor Soldiers on the arrow towers responsible for operating the alchemical crossbows, everyone took action, dragging their weary and wounded bodies, preparing to retreat.
Though reluctant, it was also due to the cold corpses of their comrades that they had no chance to take away beside them.
“Boom—!”
As the Longxiang Army Armor Soldiers on the city wall prepared and began to leave, the deafening sound of hooves thundered from the battlefield.
On the city wall, Shen Baiwei, walking alongside Long Bang, paused upon hearing the sound, turned to look outside the city, and saw over three hundred Longxiang Army cavalry surging like a dark tide from the horizon.
——
“k*ll—!”
The shout echoed.
Within a few breaths, the cavalry of the Longxiang Army crashed beneath the city wall.
In the blink of an eye, the surging “black tide” struck fiercely against the remnants below the city wall.
As the two armies collided, a deafening roar erupted, shaking the earth.
The nearly two thousand tribal warriors who had not managed to escape instinctively raised their weapons to counterattack.
However, with only one contact, they realized something was wrong.
The weapons in their hands struck the cavalry’s armor, making their hands tingle but only elicited a whinny from the steeds, failing to injure those Longxiang Army Armor Soldiers even slightly.
These over three hundred Longxiang Army cavalry were all spiritual ability users, enhanced with the powers of the Chihlong, and were the elite fighting against the monsters under the Shaman Queen, clearly not ones that these remnants could contend with.
Before they had time to think more, they were hoisted into the air by spears, then heavily slammed to the ground, trampled into pulp by the iron steeds that followed.
Thus, under the cover of the archers and crossbowmen, as the cavalry went back and forth, after two charges…
There were no survivors among the tribal warriors below the city wall…
After the charge, Longxiang, holding a bloodied spear, rode up to the front of the three hundred Longxiang Army cavalry, and he couldn’t help but look back at the city wall one last time.
In that moment of glance, his eyes met Long Bang’s on the city wall.
“Brother!”
A soft call reached him. Longxiang’s heart trembled, and he hurriedly retracted his gaze, turning his back to Long Bang and waving his hand.
Why haven’t you retreated yet? Did you take my words as wind passing by your ears?
However, seeing that brat for one last time is not too bad!
Ha! I always teach others not to show weakness on the battlefield, not to be distracted by personal feelings, yet here I am failing my own rules…
Longxiang thought self-deprecatingly, coldly shouting, “Scram! Who’s your brother? Your brother froze to d*ath in the winter years ago!”
Long Bang, “…”
———
The Longxiang Army Armor Soldiers on the city wall quickly finished their retreat, including the archers who followed Long Bang, leaving only over twenty injured veterans to replace the young soldiers operating the crossbows and remain on the city walls.
Long Bang had urged them, but it was no use.
As they put it, the war had taken their loved ones, taken their health, taken everything from them. Now they had a chance to personally put an end to this war, yet they had to retreat; that was more difficult than killing them.
When hundreds of fearsome-looking “monsters” came chasing, a dark cloud quickly enveloped the battlefield, countless flashes of lightning appeared within, and several winged monsters were concealed among the clouds.
When the Shaman Queen drove the fearsome beasts pulling the chariot and emerged from the throng of monsters, quietly gazing at the distant scene, a haunting spirit energy swept over.
It was as if the gates of hell had suddenly opened, releasing waves of anger, despair, and hatred…
From that door flowed an uncatchable torrent of emotions.
“Attack the city.”
He said casually.
With a single order, hundreds of “monsters” surged into the formation.
On the other side.
Seeing this, Longxiang tightened his grip on his spear, “Everyone, this is our last battle, are you afraid?”
“Not afraid!”
“Very good!” Longxiang nodded, channeling all his spirit energy, and with his loudest voice shouted, “Then, follow me… k*ll the enemies!”
As his words fell, he pointed his spear forward, fierce light surged forth, piercing the dark clouds gathering in the sky, allowing several beams of dull yellow moonlight to fall upon the earth.
“Understood!”
The more than three hundred Longxiang Army cavalry shouted in unison, their voices filled with soaring battle intent as if piercing through the skies.
Creating a turbulent whirlwind of dust in the air.
In that unified shout, Longxiang leaped from his horse, landing among the crowd of “monsters,” sweeping his spear, fierce light devouring, creating a space with a diameter of a hundred meters that no mortal could tread.
Then, he tightened his grip on the spear, slowly raised his head, and locked his gaze onto the ominous figure radiating a sinister aura, eyes wide with rage.
“Dare you battle with me?!”
With a roar, his voice thundered, stirring up rampant winds, followed by a surge of terrifying spirit energy. A massive illusion resembling a dragon took flight behind Longxiang, with a deafening roar shaking the heavens and instantly drenching the entire battlefield in torrential rain.
In the distance, the Shaman Queen coldly laughed at the scene, “Humph, seeking d*ath!”
As his words fell, he slowly stepped down from the chariot, walking towards Longxiang with each step. As he passed, the dark clouds churned above, resembling waves, and the rain columns falling from the clouds quickly turned crimson, filling the air with a suffocating stench.
He had long wished to eliminate Longxiang.
This guy was simply too much of an eyesore…
Ever since he assembled his army and began moving east, he had been unstoppable until he encountered Longxiang and the Yumen Pass.
Being stopped at the Yumen Pass for nearly a year was the greatest humiliation of his life.
To wash away this humiliation, he had to crush Longxiang and the entire Yumen Pass to dust!
———
Inside Yumen Pass.
Under Long Bang’s lead, the Longxiang Army Armor Soldiers hurried through the streets, quickly approaching the northern city.
A roar from the battlefield outside echoed, and the huge illusion of the Chihlong soared into the air, causing everyone to halt in their tracks, turning to look back.
Outside the city, the sky was overcast with dark clouds, the twisting figure of the Chihlong stirring up a violent storm accompanied by thunder and lightning.
And within that gradually transforming bl**d-red haze, darkness slowly emerged, the outline of the Shaman Queen emerged from within it, casting a chilling gaze towards the rampaging Chihlong, towards the Longxiang below, and towards the entire Yumen Pass.
Despair, hate, anger, and rising killing intent…
Various emotions that could shake one’s soul converged into a tangible, thick, dark torrent, surging forth.
Seeing this, Long Bang gritted his teeth and shouted, “Everyone, don’t look, retreat quickly!”
As his voice rang out, the young soldiers who had been staring blankly at the sky snapped back to their senses, slowly turning to continue forward.
“Boom—!”
A thunderous sound came, sending a jolt through everyone’s hearts, yet not a single person turned back.
“Roar—!”
The wail of the Chihlong echoed, and everyone’s peripheral vision turned to Long Bang, who remained resolutely facing forward on his horse, lowly growling, “Don’t look back!” Together, they gritted their teeth and continued forward until… Longxiang’s maniacal laughter resounded.
“Hahaha! This battle, I shall win!”
“If I can end the conflict and extinguish the flames of war with my life, what does it matter?”
“What does it matter if I d*e a thousand times—!”
“Whether dead or alive, what does it matter if I d*e a thousand times—!”
Outside the city, the Longxiang Army shouted in unison.
With their cries, the entire Yumen Pass trembled violently.
Having merged with the God Realm Yumen, Hong Bian activated the final killing move as agreed…
