Chapter 496

Crunch~

The heavy crossbows placed on the walls of Zhensha Pass were strung in unison, and then they were controlled by the battle cultivator crossbowmen to adjust the firing angle.

A sharp crossbow arrow pointed towards the sky.

These heavy crossbows were all first-order magic weapons, which had to be fired by cultivators, with a long range and strong power, easily piercing through black iron armor within a thousand paces, and with the ability to break the law.

A heavy crossbow is not terrible, shooting crossbow arrows even ordinary demonic beasts can dodge.

However, when the number of crossbows increased to hundreds or even thousands, the lethality of the shot was undoubtedly extremely horrific.

Over the centuries, I do not know how many sand people died tragically under this heavy crossbow.

However, today the Ying war cultivators are faced with countless large locusts.

In the face of the insects that were coming from all over the sky, the heavy crossbows that exceeded the number of three thousand also appeared to be sparse.

At the same time, a God Punishing Cannon was quickly pushed out by the war cultivators, shedding its crimson armor, and the black hole of the cannon’s muzzle glowed with a faint aura of radiance.

This was the real killing weapon equipped by Zhen Sha Guan, a magic treasure that was said to be capable of killing Jindan with a single blast of ten miles of destruction!

There were a total of twelve God-Exorcising Cannons, which were arranged on specially designed gun towers, and the gunners were all peak Qi Practicing Cultivators.

Normally, only when the Great Ying City is in great danger, the God Execution Cannon will be deployed.

Now that the locust army had not yet arrived, the God Punishing Cannon had already been activated, indicating that Grand Commander Kou Shihai felt that there was such a need.

And this made the battle cultivators stationed at the city walls uncontrollably nervous.

Everyone was silent and waiting.

The atmosphere was grave to the extreme.

At this moment in the sky, thousands of locust vanguards were approaching Zhensha Pass.

The weng chirping sound emitted by the millions of pairs of winged wings trembling was like a magical sound filling the brain, destroying the eardrums of the cultivators!

Snapping!

A large locust at the forefront crashed into the formation barrier, bursting into bright flames, and then shattered into a wisp of green smoke.

Zhensha Pass’s protective spell formation is the most important part of the Great Ying City’s protective spell formation, not only does it have a powerful and unrivaled protective ability, but it can also rebound and counterattacks from the enemy’s attacks.

This large locust was like a moth that was fighting a fire, and it was also fighting a mountain fire.

There was no surprise in the result.

However, immediately afterward hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of large locusts swarmed and swooped down on the spell barrier.

Some of them crashed and burst into flames, some blazed up, but many more plopped down on the translucent barrier, opened their jaws and teeth then tore desperately with their claws before being destroyed by the force of the spell formation’s counterattack.

Countless locust corpses, and their remnants of ash fell from the air.

It was as if a black rain had fallen!

But this was just the beginning, these locusts did not have any sense to speak of, they went forward and backward, ignoring the death of their own kind, a batch of extinguished a batch of then pounced on.

As if endless!

If only compared to the individual, a large locust compared to the city guard formation, the power can be said to be as small as dust.

However, when their numbers reached a considerable order of magnitude, the pressure borne by the spell formation barrier began to grow, and even showed a hint of instability!

Right at this moment, the battle cultivators stationed on the city walls moved.

Thousands of battle cultivators waved their hands in unison, and thousands of scorching hot fireballs flew into the sky at the same time.

The flaming orbs passed through the mana barrier without any stagnation and exploded in the middle of the locust army.

A blaze of flames bloomed high above the sky!

Countless locusts were blown apart and set ablaze, falling towards the ground in droves.

Wave after wave of attacks from the battle cultivators cleared a large portion of the airspace without utilizing heavy crossbow weapons.

However, the number of locusts was simply too many, and both sides quickly fell into a battle of attrition.

It should be said that the Battle Cultivators had the complete upper hand, as they could comfortably cast spells to strike their opponents on the city walls, while the locust army could not break through the spell formation barrier, so they could not hurt the Cultivators in the slightest.

This was the power of the city protection spell formation, giving the defenders a great advantage.

However, as time passed, the first batch of warrior cultivators quickly ran out of mana and were forced to retreat to take pills to regain their breath.

The second batch of battle cultivators continued to top it off.

At this time, new locusts appeared.

The new locusts were smaller in size, and the color of their bodies was black and red, but their flight speed was faster and more agile.

Terrifyingly, they possessed a certain degree of spiritual intelligence and were able to dodge the fireballs cast out by the battle cultivators, moving with great agility.

This greatly reduced their own casualties and increased the burden on the battle cultivators.

Their target was always the city guard formation, and they would desperately bite and destroy it when they landed on it, exacerbating the consumption of the formation.

For a while, the battle was at a stalemate!

At the same moment, Wang Dust, who was on top of the Seven Star Pavilion, met Kou Shihai who hurriedly arrived.

Previously, Wang Dust had been watching from the sidelines without making a move.

Because his duty was to guard the Seven Star Pavilion, he could not act without the orders of the Chancellor.

Otherwise, it would be easy to destroy the other party’s layout, causing unforeseen consequences!

I didn’t expect Kou Shihai to arrive in person.

This Chancellor opened the door and said, “Senior Brother Wang, I need your help.”

Without thinking, Wang Duan replied, “Go ahead.”

The two were not considered true allies, but they had long established a good relationship, and it was only right to support and help each other.

Kou Shihai said in a deep voice, “I suspect that locusts have come to the city.”

“Locusts?”

Wang Duan froze, “Locusts of locusts?”

This name was not generally odd.

“That’s right!”

The ones that were frantically attacking Zhensha Pass right now were a type of demonized locust that inhabited the inside of the desert.

It was called: the Sand Locust.

This demonized locust was very large and would erupt every ten years or so, attacking and destroying oases in the desert.

Afterwards, it lays its eggs into the deep sand until it breaks through the sand again after a decade or so.

The cycle repeats itself.

It was said that the sand locusts could survive for a long time by gnawing on the sand, and they were originally the biggest threat to the sand people, but later on, they were researched by the sorcerers in the Sand Clan who developed the method of controlling them and utilized them against their enemies.

This was not the first time that Zhensha Pass had been attacked by sand locusts!

Before launching an attack, the Sand Clan will send a carefully trained “locust” to infiltrate the city of Ying.

This locust is equivalent to a humanoid bait, once the power of the bloodline is stimulated, it can attract hundreds of millions of sand locusts to flock to the attack effect.

Based on past battle examples, Kou Shihai judged that the Sand Clan was playing the same routine again.

If this locust son was not dug out, then the sand locusts would die in battle until the last one, or else they would never stop.

Although it is delusional to rely on such a tactic to capture Great Ying City, the price paid by Great Ying City is also quite high.

The most troublesome thing is that the sand tribe hunting cultivators will take the opportunity to bypass the Zhensha Pass to sneak into the Western Sea spiritual domain, attacking the rear of the big Ying City.

Once the power of the Great Ying City is held back, then the damage caused by the hunting cultivators will be very great!