Under Vast Heaven's command, small groups of people would continuously split up from the large group and dash into the forest nearby to the left or right.
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They had run for less than six miles before Silver Wolf and the others entered a flat government-made road. Their field of vision became wide.
There was a black mass of cavaliers standing there, and they seemed to have been waiting for a long time over there.
A small commotion broke out in Mu Clan's team.
"There's someone over there!"
"Damn it, they sure are fast!"
"Slaughter our way out!"
"Wait, they're friendly forces!"
He quickly stopped the clan members who were about to attack.
The group of people were instantly stunned. "Friendly forces?"
When the rider rode near, they noticed that he did indeed not have three blood drops serving as his sect emblem on his c.h.e.s.t. Instead, it was a rather elegant emblem they had never seen before.
"I am Wu Kuo, Wind Assault Tower's vice tower master. My tower master and I are acting according to your second clan master's orders to lead two thousand of our tower members to receive all of you! Everyone, you've fought hard!"
At the end, his eyes sparkled, and he sincerely showed the admiration as well as respect in his heart.
Because Wu Kuo could see from Silver Wolf and the others that they were all covered in wounds. They had wounds from arrows, sabers, and axes. Some of them even had their armor so badly damaged that they were already badly contorted. When he looked over, he found the sight terrifying to behold.
This group of people had broken out of the encirclement formed by tens of thousands of Towering Palace members and got out of Yangzhou City!
"I see, so you're our friends from Wind Assault Tower. Brother Wu, we meet again."
"Big Brother Silver Wolf." Wu Kuo might not be very young, but when he stood in front of Silver Wolf, he treated himself as a junior, allowing the Mu Clan members to feel honored.
Silver Wolf did not bother about it too much. He asked with a solemn tone, "Let's cut to the chase. We've already received Happy's letter, and those from Towering Palace are already chasing after us. What are your plans?"
Wu Kuo smiled.
"We'll fight!"
Chapter 762 - War Outside the City
War!
This was Phantasmal Shadow's decision and choice!
One of the reasons that drove her to make the decision was because Happy was already very close to Yangzhou, and he will soon arrive at the place.
The second reason was because she did not want to leave behind a bad impression on Happy and make him think that she was using the chance that Mu Clan was in danger and was thinking about subsequently using Happy's prestige to gain some benefits from this.
Wind Assault Tower must contribute, show their stance, and display their strength, otherwise, they will not be able to find their footing in the Chinese world of martial artists. They will not be able to take the mantle of the fourth top-class sect in the game!
'Not only will we need to fight this battle, we must also do it well.'
Phantasmal Shadow stared at the forces from Mu Clan drawing closer to them, and she made her decision in her heart.
Silver Wolf had managed to break out of the city with only more than a little more than three hundred men while he was under the encirclement of more than tens of thousands of enemy soldiers. This was a great battle achievement and glory.
If Wind Assault Tower's two thousand soldiers could not even block one single charge from Towering Place, they can only dream about doing anything great and forget about standing at the same level as Mu Clan, Class One Hall, and Chivalry Sect!
Phantasmal Shadow said nothing. She made a gesture, and her group calmly split up to form a path so that Mu Clan could get through.
Silver Wolf walked ahead of the others, but he soon lingered at the back of the group, and in the end, he stayed beside Phantasmal Shadow.
Along with him were Little North and around one hundred Mu Clan elites who were injured relatively lightly and had recovered from their injuries. This group of people who slaughtered their way out of Yangzhou City had at least ten or twenty Towering Palace members' blood in their hands, and each of them were stained with a bloody and grim air.
Phantasmal Shadow usually disliked this presence, but when she saw the fighting will on the Mu Clan members' faces and their unyielding gazes despite the fact that they were injured, she was still deeply shocked.
"Big Brother Silver Wolf, you can let me handle those people from Towering Palace. Please go to the back and rest for a while."
"This bit of injury is nothing," Silver Wolf said calmly, "What I want to do the most right now is to kill more Towering Palace members."
He stopped talking for a moment before he said to Phantasmal Shadow, "Tower Master Shadow, Towering Palace only has Vast Heaven and Grim Green who can serve as a threat to you, and Wind Assault Tower should be able to handle the rest, but there are more than thirty of those elites from America. You must be careful of them. These people all have strengths equal to Grim Green."
Phantasmal Shadow said nothing, only frowned.
Even though there were countless battle replays of the battle at Mu Clan's branch in Yangzhou City, most of them were recorded from the distance. The real elites did not release any battle replays, and there were only some battle replays that showed shocking instant kills, causing no one to truly understand the situation inside. Hence, Phantasmal Shadow did not know the details inside.
However, based on how Silver Wolf and the others managed to rush out of Yangzhou City, she thought that it should not be hard for them to block off those Towering Palace members for a while.
But now, when she heard Silver Wolf heaping such praises on those people, her gaze when she stared at the black dots at the horizon instantly became much grimmer, and she no longer insisted on charging at Towering Palace's forces with just her own tower members.
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Rumble! Rumble!
The people from Towering Palace chased after Mu Clan's team in frenzy. When their scouts came back to tell them that a large group of people with unknown identities had appeared ahead of them and had met up with Mu Clan's people, their group slowed down.
"A group with unknown identities? How many are there?"
"Two thousand!"
"That isn't a big number, but it isn't small either."
Vast Heaven was shocked. Right now, he had an inexplicable fear toward the people who appeared outside Yangzhou City. It had to be known that Mu Clan's four thousand had already gotten rid of more than twenty thousand of Towering Palace's members, and he brought less than five thousand outside this time. His forces at the back were also rather scattered.
"Are they Mu Clan's forces?" Grim Green asked with a sense of urgency.
"I don't think so. Mu Clan's forces have to get through our blockades, and it's impossible for them to get here. Before our attack against the branch, no one has ever entered this region."
"Then who are they?"
Grim Green and Vast Heaven looked at each other at a loss.
"They stopped. By the looks of it, once they gather together, they're prepared to fight against us!"
The replies from the scouts caused their hearts to become even heavier.
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"What should we do now?"
"Happy is on his way to Yangzhou. If we continue fighting, we might have to fight against Happy outside the city."
Grim Green and Vast Heaven talked about this quietly.
Rumble!
At that moment, the ground trembled, and it seemed like even more people caught up to them.
Before they turned their heads around, someone had already reported the situation to them.
"The palace master heard about the situation and sent reinforcements. She sent word that you are to kill all the forces across you regardless of the cost."
"
The palace master sent people over?"
Vast Heaven and Grim Green looked at each other and immediately sensed that this time, their palace master might have already made up her mind, and she will not rest until she accomplished her goal!
With one order, thousands of soldiers executed their formation, and they began charging forward on the plains!
Rumble!
The ground trembled violently under the horses' hooves!
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Even if the Wind Assault Tower members were prepared to face the charge from thousands of martial artists, at that moment, when they truly faced it, it was another situation entirely.
The astonishing momentum caused by a charge made by thousands of people formed an invisible force that pointed straight at them.
Their horses shuddered.
Their formation began showing slight signs of disorder.
The astonishing presence instantly destroyed the calm momentum those two thousand forces built up.
Phantasmal Shadow noticed the situation immediately, and she had shock appear on her face. She cried out for her people to stay in formation.
"You're using a defensive formation on a plain?" Silver Wolf was a little speechless.
Phantasmal Shadow might be smart, but she was clearly lacking in experience.
"You will either charge, or all of us will die here!"
Those two simple phrases gave Phantasmal Shadow a choice.
When she saw that the intensity of the rumbles from the ground were getting stronger, and her enemy's momentum had reached its peak, Phantasmal Shadow became incredibly anxious.
If they charged forward now, they will not be able to build up their momentum at all, and they will still be in absolute disadvantage.
"Listen to me, I won't harm you!" Silver Wolf brought out a batch of boomerangs from his Universe Bag, and his expression was incredibly solemn.
'We'll have to fight!'
Phantasmal Shadow lifted her whip high.
Crack!
A loud whip crack formed a sonic boom in the air, and she gave her orders.
"Charge!"
A red figure flashed. Silver Wolf was the first to charge out of the formation!
Little North, Phantasmal Shadow, Wu Kuo followed closely behind him.
Then, they were followed by Mu Clan's forces!
Crack!
The group of people had long since been restless. In the end, they drew their wh.i.p.s and swung it against their horses, and in pain, their horses temporarily forgot their fear and charged forward without regard for anything else.
More than two thousand people faced Towering Palace's charge, which was made up of more than five thousand people, and they violently launched their counterattack!
The ground trembled.
All the people who joined the battle felt hot blood pump in their c.h.e.s.ts, and their blood boiled while their heads were filled with raging excitement.
"Kill them!"
No one dared to retrieve their steeds at that moment, and no one released any arrows. No one can say whether any archer will be able to target their enemies accurately when they charged forward under this kind of speed, and they will even have their momentum lost during the first clash.
If anyone looked from above, they will see two groups of people with a mighty momentum and a shocking speed move through each other's camps once they got through the first clash.
A chaotic battle began!
Chapter 763 - Encirclement
When it came to numbers, Wind Assault Tower was in an absolute disadvantage. They also did not have any advantage in terms of momentum. It could be said that it was not surprising that Wind Assault Tower will collapse completely because of this.
However, Towering Palace lost more than ten thousand of their elites in this battle in Yangzhou. Right now, even though they sent quite a lot of people out of Yangzhou City and looked as if they cannot be stopped, in truth, they were really just all bark with no bite. Compared to the two thousand elites Phantasmal Shadow chose from Wind Assault Tower, they were much weaker.
Even though their momentum was slightly weaker, with Silver Wolf, Little North, Phantasmal Shadow, and Wu Kuo's lead, their momentum naturally increased quickly!
"Kill them!"
Silver Wolf led the charge. Before the Towering Palace elites who came at them could react, they were already sent flying away from their horses by a hot palm-generated wind.
"Neigh!"
A shrill neigh rose. One horse could not withstand the great force coming from its master. Its knees caved, and it knelt down violently before the horse and its rider were thrown off the ground.
The people behind it were not much better. Silver Wolf jumped up from the back of the horse and flew over the Towering Palace elites like a phantom. Wherever his palm-generated wind blew, more than ten people near him will be unable to resist his attack, even if they activated their body fortifications. They fell from their horses, and under the mighty inertia, they crashed to the floor in pathetically.
Little North followed closely behind him. He used the bloody path Silver Wolf opened and swung his poisonous black claws fearlessly in the crowd. Once a person was struck, those with weak body fortifications will have a bloody gash left behind on their bodies by a powerful gust of wind and be infected by poison. The horses will have a large piece of their flesh ripped out, and they will crash to the ground with their riders while they let out a shrill cry.
Ever since Phantasmal Shadow switched weapons with Happy, she held a four-echelon divine whip refined by Heartless Iron. Right now, she swung her whip from the distance, and before the people who charged to her could see Phantasmal Shadow's attack trajectory clearly, they had already been struck so badly that they felt faint, and they crashed violently from their horses.
In the blink of an eye, the trio led Mu Clan's forces to mow down Towering Palace's vanguards and rushed into their main forces! Wind Assault Tower's forces had their morale largely increase!
"Kill them!"
While they chased after those from Towering Palace, they killed without holding back and let out deafening cries.
Boom!
Towering Palace might have a strong momentum, but they soon revealed how exhausted they were.
When Wind Assault Tower's elite forces launched their mighty charge, the side with the advantage in numbers quickly descended into a situation where they were oppressed.
There was a continuous number of Towering Palace members who were cut down from the back of their horses!
"Ack!"
"This is…"
Vast Heaven and Grim Green tugged their reins and stared at what transpired before them in disbelief.
The battlefield was in chaos.
They could vaguely tell just who these people were.
Vast Heaven and Grim Green managed to recognize those forces as those from Wind Assault Tower, one of the three great sects in Beijing.
Regardless of their strength or equipment, these people's abilities were very close to Mu Clan.
Towering Palace's members were basically at the second tier when it came to strength, and when they faced Wind Assault Tower's slaughter after they had been acc.u.mulating their strength for such a long time, the Towering Palace members at the back simply could not handle the fight.
When they saw such a large group of elites charge over, aside from resisting it in groups of three to five people, those who numbered to fewer in number were struck down readily.
Phantasmal Shadow was already extraordinary. Her whip technique was unpredictable, and her enemies can only hear a sonic boom. They cannot see her attack trajectory at all. No one can enter a circular area of thirty-two feet near her.
She charged ahead of the others.
With the sturdy iron triangle she formed with Silver Wolf and Little North, they viciously tore through a gap in Towering Palace's formation to provide the Mu Clan elites behind them an easier and better environment to take over the fight!<
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However, a few minutes later, a slight change finally occurred to the situation.
As Vast Heaven and Grim Green joined the fray while Dragon Sect's elites also appeared at the frontlines, Towering Palace got out of the absolutely disadvantageous situation they were in.
"Dragon Sect appeared!
"Tower Master Shadow, be careful!"
"Got it," Phantasmal Shadow answered, but she did not notice that Silver Wolf and Little North did not mind those powerful fighters who had suddenly appeared. Instead, the two of them formed a group and continued charging forward to head further into the depths.
Wherever they went, those who tried to stop them were mowed down!
One of them charged ahead fiercely to attract firepower, while the other occasionally struck with his claws to injure others.
On the way, those from Towering Palace will be continuously poisoned and fall dead.
Both of them moved further ahead the more they killed!
They seemed to be prepared to use their strength to cut their way through thousands of Towering Palace members.
"Careful!"
Phantasmal Shadow did not understand their intentions. She could not leave her main force too far behind, which was why she could only slow down and remind the duo loudly.
She turned around, and her whip brought forth a dazzling afterimage in the air before it entangle a Dragon Sect elite's neck.
Her whip technique was too fast.
Besides, this sort of weapon that was not in popular demand was something that was rarely seen in the real world. The Dragon Sect elite who approached Phantasmal Shadow instantly suffered a huge setback. The pressure around his throat increased, and he found breathing difficult.
He flew from the horse and landed among Wind Assault Tower's group.
Wind Assault Tower had a group of the best soldiers around who had been following Phantasmal Shadow around since the start of the battle. When they saw that their tower master threw someone over, they showed great teamwork by attacking together.
Saber glares and sword forces attacked together.
While that Dragon Sect elite was still in the air, his body fortification was completely torn to shreds, and he was instantly killed on the spot!
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