Cave Refuge

Of course, as the Martial Artist's Martial Cultivation continuously improved, the threat posed by ordinary firearms to them gradually diminished. This was not only because the Martial Artist's physical condition continued to improve, making the damage from direct gunfire progressively less significant.

Most importantly, as Martial Cultivation improved, the Martial Artist's Sixth Sense also grew stronger. To speak nothing of aiming a gun, even if one merely harbored the intent to kill within a certain range, the Martial Artist would quickly sense it.

However, precisely because of this, the higher the Martial Cultivation, the stronger the physical condition, allowing for the solo use of weapons that were once impossible to wield alone. This also served as an indirect enhancement of the killing power of individual weapons.

Take the commonly seen Sniper Rifle, for instance. Whether in games or movies, sniper rifle shooting is always portrayed as single shots, but in reality, sniper rifles are capable of rapid fire. The thing is, in real life, each shot from a sniper rifle produces a very fierce recoil.

For an ordinary person to ensure accuracy, they must recalibrate after each shot, otherwise continuous firing would just be a spray and pray approach.

But as the Martial Artist's strength continued to rise, when they could withstand the recoil produced by the Sniper Rifle shots, the Sniper Rifle in their hands could function like a submachine gun in the hands of the ordinary person, maintaining high accuracy even in rapid fire.

The members of the Patrol Team that Ye Liuyun was planning to arrange were precisely in this situation. The recoil produced by the Sniper Rifle shots, which ordinarily required professional training to handle, did not put too much pressure on them.

Nevertheless, at this moment, even the rooftops had been occupied by the black snakes, so the response could not solely involve arranging sniper personnel. It also required several individuals to concurrently assist the snipers in blocking the surrounding black snakes' attacks.

Just as Ye Liuyun was selecting suitable combat members from the Patrol Team around him, the remaining raiders, as if anticipating Ye Liuyun's counterattack, did not opt to wait for death; instead, they launched their final counterattack.

The Awakener who initially used his Awakening Skills to freeze the surrounding black snakes into immobility was the first to act. What was once a quiet, area-of-effect ability now visibly altered the environment on a smaller scale, with snowflakes appearing in the air.

One didn't need to guess to know that when he pushed his Awakening Ability to the limit, he could instantly freeze the water vapor in the air. The black snakes that were slowly turning rigid around him suddenly became frozen solid.

Besides him, the other raiders were also demonstrating their Divine Skills, but this time, they did not continue to advance towards Ye Liuyun's location. Instead, they chose to retreat back the way they came.

In contrast to their earlier sluggish progress crossing through the mass of snakes, their retreat now was multiple times faster. The snake group, which had initially been unable to withstand those raiders, now lacked even the ability to slightly slow down their retreat.

When the Patrol Team members selected by Ye Liuyun for the counterattack left their Companion Spiritual Treasure, leaped to the rooftop to confirm the enemy's position, and prepared to find a suitable sniping spot, those raiders were already about to return to the area where they first climbed over the city walls.

Seeing the remaining raiders about to leave the encampment, Dong Tianyu sighed. He had thought that with Ye Liuyun's abilities, the raiders would be easily dealt with without him needing to lift a finger. He didn't expect Ye Liuyun's response to be quite so slow.

Had it not been for the fact that those raiders were frightened off by the two cannons near Ye Liuyun and chose to retreat, with the speed at which Ye Liuyun organized a counterattack, the raiders would have long since broken through and engaged in close-combat.

Perhaps the Patrol Team members standing beside Ye Liuyun were not weak in their Martial Cultivation, but compared to the raiding group members, they would definitely be crushed in terms of actual combat experience. If they really were to fall into a melee, even if the Patrol Team eventually defeated the raiders, it would likely be at best a pyrrhic victory.

On the flip side, the strength of the Patrol Team members cultivated by Ye Liuyun didn't hold much significance to Dong Tianyu. In fact, the more he understood this, the more Dong Tianyu felt relieved that he had not bothered to spend time and resources cultivating a power base.

Dong Tianyu was very satisfied with his choice. After all, compared to having a vast power, Dong Tianyu preferred the kind of choice where all great power was consolidated within himself.

Seeing the raiders about to reach the city walls at the edge of the encampment, although Dong Tianyu was somewhat disappointed with Ye Liuyun's current reaction, he was not indifferent.

With a flick of his wrist, he pulled out the Three Flags nurtured in his Dantian. As the raiders prepared to scale the front wall and escape the encampment, a gigantic bone beast appeared out of nowhere in front of them.

The moment the bone beast appeared, the raiders realized that ever since they had entered the encampment, all their actions had been under the control of the enemy. Now, seeing them ready to retreat, the opponent had finally taken action to prevent their departure, apparently planning to keep them all there.

The raiders having such thoughts was actually correct. After all, if they were all killed, the other side could also gain a considerable reward. In fact, they themselves had also engaged in such underhanded scheming before. Compared to raiding an encampment, the safety of such betrayal was actually higher.