NOVEL NEXT Chapter 142: Still Alive
A few minutes later, Wang Wu charged into the Human Race's city wall grand array alongside the last legitimate Demon Race legion.
He was really doing his best to retreat, with the oversight team barely a thousand meters behind him.
But the outcome of the war still seemed undecided.
The Demon Race had already deployed their entire army, yet the Human Race, through some means, managed to stabilize their position.
Both sides used the grand array city wall as the baseline, engaging in a frenzied push against each other.
It's hard to describe just how blood-soaked and hellish it was.
The ground was covered with flowing blood, and it was almost impossible to see a complete corpse; they were either crushed, sliced, or torn apart by allies and devoured.
Yes, not only Wang Wu was eating; all the demons were consuming flesh to restore their physical strength this way.
Wang Wu devoured along the way as he charged ahead.
By now, his Satiety had soared past 15,000+, despite having already consumed over 4,000 units as the base.
The Spiritual Qi temporarily stored in his body had upgraded the Heart of the Earth and improved Basic Defense twice, still leaving over 1,200 points.
Savory flesh from Seventh-Grade and Sixth-Grade demons, indeed, was lavish stuff!
However, he couldn't eat anymore and couldn't continue mixing.
Fortunately, after more than half an hour of rapid recovery, especially after consuming half a broken Acupoint Opening Demon Pill, his moderate weakness quickly turned into mild weakness.
Under this effect, his Level 12 Self-Healing could now be activated thrice consecutively with 90% efficiency.
Simultaneously, his Copper Head Iron Bone could activate twice consecutively.
The Heart of the Earth could activate thrice consecutively, consuming up to 300 Spiritual Qi each time, instantly restoring 300 Life Value.
Adding his current 850 Life Value and 64 Basic Defense, he could now indulge a little recklessly!
Of course, aside from that, his greater confidence came from a broken Human Race Profound Iron Shield, which was incredibly useful.
Though it couldn't block any Eighth-Grade Bull Demon charges in the hands of a Human Race Warrior, it served as the best barrier against the Spirit Light Crossbow Arrows for Wang Wu.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
As the Spiritual Light flickered, three Spirit Light Crossbow Arrows shot towards him at nearly twice the speed of sound.
Without looking, Wang Wu raised his shield and easily blocked them. Although the Profound Iron Shield got pierced with three tiny holes, its material was extremely resilient.
No matter how it was shot, it couldn't break.
In this short time, one side of Wang Wu's Profound Iron Shield had already accumulated over a hundred Spirit Light Crossbow Arrows.
Though he disliked it, he had now become quite the eye-catching Little Demon in a certain area.
Overall, at least fifteen Human Race Spirit Light Crossbowmen noticed him and continuously shot and sniped at him.
This made it really hard to hold on!
Wang Wu could only dodge back and forth.
Initially, officers like the ones among the Demon Soldiers would scold him, questioning his movements.
But when Wang Wu smoothly evaded a deadly volley of up to seven Spirit Light Crossbow Arrows from multiple angles, that captain happily shut up because a heavy crossbow bolt went right through its head.
As for the other Demon Soldiers, they simply copied what they could; no one was foolish.
However, the Human Race Spirit Light Crossbowmen had the upper hand, adjusting their grand array quickly to appear in advantageous shooting positions.
Do you think holding a Profound Iron Shield makes you like Wang Wu?
Sorry, it's his Level 15 Danger Perception that keeps him alive, not the shield.
Honestly, only on such a battlefield did Wang Wu start to understand what 'bullet time' meant.
The continuous volleys from those fifteen Spirit Light Crossbowmen were just a minor issue he dealt with, using less than ten percent of his computing power.
What required more of his attention were the heavy armor-piercing Spirit Light Crossbow Arrows and the Human Race cultivators who could wield their Lifebound Swords and throw all kinds of Control Talismans.
The troop configuration on the Human Race's side was undoubtedly more logical and comprehensive, with Cultivators + Warriors + Spirit Light Crossbowmen + rear array controllers forming an Otherworldly Killing Array capable of slaughtering as many enemies as they faced.
On the Demon Race's side, only their tough hides, abundant blood, immense strength, fearless demeanor, and various emerging Talent Secret Techniques allowed them to temporarily fight to a standstill.
Of course, the premise was that higher-tier Human Race cultivators and Great Demons did not take the field.
They engaged in battles thousands of meters high in the sky, occasionally swooping down to deal devastating strikes to the opposing forces' minor soldiers.
Wang Wu was lucky; when the oversight team drove him to the front lines, both the top Human and Demon masters had passed the erratic phase of arbitrarily striking.
Earlier, Human masters loved randomly striking down hundreds or thousands of Demon Soldiers with a single sword.
However, Demons played hardball, allowing the Human Warriors to kill them because they retaliated by wildly assaulting the Human soldiers. Due to their fragility, a single swoop often resulted in thousands of human casualties.
So the turntables shifted, making Human masters reluctant to engage in exchanges.
Realizing the shift in battlefield dynamics, Wang Wu suppressed the daring thought of desertion.
Getting instantaneously cut down by a Human Great Cultivator wouldn't leave him with any argument.
Even his Level 15 Danger Perception couldn't foresee attacks of such magnitude.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
Another string of Spirit Light Crossbow Arrows shot at him in rapid succession.
Wang Wu blocked them with ease, while next to him, a Wolf Demon unexpectedly tossed three Wolf Fang Short Blades like lightning, blowing the heads off three Spirit Light Crossbowmen 300 meters away who failed to chase down Wang Wu and overexerted themselves.
Their hearts are not calm enough, how can they get carried away?
Wang Wu quickly exchanged a glance with the Wolf Demon, saying nothing, everything was understood without words.
Wang Wu grabbed his shield and ran to the side, with the Wolf Demon taking small steps to follow, quite the scene of a bear guarding a person!
Impressive!
But the remaining Spirit Light Crossbowmen targeting Wang Wu didn't have time to learn from the experience.
They stood within the Grand Array, adjusting its positions to suddenly appear at a spot, swiftly shooting and quickly moving away, making them hard to deal with.
But now, in the world of adventures, debts must be repaid.
The Wolf Demon didn't even bother with the positions of the Spirit Light Crossbowmen; it just focused on Wang Wu's subtle movements.
As the bear paw lifted, there was always an echo, and without pre-aiming, three or two Wolf Fang Short Blades shot out at supersonic speed, achieving instant kills.
In just less than ten seconds, nine out of fifteen Spirit Light Crossbowmen watching Wang Wu were gone.
Yet, the smart Wolf Demon attracted a lot of hatred value in return; it wanted to continue following Wang Wu to score kills, but the opposite boss went frenzy mode, targeting it specifically.
Within three seconds, eighteen Spirit Light Crossbowmen locked onto it and focused fire.
Poor Wang Wu's Level 15 Danger Perception couldn't be shared with teammates, nor could it warn them of danger in advance. By the time he realized something was off, the Wolf Demon had been shot into a porcupine.
Yes, it was directly dismembered, a total of nine heavy armor-piercing explosive Spirit Light Crossbow Arrows were aimed at it...
Pitiful!
However, it seems that Wang Wu didn't fare much better; now there are twenty-eight Spirit Light Crossbowmen chasing him, with the hatred value overflowing.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Various Spirit Light Crossbow Arrows chased after Wang Wu.
He blocked when he could and ran when he couldn't.
The Level 15 Danger Perception shone brightly in this moment.
He could even capture the trajectory of those heavy armor-piercing explosive bolts before they fired.
Indeed, he became the hate-magnet tank, but the other Demon Race allies weren't just sitting idle.
As pressure was greatly reduced, their counterattacks were sharp and swift.
So Wang Wu was awkwardly and frantically dodging for less than thirty seconds, and the Spirit Light Crossbowmen pursuing him reduced to six.
As the number of Spirit Light Crossbowmen decreased, the suppression effect in this area diminished, and with more Demon Soldiers crashing, a grand array wall over a hundred meters long collapsed loudly, which seemed to be the last straw that broke the camel's back, extinguishing one-fifth of the spiritual light in the opposing Human Race's grand array, resulting in an over three hundred mile region being completely taken over.
No longer having a commanding height for advantage, they couldn't freely deploy Spirit Light Crossbowmen to harass and suppress as they pleased in this area.
Indeed, this was the greatest factor causing the Demon Soldier Legion's heavy casualties.
"Wooooo!"
With the sound of horns, a Great Banner of Beast Hide was planted, and the struggling Demon Soldiers from all directions gathered here, not launching an opportunistic attack.
They simply couldn't attack anymore.
The Human Race's grand array was disgustingly designed, not collapsing entirely after one segment was destroyed, but was segmented, advancing step-by-step, resembling street fighting, coordinating with arrays, giant woods, iron and stone, and construction, forming an all-weather, three-dimensional attack mode.
To capture this segment of the wall and this foothold, over half the two-hundred-thousand Demon Soldiers perished, while the Seek Death Camp was nearly wiped out!
But undoubtedly, this had achieved the expected target on the Demon Race's side.
A bunch of Devil Vines flew over, taking root rapidly, growing quickly, turning both Human Race and Demon Race corpses into nutritional fertilizer, also becoming the Demon Race's walls to resist Human Race's advance.
In less than ten minutes, these Devil Vines became a boundless forest, stretching up to the peak of Black Mountain.
Upon witnessing this miraculous scene, Wang Wu understood why Little Tree Spirit became the Quartermaster.
Truly useful.
And at this moment within the forest, all returning Demon Soldiers lay sprawled on the ground, those still alive gasping heavily, and the wounded guzzling down whatever bodies they could, regardless if they were friends or foes.
However, some Captain Level Demons were tasked with counting Demon Soldiers and noting down any recorded achievements.
Quickly, it was Wang Wu's turn.
The captain doing the counting first glanced curiously at the shield standing strong beside Wang Wu with at least two hundred Spirit Light Arrowheads embedded in it, then noticed the Desire for Death Seal on his chest, showing a hint of admiration in his eyes!
"What's your name, who's the Camp Commander of your Seek Death Camp, how many kills?"
"Xiong Wu, Seek Death Ninth Camp, Camp Commander Bao Dachun, no kills."
Wang Wu answered honestly, fearing that the other party might have some secret method to assess accomplishments, given it's the Cultivation Realm after all.
"No kills? You sure?"
The other party was slightly surprised.
"Yes, sure."
"Then there's nothing I can do; although you survived, without kills, you can't accumulate merits and must stay in the Seek Death Camp."
"Now you're the Camp Commander of Seek Death Ninth Camp, Bao Dachun is dead."
"With this Command Flag, you can claim corresponding supplies and be on standby at any time!"