NOVEL NEXT Chapter 224: Infinite Energy
"In other words, Cangzhou Immortal City is the bottom line for the Qianyuan Sword Sect—they will never sit idly by while it falls!"
Hearing this, Yang Gongwan curled her lips and remarked, "I'm afraid it has something to do with the fact that this is Ye Wudao's base camp!"
"Hahaha," came the response.
Yang Linyuan stroked his beard and smiled. "Of course, that's part of the reason. As we all know, the leader's faction and the elders' faction within the Qianyuan Sword Sect have always been at odds.
But this time, exterminating the zombie swarm and completely eliminating True Man Shen Jue is probably a matter on which both factions unanimously agree."
Inside the command post, Luis listened silently to Yang Linyuan's words. These issues were common sense among the major families, yet he was hearing them for the first time.
He suspected that Yang Linyuan and Yang Gongwan were trying to offer him some advice.
The suzerain faction and the elders faction—the Qianyuan Sword Sect is not a monolithic entity but divided into factions.
In fact, such internal divisions are quite normal. Even in previous lives, disagreements, conflicts of interest, and numerous factions existed within each country. This situation clearly exists in this world as well.
It has only been four hundred years since the current leader of the Qianyuan Sword Sect took over. Four hundred years might not seem like a blink of an eye, but it is not a long time for a Nascent Soul True Lord who can live for three thousand years or a soul transformation cultivator who can live for ten thousand years.
The fact that the leader has managed to hold onto power and lead the entire Ten Thousand Star Sea to defeat the Xuanqing Taoist Alliance is already a testament to her extraordinary capability.
It is simply impossible to expect her to resolve all internal conflicts and make the entire sect as unyielding as iron.
After all, this is a world where might makes right. The elders in the Qianyuan Sword Sect's faction are willing to respect the Third Elder.
But can the Sect Master really afford to eliminate all the elders led by the Third Elder? If that were to happen, the Qianyuan Sword Sect would immediately descend into civil war and division.
"Woo woo—" murmured a few voices in conversation.
Then, a shrill alarm sounded throughout Cangzhou Fairy City. "It's time to withdraw the defensive formation, Luis! Gong Wan! Follow me!"
Yang Linyuan looked serious and said, "Yes, Commander!"
Luis and Yang Gongwan followed closely behind.
Outside Cangzhou Fairy City, as the shrill alarm sounded, the fourth-level defense formation slowly began to lift.
Once the formation was removed, the zombies outside surged like boiling water poured into a frying pan.
"Roar!!"
A deafening roar filled the air, reaching Luis's ears.
The horde of zombies, stacking themselves against the hundred-foot-high city wall, gradually filled its height—even though the zombies at the bottom had already been crushed into meat paste.
Luis had no idea how many corpses were needed to fill the wall; he didn't even have the energy to count.
All he knew was that the tide of zombies was trampling over the bodies of their fallen comrades and rushing toward the Cangzhou coalition forces.
High in the sky, a group of flying zombies, shrouded in dark clouds, surged directly toward the 43rd Defense Zone. For a moment, the swarm attacked the monks in the zone from two directions.
"Kill!!!" Yang Linyuan roared as he took the lead, controlling a flying sword to slash at the advancing horde.
The sword's blade—nearly a hundred feet long—carved a huge gap in the zombie swarm. Countless zombies were cut down by the sword, but soon more filled the gap and pounced on the defenders.
They seemed endless—fearless and relentless! The terrifying pressure made some timid monks tremble at the sight of this catastrophic scene.
Yet Luis remained calm. This was, after all, his first time participating in such a large-scale war.
As he watched the horde rushing toward him, the true energy in Luis's Dantian suddenly burst forth.
Above the Dantian Qi Sea, starlight coalesced into a bright point, almost like a star forming. In that moment, the entire 43rd Defense Zone was enveloped in a transparent rain curtain. Within this curtain, sword energy condensed into raindrops that fell like bullets.
As the swarm of corpses—spanning nearly ten thousand feet in radius—rushed into the rain curtain, the endless cascade of sword-energy raindrops tore the zombies into pieces.
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In an instant, the horde in the 43rd Defense Zone was almost entirely cleared out by Luis alone.
"Look at that!" Yang Linyuan stared in disbelief, barely able to trust his eyes.
"The commander is mighty!"
His exclamation was quickly echoed by others on the battlefield.
Amid the scattered corpses, Sun Fu quickly noticed something amiss in the 43rd Defense Zone. "Is it him?" Sun Fu's golden pupils narrowed slightly.
Obviously, he recognized Luis Hartmann. Immediately, a ferocious smile spread across his green, fanged face.
"Let me see how much of your true energy you've consumed!" he shouted.
With that, he waved his hand, and more zombies surged toward the defense zone where Luis was stationed.
This maneuver also relieved the pressure on the 42nd and 44th Defense Zones, allowing their commanders the leisure to use their spiritual sense to observe the battle in the 43rd Defense Zone.
Following Sun Fu's instructions, the horde of zombies attacking the 43rd Defense Zone grew even more terrifying.
Faced with the vast sea of corpses, Luis maintained a blank expression, as if the bodies his sword had cut down were nothing more than weeds.
Even as more zombies flooded the tide, they could not break through the rain curtain of sword energy Luis had created. Countless zombies, whether from the swarm in the sky or on the ground, rushed toward that curtain repeatedly, only to be sliced to pieces.
Occasionally, a powerful zombie in the late Foundation Building stage would use its strong defense and recovery abilities to force its way within a hundred feet of Luis, but its "corpse pill" would be shattered by a white flash of energy.
In short, the entire 43rd Defense Zone was completely held at bay by Luis alone.
Yang Gongwan could hardly believe her eyes as she witnessed Luis display his divine power.
Ever since she had given up trying to comprehend the sword intent and instead focused on breaking through to Half Step Golden Core, she had assumed that her water-based spiritual body would make her no weaker than Luis—who, after all, had not yet reached the middle stage of Foundation Building.
But unexpectedly, Luis's strength far exceeded her expectations. This kind of power— even a cultivator at the Half Step Golden Core might struggle to match it, she thought secretly.
Time passed slowly. Soon, an hour had gone by. Maintaining such a high-intensity rain of sword energy to resist the zombie swarm was far beyond the capability of other cultivators, even when they expended their full energy reserves.
Far away, Sun Fu sighed in relief upon seeing Luis's pallor.
"Boy, the battlefield is not the place for you to show off your prowess.
Do you think you're a Gold Core cultivator or a Nascent Soul True Lord if you try to fend off the zombies all by yourself?"
With that sneer, Sun Fu paid no further attention to Luis. In his opinion, Luis's true energy would be exhausted in just one hour, making it uncertain whether he could survive the zombies' next wave.
Soon, ten hours passed.
The remaining defense zones were in peril, and only the defenses of Zones 42, 43, and 44 held strong.
But if one looked closely, it was evident that the zombie hordes in these three zones were all converging on the 43rd Defense Zone. Zones 42 and 44 had essentially become supporting positions, while the rest of the cultivators guarded against the Half Step Golden Core corpse servants from the enemy side—preventing them from disrupting Luis's performance.
After all, no one could match Luis's persistence in group attacks.
For a full ten hours, Luis remained motionless in his position. Before their eyes, the rain curtain of sword energy he had conjured never wavered for even a moment.
Outside the Cangzhou city wall, countless waves of zombies were halted solely by Luis, unable to breach the line.
At first, as the war intensified, Sun Fu had dismissed Luis as a fool for using his ultimate move at the start. But after a full ten hours, he was stunned to discover that Luis was still holding the offensive.
"How... how is this possible?" Sun Fu murmured.
"How can anyone in this world possess such an overwhelming amount of true energy?"
Even though he found it hard to believe, Luis remained calm and composed, showing no signs of energy depletion.
Sun Fu wouldn't have been surprised if he learned that Luis could endure another ten hours.
After a brief moment, Sun Fu calculated that in just ten hours, nearly ten million zombies had been killed by Luis alone!