RETURN OF THE RULER

128. Warfare

As the party approached and released a rain of arrows as the opening attack, the temple group remained silent as if there were no inhabitants of the temple. When the group arrived at the foot of the jing shang mountain, a rumbling sound could be heard from thousands of large stones that had been coated in Qi energy elements shooting from the mountain slope towards the bow desert group.

General Xu and General Lui Xang immediately launched a second attack, thousands of Qi energy spears missed from the foot of the mountain. Massive explosions occurred simultaneously, turning the river gang ming into blood red, deep basins created by the impact of large rocks. Huge boulders kept popping up from the mountainside rocked the jing shang mountain area as a whole and countless numbers were casualties.

"Retreat! back off! stay away!"

The group from the bow desert who managed to avoid the surprise attack panicked and warned others to stay away. The party slowly retreated and formed a defensive shield, some of them directly controlling the earth to create a protective fortress. In a short time the fortress had already formed even the huge stones and energy spears were unable to penetrate through it.

Seeing tens of thousands of their group being killed in such a short period of time, thousands of high-level cultivators floated into the air. The group controlled the earth around it and turned it into small spears, the spears were like a storm and missed the mountain marbles nonstop. At the same time the group of temples on the mountain slope immediately hid into the cave that had been prepared beforehand. They could actually dispel those spears just that they were unwilling to drain energy.

A raid?!

The enemy group again reached towards the mountain slope, they made a formation and defensive shield from the ground. The group from the bow wasteland split into two parts, one group was on the ground and the other group was in the air.

The temple group slowly retreated when it saw their opponent attacking with full force, who was on the mountain slope continuing to hide. even the formations from the bow deserts could not be broken through because one group from the air like bees protected the group that existed on the land. Back-to-back explosions continued to occur as energy weapons clashed, the temple group continued to be forced to retreat as they could not withstand the onslaught of the desert bow group. The forest to the north of jing shang mountain has been deforested and leaves a wasteland.

"Retreat, Backward. All of them taking refuge in the temple grounds, we better gather together as a group in anticipation of the casualties?" yelled Xiao Lien.

The elders herded their group towards the temple, thousands of elders continued to protect them from the air. The temple elders had little trouble protecting their disciples because their numbers were too few so decided to become one group.

Seeing the group of enemies slowly retreating, the group of desert bows continued to advance and launched an attack from the air. It's just that those who can't fly have trouble reaching the temple's location due to the terrain that is too steep. For the group of desert bow that can not fly continue to be killed due to attacks from caves on the slopes of the mountain. The bow desert does not know that thousands of caves on the mountain slopes there are still residents.

The temple group of flying blades and cultivators who could control long-range weapons as the spearheads of the temple group continued to launch attacks and even continued to take casualties. Thousands of flying knives continued to miss here and there to repel attacks coming from various directions.

Suddenly a rumbling sound rang out, tens of thousands of high-level cultivators from the desert bow group suddenly pounded from the air at full strength and continued to take turns. Gradually the temple group began to push, one by one the temple members and imperial soldiers continued to be killed. As well as those in the air, such a significant difference in strength and number rendered the temple group helpless.

Although from the desert bow group there are still more victims due to surprise attacks, however, the difference in number does not make the desert bow group unaffected.

"Aaarrrggh." shouted the temple elder a flying knife falling from a height after his left thigh was crushed by a spear. The head of the flying blade temple lacked focus as his disciples continued to be killed due to his elite disciples as the spearhead of the temple side.

One by one the temple elders continued to fall from the air because they were not strong enough to withstand the onslaught of the temple. The battle looked like a massacre, it was just that the temple hidden inside the cave kept popping up and saving their elders and treating them.

"Arrrggghh.." shouted General Lui Xang falling from a height. It was fortunate that Xiao Lien caught him and immediately took him into the temple and laid him in the corner of the room.

"Miss Lien, I love you?! said General Lui Xang stammering while spewing fresh blood several times,

"General Xang, w-is this the end of our struggle" said the head of the temple of the weak flying knife. He continued to grimace in pain, his face had already started to turn pale.

General Lui Xang only smiled faintly before closing his eyes on Xiao Lien's lap and he lost consciousness.

"I-I love you too." Xiao Lien replied stammering as she hugged General Lui Xang.

The faces of despair were clearly visible on the faces of the temple disciples and the jiang imperial warriors. Loud thumping continued in the air and on the ground, the desert bow side continued to press the temple side until it reached the temple.

Thousands of temple disciples, imperial soldiers as well as elders were severely injured and lying outside the protection array to withstand the attacks of the enemy party who continued to pound the temple protection array.

The faces of those inside the protection array stiffened, they also occasionally held their breaths as the protection array cracked, if the protection array was destroyed it was certain that they were all killed.

The temple kept going back and forth in and out of the temple to bring the wounded into the forest, they were sure that the destruction of the temple would soon occur. Everything inside the temple has been moved into the forest through the underground passageway. The underground passageways were connected to each other so that they could save the injured.

Kiyak

Kiyak

As the temple group showed faces of despair, the fire eagle and the white eagle suddenly launched an attack from two different dissi, to break up the army from the bow desert that was in the air.

The fire arrow storm and the wind blade storm continued to miss from the mountain peak, the vortexes of fire arrows and the wind blade storm kept popping out sweeping the slopes of jing shang mountain.

Fire eagles and white eagles continued to launch attacks making the group of desert bows stop their attacks. The group of desert bows instantly made a protective array to save themselves.As the fire arrows were extremely hot and even scorched the weak cultivators among them.

"Stop that damn bird." cried the old man from inside the horse crete, wrathful.

Instantly the fire eagle and white eagle missed here and there at high speed and continued to launch attacks in every direction. The bow desert group was even so difficult to get close to the two eagles because the two eagles were unwilling to fight directly. Where could they possibly be willing to go head-to-head with thousands of high-level cultivators.

At the same time when thousands of high-level cultivators went all the way to capture the two eagles. Xiao Lien instantly took out a ball of solar chakra formation. The black clouds in the sky of the jing shang mountain immediately gathered as an extremely dazzling golden light shot out from the sky from the formation ball, suddenly a gigantic energy chakra soared up into the sky, when hundreds of temple disciples injected the Qi energy element into the solar chakra formation ball.

The deafening rumbling sound as the gigantic chakra energy dissipated at high speed from the jing shang temple towards the group of desert bows that were inside the protective array.

BOOM!!

A powerful explosion resounded as the gigantic chakra energy hit the land, the entire region of jing shang mountain shook violently. The hundreds of meters where the group of desert arcs were sheltering turned into a very deep basin. Thousands of elders who were in the air immediately stared at their respective places because they did not expect that there would be a sudden attack.

"Form a formation, destroy the jing shang mountain." he shouted, wrathful.

The old man did not expect to lose his men about thirty thousand people in a short time, whereas their spies said the number of enemies was only about thirty-five thousand people. The difficulty of the terrain to reach the position of the temple made them suffer losses that were not small.

When the desert bow group gathers forces to launch an attack, the temple immediately scatters into the forest to save themselves. Even from the beginning they continued to bring the wounded into the forest slowly because they were already convinced the jing shang temple would be destroyed.

The thousands of elders from the temple side who were in the air held their breaths with deathly pale faces as ten dragons formed in the air from the earth element.

Seeing that, the fire eagle unleashed its full might and swooped sharply towards the land.

Kiyak

kayaking

The whistling sound of fire eagles accompanied by rumbling sounds rang out as a heavenly firestorm that was so wild and fierce suddenly descended from the sky swept over the group of desert bows that controlled the ten dragons in the air.

"Aarrrgghh." loud cries filled the air before the hundreds of people controlling the earth element turned to dust. The dragons formed from the earth element instantly counterattacked as no one controlled them.

Instantly the dragon made of earth element stared at the group from the bow desert and instantly missed at high speed.

BOOM!!

BOOM!!

Back-to-back explosions continued to reverberate against the group of desert bows, even the flow of the ming alley river turned blood red again.

The thousands of elders from the temple side who were in the air immediately moved away due to the fluctuations of the air becoming chaotic. They also did not expect that the fire eagle could see the gap and find out the weakness of the enemy formation and even the fire eagle directly carried out a deadly attack.

Their blood was churning again when it happened, tens of thousands of desert bow groups were killed instantly by the counterattack and tens of thousands were seriously injured.

"Aarrgghh." cried the old man back and smashed his golden chariot.

The rampage of the tens of thousands of high-level elders from the desert bow group immediately peaked, they attacked brutally making the temple group continue to fall from the air.

As the group of desert bows focus on destroying the temple, suddenly a surprise attack from within the forest again occurred because inside the temple there were no more people.

Eventually a massacre broke out on land and in the air, thousands of elders from the temple group against tens of thousands from the desert bow group making one by one the elders from the temple group fall from the air. The group from both sides that could not fly directly clashed. The clinking of the deafening weapon, sparks of fire were everywhere.Very explosions continued to resound in the air, Even the jing shang mountain continued to tremble all the time.

The battle had even lasted a few hours, however, the temple group was still able to survive, only, the casualties continued to fall on their side, however, even the number of those who can fight only fifteen thousand people, that means that soon the war will end. But the desert bow does not mean no one was injured, even they pay a lot for it. The casualties on the desert bow side even reached sixty people as a result of the backlash from their formation.

At the moment when the temple group was pressed violently suddenly a rumbling sound was heard from the southern direction of jing shang mountain, the clear sky suddenly darkened as tens of thousands of high-level cultivators like bees filled the sky of jing shang mountain.

*****

Dozens of ships were traveling at high speed in the river flow of the ming alley, the ships were slightly damaged because they continued to hit large rocks and large logs that were in the river flow of the ming alley. They spurred the speed of the ship because the river water ming gang already mixed with human blood.

Dozens of cultivators who were inside the ship were amazed to see the ship's driver so cleverly controlling the ships when they found out that the ship's driver was not a cultivator, either, even in the flow of the river so many obstacles because it is never again pluralized by humans.

"Elder Feng, don't inject too much elemental Qi energy into the central point of the formation" Ming Kun warned.

"Okay elders, but, why did your ship from the lei hong strait never warn us?" asked Kai Feng curiously.

"Elder Feng, the formation of the ship was made by, Young Master Yang" Ming Kun replied briefly.

They all nodded their heads when they heard Ming Kun's explanation. The group from the ming alley river continued to spur the ship at maximum speed as they had already started to hear loud thumping, even the ming alley river was occasionally shaken.

******

Behind the clouds a black-robed man continued to watch the battle with eyes that never blinked. He could even see the entire region of the bow desert undergoing destruction.

As he watched the war on the jing shang mountain from behind the clouds, he also saw hundreds of thousands of cultivators rummaging through the entire region of the bow desert.

He also saw tens of thousands of cultivators emerge from the jiang empire and had even arrived at the jing shang mountain and one more group would soon follow.

"What...?" the black-robed man was shocked when he saw dozens of ships speeding at high speed in the river stream of the ming alley.

The black-robed man had yet to show himself as he waited for someone to first appear.