Chapter 57 (1/2)

Chapter 57: Liu Qiyue

“Everyone is to enter Blazing Sun Castle,” urged the dean. Everyone in Blazing Sun Dao Academy rushed towards Blazing Sun Castle.

Blazing Sun Castle was a huge fortress in Blazing Sun Dao Academy—it was where the disciples usually lived.

“Everyone below the Marrow Cleansing realm, enter the tunnels.”

“Quick, quick, quick.”

Inside Blazing Sun Castle, a large number of disciples from the Dao Academy were split into dozens of teams and quickly ran into the tunnels.

The construction of Blazing Sun Castle employed the best ideas gleaned from the construction of forts in the countryside, and it was much more extravagant. The Imperial Court spent a lot of money to hire high-level craftsmen to design and build it.

Thousands of Dao Academy disciples entered the tunnels.

Dong! Dong! Dong!

Every tunnel began locking down with their various traps and mechanisms.

Deactivating the traps and mechanisms could only be done from the inside. It was impossible to do so from the outside. Even if demons were to charge in, it would still take some time for them to breach the defenses.

“Prepare the ballistae!” Large ballistae were situated at Blazing Sun Castle’s windows.

One by one, the Dao Academy disciples began to turn the capstan and pinned the bolts down. These Marrow Cleansing realm disciples could exert strength greater than 500 kilograms; yet, they had to use all their strength to turn the capstan. Every single bolt was like a long spear. Walls would crumble under their impact.

“Fire!” a soldier ordered.

The soldiers in charge of launching the ballistae were all experienced soldiers or veteran soldiers who had experience in using ballistae during their military service. As for the disciples in the Marrow Cleansing realm, they were mainly doing manual labor, such as rotating the capstan and delivering ammunition.

With the issued command, large bolts shot out one after another. Any ordinary lesser or greater demon that was. .h.i.t would have a hole through their bodies.

However, the demons were also dodging frantically. They crossed Blazing Sun Dao Academy’s walls and charged towards the distant Blazing Sun Castle.

“Breach the Blazing Sun Castle.” A two-stories tall ox demon held a trident. It wasn’t eye-catching in the demon army, but it was the strongest. It was the commander of this demon army, Commander Ox.

With Commander Ox’s command, all the lieutenant commanders immediately led the charge as a large number of demons poured towards Blazing Sun Castle.

Swoosh.

An arrow beam streaked across the sky, faster than the ballistae bolts. A demon lieutenant commander tried his best to dodge but still had an arm shot off.

“Eh?” There were only ten lieutenant commanders in this army. Although the power of those ballistae was tremendous, the bolts themselves were extremely large. They were like spears, and their speed wasn’t too exaggerated. At the very least, lieutenant commanders could easily dodge them.

However, the power of this arrow was no less than the ballistae. Its speed was ten times faster, and in an instant, it appeared right in front of them. The lieutenant commanders found it hard to dodge.

“Human sharpshooter.”

“Be careful.” The demon lieutenant commanders noticed the threat.

The person who shot the arrow was none other than Blazing Sun Dao Academy’s dean, Zhong Qianhe. He was the only Seamless realm sharpshooter in Eastcalm Prefecture that had grasped Force.

“Humph.” Commander Ox snorted coldly and charged forward.

“Fire!” Dean Zhong immediately bombarded Commander Ox with arrows and directed thirty percent of the ballistae bolts to be shot at him.

Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Commander Ox held his trident with both hands as he brandished it to block the arrows, but it was exhausting. At the same level, the relentless attacks of a sharpshooter were terrifying! Dean Zhong’s barrage of arrows was enough to match Meng Chuan’s close-range saber art. As a result, Commander Ox could only try his best to protect himself.

…

With the sharpshooter—Dean Zhong—restraining the commander, Blazing Sun Castle was able to withstand the demon army’s crazy attack.

However, very quickly, everyone’s expression changed.

“More demons!”

“Another demon army!”

Atop Blazing Sun Castle, they could see a dense horde of demons charging towards them from afar. Clearly, it was another demon army.

With the arrival of a new demon army, the demons’ morale was greatly boosted! After all, they had fallen into a stalemate. They had lost many demons.

“Poison Wyrm, quickly help me. Help me kill that sharpshooter,” Commander Ox roared.

“It looks like an ox demon like you still needs my help?” Commander Wyrm moved extremely quickly. He took on a humanoid form. His body was covered with green dragon scales. He had sharp claws and strong legs! He also had a dragon tail.