Volume 1 Chapter 387: Golden Praying Mantis
"No, these cloud beasts are launching a general attack!" When Bi Hongzhang saw this scene in front of him, he exclaimed in horror.
"What!" Everyone looked at Bi Hongzhang.
The latter explained to Xiang Yun with a frightened look on his face: "Your Highness, this is the case with our Beishan County County City at the time. First, we were harassed and attacked by small-scale cloud beasts one after another, which made us underestimate their strength."
"In fact, these cunning things are gathered in small quantities. When the number is enough, they will launch a general attack. This is how Beishan County and County City were captured by them in one fell swoop!"
"And... and the cloud beasts gathered here are probably ten times as many as the besieged Beishan County!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone changed their faces, and Xiang Yun's pupils suddenly contracted. No wonder no one in the city responded.
Judging from the number of cloud beast tides under the city, I'm afraid Xiliang County County has experienced many battles. Now facing the general attack of cloud beast tide, the whole city is naturally ready to face, and there is still enough signal flares in the distance.
At this time, countless cloud beasts on the ground were rushing towards the Xiliang County city embassy formation, either rushing below or climbing up, and using their powerful body to shake the protective magic array.
The cloud beasts like tides cover the entire formation, and there are also a large number of flying cloud beasts in the void that either impact the body or spew out various energy to bombard the formation.
The light curtain on the surface of the formation is constantly rippling with dazzling light, and there are countless flowing arrows in the formation, shooting out like rain!
There were even continuous roars, and the shock waves bombarded by the cloud crystal cannon were projected from the formation, violently bombarding the cloud beasts on the surface of the formation. Each hot spark burst, which would blow dozens or even hundreds of cloud beasts into pieces!
Xiliang County is the last county on the northwest border and is the important border defense area in the entire northwest region. Whether it is its own military strength or weapon reserve, it is the highest among the three northwest counties. In addition, the military strength and material of Dongling County are merged, Xiliang County is now indestructible!
The offensive and defensive battle between cloud beasts and humans is in full swing, and it is so fierce!
"Your Highness, what should we do now?"
When Bi Hongzhang saw this dense group of cloud beasts, his heart felt tingled, as if he had seen the scene of the destruction of Beishan County City a few days ago.
Xiang Yun looked at the battle ahead with a strong expression and finally said only one word!
"wait……"
"Wait..." Everyone looked at Xiang Yun with confusion!
"Now millions of cloud beasts are attacking Xiliang County. The cloud beast tide is too dense, and there are also a large number of flying cloud beasts. If we rush to Xiliang County at this moment, it is very likely that we will be discovered by these cloud beasts before we reach Xiliang County."
"At that time, we will immediately become the target of public criticism. If two cloud beasts on land and in the air come over, we are afraid that we will be swallowed up by the beast tide for a while."
When everyone heard this, they looked shocked and nodded repeatedly, obviously agreeing with Xiang Yun's words.
Xiang Yun said again: "For the sake of the present, we can only wait and see here for the time being. When Xiliang County blocks this round of beast tide attack and waits for the beast tide to slow down, we will launch a charge and enter Xiliang County!"
With Xiang Yun making up his mind, everyone immediately acted according to the order and established a defensive circle on the spot. Xiang Yun arranged a hidden defensive formation. The entire army was in the bushes several miles away from the county town, relying on the terrain and formations to hide for the time being, watching the battle outside Xiliang County.
The scale of this siege battle is unprecedentedly powerful, and the gathering of beasts far exceeds what everyone had encountered before.
What is even more shocking is that there are many powerful auras in these cloud beast groups, which are clearly the aura of the military-level cloud beasts. It can be seen that the cloud beast tide here is not only in number, but also in level far exceeds the previous beast group.
At this moment, attacking such a huge county town in Xiliang County, these cloud beasts not only show their orderly offensive strategies in addition to their own wildness and savageness.
The ground was hitting the foundation of the large array, including the "iron-armored rhinoceros" with a huge body as big as a mountain, the "slit rock crocodile" with a sarcoma that was several feet long and a harder than steel on its head, and the "silver-armored lizard" with invulnerable bodies.
The three heavyweight cloud beast groups are like cloud beast siege chariots. Hundreds of orderly forwards hit the light curtain of the formation, causing waves of energy ripples!
On the surface of the formation, there are still a clever cloud beast climbing upwards. Among them, there is a kind of gold-filled body full of red gold and extremely hard body. A pair of sharp serrated cloud beasts with gold-eating rats growing, rushing forward without hesitation.
This type of rat cloud beast originally feeds on metal, and their teeth are even more powerful than serrated teeth. Groups of gold-eating rats are burying their heads and chewing on the light curtain of the formation. The sound is like tens of thousands of hacksaws pulling back and forth on firewood, making a "crying" sound, which makes the scalp explode!
In the void, the attack methods of those flying cloud beasts were even more amazing. The powerful cloud beasts with lightning golden eagles, ice falcons, and iron-feathered griffons rose to the sky in groups, and then turned backwards and dived down, with their sharp long beaks slamming at the top of the formation.
The scholar-level cloud beast spewed out flames, frost, and even wind blades and lightning, all hitting the surface of the formation!
These cloud beasts are just one or two of them. Such offensives are spread all over every corner of the formation. Standing outside the city and seeing this scene makes people feel cold in their hearts. If they were people in the formation, they would be afraid that there would be a doomsday scene in front of them.
Xiang Yun looked at everything that happened in the distance at the edge of the defensive formation, and couldn't help but feel a tightening in his heart, with a strong look of worry in his eyes. It was the first time he had seen such a dense beast tide. The scene that was ruinous made him feel that he was too small.
Fortunately, even though the Yunbeast Tide attacked fiercely, the counterattacks in Xiliang County were also fierce and quite orderly.
The formation is stable and the counterattack is orderly, which shows that Xiliang County is still not panic in the face of such a huge beast tide and is still confident to resist it.
The current situation is also clear. Although the beast tide is surging, it cannot affect the foundation of Xiliang County. They themselves suffer heavy casualties.
If this continues, no matter how surging the beast tide is, it will eventually fail to break through in one fell swoop. It should retreat temporarily. At that time, it will be the best time for them to enter the city.
Xiang Yun’s only expectation now is that there will be no variables. It is best to maintain the current situation all the time. Otherwise, once there is a flaw in Xiliang County or a loophole in the formation, the situation may change suddenly.
What causes this possibility is that a powerful individual appears in the cloud beast tide that breaks this balance!
Now the entire city moat formation resists forces from all directions, which seem to be very powerful, but in fact the energy in each place is evenly distributed, and the formation will become weak.
If there is a powerful cloud beast individual whose energy exceeds this average, it will be able to burst out a gap in the formation. Once this happens, the cloud beasts will swarm into the formation and will directly threaten the safety of the county city.
"call……"
Xiang Yun took a deep breath and tried his best to calm his mind. At the same time, his divine thoughts spread out and tried his best to sense the aura in the cloud beast group. The power of the military-level cloud beast is not enough to threaten the formation, but if a general-level cloud beast appears, it is likely to pose a threat to the formation.
Although Xiang Yun, the general-level cloud beast, has never encountered such a cloud beast in the past, there have been a large number of soldiers-level cloud beasts in the cloud beast group here, and it is very likely that the general-level cloud beasts are hidden.
Xiang Yunping felt everything calmly and carefully, everything seemed normal!
Sudden!
Xiang Yun's spiritual thought trembled, and his eyes instantly locked on the southwest, a group of charger-armored rhinos!
The iron-armored rhinoceros is just a kind of five-blue beast. Even if it has a strong impact, it is not enough to shake the foundation of the formation.
However, Xiang Yun clearly felt a sense of danger from it, but this feeling flashed and Xiang Yun did not intend to let it go!
He stared at the group of iron-armored rhinos. At this moment, the iron-armored rhinos were still in an orderly manner to impact the city-mopping array, one after another, without any unusualness. Xiang Yun did not miss the slightest detail, and his eyes almost scanned the body of each iron-armored rhinos.
Just as he had almost seen all the iron-armored rhinoceros and his eyes were about to turn away from the iron-armored rhinoceros group, Xiang Yun's eyes suddenly condensed!
"That's...?"
Xiang Yun's eyes were locked at the back of the rhino that was at the end of the iron-armored rhinoceros group. On the concave and convex barbs on the back of the iron-armored rhinoceros, a golden color appeared faintly!
Xiang Yun subconsciously confirmed that the previous feeling that made him palpitations came from this golden color.
"What the hell is this?"
Xiang Yun observed carefully that the golden object attached to the wide back of the iron-armored rhinoceros was very small, and it was even more insignificant among this huge group of beasts.
However, Xiang Yun stared at it motionlessly, and at the same time, the Merit Creation Art quietly activated, and two warm energy surged into his eyes.
A bright light flashed in Xiang Yun's eyes. The next moment, the world in front of him became clearer, like a telescope. The golden dots in his sight continued to magnify and became clearer!
"this……"
Xiang Yun immediately saw the golden color clearly. It turned out to be a golden mantis!
A body over a foot long and a fan-shaped head, there is a row of golden serrated teeth. The most conspicuous one is the pair of forelimbs that are like a fan blade, like two swaying golden knives, and the pair of wings attached behind them, sometimes flashing, crystal clear like gems.
Such an exquisite mantis stands on the back of an iron-armored rhinoceros in the beast tide. I am afraid no one will notice its existence. However, there is an exception here, that is, Xiang Yun, who locked this mantis from this million army!
While Xiang Yun locked in the mantis, something that shocked him happened.
The fan-shaped head of the golden mantis suddenly turned back, as if it had crossed the vast group of beasts, the dark night, the bushes, and even the formation where Xiang Yun and others were hiding. They looked straight at Xiang Yun and looked at him!
"hiss……!"
Xiang Yun felt a cold back in an instant, as if the mantis suddenly stood in front of him, staring at him straight!
The next moment, an even more amazing scene happened. The golden mantis grew two rows of jagged upper and lower jaws, and it turned out to be slightly raised, as if it showed a humanized joking smile!
"not good!"
Almost instantly, Xiang Yun realized that something was wrong. This golden mantis was definitely not simple. If he could be so spiritual, it would definitely surpass the Shi-level cloud beast, and perhaps even the General-level cloud beast. Could it be...
Chapter completed!