Chapter 466

Chapter 466: Thunderous Power
Zhang Mu felt uncomfortable the moment he faced Grave Blood’s attack.
It’s not that Grave Blood was very weak, indeed they had a third-rank power that even surpassed Zhang Mu slightly. In his mind, he didn’t expect to be evenly matched with Grave Blood.
Zhang Mu’s choice just now was made reluctantly – Hachikuju was too restrained, facing Grave Blood might have meant no chance at all.
Just a second before the contact, Zhang Mu lacked confidence because the powerful mental shockwave that had just blasted him off the ground showed Grave Blood’s overwhelming mental strength.
However, the reality in front of him showed that he had actually held on.
The pressure of their mental energies squeezed in the air, with no clear winner yet.
Hachikuju faced some trouble, being bound by Ginseng King in his spiritual world, but it wasn’t a disadvantage as the giant axe illusion behind him was too dominant, wreaking havoc.
The most intense battle was happening in another part of the battlefield!
Even knowing they had been told that out of the tens of thousands of corpse puppets, only around two thousand were real, the key was that even if they knew, they couldn’t tell the difference.
Only Zhang Mu, a third-rank spirit user, could detect the subtle differences between illusions and reality. Hachikuju couldn’t do it, let alone them.
As they looked at the enemy, who seemed to outnumber them tenfold, most people felt nervous and swallowed hard.
The same thought popped into their minds at once.
How can there be so many!
If they hadn’t witnessed Zhang Mu’s abilities, many people would have surely accused Zhang Mu of deceiving them.
How could illusions be so real? Have they never encountered a spirit user before?
So, at the beginning of the battle, there was a bit of chaos, but under Qizilbash’s command, they didn’t scatter and instead formed a defensive formation.
The soldiers quickly noticed the deceptive number of enemies. Though it was still challenging to deal with, sticking together in defense undoubtedly relieved a lot of pressure.
Qizilbash is now using his Shield Wolf Rider’s abilities to their fullest, defending with minimal losses. He knows that soldiers mainly exhaust their minds in battle.
When defending, you are unsure which attack is real, so you have to defend against all of them.
If this group of people gets tired, they retreat to the defensive circle to rest, and then another group takes their place.
However, there are some people who did not follow Qizilbash’s orders. They slipped out of his defensive circle right at the beginning and charged into the enemy, each fighting on their own.
This group consists of the remaining twenty independent second-rank peak evolvers, who have the extraordinary ability to advance to the second-rank peak. Regardless of how rare their awakening abilities are, they all possess exceptional skills.
With pride in their hearts, unwilling to hunker down and passively endure attacks, and reassured by Zhang Mu that they only face two thousand real second-rank beginners, they instinctively charge out.
It must be said that these twenty individuals relieved much pressure from the war riders, giving them a moment to catch their breath and change personnel if needed.
Among these twenty people, two are exceptionally efficient in their attacks, capturing everyone’s attention.
One of them is Yuan Rui, a mental-type evolver. Although she cannot see through illusions, she is extremely sensitive when up close. Her soul flame acts as a natural counter to this type of illusion, providing significant restraint.
And Obsidian Beetle was just summoned back by Zhang Mu to protect her. She efficiently defended against attacks from the physical corpse puppet, so Yuan Rui’s performance was amazing. After facing some challenges later on, almost all illusions avoided her.
Another person who was rushing at the forefront just now was Ai Qingxuan.
It must be said that his thunder-based awakening ability was really powerful. He didn’t care at all about your physical illusions and just charged towards wherever the corpse puppet appeared more.
Ai Qingxuan was a full-on battle maniac, so Hachikuju was extremely amazed to see Su Rui actually being able to persuade him.
The upper part of his clothing had already been rubbed clean by the lightning sparks, luckily his pants were flame-retardant.
Thanks to this lightning protection, Ai Qingxuan, with great momentum, actually charged straight into the heart of the Grave Bloodcorpse puppet army!
His prominent muscles twitched slightly, and Ai Qingxuan felt like he had finally reached the core of the enemy. The excitement in his eyes reached its peak.
The pleasure of battle was incredibly strong for him. He hadn’t felt this fulfilled in a long time.
“Thunder Spear, go!”
With a loud roar as he clenched his fist, the lightning that was originally used to defend himself was shattered by him, converging into dazzling short spears with glaring light, and shot out explosively.
The illusion was directly penetrated, and the aura dimmed significantly due to the penetration of the lightning attribute.
However, the ones that truly suffered major damage were the corpse puppets with real bodies, especially those near Ai Qingxuan, were the most devastating, almost unbearable to witness.
Pierced all over by Ai Qingxuan’s Thunder Spear, they looked like human-shaped hedgehogs.
Yet this was only the beginning, as the excited and trembling Ai Qingxuan instantly flipped off his horse, fell to the ground, overturned the nearby warhorse, pinned it on himself, lightly uttered a syllable, and tightly protected his head.
“Boom!”
In the instant when Ai Qingxuan’s voice fell, the light on the Thunder Spears that had just pierced those corpse puppets almost simultaneously brightened up!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
These Thunder Spears exploded simultaneously!
With a powerful destructive shockwave carrying the element of lightning suddenly exploding at the core of the corpse puppet army.
This shockwave didn’t differentiate between friend or foe, Ai Qingxuan used his own warhorse as a shield, narrowly escaping harm and crawling out from under the warhorse’s body covered in dirt.
“Exciting!”
This shockwave, regardless of whether the corpse puppet was an illusion or a real entity, depleted a tenth of their strength, Yuan Rui’s side was more or less the same, just a bit easier.
Invisibly, the morale of the entire team rose significantly.
Sensing that the disruptive power of the second-rank peak humans on the balance of the battle was too great, all the corpse puppet armies ceased their attack on them.
“Don’t want to fight? I’m not finished playing yet.”
Seeing the corpse puppet army slipping away from him without resisting, Ai Qingxuan felt a surge of anger.
You don’t want to fight me? Then I’ll come to you, okay?
Just as Ai Qingxuan was thinking of catching up with them, the ground beneath his feet suddenly started to crack, forcing him to take a few steps back.
He looked around and saw that almost every second-rank evolver was witnessing the same scene.
Just when Ai Qingxuan thought it was some sort of earth awakening ability, a large hole appeared in front of him suddenly.
A simple style coffin slowly rose from the ground along the hole.
A two-meter long coffin rose in front of almost everyone, all identical in design, blocking their way.
In total, there were exactly eighteen of them!