Chapter 715

Chapter 715: The Battle of the Immortal City (Part 2)

The powerful and desolate horn sound echoed through the heavens and earth, carrying for a thousand miles in all directions.

The dragon tortoise, which had been dormant beneath the earth, slowly awakened, its dark golden pupils revealing astonishment and fear.

At this moment, Yongle Immortal City was surrounded by thousands of flying ships.

This enormous attacking fleet consisted of eight fourth-tier giant ships and hundreds of third-grade flying ships; the former were equivalent to spiritual treasures, while the latter belonged to the category of magical artifacts.

Comparatively, they represented the Yuan Ying and Golden Core levels!

Under normal circumstances, only a Yuan Ying true immortal could pilot a fourth-tier flying ship, and even a Yuan Ying would not be able to fully unleash its destructive power.

The requirements for third-grade flying ships were lower, but they certainly still needed Golden Core true masters to be in command.

The attack on the immortal city was never a trivial matter; the Yishan Sect had clearly thrown everything into this bold assault!

Faced with such a powerful enemy, Yongle Immortal City was undoubtedly caught off guard; even the defensive formation was activated only when the Yishan Sect’s vanguard had closed in within five hundred miles.

With the city fully surrounded, the city defense formations were pushed to their limits, enveloping the entire immortal city and the dragon tortoise that bore it in a semi-transparent magical barrier.

The battle cultivators defending the city hurriedly deployed the God-slaying cannons and the God-slaying crossbows, scrambling to aim their weapons at the Yishan fleet in the sky.

Both sides were on edge, and a great battle was about to erupt!

At that moment, a beam of light shot up into the sky from the center of the city, revealing the figure of a tall, thin, white-haired cultivator in blue robes hovering high above.

He shouted in a deep voice, “Grandmaster Gu, what is the meaning of this?”

The blue-robed cultivator was Qi Nanshan, the city lord of Yongle Immortal City, a high-level Yuan Ying true immortal.

The upper power structure of Yongle Immortal City was extremely complex, essentially a coalition of local immortal families, with Qi Nanshan elected as the helmsman by many families.

Qi Nanshan had profound cultivation level and high prestige.

However, the power he wielded was actually quite limited, while the responsibilities he undertook were immense!

The object of Qi Nanshan’s inquiry was none other than Gu Xi, the Grandmaster of the Yishan Sect.

Just as Qi Nanshan’s words fell, a tall, gaunt, and sinister-looking cultivator appeared as a phantom above a fourth-tier giant ship several dozen miles away.

“City Lord Qi, half a month ago, a true disciple from my sect went missing in Yongle Immortal City.”

The cultivator’s voice boomed across the area: “My sect sent letters requesting assistance, but you ignored them. Now I come to seek justice for my disciple!”

“Outrageous!”

Qi Nanshan glared angrily and shouted, “For merely one true disciple, must you rally such forces?”

“Gu Xi, as a true immortal, don’t you think this excuse is shameless?”

“If you do not clarify things today, I and a million cultivators of Yongle will accompany you to the end!”

Qi Nanshan had known about the disappearance of the Yishan Sect’s true disciple in Yongle Immortal City; after all, they had sent an inquiry letter through official channels.

However, the letters did not request real assistance but instead contained haughty and rude demands from a high vantage point!

How could Qi Nanshan agree to that?

Never would he have expected that the Yishan Sect would use this as an excuse to declare war, surrounding Yongle Immortal City.

This Yuan Ying true immortal knew very well that with such a grand display, there was no possibility for peace.

To buy some time for his side, Qi Nanshan engaged in a verbal duel with Gu Xi.

“Hahaha!”

Gu Xi laughed heartily: “Qi Nanshan, you, a Nascent Soul true immortal, have been treated like a puppet for so many years as the city lord. Are you enjoying this now?”

“I advise you to think carefully; can this turtle shell withstand the full force of my Yishan battle cultivators?”

As the saying goes, one should not strike a person’s face or expose their weaknesses when scolding; Gu Xi clearly had no intention of being polite as he immediately unveiled Qi Nanshan’s greatest sore spot.

“You!”

Qi Nanshan was instantly furious, his skin turning from pale to crimson with rage.

His essence was hidden in the city lord’s office, overseeing the core of Yongle Immortal City’s defensive formations. Even with his deep energy cultivation, he could not help but feel his Qi and blood boil with anger.

In the end, it was Gu Xi who made the first move.

“Break it open for me!”

The Grandmaster of the Yishan Sect shouted fiercely, and the eight fourth-level flying ships surrounding Yongle Immortal City simultaneously shot forth a misty green light.

In the next instant, thick roots burst out from the opened hatches at the bottom of the flying ships, rapidly growing downwards and burrowing into the soil in just a few breaths.

From a distance, it looked as if these robust, formed roots were supporting the flying ships from falling.

Seeing this, Qi Nanshan’s expression changed again: “Eight Desolate Standing Wood, where did you get that Fusang wood?”

The enormous dragon tortoise bearing Yongle Immortal City was of the earth attribute, the strongest in defense among the five elements; breaking through the protective formation would require special means.

Wood restrains metal, and the Fusang wood is one of the four great spiritual woods in the celestial realm!

The earth trembled violently as the tree roots, thick enough to hug, recklessly expanded their territory underground and desperately absorbed the components in the soil.

Accompanied by rumbling sounds, thick black-brown roots began to appear around Yongle Immortal City.

They cracked the thick soil and spread towards the dragon tortoise at a frantic pace, their swollen black surfaces revealing a fierce aspect as they rolled forward at high speed!

The first to suffer were naturally the farmhouses and villages near Yongle Immortal City, as well as many young cultivators who relied on the spirit fields of the farms for their livelihoods.

In the surrounding areas, countless young cultivators worked hard every day; by the time the Yishan Sect’s troops converged, they had no chance to escape.

Some hoped desperately for the battle cultivators from the immortal city to come to their aid.

But such thinking was far too naive.

Some people liked to place their hopes on others without putting in the effort to cultivate their own strength.

Now they were facing great losses!

Crying, cursing, wailing, and pleas for help filled the air…

And those fleeing cultivators did not get far; they were quickly captured by lurking disciples of the Yishan Sect.

Though these cultivators from outside the city were mostly low-ranked, essentially young Qi Training cultivators, they were often locals who could work hard, making their slaughter pointless and inviting enormous infamy.

Thus, as long as they surrendered without resistance, the Yishan Sect’s disciples did not make things difficult for these people fleeing their homes.

Most cultivators directly surrendered.

After all, even if the Yishan Sect lost this battle, they would still survive.

Only a very few stubborn souls, who had just begun to show signs of resistance, were instantly ensnared by the bursting roots and dragged back into the newly formed holes.

In the blink of an eye, they were silenced completely!