Chapter 174
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Chapter 174: A Sword Destroys the City
After Li Xiaojun finished speaking with Tuoba Ye, he left directly.
"Sending off the senior."
After Li Xiaojun left, Tuoba Ye respectfully knelt down and bowed his head, calling him "senior."
At this moment, since he had not yet completed the task assigned by the senior, he could not call him "master."
After a while, Tuoba Ye stood up.
"Brother Ye Xian, we…"
A group of friends looked at Tuoba Ye with excitement.
"Did you all hear what the senior said? From now on, I will continue the rebellion until we overthrow the Yu Hua Divine Dynasty. If any of you do not wish to follow me, you may leave," Tuoba Ye said to his friends.
These friends were all playmates from his village. During the flood, their village suffered the worst, and most of the villagers drowned.
Later, those who escaped, the ones with weaker physical conditions, were also gone, leaving only their group of young and strong men and a group of young women.
"Brother Ye Xian, we have no way back now; we will follow you," one young man immediately said after hearing Tuoba Ye.
"Yes, Brother Ye Xian, we are with you."
"Right…"
The others also expressed their support one after another.
"Good, since everyone is with me, we will be brothers from now on. Brothers share both blessings and hardships. Once we overthrow the Yu Hua Divine Dynasty, I will make sure you all enjoy endless wealth and honor…"
With the support of various equipment from Li Xiaojun, Tuoba Ye quickly began to prepare his army.
He decided to first conquer the county before recruiting more troops.
However, before that, he wanted to see just how powerful the items the senior gave him were.
The senior said that the imperial tool only needed to be charged with a superior grade spirit stone to possess the power to eliminate a saint.
So he wanted to try it out first.
In the afternoon, the group scattered and stood in front of a hill!
In front of the crowd, a young man wearing silver armor held a long sword in his hand.
"Weapon spirit, attack the mountain with full force," Tuoba Ye commanded the spirit artifact.
This top-grade spiritual weapon was made by Li Xiaojun using materials from the cultivation world and teleported to the Immortal Realm for Li Yufei to refine. The spirit inside compared to an immortal tool in terms of intelligence.
Therefore, even an ordinary person could control this spirit artifact to attack once it recognized a master.
Upon hearing Tuoba Ye’s words, the spirit artifact suddenly emitted a blinding light.
The next moment, a massive sword energy shot forth from the flying sword of the spirit artifact towards the mountain peak in front.
The sword energy arrived in an instant, slashing diagonally into the mountain peak.
In the next moment, a thunderous roar echoed.
The mountain peak was directly sliced in two by the sword energy, then the mountainside slid down with a tremendous crashing sound.
Seeing such power, everyone was dumbfounded.
Tuoba Ye held the spirit artifact in his hand and trembled with excitement.
With this spirit artifact, would he still need to let someone else attack the city?
When faced with the city wall, he could simply slice down with his sword; no wall could possibly withstand it.
"Brothers, gather everyone and follow me to attack the county city!" Tuoba Ye instructed his men.
"Okay!"
Quickly, over two thousand young insurgents gathered together.
Before long, Tuoba Ye led his two thousand insurgents to the outside of the county city.
At that moment, the county city still had its gates firmly shut.
On the city walls, all the soldiers were prepared, archers had their arrows nocked, waiting for the insurgents to attack.
"My lord, all is ready. If these rebels dare to assault the city, we can kill them all without leaving a single piece of armor!"
A man in armor respectfully said to a county magistrate who was in his fifties.
"Good, good! If you can defeat these rebels, I will petition the court for your rewards…"
On the city walls, the magistrate quietly watched the insurgents below.
Since the refugees had no bows and arrows, they were not afraid of suffering any accidental injuries.
"Why isn’t this group of rebels even bringing ladders? What do they plan to do?"
Soon, someone noticed the issue.
They realized that the insurgents had not brought any ladders at all.
Though they lacked siege tools like siege towers that required numerous craftsmen to build, they didn’t even have regular long ladders; how could they attack the city?
Just as many were puzzled, a man in a set of exquisite silver armor stepped forward.
He held a sword in both hands.
"Weapon spirit, help me split a section of the city wall," Tuoba Ye instructed the weapon spirit.
Upon hearing Tuoba Ye’s words, the long sword in his hand shot into the sky and quickly rose above the city wall.
Then, the long sword rapidly expanded, soon becoming a gigantic sword hundreds of meters long.
Seeing such a sight, everyone was stunned.
"It’s a cultivator! Run!"
On the city walls, everyone began to scatter and flee.
In no time, not a single person was left on the walls.
No one was foolish; they wouldn’t choose to sacrifice their lives against an unbeatable enemy.
Such a large sword, if it fell, would crush a whole group of people.
Once everyone had evacuated from the city walls, the gigantic flying sword finally struck down.
Boom!
With a thunderous sound, in an instant, the towering city wall, stretching several thousand meters, was shattered into a pile of earth by the gigantic sword.
After the flying sword’s attack was completed, it quickly returned and landed back in Tuoba Ye’s hand.
"Brothers, attack the city!"
Tuoba Ye waved his long sword with spirited confidence and led the charge toward the county city.
"Kill!"
The two thousand insurgents, equally high-spirited, surged forward.
"We surrender! We surrender!"
Inside the city, the soldiers who had initially prepared to defend the city all raised their hands to surrender, showing no intent of resistance.
They were joking if they thought they could withstand such destructive power that had just obliterated a large section of the city wall.
Just as the soldiers were surrendering, however, the county magistrate fled with his men from another direction, which was a pity.
Nevertheless, with the county city breached, Tuoba Ye had achieved his goal.
Quickly, the two thousand insurgents entered the county city.
Due to Tuoba Ye’s persistent efforts in political work, and the army orders to enter the city, the insurgents did not harm the ordinary citizens inside.
Soon, Tuoba Ye took control of the entire county city.
After gaining control, his first action was to organize manpower to open the grain warehouses.
Both the official granaries and those of wealthy merchants in the city were seized by Tuoba Ye.
Next, he needed to recruit more troops, and for that, he needed food.
"What a corrupt official! There’s so much grain in the city, yet he won’t spare a bit to help us."
When many insurgent soldiers saw the grain in the official granaries, they couldn’t help but curse at the corrupt officials.
"And those greedy merchants, selling grain at ten times the price; their hearts are as black as can be."
