Longzang

Chapter 589 Weird

This place was over a thousand miles from Qingming, and the pursuers never dreamed they would be attacked here. Many of the Flying Eagle Riders didn't even know what was flying towards them and tried to intercept it with witchcraft.

However, Qingming has now developed a new generation of missiles, with trace amounts of Nether Crystal mixed into the cartridge cases, greatly increasing their ability to resist magic interception. These missiles previously fought against the magic of Great Witches, but now they easily counter the magic of Foundation Establishment Witches. One missile after another broke through the layers of magic interception and exploded among the flock of eagles.

Within a radius of several dozen feet of each missile, the Flying Eagle Riders were either killed or injured. Most of the Dao Foundation Knights were directly killed by the shockwave. Even the Black Feather Flying Eagles, whose strength had already reached the threshold of the Dharma Aspect, were injured by the blast and many could not withstand it and fell from the sky.

The Flying Eagle Riders, including several Blood Witches at the perfect Dharma Aspect stage, suddenly felt a great calamity was about to befall them. They discovered that the human form of their pursuer had changed again, its wings had retracted, and it had completely transformed into human form. It was none other than Wei Yuan!
Although the Flying Eagle Cavalry had fought on another battlefield and had not participated in the Rain Kingdom's war against the humans, as vassals of the Rain Kingdom, they had long known of Wei Yuan, and his fearsome reputation was spreading far and wide. Upon discovering that their pursuers were none other than Wei Yuan, the Blood Witches immediately lost all will to fight and began summoning the surviving Flying Eagles to regroup.

At this moment, the only remaining sorcerer, Youwu, became much more cautious. The attacks transmitted from afar were fast but not very powerful. After one strike, the connection was severed, clearly to prevent Yin Yang from retaliating through the cause-and-effect relationship.

The Witch who suffered a counterattack after casting the last Blood Curse has remained silent, indicating that she was seriously injured.

After revealing his true form, Wei Yuan was enveloped in dazzling immortal light. The aura of each immortal plant was activated, and countless Daoist techniques converged into an overwhelming torrent, which blasted towards the Flying Eagle Cavalry, who were in chaos from the missile attack.

Large swaths of ice clouds shot out from Wei Yuan's hands, most of them falling to the ground and landing on the wounded eagles. Some of the severely wounded eagles were frozen solid, while others with minor injuries became sluggish.

The eagles in the air dodged most of the ice clouds, but unexpectedly, they were cleverly driven away by the ice clouds and huddled together in several groups. Then, a series of sonic booms and flashes of magic exploded in the center of the eagle flock, causing dozens more eagles to fall to the ground.

Wei Yuan unleashed a Dao technique equivalent to the full power of seven or eight Dharma Aspect cultivators in one breath, leaving the Flying Eagle Cavalry in a sorry state. Only then did Wei Yuan look at the Blood Witches.

One of the blood witches, his eyes bloodshot, roared, "What are we afraid of? If we all gang up on him, can't we defeat him?"

The other blood witches hesitated. They wanted to rescue the injured Flying Eagle, but were unwilling to rashly engage in a life-or-death battle with Wei Yuan.

At this moment, a military aura surged into the sky from afar, and a cavalry force was approaching at full speed. Seeing the mountain-like aura, the commanders of the Flying Eagle Cavalry finally realized that the situation was hopeless and could only order their troops to retreat.

But Wei Yuan wouldn't let them retreat so easily, so he launched a counterattack, and another fierce battle ensued. Wei Yuan withstood several spells cast from a distance by the Nether Witch, and after chasing for a hundred miles, he also managed to kill nearly a hundred flying eagles under the combined attack of several Blood Witch commanders.

As several blood witches were fighting Wei Yuan together, a faint shadow appeared and bit one of the blood witches hard on the back!
This bite pierced right through the Blood Witch's protective magic, armor, and tough outer skin, tearing off a large chunk of flesh!
The blood witch let out a scream and tried to pounce, but her arm was bitten off again!
The tiny shadow moved with lightning speed, circling around the Blood Witch and tearing off large chunks of flesh every now and then. Although it had no wings, it could move freely in the air, its form appearing and disappearing intermittently, constantly traversing the void—it was the Flying Sable.

This Blood Witch was at least at the peak of his Dharma Aspect, and he always prided himself on his strong defense and solid Dharma body. However, he never expected that the flying sable could bite him as easily as gnawing on a pine cone, and could bite through all his defenses in one bite.

The Blood Witch screamed in agony before fleeing into the distance, ignoring everything. The Flying Sable gave chase. Wei Yuan, meanwhile, continued to unleash his magic like a torrent, suppressing all the Great Witches single-handedly while occasionally launching surprise attacks on a few flying eagles.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the remaining blood sorcerers immediately scattered and fled. Wei Yuan could not catch up with the flying eagle riders that were swarming everywhere, so he had no choice but to give up.

At this moment, the ground cavalry arrived and began to clean up the battlefield and capture any surviving Flying Eagles.

These black-feathered eagles were enormous and could use lightning, but without flight, their strength was reduced to only one or two tenths. After being captured one by one, they struggled for only a few moments before being tied up tightly like chickens and thrown into the trucks that had accompanied the army.

The missiles and cavalry were all pre-arranged by Wei Yuan, lying in ambush nearly a thousand miles ahead, waiting to provide support for him. Otherwise, the Qingming missiles wouldn't have been able to reach that far.

However, in this battle, more than ten missiles destroyed hundreds of Flying Eagles. Wei Yuan seemed to have something to say and felt that the current missile range was too short and that the range needed to be put on the agenda.

Wei Yuan wasn't perfect; the fact that so many Black Feathered Eagles survived was an accident. So he urgently ordered all the baggage to be abandoned, which freed up enough trucks to carry the eagles.

Cui Yu led the cavalry. Wei Yuan instructed him to meet up with the Dharma Warriors who had not yet arrived, then left behind the corpse of Lei Ying and spread his wings to fly towards the Witch Domain again.

Wei Yuan left in a hurry and didn't have time to thoroughly search the town, so there might have been some who slipped through the net. Now that Wei Yuan has killed Lei Ying and fled thousands of miles, enduring the remote attacks of You Wu, and fighting with the Flying Eagle Cavalry for thousands of miles, from the core area of ​​the Wu Domain thousands of miles away all the way to the vicinity of Qing Ming, he must have already alarmed the entire Lei Ze tribe and the surrounding tribes of the Rain Kingdom.

If their real target was still in that small town, they would probably feel safe by now and would never have imagined that Wei Yuan would launch a surprise attack, thus revealing some clues.

At this moment, the power of the Witch Domain that was suppressing Wei Yuan had been largely dissipated by the force of the thousands of iron cavalry brought by Cui Yu. The chain that had fallen from the sky had also dissipated due to the loss of the power of the sacrifice, and Wei Yuan was no longer restrained.

The severely wounded blood witch fled for over a hundred miles, but ultimately could not escape the clutches of the flying weasel. When it was brought back, its body was riddled with bite marks, but it was still alive.

This was also Wei Yuan's instruction: capture as many alive as possible so they could be taken back for research. Research was a fine tradition of the Taichu Palace, and many additional functions had already been developed. For example, researchers had discovered that most sentient beings were more likely to confess in the research room than in the torture chamber.

On his second foray into the Witch Domain, Wei Yuan maintained stealth throughout, flying straight towards Bear Town. With the aid of the Sniper's wings, the journey of tens of thousands of miles took Wei Yuan only two hours.

Upon returning to Bear Town, many more sorcerers were now examining the traces left by Wei Yuan and Lei Ying's fight. Squads of sorcerer soldiers who had arrived from nearby areas entered the town, pulling out residents one by one for questioning.

Wei Yuan returned too quickly, leaving only two great shamans present.

Wei Yuan concealed his aura and approached a completely unsuspecting great shaman like a ghost. Then, the Scarlet Night Immortal Slayer Sword easily broke through all his defenses, piercing through his back. His chest bulged out, and his body was already shredded by the sword energy.

This high shaman was utterly ordinary, clearly someone unfit for battle, preferring to live a life of luxury in the rear. Having succeeded in his attack, Wei Yuan stealthily moved towards the second high shaman. Just as he was about to strike, a shout suddenly rang out from below: "Watch out! The old demon is back!"

Without thinking, Wei Yuan killed the great shaman in front of him with a single sword strike, then looked down.

The village below was relatively well-preserved and unaffected. In a small courtyard on the edge of the village, a small Wu tribe child with large eyes and red skin stood pointing at Wei Yuan and excitedly calling out into the room.

Wei Yuan scanned the room with his divine sense and discovered a single witch woman inside. Strangely, although he had been to this village before, he hadn't noticed a single woman with a child in this courtyard.

Wei Yuan had already realized something was wrong. Even with his keen senses and high luck, he had been fooled. There must be something strange about this small village!
Wei Yuan pounced down and grabbed the witch child. His divine sense instantly covered the entire village, marking dozens of suspicious targets!

All the witches in the village stopped what they were doing and looked at Wei Yuan.

In the center of the village, a house collapsed, revealing a miniature altar inside. The surface of the altar emitted specks of light, indicating that it was already filled with sacrificial power.

Suddenly, the center of the altar cracked open, spewing out a fountain of blood! The blood fountain twisted and turned in the sky, then transformed into wisps of blood mist, which seeped into the villagers' bodies.

In an instant, the eyes of the villagers, who had been numb, in pain, exhausted, and bewildered, all changed, becoming sharp and dangerous, and their gazes toward Wei Yuan even carried a hint of mockery.

They were like the most experienced hunters, finally waiting for their prey to walk into their trap.

In the blink of an eye, the villagers of the Witch Clan swelled in size, their auras surging wildly. Revealing their ferocious nature, they assumed fighting stances. Standing before Wei Yuan were seven Great Witches, the rest all Dao Foundation Establishment Witch Warriors!

If such a force, which fights purely with witchcraft, were to concentrate its fire on one spot, even a fully-fledged Dharma Body could be severely damaged.

Then an old shaman who had been bedridden on the west side of the village sat up, as if a mountain peak had appeared on the spot.

(End of this chapter)