Longzang

Chapter 624 A True Warrior
The military camp, with tens of thousands of soldiers, was completely silent, with the occasional sound of commands being issued.

Wei Yuan flew back to the central army, leaving Tianyu behind. The shamans were immediately thrown into chaos. Tianyu was badly injured, but not fatally. The shamans' bodies were far stronger than humans', and even if they lost most of their bodies, they could slowly recover. Someone like Tianyu, as long as her heart was still intact, could gradually regenerate.

What's amazing is that Li Wu retained most of her memories after her rebirth, leading Wei Yuan to conclude that Li Wu indeed did not think with her brain.

Tianyu's physical body would need a considerable amount of time to recover, but her upper body's combat strength remained. Wei Yuan then placed Tianyu in a truck, which would also allow him to protect the supply train.

Before dawn, the army set off. Wei Yuan sat cross-legged on his flying vehicle, slowly flying above the army. The vehicle had six nozzles, and could fly freely by adjusting the direction of the nozzles.

At this moment, a hundred miles away, nearly 100,000 Wu tribe troops were slowly entering an open plain, lining up to await the arrival of Wei Yuan's troops.

In the central army of the Wu tribe, the young Wu looked at the sand table and said, "The vanguard led by the female general of the human tribe has been decimated by us. We only need to send a few thousand infantry to surround and monitor them. They can only hold their ground on that mountain and dare not attack. The one surnamed Cui is leading the main force. The terrain they have seized is also good, and they also have some cannons. This one is more difficult to deal with."

A shaman with a long, python-like body said, "Their cannons are nothing to worry about; they're easy to deal with. I just need to spray some poison mist for a while, and I can force them out. If they don't come out, they'll all turn into blood."

Another shaman with an eagle head and blue eyes said, "Those humans have a lot of luck on them. If you kill them all, the karma will probably take hundreds of years to clear."

"What's there to be afraid of? Doesn't Young Master Lei Dong have the means to cleanse his karma?"

The young shaman said, "I do have a way, but the amount of karma I can handle in a short period of time is limited. We should avoid using it if possible. Our war with the human race is far from over, and we will also face counterattacks from other tribes, especially the Desolate Ancestor Tribe. They have completely sided with the human race and are practically traitors!"

"Why don't we appeal to the City of Heaven and let the Ancestor of Witches punish them!" a great shaman said indignantly.

Eagle-Headed Witch shook his head and said, "The City of Heaven is very slow to act. By the time we appeal and the Witch Ancestor makes a decision and issues punishment, it will probably be decades later. Our place is far from the core of the Witch Domain and has been invaded by humans. In the eyes of those high and mighty beings in the City of Heaven, it is a cursed and barren land. They won't even bother to read what we have written."

Lei Dong then said, "Poison curses and blood curses are good ways to deal with the entrenched humans. We just need to control the amount. When those people are half-dead from the poison, we can send slave soldiers in to kill them. That way, we won't be tainted by karma."

A witch with a full head of silver hair said, "Although these people don't have much luck, they are excellent sacrifices. If we can capture them, in a few decades we will have another family of high-quality sacrifices."

Lei Dong was quite tempted, but the demonic blade on his back emitted a wisp of black energy, dispelling some inexplicable things.

Lei Dong immediately frowned and said, "No! Now is not the time to consider sacrifices. The first target is to kill Wei Yuan, this chosen one of humanity! As long as we kill him, even if it costs us hundreds of years of dormancy, it will be worth it. The best way to provoke him is to kill people, kill as many people as possible!"

None of the witches refuted this, which clearly showed that Lei Dong held a very high position in the Lei Ze tribe at this moment.

At this moment, a slender flying snake with wings on its back entered the tent. It was like a ghost, and apart from the eagle-headed sorcerer, the other two sorcerers did not notice its arrival.

The flying serpent spoke in a high-pitched voice, projecting an image, saying, "The humans have brought a new weapon called the Apocalypse Chariot. I've recorded how they move, and some basic data."

The video shows three vehicles lined up one after the other, moving forward in single file. The wide tracks fascinated the ghouls, and the video also showed the vehicles' dimensions, weight, and the thickness of their armor in certain areas.

Nothing else was a problem, but the thickness of the armor surprised even the few ghost witches.

"This thing must weigh close to 100,000 jin (50,000 kg)?"

"They look about the same."

"An ordinary high-ranking shaman probably couldn't penetrate it."

"It's just that it runs a bit slowly."

After discussing for a while, the several sorcerers, along with the great sorcerer, had already grasped most of the characteristics of the Apocalypse Chariot.

Finally, Lei Dong said, "This iron box moves slowly and there are only a limited number of them, so it's not a problem. We should immediately have the slave soldiers dig a trench in front of the battle line. It doesn't need to be too big, just five feet deep and ten feet wide will be enough. I doubt it can climb over it."

After the matter was settled, Lei Dong looked around the tent and said loudly, "Hongye has willingly fallen into depravity, defeated by a mere human. Now she has been abandoned by Wutian and the Ancestral Witches, and has also lost her own destiny. We are rising up because of this opportunity, but we are still lacking the last bit of prestige."

"As long as I kill Wei Yuan and seize his destiny, I can rise to a higher level and take control of the entire Rain Kingdom! At that time, our Leize tribe will no longer be a vassal, but a legitimate tribe that can stand tall in the Witch Domain, qualified to participate in the tribal assembly of the City of Heaven!"

A fanatical light flashed in the eyes of all the sorcerers. The eagle-headed sorcerer said, "Don't forget, the Rain Kingdom still has the qualifications to compete with the other kingdoms for the position of Heavenly Sorcerer."

"Heavenly Witch..." Lei Dong's eyes flashed with undisguised fervor.

Even with the blessing of good fortune, even with the mysterious, spiritually powerful demonic blade that could rival the Netherworld Witch on its own, the Heavenly Witch was still incredibly far from achieving Thunderous Power, so far that he didn't even dare to dream of it. But after acquiring the Land of Rain, he was at least qualified to step into that realm.

The road to greatness has begun, and the initial task is very simple: just kill a man named Wei Yuan.

Lei Dong tried his best to appear calm and composed, saying, "I have recently been listening to the voice of destiny and have unexpectedly discovered that many people among the human race also want to overthrow Wei Yuan's rule. We don't even need to kill him; as long as we defeat him, his kingdom will fall apart, and his fortune will be scattered across the land."

I will share some of the collected fortune with you then. Before long, although the number of ghostly witches in the Rain Kingdom is greater, we will still be able to suppress them. Since Red Leaf is destined to perish, then she should never return.

The witches were overjoyed and bowed in gratitude.

At noon the next day, the two armies lined up. Wei Yuan brought up all the baggage train and troops, plus a thousand strong shamans from the Huangzu tribe, which only brought up twelve thousand men. On the other side was the one hundred thousand elite troops of the Leize tribe.

At this moment, a human Dao Foundation cultivator beside Tianyu said, "Your Desolate Ancestor Tribe can only send out a thousand warriors? Isn't that a bit weak? You said you've always been fighting against the Thunder Swamp Tribe, were you just bragging?"

This cultivator was extremely arrogant, but he was wearing Wei Yuan's face; he was Wei Yuan in disguise as a warrior.

Tianyu sighed and said, "These thousand warriors were only fighting under the pretext of personal revenge; otherwise, there wouldn't be a thousand! Openly helping the human race fight against other witch tribes is too disgraceful!"

Wei Yuan said, "That's not how it works. It's our human race that's helping you fight your enemies. I'm here to assist you."

Tianyu's eyes lit up: "That makes sense! I'll go back and tell the elders!"

At this moment, both sides had completed their formations. Wei Yuan's army had two thousand cavalry and infantry guarding the front of the formation, protecting dozens of wagons in the center. Two thousand of the five thousand supply troops were stationed on each flank, while Wei Yuan himself led three thousand Dragon Wing Iron Cavalry on the right flank, creating an unbalanced formation.

Lei Dong felt extremely awkward watching, but forced himself to overcome it. He stepped forward from the crowd and declared loudly, "Wei Yuan! Today, our battle on the banks of the Haoyue River will surely be recorded in history for posterity..."

Before he could even begin to speak, Wei Yuan shouted, "Shut up! Let's fight!"

Then Wei Yuan waved his hand, and the army's bugles sounded and drums thundered, signaling the start of the battle without giving Lei Dong a chance to speak.

Lei Dong's heroic ambitions were in vain, and he immediately flew into a rage, ordering his army to attack.

Large thunderclouds rose from the two altars in the Thunder army camp, and archers marched forward, their spirits high. This kind of sorcery, which uses the power of thunder to unleash the warriors' potential, is a specialty of the Thunder tribe.

At the same time, several bolts of lightning flew out from the thunderclouds, passing in front of the two armies and heading towards Wei Yuan's army formation, unleashing bursts of thunder. Wei Yuan's mind stirred, and his military aura surged, neutralizing most of the power of the falling lightning.

The powerful shamans in the army then took off their animal skin clothes, revealing their muscular bodies. Some roared to the sky, while others pounded their chests and then leaped into the sky to block the falling lightning with their bodies!

In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred powerful sorcerers were struck by lightning and charred on the outside and inside, falling heavily to the ground. Several of them then fell silent.

Instead of feeling sad, the surrounding sorcerers were extremely excited and began to dance a primitive dance around the corpse of the dead sorcerer.

Tianyu proudly said to Wei Yuan's avatar beside him, "How about that! Aren't the warriors of our Desolate Ancestor Tribe amazing? You don't need to worry about those two altars at all. The Thunder Curse is all our Desolate Ancestor Tribe's responsibility!"

Wei Yuan was speechless; he hadn't been worried about the lightning curse at all. At that moment, dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators were erecting long metal poles within the military formation. These lightning-avoiding poles were originally intended for use against heavenly tribulations; dealing with the witch lightning of the Thunder Swamp tribe would be a piece of cake.

So those few powerful sorcerers were indeed true warriors, but they didn't have to die.

The army of Lei Ze had a total of 10,000 archers. When they were still 500 feet away from the human army formation, they stopped and began to nock their arrows.

Wei Yuan was also taken aback; the distance was over a hundred zhang farther than the intelligence indicated. Were the archers of the Lei Ze tribe really that elite? At this distance, only the longbow archers of the Huang Zu tribe could exchange fire. The normal range of elite archers was only about three hundred zhang, and they would have to charge through a hail of arrows. A distance of over a hundred zhang was enough for the enemy to fire four volleys of arrows.

Lei Dong gazed at the human army formation and sneered, "With the enhancement of my awakened ancient thunder magic, our archers can shoot heavy arrows five hundred feet away, making them the strongest archers in this region! These mere humans are physically weak, relying on a few small cannons to try and compete with my Lei Ze?"

As soon as he finished speaking, nearly a hundred infantry cannons were launched from Wei Yuan's army formation. With a command from the officer in charge, all the cannons roared at the same time, and the shells whistled into the archer formation, blasting up swathes of Raize archers!
The cannons roared in round after round, the artillery fire was continuous, and the human cultivators ran around like the wind, carrying and loading shells.

Under the constant barrage of artillery fire, the Raize archer formation began to collapse and fall into chaos. The occasional heavy arrows fired in retaliation were blocked by the powerful shamans holding heavy shields beside the infantry and artillery.

(End of this chapter)