Longzang

Chapter 705 Omissions
The ferocity of the battle exceeded all expectations. The two sides fought from dawn until nightfall, with wave after wave of Liao attacks reaching the city walls only to be repelled time and again. The two sides engaged in a protracted tug-of-war around the city walls, each victory achieved only through blood and flesh.

Wei Yuan only remembered that the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth had been clearly distorted three times, which meant that the immortals had fought three times. He didn't have time to remember the other minor details, so he could only passively record them in the mundane world and analyze them slowly after the battle.

The boundary dispute between Dingyue Stele and the Northern Mountain Gate should have put them at a significant disadvantage, but at this moment they are only slightly at a disadvantage. The Taoist soldiers' advantage in fighting within their own mountain gate has been greatly reduced, and their casualties are much higher than usual.

This situation should not have occurred in theory. Not to mention that Immortal Lord Yanshi is currently at the northern mountain gate, the legacy left by several past Immortal Lords who passed away here is enough to completely suppress the Dingyue Stele.

Wei Yuan estimated that the Liao people must have exerted great pressure on the northern mountain gate in other places, diverting most of the mountain gate's power, which is why they were unable to suppress the Dingyue Stele.

Since the power of the mountain gate was insufficient, Wei Yuan continuously empowered the surrounding warriors with the Heaven and Earth Madmen, and used the Five Elements Dao Soldiers to form an array and cast spells, strengthening the defending forces with array formations and Daoist arts. In the most critical moments, the Five Elements Dao Soldiers would also directly enter the fray.

Even if Wei Yuan could be used as a substitute for hundreds or thousands of elite troops, he wouldn't make much of a splash in a battlefield with hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Moreover, the Liao army was full of hidden talents, and powerful individuals would launch sneak attacks from time to time, their cunning and ruthlessness not much different from Wei Yuan's.

Wei Yuan himself was not afraid, but he had to spare some attention to protect the others on his side. For example, he saved He Fang at least twice and pulled Sun Yu back from the brink of death.

The Liao tribe's Dharma Image, whose arrows turned into snakes, was incredibly powerful and never showed itself. Only when an arrow about to strike suddenly transformed into a snake would one know that he had made another move.

This person has absolutely no scruples; he doesn't just target Dharma Aspects, but repeatedly launches sneak attacks on Foundation Establishment cultivators. With his cultivation level, a sneak attack on a Foundation Establishment cultivator is almost always a one-hit kill, and Wei Yuan wouldn't even have time to save him.

After several rounds, Wei Yuan, angered, took out a Flash and prepared a Storm Bomb for later use. He searched the entire battlefield for him before Wei Yuan finally restrained himself and stopped attacking.

The battle raged until the moon was high in the sky, leaving both sides exhausted.

Many Taoist soldiers, having exhausted their magical power, hid under their shields, desperately trying to recover their energy. Once they had recovered a little, they would get up and quickly fire a shot towards the outside of the city. Some would excitedly throw a punch, while others would suddenly have a light arrow appear on their foreheads, with different outcomes.

As the Liao cavalrymen ran outside the city, some would suddenly fall to the ground. After falling, they would struggle for a few moments, but they couldn't get up no matter what.

Finally, the mournful sound of the bugle rang out, and the Liao cavalrymen stopped charging, while the soldiers on the city wall ceased firing.

All the Liao cavalry turned their horses around. They looked at the corpses scattered on the ground behind them, and suddenly someone started singing a northern pastoral song, followed by more and more Liao cavalrymen humming along.

In the darkness, to the strains of a desolate and lonely song, one surviving Liao cavalryman after another slowly headed north, disappearing below the horizon. Behind them, perhaps, lay their fathers, uncles, brothers, and close playmates. These Liao people could never return to the north.

Wei Yuan only breathed a sigh of relief when the Liao cavalry completely disappeared into the night, after which he felt excruciating pain in many parts of his body.

He then realized that his Dao power was almost depleted, and he had more than a dozen wounds on his body, some of which he did not know when he had been injured.

The city walls were littered with corpses. After nightfall, a troop of Liao cavalry would occasionally leap onto the walls and charge into battle.

This is a common tactic used by the Liao people: once they discover that the defenders are weak, they will launch a large-scale invasion of the city. However, if they encounter fierce resistance on the city walls, they will fight for a while before retreating, trying to avoid street battles with the Taichu Palace soldiers inside the city.

Wei Yuan walked along the city wall, kicking the corpses of Liao knights down the wall with his feet, and then straightening the corpses of Dao soldiers.

Amidst the pile of corpses, a Liao clan captain at the peak of the Dao Foundation stage, covered in blood, woke up at that moment. He stared at Wei Yuan, moving his body backward while brandishing a sharp arrow and making hoarse noises.

Wei Yuan took out the Demon Blade July and casually stabbed it into the man's heart, then carried the corpse into the city.

Amidst the pile of corpses, Wei Yuan suddenly spotted a somewhat familiar body and hurriedly went over to help it up; it was Sun Yu.

At this moment, Sun Yu was covered in blood, his left leg below the knee was missing, and he was seriously injured.

Wei Yuan sensed his Dharma form and found it wasn't seriously damaged, so he was relieved. Wei Yuan took out a bottle of healing pills, transformed them into medicinal mist with his Dao power, and brought it to Sun Yu's nose for him to inhale.

Sun Yu groaned and slowly woke up. He looked around and realized what had happened: "I passed out?"

"Yes."

Sun Yu looked dejected and said, "I don't know why I'm having such a bad day. I was just about to take my medicine, but it expired at the last minute. I also have some arrowheads on my back, could you help me remove them...? Your technique is wrong! You cut a tendon!"

Wei Yuan held an arrowhead in his hand, his face embarrassed. The arrowhead was very delicate; once it entered the flesh, three small wings would pop out from three sides to hook onto the muscle, and if pulled out forcefully, it would tear off a large chunk of flesh.

When Wei Yuan took the arrowhead, he was focused on using his Dao power to cut off the small wings and force it out. Unexpectedly, when he pulled it out, two more small wings popped out from the arrowhead and severed a back tendon.

Sun Yu continuously instructed Wei Yuan on his techniques, retrieving a total of thirteen arrowheads from his back, buttocks, and thighs. These arrowheads were all armor-piercing heavy arrows, crafted by a Dao Foundation Perfection Knight, and even Sun Yu's physical body couldn't withstand them. The main issue was the complexity of the battlefield; no one could possibly cover all directions with their divine sense, so Sun Yu was inexplicably struck by many stray arrows.

Most of these arrows also had special effects, such as being highly poisonous, paralyzing, and bewitching. With all these combined, Sun Yu was unable to withstand them and suddenly fainted.

There were other reasons why he was hit by so many arrows. Wei Yuan now suspected that even if Muhawen wasn't the chosen one, he was at least somewhat problematic. Otherwise, Sun Yu wouldn't have been injured so badly after taking a single Dharma Aspect. If Wei Yuan had discovered this any later, he might have lost his life.

As soon as the arrow was released, Sun Yu, being a skilled healer himself, took out a bottle of pills, poured out three pills and swallowed them, then handed the rest to Wei Yuan, saying, "The battlefield is full of immortal power, so your injuries will heal slowly. You should take some too."

Wei Yuan, who had external injuries, took the medicine bottle and poured out three pills. Unexpectedly, Sun Yu poured the rest of the bottle into his hand, saying, "Your physical body is different from mine, so take them all."

Wei Yuan readily complied, swallowing the pill in one gulp, his expression changing slightly. This pill reminded him of the taste from his childhood.

Sun Yu rarely smiled and said, "I'm fine now. Let's split up and rescue people! The battlefield is full of immortal power now, and anything strange can happen. Many people may not look seriously injured, but they could suddenly die. We must not be careless."

Wei Yuan nodded; he had also noticed this during the battle.

Several times, he clearly killed his enemies with his Taoist magic, but for a fleeting moment, he saw a completely different turn of events in the battle. Sometimes the enemy would escape, and sometimes a strange woman with silver braids would suddenly appear and slit his own throat with a short knife.

This feeling was like a sudden auditory or visual hallucination, making it difficult to distinguish between illusion and reality. However, Wei Yuan was a Dharma Aspect cultivator with an extremely strong primordial spirit and abundant luck, making him virtually immune to all kinds of illusions. The only thing that could cause him to experience hallucinations so frequently was the influence of immortal power.

What happened next confirmed what Sun Yu said: two Foundation Establishment cultivators suddenly died at Wei Yuan's hands without any warning, and the cause of death was the dissipation of their primordial spirit.

Wei Yuan dared not delay and worked until dawn to ensure that all the important wounded were taken care of. By then, the battle results had been tallied and the report had been delivered to Wei Yuan.

In this battle, the defending Dao soldiers suffered 11,000 casualties, while the Qingming Army lost 1,500. The Liao army suffered 50,000 casualties, with the number of wounded unknown. Among the high-level cultivators, one leader of the Dharma Aspect Dao soldiers was killed in action, and another was seriously wounded and needed to be sent to the rear for treatment.

On the Liao side, Wei Yuan himself killed two Dharma Ministers, while Ji Liuli, Feng Tingyu, and Feng Chutang each killed one.

As dawn broke, the reinforcements sent by the Taichu Palace arrived, bringing a total of 5,000 Dao soldiers and one Dharma Aspect cultivator, along with a large quantity of healing pills and other supplies, making them extremely efficient.

Around noon, two flying boats arrived and landed directly in the center of the city. These two flying boats came from Qingming. The True Lord on duty at Taichu Palace, after ascertaining their purpose, did not interfere and simply ordered the two flying boats to fly directly to the front-line town. He then escorted them all the way, blocking all attacks from the Liao tribe.

Upon the arrival of the airship, Wei Yuan's spirits lifted. As the airship's hatch opened, he saw rows of disassembled and transported cannons, those long, blue-green cannons appearing to Wei Yuan as the most magnificent sight in the world.

The two airships transported a total of fifty infantry cannons and tens of thousands of cannonballs, as well as tens of thousands of breastplates, giant shields, and flying sword spears, the latter being standard equipment for elite warriors who had achieved mastery of the Azure Nether Body Forging technique.

At this time, most of the Dao soldiers who had achieved the Great Perfection of Body Forging were still using bows, crossbows, swords, and knives. Wei Yuan ordered his men to distribute the equipment and then selected a thousand Qingming warriors to serve as temporary instructors, teaching the Dao soldiers how to use flying swords and spears.

Seeing the large number of Dao soldiers armed to the teeth, the True Lord escorting the flying boat couldn't help but smile and nod secretly.

After unloading its cargo, the airship loaded the Liao corpses. In the rush, many bodies weren't even properly crated and were simply loaded onto the airship. Once all the bodies were loaded, the airship took off immediately, returning to Qingming.

The True Lord turned a blind eye to the matter of transporting the Liao people's corpses.

Looking at the tens of thousands of rearmed soldiers, Wei Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, only then feeling that the war had returned to its familiar course. He looked around, feeling as if he had forgotten something.

Wei Yuan frowned slightly. Under the influence of the immortal power, his own performance became unpredictable. If he could forget things, then others would find it even harder to resist.

However, Wei Yuan had his own way of dealing with it. He directly used the information from the human world to search for all the battle information and find out what he had missed or overlooked.

The Human World's Fireworks, rooted in the Azure Netherworld and possessing the mysterious three-eyed bird head, was difficult even for immortals to control. Sure enough, a few breaths later, the Human World's Fireworks found the omission in the vast sea of ​​information that Wei Yuan was affected by the immortal power: he hadn't seen Feng Tingyu.

Wei Yuan immediately searched the entire battlefield. Once he remembered Feng Tingyu, he broke the immortal power seal. The remaining immortal power could no longer interfere with this matter.

A moment later, Wei Yuan found Feng Tingyu, who was hiding in a half-collapsed house, tending to the wound on her leg. When Wei Yuan approached, he realized that Feng Tingyu was healing herself entirely by instinct, and she had been unconscious for an unknown period of time.

The moment Wei Yuan saw Feng Tingyu, he was momentarily dazed, as if he saw the silver-haired Liao woman again.

(End of this chapter)