The First Marquis of Daxuan

Chapter 144: Perseverance (Please subscribe, collect, and recommend monthly tickets)
"Level 3 - Monster!"

Xie Zuowen stood on the city wall of the inner city, a little dazed.

Due to the structure of Wuling City, the terrain of the inner city is originally higher than that of the outer city, and the walls of the inner city are also much higher than those of the outer city.

Standing on the wall of the inner city, you can naturally see the scenery outside the city.

Although the distance was far and ordinary monsters looked like ants, the third-level monster had a body as big as a mountain. Even at such a distance, the suffocating sense of oppression could still be felt.

"Sir, this is a third-level monster! What should we do?"

The generals around him said in a panic.

A third-level monster is comparable to a True Yuan Realm warrior, and no one in Wuling City can be its opponent.

Moreover, the intelligence of the third-level monsters is no weaker than that of humans. Once it drives the monsters to attack the city, it will be a disaster for Wuling City!

"Why panic!"

Xie Zuowen said in a deep voice, "The walls of the inner city have been specially reinforced, so even a third-level monster would not be able to break through so easily.

What's more, we still have Xuanbing."

After hearing Xuan Bing's words, the general finally calmed down a little.

"Unfortunately, no one in Wuling City can use the Five Fires Heaven Shocking Bow right now. Otherwise, a third-level monster can be destroyed in a snap of a finger!"

The general sighed and said.

"Although the Five Fires Sky Shocking Bow is powerful, only warriors with nine times blood exchange can exert its power."

Xie Zuowen said that there was no warrior in Wuling City who could exchange blood nine times, so naturally there was no one who could use the Five Fires Shocking Heaven Bow.

"But even without the Five Fires Sky-shaking Bow, Wuling City still has the City-breaking Crossbow, so it won't be difficult to resist a third-level monster."

Xie Zuowen said in a deep voice, "Send someone to ask City Lord Luo and Captain Wan of the Taiping Division to ask for help from Jingzhou. Brothers, be prepared for war. Once the outer city falls, we will be the last line of defense."

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"A third-level monster?"

On the outer city wall, Su Mu looked at the hill-like monster in the distance, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

He had also seen quite a few monsters. At least dozens of first-level monsters had died in his hands, and hundreds of monsters that were not at the first level.

But this was the first time he had seen a third-level monster.

Just looking at the other party's body shape, he is not someone you would expect to deal with.

Of course, in fact, the third-level monsters are indeed not easy to deal with.

"This is trouble."

Su Mu muttered to himself.

He emptied the assets of the wealthy businessmen in the four districts of the outer city and used Luo Anning's connections to finally buy 200,000 magic-destroying crossbow arrows.

Wuling City is close to the Daxing Mountains. The city reserves Demon-Destroying Crossbows all year round to prevent monster tides. One of the important tasks of the Smelting Department in the inner city is to produce Demon-Destroying Crossbows. In addition, a large part of Wuling City’s tax revenue is also used to purchase Demon-Destroying Crossbows from other places.

In this case, Wuling City's entire reserve of magic-destroying crossbow arrows is no more than one million.

It sounds like a lot, and it is.

At the beginning, Su Mu had stockpiled 200,000 magic-breaking crossbow arrows, and he thought it was a sure thing.

After all, even if there are losses, an average of twenty Demon-Destroying Crossbow Arrows can kill one monster, right? Then two hundred thousand Demon-Destroying Crossbow Arrows can kill twenty thousand monsters.

Twenty magic-destroying crossbow arrows are enough to kill a first-level monster even if the warriors from the outer city are not very accurate.

But now it seems that even if the number doubled, let alone 200,000, it would be in vain.

The Demon-Destroying Crossbow Arrows can deal with first-level monsters, but it is a bit difficult to deal with second-level monsters. It may take hundreds of Demon-Destroying Crossbow Arrows to kill them.

As for the third-level monsters, shooting them with the magic-destroying crossbow arrows would probably be no different from tickling them.

No matter how many magic-destroying crossbows you have, they can't deal with a third-level monster.

The Demon-Breaking Crossbow was not good enough, and Su Mu's own strength was not good enough either.

After all, he is just an ordinary warrior in the Blood Exchange Realm.

Although he had tempered his body to the limit and awakened his physical supernatural powers.

Although he changed his blood tenfold.

Although he comprehended the triple artistic conception.

But he can't deal with a third-level monster now.

Not to mention a third-level monster, even a second-level monster is no match for him now.

A second-level monster is already as powerful as a being at the rebirth stage.

"I'm just a Taiping commander. It's not my turn to bear these responsibilities."

Su Mu said to himself.

Now that third-level monsters have appeared, of course we have to ask for help from the inner city.

Do we really want to let a group of bronze players fight against the kings?
"Brother Zhong? Why are you still here?"

Su Mu turned around and saw Zhong Guizheng and others looking at the third-level monster outside the city with serious expressions.

"It's just right. When you return to the inner city, talk to the department and the city lord's mansion and ask them to send people to the outer city for support.

A first-level monster would be fine, but a third-level monster would make it impossible for the outer city to defend itself."

Su Mu said.

"I'm afraid the inner city won't send anyone."

Zhang Chenchen said in a deep voice.

With a level five demon tide, the outer city is doomed to be lost, and the inner city will not expend its energy to defend the outer city.

Zhang Chenchen knew very well what the big shots in the inner city would choose.

Abandon the outer city, let the outer city consume as much of the monster tide as possible, and then concentrate all forces to defend the inner city.

In fact, Zhang Chenchen also thinks this is the best choice now.

When facing a level five demon tide, one has to make some trade-offs. There is no other way around it.

"Let Junior Sister Luo go and smooth things over."

Su Mu said that it would be impossible to expect the inner city to send people on their own initiative, but he had someone above him.

"Junior Brother Su, this time the demon tide has most likely reached level five. The outer city can no longer be defended."

Zhang Chenchen hesitated for a moment, and said in a heavy tone, "I can persuade the inner city to allow all these body-tempering warriors in the outer city to enter the inner city to help defend the city, and their families can also enter the inner city together."

"What about the people in the outer city?"

Su Mu frowned.

"This is the only solution. With a level 5 demon tide, we must make choices and put the overall situation first."

Zhang Chenchen sighed and said.

Su Mu's face turned a little ugly.

It's not that he couldn't accept retreat, but now, without even trying to see if he could hold off the enemy, he simply abandoned hundreds of thousands of people in the outer city.

This was unacceptable to Su Mu.

He is not a saintly person.

But he is now the commander of the outer city. If he withdraws like this, what will happen to his performance points?
It was a rare opportunity to earn unlimited performance points, and he didn't want to give it up.

"Doesn't Wuling City have Xuan soldiers guarding the city?"

Su Mu said in a deep voice, "Since we can defend the inner city, then as long as we move the defense line forward, can't we defend the outer city?"

"Junior Brother Su, it's not that simple."

Zheng Chenchen said, "The city guards are not invincible. They can only work in specific scenarios."

"Brother Mengren, just speak frankly."

Wei Bufan came up and said, "The city guards only have a few chances to attack, so they have to wait until the monster's physical strength is almost depleted, and then kill it with one blow.

The existence of the outer city is to consume monsters."

“Compassion does not control armies, and righteousness does not control wealth.”

Zhong Guizheng also spoke up, "I don't agree with this approach either, but when necessary, this is the only solution. We in the Taiping Division have limited power, and we can only do what we can." If it were someone else, they wouldn't explain so much.

The Taiping Division does not need to explain anything to anyone.

But Su Mu is different. In their opinion, Su Mu is still too young and has experienced too little. They don’t want Su Mu to be dissatisfied with the Taiping Division because of this incident.

They didn't know that beneath Su Mu's young appearance, there was a mature soul.

Su Mu understood these principles. He also knew that from the perspective of military strategy, there was no problem in using the outer city to consume the power of the monster tide and then concentrating the strength to launch a fatal attack on the monsters.

But Su Mu was unwilling to give up just like that.

Give it a try and turn your bicycle into a motorcycle.

If he could defend the outer city, he would definitely get a huge amount of performance points.

If he couldn't hold on, he would still have time to escape back to the inner city. He just had to be careful not to get too close to the third-level monster.

Su Mu said to himself.

"I understand the logic, but I don't want to retreat without a fight."

Su Mu said slowly, "I want to give it a try, not for the people in the outer city, but to get over this hurdle in my heart."

All the Taiping commanders fell into silence.

"Damn it, Brother Mengren is right. I feel ashamed of myself for retreating without a fight!"

After a long while, Wei Bufan spat, "Bullshit, the overall situation is more important. If you don't have any balls, you don't have any balls. Why are you looking for so many excuses?
Aren’t they just monsters? Just kill them!”

"Brother Mengren, I will stay in the outer city with you to fight those monsters!"

He patted his chest and said this, the movement pulled the wound and made him grimace in pain.

"Count me in."

Zhong Guizheng said.

"We have saved our lives anyway, so we can stay in the outer city and give it a try. Killing one will cover our losses, and killing two will earn us one."

The other Taiping commanders also said so.

"you--"

Zhang Chenchen stamped his feet anxiously.

"Now is not the time to act on impulse!"

She said in a deep voice, "You are so impulsive that you will die in vain. You can't stop the level 5 monster tide at all."

"Senior Sister Zhang, you don't have to worry."

Su Mu suddenly smiled and said, "I just said to give it a try, I didn't say that you must stick to it to the end.

If things are impossible, I will withdraw to the inner city in time."

Zhang Chenchen sighed. She knew that people like Su Mu would be very difficult to persuade back once they made up their minds about something.

He was a man of extraordinary talent and had accomplished many impossible things in the past, so he was full of confidence and felt that he could defend the outer city.

But he was too young and he didn't know how terrifying a level five demon tide was.

Not to mention him, even if Captain Lin was here, even if all the Taiping commanders of the Wuling Taiping Division were stationed here, they would not be able to stop the level five monster tide.

Only with the reinforcement of the inner city walls and the soldiers guarding the city, they have a glimmer of hope.

"Junior Brother Su, you must remember what you said. If things are impossible, return to the inner city immediately!"

Zhang Chenchen said in a deep voice.

She knew that if she didn't let Su Mu try, he would not give up.

"I'll go to the inner city to arrange for assistance first, and then come back to help you."

After Zhang Chenchen finished speaking, he did not dare to waste any more time and set off towards the inner city.

"Brother Su, tell me, what should we do?"

Zhong Guizheng and others looked at Su Mu.

Although Su Mu was the least experienced among them, all the Taiping commanders tacitly recognized Su Mu's dominant position.

The main reason was that Su Mu’s performance outside the city was too outstanding.

Tempering the body to the limit, physical magical powers, and comprehending two realms of mind, even though Su Mu is just a newcomer, his strength has surpassed most of them.

"Senior brothers, hold the line for me first."

Su Mu said without hesitation, "You don't need to take action until the magic-breaking crossbow arrows are used up.

"When the magic-breaking crossbow arrows are used up, it's time for you to take action."

He put his hand on the hilt of the knife and looked at the monsters that were ready to make a move ten miles away.

The money was not thrown away in vain. As long as the third-level monster did not attack right away, the magic-breaking crossbow in his hand would teach the monster a lesson on how to behave.

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Inner city, royal palace.

A young man with a frivolous look stroked his chin and muttered softly.

"My brother Mu is now the supreme commander of the outer city? This is a good opportunity to resist the monster tide.

Isn’t this what I’ve always dreamed of?
After doing this, who in Wuling City dares to look down on me, Wang Guan?"

There was a gleam of excitement in his eyes. The last time he went to the outer city to serve as a Sima, he died before he could accomplish anything.

This is a good opportunity and we must not let it go!
"Wang Er! Wang Er! Where have you been?"

Wang Guan yelled, "Hurry up, pack your things, I'm going to do something big!"

Not long after, two people sneaked out of the back door of the palace carrying large and small bags.

At this moment, in another place in the inner city.

A pitiful woman, with a frown on her face and a worried look on her face.

"Why is he still in the outer city? A third-level monster has already appeared in this monster tide. Wouldn't it be dangerous for him to stay in the outer city?"

Xiang Xiaoyuan looked towards the outer city with concern.

It’s a pity that Uncle Shi left, but even if Uncle Shi had not left Wuling City, he would not be a match for the third-level monster.

A third-level monster is comparable to a warrior in the Zhenyuan realm.

The only way to deal with it is to have a powerful mysterious weapon.

An idea flashed through Xiang Xiaoyuan's mind: perhaps this would work.

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"Junior Sister Luo, what are you going to do?"

Zhang Chenchen had just returned to the Taiping Division in the inner city when he met Luo Anning who was walking out. He couldn't help but ask.

"Go to the outer city."

Luo An Ning said as a matter of course, "The work in the inner city is done, I will go and help resist the monster tide."

"What's the point of going?"

Zhang Chenchen looked helpless. Why are newcomers so difficult to manage nowadays?

When I first became the Taiping Commander, I was not as bold as them. I was very honest at that time and I did whatever the captain said.

"This time the demon tide has most likely reached level five. The outer city cannot be defended."

Zhang Chenchen said patiently.

"But Senior Brother Su and the others are on guard. Isn't our Taiping Division supposed to suppress demons and protect peace?

Now that the demon wave has arrived, shouldn't we in the Taiping Division be on the front line?

You have to try your best to stop it even if you can't.

Isn't this the duty of our Taiping Division?"

Luo Anning said, looking very serious.

Zhang Chenchen was speechless for a moment. How come Junior Sister Luo was even more serious than Junior Brother Su?
This class of newcomers is so difficult to lead.

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