Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 468 Fierce Battle
The White Robe Army could deploy its forces entirely on the city walls, but the Heavenly Slaughter Army could only add fuel to the fire gradually, never able to take advantage of its numerical superiority.

The result was that they were devoured piece by piece by the White Robe Army, which was equally powerful but had more sophisticated tactics.

Seeing his precious Heavenly Slaughter Army dying one after another, Erzhu Rong could no longer restrain himself. He roared and leaped into the air, revealing his true form, which was nine zhang tall, in mid-air. He stepped on the Nine Nether Blood Sea and rushed to the front of Beizhong City.

With a thought, the Heavenly Slaughter Army retreated like a tide, leaving the city wall area in the blink of an eye.

The Heavenly Slaughter God-Monarch, his body gleaming with crimson light, mustered all his divine power and swung his Bone-Shattering Hammer, smashing it fiercely against the city's foundation. With a single blow, the city wall cracked from its base in a spiderweb pattern!
Inside the city, Ren Yuan, who was maintaining the foundation of the city wall, immediately turned ashen-faced.

Erzhu Rong then swung his hammer several more times, each blow feeling as if it were striking him directly, causing the city wall to tremble precariously...

Ren Yuan finally couldn't hold back any longer and spat out a mouthful of golden blood.

At that moment, he heard Chen Qingzhi's voice: "Don't try to hold on. Erzhu Rong is the god of slaughter, and his attacks contain the concept of destruction. You can't withstand that."

"Do you have a solution?" Ren Yuan asked, wiping his mouth.

“I can’t stop them either, but there are no fixed formations in warfare, just as there are no fixed forms in water. Even without city walls, the White-Robed Army can still win.” Chen Qingzhi reassured him.

"Okay." Ren Yuan then removed his hand from the city wall.

Without his blessing and protection, the already riddled North Central City Wall collapsed like a piece of rotten wood with Erzhu Rong's next hammer blow.

Chen Qingzhi also revealed his divine form and shouted, "White Robe, Spread your wings!"

"Yes!" The white-robed soldiers spread the Vermilion Bird wings on their armor and soared into the air from the billowing dust, launching an attack on the Heavenly Slaughter Army!

Chen Qingzhi and Erzhu Rong fought together again.

Ren Yuan faced off against Yuan Tianmu, while A Yao and her generals faced off against Gao Huan, Hou Jing, and Murong Shaozong... The two sides once again engaged in fierce battle on the north bank of the Yellow River!
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What Erzhu Rong didn't expect was that the White-Robed Army, once outside the city walls, was even more terrifying.

In fact, the White Robe Army's original style was one of fierce aggression and offense as the best form of defense! With the Vermilion Bird Wings, they were literally like tigers with wings!

Six thousand white-robed soldiers spread their wings and took to the air, their fiery wings leaving countless golden and red trails across the smoke-filled battlefield.

When they flapped their wings, they stirred up a fiery hurricane, blowing sand and stones flying everywhere, making it impossible for the soldiers of the Heavenly Slaughter Army to open their eyes.

The scorching wind also brought fire, with flames billowing wherever it passed, igniting even the wolf fur of the Heavenly Slaughter Army. The Heavenly Slaughter Army had no choice but to roll around to extinguish the fire, resulting in chaos and disarray in their formation.

The white-robed soldiers then lowered their altitude and swooped down in formation. Their wings folded like blades as they swept through the Heavenly Slaughter Army's ranks. Wherever their fiery feathers passed, flesh and blood were charred, and many demon soldiers were decapitated, never to be resurrected.

Although the Heavenly Slaughter Army also tried their best to fire arrows into the air to fight back, the White Robe Army was flying too fast and they couldn't hit the target at all... As a result, they were even more passive than on the city wall.

Seeing the Tianlu Army in disarray, Yuan Tianmu quickly blew his bone flute, piecing together the corpses of the fallen into three thousand corpse vultures.

The soldiers of the Heavenly Slaughter Army were overjoyed at the sight and quickly jumped onto a corpse vulture in groups of three or five.

The Corpse Vultures flapped their wings, dripping with green pus, and carried the Sky Slaughter Army into the sky to fight the White-Robed Army. They also spewed deathly aura and foul blood, which rusted the White-Robed Army's star armor, drastically reducing its defense.

Now the white-robed army could no longer charge recklessly. But this did not deter them, so they quickly changed tactics, creating distance to engage the Heavenly Slaughter Army and using bows and arrows to inflict casualties.

There were simply too many Heavenly Slaughter Army soldiers on the battlefield, a dense, swarming mass. The white-robed soldiers only needed to take a cursory glance, and their arrows would fly off the bowstring like meteors, inevitably striking the Heavenly Slaughter Army's ranks and blasting away a large number of them.

"Damn it, how are we supposed to fight like this?!" Erzhu Tianguang, commanding the army, broke through his defenses. He shouted at Erzhu Rong, who was engaged in fierce combat with Chen Qingzhi.

"My Lord, think of something! Stop those birdmen from running rampant!"

"Fool!" Erzhu Rong roared, brandishing his weapons with all four arms to block Chen Qingzhi, while the weapons in his other two hands plunged into the Yellow River, drawing out nine yellow water dragons!
With the enhancement of his bloodlust, the water dragon quickly transformed into a red dragon, flew over the battlefield, and exploded with a bang!

The white-robed soldiers hurriedly raised their Xuanwu shields, trying to block the terrible rain of blood.

However, the blood rain did not fall; instead, it formed a blood dome in mid-air, enveloping the entire battlefield.

"Chen Qingzhi, I've covered the battlefield, let's see how your birdman flies now!" Erzhu Rong blocked Chen Qingzhi's Gouchen halberd and laughed triumphantly.

"Do you think the White-Robed Army is just flying around randomly?" Chen Qingzhi sneered and said, "They are now the Heavenly Soldiers of Gouchen, and all the formations in the world are fused into their blood!"

"You're just bragging, aren't you?!" Erzhu Rong shook his head in disbelief. "They're just flying around randomly. What kind of formation are they talking about?!"

"Then just watch." Chen Qingzhi laughed loudly, increased the force in his hand, and thrust the halberd toward Erzhu Ronglian.

Erzhu Rong was distracted by creating the Blood Dome, so he naturally adopted a defensive stance. Unexpectedly, Chen Qingzhi's moves seemed to have been planned in advance, attacking where Erzhu Rong had to defend every time. Once Erzhu Rong was on the defensive, he was on the defensive every time, and he couldn't turn the tide no matter what.

Moreover, he was horrified to discover that Chen Qingzhi was not exaggerating at all; the White Robe Army soldiers had already rearranged the Gouchen Formation using their previous aerial maneuvers!
The white-robed soldiers swooped down in formation of the Twenty-Eight Constellations, their wings leaving trails of starlight that reflected faint array patterns in the air, already trapping the Heavenly Slaughter Army within their ranks.

Seeing the white-robed army swooping down from the Gouchen Formation, the Tianlu Army hurriedly tried to form a battle array to meet them, but suddenly the sky collapsed and the earth caved in. The Tianlu Army soldiers were immediately thrown into chaos, with countless soldiers trampling each other.

Once they regained their composure, they found themselves in a vast maze. Towering stone walls surrounded them, separating them from their allies.

They could hear the screams of their allies echoing through the air, but they couldn't find the location of the battle. They could only wander around aimlessly like headless flies, waiting to be wiped out wave after wave by the white-robed army.

This Gouchen Formation incorporates Ren Yuan's supernatural powers, and the General Formation and Illusion Formation are integrated into one. Apart from being a bit troublesome to set up, it is almost perfect.

At least these brainless Heavenly Slaughter Army soldiers will never be able to break through the formation...

Seeing his men fall wave after wave, Erzhu Rong was frantic with worry. In a moment of carelessness, he was stabbed by Chen Qingzhi... in the arm that was holding the whip.

The halberd severed Erzhu Rong's hand as easily as cutting tofu!
Erzhu Rong screamed in agony, grabbed the arm and tried to pull it back, but he couldn't reattach it no matter what he did...

The upper blade of the Gouchen Halberd, "Po Jun," is specifically designed to sever the lifeline of demons and gods. Once struck by it, even gods cannot heal themselves!
(End of this chapter)