Chapter 232: The Calamity Army Suffers a Crushing Defeat! Jia Xu Steps In to Save the Situation!
"Damn it!"
"We've walked into an ambush!"
Black Pupiled Sharp Bro swept his solemn gaze across the enemy forces present.
The alien troops that had appeared inside Shangting Township's camp were all Corpse Fiends.
The Calamity Army had never encountered this type of alien before.
Judging by the Corpse Fiends' equipment and appearance, there were at least two different Corpse Fiend troop types on the battlefield.
【Dread Devouring Armored Corpse】, Level 20 Elite Unit... Introduction: One of the vassal troop types of the Eerie Corpse Fiend race. Possessed an invulnerable body, astonishing physical strength, and the ability to devour Health Points.
【Hexcraft Cursed Corpse】, Level 20 Elite Unit... Introduction: One of the vassal troop types of the Eerie Corpse Fiend race. Possessed telekinetic power capable of directly manipulating objects, exceptional aptitude in necromancy and curse spells, and the ability to absorb Mana.
The two types of Corpse Fiends were easy to distinguish.
The Dread Devouring Armored Corpses all stood nearly three meters tall. Although their entire bodies were shriveled like mummies, they looked anything but thin. On the contrary, they were exceptionally burly. Their purplish-black flesh was as hard and dense as stone, radiating a bloody aura from the inside out.
These Corpse Fiend warriors generally wore black plate armor, wielded heavy bronze battle-axes in their right hands, and carried enormous black iron tower shields in their left. Standing shoulder to shoulder in formation, they projected an overwhelming aura and intimidating presence.
As for the Hexcraft Cursed Corpses, these Corpse Fiend soldiers were relatively smaller, only about half the size of the Dread Devouring Armored Corpses. Even so, they still stood well over 2.2 meters tall by human standards. They generally wore pitch-black or dark gray robes and carried spellcasting weapons such as staffs or magic orbs.
Although the Hexcraft Cursed Corpses did not appear as ferocious as the Dread Devouring Armored Corpses, they exuded an evil and sinister aura from head to toe. Their methods were likely more varied and considerably more troublesome to deal with.
The Calamity Army had only intended to reclaim the occupied territorial stronghold from the Dead Bone Legion.
Who could have expected that they would encounter Corpse Fiend troops?
Although the Corpse Fiends were generally only Level 20, placing them at the peak of Tier 2 and just one step away from Tier 3, there was no doubt they were extraordinarily powerful, far surpassing the skeleton soldiers of the Dead Bone Legion.
The players took a quick look.
There appeared to be fewer than a thousand Corpse Fiends present.
The Cursed Corpses accounted for seventy percent, while the Armored Corpses made up only thirty percent.
Among them, only thirty to forty had reached Level 21, giving them Tier 3 strength.
Although their numbers seemed small, their combat power was exceptionally formidable. Their overall strength was absolutely no weaker than a five-thousand-strong Dead Bone Legion. After all, the Dead Bone skeletons not only had weaker racial talents than the Corpse Fiends, but were generally only around Level 15 or 16.
Besides that, in terms of equipment and skills, the Dead Bone Army was also completely inferior to the Corpse Fiend Army.
After all, the difference in their status was enormous. One was merely a servant legion, while the other was the territory's regular army.
At this moment, what attracted the Calamity Army—and Hang Yu behind the scenes—the most was not this regular army of the Corpse Lich Territory making its debut.
Rather, it was the powerful figure floating in midair.
It was a Corpse Fiend wearing a crown, dressed in an elaborate rune-covered robe beneath a magnificent cloak, and holding a pale gemstone staff.
He possessed five eyes.
Four of them were arranged normally across his face.
The fifth and largest eye was located in the center of his forehead.
【Eerie Corpse Fiend Lord: Xie Ming】, Level 30 Overlord Unit... Introduction: A Lord of the Stars and the ruler of Netherblood City.
"A Lord!"
"It's the alien Lord!"
"He actually showed himself?"
"Holy crap, are we lucky or unlucky? I thought we'd have to invade the enemy's core territory before we'd even get to see their Lord. Who would've thought he'd show up personally!"
"..."
The moment Black Pupiled Sharp Bro saw the Corpse Lich Lord, he realized there was virtually no chance of surviving this battle.
The Corpse Fiend force before them alone possessed combat power comparable to a five-thousand-strong Dead Bone Army.
With the Calamity Army's current strength, even in a fair fight, dealing with them would already be extremely difficult.
Not to mention that a Lord had also appeared.
The Corpse Lich Lord's level was simply too high.
The players couldn't even see what level he was.
Even so, they could guess with reasonable accuracy.
There was a very high probability that he was a Level 30 Overlord!
There was absolutely no chance of victory!
All they could do was inflict as much damage as possible!
Black Pupiled Sharp Bro secretly felt fortunate.
Fortunately, when entering Shangting Township's camp, he had remained vigilant and suggested leaving part of their forces outside as support, preventing the entire army from falling into the trap together.
Although they still had no chance of winning, with two Calamity Army forces attacking from both inside and outside, they should at least be able to inflict heavier losses upon the enemy.
"Hahaha!"
"This isn't a loss at all!"
"Even if every one of us dies, even if we still fail to retake this stronghold, we've at least forced out the enemy territory's final boss!"
"Not only did we lure out the final boss, we even drew out their regular army. The intelligence alone is worth it!"
"Come on, everyone! Kill as many enemies as you can!"
"..."
Rather than panicking, the Calamity Army's eyes lit up as they prepared to fight to the death.
Unexpectedly, several hundred Hexcraft Cursed Corpses simultaneously began chanting.
Accompanied by incomprehensible gray incantations, everyone noticed the formation beneath their feet beginning to change.
An immense power was gathering.
Something was about to be summoned from within the formation.
There was very little time remaining.
Street Cleaver asked, "What are they trying to do?"
Salted Fish Thrust replied,
"No idea. But since this trap was specially prepared for us, it definitely won't be anything good. Let's find a way to break out first."
While the two were talking, raising Cup Toward the Moon had already raised his Demon Night Longbow.
An arrow of incredibly dense demonic energy rapidly condensed upon the bowstring.
He released the string, launching a Powerful Armor-Piercing Arrow toward Lord Xie Ming floating in midair.
The arrow possessed tremendous range and astonishing power.
However, just as it was about to fly beyond the formation,
It struck an invisible barrier, exploding in midair like a firework.
"We're trapped!"
"Find a way out!"
"Everyone attack together! Break the barrier!"
The moment the Calamity Army realized they had been trapped inside the camp, they immediately prepared to combine everyone's strength and shatter the barrier before them in one strike.
Even if escaping still wouldn't guarantee a successful breakout, it was far better than dying here meaninglessly.
Then, something completely unexpected happened.
The chanting ritual of the several hundred Hexcraft Cursed Corpses had already been completed.
An invisible yet incomparably powerful curse spread out from the formation, rapidly enveloping everyone present.
【You have been affected by the "Petrification Curse Sealing Formation." You have entered the Petrified Seal state!】
Black Pupiled Sharp Bro immediately lost all sensation in his limbs.
His muscles stiffened completely.
Even his eyelids became unbearably heavy.
"This is bad!"
He clearly saw his weapons, armor, and skin rapidly losing all color.
In their place appeared a dull gray texture, rough and lifeless like stone.
"This is bad! I understand now! He never intended to kill us!"
Raising Cup Toward the Moon's face changed dramatically.
"These guys are trying to seal us—or capture us alive!"
"What?"
"They can actually do that?"
"Holy crap! No!"
By the time Raising Cup Toward the Moon and the others realized Xie Ming's objective, it was already too late.
Within only two or three seconds, every player present had been petrified.
More than two thousand five hundred players instantly became two thousand five hundred stone statues.
Each statue was lifelike, its entire body covered in sealing runes.
The members of the Calamity Army had not died.
They had merely been sealed through petrification.
They could neither move, nor think, nor possibly resist.
For the players, this manifested as an immediate disconnection, automatically logging them out of the game.
Some players attempted to log back in.
However, the moment they tried reconnecting, a notification window appeared on their login screen.
【You are currently in a sealed state and are temporarily unable to log into the game!】
Lord Xie Ming looked down upon the thousands of stone statues filling the camp.
A trace of ridicule and disdain appeared on his face.
These fellows relied on their ability to resurrect, yet they truly thought too little of him.
A Lord of the Stars
Was not so easily defeated.
Not to mention these humans merely possessed resurrection.
Within the Abyss, there were countless beings that were nearly impossible to kill.
For example, the Abyssal Evil Gods born from individual planes...
Being impossible to kill did not mean being invincible.
Imprisonment, sealing, or banishment could all effectively eliminate such threats!
Of course!
The danger had not yet been completely resolved!
This Calamity Army had been extremely cautious.
Not all of them had entered the trap, leaving some who had slipped through the net.
"What's happening?"
"We suddenly can't contact Sharp Bro!"
"Their auras all disappeared at once! This empty camp really was a trap!"
"What do we do now?"
"Should we charge in and rescue them?"
Ye Limeng, Little Bell, Old Wang the Berserker, Chi Mei Wang Liang, and the others had already realized that the empty camp before them had been a carefully prepared trap.
Black Pupiled Sharp Bro, Raising Cup Toward the Moon, Arthur King, and the others had most likely already met with disaster.
If it had merely been an ambush, that wouldn't have mattered.
Whether they could win or not, they would simply charge.
With the two armies coordinating from inside and outside, even if the enemy was much stronger, they could at least inflict greater casualties.
Even total annihilation would not have mattered.
But this situation was different!
Sharp Bro and the others had suddenly lost all contact!
If they had merely been overwhelmed and slaughtered, that would have been understandable.
But for so many people to be wiped out simultaneously, that was practically impossible.
Today's situation was simply too bizarre, leaving the leaders of the two remaining legions hesitant.
However, just as they hesitated, just as they were still trying to understand the situation, Lord Xie Ming's figure suddenly flashed, appearing directly above them.
Niu Shisan cried out,
"Everyone, look! That's... the Corpse Fiend Lord!"
Brother Ma exclaimed,
"No way! He's actually entering the battle personally! This is way too sudden!"
Dawn said, "If that's the case, then Sharp Bro and the others have definitely fallen. We should probably be more cautious. Let's retreat first and put some distance between us so we don't fall into the enemy's trap as well!"
"Good idea! Fall back first!"
Ye Limeng immediately ordered a tactical retreat.
The Calamity Army did not fear death.
They only feared dying for nothing.
Three of the five major legions had already fallen.
Faced with the same situation, the remaining two legions would most likely fare no better.
Without understanding the situation, temporarily avoiding the enemy's edge was undoubtedly the wisest choice.
Lord Xie Ming sneered.
"I have personally entered the battlefield. Do you really think you still have a chance to escape?"
As he spoke, a tremendous surge of energy erupted from the center of his forehead.
The fifth eye, which had remained tightly shut all this time, opened.
Within that eye, there was no pupil.
Only a chaotic, pitch-black void overflowing with energy.
The instant Xie Ming opened the eye, that void and its energy seemed to pour into reality, almost instantly distorting the surrounding space, preventing the Calamity Army from leaving the area.
The sensation was indescribably strange.
An invisible domain had imprisoned everyone.
Xie Ming continued channeling the power of his fifth eye.
Streams of black mist poured forth from Shangting Township's camp.
The moment the mist descended around the Calamity Army players, it immediately transformed into tangible Corpse Fiend soldiers.
More than four hundred Dread Devouring Armored Corpses stood in the front ranks with giant shields, forming an impenetrable defensive wall.
More than six hundred Hexcraft Cursed Corpses stood behind them with staffs in hand, preparing their spells.
Little Bell was dumbfounded.
"What kind of ability is this? Teleportation?"
Ye Limeng replied, "I can't figure it out either. Forget that for now—we need to find a way to break through!"
Chi Mei Wang Liang unleashed a Blazing Flame Blade.
She attempted to tear open a gap in the Corpse Fiends' defensive line.
However, just before the flames struck, several Hexcraft Cursed Corpses simultaneously stretched out their hands, draining away the attack's energy through telekinetic absorption.
In the blink of an eye, most of the Blazing Flame Blade's power had been absorbed.
The remaining energy struck the shield of a front-row Dread Devouring Armored Corpse, yet produced almost no effect.
At that moment, the other Hexcraft Cursed Corpses all began chanting.
A brand-new formation appeared beneath the Calamity Army's feet.
The ground instantly transformed into an enormous swamp.
The Calamity Army's feet quickly sank into the mire.
They could clearly feel their Mana steadily draining away, being absorbed by the swamp.
Their attributes were also weakened.
Their current situation could only be described as extremely dire.
The players repeatedly attempted to escape the swamp and force a breakthrough.
Yet they simply could not shake the defensive line formed by the Dread Devouring Armored Corpses.
From beginning to end, these Armored Corpses never even attacked.
Yet their impregnable defense resembled an iron wall.
Even experts such as Ye Limeng and Lone Boat were unable to break through them in a short period of time.
"Everyone kill yourselves immediately!"
"Don't hesitate!"
"This guy wants to capture us alive!"
Only now did Ye Limeng finally realize the truth.
If the enemy merely wanted to deal with a single Calamity Army legion, why would they use a sledgehammer to crack a nut?
There was absolutely no reason for the enemy Lord to appear personally!
Considering the current situation, the most reasonable explanation was that the Corpse Lich Lord had already realized that the Human Territory's Calamity Army could not be eliminated, so he had adopted methods other than killing to counter them!
Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Limeng smashed his own forehead with a hammer.
Lone Boat and Old Wang the Berserker immediately slit their own throats as well.
Xie Ming violently swung his staff.
A tremendous power flowed into the formation.
Countless tiny black tentacles erupted from the swamp, instantly wrapping themselves around the players' bodies.
Those whose reactions had been even slightly slower could no longer commit suicide, even if they wanted to.
"Damn it!"
"I can't die!"
"Can somebody help me!"
"Forget helping you! I can't kill myself either!"
"Ahhh! I want to die! I want to die! Somebody help me!"
Empowered by Xie Ming's magic, the swamp became ten times stronger.
In almost the blink of an eye, it swallowed every player present.
The moment they were engulfed, they immediately lost consciousness and were automatically logged out.
The entire battle had ended in an incredibly short amount of time!
Although a handful of players had reacted quickly enough to commit suicide and escape, the overwhelming majority had never encountered such a situation before.
"Although a small portion escaped, they no longer pose any threat!"
Naturally, Xie Ming had noticed that a small number of humans had decisively committed suicide.
Even he found this surprising.
It proved these soldiers clearly understood they could be resurrected quickly.
To them, death itself was merely a tactic, a means to an end.
That was why they had chosen suicide without the slightest hesitation.
However, their numbers were small.
They accounted for less than one-tenth of the total.
This small number of people was no longer enough to pose a threat to the Corpse Lich Territory, nor were they enough to continue wearing down its military strength.
………………
About ten minutes later, the Strange Three Kingdoms forum exploded.
《Latest Battle Report! The Alien Lord Xie Ming Has Appeared! The Five Great Legions Have Suffered an Unprecedented Crushing Defeat!》
《Shocking! The Calamity Army May Have Encountered the Greatest Crisis Since Its Creation!》
《Major Disaster! Black Pupiled Sharp Bro, Little Bell, Raising Cup Toward the Moon, and Other Top Players Have All Fallen! The Calamity Army Faces an Unprecedented Catastrophe!》
《……》
Thread after thread appeared.
The forum's spectator players were utterly stunned.
No one had expected something like this to happen.
"The Calamity Army's top players have practically all been wiped out!"
"Holy crap! Seriously?"
"No way!"
"How could players possibly be completely defeated? That shouldn't even be possible!"
"Yeah, if they run into an enemy that's far too high-level and overwhelmingly powerful, it's understandable that the Calamity Army can't win. But no matter what, it shouldn't end up in this kind of situation!"
"Players are supposed to be unbeatable!"
"Can someone tell me what exactly happened? I heard dozens of top experts and thousands of veteran Calamity Army players are done for!"
"Hahaha! The veterans are finished, now it's the rookies' turn! From now on, the Calamity Army belongs to us new recruits!"
"……"
The news was simply too explosive!
It shocked every spectator player on the forum.
Before long, however,
Someone stepped forward and explained the entire sequence of events.
"Everyone calm down. The big shots are fine—they've only been sealed and captured!"
"All I can say is that everyone still lacks enough respect for this game. You underestimated the intelligence and methods of the NPCs because you treated them like NPCs from ordinary games."
"Remember!"
"Strange Three Kingdoms is unlike any game that came before it!"
"You can't solve every problem simply by endlessly grinding, because the enemies you encounter are living intelligent beings. They're not NPCs with fixed behavior patterns. They can think, adapt, and come up with countermeasures too!"
"Think about it yourselves!"
"For the past several days, while asking General Wen Ping not to send troops, the Calamity Army repeatedly farmed the Corpse Lich Territory's army like mobs, killing several thousand of their soldiers."
"Did you seriously think you could destroy an entire territory just by farming it nonstop? If you were the Corpse Lich Lord, would you just sit there and wait to die?"
"I think the Calamity Army's crushing defeat this time was mainly because they were too confident!"
"I hope all the experts learn from this lesson and never underestimate your enemies again!"
"……"
Once everyone understood what had happened, most people agreed with the post.
Comments and replies flooded in one after another.
"Amazing! I can only say Strange Three Kingdoms is an incredible game!"
"Even though the Corpse Lich Lord is an enemy NPC, he's nothing like those brain-dead scripted NPCs!"
"We have to learn from this in the future!"
"We'd better use some disguises!"
"We should always be prepared to commit suicide!"
"Don't let the enemy discover the Calamity Army's resurrection secret too quickly!"
"What's the point of saying that now? The Calamity Army's main force has basically had their accounts sealed! Who knows how long this will last?"
"I doubt they'll be unsealed anytime soon!"
"Exactly. If you were the Corpse Lich Lord, would you casually release these endlessly resurrecting pests that stick to you like dog-skin plaster? Do you think he's an idiot?"
"If they don't escape for one day, the Calamity Army's main force stays banned for one day!"
"If they don't escape for ten days, they'll stay banned for ten days!"
"Waaah... I'm part of the Calamity Army! I got sealed too! I can't even log into the game now! What am I supposed to do? Strange Three Kingdoms has become the most important part of my life. Not playing for even one day hurts worse than being stabbed ten times!"
"That's not even the worst part!"
"Without the Calamity Army fighting on the front lines,"
"The Corpse Lich Territory will soon intensify its invasion again!"
"The territory will probably suffer heavy losses throughout the Wolong Mountain region!"
"Quick! Think of something!"
"What else can we do?"
"At a time like this, we can only ask Lord Hang Yu for help!"
"Exactly! Every time the Calamity Army screws up, it's always Lord Hang Yu who cleans up the mess!"
"@Ye Limeng, hurry and go find Lord Hang Yu! It might still not be too late... Only Lord Hang Yu can rescue the others who were sealed!"
"That's right!"
"Go ask the Lord!"
"The overall situation comes first! Forget your pride!"
"……"
Although the Calamity Army had suffered an unprecedented crisis, not every veteran had been imprisoned and sealed.
Roughly over two hundred Calamity Army members managed to escape in time.
Among them were Ye Limeng, Lone Boat, and Old Wang the Berserker from the War God Hall, as well as Dawn and Chi Mei Wang Liang from the Divine Feather Palace.
After realizing how serious the situation had become, they hurried back to the main city to request an audience with the Lord.
In reality, there was no need for any report.
Hang Yu had been secretly observing the battle the entire time.
He knew exactly what had happened.
More than three thousand six hundred elite members of the Calamity Army had been captured.
This was indeed an unprecedented incident.
Since the players first appeared, they had never suffered such a humiliating defeat.
However, in Hang Yu's view, this was not a bad thing.
On the contrary, the territory had not suffered a loss from this incident.
First, the Calamity Army had progressed far too smoothly all this time.
Occasionally suffering setbacks was not necessarily a bad thing.
After all, these Calamity Army members would not truly die.
Second, although the Calamity Army had suffered an unprecedented defeat,
The price paid by the Corpse Lich Territory had actually been quite significant.
For example, the Corpse Lich Lord had personally entered the battlefield.
Under normal circumstances, during a Lord War, the Lord was both the territory's greatest trump card and its greatest weakness.
Unless absolutely necessary, a Lord would never casually risk appearing on the battlefield.
From Hang Yu's perspective, although the Calamity Army was an expeditionary force, it was far from being the territory's true main force.
For Xie Ming to personally take action against the Calamity Army was nothing less than overwhelming them through an absolute difference in power.
There was nothing surprising about the players suffering such a crushing defeat.
However, because of this, many of the Corpse Lich Lord's abilities and intelligence had also been exposed.
It could be said that thanks to this battle, Hang Yu had gained a much deeper understanding of both the Corpse Lich Territory's main army and its Lord.
He now had many ways to counter both Xie Ming and the Corpse Fiend main force.
On the other hand, Xie Ming had never seen Hang Yu fight.
Nor had Hang Yu ever exposed himself before the Corpse Lich Territory.
Likewise, the Human Territory's true main force had yet to make a move.
The intelligence gap between the two sides had already become enormous.
"I already know your situation."
Hang Yu said to Ye Limeng, Chi Mei Wang Liang, and the others who had come to report.
"Although the Calamity Army possesses the immortal bodies bestowed upon you by this Lord, once you're imprisoned or sealed to the point that you cannot even commit suicide, you'll still fall into a difficult predicament. At the very least, it will be impossible to escape within a short period."
After saying this, he paused briefly,
Then continued,
"The Calamity Army's numbers are too great to transfer quickly. However, once they are transported into the Corpse Lich Territory and locked inside facilities such as dungeons, then unless we conquer the Corpse Lich Lord's main city, rescue will become impossible."
Upon hearing this, Ye Limeng, Chi Mei Wang Liang, and the others all turned pale.
Luoshui City also possessed a structure like the Dark Dungeon.
Once imprisoned within one of these Stars buildings, they would be subjected to an even more stable and continuous sealing effect.
Even logging into the game would amount to nothing more than sitting in prison.
Unless the territory's main city was captured, there would be no possibility of rescuing them.
Furthermore, transporting prisoners into the dungeon did not require escorting them all the way back to the main city.
Any regional Blessed Point could directly teleport captives into the dungeon beneath the territory's main city.
If that happened, the situation would truly become disastrous.
Although everyone had confidence in their Lord, believing Hang Yu would ultimately win the Lord War, no one knew how long that would take.
Perhaps victory would be decided within a few days.
Or perhaps it would take ten days, half a month, or even longer.
More than eighty percent of Ye Limeng's subordinates had been captured.
If they were imprisoned for eight or ten days, the impact on their personal development would be enormous.
At this stage, every single day was precious.
Just then, Zhang Zhongjing spoke.
"Although the situation is urgent, Lord, you absolutely must not act personally. Perhaps this is itself a trap specially prepared for you!"
A trap?
It wasn't impossible.
The Corpse Lich Lord was extraordinarily cunning, making him impossible to predict.
He had personally taken action this time and captured the Calamity Army.
Could it be that he was using himself as bait, with the Human Lord as his true target?
Or perhaps this was simply a scheme to lure the tiger away from the mountain.
The moment Lord Hang Yu left the main city, the enemy might immediately launch another attack against it.
Even if there were only a one percent chance of such a possibility,
It was not worth the risk.
After all, a single wrong move could cost them the entire game.
Ye Limeng and the others found themselves unable to say anything.
"My Lord!"
At this moment, a somewhat gentle and refined voice sounded.
"Why should Your Lordship personally take action over such a matter? Simply allow this humble servant to handle it."
The speaker was none other than Lunar Yin Jia Xu.
Hang Yu asked,
"How confident are you?"
Jia Xu smiled.
"Within twelve hours, this minister will certainly accomplish the mission."
Hang Yu asked again,
"How many Azure Dragon Guards do you require?"
Jia Xu shook his head.
"With General Wen, General Zhou, together with the newly assembled Black Tiger Guards and Iron Eagle Guard, it will be sufficient."
Hang Yu replied,
"Although I trust your abilities, Wenhe, this operation may involve direct confrontation with the Corpse Lich Lord. To be safe, take one hundred Azure Dragon Guards with you as well."
"Yes!"
Jia Xu immediately accepted the order.
He had already been confident that he could reclaim the territory's strongholds
And rescue the sealed Calamity Army.
Now,
The Lord had directly assigned him one hundred Azure Dragon Guards.
Perhaps,
He could set his sights even higher.
For example...
Taking advantage of this opportunity to directly kill the enemy Lord!
Jia Xu had already obtained the basic information regarding Lord Xie Ming.
He was not confident that he could defeat this powerful Lord of the Stars in a direct confrontation.
However, if he employed certain methods, it might not be impossible.
Hang Yu still chose not to move.
He remained the stabilizing pillar of the territory.
He entrusted Jia Xu with full command over both the rescue operation
And the coming counteroffensive.
At that moment, a notification from the Will of the Stars echoed through Hang Yu's mind.
【Ding! The protection granted by the Stars has disappeared. The northern Mist Gate of Wolong Mountain has officially opened!】
Excellent!
The protection of the Stars had finally ended!
Only now would the true showdown begin!