"Those fools actually think they can clash directly with the people from the Evil Sect?" Behind a boulder not far from Youlang Gorge, Ye Yan watched the two opposing forces from afar, his face full of mockery.
In his opinion, taking advantage of the Evil Sect’s unpreparedness and launching a full assault might still give them a chance to break through. Now, with Phantom Sound Pavilion’s people stopping in the gorge, they’re clearly giving the Evil Sect the opportunity to gather forces for defense.
The Evil Sect already holds the geographical advantage, and with more troops being mobilized, Phantom Sound Pavilion stands no chance at all.
"Shouldn’t we go and advise them?" Ye Hai said, sowhat reluctantly.
Ye Yan snorted coldly and said, "Advise them about what? If they want to get themselves killed, why should you worry about it? If they don’t taste failure, they’ll never know how naïve they are!"
Ye Hai wanted to say more but stopped, giving Ye Yan a aningful look.
All along, Ye Yan had always seed calm and proud to him, but after interacting with Ye Haochuan, his thoughts had turned so gloomy.
Or perhaps this is Ye Yan’s true nature, only it never showed because everything else had gone too smoothly in the past.
Thinking of this, a feeling of disappointnt suddenly sprouted in Ye Hai’s heart.
...
Looking at the cold and unresponsive army of Phantom Sound Pavilion, Li i’s brows furrowed even tighter.
Upon closer inspection, he realized that there was not a single familiar face in the army of Phantom Sound Pavilion. Not only Ye Haochuan and Ye Yan, but even the senior figures from Phantom Sound Pavilion, including the Old Sect Master and Zhu Qingshuang, were absent.
"Could this be a trap?" Li i’s face turned grim as he pondered.
At that mont, a figure ca rushing over, displaying a face of urgency, giving Li i a bad premonition.
"Elder Li, sothing’s wrong! The enemy sohow slipped through Youlang Gorge and is ferociously attacking our ambush at the Sub-Xun Dinsion Realm entrance. Our people were caught off guard and have suffered heavy losses!"
"What?"
Li i was utterly shocked, but he didn’t panic. In warfare, the worst thing to do is panic. He forced himself to calm down and asked, "How many were there, and who led the team?"
"Three to four hundred people, led by Ye Haochuan, with whom you previously battled! These seem to be all elites, extrely formidable; our people can’t withstand them."
"Damn, we’ve been duped!" Li i suddenly had a realization and quickly said, "Tell them to hold the line. I’ll imdiately bring reinforcents. If Ye Haochuan and the others get away, I’ll slaughter them all!"
The subordinate took the order and left. Li i looked venomously at the Phantom Sound Pavilion’s forces and snorted, "Ye Haochuan, do you think using this diversion tactic will let you and your elite troops escape? Think again!"
With that, he suddenly ordered the black-clad cultivator at the Nascent Soul Peak beside him, "These are all expendables, and there are no experts among them. I give you one hour; don’t let a single one escape!"
The black-clad cultivator accepted the order, eyes filled with excitent, and led five to six thousand n to charge at Phantom Sound Pavilion’s forces.
anwhile, Li i personally led a team to quickly reinforce the defenses.
The entrance to the Sub-Xun Dinsion Realm already held a strong geographic advantage, so he hadn’t stationed too many people there. A Nascent Soul Peak expert with a thousand ordinary cultivators should have been enough to block Xuann’s forces outside the Teleportation Array.
However, the situation was now different. Ye Haochuan and his n launched an internal attack, catching the ambush completely off guard. Moreover, Ye Haochuan likely brought along all the experts from Phantom Sound Pavilion, making their fighting force formidable.
He was extrely anxious at this mont, fearing they couldn’t stop Ye Haochuan’s onslaught, allowing Ye Haochuan and his group to break through. That would an neither a complete annihilation of Phantom Sound Pavilion nor the death of Ye Haochuan.
More concerning than the forr was the latter. Li i had long hated Ye Haochuan to the core, and not killing him left him restless.
"Bad news! Elder Mike has been severely injured by Ye Haochuan, and our people are already in retreat!" Before Li i had gone far, terrible news suddenly ca.
Li i, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, was instantly furious, "What the hell is he up to? How could he lose so quickly? Useless..."
Elder Mike, the Nascent Soul Peak expert he had dispatched for the ambush, was a Mage from the Dark Church. With the leader severely injured, how could the others possibly hold off Ye Haochuan’s group?
"What are you all standing there for? Chase after them quickly!" Li i shouted in anger and frustration.
In his view, Ye Haochuan and his team must have already escaped; catching up would depend entirely on luck.
As soon as he flew a short distance, the person responsible for intelligence rushed over again, but this ti, unlike previous panic-stricken attempts, there was a hint of joy on his face.
"Good news, they haven’t broken through; they’ve already retreated!"
"What?" Li i wasn’t pleased by the news, instead looking confused.
It didn’t make sense, not at all!
If they had already defeated the ambush, why didn’t they break through but rather retreated?
"Could it be that they heard our reinforcents were coming and, realizing they were outmatched, voluntarily withdrew?" a red-haired cultivator speculated.
"Impossible!" Li i retorted without hesitation, "If they knew we were reinforcing, they should have intensified their attack. Why would they retreat, wasting all their previous efforts?"
In his eyes, retreat ant rely waiting to be trapped. Breaking through was Ye Haochuan’s only path out. Ye Haochuan shouldn’t have easily abandoned the sole route to survival!
Little did he know, Ye Haochuan’s original plan wasn’t to lead a few n to break through; rather, it was to completely defeat him.
With this doubt in mind, he rushed to the Sub-Xun Dinsion Realm’s entrance, but there was no sign of Ye Haochuan and his group.
"Bad news, a fierce group has erged from Phantom Sound Pavilion’s forces, pushing our n back with great skill." A reconnaissance officer delivered another bad report.
"Damn it, what the hell is Okao up to? Didn’t he personally bring reinforcents?" Li i, realizing this could be a ploy, grumbled in fury.
"Elder Okao was held back by the Old Sect Master of Phantom Sound Pavilion and couldn’t divert his focus!"
"What?" Li i felt his mind spinning, completely baffled by what Ye Haochuan intended.
He had initially thought Ye Haochuan brought all the elites of Phantom Sound Pavilion; otherwise, they wouldn’t have been so formidable, defeating the thousand-plus led by Mike with just two or three hundred n in such a short ti.
Yet unexpectedly, the Old Sect Master and others hadn’t followed Ye Haochuan; they had instead hidden among the main forces of Phantom Sound Pavilion.
"Without bringing many experts, they still possess such combat power. Since when did the people of Phantom Sound Pavilion and Ancient Martial Arts Sect beco so formidable?" Li i truly couldn’t figure it out.
Little did he know that with the blessing of the Genius Seven Kills Formation, this group had been utterly transford. With these being the élites of the entire force, how could their combat power not be formidable?
"Whatever tricks they’re playing, even if they crushed my thousand-strong unit, my forces still hold a significant advantage, and now that I control the geography, let them plot and sche all they want; they can’t make waves here!"
Li i snorted disdainfully, leaving so to defend, while he led the rest toward Youlang Gorge’s frontline, intending to wipe out Phantom Sound Pavilion’s main force first.
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