Ye Tianfan followed Zhu Lao San to the northern city wall, but a picture couldn't get on the wall because when the people saw it was Zhu Lao San, they let him in, but when Ye Tianfan wanted to follow, he was stopped by the guards.
Ye Tianfan looked sowhat helplessly at Zhu Lao San's back, thinking that sotis, it's not just about having strong abilities that can solve everything. Of course, Ye Tianfan hadn't revealed his true strength.
If Ye Tianfan had displayed his abilities, these people wouldn't have dared to stop him. They would have wished he went up to help deal with the bandits!
Ye Tianfan found an inconspicuous spot, moved in a flash, and appeared on top of the city tower, then sat at the highest point, overseeing below.
Let's see how these bandits plan to breach such a high wall unless they have so large siege weapon; otherwise, they're just waiting to be peppered with arrows from below!
Below stood soone, presumably Zhu Lao San's father, because the person was central and conversing with the bandits. After a brief exchange, he signaled the archers to start firing!
Ye Tianfan saw the bandits raise their shields to block the arrows, perfectly defending against the rain of arrows, and slowly advancing toward Demon Slaying Town.
The arrow rain seems ineffective, Ye Tianfan mused, stroking his chin. If using dung balls or iron balls, it would be more effective. However, using iron balls would consu too much iron, so using dung balls combined with oil balls would be better.
Dung balls are for disgusting the enemy, and oil balls are to coat them in oil, disguised by the dung ball. The enemy would take longer to realize they're covered in oil, but it would be too late by then!
By then, with a shot of an extre fire arrow, at least half of the bandits' combat power would be burned away!
Of course, it still depends on how many oil balls there are. In this world, oil is quite expensive, and there's no technology for extracting oil from peanuts or walnuts, not even walnuts; only pig fat can be used for oil since pigs have been bred from demon beasts to dostic beasts, popular among food lovers, and pigs are easy to raise, thus even more loved!
However, due to recent chaos by an organization, many pig farrs were killed, and many dostic pigs died, causing pork prices to soar, and consequently, oil made from pig lard beca much more expensive!
So Ye Tianfan figured his thod might be more costly than using iron balls!
At this mont, Ye Tianfan saw the town mayor draw a treasure sword and give a fierce swing downwards.
A long streak of Sword Qi erged from the treasure sword, cutting down about one-tenth of the bandits!
The bandits, though panicked by the Sword Qi, upon being hit by it, seed invigorated and charged towards the town with renewed ferocity!
Seeing the town mayor unleash a Sword Qi, Ye Tianfan stood up, amazed that this treasure sword was actually a Magical Treasure, and that the town mayor was actually a Cultivator—this was simply incredible!
However, Ye Tianfan quickly sensed sothing wasn't right; why didn't he sense any Spiritual Power from the town mayor? This was quite strange. Even the treasure sword he sensed was only a normal magic artifact, not even high-level
Upon closely discerning the town mayor, Ye Tianfan couldn't detect any Spiritual Power fluctuations, indicating that the mayor was not a Cultivator.
This made Ye Tianfan even more curious—how did the town mayor manage to release that Sword Qi? Technically, only a Cultivator could unleash Sword Qi!
Then Ye Tianfan saw the town mayor sheathing the treasure sword and command people to bring out several barrels of water, which seed to emit steam from Ye Tianfan's angle.
Ye Tianfan judged, given the not-so-cold weather, that these barrels contained hot water, the scalding kind!
Seeing this, Ye Tianfan imdiately understood the town mayor's intention to pour this hot water onto the bandits. But with the hot water and not-so-cool weather, pouring it from the wall would at most give them a hot bath, not much heat sensation!
But Ye Tianfan thought that maybe they planned to toss both water and barrels down together, but that could easily be dodged and was laborious!
Without oil, they could only resort to such cost-ineffective thods!
Ye Tianfan watched as people used cumberso ways to defend the city, losing much of his interest. In his original world, ancestral strategies for city defense would far outclass these.
Ye Tianfan thought about it and decided to quickly resolve these bandits, find the original inn, eat sothing, rest for the night, and depart the next day!
However, what puzzled Ye Tianfan more was that although the mayor had just unleashed Sword Qi, and Ye Tianfan didn't know how he did it, the mayor must have a thod. So why not use it again? Could it be that he can't?
Very likely, if he could, the mayor would use it; without a way to use it again, he wouldn't. Thinking of this, Ye Tianfan flashed upwards above the city wall, and before the mayor and Zhu Lao San could react, he summoned the Fire Lotus Sword, unleashing a Sword Qi to carve a deep ravine in the ground, then told the bandits below: "I'll protect this city. Disband here and stop being bandits. I'll check unexpectedly, and if you haven't disbanded, I will kill you!"
Ye Tianfan only made a threat to them; he wasn't ready to kill them directly. After all, Ye Tianfan noted they had karma, but not much, so he decided to give them a chance to reform!
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