Starting My Cultivation With Time Management-Chapter 866 - 7 Surprise Attack
Chapter 866 -7 Surprise Attack
Myriad Demons City, within the imperial capital.
A certain unsightly-looking deer shapeshifter made its way through a narrow and rugged alley before entering an abandoned house.
It stealthily took out a scroll and quickly spread it out on the ground.
Soon, one person after another emerged from the scroll, and then a second, a third, a fourth… until the small house was packed to the brim.
If there were Golden-Horn Guards from the imperial capital present, they would be terrified to recognize that these cultivators were mostly from the Scaled Clan, Feathered Clan, and Kun Race, and all were High Rank Cultivators from the Dong Yuan Realm.
Long Long was the last to be transmitted through the scroll, he tidied up the Mortal World Lifetimes Chart: Yang Scroll from the ground and then said:
“Count the numbers.”
“Everyone’s here, Elder Long Long!” The cultivators quickly counted the numbers and reported back.
“Good, let’s move out!” At Long Long’s command, everyone filed out the door, disguising themselves as ordinary citizens and dispersed.
About half an hour later, all the important facilities within the imperial capital were subjected to severe damage.
Many defending cultivators were assassinated, even the captain of the Golden-Horn team was taken down immediately, and the city quickly fell into chaos.
Horned Clan cultivators rapidly scanned the area, only to discover that the city was filled with hostile cultivators, numbering over a hundred.
Damn it, how did these enemies infiltrate? Are the patrolling cultivators and the city gate guards blind?
With the generals killed, Horned Clan cultivators began to organize counterattacks one after another, but were soon dispersed by Long Long’s command of elite troops… This repeated several times until there was no organized force left to resist.
Only the Divine Dragon Tower in the center of the imperial capital remained.
The high tower was a unique building of the Jiaolong Clan because the True Body of a Jiaolong could coil around the tower (whereas the Azure Dragon preferred entwining around trees).
Later, when the imperial capital was occupied by the Qilin Clan, the Divine Dragon Tower lost its function as a dragon’s nest, gradually evolving into a symbol of the center of power in the Eastern Emperor Realm, where emperors and their royal family members from all dynasties lived.
At this moment, the young Emperor Qi Qiaosong was sitting in the palace, silent and with an ashen face.
Queen Lü Ya, on the other hand, was cursing out the city defense commander who came to report, demanding that they must defend the Divine Dragon Tower at all costs, while also quickly dispatching two messengers, one to West State to inform the senior Qilin ancestor who was away, and the other to the front lines in South State to seek out the White Tiger Divine General Lv Yan to hurry back with troops to rescue the imperial capital.
In the siege camp in Yuanjiang City in the southern front line, Lv Yan received the distress message from Queen Lü Ya and remained silent.
“Master, we can’t go back!” Qi Yingzhu quickly advised, “Yuanjiang City is already running out of time. If we withdraw now, all our previous efforts will be wasted!”
Lv Yan sighed slowly and said:
“How could I not understand such simple logic? But the enemy’s move was like a bolt from the blue, elusive and with precision hit our weak point.”
Qi Yingzhu stood still for a moment, then slowly lowered her head.
She understood what Lv Yan meant: militarily speaking, the White Tiger Divine General had no significant weakness.
But on the higher plane of politics, he had one fatal flaw – he had an overlord like Lü Ya above him.
Once Lü Ya insisted on ordering something, it would be inconvenient for Lv Yan to oppose her directly.
This was not due to a gap in strength but because Lv Yan had to consider his relationship with the Conservative Faction within the White Tiger clan… Qi Yingzhu was only vaguely aware of the power factions within the White Tiger clan, but she did indeed feel that her master was often hamstrung, full of concerns.
In other words, Long Long leveraged the political struggle within the White Tiger clan to force her master to comply with his mother’s unreasonable demands… Wow, so frustrating!
Qi Yingzhu became more and more angry as she thought about it, but soon forced herself to calm down and said:
“Why not let Master return alone, while I stay here to take Yuanjiang City on Master’s behalf?”
“You?” Lv Yan instinctively wanted to refuse, but after a second thought, he agreed and said with a smile, “Alright, all the cultivators on the front line, I will not take them. They will follow your command.”
“Huh?” Qi Yingzhu asked in astonishment, “Then Master going back alone…”
“There is no need to worry.” Lv Yan said with a smile, “The reason they’ve chosen a surprise attack on the imperial capital is precisely to force me to leave the frontline.”
“As long as I appear near the imperial capital, even if I don’t have a single soldier by my side, their goal will have been achieved.”
“Is that so?” Although Qi Yingzhu felt somewhat uneasy, she still mustered her spirit and promised Lv Yan that they would capture Yuanjiang City and not give the Feathered Clan a chance to catch their breath.
In the imperial capital, Long Long calmly sat at the command post, issuing orders in an orderly fashion.
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His aide watched admiringly, wondering how Elder Long Long had such a clear understanding of the battle situation within the city, without using Divine Sense to scan the entire city from the skies.
Suddenly, Long Long paused for a moment and said:
“Order everyone to retreat back here immediately.”
“Why is that?” The aide hurriedly relayed the command, then asked.
“Hmm,” Long Long said confidently, “If my predictions are correct, based on the timing, the White Tiger Divine General should be nearing the imperial capital by now.”
Many Cultivators within the city then immediately retreated, transported back to the rear headquarters by Long Long using the Mortal World Eternities Map.
It wasn’t long before Lv Yan entered the imperial capital alone. After scanning overhead with Divine Sense for a moment, he headed straight for the Divine Dragon Tower.
“Lv Yan, you’ve finally come!” In the palace hall, the empress Lü Ya, as if she had found her pillar of support, hurriedly asked, “Have all the rebels within the imperial capital been captured?”
“They’ve escaped.” Lv Yan replied succinctly.
“Escaped?” Lü Ya’s voice suddenly rose by an octave, “How could you let them escape?”
Lv Yan was silent for a long, long time, looking towards Qi Qiaosong who remained composed on the throne, then sighed softly.
At the frontlines of Yuanjiang City, within the siege encampment, the pace of the attack suddenly intensified several folds.
The newly appointed commander, Qi Yingzhu, the most favored disciple of the White Tiger Divine General, had already ordered to capture Yuanjiang City at all costs.
She knew that once Lv Yan returned to the imperial capital, the enemy would seize this opportunity to shift their focus to South State, to attempt a rescue of the defending forces in Yuanjiang City.
Therefore, the time from when the enemy confirmed Lv Yan’s return to the imperial capital until they could redirect their forces to South State was the ideal window of opportunity for laying siege to the city.
It was a must to forcibly take Yuanjiang City within this window!
Qi Yingzhu carefully calculated the time of Lv Yan’s return to the imperial capital and the time it would take for the Feathered Clan’s alliance position in the south of Yuanjiang City to regroup for an offensive, confirming that their side had a high probability of seizing this opportunity to take Yuanjiang City.
He who hesitates is lost; the feral instincts of the young tiger prevailed, and without a second thought, she chose to place all her bets on the line.
Seize it!
About fifteen minutes later, the Defensive Array of Yuanjiang City was already on the verge of collapse, at the cost of a tripling in resource consumption on the side of the attackers.
Qi Yingzhu didn’t care about these things at all; she just intently watched the condition of Yuanjiang City’s Formation, urging her subordinates to increase the intensity of the attack.
Finally, the Defensive Array broke under strain.
Qi Yingzhu stood up abruptly, with a sweep of her small hand, countless Horned Clan and Mao Clan Cultivators surged towards Yuanjiang City.
Moments later, the gates of Yuanjiang City were flung open, and a large number of Feathered Clan Cultivators poured out.
Did they know they couldn’t hold on and thus came out for a desperate final battle? Good, it saves me the time.
Qi Yingzhu sneered continuously, but then… she couldn’t sneer anymore.
Because the number of Feathered Clan Cultivators emerging was way more than the number of soldiers defending the city.
The young tiger’s heart skipped a beat, suddenly realizing a very serious oversight:
How exactly did the enemy manage to transport the surprise attack troops inside the imperial capital?
