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Chapter 870: Chapter 369: The Fall of Ning Camp_3

The Prefect of Yuzhang, Wu Che, hastily gathered his troops and conscripted able-bodied men from the city. At that time, there were more than ten thousand Ning soldiers defending the city, but the defense was merely average and even quite vulnerable.

Huang Xuan was leading the siege, at the forefront of his soldiers. After days of relentless assault, it would take another day or two to breach the city.

Seeing this, Lu Yuan didn’t assign any tasks to this particular avatar.

Intercepting Shen Qiu’s main force was important, but taking Yuzhang was equally if not more critical.

After all, allowing Shen Qiu and his troops to return would mean Ning would only have a few tens of thousands of battered soldiers.

But taking Yuzhang would mean that Ning would lose control of a prefecture, a population of six million, and a crucial source of money and provisions.

All of these were far more significant than mere tens of thousands of soldiers.

Moreover, once Huang Xuan captured Yuzhang, he would have effectively blocked Shen Qiu’s retreat.

If Shen Qiu could break through Lu Yuan’s successive blockades and give chase all the way, when the Ning army reached Yuzhang, Nanchang City would be the next point of resistance, and it was the most fortified stronghold.

At that time, Huang Xuan would personally take action to stop Shen Qiu.

If the Ning army could not break through, it wouldn’t matter.

After taking Nanchang, Shen Qiu would also lead his troops to join in the final encirclement and suppression of the Ning army.

This time the goal was to encircle and annihilate a hundred thousand men, including three Inborn masters. To wipe them all out in one fell swoop wouldn’t be easy.

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But there would always be time to catch up; Lu Yuan was not in a hurry.

And as the military orders to gather the troops and march out of the city were given, and orders were issued to the other three routes of soldiers, suddenly the entire Chu army, following the Ning troops, began to mobilize rapidly.

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Upon receiving the news of the Ning army’s escape route, in addition to dispatching ten thousand cavalry to harass and obstruct the Ning bandits, Lu Yuan immediately gathered forty thousand infantry from Jiangxia City, preparing to attack the Ning army’s front camp.

So by the time Bai Yian led his troops away, within just six hours, the Chu army had completed mobilization, not only leaving the city but also making preparations for an assault on the camp.

And Lu Yuan himself led the charge, employing the power of the Innate to bravely scale the walls first, smashing the front lines and seizing fortifications.

The Ning army’s front camp.

Blood pervaded the air, and the sound of killing shook the heavens.

At the front line of the entire camp, tens of thousands of soldiers battled fiercely, and countless lives swiftly perished, turning into a hellish slaughterhouse.

“Haha, Ning bandits, meet your death!”

Lu Yuan was surrounded by a ring of red divine fire, and within thirty feet around him had turned into a molten hell, igniting and consuming all that came close.

Wherever he went, Ning soldiers turned to ash or fled in terror, with none able to stand against him.

Under his leadership, the Chu army quickly broke through several of Ning army’s front camps, making rapid progress, like a hot knife through butter.

Seeing that at this rate the entire main camp would be breached, Lidao, who had been hiding in the back lines, finally could not sit still and leaped out to intervene.

“Damn it, Chu scum, don’t be arrogant! Bullying ordinary soldiers is no skill, show some courage and battle me!”

With a roar, Lidao transformed into a Fierce Sun and descended toward Lu Yuan.

This man also possessed a solar-heat type external body, a Fierce Sun, which bore quite some resemblance to Lu Yuan’s Red Sun Divine Fire external body.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this.

So after seeing Lu Yuan’s external body, Lidao felt that with his own Fierce Sun external body, his resistance to and defense against Red Sun Divine Fire should be enough to be immune to much of it.

Therefore, he dared stand out to duel with the renowned Inborn assassin, the King of Chu.

“Haha, good timing, the rat finally dares to show its head. I was starting to think you would just keep turtling up until the camp was breached and you fled far away!”

Lu Yuan saw Lidao emerging, but he was not the least bit flustered; instead, he let out a hearty laugh, turned around to face forward, and charged to meet him with a fierce shout, “Watch me slay you!”

Lidao, a mere Inborn who had broken through five to six years ago, could only be considered to have just solidified this realm, getting used to the methods of Inborn Grandmasters.

Essentially, he was a newcomer in the Inborn realm, whose strength Lu Yuan didn’t take seriously at all.

Previously, the opponent had been hiding in the dark, unwilling to come forward, so Lu Yuan did not dare to force him out, fearing that he would scare him away.

Even for this reason, he had deliberately restrained some of his strength, making the power of his Red Sun Divine Fire seem less terrifying.

An Inborn Grandmaster who avoids contact with others and is focused on escaping is very difficult to capture.

But now that the opponent had delivered himself to his doorstep and actively engaged with him, that really was courting death.

And that was indeed the case.

As Lidao leaped forward, transforming into a Raging Sun, he felt an unbearable scorching heat hit his face the moment it made slight contact with the Divine Fire around Lu Yuan.

Under this intense heat, his own Raging Sun External Body seemed more like a cool moon, while the opponent’s Divine Fire was more akin to the fierce sun.

With Lu Yuan’s current strength in Martial Arts, coupled with the aid of the Immortal Method, he had almost reached the limit of the second realm of the Inborn in over a decade.

He even had a premonition that if he could condense the second of the Five Elements within his body and advance further in his Immortal Dao Cultivation,

then, with the growth of his magical power, he might even be able to elevate his Martial Arts and achieve a breakthrough to the third realm of the Inborn that had been unreachable by martial artists for hundreds of years, which is the realm of Grandmasters.

By then, even without using magic power, relying solely on his Martial Arts, he would be as omnipotent as a god or a devil, known as an Earthly Immortal.

But even now, not having reached this point,

with his Raging Sun External Body of the second Inborn realm, he already had an overwhelming advantage over Lidao’s inferior version.

“You’ve been hiding your strength all along—”

After exchanging more than a dozen moves with Lu Yuan, Lidao had already accumulated over a dozen burns and scalds on his body, and his manifested Raging Sun External Body had dimmed a lot, with a look of panic in his eyes.

“Now that you realize it, it’s too late!”

Lu Yuan scoffed coldly, his True Pneuma surged within him, and the Divine Fire he released suddenly blazed even more fiercely, instantly engulfing the entire Raging Sun, completely obscuring its light.

In order to block the Divine Fire, Lidao had to gather all his True Pneuma, resisting with all his might, inevitably leading to some small neglect due to his distraction.

Therefore, when a chill passed over his skin and he subconsciously wanted to dodge, his body was half a beat too slow.

Then a sharp sword energy slashed through his waist and abdomen, piercing through his body, almost cutting him in half.

The previously impregnable Raging Sun External Body around him suddenly had gaping holes due to the severe damage.

Seizing the opportunity, the Divine Fire surged into the gaps, and in an instant, overwhelmed Lidao, whose True Pneuma was disrupted from the heavy blow and could no longer mount an effective defense, turning him into a torch.

In just a few breaths, all that remained in sight was a pile of ashes and a withered, dehydrated head that was deliberately left intact.

“Lidao is dead, why have you not yet surrendered!”

Lu Yuan extended his hand and beckoned, the head encased in True Pneuma landed in the palm of his hand; then with a leap, he flew into the midst of the Ning Army up in the air, forcibly hovering with True Pneuma, letting out an enraged roar.

Many of the Ning soldiers had witnessed the death of their Commander and, seeing this, looked at the head with eyes that could not close in death, causing any remaining will to resist to utterly dissipate.

One after another, the sounds of weapons hitting the ground, and the sight of prostrate figures bowing in submission, spread like a contagious plague throughout the Front Camp following the news of Lidao’s death.

That day, the Ning Army’s camp was breached and taken by the Chu forces, all within six hours.

The Ning Army’s Jiangxia main camp was thoroughly eradicated.

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