It was nearly one o’clock at midnight.
The whole mountain forest started to heat up after the quick and fierce ambush. A lot of East Island elites rushed into the mountain forest and kept wandering in it.
Whether it was East Island conspired against Zhongzhou State, or it was Zhongzhou State conspired against East Island, this operation was the conflict of the Dark World. East Island wasn’t in the right place to send Army for encirclement, but a lot of elites from the Army temporarily joined the Special Warfare System of East Island, which made East Island rich in human resources.
Changdao wasn’t a small place, and there were defense lines around the whole island. According to the map Han Shixun sent them, there were at least twenty spots around Changdao, surrounding the national highway as the center. The nearby defense line which was dozens of kilometers long was only one of the twenty spots.
The spot wasn’t even the one with most people.
But it still had nearly six hundred elites, elites of national level. Every one of them was at least in the stabilization phase of the Ice-condensing Realm. Ordinary soldiers couldn’t compare to them. In a few minutes, after more than twenty snipers died one by one, all the elites started to take action in the fastest speed.
The mountain forest started to heat up.
Compared to the large measure of area in the mountain forest, the approximate hundred people who suddenly appeared in the forest weren’t actually a lot, but they were extremely quick, for they were the real elites. Once they started to take action, the whole mountain forest was filled with shadows instantly, and the intense killing intent was suffusing.
Li Tianlan was running along the way on which he came in the mountain forest, leaving the night rain and the trees behind. This road was the safest at the moment. There were a lot of hidden soldiers along the road when he came, but they were all cleared out. Because he and Jiang Shangyu acted in such a fast speed, in a few minutes, they finished and went back before the other side could make any move. Thus, the road was flat and safe.
To be exact, East Island set total seventeen spots of defense line around Changdao, and the mountain forest that Nanye Xiu was in charge of was one of them. This spot didn’t have a lot of people, but because Nanye Xiu was a superior who was a half step to the Invincible Realm, this spot could be one of the toughest ones to break.
The plan Li Tianlan and Jiang Shangyu made was simple; they were gonna cause big chaos in this crucial defense spot in two days. The first day they were gonna kill the approximate one hundred snipers here. The Holy Thunders Cannons were the most famous weapons in the East Island Army, and one of them could cause a lot of troubles to the superiors of the Fire-flaming Realm. When firing a lot of Holy Thunder Cannons at the same time, even the superiors of the Thunder-shocking Realm couldn’t survive. At the moment, there were at least thirty Holy Thunder Cannons and dozens of sniper rifles which were less powerful in this mountain forest. If they could kill all the people here, the casualty rate would be much lower when the Zhongzhou State elites broke through from here.
On the first day, they killed the snipers, and on the second day, they tried to a.s.sa.s.sinate Nanye Xiu, at least they were gonna cause him serious injury.
If they could achieve the plan successfully, then Li Tianlan and Jiang Shangyu’s mission to destroy the key spot was finished.
Their mission was to kill, in order to create as much chaos as possible in the key defense spot and to make it easier for their people to break through the defense, rather than killing everyone in the defense spot.
Besides, it was impossible for them to kill everyone.
If a hundred people encircled Li Tianlan and Jiang Shangyu tightly, Li Tianlan couldn’t get out alive, let alone the six hundred elites who were above the Ice-condensing Realm here right now.
A hundred elites in the stabilization phase of the Ice-condensing Realm gathered together. In rainy weather, these people were powerful enough to instantly condense an ice wall with the thickness exceeding 100 meters!
With the thickness exceeding 100 meters, this wall would be stronger than all the fortresses and city walls in history.
Li Tianlan had Wind and Thunder Veins, but he wasn’t an immortal after all. Even if his sword intent was the sharpest, even if his flame was the hottest, and even if he had ten more Wind and Thunder Veins in his body, he couldn’t possibly break the ice wall with the thickness of a hundred meters instantly.
Besides, when the real experts of Martial Arts fought each other, it would always be light and shadow flashing and the sword intent flying everywhere, ice and fire mixing together, air and lightning curling up together. It would look ridiculously fancy, but it would also be ridiculous destructive.
But in the end, no matter superiors of the Qi-controlling Realm, the Ice-condensing Realm, the Fire-flaming Realm, or the Thunder-shocking Realm, all of those fancy attack tricks were essentially substance that they made by making the air vibrate.
Qi-controlling Realm experts used the body strength to make the air vibrate.
Ice-condensing Realm experts used the body strength to condense the water in the air.
Fire-flaming Realm experts desiccated the air and used the force to make flames in the dry air…
All these mysterious tricks actually depended on two things.
Great strength.
Focused willpower.
If the strength wasn’t great enough, one couldn’t get into the Four Realms of Martial Arts. When the willpower wasn’t focused enough, one couldn’t get into the Four Realms of Martial Arts, either.
The moment a superior made a move, there would be ice and fire. This represented his or her absolute strength and focused willpower.
While strength and willpower were consumables, one could replenish them, but it would still have a deadly influence on one’s combat capability if he lost too much of them all at once.
In front of the encirclement of a hundred elites of the Ice-condensing Realm, even if he ignored the desperately thick ice wall, Li Tianlan’s strength couldn’t make it in the attrition warfare one after another. In the end, when Li Tianlan lacked both strength and willpower, he could only use his fists. By then, he would be worse than an ordinary superior who hadn’t enter the Four Realms of Martial Arts because of the loss of strength.
Li Tianlan and Jiang Shangyu working together could barely be the peak power of the younger generation in the Dark World. But it would still be nearly impossible for them to kill hundreds of elites in a very short time, including some superiors of the Fire-flaming Realm and some superiors who were a half step to Invincible Realm.
In two days, killing the snipers here and causing Nanye Xiu serious injury were the best they could do.
Besides, this was just the Number One Spot.
Li Tianlan and Jiang Shangyu named the place Number One Spot. It was located deep in the mountain forest in Southern Changdao.
Number Two Spot was in the east. In Li Tianlan and Jiang Shangyu’s plan, it also required two days to break Number Two Spot.
Number Three Spot was the trickiest. It was located in Western Changdao and the place with the tightest defense in East Island with some superiors of the Thunder-shocking Realm guarding there.
And most of the countless little groups of Zhongzhou State that were being hunted would also enter Changdao through that direction.
More than ten defense spots were all in Western Changdao.
Li Tianlan and Jiang Shangyu hadn’t decided which defense spot was Number Three Spot, but they would leave the fullest time for Number Three Spot.
Three whole days.
As for Number Four Spot.
There was no Number Four Spot.
Three spots, in a week, the Zhongzhou State elites could definitely break into Changdao within a week.
As for those who couldn’t make it there in a week, there wouldn’t be any hope for them anyway.
They kept rushing and leaving the trees on the sides behind, and the pursuing troops were getting farther and farther from them. Li Tianlan kept moving forward with a stern face.
Now he had changed his dressing a great deal, and the dark grey nightwear almost covered him all up. What was more creepy was that he was wearing a pair of sungla.s.ses that could cover most of his face. In the dark, the light on the sungla.s.ses was shining constantly, gathering all the information around for Li Tianlan.
This was a pair of sungla.s.ses full of different functions, distance measurement, investigation, position determination, navigation, thermal imaging, signal shielding, and it was bulletproof at some level. In a strange environment, it would definitely be the most useful thing, especially thermal imaging and distance measurement; they were very good for finding snipers. It would be like catching fireflies at night, not one missing.
The grey nightwear, the sungla.s.ses, the silver sword, and the silver spear.
Li Tianlan finally removed all the camouflage for Skyattack. During the action tonight, he carried Skyattack that the Dongcheng Clan gave him in the back, with two bullets in it.
Two bullets.
It didn’t sound like a lot, but when Thunder G.o.d gave Skyattack to Li Tianlan, there were only twenty bullets in it.
In the days while he was being hunted by Mai Shiranui, Li Tianlan had used five bullets. When shooting in a short distance, Skyattack and these special bullets were the most powerful combination of weapons.
Li Tianlan fired five shots, missed three times, but the two superiors of the Thunder-shocking Realm who got shot both died a horrible death instantly.
The Holy Thunder of East Island was a killing weapon, but when compared to Skyattack, it was nothing.
“I have gotten rid of them.”
In the dark, Jiang Shangyu’s voice rang out. “How about your side?”
He killed a lot less than Li Tianlan, which meant he wasn’t as deep in the forest as Li Tianlan was, and it made it easier for him to retreat.
“I’m about to get rid of them.”
Li Tianlan said calmly, “Gather in the predetermined place. The second ambush will be in two hours. You’re too slow, and they’re getting more and more cautious. In our next action, if you still hide your true power, then we’ll definitely do worse than we did this time.”
Jiang Shangyu laughed softly and said nothing.
“Bam!”
Li Tianlan was about to say something more, but he got startled by the sudden loud gunshot.
At that moment, Li Tianlan switched places with the shadow out of instinct before he even had time to think.
But the shadow appeared too abruptly, so it was just less than five meters behind him, but it was enough for the gunshot to miss.
Li Tianlan took a cold glance.
In a hundred meters ahead, a red blur figure appeared on his sungla.s.ses.
The other side missed the shot, then jumped from the hidden spot, turned around and ran away.
Li Tianlan sneered and immediately followed that figure without any hesitation.
He rushed as fast as he could!
The distance between them was instantly shortened.
The sniper in front of him was obviously not an ordinary sniper; he was the elite among the elites. His speed was almost close to that of the superiors of the Fire-flaming Realm. But as Li Tianlan got faster and faster, he became more and more nervous, turning around from time to time.
Fifty meters.
Thirty meters.
Twenty meters.
The two of them were getting closer to each other.
The killing intent in Li Tianlan’s eyes flashed, and a shadow directly appeared in front of the sniper.
He lifted the long sword in his hand.
At the moment when the sword light shone, what appeared in front of Li Tianlan was a face with no panic or fear. The sniper’s eyes looked strangely composed, and his facial expression was ferocious and cruel.
The sword light fell.
The sniper lifted his arm at the same time.
Li Tianlan hit a punch!
“Bang!”
In the raging killing intent.
The lightning rose suddenly in the whole mountain forest, shining and dazzling.
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