Invincible Little School Doctor

Chapter 1770: Chapter 1770: A Trap?

”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, somewhat 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 meaningful look.

All along, Ye Yan had always seemed 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 disappointment suddenly sprouted in Ye Hai’s heart.

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Looking at the cold and unresponsive army of Phantom Sound Pavilion, Li Mei’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 Mei’s face turned grim as he pondered.

At that moment, a figure came rushing over, displaying a face of urgency, giving Li Mei a bad premonition.

”Elder Li, something’s wrong! The enemy somehow slipped through Youlang Gorge and is ferociously attacking our ambush at the Sub-Xun Dimension Realm entrance. Our people were caught off guard and have suffered heavy losses!”

”What?”

Li Mei 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, extremely formidable; our people can’t withstand them.”

”Damn, we’ve been duped!” Li Mei suddenly had a realization and quickly said, ”Tell them to hold the line. I’ll immediately bring reinforcements. If Ye Haochuan and the others get away, I’ll slaughter them all!”

The subordinate took the order and left. Li Mei 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 excitement, and led five to six thousand men to charge at Phantom Sound Pavilion’s forces.

Meanwhile, Li Mei personally led a team to quickly reinforce the defenses.

The entrance to the Sub-Xun Dimension 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 Xuanmen’s forces outside the Teleportation Array.

However, the situation was now different. Ye Haochuan and his men 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 extremely anxious at this moment, fearing they couldn’t stop Ye Haochuan’s onslaught, allowing Ye Haochuan and his group to break through. That would mean neither a complete annihilation of Phantom Sound Pavilion nor the death of Ye Haochuan.

More concerning than the former was the latter. Li Mei 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 Mei had gone far, terrible news suddenly came.

Li Mei, 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 Mei 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 time, 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 Mei 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 reinforcements were coming and, realizing they were outmatched, voluntarily withdrew?” a red-haired cultivator speculated.

”Impossible!” Li Mei 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 meant merely 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 men to break through; rather, it was to completely defeat him.

With this doubt in mind, he rushed to the Sub-Xun Dimension Realm’s entrance, but there was no sign of Ye Haochuan and his group.

”Bad news, a fierce group has emerged from Phantom Sound Pavilion’s forces, pushing our men 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 reinforcements?” Li Mei, 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 Mei 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 men in such a short time.

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 become so formidable?” Li Mei 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 transformed. 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 scheme all they want; they can’t make waves here!”

Li Mei snorted disdainfully, leaving some to defend, while he led the rest toward Youlang Gorge’s frontline, intending to wipe out Phantom Sound Pavilion’s main force first.