Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

”Are you truly going to appoint me as the lord of Gushan City?”

Upon hearing the words of the Middle Stage Earth Bending Realm expert, Yun Xiao turned his head with a faint smile. This gaze made the person’s form tremble, and they quickly lowered their head, not daring to meet the eyes of the young man in rough clothes.

”Lord Yun Xiao, I am Duan Gen at your service. I have already ordered the gate to be opened, allowing your companions into the city!”

At this moment, Duan Gen finally stepped forward a few steps and bowed to Yun Xiao, and his words caused the few Middle Stage Earth Bending Realm experts who had been ingratiating themselves with Yun Xiao earlier to secretly grumble, wondering why Duan Gen was so quick to act.

”Oh?”

Yun Xiao’s face showed a hint of a smile, but the next moment he shifted his gaze to the base of the city walls. There, countless troops of Strange Spirits had formed a siege, with some spirits continuously climbing the walls, seemingly intending to break through Gushan City’s West Gate.

”Since you have chosen me as the leader, does that mean from this moment on, you will never disobey my commands?”

With a slightly serious gaze, Yun Xiao turned around again. As soon as he spoke, all the cultivators in Gushan City bowed their heads in submission, acknowledging Yun Xiao’s question, much to his satisfaction.

”Good, then I will issue the first command now!”

Seeing the strong practitioners submit, Yun Xiao did not hesitate, nor did he dawdle. He extended his hand and pointed outside the city walls, saying solemnly, ”Strange Spirits ravage us, yet we can only hide within the city. Do any of you dare to join me, Yun Xiao, in going out to fight them?”

”Ah?”

Upon hearing Yun Xiao’s words, many cultivators raised their heads in disbelief. Defending within the city was already incredibly difficult; without the protection of the strong walls, how could they survive battling Strange Spirits outside?

”What? You all said you would submit to me, but you won’t follow my first command?”

Seeing this, Yun Xiao’s face darkened, feeling disappointed. After months of Strange Spirit ravages, had it truly worn down the bravery of these human cultivators?

”I trust Lord Yun Xiao, I, Duan Gen, obey!”

While others hesitated, Duan Gen had already clasped his fists toward Yun Xiao and then marched toward the base of the city wall. With this one leading, it seemed the fighting spirit of the others was reignited once more.

”Damn it, cowering in the city all day has almost suffocated me. Finally, we can have a proper battle!”

”No matter what, this time I must kill a few more Strange Spirits to avenge my fallen brothers!”

”Fear nothing; we’re all dead in the end anyway!”

”...”

As Duan Gen and a few others rushed down the city walls, the command spread throughout the range of Gushan City’s West Gate, exciting countless low-level cultivators.

These people originally came to the Slaughter Spirit Battlefield to fight Strange Spirits, but upon entering the city, they mostly engaged in defensive battles, taking the brunt from the spirits, feeling utterly stifled.

The low-level cultivators at this moment were unaware that the power holder of Gushan City had already changed. Since the order was transmitted by Duan Gen and others, they had no doubts, and one after another, they readied themselves at the West City Gate.

”Let Gushan City become the first stand of human resistance!”

Hearing the excited cheers from below, Yun Xiao felt quite satisfied, secretly thinking that not all human cultivators were like Liao Qiguang, and he couldn’t help but utter softly.

While opening the city to fight might lead to the deaths of many human cultivators, wasn’t the improvement in strength best understood in such life-and-death situations?

Each Strange Spirit ravage was a catastrophic disaster, but after every calamity, those who survived were the elite among cultivators. Perhaps this was the logic of survival of the fittest?

Long years of peace require such Strange Spirit offenses to stimulate that dormant fighting spirit. At this moment, Yun Xiao undoubtedly wanted to use this method to reach an extreme effect.

Swoosh!

Seeing Duan Gen already open the West City Gate, more and more city cultivators surged toward the gate, and Yun Xiao did not linger. His Thunder Wings emerged again, and he leapt from the top of the tens of meters high city walls, like a Heavenly God descending upon the earth.

The human cultivators who had just charged out of the city gate witnessed this incredibly breathtaking and awe-inspiring scene, boosting their confidence considerably.

Although the young man in rough clothes in the sky might not necessarily be a true Heaven Rank Third Realm expert, this ability to fly was something they had never seen in Gushan City, which perhaps suggested a real possibility of defeating the Strange Spirit army outside.

For a moment, outside the west gate of Gushan City, chaos broke out, and all human cultivators knew that this was a battle for survival. If they lost, the alien spirit army would surely invade Gushan City, causing the city that had been defended for so long to fall overnight.

At this moment, many human cultivators could only fight desperately. Among them were powerful Earth Bending Realm cultivators like Duan Gen, Origin-seeking Realm cultivators like Ye Suxin, and even many Qi Seeking Realm cultivators who found opponents comparable to their cultivation and engaged in fierce battles.

It was the age-old strategy of matching generals to generals and soldiers to soldiers, even though it differed from the battles of regimented armies on Hidden Dragon Continent, it still followed similar rules.

However, overall, the alien spirits surpassed the humans in both quantity and quality. Although they didn’t have the advantage during the siege, now, with both sides engaging in close combat outside the city, it was truly like fish returned to water.

Thus, after a while, the human side began to fall into disarray. Many died tragically under the assault of alien spirits, forever left outside the west gate of Gushan City.

In the sky, Yun Xiao naturally realized this predicament. The decision he made wasn’t to completely abandon the human cultivators in Gushan City but was part of his own plan.

”The commander of the alien spirit side should be over there, right?”

Shifting his gaze from the west gate, Yun Xiao looked into the distance and finally noticed special areas north and south behind the alien spirit army, murmuring softly.

The principle of capturing the leader first, Yun Xiao understood very well. In this chaotic battle, relying on mid or late-stage Earth Bending Realm cultivators couldn’t achieve this.

Yun Xiao, with the Thunder Dragon’s Wings, was undoubtedly the best candidate for the decapitation strike. Formerly known as the Long Xiao Battle God who had fought tens of thousands of alien spirits in Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, he clearly knew how vital an alien spirit leader was to their entire army.

Unlike humans, alien spirits don’t understand array manipulation. Generally, there’s only one leader in an army, with all orders directly issued by this leader.

Hence, Yun Xiao knew that if he could kill the alien spirit leader amidst the enemy ranks, at least half of the alien spirit army outside the west gate would fall into chaos. It was a clever strategy to sabotage them from within.

”What’s he up to?”

The silver-gray figure darted towards the north, causing Ye Suxin and others participating in the battle below to show puzzled looks. This genius girl from the Killing Heart Sect lightly asked.

”Capture the leader first!”

Xu Hongzhuang was undoubtedly the one who understood Yun Xiao the best. While blasting away an attacking alien spirit beside her, she replied, startling the Hawk Squad members.

The Hawk Squad members at the city walls hadn’t seen Yun Xiao kill Liao Qiguang, and they were confused about why the city gate opened, and just after entering the city, they had to rush out again.

”The leader of the alien spirit army should be at least Ninth Rank Advanced, right?”

This was precisely why Ruan Ying and others were alarmed. Even though they now knew Yun Xiao’s identity, facing a Ninth Rank Advanced alien spirit, even peak Earth Bending Realm cultivators wouldn’t easily claim victory.

Especially since the leader of the alien spirit army likely has many alien spirit powerful individuals shielding them, attempting to claim their Spirit Crystal amidst such an army was undoubtedly a nine-out-of-ten chance of death.

Perhaps only Xu Hongzhuang knew Yun Xiao never fought battles he wasn’t confident of winning. Since he made this decision, he must have his reasons.

”Tsk tsk, our newly appointed lord truly has extraordinary skills and courage!”

Duan Gen and other veteran powerhouses of Gushan City naturally saw the silver-gray figure flying towards the north and couldn’t help but voice their admiration, guessing Yun Xiao’s intent.

However, in these experts’ hearts, even though Yun Xiao had forcefully killed late-stage Earth Bending Realm Liao Qiguang, successfully executing a beheading action in an alien spirit army remained extremely challenging. One wrong move could land him in a fatal predicament.

Yet this new lord’s courage acted like an invigorating boost, lifting the spirits of all human cultivators below, as they saw the faint glimmer of victory, no longer fighting blindly to the death but with renewed hope.

In the sky, Yun Xiao didn’t know the thoughts of the human cultivators below. At this moment, his eyes focused solely on the alien spirit leader guarded by over a dozen Ninth Rank alien spirits.

As he flew across the sky, Yun Xiao seemed to sense the alien spirit leader lifting its head, their gazes meeting, as if igniting a spark in the air.

In this instant, both Yun Xiao and the alien spirit leader understood each other’s intent, one aiming to behead within the army, the other trying to counter and kill the flying human youth.

As for whether the human powerhouse was truly at the Peak of Heavenly Rank Third Realm, the Ninth Rank Advanced alien spirit leader wasn’t overly concerned, for it sensed no oppressive aura associated with Heavenly Rank Third Realm from the young human.

Since it wasn’t a Heavenly Rank Third Realm powerhouse, the Ninth Rank Advanced alien spirit leader had little to worry about, especially because, apart from itself, there were over a dozen Ninth Rank alien spirit powerhouses here.

These Ninth Rank alien spirit powerhouses were the biggest trump card of the alien spirit leader, originally intended for a critical strike against the human defenders of Gushan City. However, now they served another purpose.