"Swoosh swoosh swoosh!" Tens of thousands of fire rockets shot towards the summit of Falling Shade Mountain from all directions.

Immediately, several thousand soldiers from various formations on the peak of Falling Shade Mountain rose into the air, standing on their comrades' shoulders to form an enclosed circular wall. Then, each soldier forced out Yin Qi in front of them to form Yin Qi Shields, blocking the tens of thousands of incoming fire rockets.

Before the soldiers, who had used their bodies and Yin Qi Spiritual Power to form a wall, could catch their breath, numerous giant boulders, glittering with dazzling flames, were launched like meteorites from the catapults within the Ghost King's camp, smashing towards them.

"Brothers," a general standing atop the wall of men shouted loudly, "exert all your strength to withstand these exploding fire boulders, just like we have been doing for the past two months!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded in unison, their morale surging like a rainbow.

Subsequently, just before the surging exploding fire boulders hit, Yin Qi Spiritual Power burst forth from the nearly ten-thousand-strong wall of soldiers, forming even more solid Shields.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

With thunderous roars and streaks of exploding light, after several rounds of bombardment, a large group of soldiers on the wall could no longer withstand the assault of the exploding fire boulders and were blasted off the ramparts.

After struggling on the ground for a while, those soldiers quickly got up and returned to the wall of men, continuing to use their bodies to guard the mountaintop.

"Send out the catapult birds to deal with them now!" Wu Family Clan Leader Wu Kun turned his head and shouted to those behind him at this moment.

Ye Yuqiao looked behind her and saw that hundreds of soldiers were pulling catapult birds, larger than themselves, toward an incline at the front. Atop this slope, many soldiers were busy pushing red exploding fire boulders towards the edge of the incline.

When the first soldier brought a catapult bird to the edge of the slope, two soldiers rolled an exploding fire boulder down the incline, then shouted at the wall of men blocking the bottom of the slope, "Quick, disperse!"

Instantly, soldiers at the foot of the slope flew away in all directions, revealing an exit.

With a "rumble", the exploding fire boulder rolled down the slope. As it was about to reach the bottom of the incline, the soldiers pulling the catapult bird immediately let go of the ropes in their hands, and the catapult bird spread its iron-hard wings and glided down the slope.

The moment the exploding fire boulder rolled off the slope and began to fall down the mountain, the catapult bird, with claws as strong as iron, grabbed hold of the boulder. It then dodged the giant rocks raining down from the sky, soaring towards the Ghost King's camp in the air at high speed, and like a bomber, dropped the fiery, exploding fire boulder onto the camp.

Behind it, countless more catapult birds each hauling exploding fire boulders attacked in turn, bombarding the King's camp.

After dropping one exploding fire boulder, the catapult bird made its way back to the summit of Falling Shade Mountain, continuing to bombard with exploding fire boulders until it was completely exhausted.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

As both sides bombarded each other with exploding fire boulders, the air was filled with the never-ending roar of explosions, the sky illuminated with flashes of fiery light and rolling smoke. The originally deep purple night sky, set against the fiery glow and black smoke, appeared even purer in its purple hue.

The skies above were filled with high-altitude bombardment from the indomitable stone-throwing birds, and the Ghost King's troops had always been at a loss.

They had considered sending skilled soldiers with profound spiritual power to assassinate this group of gigantic birds, but conventional weapons could not pierce the birds' feathers, which were as hard as iron; not even fists fueled with immense spiritual power could cause them the slightest pain.

However, tonight, the Ghost King's troops came prepared. They had spent a month braving life-threatening danger to transport dozens of ice stone tree trunks from the outskirts of the Polar Ice Land.

These ice stone trees, translucent and ice-like, never melted year-round. And indeed, they were real trees that grew taller over time and sprouted branches and leaves, all of which were crystal clear. Due to their extreme hardness, akin to that of iron and stone, they came to be known as ice stone trees.

The reason the Ghost King's troops had expended so much time and effort to carry back these ice stone trees was that the stone-throwing birds feared ice, which could freeze their blood and energy; moreover, the ice stone trees could pierce their iron-hard feathers.

So, when the soldiers began erecting the hard, translucent trunks of the ice stone trees, the stone-throwing birds immediately trembled in panic and fear, daring not to come any closer.

"Ramming the ice stone trees into their human wall, then pierce through the bodies of Wu Kun, Zheng Yang, Wang Yun, and those annoying birds!" bellowed a commander from among the Ghost King's troops.

At his command, thousands of people carrying a dozen or so heavy ice stone tree trunks slowly climbed towards the top of their encampment; it took at least fifty to sixty people to carry each tree.

"One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three!" The air was filled with their synchronized and resounding chants.

After the soldiers holding the ice stone trees stopped, a sudden silence fell all around.

Atop Falling Shade Mountain, the allied forces of the Wu, Zheng, and Wang families were also silent, stunned by the sight of those massive trunks emitting cold air.

"Nether King, Family Leader Zhao, what should we do now?" Zheng Yang asked anxiously, his face about to break into tears.

"Prepare!" came a command from the Ghost King's troops' side.

All the soldiers carrying the ice stone trees hoisted them high, infusing their Yin Qi spiritual power into the ice stone trees while holding them.

Below them, other soldiers from the Ghost King's troops had already drawn their swords and blades, ready to storm Falling Shade Mountain and cleanse the allied forces of the Wu, Zheng, and Wang families, as soon as the ice stone trees breached the wall at the mountain's summit.

"They are going to launch the ice stone trees!" Wu Kun anxiously looked towards Ye Yuqiao, his entire face trembling.

"Throw!" Another command echoed from the sky.

Upon hearing this order, the soldiers from the Ghost King's troops despaired.

"Ah!" As the ice stone trees soared from the hands of the roaring soldiers, propelled like gigantic missiles in all directions towards the summit of Falling Shade Mountain, carrying with them a powerful spiritual force.

Atop Falling Shade Mountain, the soldiers of the Wu, Zheng, and Wang allied forces, standing as a human wall, remained motionless. Although scattering into the air would have allowed them to avoid immediate death, they knew that once the summit was shattered by the ice stone trees, they, like scattered sand, would be massacred by the Ghost King's troops.

Thus, they chose to die with dignity, composed in the face of danger.

"Chen Hao," Ye Yuqiao transmitted a secret message to Chen Hao at that moment, "quickly tell Zhou Ke to lead an army of fifty thousand immediately to attack the Dayang Mountains..."

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