"That's right, there are indeed many Stone Serpent Beasts!"

When Zhao Chong mentioned the abundance of Stone Serpent Beasts, Ye Yuqiao was quite astonished; based on her knowledge, Stone Serpent Beasts were extremely rare.

"I never expected so many Stone Serpent Beasts to appear at once!" Ye Yuqiao exclaimed, then frowned slightly and continued, "These Stone Serpent Beasts must have been sent by the Ghost King's forces, they probably won't be easy to deal with."

Zhao Chong nodded and said, "Indeed they aren't easy to handle. Just now I tried to use my Spiritual Power to shatter them, but their bodies are truly resilient. I only managed to eliminate one."

"How should we deal with them then?" Ye Yuqiao's brows knit together tightly.

No sooner had she spoken than suddenly, with a "boom," a Stone Serpent Beast burst forth from the ground not far in front of her, raising a cloud of billowing dust.

Taken aback for a moment, Ye Yuqiao leapt from the horseback, landing atop the head of the Stone Serpent Beast, her eyes immediately shooting forth a burst of fierce Purgatory Fire onto the creature's head.

The Stone Serpent Beast let out an extremely weird and miserable scream; the sound that radiated out carried with it a Spiritual Power capable of disrupting one's soul and essence.

Just as Zhao Chong had said, the body of the Stone Serpent Beast was indeed resilient; even the Purgatory Fire could only manage to singe its skin red.

Next, Ye Yuqiao made a small cut on her left palm with her right hand, and hot red blood started to flow from the center of her palm, dropping drop by drop onto the head of the Stone Serpent Beast.

At that moment, the tail of the Stone Serpent Beast had already risen, striking back at Ye Yuqiao, but she swiftly leapt back onto her horse.

The Stone Serpent Beast let out an even more piercing and sorrowful shriek, the blood that had fallen on its head had seeped into its scalp and suddenly ignited, bursting into a red-hot molten flow.

The blood that flowed from Ye Yuqiao's body was that of the Netherworld Azure Bird.

After continuing to scream for a few moments, the Stone Serpent Beast collapsed thunderously onto the ground. Under the gazes of the crowd, the molten lava on its head flowed downwards along its body. As the magma passed every inch of its hide, the creature's skin was instantly melted into the molten flow.

Ye Yuqiao, with a cut in the palm of her left hand, directed it towards the corpse of the Stone Serpent Beast. Then, all the magma from the Stone Serpent Beast's body was sucked into Ye Yuqiao's left hand, leaving behind only its charred remains on the ground.

Upon witnessing this scene, the eighty thousand soldiers behind her let out exclamations; more admiration than alarm filled their voices, increasing their fear and veneration for Ye Yuqiao.

Boom, boom, boom!

The land beneath the feet of the eighty thousand soldiers suddenly began shaking violently, as if an earthquake was happening, with the upheaval in several places being so dramatic that it could be described as rising and plunging.

"Be careful!" Ye Yuqiao furrowed her brow, "The Stone Serpent Beasts are coming to disrupt our formation."

As soon as Ye Yuqiao finished speaking, "bang, bang, bang!" a series of loud explosions occurred among the eighty thousand soldiers. Several spots on the ground burst open, blowing the soldiers standing there into the air. Then, a dozen or so Stone Serpent Beasts drilled out from the ground, rampaging through the nearby soldiers with their incredibly hard bodies like a ruthless whirlwind.

The original orderly formation of the troops instantly descended into chaos.

"I will take care of those Stone Serpent Beasts; Clan Leader Wu, you control the formation of the troops. The Ghost King Battalion is closing in on us—make sure the soldiers don't lose their footing. The remaining four Clan Leaders, stay here to contend with the four Dharma Kings!" Ye Yuqiao hastily ordered. At this moment, she could feel four intense forces of Yin Qi Spiritual Power approaching.

"At your command!" the five Clan Leaders responded in unison.

Ye Yuqiao once again flew off her horse's back, landing on the head of the stone serpent beast closest to her, and then dripped the blood of the Netherworld Azure Bird from her body onto the serpent's head;

Wu Kun, the Clan Leader of the Wu Family, led a dozen generals deep into various positions to maintain order within the ranks.

"Everyone, be careful to dodge the stone serpent beasts and form the triple-layer formation of Heaven, Earth, and Man!" Wu Kun and the generals who had gone deep into the positions ordered. In no time, following the command, of the eight thousand soldiers, the archers rode their horses high into the sky, a third reached mid-air, and the remaining third stayed on the ground, maneuvering within the formation on horseback to avoid the stone serpent beasts' attacks.

Slowly, the formation that had once been crowded and chaotic became sparse and orderly. Since they hadn't received any orders, the soldiers did not concentrate their firepower on the stone serpent beasts but were ready to draw their swords and weapons or to prepare their ammunition and bows, waiting to strike at any moment;

Zhao Chong, Zhou Ke, Wang Yun, and Zheng Yang, the four Clan Leaders, led their horses a few steps forward, ready to confront the four Dharma Kings leading the advancing army of ninety thousand.

It wasn't long before a raspy crow's caw reached them from the front.

Soon after, the four Clan Leaders saw a vast cloud of darkness surging from the front. It was as if a deeper layer of night had descended, slowly swallowing the entire land.

Only when the dark cloud drew closer did the four leaders realize that it was not a cloud but a flock of crows.

"It's the birdmen from the Crow Tribe!" Zhou Ke said.

Zhao Chong looked at Zhou Ke and nodded slightly. Zhou Ke turned back to look at the camp behind him and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Archers, let loose your arrows; munitions men, launch the Yin Qi explosives!"

At Zhou Ke's command, tens of thousands of arrows imbued with Yin Qi Spiritual Power whizzed over his head like a sudden meteor shower.

The arrows flew far, reaching the dense mass of crows on the horizon.

Seeing the tens of thousands of arrows coming their way, the millions of crows in the sky revealed their blood-red eyes and burst into Purgatory Fire, incinerating the incoming arrows into ash. They then transformed into human form, using their tribal curved knives to slash through the Yin Qi explosives that followed the arrows;

Meanwhile, underneath them, a seemingly endless line of dark shadows appeared on the horizon. Tens of thousands of Ghost King Battalion soldiers on horseback were charging from three sides, led by the Dark Law King, King Shuanglin, King Wumeng, and King Qingyu – the four Dharma Kings.

Zhao Chong drew the white jade sword from his waist and pointed it forward, his eyes already blood-red with killing intent.

"All soldiers in the human formation, listen to my command," Zhou Ke ordered, "Kill!"

"Kill!" The cavalry suspended in mid-air shouted as they rode towards the enemy. At that moment, the dozen or so stone serpent beasts on the ground suddenly leaped into the air, charging straight at the cavalry squadrons; evidently, their intent was to break the rhythm of the alliance forces of the five great families.

At this time, Ye Yuqiao was still busy dealing with a stone serpent beast nearby; this was only her fourth, with fourteen still to go.

"Quick, release the Siege Birds!" Ye Yuqiao ordered.

"Yes!"

The soldiers guarding the Siege Birds and the Explosive Stones lined up more than twenty Siege Birds and brought dozens of thousand-pound Explosive Stones in front of them.

Right after a few Siege Birds had just taken flight with the Explosive Stones, suddenly...

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