Zombie Bodyguard

Chapter 2033: Chapter 2030: Voice from Beyond the Heavens

Rumble...

A deafening sound suddenly rang out, the support points of the city gate, unable to withstand the corrosion of evil spirits, crashed down, the gate has been breached!

Kill...

Thunderous shouts, heavy footsteps, rumbling sounds, the infantry phalanx inside the fortress surged forward, blocking the city gate, fierce combat began.

Although the mobility of infantry is not as strong as cavalry, their combat power is not weak, shield soldiers and spearmen form a defensive line, while archers keep shooting.

The city gate is narrow, limiting the number of attacking evil spirits, ghost soldiers temporarily halted the evil spirits’ advance, pinning them down within the city gate.

The infantry shield formation is the last line of defense; should it collapse, the evil spirits will drive straight in, the land behind is wide open, offering no defense.

Ghost soldiers fear neither life nor death, evil spirits know no fear; such battles are brutal, with corpses—both those of ghost soldiers and evil spirits—quickly piling up high within the gate.

"Lin Tian, I am a Yin Department official of the Netherworld; I cannot stand by and watch. If the fortress is breached, it will be an endless war, and your plan for the Blood Sea must be executed on your own; I’m afraid I cannot help." Mu Yun clasped her hands towards Lin Tian and the other three, her expression heavy.

Lin Tian could neither stop her nor was able to stop her; if it were him, he would make the same choice.

With three parts of apology and seven parts of resolve, Mu Yun drew her thin sword and rushed towards the gate. Just as she landed, the evil spirits’ corpses inside the gate suddenly glowed red, quickly dissolving and turning into blood water.

So many corpses transformed into blood water, like a tidal wave, rushed towards the shield soldiers, with a sizzling sound, emitting countless white smoke, shield dissolved, and blood water surged through crevices, flowing under the feet of ghost soldiers.

"Ah..."

Cries of anguish sounded again and again, many shield soldiers were vivaciously corroded and melted by the blood water, and the last line of defense collapsed immediately, causing the ghost soldiers behind to retreat everywhere.

Evil spirits were about to rush into the fortress when Mu Yun shouted, revealing her Yaksha true form, black air swirling around her, she had no reservations this time, her thin sword lashed out, slicing through countless sword lights, instantly dismembering the evil spirits into fragments.

The ground also showed a deep trench, temporarily halting the spread of blood water.

Mu Yun’s sudden appearance stunned the ghost soldiers for a moment, but they quickly reacted, and the remaining shield soldiers topped again. However, Mu Yun knew this was but a drop in the ocean.

She took out the City Lord Token and loudly commanded, "Battle wagons move up immediately, form a crescent battle array in front of the city gate, strongmen transport boulders..."

This was City Lord Jia’s City Lord Token; although he wasn’t dead, Mu Yun used the city lord’s authority in advance. With the command, ghost soldiers acted again, and soon a defensive line was stacked inside the city gate.

But under the corrosion of evil spirits, the defensive line could collapse at any moment.

On two battlefields, Cavalry Group and city gate defense battle, ghost soldiers kept falling, especially in the Cavalry Group, even more fell. City Lord Jia and He Shan were capable of Divine Skills; they could just leave but chose not to.

Within the entire fortress, only Lin Tian and the other three had not joined the battle; Lin Tian’s mind raced rapidly, suddenly flickering a scene, in the Other Shore Flower sea, the four of them were besieged by the Banshees, then, the melody attracted many Banshees, if Hongling hadn’t shown up, it would have surely been a big battle.

Music! Lin Tian’s eyes flashed with light; he quickly took off his backpack, extracted the ancient zither, and placed it in front of Xiao Manxuan: "Xuanxuan, play the zither quickly."

"Play the zither?" Both women were stunned; Xiao Manxuan inquired doubtfully, "Last time playing the zither attracted more Banshees, what if evil spirits come to attack us later?"

"Evil spirits single-mindedly attack and destroy; the idea is to attract them, gathering them together." Lin Tian said coldly.

"Then what do I play?" Though Xiao Manxuan still did not fully understand, she trusted Lin Tian unconditionally, so she would do as he said.

"Anything will do." Lin Tian said sternly, his gaze intent on the distant Cavalry Group battlefield.

Xiao Manxuan gently closed her eyes for a second, then slowly opened them, her slender jade fingers swept over the strings, and the music instantly poured out, at times impassioned, at times deep, at times slow, at times fast.

"The Battle Tune of Lan Ling Wang..." Zhang Lingyu listening to the zither sound, lightly murmured a verse.

"The Battle Tune of Lan Ling Wang? Ha, quite fitting." Lin Tian chuckled lightly, he couldn’t recognize the tune, but upon Zhang Lingyu mentioning the name, he knew the origin of the music.

Legend has it that Lan Ling Wang was comely in appearance, and to intimidate enemies during battles, he donned a fierce mask to fight; in one large-scale battle, Lan Ling Wang led five hundred elite cavalry, faced ten thousand troops, successfully broke through to assist friendly forces, and subsequently routed the enemy.

Five hundred against ten thousand, even the thought is unbelievable, akin to today’s situation, only, the fortress has not yet broken through.

Lin Tian didn’t notice that when Xiao Manxuan played the zither, a fiery red flame appeared deep in her eyes.

The zither music floated out from the high city walls, spreading in all directions.

At this moment, He Shan and City Lord Jia were fiercely battling, having killed countless already, surrounded by odd soldiers fading one by one.

"He Shan, swiftly withdraw from the battlefield and support the city gate." City Lord Jia shouted loudly.

"Most of the pressure to kill enemies rests on us alone, if I leave, it’s just you, the Cavalry Group can’t hold for long." He Shan hesitated greatly, truly fearing the City Lord would suffer adverse fate.

"What nonsense are you spouting, the fortress breaches, do we still have face to live alone?" City Lord Jia rebuked untactfully.

He Shan gritted his teeth, slashed out with a blade, readying to clear the evil spirits before him and leave, only to find his blade swiped through air. Upon focus, he realized the evil spirits had ceased attacking, all standing differently.

At this moment, he vaguely heard zither music drift from the Sky, even City Lord Jia halted his Sky Halberd, cavalrymen ceased as well, finally all stopping the combat.

The inside of the city gate was the same, the defense line shaking in the wind, about to collapse, but Mu Yun and ghost soldiers felt the pressure lighten, then discovered all evil spirits stood still.

All warfare stopped, every evil spirit stood frozen, ghost soldiers looked at each other, mystified by the situation.

The bloody battlefield was transformed into a scene of tranquility, even eerily silent, while in the Sky, zither music softly resounded; the music seemed to carry magic power, penetrating souls, even incomplete-souled evil spirits couldn’t resist.

All ghost soldiers, all evil spirits, instinctively turned towards a specific place on the city wall. At that location, a maiden, like a Heavenly Immortal, concentrated on plucking the zither strings.

"How can this be?" City Lord Jia, perplexed, completely forgetting he was surrounded by evil spirits, focused only on the zither music.

"That’s... the friend Mu Yun Envoy brought!" He Shan exclaimed.

Just as City Lord Jia and He Shan remained puzzled, the evil spirits suddenly moved; the situation startled all ghost soldiers but quickly they realized the evil spirits didn’t attack but marched towards the direction of the ancient zither, as if in a pilgrimage, or like losing their souls.

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