Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1741: Chapter 553: Decisive Victory, Li Yangtian’s Return

In the thirteenth year of Great Xia, on the third day of the first month, not long after nightfall

North of Jinyang City, at the entrance of Bone-Eroding Path

A raging inferno filled the area within more than ten miles of territory, while cold air from all directions was crazily invading this place. It was evident that the cold air, previously driven away by high temperature, was now filling back in.

However, it replenished at such a slow pace that it was almost indistinguishable to the naked eye.

The fire of the Ice Abyss, without continuous fuel to sustain energy consumption, would soon be completely eroded by the cold air. But what kind of fire could drive away the cold air over a territory of more than ten miles, and when the cold air refilled, do so at such a slow pace?

Simply unheard of!

“Five Elements Tribulation Qi; this is the power of a Tribulation Body Realm master! The Lord’s Holy Tripod can render the deceit techniques of people like Cai Qiu ineffective, while Cai Qiu’s Golden Bone Melting Furnace can invalidate our deception techniques. Yet they have a Tribulation Body Realm master who can create such a massive fire out of nowhere. If not for the Lord having that Fire, Gold, and Water Three-Element Blood Golden Cicada Beast Emperor Puppet, the outcome of this great battle might still be uncertain!”

Above Bone-Eroding Path, Qiu Peng looked down at the chaotic battlefield below, unable to suppress his sigh, recalling the previous great battle, his pupils full of shock and awe.

Luo Yuan stood by his side, with Lin Kai and Li Yangtian on either side, their expressions were similar to his, obviously also recalling the previous great battle.

Before dawn, Cai Qiu’s two hundred thousand troops had already completely entered Bone-Eroding Path, probably fearing that the Xia Army might pull reinforcements from Jinyang City out of the Earth-digging Realm to assist, so Cai Qianshan waited until dawn to officially start breaking the barrier.

The entrance to Bone-Eroding Path was only fifty meters wide; what could Cai Qiu achieve even with an army of two hundred thousand? This was the thought shared by everyone in Great Xia, including Qiu Peng, before the battle.

But once the battle started, they realized how naive they were!

Cai Qianshan and eight Tribulation Body Realm warriors struck simultaneously; before the battle even started, they directly smashed the mountain flanks on both sides of Bone-Eroding Path, forcefully expanding the original fifty-meter wide entrance by nearly twenty times, reaching nearly a thousand meters wide.

They saw clearly, even the Lord Xia Hong had a somewhat stunned expression at the time, obviously not expecting Cai Qiu to break the barrier in such a simple and brutal manner, catching everyone off guard.

Subsequently, Qiu Peng transferred a total of 160,000 troops from Xia City, half went to East River City, while the other half arrived at Jinyang in the latter half of the night. Combined with Yuwen Dao, Yuan Cheng, Luo Yuan, and Li Yangtian’s four routes totaling 140,000 troops, along with the 10,000 originally at Jinyang City, the Xia Army at Bone-Eroding Path’s entrance totaled 230,000.

Setting aside the strength of the troops, purely in terms of numbers, Great Xia was far superior to Cai Qiu, proving the Lord Xia Hong’s emphasis on this battle.

The fifty-meter wide entrance expanded to a thousand meters; originally, Cai Qiu’s army’s formation, at most, could accommodate less than a hundred people horizontally, now it could expand tenfold, to a scale of a thousand people.

The key is Cai Qianshan and others continued to use brute force to expand the entrance; if allowed to continue, once the entry was expanded several times more, Xia Army’s defensive advantage would be entirely lost – how could Xia Hong sit idly by?

Thus, when Cai Qianshan took action, Lord Xia Hong immediately responded.

At this thought, the four of Qiu Peng’s faces all showed a hint of guilt.

The Tribulation Body Realm battle, they had no qualifications to intervene, so to stop Cai Qianshan and his companions, they relied entirely on Xia Hong and fourteen Beast Emperor-level puppets; these people could only fight on the ground throughout.

Xianyang Level’s flying ability, a major weapon on the battlefield. Given the number of Xianyang Level in Great Xia was far less than Cai Qiu, once the battle began, the Xia Army immediately resorted to Sky-Banning measures.

However, this time, Cai Qiu was also prepared.

After Cai Qianshan broke the barrier, as Cai Qiu’s soldiers surged out like a tide, a gigantic golden furnace, ten meters in diameter and about twenty meters tall, followed slowly from the rear.

That furnace emitted towering flames tens of meters high and constantly released silver-white thick smoke wherever the smoke reached, all of Great Xia’s deception techniques also failed.

The Lord’s Holy Tripod can prohibit all others but the Xia people from using deception techniques. Cai Qiu suffered losses during the night at Jinyang City on the first day, obviously kept it in mind, hence the unveiling of this Golden Bone Melting Furnace.

However, the Lord seemed not unfamiliar with this furnace; Qiu Peng’s group only just heard the name Golden Bone Melting Furnace from Xia Hong’s mouth.

Great Xia has the Holy Tripod; Cai Qiu unveiled the Golden Bone Melting Furnace. Both armies’ soldiers were rendered unable to use deception techniques, supposedly placing them back on the same level, relying solely on brute strength to fight.

But Great Xia’s rise was very recent, and the Xia people’s control over deception techniques wasn’t abundant, even if directly compared in deception, it was far from enough against Cai Qiu.

However, Great Xia lacked deception techniques but possessed Five Elements Spirit Pill from the deceit techniques of the Five Great Masters of Dajue Temple.

Disregarding the Soul Separation Pill, there is the Golden Body Pill which enhances skin membrane defense, the Sky-Banning Pill which prohibits flying ability, including after Great Xia Beishuo, the Cold Clearing Pill that allows one to ignore pain; these three types of Dan Medicines have nothing to do with deception techniques.

Of course, Cai Qiu also had Dan Medicines, and their effects were not inferior to Great Xia’s three kinds.

Ultimately, both sides, king-to-king, general-to-general, soldier-to-soldier, divided into three tiers, fought at the entrance of Bone-Eroding Path!

Cai Qianshan, perhaps trusting the strength of his underlings too much, arrogantly ordered the army to charge once the Bone-Eroding Path’s entrance was expanded to about a thousand meters wide.