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As the new district was under construction, these areas had already moved beyond the protection of the city walls. General Lu Liu pushed the defensive troops forward, stationing them in one fortress after another as they were built.

General Lu Liu also frequently measured the land and chose areas that were easy to defend but hard to attack, erecting arrow towers and multishot arrow towers, gradually building up a series of defensive strongholds around Tianyuan City.

Night fell.

Lu Liu took out the military books purchased by the merchant caravan, many of which recorded the defensive layouts of various lords and generals for their own territories.

Lu Liu meticulously read through them, not missing a single word or sentence.

There is no trivial matter in the security of city defenses.

At the same time.

Out in the wilderness, exploratory teams and transportation teams were also active.

It was now deep into the night, the sky pitch black without moonlight or starlight, as if countless ferocious monsters lay in wait within the dark wilds, yearning to devour humans.

The wilderness at night was dangerous.

However, for the majority of Tianyuan City's elite who had already stepped into the third-order, they could move around the wilds at night as they pleased.

Dead Bone did not advocate exploring at night.

The elite needed rest, and so did the undead. It's just that some work had a time-sensitive nature and had to be done as quickly as possible, racing against time.

The 04 transport squad led by Skeleton Lord Bone Forty-Four was performing a task that required urgency.

"Quick, quick, quick."

"The Soul Shrine is just ahead."

In the darkness of the night, strands of faint blue and yellow light floated around.

Bone Forty-Four led his squad of over ten men, quickly arriving at the camp. He manifested the Deathremains Territory, laying it upon the earth. To the side, several team members hurriedly ran in, throwing out twenty or thirty monster carcasses in various manners.

All these monsters were thoroughly dead, many of the corpses incomplete.

Yet even in their incompleteness, one could vaguely make out the ferocity and brutality they had in life.

These were all high-order monsters.

Also, they were monsters that had a not insignificant possibility of possessing some intelligence.

The 04 squad had just received news of the goods and immediately rushed there, transporting these cadavers to the Soul Shrine with the utmost speed.

"We took just over two hours, these bodies should still be fresh."

In charge of this camp was also a military unit born from the undead.

Ghost Commander of the Underworld, Bai Li.

An epic strongman in the late fourth-order.

Bai Li quickly moved the goods into the Soul Shrine and chose to perform the sacrifice.

Soon, the carcasses dissipated, specks of pale blue light scattered, and eventually gathered again on the altar inside the shrine, forming a cluster of eerily blue flames.

"We've accumulated 30 points of soul power. This time, according to the list, it's time to choose a Treant Remnant Soul for exchange."

Nowadays, the exchanges mostly consisted of Treemen, Elite Musketeers, and Ice Spirits.

Occasionally, a batch of random one-star soldiers would also be exchanged.

Bai Li didn't really understand these matters; he was only responsible for guarding this place and acting as an unfeeling execution machine. He just did whatever the Rakshasa Boss told him.

Bai Li was about to proceed as per the protocol.

Suddenly,

"Rumble——"

A tremor shook the ground as deep rifts cracked open in the earth of the campsite, kicking up dust and debris.

The Miracle Building, the Soul Shrine, remained undamaged, still glowing faintly in the night.

But around it, many wooden walls had cracked, and arrow towers too burst open with eye-catching fissures, ready to collapse.

Bai Li was stunned for half a second before he let out a piercing shriek.

"Enemy attack!"

Invisible ripples spread all around.

In the darkness, pair after pair of pitch-black pupils appeared.

They were the fourth-order strongmen from the Black Crow Clan and Orochi Clan, along with a large number of high-order monsters they had summoned.

They had launched a surprise attack.

At the same time, in the office of Tianyuan City.

Lord Shepherd was still working late at night.

The alert of an attack on his territory resounded in his ear, and he switched to the Lord's perspective at once, leaping to the location of the Soul Shrine.

There, a Rare Level Watchtower also stood towering before the shrine.

Through the Lord's overhead view, Mu Yuan could clearly see hundreds of third and fourth-order monsters charging furiously from outside the camp.

"The enemies have found their way to the Soul Shrine here?"

Mu Yuan didn't immediately direct Bai Li and the others, nor did he control the arrow towers and multishot arrow towers within range.

He just watched quietly.

The shrine's guards and the 04 transportation squad, these elites who typically acted under the leadership of Dead Bone, Lu Liu, Rakshasa, and other division generals, had never encountered such an unexpected situation. Now they were a bit dazed, a bit stunned, a bit at a loss.

Their response was not as correct as it should be.

Mu Yuan was still calm, not in a hurry.

The enemies had shattered the encircling walls and stormed into the camp, vastly outnumbering the defending forces with over a hundred high-order monsters.

The leaders among them were direct lineage Fourth-order from the Black Crow Clan and the Orochi Clan.

They were commanders of formidable strength.

They quickly seized the advantage.

They toppled watchtower after watchtower, arrow tower after arrow tower, multishot arrow towers.

They gradually cornered the Undead like Bai Li and Bone Forty-Four in front of the lookout towers.

They...

They sensed something was amiss, for after such prolonged combat, it seemed they had not achieved even a single kill count, while numerous high-level firepower lay fallen at their side.

Bai Li and Bone Forty-Four, amidst the fighting, also felt that something wasn't quite right.

There were at least thirty to forty Fourth-order Bosses on the other side, but the power they exhibited seemed a bit... weak.

Or rather, were they a bit too strong?

Bai Li dared not underestimate these Peak Fourth-order monsters.

Just a short while ago, facing such monsters, he had been evenly matched.

But upon reflection, he'd only been at Third-order Peak then, and now, after undergoing a Heaven and Earth Baptism, he had advanced to late Fourth-order.

Most of his comrades had likewise stepped into the Fourth-order.

They had nothing to fear anymore.

Casting aside all reservations, Bai Li unleashed a vast Ghost Market illusion, which swiftly enveloped dozens of enemies around him.

Countering dozens of peers single-handedly was unwise, as the Ghost Market might collapse within seconds.

However...

Chapter Stay:

"The pressure doesn't seem that great?"

Bone Forty-Four abandoned caution as well, condensing the Deathremains Territory into a grinding mill of heaven and earth.

It, as if lifting a massive millstone, smashed it directly upon the monsters trapped by the Ghost Market.

Double kill! Triple kill! Eight kills in a row!

This was why Mu Yuan had no worries and did not need to command the battle.

He wanted to provide his warriors with greater opportunities to temper themselves.

Even if elites perished accidentally in battle, no matter, for they could be resurrected through the Hall of Martial Souls.

There were no concerns for what lay behind.

He looked toward the distant realms within his territory enshrouded in darkness.

As the battle drew to its close, no Legendary Realm monsters had appeared.

The commander-level strong ones sent by the Black Crow Clan and the Orochi Clan still held a bit of unwillingness in their eyes as they perished.

Indeed, there was no Legendary Realm behind them.

This place was too close to Tianyuan City.

Once a Legendary Realm acted, the likelihood of escape was slim.

Exchange a Legendary Realm for a crowd of human elites? That would be far too great a loss.

But trading a bunch of high-order monsters for human elites is no loss at all, even at two-for-one, three-for-one, or four-for-one.

The elites of the Black Crow Clan and the Orochi Clan were clear, they too were just cannon fodder.

But mere cannon fodder leaders.

Yet, if they could capture the Soul Shrine and annihilate the human elites there and then scatter to flee, escaping from the hands of a human Legend was not impossible.

Humans have but one or two Legends after all.

The result...

They died, and the Soul Shrine was not taken.

Their final struggle to exchange life for life only barely managed to slay two elites from the human forces.

A worthwhile trade or a loss? The Fourth-order Leader of the Black Crow Clan was unclear, he had already entered eternal rest.

Bai Li, looking at this batch of entirely fresh corpses, felt completely invigorated, "Quick, get all these monster corpses into the shrine."

That night, the Soul Shrine wasn't the only place under attack.

A total of six areas suffered surprise assaults from the enemy.

Among them were mines guarded by the Cat Persons and the Feathermen.

At this moment,

within the Black Crow Clan.

Several Black Crow Legends were using special techniques to tally the night's casualties.

"The number of human elites we managed to slay seems somewhat low."

"No matter, as long as the number is not zero, it's enough."

"Continue the attrition. Pawns are just dispensable to us, but for the Vitality Forces to cultivate a Third-order or Fourth-order Strongman, it takes an enormous amount of time and energy, and they also need to consider aptitude. Keep wearing them down!"

That night, the Soul Shrine was continually in operation, harvesting batches of the freshest materials.

Several corps replenished their ranks with many new soldiers.

All these were gifts from the Monster Overlords.