“Working overnight to develop the antidote, you’ve really worked hard. Leave this operation to us, and you should go back and rest!” Ye Gucheng stepped forward and patted the Medicine Master on the shoulder.
The Medicine Master shook his head and said, “No, one more person means one more strength. Regardless, I must go this time. Don’t worry, I’ve only had one sleepless night, and my vitality and energy are still preserved.”
Ye Gucheng sighed and nodded, “Alright, just be careful.”
While Ye Gucheng was talking to the Medicine Master, Zhuge Jin had already distributed the preventive medicine to every top-ranking member.
After all top-ranking members had taken the preventive medicine, Zhuge Jin began to command the army.
“All troops, move out!”
With Zhuge Jin’s command, the three armies set out simultaneously, attacking the main city of Yuanzhou from three directions.
The main city of Yuanzhou has four gates: East Gate, West Gate, South Gate, and North Gate.
The army from Zhongzhou was responsible for attacking the West Gate.
Led by Shen Hanbing, bronze-armed Iron Man, and Medicine Master, thirty thousand soldiers quickly arrived at the city gate.
In front of everyone appeared a locked iron gate.
This iron gate was locked by Zhuge Jin’s order to prevent zombies from leaving the city.
Shen Hanbing dismounted and slashed out with a sword, breaking the locked iron gate into pieces.
As soon as the iron gate was broken, countless zombies rushed towards them like a flood.
“Kill!”
With Medicine Master’s command, three thousand elite iron cavalry charged forward, rushing into the group of zombies fearlessly.
These three thousand elite iron cavalry all had a cultivation level of at least the seventh stage of Body Refinement, so their strength was not to be underestimated.
After rushing into the group of zombies, they acted like a sharp blade, dividing the group of zombies in half from the middle.
After the action of the three thousand elite iron cavalry, more than twenty-seven thousand soldiers followed suit and charged out.
Soon, the two sides were engaged in fierce combat.
These zombies had no sense of pain, and their vitality was exceptionally strong. No matter how many injuries they sustained, they continued to fight unaffected.
Only by cutting off their heads could they be completely incapacitated.
Fortunately, most of the zombies were formed from ordinary people infected by the corpse poison, and their individual strength was far below that of the soldiers with a cultivation level of Body Refinement.
So cutting off their heads was not difficult for the soldiers.
However, because there were too many zombies, many soldiers were bitten during the fight.
The bitten soldiers quickly turned into zombies and turned against their comrades.
For a while, various miserable cries were heard incessantly.
“Let’s join in too!”
The three top-ranking experts exchanged glances, then rushed into the group of zombies one after another, causing a scene of bloody carnage like wolves among sheep.
Shen Hanbing made the first move, unleashing a scorching sword qi that burned dozens of zombies to charcoal.
The bronze-armed Iron Man had astonishing defense. Without any weapons, he simply used his sturdy body to charge forward recklessly, smashing a large number of zombies into pieces.
In contrast, the Medicine Master appeared quite weak. Engrossed in alchemy practice, he neglected martial arts cultivation, so he was not skilled in combat at all.
In terms of speed, strength, defense, or the power of his techniques, he appeared mediocre.
Using poison was his only advantage. Against humans, he could use poison to kill invisibly. But now facing zombies, his advantage was practically useless.
In essence, because zombies were no different from dead people. So poison had no effect on them!
Although Medicine Master’s role was not significant, with the efforts of bronze-armed Iron Man and Shen Hanbing, the remaining zombies were quickly wiped out.
…
At the same time, in the central city of Zhongzhou.
Jiang Yuan woke up from his sleep and suddenly remembered something important— Shen Hanbing had been urgently summoned back.
Under normal circumstances, the Martial Arts Alliance would not casually summon top-ranking members.
But when top-ranking members were urgently summoned, it meant that something significant had happened.
Just like the last time Shen Hanbing was summoned, it was because a profound-level disaster occurred in Qingshan City.
If Jiang Yuan hadn’t arrived in time, Shen Hanbing and the other two top-ranking members might have perished there.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan couldn’t help but start to worry.
Although he had only known Shen Hanbing for a short time, he was already very clear about her personality.
She was the kind of stubborn person who would fight to the death even if she knew she was not a match.
If she encountered a powerful monster that she couldn’t defeat this time, the situation could be very dangerous.
“Should I… go and check on her?” Jiang Yuan muttered to himself.
After hesitating for a while, he lazily lay back on the bed. “Forget it, after the last strengthening, her strength has increased a lot, and she also has a heavenly-tier treasure in hand. She should be fine.”
After yawning, Jiang Yuan began to continue sleeping, trying to pass the boring time in this unconscious state.
But after closing his eyes this time, he tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep no matter what.
She couldn’t be in trouble, could she?
This thought suddenly popped into Jiang Yuan’s mind.
“Maybe I should go and check?” Jiang Yuan sat up from the bed and said to himself.
For some reason, he felt a strange worry about letting Shen Hanbing go alone. But after thinking it over, Shen Hanbing had survived many life-and-death battles before meeting him and was still living well now.
“Maybe I’m just overthinking it.”
“But what if something really happens?”
“Forget it, I’ll go check on her!”
After hesitating for half a day, Jiang Yuan finally made a decision.
He got out of bed, put on his clothes, wrapped himself in a cloak, and then left the inn.
At the same time, at the West Gate of the main city of Yuanzhou.
After eliminating a wave of zombies, the thirty thousand patrol soldiers stopped to adjust their state.
Meanwhile, the three top-ranking members from Zhongzhou gathered together to discuss countermeasures.
Medicine Master said solemnly, “Most of the areas outside the city are filled with zombies of the lower ranks, while the higher-ranked ones like corpse beasts and corpse demons are mostly in the center of the city.”
“We must lure those corpse beasts and corpse demons out so that the three city lords can focus on dealing with the Blood Curse Demon.”
After thinking for a moment, Medicine Master continued, “The best way is… for the three of us to act as bait and each lead thirty elite iron cavalry, splitting into three groups to head to the center of the city and lure out those corpse beasts and corpse demons.”
“Alright.” Shen Hanbing and bronze-armed Iron Man both nodded in agreement.
They knew very well that if they acted alone as bait, they would attract too little attention and wouldn’t be noticed.
Therefore, they needed to bring along more people to expand the bait and attract attention.
And ordinary soldiers couldn’t keep up with their speed and weren’t suitable to accompany them as bait.
So they could only let a certain number of iron cavalry accompany them as bait.
