Chapter 924: Sky-locking Great Formation

"Pass down my order: leave half the people to wipe out the Mutated Beasts army, the other half continue attacking Red Water City!"

Lin Lei angrily smoked several cigarettes in a row before finally giving the order.

Xuan Zheng said with difficulty, "Your Majesty, the order probably can’t reach every Martial Artist. The Royal City is a complete mess right now, Martial Artists from all the cities on the island have been scattered, and the City Lords can’t even contact the Martial Artists of their own cities."

Lin Lei’s mentality collapsed. He kicked the coffee table to pieces, yet still had no solution.

In fact, he understood what Xuan Zheng meant!

More than twenty million Martial Artists, you don’t know their names, don’t have any way to contact them, you don’t even know where in the Royal City they are at this moment—how are you supposed to reach them?

At this moment Lin Lei suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Right, beast meat tastes way better than grain. If we slaughter all the Mutated Beasts, wouldn’t that give us food?"

Xuan Zheng and another Eighth Realm War God, Duanmu Long, both had their eyes light up. "Your Majesty is wise!"

Lin Lei was in a great mood. "Xuan Zheng, have your son send people to watch near the west gate of Red Water City. Once the hundred thousand drugged men break into Red Water City, report immediately. After we finish off all the Mutated Beasts, we’ll go to Red Water City and clean up the mess."

"As you command!" Xuan Zheng immediately sent a telegram to his son.

...

Five thirty in the morning the next day!

Ye Xiu finally finished arranging the Formation and sat down on the ground, exhausted, to rest.

"Master..."

The long-missed voice came.

Ye Xiu turned his head to look!

He saw Jiaojiao running over, happily bouncing, with Qin Qing carrying a lunchbox behind her, and also Gong Jin and Ghost Doctor, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time.

"Master, Jiaojiao missed you so much..."

Jiaojiao threw herself into Ye Xiu’s arms, hugged his neck tightly, smiling brighter than ever.

"Jiaojiao, I haven’t seen you for a few days, how come you’ve lost so much weight? Have you not been eating properly?" Ye Xiu asked.

Qin Qing instantly looked awkward. Ever since Ye Xiu left Nameless Island, Jiaojiao hadn’t smiled again. Every day she watched her words and behavior, never saying a word more than necessary, always keeping a certain distance from everyone.

After meals she’d take the initiative to wash the dishes, take the initiative to do housework, and if she hadn’t had enough with one bowl of rice, she would ask, "May I have another bowl?" Only after Qin Qing agreed would she continue eating.

Once, Chloe joked, "Jiaojiao, you eat so much, aren’t you afraid you’ll turn into a little fatty?"

From then on, Jiaojiao only ate half a bowl at each meal, and her chopsticks never reached into the dish plates.

At first Qin Qing thought Jiaojiao was sulking and wanted to lose weight. Later she realized that Jiaojiao was worried about being disliked and didn’t dare eat more.

At the time Qin Qing’s heart ached like it was being twisted by a knife. When they ate again, she told Jiaojiao to eat more, but Jiaojiao still only ate half a bowl each meal. Unless Qin Qing took the initiative to put food into Jiaojiao’s bowl, Jiaojiao would never eat a bite more.

"No, no, Jiaojiao eats every meal." Jiaojiao said with a cheerful smile.

Qin Qing came over carrying the lunchbox and said, "Brought you breakfast. Eat it while it’s hot."

Ye Xiu nodded, opened the lunchbox, and said, "Jiaojiao, let’s eat together."

"Master eat, Jiaojiao already ate!" Jiaojiao said.

"Eat. There’s so much, Master can’t finish it alone." Ye Xiu said.

"Alright then!" Jiaojiao immediately squatted down and started eating in big bites.

Seeing this, Ye Xiu looked at Qin Qing, meaning: when I’m not around, do you not give Jiaojiao food?

Qin Qing didn’t have the heart to say it in front of Jiaojiao, so she took out her phone and sent Ye Xiu a text message.

After reading it, Ye Xiu let out a sigh. When he wasn’t around, Jiaojiao had been afraid of being disliked by Qin Qing and the others, trying hard to act more obedient and more well-behaved.

This child still doesn’t have a sense of security, still hasn’t shaken off her inferiority complex.

Actually, Ye Xiu could understand how Jiaojiao felt!

Jiaojiao had neither relatives nor family since she was little. Although she grew up in Taoism, she wasn’t welcomed by the people of Taoism.

She finally found a Master who cared about her, but she was haunted by the fear of losing him, not daring to do anything that might make Qin Qing and the others dislike her, afraid that Master would abandon her because of that.

"Master, you eat. Here, have a drumstick!"

Jiaojiao held up a chicken drumstick to Ye Xiu.

"Master has no appetite and doesn’t want to eat meat. You eat it." Ye Xiu said.

"Okay!" Jiaojiao started eating in big mouthfuls.

Ye Xiu drank his porridge and asked, "How’s the battle going?"

"The Mutated Beasts army has fully entered the Royal City. As for how many enemies they can kill, that’s hard to say." Qin Qing said.

Ye Xiu thought for a while and said, "The Eternal Kingdom no longer has any Fifth Realm, Sixth Realm, or Seventh Realm. As long as Lin Lei’s several Eighth Realms don’t make a move, then among those more than twenty million enemy troops, the strongest will only be Fourth Realm."

"The strongest ones in the Mutated Beasts army are also Fourth Realm, but they’re pure brute-force Fourth Realm, and they’re huge in size with thick skin and flesh—they can completely crush human Martial Artists of the same level."

"And besides, there are no First Grade, Second Grade, or Third Grade existences in the Mutated Beasts army—the weakest are Fourth Grade—whereas among the more than twenty million enemy troops, there are a lot of First, Second, and Third Grade Martial Artists."

"On top of that, with so many people and Mutated Beasts crowded together in the Royal City, I estimate the Mutated Beasts army can inflict extremely heavy casualties on the enemy."

Speaking up to this point, Ye Xiu hesitated slightly and said:

"It’s time to bring the global Allied Forces of Martial Artists, Heavenly Sect, Hell’s Gate, the Restorer Alliance, the Prisoners’ Descendants Alliance, the Lin Feng Corps, and the Lin Fan Corps to King Island. After they reach King Island, they’ll still operate in small groups dispersed throughout the island."

At this moment Ghost Doctor said, "Master, the enemy is all in the Royal City. Why are you having the seven armies disperse in small squads all over King Island?"

Gong Jin answered for Ye Xiu, "Even though the Mutated Beasts army can reduce part of the enemy numbers, the enemy’s overall numbers are still far greater than ours. If we gather all our forces to charge into the Royal City, even if we ultimately win this war, the seven armies would suffer enormous losses. Don’t forget we still have the powerful threat of the three Judicator Families—we can’t burn through our strength here."

Ghost Doctor questioned, "Even if we find a way to drive the enemy out of the Royal City, with that many troops, any one small squad of the seven armies they encounter would be easily crushed."

Ye Xiu said at this point, "Once the Mutated Beasts army is completely wiped out, all the Seventh Realm War Gods and Eighth Realm War Gods in Red Water City, when they have nothing to do, will go to the Royal City to kill."

Ghost Doctor’s eyes lit up. "Master means to force Lin Lei to lead his forces out of the Royal City. To avoid being slaughtered by our Seventh Realm War Gods and Eighth Realm War Gods, Lin Lei will choose to break his Martial Artist army into smaller units and scatter them across King Island?"

"He will definitely do that!" Ye Xiu said confidently.

Qin Qing, Gong Jin, and Ghost Doctor exchanged glances, realizing that Ye Xiu had already planned out everything.

Qin Qing asked, "If Lin Lei once again mobilizes his army to attack Red Water City, can your Formation hold them off?"

"Yes!" Ye Xiu said confidently. "This Formation is called the Sky-locking Great Formation. Unless more than five Ninth Realm War Gods attack the same point together, even if Lin Lei and the others exhaust themselves, they won’t be able to break it."

Hearing him say this, Qin Qing, Gong Jin, and Ghost Doctor finally felt relieved.

"Oh right, An Dongye captured alive three Eighth Realm War Gods." Qin Qing said.

Ye Xiu was shocked. "How did she pull that off?"

Qin Qing immediately recounted An Dongye’s operation in detail.

By the time Ye Xiu finished listening, his hair was standing on end. An Dongye was practically courting death. He ordered:

"Ghost Doctor, go bring those three Eighth Realms here, and call Ghost Shadow and all the intel personnel over as well."

"Got it!" Ghost Doctor immediately accepted the order and left.