Duke Li is already using extraordinary means. Yemen Pass is a town gate, and the food inside is far from enough for so many people to eat. The opposing side has one hundred thousand men, but they are the absolute brave and elite ten thousand left after occupying the city; here, there are seventy thousand troops, but they are a mix of various defending forces, and their morale is not so stable as a defeated army. Li Guanyi couldn’t help but feel amused. Language is truly a great art. Duke Li is really a bold politician, a cunning old fox. If I were just an ordinary young general, I would have been confused by the seventy thousand versus one hundred thousand, with reinforcements and feigned troops, and overwhelmed by my passionate blood. Li Zhaowen has gone to cooperate with the Duke’s Mansion troops. Li Guanyi looked at the endless Western Regions’ formations in the distance— The Shatuo Tribe is at the center. Inside Li Guanyi, Primordial Qi surged within the Nine Provinces Tripod like it was in his eyes; the Military Formation’s ominous aura seemed tangible in his gaze. The hundred thousand troops were not a single entity but each transformed into exotic beast-like ominous soldier souls. Among them, the Shatuo Tribe was the strongest, faintly exerting some control over the other military formations. Li Guanyi looked at the place where the Shatuo Tribe’s ominous aura was the heaviest and murmured: "The main general’s camp is over there." A muffled sound came from Li Guanyi’s arms; he looked down, and a cat dug its way out. "Phew, almost suffocated!" In this charge against the formation, with life and death risks, Li Guanyi took the Fire Qilin with him. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novel★fire.net During the charge, the Fire Qilin hid within the armor, spewed flames, and melted the arrows shot at them, making Li Guanyi evade countless arrows. For those Da Wan cavalry skilled in horseback archery, it was truly a nightmare. The Fire Qilin chewed for a moment and spat out a lump of iron. It was the arrow meant for Li Guanyi that it had swallowed, chewing it like a candy ball. The Fire Qilin said in frustration: "This stuff, it’s flavorless..." Li Guanyi patted Qilin’s head and said with a smile: "What flavor do you expect, do you want good fruit? Does it still have no taste?" The Fire Qilin pondered for a long time and squeezed out a sentence, saying: "Good fruit, well, that’s genuinely having fruit." "In this city, there’s truly nothing left at all." "Fruit, even the bark has been removed." "Rather than eating arrows on the battlefield, chewing iron balls and copper marbles, it’s better to go back and eat fruit!" Li Guanyi laughed and said: "Then why not quickly take out a steamed bun..." Li Guanyi’s voice paused. The Fire Qilin was puzzled, licked its paws, and said: "What are you talking about?" "Shaking Light isn’t here." Li Guanyi leaned against the arrow tower on the city wall, saying: "That’s right, she’s not by my side." "If Shaking Light were here, she could give you a steamed bun to eat." The Fire Qilin also thought of this point, although usually that dry steamed bun was not very interesting to chew on, it was now missed. "Ah, as long as she doesn’t pour honey over the burnt steamed bun for me." "Steamed buns are still quite tasty." Li Guanyi said: "Then which one is tastier, this or arrows?" The Fire Qilin struggled for a while and said: "Better to eat arrows then." Li Guanyi really wanted Shaking Light to see the Fire Qilin’s choice, imagining the girl would surely be angry, using a straight tree branch to poke it into the steamed bun, then knocking it against the Fire Qilin’s head, and the Fire Qilin would have no choice but to endure it. Li Guanyi lowered his gaze; over the past two years, Shaking Light had hardly left him. This time, amidst tens of thousands of troops, he was charging against the formation. He had the Immortal Body, so he wasn’t afraid, but Shaking Light couldn’t do so. Xiao Yuxue’s matter was like a stone pressing on his heart; he was actually very afraid of Shaking Light coming to harm. This was the only psychological shadow left to Li Guanyi by the Demon Sect Hierarch. When he was young, half of Shaking Light’s blood and marrow were extracted to purify her lineage, the pain of which Li Guanyi dared not think about. Indeed, that guy needs to be killed. "This time is to help Erlang. We are considered comrades-in-arms, life and death brothers, but if helping Erlang means putting Shaking Light in danger, I cannot do it." "Just, Erlang’s brothers’ father, eldest brother..." Li Guanyi didn’t know what to say. With Li Zhaowen’s temperament and wisdom, if not for familial ties clouding judgment, he would have already seen the intentions in Li Jianwen and Duke Li’s hearts. In the end, Li Guanyi only said: "Forget it, forget it. Their family matters, hopefully, it’s just me overthinking it." Suddenly, he heard bursts of crying and shouting from below. Li Guanyi raised his head slightly and saw below, civilians and soldiers were clashing and conflicting, making Li Guanyi frown. He tapped the Qilin. The Qilin shrank and burrowed into Li Guanyi’s cloak. Li Guanyi supported himself against the city wall and flipped down, seeing a group of civilians and soldiers confronting each other from afar. Those old civilians grabbed the soldiers’ sleeves, crying out: "General, General, are you going to leave?!" "Our houses were dismantled for stones, food was taken, you can’t abandon us and leave alone!" The squad leader seemed angry and said: "When did I say we would leave alone?" The old man said: "I see you’ve already started dismantling the camp and preparing the troops, is that not leaving early? Though I’m old, I’m not a fool." The squad leader became angry and pushed the old man to the ground. His right hand landed on the hilt of his sword, drawing an inch, and the soldiers behind also drew their weapons, creating a tense atmosphere, shouting: "Don’t disturb the people’s hearts!" But the old man just cried and shouted: "How dare I disturb the people’s hearts? General, when I was fifteen, I joined the army, three brothers of mine died, leaving only me, went through dozens of battles, gained some military merit, but then the merit was gone."