"Oh, looks like our newly promoted grand elder is not doing well," Feng said with a sly, mocking smile on her face.


    Yang Jing looked at the woman with a frown on his face, his expression grim.


    "Help me, woman. Take this man with the katana, and I will take care of the wood guy," hemanded, immediately charging towards Lu Ming with his saber.


    "When did I start to take orders from you?" Feng grumbled in her heart and looked at Fang Ying just as he was about to intercept Yang Jing.


    She whipped her whip, and it immediately lengthened, reaching Fang Ying in an instant, halting him from continuing.


    As the whip cut the path of Fang Ying, he could hear the faint sound of wind being torn, effortlessly breaking the sound barrier.


    "If I hadn''t stopped, I would have to give up ayer of skin," Fang Ying thought with some fear in his heart, looking down at where the whip hadnded.


    The ground caved in, forming almost two small hills from the sheer force it had exerted, creating a canyon in the middle at least fifty metres deep.


    "Hey, why are you so distracted?" Feng smirked, taking back her whip, which instantly became small until it reached her.


    "This will be troublesome…" Fang Ying grumbled in his heart, with narrowed eyes.


    Lu Ming and Yang Jing were also fighting at the moment.


    Although Lu Ming didn''t have much advantage in a head-on confrontation, all hisbat arts were sneaky and had more vitality.


    Yang Jiang looked at this with a frown on his face.


    Whenever he shed with his saber, Lu Ming would instantly use the vast vitality to avoid the blow, sneaking around and using the forest as his home ground from all sides.


    Seeing this, he couldn''t help but feel frustration and headache.


    "Moon sh!" he roared, gathering all his Qi and shing his saber in a 360-degree angle.


    Boom!


    All the trees that surrounded him for ten kilometres were instantly destroyed. However, Yang Jiang didn''t have a satisfied expression, as Lu Ming was nowhere to be found.


    "You bastard," Yang Jiang muttered, feeling helpless at the moment.


    Lu Zhen looked down at the fight urring in the sky and on the ground with a cold expression.


    Although the four were fighting at a considerable distance from the city gates, Lu Zhen could clearly perceive the long distance as if he were watching the entire fight right next to them as a spectator.


    "Hmm, the male''s aura is still a little chaotic, and his moves are still unfamiliar. Just like ancestor Lu, if my guess is correct, then he should have also recently broken through to mid-first-stage martial arts. As for the woman with the whip, her movements are natural and firmly stable, just like Fang Ying. They must both be veterans," Lu Zhen spected in his head.


    "Leader, the army is approaching."


    Lu Zhen was awakened by Zhang Shi''s voice. The other soldiers and generals beside him were all filled with apprehension and fear, looking tentatively at the massed army.


    No matter how brave one is, facing an army that seems to stretch infinitely will inevitably cause them to falter!


    "I can see," Lu Zhen replied, observing the countless soldiers in ck armour firmly approaching the wall.


    He looked towards the horizon and could still see the soldiers stretching into the distance.


    "How terrifying," Lu Zhen muttered with a strange tone. The soldiers appeared as tiny ck dots from the tall wall, but Lu Zhen wouldn''t underestimate their power.


    Taking a deep breath, he calmed down instantly. "Set up the weapons," hemanded.


    Lu Zhen returned back casually, jumping from the high wall into the ground, creating a huge crater as if a meteorite had crashed into the ground.


    The soldiers immediately started to set up weapons on the top of the wall, revealing ten cannons all targeted at the approaching army.


    As Lu Zhennded, his women approached him with curious expressions on their faces.


    "Young master, why are you using these weapons?" Lily asked.


    "You will know in a bit," Lu Zhen said with a mysterious smile. The cannons lining the walls weremon weapons in mortal warfare, but their purpose here was not to kill the enemy directly; rather, they were meant to destroy the walls.


    In the realm of martial arts battles, such weapons held little significance. So Lily''s confusion was understandable, echoed by the curious expressions of Xia Mei and the others as they observed the cannons on the wall.


    Behind them stood an army of thousands, their bows strung with arrows, radiating a palpable killing intent.


    Some were veterans of the initial Lu Family, now part of the imperial forces under Lu Zhen''s leadership, while others were newly recruited and trained soldiers.


    Lu Zhen cast a nce at his ten generals, d in ck armour forged from the strongest metal avable in the city.


    This armour was highly conductive to Qi, enhancing the flow of energy within their bodies. In contrast, the rest of the army wore yellow armour, slightly less potent but still formidable.


    He himself wore a suit of golden armour adorned with intricate dragon symbols, a perfect match for his tall and imposing stature.


    While the armour appeared majestic, it differed in quality from the others; instead of being highly conductive to Qi like the ck armour of his generals, his was crafted from thousand-jin shadowless steel.


    Traditionally, this type of steel was renowned for its heaviness, but its conductivity to Qi was significantly lower.


    However, this posed no issue for Lu Zhen, given his monstrous physique. The nearly ten-ton weight of the armour didn''t burden him as it might others and suited him quite well instead.


    As the army continued its march, they drew closer to the wall, now only ten kilometres away, fully equipped and armed for battle.


    "Leader, they have arrived," Zhang Shi reminded, with sweat dropping down from his forehead.