Chapter 119: The Battle Begins
“We’ll dig the trenches like this. If our soldiers encounter a blood curse, they can simply hide in another different area. As long as we lure the Shamans into the trenches, we can weaken their advantage. What we need to do right now is buy time—as long as we don’t get crushed by their first wave, we’ll have a chance!”
Yun Feifei and Xu Wan’er still had questions. What if the Shamans refused to enter the trenches? They could just stand on top of the trenches and attack the troops from there, couldn’t they? But before they could voice their questions, Wei Yuan declared, “It’s settled! Let’s get started!”
Confused or not, Wei Yuan had already made up his mind. Yun Feifei and Xu Wan’er had no choice but to comply. Perhaps the high cultivator from the Palace of Absolute Beginning had his own reasons for choosing this course of action.
Following Wei Yuan’s orders, the women gathered all the bodyguards who had defected and assigned tasks to each of them. The dozens of cultivators were just as baffled by the orders as the ones who were issuing them, but they too assumed that a high cultivator from the Palace of Absolute Beginning had his own reasons. Thus, they obediently set out and started digging the trenches.
Looking at Xu Wenwu’s thin, frail body, he decided against commanding him to join the bodyguards and said, “Stay here and think carefully. See if you can come up with more useful stuff.”
Overwhelmed by Wei Yuan’s apparent trust in him, Xu Wenwu hurriedly took a seat and racked his brains for something.
Wei Yuan rose into the sky and saw nearly a hundred cultivators scattering across the area and digging with all their might. Not even the Dao Foundation stage cultivators were exempted from the task. Yun Feifei and Xu Wan’er were sparing no Dao energy to dig up the ground as well; moving a block of earth about a zhang wide with every cast of a Dao spell.
The Shamans’ ordinary fighters were swift and nimble. In marshlands, they could even stick close to the water and fly. They were most adept in curses and poisons, and weak in terms of physical strength. Drawing them into the trenches would effectively restrict their speed and force them to fight the human warriors in tight, narrow spaces. That was the reason he had used to convince the women that the work was useful.
In reality, there was another reason he ordered the trenches to be dug. It was because he discovered that the bodyguards were growing restless. At the beginning, Wei Yuan had managed to persuade them to join him by appealing to their patriotism and intimidating them with his power. However, enough time had passed that their resolve began to waver, and memories of the Xu Clan’s power and cruel methods had begun to surface in their minds. Already, some of them were whispering among themselves and discussing escape plans.