"Who enters, who dies!"
After finishing the arrangements, Mu Rufeng had then returned to the interior of the Demon Suppression Army.
In the rear of the Demon Suppression Army.
Long Shaoze, the Deputy General of the Army, slowly descended from high in the sky.
His expression was stern, showing no change.
But his heart was extremely restless.
The Great Xia army arrived in the early hours today.
Long Shaoze immediately had the reinforcing Great Xia troops stationed at various passes.
Meanwhile, Long Shaoze led fifty thousand of his troops out of the pass to the Mei Mountain Territory.
It just so happened that they encountered another fifty thousand strong Barbarian army coming to reinforce.
Thus, the two armies began a standoff.
Great General Han Zhen also had no news, but he believed in his own General.
Only, when he saw the Barbarian army attacking the Demon Suppression Army, he grew worried.
However, even if he wanted to help, he was powerless to do so.
The fifty thousand Barbarian troops in front of him were not a force to be taken lightly.
The sudden turn of events now baffled Long Shaoze.
But after all, it was a good thing; with the fifty thousand enemy troops annihilated, he need not have as many concerns.
"Everyone prepare for battle, form the Array!"
Long Shaoze bellowed, leading his army to directly initiate the Four Symbols Formation.
The Barbarian army, upon seeing this, was also startled and immediately started their own formation, engaging in battle with Long Shaoze.
Mu Rufeng did not know, nor did he care about the battles occurring here. He couldn't help it; he was unable to go out.
Mu Rufeng flew back to the midst of the Demon Suppression Army.
"General, how did you manage to do it? Why do you possess such formidable power?" Lv Sanshan really conceded at this moment.
He also realized that he could never surpass Mu Rufeng.
Even if Mu Rufeng's strength stalled and allowed him to catch up, Lv Sanshan had no confidence he could surpass Mu Rufeng in his lifetime.
"It's all fate," Mu Rufeng said with a smile, not explaining further.
"Too powerful, that kind of strength is almost godly, like that of demons," Wang De commented emotionally.
"When I sparred with the General, it was truly an honor to have lasted a single move," Liu Xiaoqing, ranked fourth, also remarked with feeling.
"By the way, were there any casualties during the previous battle between the two armies?" Mu Rufeng asked.
"Reporting to the General, we had ten severely injured, thirty lightly injured, but not a single death!" Lv Sanshan replied, speaking with gravity.
"Were the injured taken care of?" Mu Rufeng asked again.
"Reporting to the General, all injured have been treated, and the lightly injured soldiers have taken Elixirs to recover."
"The severely injured have also taken Elixirs and have now recovered somewhat, considered lightly injured," Lv Sanshan said.
"Mm, good," Mu Rufeng nodded, satisfied.
No deaths was good news; injuries, on the other hand, were inevitable.
It was also a relief they had plenty of Elixirs and good Equipment, or else many would have certainly died.
After all, Barbarian Soldiers were fearless of death and fought with frenzied tenacity.
Something that puzzled Mu Rufeng was why these Barbarian troops hadn't consumed the flesh and blood of their kind.
Although most had not turned into Abnormalities, they all harbored Ghost Power.
As for those at the Chiliarch level, they should have all transformed into Abnormalities.
At the same time, Mu Rufeng realized that his "get stronger by killing monsters" ability wasn't limited to just Abnormalities.
Even if a human was on the same level as him or stronger, killing them could also trigger the effect.
Like the previous fifty thousand Barbarian army—apart from the five Chiliarchs and one Commander—contributed a total of 11 attribute points to Mu Rufeng.
Time ticked by, second by second.
Twenty-four hours had passed.
And right on time, a prompt sounded in Mu Rufeng's mind.
[Congratulations player Mu Rufeng for leading the Demon Suppression Army to successfully defend Mei Mountain for twenty-four hours, second-level task complete, rewarded with 1000% completion, received Array Map: Azure Dragon Formation]
"Array Map: Azure Dragon Formation?"
Mu Rufeng didn't care about the 1000% completion; what he cared about was this Azure Dragon Formation.
Quietly lying within Mu Rufeng's Item Slot was a scroll of the Array Map.
Mu Rufeng immediately checked the properties of the Array Map,
[Array Map: Azure Dragon Formation]: A Azure Dragon Formation developed by the founding Emperor of Great Xia with many Array Masters.
Effect: Level 9 item, requires five people to form the Array, up to one hundred thousand people can form the Azure Dragon Formation, channeling the combined strength of those in the formation to Summon the phantom of an Azure Dragon.
Note 1: The more people in the formation and the higher their strength, the stronger the Azure Dragon's phantom will be.
Note 2: Can be used with the Vermilion Bird Formation, White Tiger Formation, and Xuanwu Formation to form the Four Symbols Formation for even greater might.
"Nice find," Mu Rufeng was slightly amazed.
Now with the Azure Dragon Formation Array Map, as long as he had people, he could deploy the Azure Dragon Army Formation at any time.
Then, Mu Rufeng thought of something and tried to activate the formation.
[Current people available for the formation: 10000, proceed with the Array?]
Mu Rufeng immediately understood; it was usable.
This meant that even under that rule, Mu Rufeng could still deploy the army formation with this Array Map.
However, only the Azure Dragon Army Formation could be used.
Being able to deploy it was good, as it could still enhance Mu Rufeng's strength to some extent.
[Third-stage task initiated, please immediately proceed to Mei Mountain Peak to meet with Han Zhen, follow Han Zhen's orders to learn the specific mission]
"To Mei Mountain Peak, then."
Mu Rufeng pondered for a moment and then said to Lv Sanshan and the others: "You continue to defend this place; if the Barbarian army attacks, do not stand your ground stubbornly, retreat if you can."