We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real?-Chapter 389: Looks Like Heaven Wants Me Buried Here

The next day, Qin Jingsu led two hundred thousand troops to Rainbow Cloud City to garrison it.

These two hundred thousand were all Northern Wasteland elites that Xiao Mo left to Qin Jingsu.

Many of them were soldiers who had once held Yanmen Pass to the death alongside Xiao Mo, and they had abundant experience in defending a city.

As for Xiao Mo, he led the rest of the great army and charged straight for Jade Zither City!

Although Xiao Mo and Qin Jingsu did not set a deadline, Xiao Mo knew Qin Jingsu would exhaust every last ounce of strength to hold the city, and Qin Jingsu also believed Xiao Mo would use every possible method to accelerate the taking of cities.

After the ruler of Jin learned of Xiao Mo’s deployment, there was a trace of panic in his expression.

But the ruler of Jin also knew that, for him, this was an excellent opportunity!

The ruler of Jin sternly ordered Jade Zither City and the other cities to stall Xiao Mo’s army at all costs, then commanded the feudal lords’ armies from all directions in Jin to attack Rainbow Cloud City!

If they could take Rainbow Cloud City and kill Qin’s Crown Prince, then encircle Xiao Mo’s great army—

then Qin would truly be finished!

But many things sound good when you think about them. When you actually try to do them, they are difficult.

Xiao Mo’s great army was like a razor-sharp spear. In less than half a month, it pierced through Jade Zither City and surged toward Vast Expanse City.

At the same time, during the period when the Crown Prince Qin Jingsu held Rainbow Cloud City, he ate and lived with the soldiers, guarding the city day and night without the slightest negligence.

And because the Crown Prince personally led the army, and the force he brought was two hundred thousand elites, everyone in Rainbow Cloud City, from top to bottom, was of one mind.

Not to mention that they all knew what Rainbow Cloud City meant, so almost everyone had already prepared to die here.

Only, as the feudal lords from all across Jin arrived, the pressure Qin Jingsu faced grew heavier and heavier.

This siege defense battle that nearly decided the fates of the four states made those feudal lords attack at any cost.

No matter how many died, as long as they could grind away even a fraction of Rainbow Cloud City’s City-Guarding Grand Array, that was good.

Two months later, Xiao Mo led the great army to within thirty li of Jin’s imperial capital!

Jin’s court fell into panic. No one had imagined that Xiao Mo’s advance could be this fast.

Once again, a surrender faction appeared in Jin’s court.

But most of Jin’s ministers still had backbone.

The voices of surrender were immediately suppressed.

The ruler of Jin ordered that they defend the city until the last moment!

Xiao Mo had never thought the ruler of Jin would surrender in the first place.

Xiao Mo camped on the spot, rested for one day, and discussed siege tactics with the commanders in the army.

The next day, Xiao Mo personally led the great army to assault the city.

On the other side, beneath Rainbow Cloud City, after the feudal lords of Jin conferred, they launched a renewed general assault on Rainbow Cloud City.

Both sides fought for every heartbeat, terrified of being one step too late.

Under Xiao Mo’s unceasing attacks, the City-Guarding Grand Array of Jin’s imperial capital had already been worn down a great deal. During that time, Xiao Mo even staged a false defeat once.

The ruler of Jin, who had been pressed and beaten the entire time, thought he had finally won, that he had broken Xiao Mo’s unbeaten myth, and he was delighted.

So the ruler of Jin decisively ordered pursuit.

And he fell straight into Xiao Mo’s ambush.

Xiao Mo not only slaughtered Jin’s army into a rout, he even used the opening to smash a gap into Jin’s City-Guarding Grand Array.

Yet Xiao Mo gave Jin no chance at all to repair that gap.

Day and night, Xiao Mo continuously directed the great army’s assaults, tearing the gap wider and wider.

“Just a little more. Just a little more!”

Xiao Mo’s bloodshot eyes locked on the battle atop the walls, and he could not help clenching the long spear in his hand.

Give him just half a month more, and he would be able to break Jin.

This time, he ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) could not leave Jin’s imperial house alive.

Because Jin had not been fully brought under control.

Only if the entire imperial house died would those feudal lords be unable to be twisted into a single rope.

They would be like scattered sand, and he could pick them off one by one.

And after taking Jin’s imperial capital and exterminating Jin’s imperial clan, he would immediately ride to relieve Rainbow Cloud City!

But on Rainbow Cloud City’s side, the situation was no longer as optimistic as before.

Qin Jingsu did not make a single mistake.

He closed the gates and did not go out. He simply held.

No matter how the enemy provoked him, it was useless.

But what Qin Jingsu had not expected was that Rainbow Cloud City’s City-Guarding Grand Array would be this weak.

As one of the important passes, Rainbow Cloud City’s City-Guarding Grand Array should not have been so fragile.

And at the time, Rainbow Cloud City had not even been attacked by Qin. The city lord himself abandoned the city and fled.

Who would have thought that the formation array had gone unmaintained for years? Even if it was not completely wrecked, it was like an old sword rusted over!

And at the time, the advance had been too urgent. Moreover, no one had expected the Zhao battlefield to collapse, forcing the Jin battlefield into a life-and-death gamble.

So the great army had only stayed in Rainbow Cloud City for a single day before continuing the march. They did not inspect the grand array at all!

Now Qin Jingsu also understood why the previous city lord of Rainbow Cloud City had abandoned the city and fled, even running in the direction of the demon-race domain.

The root cause was that the spirit stones and heavenly materials and earthly treasures used to maintain the City-Guarding Grand Array had all been embezzled by him. So he simply ran for it!

After learning this, even though Qin Jingsu was furious, he still set detailed strategies, doing everything he could to reduce the grand array’s wear.

But five days later, the grand array was broken all the same.

The moment Rainbow Cloud City’s grand array shattered, the feudal lords of Jin surged forward in excitement as if they had scented blood!

They craved the Crown Prince of Qin’s head!

That was supreme merit!

Qin Jingsu knew it could not be done. He led the remaining one hundred fifty thousand troops out of the city to fight!

But the enemy’s numbers were more than four times Qin Jingsu’s, and their count of upper-realm experts was far greater as well.

After two days and two nights of battle, Qin Jingsu led the army back into Rainbow Cloud City.

Qin Jingsu broke the army into small units and carried out constant skirmishing raids throughout Rainbow Cloud City against Jin’s army.

This method of Qin Jingsu’s did indeed delay Jin’s army effectively.

But unfortunately, Rainbow Cloud City was still too small.

And after Jin’s army gained control over Rainbow Cloud City’s City-Guarding Grand Array, although the grand array was shattered, through the modification of formation masters it could still serve the function of searching for enemy forces!

Three days later, Qin Jingsu knew it could not be done. He led the army to withdraw from Rainbow Cloud City.

Qin Jingsu planned to fall back to Jade Zither City and continue to hold the city.

But how could Jin’s army possibly give him that chance?

Jin’s army chased like mad, launching several encirclement-and-suppression operations against Qin Jingsu.

Even though Qin Jingsu broke out successfully every time, the losses were grievous.

Out of the original two hundred thousand soldiers, only thirty thousand remained.

“Where is the place ahead?” Qin Jingsu asked weakly of the deputy general beside him.

“Reporting to you, General—ahead is a plain in Jin called Book Ridge,” the deputy general answered.

“Book Ridge... Su Tomb.”

Qin Jingsu smiled.

“Looks like Heaven wants me buried here.”