Chapter 159: Chapter 110: Receiving 9 Cities
"Holy shit!"
I had originally thought the first city to be successfully defended would be the small City No. 1. Then, after I suddenly scored a critical summon of ten Zhong Kui, I’d thought that City No. 6 would be the first to complete its defense. I never expected that in the end, it would actually be the most difficult one, Yang City, that was the first to win its defense battle! Can you believe it!?
"Whoa!"
"Whoa!"
"WHOA!!!"
"FUCK!!!"
"FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!"
Seeing the text that appeared on their panels, the allies beside Shen Fei all leaped up in excitement.
[Ding!]
[Phase Two defense successful!]
[Ding!]
[Special City [Yang City] has been conquered!]
[Please confirm if you wish to relocate the city’s position.]
[Adjustment Range: 1,000 km]
[Please confirm within one minute. Failure to do so will be considered a choice not to relocate...]
"Let’s go!"
"Everyone, to City No. 6!"
There was no time for celebration. The war was still ongoing. With a wave of his hand, Shen Fei opened a Teleportation Gate, sending everyone on the city walls to City No. 6.
Then, he directly took control of the newly conquered special large city, Yang City. With a WHOOSH, it flew to the location he designated.
SWOOSH!
Yang City flew to the designated location, waiting for him to claim it. Shen Fei immediately followed with a Teleportation of his own, arriving at City No. 6 where the Ghost Soldiers were spawning.
"Whoa!"
"Whoa!"
"WHOA!!!"
"Why am I so damn happy!!!"
"I’m so excited!!!!"
"Holy shit, I feel like punching something!! Where are the women!!!"
Standing on the walls of City No. 6, he was surrounded by a sea of cheers. In the distance, the ten Zhong Kui, who had not yet dissipated, were chasing the last remaining Ghost Emperor.
CRUNCH!
A dozen or so seconds later, once the last Ghost Emperor in City No. 6 was torn to shreds, the personal panels of everyone on the city walls opened up again.
WHOOSH~
With a faint smile, Shen Fei waved his hand, teleporting all the ecstatic people from City No. 6 to City No. 1.
WHOOSH~
The city turned ethereal. Shen Fei also moved City No. 6 to Qing City, just waiting to be claimed!
"Awesome!"
"Awesome!"
"Awesome!"
In the blink of an eye, no one had expected that the most powerful city, Yang City, would be the first to be conquered. Neutral City No. 6 was the second.
The Heaven-Reaching Gang’s QQ group chat was blowing up! No one could have imagined it would turn out this way. The most difficult city was, contrary to all expectations, taken down the fastest.
Seven hours? Forget that!
Five hours? Forget that!
The massive army of siege NPCs for the most powerful city, Yang City, had been completely wiped out less than a minute after they appeared.
The members of the Heaven-Reaching Gang gained a whole new appreciation for just how powerful Shen Fei was. They already knew Shen Fei was as strong as a God. Now, knowing the specific details of what happened at Yang City, their understanding of what it meant to be a God had reached a whole new level.
For the Heaven-Reaching Gang members, all of whom had passed a mind screening, their worship of Shen Fei had now reached a fever pitch.
Furthermore, because of the success at Yang City and City No. 6, the morale in the other cities, where people were still fighting monsters with all their might, soared to an incredible degree. Even though in some cities the bosses were still at over half health, the people’s fighting spirit and confidence were on a completely different level.
WHOOSH~
WHOOSH~
WHOOSH~
He set up Teleportation Gates, allowing the allies from Yang City and City No. 6 to move freely between the various cities. With no time to celebrate, Shen Fei once again began moving between the remaining cities, quickly adjusting his Defense Towers and annihilating monsters.
Damn, I didn’t realize I was this strong either! To think that having over a hundred Defense Towers could trigger such a massive chain reaction! My thinking was too narrow, far too narrow... I was holding back, I was holding back!
As he quickly annihilated the bosses, looking at the smiling faces of his allies, Shen Fei was filled with emotion. Because he didn’t want the hassle of placing Defense Towers carelessly and then having trouble moving them, he usually only fought with one or two at a time. The most he had ever summoned at once was twenty, right after he inherited his second set of Tower Master equipment. He had never, in reality, summoned more than 100 Defense Towers at one time.
Earlier, startled by that Bronze Ancient Tree, he had unleashed his full power. But the situation was urgent, and the tree was killed instantly, so he hadn’t been able to gauge the true strength of 200 simultaneous attacks. Shen Fei never imagined that when 200 Defense Towers attacked in unison, the power would be so immense. The bosses and mobs in Yang City were wiped out in the blink of an eye.
Only now did he fully understand the meaning of his Invincible power!
Damn it, this makes me want to summon all my Defense Towers and just insta-kill the bosses in front of me...
Imagining the scene of all 612 of his Defense Towers deployed at once, Shen Fei forcefully suppressed the urge to summon more. Just now, aside from the 200 Defense Towers placed in Yang City, he had deployed a total of 100 Defense Towers across the other cities. This number of towers could be retrieved once he finished inheriting all the Tower Master equipment. If he deployed any more, he truly wouldn’t be able to get them back.
That wasn’t what he wanted. The ultimate destination for his Defense Towers was still the Floating Island. Although on the Floating Island, the butler, Sky Control, had his own Defense Towers to place—and no fewer than Shen Fei’s own—he still needed to deploy his own as well.
I can’t believe the small cities are actually taking the longest to clear! And the large cities, where I can place more Defense Towers, are falling the fastest! Who could have ever predicted this...
Resisting the impulse to place more Defense Towers, Shen Fei continued to slay the bosses. After conquering Yang City and City No. 6, he felt much more at ease. The scales of victory were already tipping in his favor.
"Bro! Don’t worry! The Heaven-Reaching Tower is holding steady!!"
A few seconds later, Shen Fei received a message from Sun Yu. Through the QQ group chat, he had already learned that his leader, Shen Fei, had conquered one large and one medium-sized city. Moreover, the large city they conquered, Yang City, was a very special one. While reveling in the joy of their victory, Sun Yu sent Shen Fei a message to let him know everything was okay on his end.
Originally, they had been worried that Qing City wouldn’t be able to hold out as the monster tide at the Heaven-Reaching Tower gradually intensified. Sun Yu also hadn’t expected that less than two hours after his departure, Shen Fei would have already taken down the most difficult large city. It hadn’t taken five hours at all. At this moment, although the intensity of the monster tide at the Heaven-Reaching Tower had increased several dozen times over, it was still within a controllable range. Their defensive perimeter had just been pushed back a few kilometers by the tide.
"Son! What’s going on over there!"
"Is it what I think it is???"
Before he could even reply to Sun Yu’s message, one came in from Father Shen. After giving Shen Fei the two Soldier pieces earlier, he had been coordinating with the people from the Tourism Management Office to defend against the monster tide at the Heaven-Reaching Tower. But just now, Li Yunlong had suddenly come over with two photographs.
In the photos, one was of a city nearly 10km long and wide that looked like the Gates of Hell, filled with ghostly shadows; the other was of a solemn and majestic city from the Ancient Xia Kingdom, exuding an ancient aura. These two cities had appeared in the suburbs of Qing City. Li Yunlong, having eagerly sent men to investigate the previously conquered Peter’s Castle, had been astonished to discover two new cities.
"That’s right!" Shen Fei replied with a small smile, filling his father in. "Don’t tell anyone else yet! And there’s more to come! For now, just tell everyone I haven’t gotten back to you yet!"
"Let’s do this!!!"
Disconnecting from his father, Shen Fei saw three more bosses appear ahead. His gaze hardened, and he summoned another 20 Defense Towers. These 20 Defense Towers were ’free,’ coming from the two pieces of Tower Master equipment he was wearing. Having received his father’s message, Shen Fei felt he couldn’t delay any longer and summoned them. Although it wasn’t enough to push the tower count over one hundred and trigger a qualitative change, the additional 20 Defense Towers still sped up his monster-killing pace.
[Ding!]
Soon, Shen Fei’s personal panel opened up again.
"Let’s go!"
"On to the next one!!!"
Waving his excited allies into the Teleportation Gate, Shen Fei turned back to move the newly conquered city to Qing City as well.
"Let’s move out!"
"Move out!"
"Move out!!"
At Shen Fei’s call, his excited comrades from the Heaven-Reaching Gang stepped into the Teleportation Gate. Although their own Defense Towers were already placed in the cities awaiting his claim and couldn’t be moved, preventing them from offering any assistance to their other comrades, just following Shen Fei and watching him unleash his power to annihilate bosses still made everyone blissfully happy. At this moment, no one wanted to go back and rest. Everyone wanted to stay by Shen Fei’s side.
WHOOSH~
WHOOSH~
WHOOSH~
Leading the crowd, Shen Fei began his harvest.
[Ding!]
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[Ding!]
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[Ding!]
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[Ding!]
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Time passed. Shen Fei’s personal panel opened again and again. The number of idle Heaven-Reaching Gang members following him, their own cities now conquered, grew larger and larger.
WHOOSH~
Half an hour later, as the boss of the last medium-sized city was slain, Shen Fei had finally finished conquering all the Neutral Cities within Qing City’s range.
"Back!"
With a wave of his hand, he stepped into a Teleportation Gate. Shen Fei led the group from the Heaven-Reaching Gang back to Qing City.
"Claim!!"
Back in Qing City, Shen Fei’s first stop was, of course, the large city, Yang City. He gave a faint smile to his excited allies around him. With a wave of his hand, he led the way through the gates of Yang City, which had already been moved to the northern suburbs of Qing City.
WHOOSH~
As he stepped through the gates, lines of text scrolled across his panel.
[Name: Yang City]
[Type: Large City (Special)]
[Initial Size: 20km x 20km]
[Heart of the City HP: 1,000,000 / 2,000,000]
[Wall Durability: 5,000,000]
[City Shield Durability: 10,000,000]
[City’s Sanctuary: Monsters will not spawn inside the city, and the monster spawn rate is reduced within a 100km radius of the city.]
[Ancestral Blessing: Worshipping the ancient ancestors can summon a mysterious sacrificial totem that unleashes a powerful blessed attack. Can be used in conjunction with ’Ancient’ Divine Text.]
[Righteous Might: Embodies the vast, righteous aura of an ancient kingdom. Upright, majestic, and solemn, it can awe the cosmos and restore order from chaos.]
[Ancient Divine Text: A unique power of words. Currently activated characters: [Yu], [Fa], [Jie].]
[Favorable Weather: The probability of abnormal weather and the outbreak of special Domains is reduced in the area where the city is located.]
[Regional Hub: A special effect of large cities. Can be used as the center to establish special districts. (Currently unavailable)]
[Slave Control: Can link to medium and small cities to build an affiliated slave army!]
[Affiliated Buildings: None]
[Other: None]
[Status: Awaiting Claim, Not Activated]
Shen Fei walked forward, quickly reviewing the Yang City Attributes that had automatically appeared on his panel. Stepping past the city walls, his view was filled with all sorts of buildings, like grand halls, barracks, and farmland. Spanning a full 20km in length and width, Yang City’s internal space was enormous. Since he was in a hurry, after glancing at the vast space beyond the walls, Shen Fei didn’t venture too far inside. He clicked on the attribute that interested him, [Ancient Divine Text], and took a look.
Then, Shen Fei instantly claimed Yang City. As for the City Lord, he, of course, was the only one for the job.
[Ancient Divine Text - [Jie]: Builds leaning palaces, decorates jade terraces, erects jade gates, creates pools of meat and forests of wine...]
After quickly claiming Yang City and seeing a new city Attributes tab appear on his personal panel, Shen Fei casually clicked to inspect the ’Jie’ character of the Ancient Divine Text. Unfortunately, he couldn’t make heads or tails of it.
WHOOSH~
WHOOSH~
WHOOSH~
Stepping out of Yang City, Shen Fei quickly moved to the next city. Then, in quick succession, he claimed the remaining nine cities in one go.
WHOOSH~
The nine cities, which he had intentionally arranged in a lotus formation around the center of Qing City, were activated at the same instant. A massive Nine-Star Array materialized out of thin air, appearing in the dawning sky.
VWOMP~
Shen Fei didn’t even have to do anything. The moment the giant Nine-Star Array appeared, it instantly contracted. Then, transforming into a mysterious hundred-meter-wide pattern, it merged directly into the Heaven-Reaching Tower, which stood encircled by all the cities.
