Whoos.h.!.+

An arrow that was five feet long was shot out of a ballista into the army with an earsplitting noise covered in a yellow glow. It penetrated four soldiers, and its remaining power was still great enough to stab the fifth soldier's chest!

Pew!

A soldier on a camel waved his long spear and cut the artery on the neck of another soldier who was holding a long spear on a camel. He dragged the enemy to the ground while blood gushed out of his neck, before he pressed his spear down!

Pa!

However, the tip of a bloodstained spear popped up on his own chest too, and then he was knocked to the ground by another soldier.

It was a battle that looked very brutal.

There were more than ten thousand people who were injured or dead on the ground.

So much blood had been spilled that it gathered into dark red pools in certain places on the ground.

Many people even rolled in the pools of blood and fought each other after they fell to the ground.

“Can someone tell me what's going on?”

On the towers of the wall of Xiangyang City, the battle partic.i.p.ants from the settlements from the southwest province were confused.

It was because the two parties that were fighting brutally were both wearing the clothes of Yuan, and they were fighting around the Yuan camps.

“Why are the Yuan people suddenly fighting each other?”

With the giant panda that was wearing an Iron Man suit and the players from her own settlement standing next to her, Han Meimei was rather confused.

Speaking of which, the Twin Dragon Mount fort had gained a lot of advantages from the natives of Xiangyang City as the first settlement to enter the Battlefield of Providence.

Han Meimei's “Emei” settlement, as the second to arrive, had made some achievements too. Not only did they acquire certain Extraordinary resources from the Heartless Valley by reaching there sooner than the Twin Dragon Mount fort, but they had also set up an alliance of southwestern players to share information with each other!

“I've figured out what's going on!”

Then, a player from this alliance emerged from the moat.

After that, he was pulled up to the top of the wall with an elevator.

“The Yuan emperor scolded the East King for trying to a.s.sa.s.sinate and oust him and sent soldiers to attack the East King!

“The officers and battle partic.i.p.ants under the East King's command counterattacked. Then, the two parties had a total war… Now, even the South King's troops are involved too!”

Then, he breathed heavily and informed the alliance of players of what he learned.

“Is that so? We're truly lucky!”

Most of the battle partic.i.p.ants were greatly delighted.

After all, Yuan had four times more troops than Song did. They weren't confident even though they had advantages as defenders.

However, the three leaders of Yuan turned out to be having an internal fight, so the players on Yuan's side would be greatly weakened.

“Yuan emperor and a.s.sa.s.sins… Is the Twin Dragon Mount fort behind this?”

Deep in thought, Han Meimei, however, looked at the players and heroes who were around Guo Jing on the city wall.

Five days earlier, the Yuan emperor had declared that he would start attacking Xiangyang City on the next day.

But exactly on that night, the Water Margin heroes of the Twin Dragon Mount fort attacked the Yuan camp with Guo Jing and a.s.sa.s.sinated the Yuan emperor.

Ever since then, the Yuan royal palace had been thoroughly defended, and n.o.body was allowed to enter or exit. Even the East King and the South King were blocked by the Iron Buddhas when they tried to visit the emperor.

Naturally, the attack on the city was delayed.

On this day, the Yuan emperor finally showed up again, yet the first thing he did was not to attack Xiangyang for revenge. Instead, he attacked the East King, claiming that he was a.s.sa.s.sinated!

She felt that the Twin Dragon Mount fort must be behind this.

To be more exact, Ji Ye must be behind this!

It was because the Shadow a.s.sa.s.sin leader who attempted to kill them back in the inn wasn't executed on the spot but was taken to a wagon by Ji Ye.

Ji Ye even processed the bodies of the Shadow a.s.sa.s.sins so that the Yuan people wouldn't notice anything wrong with the bodies.

Also, Han Meimei hadn't seen Ji Ye for days ever since the night of the a.s.sa.s.sination incident.

“Where has he been?”

“Protect His Majesty!”

On the battlefield, the leader of the Iron Buddhas cried out and blocked the silver light that a hero from one of the Yuan people's settlements shot out from a long distance away!

“Those on the opposite side, listen up. The East King conspired with the Song people and attempted to a.s.sa.s.sinate His Majesty. We have valid evidence to prove his rebellion. If you drop your weapons and capture the East King alive, you can still be pardoned, or you will be executed, and your families will be enslaved!”

Another Iron Buddha roared at the opposite side with a piece of the Sonic Bow.

At the very center of the tens of thousands of soldiers, in the battle formation of the Iron Buddhas who established s.h.i.+elds, the Yuan emperor, who was riding the Celestial Wolf King, was pale with bandages on his neck and chest.

However, there was a hint of “excitement” hidden in the indifferent eyes under his helmet!

“It really worked!”

Ji Ye had every reason to be excited.

After all, his “bold idea” really worked.

That's right. Ji Ye's bold idea was not to a.s.sa.s.sinate the Yuan emperor; it was to possess him.

That night, after he and Guo Jing led the Yue Army and heavily wounded the Yuan emperor, Ji Ye transferred his soul into the “Soul Mask” with Ninth Uncle's help and controlled the Shadow a.s.sa.s.sin leader's body to sneak back to the Yuan camps that were still chaotic.

He had to enter the camps with his own soul partly because it was impossible to use the Soul Mask over a long distance for a long time due to the limitation of mental strength, and partly because he needed to carry the Soul Cutter, which had gathered so many souls on the battlefield that its next attack would be as powerful as Extraordinary Rank-8!

The Yuan emperor was a peak Extraordinary Rank-7 expert, and he was closely protected by the Iron Buddhas who were all above Extraordinary Rank-5.

Even though he had been heavily wounded, thorough preparations must be made in order to kill him.

In fact, not just the Soul Cutter, Ji Ye had attacked the Yuan emperor's Celestial Wolf King earlier exactly because the Extraordinary Rank-7 mount had such keen senses that it was impossible for the Shadow a.s.sa.s.sin to reach the Yuan emperor without killing it!

In addition, when Ji Ye slapped the Yuan emperor, he filled all the Dragon Aura inside his body into the Yuan emperor. The Dragon Aura was so domineering that even the Yuan emperor couldn't get rid of it quickly.

Ji Ye, on the other hand, could track down the Yuan emperor with the Dragon Aura!

Everything was part of the plan. He had really gone through a lot of trouble.

In the end, thanks to Gongsun Sheng's cooperation, he finally directed an a.s.sa.s.sination that seemed unsuccessful.

On the surface, it seemed that the Shadow a.s.sa.s.sin leader attempted to kill the Yuan emperor who was gravely wounded under the East King's instruction so that the emperor's death could be blamed on the Song people. Yet, the Yuan emperor “killed” the a.s.sa.s.sin, but his chest was pierced by a sharp blade, and he fell into a coma.

Of course, because the torches were half put out, n.o.body noticed that when the Shadow a.s.sa.s.sin leader pierced his long saber into the Yuan emperor's back, a black mask dashed from the Shadow a.s.sa.s.sin into the Yuan emperor at the same time.

The full name of the Soul Mask was “Soul Prisoner's Mask”.

One of its features was that it could transform a person into what the target looked like.

Another feature was that it could obtain memories from the target's soul pieces by caging and torturing the target so that the impersonation could be flawless.

Of course, the more important reason for the successful impersonation was that this place was the Battlefield of Providence, and everybody was essentially communicating telepathically. There were no linguistic barriers at all.

Therefore, he didn't have to pretend that he was mute and deaf, like what the Eagle Man Commander did before, and he could completely control the Yuan emperor's army!

The enemy's boss is our undercover agent.

How could Ji Ye possibly fail the Battlefield of Providence?