Published: March 3, 2025
Chapter 520: Starting to Give Up
This great battle lasted for three days and three nights.
Even with the abundant energy of golden core cultivators, they felt a bit fatigued, let alone the qi refinement cultivators.
Everyone's face showed obvious signs of weariness, and some even sat on the ground, gasping for breath, with no semblance of dignity.
Looking around, the city wall was filled with cultivators leaning this way and that, many wearing deep expressions of worry.
This prolonged battle was simply too intense for the qi refinement cultivators.
During this time, their magical power had likely been exhausted several times.
Retracting his gaze, Liu Yu shook his head slightly.
After three days and three nights, even with his profound magical power, replenished constantly with spiritual stones, he had less than 40% left.
Although due to the formation, there had been no casualties yet, the future did not look bright.
Without reinforcements, once the five elements rotation formation was breached, it would mean the death of the entire city.
"However, with the number of golden core cultivators from the three sects, it is indeed difficult to defend such a vast territory," Liu Yu thought.
As the two medium-grade spiritual stones in his hand lost their spiritual energy and turned to dust, he took out two more and silently circulated his cultivation technique to restore his magical power.
Although the beast tide had temporarily retreated, it was merely regrouping and would soon return.
The initiative was no longer in Golden Spear City’s hands, so he had to maintain his optimal state at all times and must not be careless.
At that moment, Yan Kai walked over, saluted, and reported:
"Shishu, this battle consumed a lot of spiritual stones."
In this special period, the young man spoke quickly, summarizing the consumption of spiritual stones in just a few sentences.
Just from the use of the Demonic Beast Hunting Crossbow, Divine Crystal Cannon, and other special magical artifacts, the consumption had reached tens of thousands.
While part of this was due to the intent to suppress the demonic beasts and the frequent usage, it still highlighted the cost of the war.
Such battles would not be limited to just this one!
Only a sect at the level of Yuan Ying could barely endure this; a typical golden core level power might not last through two or three such events.
This could be seen from the Sima family.
Compared to the three major sects, their use of special magical artifacts was quite conservative; they didn’t dare to unleash their full power.
Upon hearing this, Liu Yu frowned slightly.
A battle that consumed tens of thousands of spiritual stones meant that the reserves prepared by the sect for defending Golden Spear City would likely not last much longer.
Recruiting loose cultivators cost 100,000 spiritual stones, and later, the sect had provided an additional 150,000 spiritual stones, but with the current trend, it wouldn’t take long before they would be exhausted.
With a thought, he calculated how much longer the spiritual stones could sustain them and frowned, saying:
"Since the consumption is so great, we must reduce the frequency of using the Demonic Beast Hunting Crossbow and Divine Crystal Cannon to lessen the consumption of spiritual stones."
The initial frequent use was to suppress the morale of the demonic beasts and to reduce the pressure on the city defenders, allowing them to adapt.
Since they had already adapted, there was no need to consume spiritual stones as before.
"Understood!"
Yan Kai opened his mouth but ultimately could only accept the order loudly.
He knew the sect's difficulties; although this would shift all the pressure onto the city’s cultivators, there was no other way.
"Divide the cultivators in the southern city into two batches for rotation and rest, with a six-hour interval each time."
"Arrange it as soon as possible."
Gazing at the hundreds of cultivators sitting on the ground, Liu Yu’s expression calmed, and he issued the command.
Under the brutal law of the jungle and due to their physical constitution, demonic beasts had far more energy than cultivators; the next wave of attacks could come at any time, so they must be ready.