"This is a decision and a sacrifice that is destined to be great. You will become a great man in Yuzhang City's history, and I will just be a passerby in Yuzhang City. You are really smart, Ju Wudao. You took away my chance to go down in history. I hate you so much. I wish I was the one who opened the Void Gate!"
This was what Liu Lei said at Ju Wudao's memorial service in the future. It was also something that moved countless people to tears!
Gu Han believed that although it only took his master and Ju Wudao one or two seconds to decide who would be the sacrifice, they had used countless ways to convince each other to be the sacrifice. Although the two old men always bickered and talked trash to each other, they must have been the best of friends in their lives. They had supported each other to get to where they were today, but now, they had to be separated forever. Gu Han believed that his master and Ju Wudao had only used one or two seconds to decide who would be the sacrifice.
After Sword Immortal Baiju left, Yuzhang City only had Liu Lei as an immortal sword wielder. Coupled with the upcoming Difficult Sword Era, Yuzhang City would probably enter its most bleak time.
Of course, these were all in the future. The most important thing now was what was the situation in Yuzhang City?
Why did a large group of people appear in Yueyang Fortress, which was two hundred kilometers away from Yuzhang City?
The Pleated Sword Spirit continued to explain.
Although Ju Wudao used his life to open the Void Gate and brought Loki and the power of the Creation Divinity into the world of the Void Gate.
But this couldn't control Loki for a long time.
As the controller of the Creation Divinity, Loki shouldn't be attacked by the Creation Divinity. Otherwise, he wouldn't have the guts to activate the Creation Divinity himself.
Loki was also a Universe Level Yuan Kou, and he also had the ability to travel through the Void Gate. Although Ju Wudao would definitely go as deep as possible after bringing Loki into the Void Gate so that Loki wouldn't be able to find the correct exit coordinates of the Merlin Mountain Range for a while, this could only buy him a little more time. Maybe it would only take ten minutes for Loki to return to this world.
Therefore, after Ju Wudao's death, Liu Lei forcibly controlled his emotions and began to command the three troops to retreat to the quantum teleportation array that they had used to come to Yuzhang City, attempting to return to Yuzhang City through the quantum teleportation array.
Because Loki had withdrawn the elites of Yuan Kou in advance, they did not encounter much hindrance when they returned to the vicinity of the quantum transmission array … But when they arrived at the transmission array, something terrifying happened!
The quantum teleportation array had actually been activated!
An endless stream of Yuan Kou was being transported into Yuzhang City through the quantum teleportation array!!!!
This discovery almost caused Liu Lei to collapse on the spot.
When the quantum teleportation array was developed by humans, they had considered the loophole of Yuan Kou using the quantum teleportation array to launch a surprise attack on humans.
Therefore, humans had made sufficient preparations for the quantum teleportation array.
First, the quantum teleportation array was equipped with Yuan Kou detection equipment. Once Yuan Kou was detected, the core equipment of the quantum teleportation array would automatically lock down. Without a 126-digit password, it was absolutely impossible to restart the quantum teleportation array.
Second, the quantum teleportation array was guarded by sword-bearers all year round. Once they discovered that Yuan Kou was approaching and they could not deal with it themselves, they would leave through the quantum teleportation array and lock it down at the same time.
Third, the quantum teleportation array was equipped with a manually controlled self-destruct device. If the guarding sword-bearers discovered that there were a large number of Yuan Kou, then after careful consideration, they would directly activate the self-destruct device while retreating. Just like when the Pleated Sword Spirit retreated from Yueyang Fortress, he had directly activated the self-destruct device.
Fourth, there were also sword-bearers at the other end of the quantum teleportation array who were responsible for the same task. Once the defensive measures on the other end were completely ineffective, they would immediately shut down the quantum teleportation array the moment they saw Yuan Kou teleporting in, or directly destroy the quantum teleportation array. All in all, humans had set up almost perfect safeguards. In the ten years since the quantum teleportation array had been in use, there had never been a case of Yuan Kou teleporting to the other side through the quantum teleportation array.
But now, the security of the quantum teleportation array had been breached. A large number of Yuan Kou had actually teleported directly into Yuzhang City through the quantum teleportation array. This was a devastating discovery. Yuzhang City's dimensional barrier had completely lost its effect, and the ordinary humans in Yuzhang City would inevitably suffer extremely heavy losses. This was something that Yuzhang City had never imagined. One could imagine that Yuzhang City was now in an abyss of suffering.
When Liu Lei saw this scene, he almost died of anger. He immediately ordered his troops to clear out Yuan Kou at the entrance and re-occupy the quantum teleportation array … However, the location of the quantum teleportation array had gathered almost all of Yuan Kou's troops. It was easier said than done to clear out Yuan Kou near the quantum teleportation array.
After fighting for about ten minutes, not only did humans not get close to the quantum teleportation array, but they also suffered heavy casualties. After hundreds of sword-bearers died, Liu Lei could only make a prompt decision. He used his personal terminal to control the quantum teleportation array to self-destruct.
After seeing the quantum teleportation array destroyed, Liu Lei's heart ached. He regretted not having made this decision earlier. Based on the speed of teleporting a hundred people per minute, there would be a thousand Yuan Kou entering Yuzhang City through the teleportation array in ten minutes. How many ordinary humans would these one thousand Yuan Kou kill?
This was a painful thing to think about. Because of Liu Lei's decision, at least tens of thousands of people would not have to die!
Destroying the quantum teleportation array made it impossible for Yuan Kou to enter Yuzhang City, but at the same time, the sword-bearers' troops couldn't quickly return to Yuzhang City through the teleportation array either. At this time, the sword-bearers' retreat route was almost surrounded by Yuan Kou. Therefore, Liu Lei made a prompt decision and ordered his troops to retreat, trying to return to Yuzhang City on foot.
However, at this moment, the direction to Yuzhang City was the place with the most Yuan Dans, and Liu Lei could feel that there was a Universe level Yuan Dans that were staring at him from the shadows. The two of them had locked onto each other's auras, and if one of them made the first move, the other would definitely retaliate. Therefore, Liu Lei didn't dare to open a path for the human … Even if Liu Lei opened a path, he didn't have a large area of effect attack. Facing hundreds of thousands of Yuan Dans, Liu Lei wouldn't be able to open a path.
Therefore, the troops could only retreat to the area where Yuan Kou was the weakest. Yuan Kou chased after them, tightly guarding the path to Yuzhang City, making it impossible for the human army to return to Yuzhang City. Gradually, the troops began to advance towards Fort Yue Yang. Liu Lei knew that Yuan Kou was trying to work together with the Yuan Kou of Fort Yue Yang to completely surround the humans and annihilate Liu Lei's troops.
Liu Lei even noticed that ten thousand Yuan Silhouettes, which were the fastest among the Yuan Silhouettes, didn't care about Liu Lei at all as they charged towards the Yue Yang Fort. It was very obvious that they wanted to increase the strength of the Yue Yang Fort. They wanted to ensure that the Yue Yang Fort would have enough strength to protect their path of retreat.
Just as Liu Lei was about to make a decisive decision to forcefully break through the encirclement from Yuzhang City, regardless of the number of casualties, the Pleated Sword Spirit came looking for him … He actually told him that the group of sword bearers who had been abandoned by Ju Wudao had escaped from Fort Yue Yang, and that Fort Yue Yang was currently defenseless.
This also explained why Guhan couldn't contact Yuzhang City, but could contact Liu Lei's troops. This was because the humans' quantum base station was located in the core area of Yuzhang City. Similarly, the large-scale quantum teleportation array was also located in the core area. Yuan Kou, who had entered the core area through the quantum teleportation array, must have destroyed the quantum base station inside, so Guhan couldn't contact Yuzhang City.
When the distance between the personal terminals was less than a hundred kilometers, the personal terminals could rely on their own signals to maintain contact, so there was no need for a base station. Therefore, Guhan and the others could contact the large army that was approaching Fort Yue Yang.
Then, the Pleated Sword Spirit proposed a very risky plan. He believed that since Fort Yue Yang's defenses were currently defenseless enough to allow forty people to escape, then these forty people might have a chance to reoccupy Fort Yue Yang.
As long as they could do this, then retreating to Fort Yue Yang would not be a dead end for the majority of the army, but a path to survival.
With the protection of Fort Yue Yang's dimensional barrier, they would be able to resist the siege of Yuan Kou, and they could even take the opportunity to recover their morale. Then, they could decide whether to return to Yuzhang City to provide support or retreat to Yan Jing City, and use the power of Yan Jing City to liberate Yuzhang City!
"What if they can't reoccupy Fort Yue Yang?"
Liu Lei couldn't help but ask himself this question. In fact, he knew better than anyone else that the success rate of the Pleated Sword Spirit's plan was too low, probably less than twenty percent. Gui Yi and the others might very well go back and die.
Therefore, Liu Lei personally communicated with Gui Yi and Guhan. When he found out that Guhan was also there, Ju Wudao felt that the twenty percent chance had become thirty percent. That was why he sternly asked Guhan if he had the confidence to return to Fort Yue Yang.
If Guhan had said no, he would have asked Guhan to return to the main army and then think of a way to break out of the encirclement.
However, since Guhan had said yes, Liu Lei decided to trust Guhan and let them do as they pleased.
When he found out that Fort Yue Yang had really been reclaimed by Guhan, Liu Lei was extremely excited. For Yuzhang City, it could be said that they had come back from the brink of death. They had forcefully shone a ray of light into the dark future.
In his excitement, Liu Lei immediately ordered the sword-bearers to speed up. That was how they managed to reach Fort Yue Yang five minutes earlier, scaring away the ten thousand Yuan Kou vanguards.
This was the entire story of Yuzhang City's operation. It could be said that it was an absolute defeat. If it weren't for Guhan leading Gui Yi and the others, who had unexpectedly reclaimed Fort Yue Yang and withstood the enemy's counterattack, the human sword-bearers would very likely have been completely surrounded and killed in the area around Fort Yue Yang. The only organized sword-bearers in Yuzhang City would also have been wiped out. Yuzhang City would really have been wiped out!
It was undeniable that up until now, if anyone had contributed to this operation, the person with the most credit would undoubtedly be Ju Wudao. The second place would be the team of forty led by Guhan. It was them who had given the over three thousand sword-bearers hope of survival.