Free Web NovelChapter 928: Chapter 176: Spear and Shield
Jiang Wang, who had left earlier, was not aware that the Blood King had only given Yu Siqing an hour.
Just speaking of their break through defense, time was actually on Jiang Wang’s side.
However, Yu Siqing also didn’t know that Jiang Wang had no way to communicate across regions, nor had he managed to break through the Sea Clan’s communication blockade and successfully call for help. In Yu Siqing’s opinion, reinforcements from other regions of the Human Race could arrive at any moment; he had to hurry.
This created a situation where both sides were extremely urgent. Jiang Wang wanted to break through quickly, while Yu Siqing was eager to complete the search and kill.
They had not known each other before and had never had any contact.
But in the Lost World at that very moment, due to their respective origins and stances, they had become the absolute definition of opposing sides. One to break through, the other to defend. One to hide, the other to search.
But the anxious Jiang Wang, after startling the snake in the grass, quickly evacuated and carefully lurked. It was as if he was in no hurry to break through and could hide until the end of time. freeωebnovēl.c૦m
And the anxious Yu Siqing also stood still in front of the Boundary River, as if he had no concern about whether the mission could be successful or not, as if he could become a stone sculpture right there.
Gentlemen of the past have said, "Even if Mount Tai collapses in front of him, his complexion does not change; even if a mighty deer leaps to his left, his gaze does not flicker; only then can one control advantages and disadvantages, and wait for the enemy."
Regardless of strength, just in terms of mentality alone, both sides already possessed the mindset of the strong.
The more urgent they were, the more composed they became. The more they desired, the more self-controlled they were capable of being.
Just speaking of breaking through to send a message, among the cultivators on the Ding Wei Floating Island, Fu Yanqing, with his methods and strength, was actually more suitable than Jiang Wang and had a greater chance of success.
But Jiang Wang was also the target the Blood King used to please the Blood King, and a crucial bargaining chip in deciding whether to continue the war.
If Fu Yanqing escaped, it would not affect the Blood King’s determination to wage war. Jiang Wang was different.
That’s why he ended up here in the end.
And while he bore such a heavy responsibility, he hid in a place far from the Boundary River and made no progress. It was difficult not to feel anxious.
He had already waited another full fifteen minutes, long enough for at least three teams of Sea Race Warriors to rush to the Boundary River.
Yu Siqing still hadn’t moved.
Not only did he not move, but he also didn’t send out any of these newly arrived Sea Race Warriors.
Too steady, this guy was more than just strong.
Before at least five teams of Sea Race arrived at the Boundary River, not a single Sea Race Warrior in front of the Boundary River had left.
Jiang Wang risked getting closer a few times and saw through the Red Mirror.
These Sea Race gathered Sea Beasts and performed a blood sacrifice right there, constructing a wall of flesh and blood in front of the Boundary River!
That wall, dripping with fresh blood, was filled with bone spurs, and in the gaps between the bone spurs, there were many concealed eyes.
Jiang Wang didn’t understand what kind of wall this was, but it was completely clear that this wall of flesh and blood was extremely dangerous!
It kept getting thicker, higher and longer until eventually, it completely blocked the seven-mile Boundary River.
As time passed, Yu Siqing did not fulfill his wishes by leaving the Boundary River to search for him. Instead, he stayed put at the Boundary River, continuously strengthening the defensive forces there.
The longer Jiang Wang waited, the more illusory his hope of breaking through seemed.
If previously, faced with both Yu Siqing and Shuiying Shuang, the possibility of forcing a breakthrough might have been about ten percent, then now, with the addition of this wall of flesh and blood, the possibility of forcing a breakthrough had completely disappeared.
Yu Siqing first ensured an invincible position for himself before seeking the possibility of victory. Setting aside their powers, such an opponent was also very formidable, and could be called a true master strategist.
Jiang Wang suddenly realized that he seemed to have no other option but to keep waiting!
And the outcome of waiting...
The Ding Wei Floating Island would be destroyed, and the Ding Wei region would become a complete Sea Clan region. And he, blocked in this region, would sooner or later be found.
The only hope, perhaps, lay in the counterattack of the Human Race. But when that would happen, whether he could hold out until then, and whether it would definitely be successful, were all unknown.
A difficult situation!
As the main battlefield between the Human Race and the Sea Clan, Jiang Wang hadn’t been in the Lost World for long, but he had already experienced several life-and-death crises.
No wonder so many powerful beings meet their end here.
"Will I be one of them?"
In his struggles with Granny Bizhu and the son of the Blood King, it was always a battle to the death, hanging by a thread. Yet, Jiang Wang had always been confident of his victory, never considering the possibility of defeat. In the end, his opponents indeed met their demise. freewebnovel.cσ๓
But facing the impasse with Yu Siqing made him involuntarily think of this question.
He wondered if the gentle breeze of next year’s Sea Festival could carry back the spirits from the Dingwei region...
He was unwilling to wait, reluctant to waste even a moment.
But he knew very well—he had to wait!
Jiang Wang, with terrifying willpower, kept his urge to fight to the death in check. He waited silently, not making the slightest noise.
In front of the Boundary River, where more than a hundred Sea Race Warriors had gathered, forming a wall of flesh that itself seemed like a rear guard to a monstrous beast, Yu Siqing finally made some new arrangements.
He began assigning Sea Clan squads, sending them out in all directions to explore, one team at a time.
The positioning of these Sea Race Warriors was very deliberate. Jiang Wang couldn’t decipher any deeper mysteries, but he deduced that their formation facilitated easy contact among them.
And in each squad of Sea Race Warriors, there was one with a piece of red, scale-like object attached to the back of their hand.
It wasn’t hard to surmise that this object maintained some form of communication between the squads.
If not for observing through the Red Mirror, Jiang Wang probably could not have seen so clearly.
And so, a "fishing net" woven by the Sea Race Warriors was cast.
The Boundary River served as the center, with the net spreading in all directions.
Yu Siqing, as the controller of this net, firmly grasped the overall situation.
But Jiang Wang just waited for when this guy would leave.
Compared to the horrifying wall of flesh, what was even more difficult to deal with was Yu Siqing himself.
However, as the Sea Clan’s net expanded, he had to retreat further and farther away, to a point where even the Red Mirror could no longer enable him to observe Yu Siqing.
This meant he was now unable to judge whether Yu Siqing had left the Boundary River in search of him, or where he might appear next.
In the face of such a fishing net, he could also not afford to kill off a few Sea Clan squads in ambush, thereby disrupting the opponent’s arrangements.
Yu Siqing’s arrangements were very meticulous.
This was a net that was gradually expanding, a huge one, and if he touched just one point of it, the other points would quickly react. Attacking the Sea Clan warriors in pursuit would only slightly weaken the pursuing force for a short time, but would effectively help the enemy reduce the search area. The loss outweighed the gain.
He had already witnessed the Sea Clan’s hunting tactics once before. That time, facing the son of the Blood King, he had to fight with all his might to find a way out. And this time, there were more and stronger opponents.
After much consideration, the only way was to wait for the net to expand to a limit, to the point where the "mesh" was large enough for him to slip through, and then he could actually hide behind the "net".
Of course, this was very difficult to achieve, but with the Hidden Clothes to conceal himself, and the Red Mirror, capable of illuminating a fifty-li radius, he could keep a close eye on his opponents’ movements, making such a possibility feasible.
This was a life-and-death predicament, a game of chase and evasion.
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"One must remain unmoved even if Mount Tai collapses before him, and unblinking even if startled by a deer on the left; only then can one control outcomes and stand ready against the enemy."
— Su Xun, "Xin Shu"
