Ordinary people can also be extraordinary

The spiritual needle shot directly into Jin Biao's head. Jin Biao's trembling body froze, and then he fell heavily backwards and lost his breath.

Zhang Chen walked slowly to his side and looked at Jin Biao's wide-open eye, which looked as if he would die with his eyes open.

Thinking of the miserable state of his fellow disciples, Zhang Chen couldn't help but kick Jin Biao's body a few more times.

Then Zhang Chen picked up the long knife beside him, took off Jin Biao's armor, took off his storage bag, took back the spiritual needles, put them all into his own storage bag, and then threw Jin Biao's body directly out of the crack. When the insect beasts came back, they would eat him without leaving a trace, and then walked in the direction that Jin Biao came in.

After twists and turns, they arrived at the passage that Zhang Chen and his companions had walked through before. It was less than a hundred meters away from the place where several of their colleagues died. There were still some insects and beasts nearby that had not left. When they saw Zhang Chen appear and were about to attack, they were pierced through the head by the golden needles condensed by Zhang Chen, and then they quickly returned the way they came.

Soon they arrived at the exit. When they came out, they looked at the sky and realized that it was almost evening. There were already many soldiers holding bows and crossbows at the exit, guarding it closely.

Zhang Chen quickly came behind the soldiers, took a pill and began to recover his spiritual energy, knowing that when night came, there might be another big battle.

Soon it was night, and everyone was on high alert, waiting for the insect swarm's attack. The foundation-building disciples flying on swords were constantly detecting the movements of the insect swarm in the air.

At this time, a patrolling disciple flew over on a sword and came to Zhang Chen's side. Seeing that Zhang Chen was the only disciple around, he asked in confusion:

"Why are you alone? Aren't there eight disciples assigned to guard together? Where are the others?"

Seeing this, Zhang Chen quickly stood up, saluted and replied:

"Master, we went into the cave to investigate and encountered a swarm of insects. I was the only one who escaped."

"What? Who told you to go into the cave to explore? You really overestimate your abilities."

The visitor wanted to understand the situation in more detail, but as the sky was getting darker, he was worried that the swarm of insects was about to attack, so he told Zhang Chen and the others to defend well and left.

Soon Zhang Chen saw four fellow disciples rushing here from both sides to participate in defending this passage.

Several fellow disciples arrived and started asking questions when they saw Zhang Chen.

"Brother, what's going on here? What about the other brothers?"

"Yes, haven't several disciples been deployed in each passage? Why did they transfer us here?"

Zhang Chen looked helpless and could only repeat what he had just said to the patrolling disciples.

"Hey, you guys are really brave."

One of the thin ones sighed.

"You want to earn spirit stones, right?"

A young man with a stern face spoke calmly and directly guessed what Zhang Chen and the others were thinking.

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Then several people started discussing with each other.

Zhang Chen ignored them and took the time to recover his spiritual energy. At the same time, he kept a close eye on the cave entrance to prevent sudden attacks by the swarm of insects.

Soon it became completely dark. The soldiers lit torches and became nervous as they looked at the dark cave entrance.

Suddenly, a rustling sound came from the cave entrance. Zhang Chen immediately stood up, walked in front of the soldiers, and together with several fellow disciples, took out their swords, injected spiritual energy, and aimed at the cave entrance.

Soon, a group of tentacles stretched out. The soldiers could not wait and shot countless arrows into the cave. The sound of "puff" was endless, and many insects and beasts were immediately shot and fell to the ground.

After a while, the corpses of the insect beasts in front began to move, and the insect beasts behind used these dead insect beast corpses as shields, moved forward and rushed out.

Unfortunately, the soldiers formed a semicircle in front of the cave entrance. They could only block the front but not the sides. They were shot by arrows and fell to the ground not far from the cave entrance.

In less than five minutes, the corpses of hundreds of insect beasts were laid in front of the cave entrance, and the subsequent swarms of insects continued to rush out fearlessly.

Zhang Chen and his men knew that once the soldiers’ arrows were used up, it would be time for the real battle.

Zhang Chen looked in other directions and found that everyone was defending desperately. There were also countless flying insects and beasts attacking in the air. There were also flames shooting up into the sky at the city walls. It was obvious that the battle was most intense there.

When several thick layers of insect and beast corpses were laid at the entrance of the cave, the soldiers' attacks gradually weakened, the arrows were not as dense as before, and the distance of the insect swarm's attack was getting closer and closer. Some sporadic insect and beast rushes to the front of the soldiers and were killed by Zhang Chen and his men.

Zhang Chen estimated that they could only hold out for half an hour at most before they would have to engage in close combat with the insect swarm. He didn't know how long they could hold out. The surroundings were filled with deafening cries of killing, and the sky was filled with disciples flying on swords fighting. It seemed that it would be difficult to support them.

After discussing with his fellow disciples, Zhang Chen decided to take the initiative to kill the insect beasts, and then collect arrows for the soldiers. Fortunately, the cave entrance was not large, and the insect beasts that rushed out could not gather in large numbers at once and could not exert much power, which gave a few people a chance.

So several people took turns to step forward, constantly blocking the cave entrance with attacks or talismans, and then the remaining people quickly collected arrows and brought them back to the soldiers. When the spiritual energy of several people was almost exhausted, they retreated to the soldiers and took pills to restore their spiritual energy.

In this way, the swarm of insects was barely able to block this passage. The insects that kept rushing out could only fall down one after another. This became a contest of endurance, and it depended on who could hold on to the end.

By midnight, no more insects or beasts came out of the passage on Zhang Chen's side. They seemed to have realized they could not break through and retreated. Zhang Chen and his companions did not dare to be careless and tried their best to collect arrows in case of emergency.

But other places are not so lucky. The insects and beasts in each passage are different, and their attacks are different, so the difficulty of defense is different.

There were several passages where we encountered large insect beasts known for their defenses. They only blocked the passage for half an hour before they were breached, causing several surrounding passages to be broken.

The situation soon spread to Zhang Chen and his men. Seeing the continuous disintegration of soldiers fleeing towards this side, Zhang Chen and his men were all in trouble. Finally, they led the soldiers to gather at the city wall, where there were the most soldiers and the strongest defense.

But the swarm of insects did not rush forward. It was not until dawn that the Zerg retreated and the soldiers who went to investigate found out that all the passages on the mountain wall had been breached. Among the soldiers guarding each passage, only two escaped unscathed like Zhang Chen.

This time, the 80,000 soldiers defending the 40 passages lost 60,000 in one night, which was a heavy casualty.

They divided their troops to defend the passages, but they were broken through one by one. Their forces were not concentrated and they could not exert their power. Every time the swarm broke through a passage, their numbers continued to increase, and then they devoured all the soldiers in dozens of passages one by one, so their own losses were not great.

Everyone was a little dejected. More than half of the soldiers had been killed or wounded, and morale was low. They would definitely not be able to stop the Zerg attack tonight.

Soon, after discussion, they could only request support from the sect again, so some foundation-building disciples flew back to the sect on swords to report the situation. In the afternoon, they saw several large ships flying into Wuyun City and more than a dozen flying figures on swords arriving. Only then did everyone begin to hope. Zhang Chen also saw familiar faces on the large ship.