Chapter 110: Living in the moment

——(POV third person, western outer walls)——

"HAHAHA, if they are going to keep coming like this, I think we might die before the trial is finished, HAHAHA." Cai ZhenKang said after they cleaned the western battlefield from the beasts. Nearly 90,000 beasts created this horde that took them a few hours to fight as they didn't want to waste precious scrolls. Other sides of the fort also fought small hordes that numbered in the thousands of beasts but it was nothing that they couldn't handle.

"Why are you laughing when thinking about our death?" Li Huang said as he looked at Cai ZhenKang with a raised eyebrow. They were sitting for a while to regain their strength as the disciples on the walls were taking care of any beast who would come.

"It would be really funny to die here, fighting alongside disciples of the heavenly sword sect." Cai ZhenKang said and laughed as he slapped his knee.

Li Huang too laughed a little as he too didn't think a day would come that he would be fighting and joking with a blue bulls sect disciple.

Hu Anjing who too was resting with everyone pointed one of her swords that were still in its scabbard toward Cai ZhenKang.

"Also don't think I have forgotten that you aimed for Li Huang a dozen times in this fight…" Hu Anjing said. She just wanted to remind Cai ZhenKang that she is paying attention as she knew Li Huang would have done something if these attacks were really dangerous to him.

Cai ZhenKang raised his hands in surrender.

"Misunderstanding, it is a misunderstanding. At those moments, I didn't attack Li Huang, it was Li Huang's head that moved toward my attacks." Cai ZhenKang said and he acted in a very convincing way. Well, if you don't consider his reasoning that is…

"…What?" Hu Anjing couldn't believe that Cai ZhenKang would come up with such a stupid reason but apparently, she underestimated him.

"Well…uh…I mean as there were many beasts where ever that I attacked…so…" Cai ZhenKang was looking for words to form a sentence as he clearly didn't want an angry Hu Anjing near him.

Li Huang who was impressed by Cai ZhenKang's impeccable logic didn't say anything until now but he decided to put a stop to this conversation before Hu Anjing beat Cai ZhenKang. They still needed his power to fight the beasts.

"Okay, let's get back to our side of the wall, we can't keep sitting here." Li Huang said and everyone got up to get back to the eastern wall. Hu Anjing didn't let this matter go but for now, she didn't pursue it further.

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——(POV Li Huang, the northern walls, throwing money at the beasts)——

After we went back to the east side of the fort, some beasts attacked the fort but it wasn't something that we couldn't handle easily so you could say that we were doing mild exercises.

We were happy to continue like this but the trial seemed to have other plans for us. A horde of at least 100,000 beasts was getting near to the northern walls and we had to change position to there as the number was way bigger than what we have seen so far and as their main goal was to get to the fort, where they could sense most disciples, we couldn't count on them stopping to fight us and then go toward the fort. Because of these circumstances, we had to stop them before they could get to the walls and breach them.

When our teams got there, we saw that Li Wanrou's team and the other team from the Heaven Reaching Spear sect were stationed there too. The east side of the fort has more teams as the geological location makes it a better place for beast attacks, so we decided to put more teams there.

This time we didn't think about the cost and number of the scrolls, we used them as the fort would be lost if we didn't stop these beasts. The terrifying thing was the fact that these beasts kept coming toward the fort like there was no end to them. In fact, we did focus all the power of the [True Dharma Eye] formation on the northern side so that we can see how many beasts there are, and what we saw was a sea of beasts coming toward the fort with full force. At that moment we knew that this is one of those do-or-die situations so we started using scrolls in crowded locations to maximize the gains from each use.

The horde was so dense that with each usage of the scrolls we could get rid of five to seven hundred beasts. We were doing great as far as battle results were the subject, the only problem with this fight was that we couldn't see the end of this horde and as a result, everyone was getting nervous about this fight and whether we can win the battle or not.

"Huang, do you remember that I said maybe the old man didn't have the power to kill us?" Hu Anjing told me as we were fighting the scattered beasts after the last round of scroll attacks.

"Yeah, what about it?" I asked her as I was using the sword dance to avoid the beasts' claws and [Eclipse Devourer] sword art to kill them in the shortest time possible.

"I take it back, whoever that old man is, he can kill us easily." Hu Anjing said. She was right about this, we have been fighting the beasts for about two hours now and there is no sign of any decrease in their numbers.

"Thank you for the heartwarming words." Li Wanrou chimed in with a sarcastic remark.

"Anytime." Hu Anjing also answered with sarcasm.

"I'll give you one better, this is only the first day, imagine the third…" I told them the best uplifting words that I could find.

"Was that supposed to be heartwarming?" Li Wanrou said with a deadpan expression and tone.

"Did you really have to remind us?" Hu Anjing said. She really would rather to be oblivious to this fact.

"HAHAHA, that was good." Cai ZhenKang laughed after a few seconds. "Look at it as every moment from now on is the best moment as everything after that is worst. Isn't it uplifting to know that this is your best moment going forward?" He said and I really couldn't see this coming from Cai ZhenKang.

"Cai ZhenKang, you have your moments too." I told him and threw a shuriken toward him. The shuriken hit a beast that was going to take a bite of Cai ZhenKang's back.

Li Wanrou and Hu Anjing didn't expect this from Cai ZhenKang too. This was one of the few things that these two didn't bicker about.

"HAHAHA, Li Huang, I think I have a stupid plan that will help us in this situation." Cai ZhenKang said and waited for my answer.

"No offense but when YOU call it stupid, it should be really stupid…" I didn't know what was the plan that Cai ZhenKang was talking about but something that even he calls stupid should be really bad.

"Just listen. What if we run into the horde beasts and keep running to the end of the horde?" Cai ZhenKang said as he tried to sound mysterious.

"So far I can agree on it being stupid…" I couldn't tell him anything else other than this. Why would we willingly rush toward their horde when we have created a solid defensive line here?

"*tsk* I said listen. We go in with the horde using a scroll with the [Law of Swiftness] and after that, it is only a matter of time before we finish the horde…" Cai ZhenKang said with a toothy grin.

Hearing him I could see us doing it and it was really effective, after getting in the horde we can just drop some scrolls every once in a while and 80% or so of the horde would be done for…

"Cai ZhenKang, let me correct myself, this is a brilliant stupid plan." I answered him with a grin of my own. Cai ZhenKang just laughed at my response.

"Anjing, Wanrou, we have a plan that you are not going to like." I told Hu Anjing and Li Wanrou about the plan. Unsurprisingly, their reaction was within my expectation.

""Are you crazy?"" they both said at the same time. This seem to surprise them too as they looked at each other for a second and then they looked back at me.

"Who came up with this plan?" Li Wanrou asked me.

"Cai ZhenKang." I gave credit where credit was due or threw Cai ZhenKang under the bus based on how you look at it.

"Of course he came up with it." Hu Anjing said as she was slicing the beasts in halves now.

"But this is going to work and the risk is minimal…" I told them to ease their minds.

"And why would you go and not someone else?" Hu Anjing asked and I could feel that Wanrou had the same question.

"Maybe because I am one of the strongest people here?" I answered back.

"Look, I get that you are worried but you two should be here as you can handle the beasts better until we are back." I told them. I didn't want to leave them worried so I explained it to them with more logic.

~'What if Jin Fen tries to attack you in there?'~ Hu Anjing sent me a sound transmission.

~'He wouldn't. If he were to get in the middle of the horde he would only show that he has a death wish.'~ I told her. Jin Fen would probably go for a surprise attack that is impossible when I'm running into the beast horde with high vigilance.

"Alright, go and finish it fast." Li Wanrou said after thinking a little.

"Use Cai ZhenKang as a human shield if you are in danger." Hu Anjing said.

"Okay." I told them.

Cai ZhenKang didn't say anything as he had learned his lesson those last times. Despite that, he wasn't safe from Hu Anjing.

'What did I do this time?' Cai ZhenKang thought to himself. He wanted to cry but had no tears.