Few moments before the attack
A group of soldiers in black armor could me seen setting up a line of defense with their shields.
"We would need only 20,000 men to form the defense, the rest of you will all serve as archers to surround the enemy" The first emissary yelled as they were in the process of arranging themselves.
It was done cleanly and orderly.
"Make sure you all the take the antidote and wait for the general signal" he added.
After a few moments everyone got into position and the place fell silent.
Those standing at the Frontline were very tall and buff men, they held the shields tightly, it was very light making them wonder if it could resist the upcoming assaults.
They might all look calm but their adrenaline was on the rise,but they felt no fear, it was rather excitement.
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Late hours of the hour of the roaring bear.
"General do you think they'll march through the pass?" The first emissary asked.
"They are already here, get into position" Gu Shang responded.
The silence of the pass got broken by the loud war screams of the approaching enemies.
After sometime, thousands of people could be seen running towards the exit of the pass,
As they approached, their frightening aura's dispelled the mist of dawn at the pass.
After they arrived at the center of the pass, Gu Shang gave the orders and arrows were shot into the sky.
The Purple Qilin Cavalry watched on as anarchy spread through the disorganized ranks of the Moonshade Sect. They watched the scene unfold Infront of them composedly.
After the sect disciples dealt with those on the ground who had been infected with the poison, the place fell silent. The only thing remaining in the sky was the black eerily gas, and a flying ship hundreds of meters away, stationed at the entrance of the pass.
Gu Shang snickered and pulled the string of his golden bow.
As he pulled the string of the bow, spiritual Qi gathered and began to form an arrow of light.
The light was blindly high, blinding everyone who looked at it directly.
Gu Shang pointed the golden bow towards the sky and let go of the string.
Pweeeeee
An arrow formed with spiritual Qi shot out towards the sky.
As the blinding arrow made up of light headed towards the sky, several thousands black arrows also rose to the sky from all directions, forming a circle around the pass.
The disciples and elders of the Moonshade Sect watched the black arrows rise towards the sky in what seems to be a circle formation. Gu Shang bright arrow provided a good view for them all to see the black arrows in the sky.
As they were still in a daze.
BOOM..BOOM..BOOM....BOOOM....BOOM
Explosive sounds went off in their ears, the ship in the sky was targeted by only the heavens knows what.
The right and left grand elders grabbed the core disciples and jumped out of their ships.
A round metallic object fell on the deck of the ship.
The people on the ship surrounded it with their weapons. The round metallic object stood still for a while before black smoke swept through the ship like a wave.
None of them were able to react quickly and were swallowed by the gas, they struggled for a while before they turned to bones along with the ship evaporating into nothingness.
The Grand elders landed on the ground amidst their troops with shocks on their faces.
They scanned their surrounding and noticed that they have now been surrounded by a dome of that black gaseous poison with no way out.
"Grand elders, our losses are terribly bad!" An elder knelt before the grand elder trembling in fear.
"How many disciples and elders did we lose?" The right grand elder asked.
"Our casualties have risen to 131,0000!. And... And... And most of this disciples were our elite disciples" The elder reported.
It wasn't much of a surprise since only sky lords had that ability to fly.
The Grand elders stood there trembling.
This was a defeated, a crushing defeat. Even if they break through that resistance and conquer the domain, it won't be able to hide the defeat they had suffered today.
They had already lost so many men even before the fight started. Thankfully they came with 300,000 men so they still had a 170,000 men which was ten times better than the 50,000 men their enemies had.
The right grand elder took in a deep breath before looking at Gu Shang, who was sitting on a horse at the back line of his troops defense.
"It's this were your confidence comes from? Do you think you can defeat us with just this poison? You are too naive to think that" The right grand elder shouted in a loud voice.
"You people are rebels who have decided to bite the hand that fed you just because you became stronger, with the heavens on our side we'll surely triumph over you!"
Gu Shang responded in a self-righteous voice.
The right grand elder almost coughed out blood after hearing Gu Shang's reply.
He couldn't help but laugh in anger, " You dare to call us rebels after you killed our heir and supreme elders whiles accusing us of a rebellion against the empire, but you dare to call us ungrateful!" The right grand elder was going crazy.
"I never accused the Moonshade Sect of any rebellion, you guys were the ones who for no reason decided to spread fake rumors about me threatening to end your sect, and continued to march towards the domain.
Are you denying this, Rebel?" Gu Shang asked with an innocent face.
Gu Shang emissaries and troops looked at theirselves in confusion. What diabolical plan was Gu Shang cooking up? Why was he acting all innocent when he started it?
"Nonsense!!!" The left elder shouted out furiously.
"Weren't you the one who sent a messenger threatening to destroy our sect by sunrise if we didn't renew our allegence. Wasn't this a break of the oath our ancestors made, so how dare you call us rebels"
Gu Shang dramatically kept his hands on his chest and with a righteous expression asked, "Me?
I never sent such a messenger how can you slander me Mr elder? Where's the messenger that sent such a blasphemous message?"
Gu Shang demanded.
"But he's dead" The left grand elder answered in anger.
Gu Shang raised an eyebrow, " You mean to tell me that you raised a rebellion because I broke the ancestral oath, but the only witness who can testify that I did say that is dead?
Mr elder do you take us for fools" Gu Shang voice became cold.
So the mighty Moonshade Sect couldn't get any excuse but this? You mean to tell me that you are raising a rebellion without any evidence against me, but the word of a so called dead man?"
"Stop pretending like you are innocent, didn't you mobilize your Lion Fang troops to come and deal with us? How are you going to explain that? An elder asked. They didn't like where this was going.
"Then why are they not here?" Gu Shang asked back.
"They obviously chickened out after hearing your ridiculous command" the elder answered.
"Wrong, I never summoned them to the capital, I only gave them a command to begin their drills in the Han prefecture.
I quite don't get what you are assuming"
Gu Shang answered nonchalantly.
The right grand elder coughed out blood after hearing Gu Shang.
"You..y..you planned this didn't you??" He asked whiles pointing at Gu Shang.