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Chapter 5293: 5.1045 The Empty Fort Strategy

"I am merely an ordinary disciple of the City of Shadows. My master instructed me to come here and investigate the situation, to find out what's going on."

"My, my master said that from the reflection wall, it seemed like there were shadows moving, as if there were, there were intruders sneaking into Lingfeng Valley."

"That's right, I've long heard that the City of Shadows is situated at a very high elevation, and the reflection wall on its back mountain can observe things within a thousand-li radius." Eighth Young Master Qi nodded, a look of sudden understanding on his face.

No wonder as soon as they arrived at Lingfeng Valley, someone immediately came to investigate.

Presumably, the City Lord of Shadows already knew that their people had arrived.

Duan Yue's eyes swept coldly over them. With a slight raise of his hand, he turned and walked inside.

Soon, four miserable screams came from outside the tent, and morale instantly soared with thunderous roars.

"His Majesty has decreed: rest for one hour on the ground, then set off, heading to the City of Shadows overnight."

By dawn, they should arrive at the gates of the City of Shadows.

However, since the enemy already knew of their movements, they would surely be prepared.

They just didn't know what would be left of the City of Shadows under the iron hooves of thirty thousand elites.

Traveling through Lingfeng Valley, thirty thousand soldiers hurried towards the City of Shadows under the twilight.

In truth, this battle against the City of Shadows could be described as an overwhelming fight of the strong against the weak.

How many people could the City of Shadows possibly have in total?

Could they have three thousand disciples? Or five thousand?

To conquer the City of Shadows, if all went smoothly, it wouldn't even take half a day.

However, when the army arrived at the city gates, Eighth Young Master Qi and his entourage couldn't help but be stunned.

The city gates were wide open, the entrance completely empty, not a single person in sight. A desolate atmosphere permeated the area.

Duan Yue blinked, "They ran?"

"Where could they run in such a short time?" Rong Qing frowned, dismounting his spiritual steed.

He saw that a drawbridge at the city gate had already been lowered. Looking across, the other side of the drawbridge was silent and empty.

"It looks just like a trap," Eighth Young Master Qi muttered softly.

Duan Yue nodded in agreement.

It was indeed a trap, and not an ordinary one. This was an empty fort strategy, intended to lure them inside.

Eighth Young Master Qi turned and said, "Your Majesty, how about we summon our flying beasts and fly across?"

From a conspiracy theory perspective, this drawbridge must have been deliberately sabotaged.

Even if it looked perfectly intact now, it was merely an illusion created by the enemy!

Prince Rong's mouth twitched, "Your Majesty has many teleportation talismans. There's no harm in using them, why not just use one?"

Duan Yue looked at him expressionlessly, then suddenly pulled out a handful of storage jade talismans, "Get in."

Eighth Young Master Qi's jaw almost dropped.

"Shadow stay, you and Eighth Qi stay, everyone else go in first."

Since the enemy was playing a strange empty fort strategy, not appearing to want a direct confrontation, then he wouldn't mind playing dirty either.

Rong Qing silently took the storage talismans, packing the soldiers in groups of a thousand into each talisman in his hand.

"Holy cow, how many storage talismans did the little poker-faced Crown Princess give His Majesty?!"

He had a feeling His Majesty was going to exploit people dry, what to do?

Prince Rong quietly slipped a blank jade talisman into his waist, then tossed the rest back to his Majesty.

It was truly impossible to talk to a rich person; he felt a bit annoyed just seeing that handful of talismans.

Faster than words could describe, the thirty thousand elites were instantly reduced to just four people.