The Reborn Pill Emperor

For the past few days, Ye Bufan had been jumping up and down, setting up hundreds of formations in every corner of the city. Of course, he had a good impression of every brick and tile on the city gate. Even if he closed his eyes, he would know where he had gone. He knew that he had come to the right place.    

    

The entire Pingling Pass was east and west, and it was located right at the crack of the mountain range, completely blocking the gap between the mountain range. If he wanted to bypass the city gate, he would have to leap over the mountain range that towered into the clouds on both sides.    

    

Except for the birdman, there was basically no one among the barbarians who could climb over the tall mountains on both sides of the ___.    

    

Brutal General, who had tried to kill Ye Bufan before, had probably been brought there by the birdman. There wouldn't be a lot of people. Otherwise, the one who would kill Ye Bufan wouldn't be Brutal General, but the Barbarian Army.    

    

In fact, even if it was the birdman, no one had thought that they would be able to leap over the tall mountains and reach the back of the Pingling Pass.    

    

It wasn't that the Pingling Pass wasn't prepared for such a situation, it was just that the war was too intense this time.    

    

Many of the arrangements weren't effective. All of them were sent to the main battlefield, so the defense against the birdman was much lower.    

    

This was also because the attack launched by the barbarians this time was much fiercer than the previous years. There were even the silhouettes of the tribal elders. So, the generals on the city gate had no choice but to prepare to join the battle at all times. This allowed the birdman to take advantage of the opportunity to attack.    

    

Even so, according to the estimation of the generals, the birdman had lost more than a thousand soldiers in order to carry out this plan. Only then did they send about three hundred birdman to the back of Pingling Pass.    

    

These Birdman had obviously played a great role in destroying the Airship sent by Linhai. This caused most of the hundreds of Soul Cultivator on the boat to die a violent death, and in the end, they were able to successfully arrive at Pingling Pass. It turned out that Ye Bufan was the only one who had managed to reach the ___.    

    

It had to be said that although the birdman's operation had suffered a lot of damage, it was an extremely successful operation.    

    

Although he had only guessed the birdman's movement pattern from the analysis of the generals, Ye Bufan still had a high evaluation of the birdman's operation. Of course, this was from a bystander's point of view.    

    

If it was from the perspective of the people involved, he would be full of hatred towards the birdman. If it wasn't for these birdman, the Pingling Pass would have received a very strong reinforcement. Even if the hundreds of Soul Cultivator were rookies who had never been to the battlefield, even if they thought highly of themselves and didn't listen to orders, they were still assassins. It was still better than nothing.    

    

Furthermore, it was precisely because of the birdman's attack that he was almost killed by Brutal General.    

    

Initially, when Ye Bufan arrived at Pingling Pass, he wanted to ask the guards to eliminate the Birdman. However, when he saw how nervous the city was, he didn't have the nerve to speak.    

    

When he was valued and had a higher right to speak, he had also tried to find Old General Lian Po and ask him for help.    

    

However, before he could see the old general, he heard the discussions of the generals.    

    

They thought that the group of birdman was at the back and did not need to be eliminated in a hurry, because they were not much of a threat anymore.    

    

As long as Linhai did not send resources and manpower to Pingling Pass, the existence of the birdman would not be destroyed.    

    

Regardless of whether it was attacking Pingling Pass or Linhai, these few hundred bird men were useless. Their only use was to mobilize the troops of the two cities to restrain the forces of the guards.    

    

As for the future of the Pingling Pass without the supplies from Linhai, the generals had their own opinions on this matter.    

    

They believed that with Ye Bufan's Array Master, they would be able to save a lot of resources and manpower. Thus, the urgency of the supply was no longer as strong.    

    

Moreover, they felt that the calmness of the barbarians was absolutely unusual. After the peace, the barbarians only had two choices. Either retreat, leave the vicinity of Pingling Pass, and return to the depths of Heavenly Treasure State.    

    

Or, the barbarians would launch a final attack. They would not give up until they broke through the Pingling Pass.    

    

According to the estimation of the generals, the barbarians had already reached the point of running out of ammunition and supplies. If they couldn't take down the Pingling Pass in one go, they could only retreat.    

    

Although the lives of the barbarians were worthless, the elders and the priests didn't care about the ordinary barbarians. However, they wouldn't let the barbarians not have enough food to eat. The barbarians lived in the rich Heavenly Treasure State. However, they could not guarantee enough food and clothing. They could not afford a long confrontation.    

    

In the end, it was still the difference between productivity.    

    

Although Heavenly Treasure State was rich, the main products were all kinds of ores. The barbarians obviously could not live by eating ores. They also had to consume food. The barbarians could even eat more than ordinary humans. In fact, the supply of the entire barbarian army was much more difficult than that of the human soldiers.    

    

It was because of the food that ordinary barbarians were worthless. Therefore, the barbarians attacked the Linhai almost every year.    

    

Putting aside whether they could snatch the food or not, it would be helpful to them if more people died.    

    

However, they had never seen the scale of the barbarian invasion this time.    

    

Ye Bufan even suspected that the barbarians had reached the point where all of them were hungry. That was why they were so eager to carry out the plan to reduce the population.    

    

In the previous attack on Pingling Pass, the barbarians had already lost tens of thousands of people. This was a number that had never been seen before. It was also because the barbarians were not afraid of casualties. This was the reason why the pressure on the Pingling Pass was so heavy, and the atmosphere was unprecedentedly heavy.    

    

It was precisely because of this solemn atmosphere that hope was the most important thing. Even if this hope was very small and slim, as long as there was hope... If they could see signs of improvement, then it would allow the morale of the guards to be extremely high. It would be a very high increase.    

    

This was the effect of Ye Bufan's arrival.    

    

Although the Array Master was very rare and its function was very important in the city defense battle, if it was in a normal situation, Ye Bufan would absolutely not receive such respect and preferential treatment.    

    

It was also because Ye Bufan was not only an Array Master now, but also a person who was beneficial to the city defense army. It was also a symbol, a gathering point of hope. That was why Old General Lian Po placed him under house arrest in the post house. He did not let him come up to the city gate because he was afraid that something would happen to him. It would then affect the morale of the army.    

    

Ye Bufan had a feeling about this, but he didn't think that he should do something that he needed to do. He belonged to himself, so he could judge what he should do. Which he shouldn't do.    

    

He was an Array Master. Before he advanced to the Second Level of Transformation, he had to rely on the power of the formation to maintain his combat strength. Even if he advanced in the future and his level increased, the formation would still be his main means of fighting.    

    

Therefore, raising his own cultivation level in the formation became extremely important when Ye Bufan was temporarily unable to raise his Divine Soul Cultivator level.    

    

Advancing in the cultivation of the formation did not mean that he could just finish setting up the formation. Instead, he needed to continuously try and improve it, constantly improving it, observing and correcting the flaws, perfecting the formation, and even creating the formation.    

    

And if he wanted to make progress in these aspects, he needed to always be together with the array formation. Look! The effects of the array he set up, observing the effects of the array when facing different opponents... How to better apply these array formations in actual combat.    

    

These were all things that Ye Bufan urgently needed to improve.    

    

If he stayed in the relay station, he wouldn't have such a chance to improve himself.    

    

Just like the academics in the Ivory Tower, no matter how profound their knowledge was, when they really made a move, most people would be dumbfounded and wouldn't know what to do.    

    

Ye Bufan didn't want to be that kind of person, so he secretly went to the city gate. He wanted to see how his formation worked and what strengths and weaknesses it had. What other improvements could he make, and whether there were better combinations!    

    

And the western section of the City Gate that he was currently at was precisely such an excellent observation location.    

    

The entire Pingling Pass was not a flat piece of land. Not all the places in the city were exactly the same. The functions of each part were also not exactly the same.    

    

For example, the western section of the city pass that he was in had always been one of the few places that had experienced war.    

    

This was not because the defense of the city was tighter, the city walls were thicker, and there were more defensive formations. It was only because of the terrain.    

    

The Pingling Pass was built to block the gap in the mountain range. The gap in the mountain range was not orderly.    

    

At the west part of the city gate, which was where Ye Bufan was. The cliff next to the city pass was even more protruding. The city pass seemed to be embedded in the middle of the cliff. There were rocks extending out of the city pass, forming a slightly wide foot of the mountain. If one wanted to attack the part of the city gate, they had to go around the foot of the mountain. This part of the journey around the foot of the mountain was all within the attacking range of the city guards.    

    

The terrain here was more superior than the other sections of the city gate. It would be very difficult to break through the siege from here. Therefore, even if the barbarians had the intention of consuming their population, they wouldn't be stupid enough to put their main force in this direction.    

    

Therefore, the number of city guards in the west section of the city gate was not too many. Moreover, most of them were archers, as well as some long-range weapons such as catapults.    

    

It was precisely because there were not many soldiers guarding the city that Ye Bufan felt this place was good. If there were too many people, it would be very easy for him to lose his invisibility and be squeezed out. It would be a beautiful scene.    

    

There was another reason why Ye Bufan insisted on staying in the city pass. It was only at the city gate that he could control some of the formations that were set up. Through these formations, he could gain a better understanding of the barbarians. He had a better understanding of the effectiveness of these formations, and at the same time, he could make up for the deficiencies.    

    

Only by letting him stay in the city gate would he be able to bring out the true functions of so many formations. Formations had to be able to be controlled by others to constantly change. This was his way of thinking about formations all along. It was also because of this that he had a huge disagreement with the army's Array Master. Therefore... That was why when he was setting up the formation... He locked up the Array Master.