Chapter 1430: Chapter 1430: Three Cups of Wine

“Idiot, still playing the tough guy at this point. Let’s see how you die in a moment.”

As the commander was indulging in his imminent victory, seeing someone as arrogant as Starfire, how could he possibly stand such mockery?

“Come and kill me!”

Li Yao took out an earth-yellow crystal and crushed it, with specks of earth-yellow light spreading out like a sky full of stars.

It rapidly covered the entire outpost, turning the outpost into a twinkling, dazzlingly dazzling maze.

Li Yao took out a sealed jar of fine wine and an exquisite Nigth light cup, smiling as he said, “This jar of wine cost me over a thousand Gold Coins, brewed by Zandalari Priests with a secret method, a century-old treasure of Secret Blood Wine, which I’ve been reluctant to drink. Secret Blood Wine must be stimulated with the Blood Soul of an enemy to reveal its rich fragrance and unleash its true power. I shall drink three cups here in your honor, to send you on your way.”

Fuck…

Everyone was speechless. This motherfucker really knew how to show off. So rich and so what? A jar of wine small enough to fit in the palm, probably holding less than ten cups at most.

A thousand Gold Coins were outright madness. Most players were saving up for advanced horsemanship, which cost exactly a thousand Gold Coins. Many had been struggling for over a month and still couldn’t afford it. And this guy? He spent that on a jar of wine. How infuriating.

What nonsense about using the enemy’s blood to enhance the fragrance of wine–it seemed like utter bullshit to them.

Not only did the United Army members want to kick Li Yao’s ass, but even the audience couldn’t help but want to throw things at Li Yao’s image. He was hated to the extreme.

“Motherfucker, why don’t you go die? Talking about skills is one thing, but when it comes to showing off, you’re definitely the numero uno ancient god!” The new commander was so furious he could bite Li Yao to death.

“Heh, seems everyone thinks I’m showing off. Fine by me.” Li Yao shook his head slightly and directly unsealed the wine.

The audience saw Li Yao’s wine enveloped in a thin mist of blood-colored haze, which spread out, even making Li Yao’s figure seem hazy and eerie.

Ignoring everyone’s gazes, Li Yao slowly poured a cup of wine that was rich and vibrant in color, like Divine Blood, full of vitality. Just seeing the color made the audience swallow their saliva.

And on the battlefield, a special, almost mystical fragrance wafted through the air, so intoxicating that just a whiff seemed to leave one drunk.

Li Yao held up his cup and bowed slightly: “Thank you, gentlemen, for imbuing this wine with spirit.”

Everyone was inexplicably staring at Li Yao, wondering what he was doing, saluting their opponents as a sign of gratitude by the ancient gods’ understanding.

While they were perplexed, the earth suddenly trembled, then within a hundred yards of the city wall, as a dividing line, it collapsed with a roar.

Countless people screamed, caught off guard as they fell.

This earthquake was not very powerful, just a momentary shake, but that moment was enough for the outpost’s walls to vanish completely.

Where the wall once stood was now a massive pit, thousands of yards long, three hundred yards wide, and over two hundred yards deep.

The soldiers of the United Army who were once positioned there all fell down, and the audience could only see after zooming into the huge trench that most soldiers had already fallen to their deaths, with only a very few lucky ones still alive, but also with shattered bones, barely clinging to life.

Even more chilling was the sight of insects that had emerged from nowhere, continuously reaping the lives of those soldiers still breathing.

The whole battle fell silent, staring dumbly at the huge chasm that had appeared.

The leaders of several guilds stood as if struck by lightning, staring blankly at the scene below.

In an instant, over twenty-thousand troops were wiped out.

To attack Starfire, their formation was quite dense, and most of those who died were the fragile ranged troops, responsible for dealing damage.

Their front lines had entered the outpost and were engaged in direct combat with Starfire, and these ranged units were right in this spot, and the absence of the collapsed wall gave them a perfect environment for their firepower.

But now, the majority of the United Army’s ranged output had been cut by more than half.

The blow to morale was much more significant than the death of a commander.

And the audience finally understood why such a bizarre terrain had appeared: this soil was formed when the dirt was hollowed out by Li Yao’s bugs. They had thought Starfire had built some special defense works.

Then an even stranger phenomenon occurred; countless ethereal blood-colored souls fluttered out, two thousand Blood Souls quickly gathering into red light dots and converging into the cup in Li Yao’s hands.

As these souls of light merged, an intoxicating sound filled the entire battlefield.

Li Yao drank it down in one gulp. Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, as Li Yao drank the liquid, his body became ethereal, turning a semi-transparent blood-red. His arms and legs, all special equipment, showed up as tattoo patterns, eerily and wickedly mesmerizing.

At the same time, Li Yao’s origin was gradually stabilizing and started to corrode Ross’s divine mark.

“To spirit-infuse the wine with the enemy’s Blood Souls is indeed delightful. But it is still not enough. My dear comrades, please lend me your power once more.”

Li Yao poured a second cup of wine and then bowed again in gratitude.

Following Li Yao’s second bow, the Black Dragon Queen forcefully thrust her Magic Wand into the ground at the center of the Array.

Boom, boom, boom…

“In the name of the lesser Guardian of the Earth, and with the Earth Vein guiding the Array as a foundation, I summon the Earth Spirits to purge the demonic forces for me.”

As the Black Dragon Queen prayed, the yellow light dots cloaking the outpost seemed to come alive, falling one after another and merging into the undulating defense works.

Crack, crack, crack…

With the merging of the yellow light dots, the earth mounds truly came to life. Gigantic mud golems, towering over twenty yards high, started to rise.

Starfire’s formation shrank internally, unaffected, but the armies that had breached into Starfire’s interior were in for a disaster.

These huge mud golems, golden as if they were made of Gold Coin, mingled within their Legion. Many troops trampled on the earth mounds, which stirred up chaos as the mud golems resurrected, throwing the entire formation into disarray, men and horses overturning, and numerous beast soldiers went insane, trembling with fear.

The mud golems started attacking everything around them frantically, plunging the scene into utter chaos.

A single blow from a mud golem could crush smaller-sized soldiers into meat pies, throwing the United Army into total disarray.

The commanders of the United Army desperately organized and adjusted their ranks, frantically trying to eliminate those mud golems.

Under normal circumstances, although the emergence of mud golems might cause disturbance, it wouldn’t be so tragic.

However, that trench not only cost the lives of twenty thousand ranged attackers but also cut off the support from troops in the rear and severed their escape route, leaving them with no choice but to fight to the death.

Over two thousand huge mud golems continued on for ten minutes. In those ten minutes, another twenty thousand soldiers were slaughtered.

After ten minutes, the mud golems not crushed by the United Army turned back into ordinary mud, as if it had all been a dream.

But the countless bodies of comrades proved just how real the massacre had been.

Once again, numerous blood-red light dots merged into the cup, and Li Yao drank it all in one go.

Boom…

As Li Yao downed his second cup of Secret Blood Wine, his eyes burst into a radiance so dazzling, the beams of light shooting thousands of yards from his eyes, like two pillars of light…