Ahead of the pass, on the visible northern ice plains, a steady stream of white skeletal monsters were silently gathering towards the pass. The cliffs on both sides of the pass were steep, as if cut by a knife, inspiring awe. The wind howled through the canyon, adding to the ominous atmosphere.

Jiang Hao guessed that if the cliffs on both sides were not so steep and smooth, the skeleton army could probably climb directly onto the cliffs and attack the Zhongfeng Pass from above.

However, precisely because there was nowhere to land on the cliffs on both sides, the skeleton army's assault on the Zhongfeng Pass city wall became even more ferocious after their "midday rest".

The warriors on the city wall had just killed one of the skeletal monsters that leaped up, when two or three more leaped up after them. Their white skeletal claws gripped the crenellations of the wall like steel hooks. Even if their arm bones were severed, those eerie skeletal claws would still hold on tightly to the wall, becoming the grippers for the next skeletal monster to leap up.

Therefore, the crenellations of the city wall became the focal point of the battle between the two armies. Under Zhen Nantian's command, five or six shield soldiers guarded each crenellation, followed by seven or eight spearmen. Whenever a skeleton monster climbed onto the crenellation, it faced an attack from more than a dozen broadswords and spears.

At first, the skeleton monsters' attacks were rather scattered, which was effective in preventing them from climbing the city walls. However, as the number of skeleton monsters jumping onto the walls increased to two, three, or even five or six each time, the dozen or so level 40 Black Iron-rank guards were already finding it difficult to cope.

Looking at the stalemate on the city wall from the general's platform, Zhen Nantian's face was grim, but he did not appear flustered.

"Order the archers and mages to help eliminate the targets on the city wall."

The messenger on the general's platform waved a small flag, and at the same time, the messengers on both sides of the city wall began to make the same gesture.

The next moment, an archer fired three arrows simultaneously, piercing the three skeleton monsters that had just leaped up. Then, more than a dozen arrows pierced the bodies of the three skeleton monsters at the same time. The health bars of the three skeleton monsters were instantly emptied, and they fell backward with their heads tilted back.

The mages behind, like the archers, began to systematically pick off the skeleton monsters that were climbing or jumping onto the city walls, greatly reducing the pressure on the guards at the crenellations.

The sounds of bones scraping against stone, swords striking bones, arrows flying, fireballs or ice spikes piercing the air, and priests chanting atop the city walls, like a prelude to death, drew back the curtain on this war.

Every moment, hordes of skeleton monsters leap onto the city walls, while hordes of skeleton monsters have their health bars emptied, their skeletons scattered at the foot of the city walls.

A short while later, a scream suddenly rang out from the city wall. Zhen Nantian turned his head and saw a guard whose arm had been bitten off by a skeletal monster. A priest behind him cast a healing spell, and the guard was instantly restored to full health. At the same time, the skeletal monster, which was already standing on the crenellations of the city wall, was riddled with dozens of arrows, while dozens of mages continued to bombard it with fireballs and ice spikes. Finally, the skeletal monster's health bar was depleted, and it collapsed backward.

Zhen Nantian's eyes narrowed.

This skeleton monster is clearly much stronger than the previous one!

Suddenly, another scream rang out from the other side, followed by a continuous stream of screams from the city wall. Zhen Nantian didn't look at the situation on the city wall again, but instead turned his head to look at the canyon in front of the city wall.

Squads of skeletal monsters marched in orderly formation from outside the canyon into the battlefield, their empty eye sockets fixed on the city walls. They appeared much stronger than the previous skeletal monsters, some even wielding large swords.

Bronze level!

Suddenly, not far from the city wall, Zhen Nantian spotted another bronze-level skeleton monster. It walked a short distance in front of the wall and began to run. Zhen Nantian could almost hear the cracking sound of its leg bones rubbing together. Suddenly, with a leap, the bronze-level skeleton monster instantly soared onto the city wall of Zhongfeng Pass. At that moment, the guard in front of it, who had just slashed at another skeleton monster with his broadsword, was less than half a meter away from it. It opened its jaws, filled with pale white teeth, and bit down on the guard's neck.

Ah~

A piercing scream echoed throughout the Central Pass. Then, Zhen Nantian was horrified to see the health bar above the bitten guard's head turn red in an instant.

He turned around, the skin on his face peeling away, revealing his cheekbone, from which blood was still seeping. The dozen or so guards turned deathly pale, frozen in place. The bitten guard grabbed the shoulder of the nearest guard and bit down on his neck. In an instant, the blood bar above the bitten guard's head turned red as well.

Only then did the archers' arrows and the mages' fireballs begin to strike the bronze-level skeleton monster. The bronze-level monster withstood the attack, tearing a guard's shield apart with a single claw, then leaped down from the crenellation, pouncing on the guard and biting down on his neck with its terrifying maw. Under the onslaught of dozens of archers and mages, the bronze-level skeleton monster finally collapsed to the ground after biting five shield-bearing guards.

The remaining guards then reacted and used their broadswords and spears to slash and stab the five companions whose bodies had undergone abnormal changes.

In an instant, only one shield-bearer remained guarding the crenellations of the city wall. And screams of agony echoed almost simultaneously across the entire city wall at the central pass.

Death has officially begun.

The shield soldiers guarding the crenellations were almost all wiped out, and the seemingly impregnable central pass was torn open by the skeleton monster in an instant.

To Zhen Nantian's horror, he saw rows of bronze-level skeleton monsters running for their lives in front of the city wall at Zhongfeng Pass, and behind them, even more bronze-level monsters were walking towards Zhongfeng Pass.

Zhen Nantian's face turned deathly pale. He gripped the hilt of his sword, the Overseeing Blade, and shouted in a panic.

"Fire! Fire! Fire!"

The panicked voices, amplified by the array, echoed throughout the Central Pass, and after being blocked by the cliffs on both sides, reverberated throughout the Qiongfeng Pass.

The cannonballs suddenly shot out from the cannon barrels of the city walls, accompanied by a screeching sound, and exploded with a deafening roar in the valley in front of the city walls, making people's eardrums ache. Then came a continuous rumbling of explosions, and the entire valley began to tremble.

After a volley of fire, thick smoke rose 50 meters in front of the city wall. As the mountain wind dispersed it, Zhen Nantian's eyes narrowed again. On the nearly 10-meter-wide black rock face, the stronger skeleton monsters were still advancing towards the city wall. It seemed that the hundreds of shells had only cleared out the Iron-level skeleton monsters, without affecting the Bronze-level ones in the slightest.

Their empty eye sockets were still staring in unison at the city wall, which was quite eerie.

Meanwhile, the group of bronze skeleton monsters that were close to the city wall had already leaped onto the wall.