With the destruction of these black mountain spirits under the bombardment, the entire mountain spirit tribe fell into chaos.
They fled madly down the mountain, not wanting to stay here for another moment.
Seeing this, Zhou Yan said, "All soldiers, obey the order, prepare for battle!"
"Yes!"
The soldiers quickly prepared their bows and arrows, ready to attack at any time.
With the more than one thousand people brought by Diao Chan, his soldier count had now increased to over two thousand.
More than two thousand people, all drawing their bows, would first engage in long-range attacks on the mountain spirits.
Before long, mountain spirits began to flee down the mountain one after another.
They were then subjected to a barrage of arrows.
Mountain spirits fell to the ground, filled with despair.
Their tribe was suffering from the terrifying 'natural disaster' attack, and the path down the mountain was blocked. They were about to be completely annihilated.
Compared to the terrifying 'natural disaster', the enemies before them were at least visible, so they chose to head down the mountain.
Though it was futile, they still rushed forward.
More and more mountain spirits descended, many without even their weapons, which they had discarded earlier.
Now, they could only rely on their numbers to break through a bloody path.
But the soldiers' arrow rain was too dense and too powerful. For every mountain spirit that came, one died. The ground was quickly covered with mountain spirit corpses.
The mountain spirits were terrified. Going back meant death, and going forward also meant death.
They were given no way out.
The soldiers began to advance, their ranks neat and orderly. The murderous aura of seasoned warriors made many mountain spirits tremble, and they fled back frantically.
The soldiers pushed forward, beginning to sweep and attack the mountain spirits in front of them.
However, artillery fire continued to fall into their tribe. Finally, a mountain spirit let out a series of guttural cries, leading the mountain spirits to charge towards the soldiers.
They were pushed to their limit, erupting with a spirit of facing death fearlessly.
So, Zhou Yan fulfilled their wish.
Annihilated them all, leaving none alive.
He stopped the defense towers' attack.
Because he was about to implement a scorched-earth policy on the mountain.
He began to encircle and kill these mountain spirits.
However, at the foot of the mountain, some soldiers were left to block the path for the mountain spirits to descend.
With intelligent reconnaissance drones, no matter where these mountain spirits fled, Zhou Yan and his men could find them and launch devastating attacks.
There were not many mountain spirits hiding outside. Two thousand soldiers began to enter the mountain spirits' caves in batches to kill them.
Since the mountain spirit caves contained a lot of supplies, Zhou Yan did not bomb them, otherwise, all these mountain spirits would have been annihilated by the defense towers' artillery.
Zhou Yan also led a group of soldiers into the cave to clear out the mountain spirits inside.
These mountain spirits picked up their weapons and fought back.
But the effect was very limited, posing no threat to them.
An hour later, Zhou Yan discovered a surviving black mountain spirit. This mountain spirit led a group of mountain spirit warriors, guarding a large cave, and had many archers attacking them to prevent them from getting closer.
Zhou Yan materialized his flying sword, transforming it into hundreds of flying swords around him, and charged towards these mountain spirits.
These mountain spirits could not withstand such a terrifying attack and were killed one after another by Zhou Yan. He successfully entered this large cave.
He saw the black mountain spirit.
The black mountain spirit unleashed a black energy ball from its hands, attacking Zhou Yan. Zhou Yan immediately used the "Dou Zhuan Xing Yi" technique, redirecting the black energy ball back.
The black mountain spirit was stunned, its eyes wide with disbelief. Could it be done like this? (o_o)?
"Boom!"
The black mountain spirit had no time to react and was consumed by its own attack, turning into a pool of black liquid.
"Kill!"
Zhou Yan ordered the remaining mountain spirits to be killed.
"Lord, we've found a warehouse!"
A soldier ran over and said to Zhou Yan.
"Let's go and see."
He walked towards the warehouse. The door had already been violently broken open by the soldiers. Zhou Yan entered and saw that it was filled with precious gold and silver jewelry, as well as a large amount of Spirit Coins.
These mountain spirits seemed to like gold and silver mines and had collected a lot, piling it all up in this warehouse.
In addition, there were precious diamonds, agates, jade, and gemstones.
He collected everything from the warehouse and continued to search other places.
He later found many high-grade ores, all six stars and above. The quantity of each type of ore was only a few thousand, but there were many varieties, totaling tens of thousands.
These high-quality ores were scarce and expensive in the market.
These tens of thousands of ores alone were equivalent to hundreds of millions of Spirit Coins.
The harvest this time was very large, and the entire wealth of the mountain spirit tribe could now be in his hands.
Later, he encountered rabbit tribes enslaved by the mountain spirits. These rabbit tribes were very afraid of them. He had the soldiers gather these enslaved races together before incorporating them.
He discovered that these rabbit tribes also had talents, namely tailoring. It was likely that the leather armor of these mountain spirits was made by these rabbit tribes.
Later, he saw many other enslaved races. What was gratifying was that there were also quite a few dwarf tribes among them.
These dwarves, with their forging talent, could bring a lot of wealth to the territory.
He wanted the other races too, because these races all possessed excellent talents.
For example, Orcs had great strength and could be used as miners.
Bullheads actually had special bonuses for farming, making them the best helpers for cultivation.
As for the Willow tribe, the fruit trees they grew produced delicious fruits and increased yield.
Having them plant fruit trees could increase the territory's spiritual fruit income.
Zhou Yan had a brief conversation with them and discovered that they were small tribes from the vicinity, all slaves brought back after their tribes were wiped out by the mountain spirits.
The mountain spirits were numerous. Even though the Orcs were strong, they still failed against the mountain spirits' human wave tactics.
He also learned from these slaves that these mountain spirits all came from one place, which was where the mountain spirit troops were stationed.
To Zhou Yan's surprise, he directly went to the mountain spirit troops' encampment.
The area was riddled with potholes, all created by the explosions, and treasure chests were scattered on the ground.
He went directly to one of the buildings.
It was an E-grade [Tent], which could be used for shelter.
This was an item, not a building.
It wasn't until he saw a large building that he smiled.
He clicked to view the building's attributes.
[Barracks: Mountain Spirit Warrior]
[Quality: D]
[Description: Can summon Mountain Spirit Warriors.]
This was a barracks from which these mountain spirit warriors were summoned.
"Not bad, not bad. I unexpectedly acquired a barracks."
He collected the barracks, curious about what kind of building it could evolve into.
He later saw more than ten [Mountain Spirit Warrior] barracks and was very happy. He wondered if he could evolve one into an RRR-grade top-tier barracks.
"What is this?"
He saw another barracks and checked its attributes.
[Barracks: Mountain Spirit Wolf Rider]
[Quality: C]
[Description: Can summon Mountain Spirit Wolf Riders.]
"So it's mountain spirit cavalry!" He remembered that some mountain spirits rode mounts before, and it must have been this building.
He didn't expect this building could directly summon mounts, and he wondered what kind of cavalry this mount could evolve into.