"Hu la la..."

As the blood formed a talisman on the chest, a ball of fire at the throat unexpectedly spewed out a crow engulfed in flames from the mouth and flapped its wings to fly up.

One after another, they danced in the air, charging forward against the yin wind sprayed from within the green-skinned gourd, the yin wind blew, but couldn't extinguish the fire, rather the more it blew, the more vigorous the fire became.

Whenever it met a person, it wouldn't burn cloth or leather, but when it encountered human skin and flesh, it would drill in.

The gourd army was startled by this sight and started slapping the gourds more forcefully, the wind they sprayed became fiercer and heavier, trying to blow back the fire crows.

In terms of capability, the gourd army actually had some restraint over the fire crow army; if they could blow the fire back, it would result in mutual destruction.

However, the food protection army on this side also had wind-users, and the think tank Iron Mouth, standing shoulder to shoulder behind Zhao Zhu, saw the fire crows and yin wind clashing and ordered his men to fetch his Big Wind Flag.

He stood under the flag, cast his magic with a sword, pointed remotely, instantly causing rolling strong winds to blow from behind the flag, guided by the flag surface, towards the entire battlefield.

The fire crows leveraged the wind power, becoming fierce, rolling forward like waves in clusters.

The gourd army was suddenly engulfed by the vicious fire, screamed continuously, flames directly burned into the battle formation behind the gourd army, relentlessly burning those soldiers carrying gourds into disarray.

"This battle is secured!"

Beside him, the think tank Iron Mouth saw this, put away the Big Wind Flag, and clapped his hands in praise: "The fire crow army is walking the right path."

Zhao Zhu watched the fireballs within the enemy formation, the smell of charred flesh wafting into his nose, eyes widened, and said, "Isn't this fire venomous and evil, yet you say it's the right path?"

"What do you think the right path is?"

The think tank Iron Mouth said: "Now it's Evil Sky above, Ghost Land below, all worldly magics have a touch of sinister nature, even the Ghost Walking Sect uses destructive methods like yin thunder, let alone other paths?"

"So whether the path is right or not, there's only one standard, is it a self-seeking way, or harming others."

"All those seeking magic from themselves are on the right path."

"The refining method of the fire crow army is to nurture a fire crow in their stomach; when needed, they'd use essence blood to summon it outside to drive the crow to harm enemies."

"The gourd army is cruel to others, the fire crow army is cruel to themselves."

"Nurturing this fire crow in their stomach itself greatly harms their body; initially, those who enter the fire crow army have yuan yang body, anyone wishing to marry and have children must leave the army and transfer the fire crow to another."

"Usually they can only eat vegetarian food, vegetables, and tofu, but each day they need three raw eggs to nourish their body."

"Even so, after each battle formation, their essence blood depletes significantly."

"However, it's not surprising the other side says every fire crow army member receives thrice the salary of others, to enlist this fire crow army under our command, not just three times the salary, even ten times, the world is full of people vying for it!"

"..."

During the conversation, they saw on the battlefield that no suspense remained; the enemy gourd army was broken and engulfed by vast seas of fire.

Seeing that they were waiting for the fire to weaken slightly, the army was just about to charge forward, but unexpectedly at this moment, those gourd army soldiers engulfed by the fire crow swarm, seeing no escape, simultaneously shouted and smashed their gourds against the ground.

One hit couldn't break it, they smashed twice, only to hear the thud and thud of countless gourds quickly shattering into large holes, something inside drilling out.

On the battlefield, sinister air suddenly spread, rolling up black mist with countless terrible screams heard within.

Those food protection army soldiers about to charge up also felt a wave of panic, seeing shockingly that out of the gourds emerged strange white human-like figures, sinister air surrounding them, the temperature around rapidly dropping, even the still-burning fires turned blue.

The fire crows flying in the air gradually slowed as if covered by yin wind, those driving the fire crows also began trembling all over, hurriedly recalling the crows back into their stomachs.

"Not good."

Even the think tank Iron Mouth was shocked at the opponent's cruelty.

Seeing defeat, they still smashed the gourds, risking their lives to cause this turmoil and aid the rear army's retreat to the city.

Those gourds, once smashed and broken, the things inside couldn't survive, but before dissipating, they would certainly unleash sinister evil.

Usually, these sinister entities can't wreak havoc in the army due to the large number of soldiers and their vigorous presence.

But now with many such sinister things, enough to cause a major ruckus.

Seeing the Miyun County general loudly ordering a retreat, the leading food protection army soldiers suddenly slowed down, with the rear soldiers affected, their formation starting to appear scattered.

Among them were some visibly confused, faces pale, with strange appearances; some even slowly turned around, raising their blades and spears at their comrades.

This unexpected change was beyond even the calculations of the think tank Iron Mouth, but beside him, Zhao Zhu saw it and was both shocked and enraged: "Too sinister!"

"Luckily I was prepared!"

"..."

Saying this, he waved the big flag, behind him a group of officers each carrying two clay pots, tied with straw ropes, around their necks, without swords and spears, loudly shouting as they charged into the center where the evil spirits were causing chaos from both sides of the army.