“Come, let’s discuss our battle tactics…” Luo Hua City Mistress was a democratic person, so she didn’t mind discussing with others. It was a pity that she didn’t know Yue Yang was only interested in discussing about tactics in bed. As for true battle tactics, Yue Yang completely didn’t understand a single thing.
Furthermore, she was asking an otaku, who never really fought on a battlefield before, someone who never truly led an army before, to discuss battle tactics.
That was even more dangerous than having no tactics at all.
“Actually, I have read Sun Tzu’s Art of War before; isn’t the highest realm of tactics to break the enemy’s’ resistance without fighting? However, it seems like this is not a possible option. I have also read the Red Army’s guerrilla tactics, it’s a pity that we won’t be able to use guerilla tactics here either. We can’t use landmines or trenches…” Yue Yang thought again. Amongst the Thirty-Six Stratagems, which one was the most applicable to be used here? Even after thinking for a long time on ideas like ‘besieging Wèi to rescue Zhào’, ‘deceiving the heavens to cross the ocean’, ‘killing with a borrowed sword’, or ‘luring the tiger off its mountain lair’, they are all inapplicable to this situation. As for the ‘empty fort strategy’, ‘inflicting injury on oneself to win the enemy’s trust’ and ‘the beauty trap’, Yue Yang doubted that they would work on the Bloody Queen. After pondering for quite a while, Yue Yang felt that the last stratagem of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, “If all else fails, retreat”, was their best bet.
(Shiro: http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/Suentzyy/Suentzyy03.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Workers%27_and_Peasants%27_Red_Army, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems)
Yue Yang had fought against a bronze-ranked level 7 Bone Dragon before. Its skull was extremely hard, and he wouldn’t have been able to penetrate it without his Innate Invisible Sword Qi.
Now there’s another bronze-ranked level 7 monster, the Blade Massacring Demoness. He reckoned that it was better not to irritate this monster as well. There was even a bronze-ranked level 6 ghostclaw rainbow-winged banshee who was helping from the air. It was still okay if it was just these two monsters, but, on top of all this, there was the gold-ranked level 5 Bloody Queen too.
What kind of existence was a gold-ranked beast like? Yue Yang could already imagine it from fighting the three-headed chimera in the Aries Temple.
Furthermore, this Bloody Queen was also a Gold King Beast.
However weak she was, she was still a queen.
Luo Hua City Mistress kept motivating Yue Yang on their way, advising him to think more about having a gold-ranked beast to show off to others, so that he wouldn’t give up so easily. The two of them passed through mountains and rivers, walking for more than two hours, before finally arriving near the domain of the Bloody Queen, the Flying Mountain.
Flying Mountain is a name for a type of island that floats in the sky.
They did not exist in the Soaring Dragon Continent but instead existed on every floor of Tong Tian Tower. At least one was located on every floor, even from places like the the surrounding walls of Blackstone Labyrinth of Star’s Domain, you could see that there were stones blocking your view of the sky, floating in the air. Of course, those are called floating stones. If a sky island was large enough and looked like a mountain, it would be called a ‘Flying Mountain’.
Still, a Flying Mountain-grade island in the sky wasn’t really a huge sky island; it actually belonged to the smaller type of sky islands. It was said that, not only could a city can be built on top of a huge sky island, even kingdoms were possible.
For example, Luo Hua City Mistress’s Waterfall City, is built on a sky island.
Under the Flying Mountain, there were two high cliffs linking to each other. There were also a lot of floating stones that took shape of a spiral ladder winding upstairs.
On the tall mountain’s summit, which almost reached the clouds, there was a beautiful pavilion. It was not known how many years it had taken the mother of the Bloody Queen to build that kind of pavilion, which unexpectedly looked similar to humanities’ architecture.
“If we can occupy this place, build a villa and let others come for a holiday, it seemed like a profitable business could be started,” Yue Yang started to fantasize. Didn’t Avatar simply just digitally create a few sky islands, find some actors to wear costumes, shoot a movie and suddenly become famous throughout the whole world? If he created a sky pavilion as a holiday resort, though it wouldn’t compare to the Avatar’s Holy Mountain, it would probably not be worse than the man-made coconut island of Dubai.
“Your idea is not bad, but I don’t think anyone would want to take such risks to go to the third floor of Tong Tian Tower for a holiday. That’s not going for a holiday, that’