A blood-red saber light descended!
"Screech!!"
With a single strike, Ying Tao was instantly split in two.
The crumbling Ying Tao's pair of unwilling, terrified eyes stared tragically into the pool of blood. Seeing the mighty Han soldiers standing tall in the distance, no longer drawing their bows, he knew that the elite forces of the dynasty had all perished in this city.
Han Qin Hu sheathed his saber, descended from the void, and stood beside Meng Tian. Behind them, Ying Bu and Chen Tang gazed with stern faces at the city, which was gradually falling silent.
"Screech!!"
Meng Tian instantly drew the long sword from his waist, pointed forward, and bellowed, "The army charges! All soldiers of the Holy Origin Dynasty are to be slain, leaving no one alive."
On the city walls, Zhang Han, Shi Wan Sui, and Wang Bao Bao had all eliminated the deputy generals of the Heavenly Martial Realm who had darted out from the city.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Hundreds of thousands of Han soldiers, gripping their golden spears, instantly surged from all directions of the city. With no city walls to obstruct them, the massive army completely encircled the city and pressed inward.
As the army advanced, dust kicked up in their wake. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, wielding their long spears, reaped the Holy Origin Dynasty soldiers who lay on the ground, not yet dead. Eighty percent of the hundreds of thousands of imperial troops fell in pools of blood, most of them dismembered.
Han soldiers from all directions entered and exited the city, washing it clean four times. The fires that had ignited within the city were all stamped out by the army.
The golden spears were stained with blood, their original forms unrecognizable. The entire blades were enshrouded in a crimson sheen!
After four sweeps, the army returned once more, scanning for any remaining survivors.
The sky gradually darkened. The sunset glow in the sky, under the glow of the beacon fires, cast a particularly tragic scene upon the muddy bloodstains within the city.
The setting sun was like blood!
Meng Tian, Han Qin Hu, Chen Tang, and Wang Bao Bao sat together, examining the terrain of the Holy Origin Dynasty. Ying Tao, Ying Da, and Ying Wu, three cultivators at the Heaven Melting Realm, who had led the elite troops of the dynasty, had all been slain in this city.
Even if the Holy Origin Dynasty could not be crippled, this blow would still wound it severely.
This battle would surely make the name of the Commander-in-Chief, Meng Tian, famous abroad. Han Qin Hu, Chen Tang, and Ying Bu, the three cultivators at the Heaven Melting Realm, would also ascend to the pinnacle of the human race!
Shi Wan Sui, Ying Bu, and Zhang Han commanded the army, meticulously searching the city inch by inch. Following the order of "not to let go of any living force," they seemed as if they wanted to dig up the city three feet deep.
Slowly, the sky grew darker. The entire city was enveloped in the stench of blood and permeated with a suffocating killing intent. From all directions came the deep roars of demonic beasts. In the moonlight, the city was filled with groups of demonic beasts, constantly gnawing at the soil, occasionally looking up at the military camp a hundred feet away.
Within the Han military camp, Zhang Han, leaning on his long saber, gazed at the densely packed crimson eyes in the distance – the eyes of ferocious beasts. The hundreds of thousands of imperial troops within the city had all been slain here. The entire ground was soaked in blood, turning a deep crimson.
...
In Han's Chang'an City.
"Your subject Li Si pays his respects to Your Majesty!" Li Si entered the Xuanzheng Hall, holding a memorial in his hand, and knelt respectfully.
"Rise!"
Yang Hao closed a memorial. After the Han Dynasty had merged with eight other dynasties, its territory had become unprecedentedly vast. A series of public welfare and infrastructure projects were being steadily advanced and were now essentially complete. The memorials submitted at this time were all from the various ministers offering solutions or plans, which Yang Hao would review to grasp the development of the Han Dynasty.
"Your Majesty, according to intelligence from General Qi Ji Guang, the Great Cloud Dynasty sent an envoy to the Azure Sky Dynasty and received strong support. Currently, the Azure Sky Dynasty has dispatched two cultivators at the second level of the Heaven Melting Realm, and hundreds of thousands of troops entered the Great Cloud Dynasty yesterday." Su Dan Novel Network
Li Si's expression was grave. The Great Cloud Dynasty was weaker than the Holy Origin Dynasty and the Blood Sun Dynasty. Therefore, the task of attacking the Great Cloud Dynasty had been assigned to the Kui Niu Legion, which only had one cultivator at the Heaven Melting Realm. Now, with the Azure Sky Dynasty's army deep within the Great Cloud Dynasty, this undoubtedly increased the difficulty for the Kui Niu Legion.
"Bang!"
Yang Hao's expression instantly turned angry. The Azure Sky Dynasty's army entering the Great Cloud Dynasty at this time was clearly a move to kill two birds with one stone. Under the guise of supporting the Great Cloud, they intended to gain benefits between the Great Cloud Dynasty and the Cang Mu Dynasty, attempting to reap profits from him. They were dreaming if they thought they could take advantage of him.
"Issue an imperial decree to Qin Qiong, to lead the Qilin Legion to attack the Azure Sky Dynasty. Order the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Li Bai, to accompany the army. Limit the generals to two months to conquer it, then advance southeast to rendezvous with Qi Ji Guang's forces and attack the Cang Mu Dynasty!"
"Order Chen Qiu and Li Shang to go to the Great Cloud Dynasty and reinforce the Kui Niu Legion!"
Chen Qiu and Li Shang had both deeply grasped the essence of Li Bai's sword art. In just over a month, Chen Qiu's sword intent had stabilized, and his realm had also broken through to the second level of the Heaven Melting Realm. Li Shang had become Li Bai's disciple, and the Myriad Venerable Pills of the Pill Hall were naturally open to him. With the assistance of the Myriad Venerable Pills, Li Shang had also successfully entered the Heaven Melting Realm.
"Your subject obeys the decree!"
Li Si bowed slightly and quickly withdrew from the hall.
...
In the military camp in the mountains outside Chang'an City.
The once majestic and powerful military camp was now somewhat sparse, with only the Qilin Legion stationed there, undergoing daily drills.
The vast territory of the Han Dynasty was also gradually recruiting local martial artists. With the enhancement of a massive amount of Yuan Ascension Pills, hundreds of thousands of local soldiers had entered the Grandmaster realm, guarding important cities, fortresses, and ports across the Han Dynasty.
With further recruitment and improvement, they would gradually be integrated into the various legions, bringing fresh vitality.
"Hee-haw!!"
Mao Xiang, astride a warhorse, galloped through the military camp. Dressed in flying fish robes and carrying the banner of the Han Dynasty, he was the only one in the entire Han Dynasty with the exclusive right to do so – the Commander of the Imperial Guards – Mao Xiang.
Behind him, Li Bai, dressed in white, followed closely!
"The Human King has an imperial decree!"
"The Human King has an imperial decree!"
"The Human King has an imperial decree!"
...
"Boom!!"
Instantly, all thirty thousand soldiers of the Qilin Legion knelt on one knee!
"Your subjects Qin Qiong, Yu Chi Gong, and Cheng Yao Jin pay their respects to Your Majesty!"
Inside the command tent, Qin Qiong and the other two emerged, paying their respects to their sovereign with solemn expressions.
"The Human King has an imperial decree!"
"Order Qin Qiong to lead the Qilin Legion to attack the Azure Sky Dynasty. Order the Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Li Bai, to accompany the army. Limit the generals to two months to conquer it, then advance southeast to rendezvous with Qi Ji Guang's forces and attack the Cang Mu Dynasty!"
Qin Qiong bowed and rose, his expression indifferent as he accepted the Human King's decree from Mao Xiang. Five major legions were dispatched to three imperial dynasties. As one of the six major legions of the Han Dynasty, the Qilin Legion had been waiting for its moment. Now that the royal command had arrived, he would, by the Human King's order, lead the Qilin Legion to expand the territory for the Han King and conquer the world!
He raised the Human King's decree high and bellowed, "Qilin Legion, assemble!"
...