“You...!”
Zhang Cheng’s face turned from red to purple, the veins on his neck bulging. His remaining arm trembled uncontrollably.
Ying Bu’s expression remained like nine feet of cold ice, his pupils contracted to the conjunctiva. Zhang Cheng looked up, those pupils seemed to be from the nine netherworlds, chilling the soul!
“Riiip!!”
Ying Bu’s eyes flickered slightly, and a crimson light appeared at the root of Zhang Cheng’s right leg. Instantly, blood splattered, and a leg was severed from Zhang Cheng’s body.
“Ah!!”
Zhang Cheng cried out in terror, especially when he saw those soul-stirring pupils. His heart pounded rapidly.
“You are hesitating!”
Ying Bu’s voice softly entered his ears.
“Ah… pant… pant…!!”
Large beads of sweat covered Zhang Cheng’s forehead. His face was as pale as paper, his arm shaking uncontrollably, and his vision grew hazy. A voice echoed in his mind: “Hurry and draw, for the sake of survival!!”
“Sizzle!!”
His blood-stained finger trembled as it slowly approached the map on the ground. This distance, which was barely an arm’s length, felt like an eternity.
“Hoo!!”
Zhang Cheng’s nerves were weak and numb. His trembling finger powerlessly landed on the map, as if he had used all his strength, drawing the shortest route directly to the capital of the Ao Long Dynasty.
Ying Bu extended his right palm, and the map was instantly captured. He glanced at it and handed it to Chen Tang next to him.
Chen Tang’s expression was solemn as he looked at the red line in his hand, carefully observing the terrain of the Ao Long Dynasty. After about half an hour, Chen Tang’s expression gradually relaxed. He looked up and smiled at Ying Bu.
“Swish!!”
A saber inscribed with the character "灭" (Mie, meaning destruction) sliced across Zhang Cheng’s neck. Zhang Cheng, with one hand, covered his hemorrhaging neck and stared in terror at the divine and demonic figure that brought him his doom.
“General Ying Bu, our two legions will sweep through here and capture the defensive city of the Ao Long Dynasty’s capital—Tanzhou!”
“Our legions, without other outstanding generals, and the Vermilion Bird Legion’s composition, the Human King’s intention is clear: to grow through battlefield slaughter under the protection of General Gan Ning. Unlike us, who are alone and isolated, we should fight quickly against the Ao Long Dynasty, employing a lightning war to strike directly at the Ao Long Dynasty’s death throes!”
Chen Tang, despite his scholarly demeanor, spoke with exceptional firmness, no less than a fierce general in battle.
“In that case, General Chen Tang, there is no time to delay. We should strike quickly!!” Ying Bu’s face was filled with killing intent, like a god or demon.
...
“Kill!!”
In the northern desert of the Tianfeng Dynasty, the roars of soldiers echoed, stirring up the sky with yellow sand. In a desert, Gao Shun, leading tens of thousands of the Vermilion Bird Legion, was fiercely battling the army of the Sand Shadow Serpent tribe!!
After suffering losses from Sha Zi and Sha Ming, the patrolling Divine Mansion generals of the Sand Shadow Serpent tribe began to pair up.
“Soul Gather!!”
Two Divine Mansion experts of the Sand Shadow Serpents shouted in unison. The tens of thousands of Sand Shadow Serpent soldiers erupted instantly. Their faces turned crimson, and streams of earthy yellow primal energy continuously erupted from their bodies, rapidly condensing in the vast yellow sand.
“Hmph!!”
Gao Shun’s cold voice, filled with endless provocation, unleashed a spear strike. Boundless sharpness instantly churned towards the gradually converging earthy yellow primal energy.
“Get out of the way!!”
A Sand Shadow Serpent Divine Mansion general, wielding a hook, shattered Gao Shun’s spear light. The moment the spear light shattered, an earthy yellow figure instantly shot out. Before the earthy yellow figure, a cold light gradually compressed and condensed.
“Do you think you can hold me back and your Sand Shadow Serpent army can destroy my Great Han Vermilion Bird Legion, hmph!!”
Gao Shun advanced, thrusting his spear again and again. Each spear strike’s blade light was like streaks of crimson rivers, shrouding the yellow sand with a sea of blood, causing the void to tremble violently.
“Heh heh, how can we know without trying!”
The Divine Mansion expert of the Sand Shadow Serpents chuckled coldly, brandishing the hook in his hand. A hook strike was launched, emanating countless cold glints, as if stirring the boundless Milky Way.
Above the Sand Shadow Serpent army, the Divine Mansion experts’ eyes flashed with fierce light. They continuously roared forward, and with each roar, the primal energy released by the army below gradually condensed. For a time, streaks of earthy yellow primal energy resembled yellow dragons fighting, soaring through the nine heavens.
The combat power of the Sand Shadow Serpent army at this moment was even stronger than that of Sha Zi and Sha Ming’s armies. The instantaneous condensation of primal energy alone far surpassed the armies led by the other two.
“Hah!”
“Hah!”
“Hah!”
Tens of thousands of Sand Shadow Serpent soldiers roared in unison, and a terrifying bloody aura instantly surged. This was not the ordinary stench of blood, but a miasma that instantly covered half the yellow sand sky, continuously encroaching towards the Great Han Vermilion Bird Legion.
“Swoosh~~”
Sand Shadow Serpent soldiers extended their long tongues, and blood qi surged. Instantly, a rich yellow primal energy gradually condensed into a serpent ten thousand feet long, faintly visible!
“Rumble~~”
The ten-thousand-foot serpent was like the Sand Shadow Serpent’s true form. The moment it appeared, layers of cracks split open in the earth and yellow sand, accompanied by a ferocious, sky-piercing malevolence. Above the ten-thousand-foot serpent’s head, another Sand Shadow Serpent Divine Mansion expert’s eyes turned crimson as he stared intently at the Vermilion Bird Legion not far below.
“Kill!!”
The Vermilion Bird Legion’s副将 (fùjiàng, deputy general) roared, and a Vermilion Bird Legion banner instantly ignited with the Southern Bright Fire. Layers of flames surged into the sky, continuously extending outwards.
“Roar roar roar!!”
The ten-thousand-foot serpent’s green eyes began to tremble as it frantically roared at the Vermilion Bird banner.
The high-pitched cries of the Vermilion Bird echoed throughout the northern desert, shaking the earth and stirring the flames. Instantly, the Vermilion Bird banner trembled, and the Vermilion Bird pattern on the banner glowed brightly.
“Great Han Vermilion Bird!!”
“Arise!!”
Tens of thousands of Great Han Vermilion Bird soldiers, their faces flushed crimson, roared towards the sky.
Gao Shun cleaved the Divine Mansion expert he was fighting, turned, and stepped into the Vermilion Bird Legion. The moment Gao Shun entered the formation, the Vermilion Bird instantly awakened, and layers of Southern Bright Fire obscured the sky.
Gao Shun grinned: “Vermilion Bird Army Soul!!”
“Kill!”
“Rumble!!”
The entire half of the land was instantly condensed into a crimson Vermilion Bird that soared into the sky. With a flap of its wings, the Southern Bright Fire covered dozens of miles of yellow sand.
Each feather was clearly visible, far superior to the yellow Sand Shadow Serpent. The Southern Bright Fire swept across dozens of miles, turning the yellow sand on the ground into a fiery red, as if it were about to melt!
Gao Shun unleashed a spear strike. The colossal Vermilion Bird phantom behind him flapped its wings, and two enormous crimson claws descended, obscuring the sky!