At the sa ti when Li Xuan was being ambushed on the command platform, a man in black cape and straw hat was watching the battle below sowhat absent-mindedly in the sky above the battlefield.
That was Zong Xuanhua, the ’Shenlie Blade’, and his face hidden under the straw hat was frozen for a mont.
He watched the ninety or so formations below, unyielding under the assault of hundreds of thousands of iron cavalry, watched those Pi Room Iron Cavalry dwindle and die under the crossed fire of those formations.
After a long while, Zong Xuanhua reached into the void and a red parrot appeared on his shoulder.
However, from the parrot’s mouth ca the voice of Master Zhongliu: "What is it? Didn’t we agree? We’re not getting involved in this."
His voice was filled with evident decadence and fatigue.
"Your Excellency!" Zong Xuanhua’s tone was exceedingly solemn; "Things may not be as you anticipated. Today, in the Qiuhu Office of Chengde, Li Xuan has defeated the Pi Room Iron Cavalry with a hundred thousand soldiers. The army of more than seventy thousand corpses under control of the Empress of Liao will all be wiped out. And the final casualties of the Jin Army may be less than a thousand."
"Hmm?" The voice of Master Zhongliu noticeably perked up: "What happened? Did that Marquis of Guanjun resort to so cunning plan again?"
He still bore a grudge over the failure in the Capital City half a year ago.
And Marquis of Guanjun, Li Xuan, was undoubtedly the culprit of his failure.
Zong Xuanhua shook his head: "This ti, the Marquis did not use any trickery, he won by confronting the enemy head-on! With more than thirty thousand infantryn, he withstood the onslaught of two hundred and seventy thousand Pi Room Iron Cavalry and remained unbeaten. Now it’s just a matter of ti before an unprecedented victory. Also—"
He looked at the wilting Dragon Qi above the Qiuhu Office of Chengde: "Midway into the battle, I witnessed with my own eyes that at least one third of the accumulated Grassland Dragon Qi on Chengde’s side had dissipated."
"It’s impossible!" Master Zhongliu’s voice was clearly in disbelief: "I have crossed swords with the Pi Room Iron Cavalry of the Khitan people, how could they be obstructed by a re thirty thousand riflen?"
Master Zhongliu paused, his voice slightly lowered: "Could it be the Firearm Tactics that Marquis Li Xuan, singlehandedly promoted?"
"Indeed!" Zong Xuanhua slightly nodded: "Would I dare to deceive you? Their square formation, line column formation, and those ’flintlock rifled guns’ inscribed with runes, they all proved unexpectedly powerful."
Zong Xuanhua hesitated slightly, before opening his mouth in a dry voice: "I think, it’s best if you co and see for yourself. In my opinion, the real hope for turning the tide against the ’Plan of Heaven’ lies here, with the Marquis of Guanjun!"
He imagined that if this Firearm Tactics could be popularized, the people of the grasslands, despite their strenuous efforts, would never be able to take hold of the Central Plains.
The matter of the Huaxia ’shaving hair and changing clothes’ would beco even more unlikely to happen.
The blood-red parrot was silent for a mont, then it exploded, turning into pieces of red feathers scattering in the sky.
At the sa ti, the voice of Master Zhongliu also ca over.
His voice, cold like iron: "Keep an eye on here, I will be there shortly!"
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The golden-purple electric light transford by Li Xuan has reached above Zhang Guanlan’s altar.
Even before he arrived, his Liuli Haoqi had already turned into a rainbow light, piercing down toward the altar.
At this ti, under the condition of a flawed heavenly level, the Haoqi of ’Flawless’ already had so of the style of Yu Jie, the ’Shaofu’ of the past.
Thirteen years ago, at the incident of Tumu Fort, Yu Jie swept across his peers with his sub-heavenly level and the newly entered Liuli Haoqi.
Both Totaabuqa Khan and Abas were not his match.
And now when Li Xuan’s Haoqi was pressuring, even Shulv Ping, the Empress of Liao next to him, frowned.
Zhang Guanlan didn’t sit idly by, layers upon layers of arrays rose up in the air in front of him.
They were all immortal talisman arrays engraved deep within Zhang Guanlan’s Shenpo, staring with his Soul Power as the base, more than a hundred layers were overlaid and combined in an instant.
But for just a mont, Zhang Guanlan turned pale. He was watching this combined array that could fend off any heavenly powers be torn apart by Haoqi like it was made of paper.
Zhang Guanlan’s spirit trembled. Imdiately he conjured a hundred yards tall ’Yellow Scarf Lishi’ behind him, it gathered a vast amount of Divine Power, hitting as if the heavens were falling and the earth were splitting!
However, this ’Yellow Scarf Lishi’ that was trained by Zhang Guanlan with countless incense offerings until it reached heavenly level, just extended its hand, then imdiately shattered under the crushing ’Liuli Haoqi’ of Li Xuan.
Zhang Guanlan raised his hand again, countless vines sprouted and grew around the altar, quickly forming huge wooden hands covering the sky above Zhang Guanlan.
But they were extrely fragile against the impact of ’Liuli Haoqi’, as frail as rotten wood.
The Haoqi of Li Xuan had no other variation, it was rely oppressively rolling over. But within a short mont, Zhang Guanlan had exhausted more than ten sects of magic he had mastered, all of which were incapable of directly resisting.
——This was the exact embodint of Confucianism’s idea of ’Qi breaks all the laws’!
Moreover, he is now still gathering the force of ten thousand armies, making it even more difficult to resist.
Not until the end, did Zhang Guanlan reveal a silver-white ’Innate Eight Diagrams Mirror’ in front of him, which finally withstood the impact of Li Xuan’s Haoqi.
But at this mont, the blade light of Li Xuan was already coming down, the ’Gelong Knife’ wrapped in light and thunder slashed down heavily, causing a clear scraping sound on the ’Innate Eight Diagrams Mirror’.
a clear scrape was cut on the mirror surface, and then the mirror was blasted a thousand ters away by the blade light.
Zhang Guanlan’s face was ashen. He took out a long banner, waving it to summon innurable ghostly spirits and concentrated endless evil qi into his right hand, turning it completely black and rapidly swelling, tearing his clothes apart.
Then, Zhang Guanlan used this horrific right hand to directly block Li Xuan’s sword assault.
Li Xuan did not care, he roared, "Die!"
The vast ’Shen Kui Lei Yin’ directly shattered a third of the ghostly spirits on the long banner. Li Xuan’s ’Liuli Yi of the sword’, eradicated all the black qi on Zhang Guanlan’s hand, making his spiraling sword light reduce Zhang Guanlan’s right hand to a pulp in a split second.
The armor on Li Xuan’s right arm, ’Taotie’, opened a huge mouth and swallowed all these ghostly spirits. Even the magic banner was not spared, it was bitten into pieces and swallowed in.
Zhang Guanlan’s complexion was as pale as a corpse, his pupils had shrunk out of fear, looking like needles.
Now, Li Xuan reminded him of Shaobao Yu Jie, both were dominant and tyrannical enough to make people despair and helpless.
Zhang Guanlan could only summon back ’the innate eight diagrams’ mirror while he looked to Shulv Ping for help with his eyes. However, the forr Empress of Liao, had no ti to lend him a hand. She was facing off with a figure that appeared dozens of feet away.
The man was dressed in armor known as Liudao Fumo Armor, nurous wounds spilled blood without cessation. But his body was still tall and strong like a mountain, while the frosty glint of the battle-axe in his hands, made Shulv Ping hesitant to make a move.
"Are you Zhu Mingyue, the Venerable Liudao?" Shulv Ping’s eyes were cold as she spoke, conjuring a silver spear from the void.
In the sa instant, infinite Cold Power froze a surrounding mountain.
"It is indeed Zhu!" Zhu Mingyue’s voice was rough, "Empress, everyone must die. This mortal world is not for you to yearn for."
"Why can’t I desire when living is so good?"
Shulv Ping scoffed, "How could a person like you, who has a future of reaching Extre Heaven, living as long as heaven and earth, and shining as bright as the sun and moon, understand my unwillingness, my resentnt? But it doesn’t matter anymore, I willingly accept my defeat today, the hope of my Primordial Spirit reincarnating is almost non-existent."
She held a sarcastic smile on her lips, but her gaze beca sharp, "But if you think I will yield without a fight–"
Before she finished saying, a large amount of dust exploded around her. It was Zhu Mingyue’s battle-axe, slashing in front of her.
Although Shulv Ping tried to block with her silver spear, she was still blasted deep into the ground, plunging ten feet down.
Between the spear and the axe, are nurous cracks born, the layers of ground within a mile, all turned into dust at this mont.
This was the fierce confrontation between ’Indestructible’, the Rule of Extre Heaven by Shulv Ping, and ’Zhansha’ of Zhu Mingyue.
At this ti, Zhang Guanlan was in a miserable shape. Li Xuan’s Shi of the sword was formidable and unstoppable, in just a short twenty breaths of ti, he shattered more than a hundred of Zhang Guanlan’s Immortal Spells, and crashed three of his Immortal Artifacts.
Even the top-grade Immortal Artifact ’Taiyi Innate Eight Diagrams Mirror’ in his hand, was left with nurous fissures from the impact.
And just when this silver treasure mirror was once again sent flying by Li Xuan, Li Xuan’s ’Gelong knife’ already hovered at Zhang Guanlan’s throat. It was only a hair’s breadth away from severing his head.
However, at this mont, a black knife slashed in from the side, clashing with Li Xuan’s sword light and sparking a fiery blaze.
This was Li Zhetian’s Void Blade, it transford a majority of Li Xuan’s sword power into ’void’.
However, the remnants of Li Xuan’s Shi still gave Zhang Guanlan a terrifying wound on his neck, causing a large amount of blood to spurt out.
At that mont, Heavenly Master Zhang Shenye also appeared, ’Yangping Capital-controlling Seal’, one of the three major treasures of Tianshi’s mansion, pressed down with the weight of a mountain.
Zhang Guanlan imdiately started bleeding from his seven orifices, his entire body blew apart under the attack of the Yangping Capital-controlling Seal.
He was left with only a pure Yang Shenpo, which rapidly retreated a hundred feet away.
But at this mont, Heavenly Master Zhang Shenye threw out twelve long banners in twelve directions.
On these banners, each was adorned with images of twelve divine beasts.
These were the ’Shenfan of Twelve Yuanchens’, ’Yuanchen’ also ant zodiac signs. The twelve banners each held a divine beast spirit related to the zodiac, which made Zhang Guanlan’s Primordial Spirit trapped within the void of ’Shenfan of Twelve Yuanchens’ and unable to escape.
Li Zhetian, clad in black armor, wanted to aid, but Xue Yunrou followed closely behind. Her two fumo swords possessed ten million purple thunders, transforming into two huge thunder dragons, directly suppressing ’Li Zhetian’ below the ground.
Heavenly Master Zhang Shenye then coldly looked at Zhang Guanlan, "Marquis of Guanjun, how about leaving these two to us father and daughter?"
"Count in!"
Jiang Hanyun also arrived at this ti, her eyes cold as she looked at Li Zhetian, "These two, they must die today!"
Xue Yunrou’s father was her uncle; she held onto this hatred deeply.
Li Xuan slightly raised his eyebrows. He noticed that Jiang Hanyun’s previous opponent, the heavenly Evil Corpse, had dissipated its spirit and returned to dust.
He chuckled and halted on the spot, "Why not? However, I have other matters at hand and can only give you half a mont, Heavenly Master."
However, Li Xuan’s sword intent was still directed at Zhang Guanlan, he did not let his guard down at all.
He knew that both Zhang Shenye and his daughter Xue Yunrou wanted to get revenge personally and was willing to leave Zhang Guanlan’s life to them.
However, Li Xuan had to witness Zhang Guanlan’s death in person, he must get rid of the root cause behind the trouble in the North.
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