The Human Emperor c1-2382

by Huangfu Qi (皇甫奇)

  “Great Distortion Art!”

  With a furious roar, majestic Stellar Energy exploded out of Wang Chong’s body. Space began to twist and distort as a powerful energy wrapped around Wang Chong’s three-foot Wootz Steel sword and flew at Qutaybah’s barrier of Stellar Energy.

  Rumble! The inconceivable occurred. Wang Chong’s Great Distortion Art caused Qutaybah’s iron wall of Stellar Energy to ripple, distort, blur, and finally create a small gap. Wang Chong’s Wootz Steel sword shot straight through this small gap.

  “!!!”

  Qutaybah’s face twisted in shock. As he twisted his head, a hint of shock finally appeared on his aloof face.

  The Godking Yama was ‘dead’, but Wang Chong was still alive. This in itself was quite astonishing.

  Even more astonishing was that without the Godking Yama, Wang Chong had already fallen back to the peak Brigadier General level, with a massive gap in strength between him and Qutaybah, but even in this state, Wang Chong’s Great Distortion Art had still managed to create a gap in Qutaybah’s defense.

  In truth, Wang Chong had been preparing for this single assassination attempt for an extremely long time. When Qutaybah came to this startling realization, Wang Chong’s Wootz Steel sword was less than half an inch from his heart.

  But this half an inch was enough for a tremendous stream of Stellar Energy to explode from his body, becoming an impregnable fortress that firmly blocked Wang Chong’s Wootz Steel sword.

  “Everyone, attack and hold him down!”

  Gao Xianzhi and the others immediately began to seethe with Stellar Energy as they attacked Qutaybah. In a flash, three powerful streams of Stellar Energy had linked around Qutaybah. This vicious battle of martial arts had now become an even more dangerous battle of Stellar Energies.

  This was the only method Gao Xianzhi could think of at the moment to restrain Qutaybah.

  “Infidel, you’re seeking death!”

  Qutaybah floated in the air as he contended against the attacks of Gao Xianzhi, Cheng Qianli, Wang Yan, Banahan, and the others, pinning all of them in the air. But Qutaybah’s callous gaze remained fixed on Wang Chong.

  “War God Fortress!”

  This was one of the mighty techniques with which Qutaybah had stunned the world and made his name. Although it was just a thin layer, it was nigh invincible. In his military career, Qutaybah had encountered many opponents, but none of them had ever succeeded in breaking through his War God Fortress!

  “I will have you and the empire behind you slowly appreciate the taste of despair!”

  Qutaybah’s eyes glowed with contempt and scorn while his face exuded majesty and dignity. Even in this dangerous clash of Stellar Energy, he remained calm and relaxed. As a War God honed through fire and blood, he found that there was very little in the world that could shake him.

  Wang Chong raised his head. “Is that so?” he said in Arabic.

  Buzz!

  Qutaybah’s pupils slightly constricted and his expression shifted.

  “You actually know how to speak our language!”

  Qutaybah stared at Wang Chong, a tiny sliver of surprise in his eyes.

  Wang Chong didn’t reply, only coldly smiled as his body exploded with Stellar Energy. He once more exerted the full power of the Great Distortion Art as he used his Stellar Energy to launch a frenzied assault against Qutaybah.

  “It’s useless, ignorant ant. You have no understanding of power!”

  Qutaybah quickly came to his senses and peered down at Wang Chong with naked disdain. The pacification of this eastern world was foreordained to require his intervention. Anything that Abu Muslim could not finish conquering would always have to be finished by Qutaybah.

  “I will grant you death!”

  Just when Qutaybah was preparing to end this battle…

  Boom!

  There was a massive boom as the Wootz Steel sword that Qutaybah had blocked and pushed back suddenly managed to pierce through Qutaybah’s War God Fortress through some extremely bizarre and inexplicable method. It shot toward Qutaybah’s heart like a lightning bolt.

  Buzz!

  Qutaybah’s face immediately twisted in shock, but there was no time to think. A wave of fierce Stellar Energy exploded out from his body while a hand shot down to block the Wootz Steel sword.

  When everything had settled down, Wang Chong’s Wootz Steel sword had been stopped one foot away, in a stand-off with a golden hand imbued with powerful strength.

  Wang Chong’s all-out attack had in the end still failed to break through Qutaybah’s defense.

  Drip! An almost imperceptible red wound appeared on Qutaybah’s palm, and then a scarlet drop of blood dropped from the palm and struck the ground below.

  This almost inaudible noise instantly shattered the silence.

  In the air, the dazzling, composed and divine figure of Qutaybah shifted and wavered, a look of extreme shock in his cold eyes.

  Blood!

  In his twenty-some years of campaigning, Qutaybah had always been invincible and victorious. No one had ever been able to harm him or even make him bleed. But on this nameless eastern battlefield, he had been wounded, bleeding a drop of his precious blood.

  Chapter 1065 - The Demonic Emperor Old Man Appears!

  Chapter 1065: The Demonic Emperor Old Man Appears!

  Translated by: Hypersheep325

  Edited by: Michyrr

  “Unforgivable!”

  Qutaybah suddenly raised his head and stared at Wang Chong, his entire body beginning to seethe with terrifying killing intent.

  Bang!

  A destructive Stellar Energy erupted like a volcano from Qutaybah’s body and swept like a storm through the battlefield.

  Thudthudthud!

  Wang Chong, Wang Yan, Gao Xianzhi, Cheng Qianli, Banahan, Xi Yuanqing, Lou Shiyi, Li Siye, and everyone else groaned as they were thrown into the air like ragdolls. Plush! As Wang Chong crashed to the ground, he trembled and vomited blood.

  “Too powerful!”

  Wang Chong clambered to his feet, his eyes depressed as he looked at that figure in the sky. Qutaybah was far more powerful than he had imagined. The four of them were simply not capable of stopping him.

  In the air, Qutaybah surged with killing intent, everything for one thousand feet around him twisting according to his will.

  Bang!

  In a golden flash of light, Qutaybah gripped his sword with both hands, swung it into the air, and slashed down. His target was clearly the distant Wang Chong.

  This slash was suffused with Qutaybah’s hatred. It shot like a thunderbolt through the air, and before anyone could react, the attack was already right in front of Wang Chong. Given Qutaybah’s dreadful strength, if this attack struck true, Wang Chong was doomed.

  “Lord Marquis!”

  “Milord!”

  “Chong-er!”

  All the Wushang Cavalry and Qixi Protectorate army soldiers became frantic, as did Gao Xianzhi and the other commanders.

  But all of them had been injured in the battle with Qutaybah. They could only watch helplessly.

  Just when it seemed like Wang Chong would die to Qutaybah’s sword…

  “Stop!”

  An elderly roar exploded from the distance. In a flash, vast quantities of Origin Energy began to gather, transforming into a destructive storm that appeared right in front of Wang Chong and smashed against Qutaybah.

  This storm had appeared very abruptly and gave out dreadful rumbles and roars. Even space itself seemed to groan and depress at the pressure exerted by this storm.

  Qutaybah’s eyes chilled at the sight of this storm of Origin Energy. He leaned his body forward rather than try to dodge, his sword swinging down at the storm. Boooom! There was a golden flash of light and an enormous explosion as that storm of Origin Energy was cleaved in two and vanished into nothing.

  With the storm dispersed, Qutaybah could finally see what was going on.

  A giant blue hand formed from Origin Energy
was pulling Wang Chong backward.

  Even someone as experienced as Qutaybah felt his eyes widen at this never-before-seen sight, a solemn light within them. But Qutaybah quickly reacted, his eyes growing even colder and harsher.

  “Do you think you can escape from me!”

  Qutaybah gripped his sword and unleashed yet another dazzling and vast thunderbolt of an attack at Wang Chong. Ever since Qutaybah had gained his seat as Governor of War, he had never been defeated or even injured. Wang Chong had not merely injured him, but pierced his palm while countless soldiers watched, causing a drop of his precious blood to stain the ground. This was unacceptable to Qutaybah. Anyone who did this to him would have to die.

  Boom!

  The howling Sword Qi made the entire world tremble and lament in fear. Although he was also an Imperial Great General, Qutaybah had a strength that exceeded the bounds of imagination. Just when it seemed like Wang Chong was once more about to be slain, a figure approached at astonishing speed and slammed into Qutaybah’s attack.

  “Who is it? Who dares to wound my disciple!!”

  That elderly roar suffused with rage once more exploded from the skies. At the same time, a fist containing the power of an avalanche shot forward.

  Boom!

  There were no words that could describe that explosion. It seemed like the entire world had been blown to pieces, the shockwaves from this clash rising more than ten thousand feet and suppressing all other noise on the battlefield. When everything finally settled down, one could see the golden Qutaybah standing off against a black-clothed and white-haired elder, who stood sentinel in front of Wang Chong with eyes seething in rage.

  At this moment, all was quiet and time seemed to have stopped.

  “Just who are you? You managed to receive a full-strength blow of mine!”

  Qutaybah grimly and warily stared at the black-robed elder.

  In Qutaybah’s illustrious and victorious career spanning decades, no one had ever been able to take a full-strength attack from God’s Might with just their fists.

  “Where did this foreign barbarian come from that he dares to act so atrociously in front of this old man!”

  The Demonic Emperor Old Man’s hair danced in the wind as he stood in front of Wang Chong, and he clearly seemed on the verge of exploding with fury.

  Silence!

  Absolute silence!

  Neither the Governor of War Qutaybah nor the Demonic Emperor Old Man could understand what the other was saying, but it was clear that neither was willing to back down. Qutaybah’s eyes narrowed into slits as he examined the Demonic Emperor Old Man, seeking out any flaws. But his great sword, God’s Might, remained motionless.

  The Governor of War never feared battle, and stronger opponents would only stimulate more of his interest. This time, however, for the first time in his life, Qutaybah did not act with his usual impulsiveness. For the first time, he had encountered an unfathomable and intractable foe.

  Very difficult to deal with!

  This thought flitted through Qutaybah’s mind as he examined the Demonic Emperor Old Man.

  While Qutaybah was sizing up the Demonic Emperor Old Man, the Demonic Emperor Old Man was also sizing up Qutaybah.

  What a powerful barbarian!

  This was the Demonic Emperor Old Man’s first feeling.

  The Central Plains was a land rich in martial arts, with various sects producing many talented experts. There were also formidable experts outside the Central Plains, but the majority of them were only the equivalent of sect masters. Rarely was any of them as powerful as this golden-armored barbarian. The Demonic Emperor Old Man sensed that this person’s cultivation was already touching upon that sublime realm. The Demonic Emperor Old Man found himself somewhat in disbelief.

  “Master, careful. This person is called Qutaybah. He’s the War God of Arabia.”

  A weak voice came from behind him. Wang Chong propped himself off the ground with his palm as he looked up. Qutaybah was simply too powerful, and only his master was capable of dealing with him. In his prime, his master had been one of the strongest martial artists in the Central Plains, and he was probably now the strongest man on the side of the Great Tang.

  If not even his master could deal with Qutaybah, then Qutaybah was truly uncontrollable.

  “Chong-er, don’t worry. Just leave this person to me,” the Demonic Emperor Old Man said, his eyes still locked onto Qutaybah.

  The Demonic Emperor Old Man really did want to fight with Qutaybah, but his expression was hesitant.

  If he were alone, the Demonic Emperor Old Man would have already attacked, but if the two began to fight, Wang Chong was highly likely to be caught up in the battle, as he was in no condition to escape. In this situation, the Demonic Emperor Old Man could not fight with his full strength.

  As the two remained in their tense standoff, on the verge of doing battle, bong! War drums began to thunder and the lands east of Talas began to quake. Dust billowed into the sky as the loud cries rang out through the air, a sign that a vast army was approaching Talas.

  Before this army had even appeared, massive streams of saber, axe, and sword energy shot through the skies, causing space to twist.

  “Kill!”

  A mighty shout rang over the earth, and in a flash of light, fully-armored and mighty Tang soldiers appeared on the hills to the east of Talas. They surged over the hills like a mighty flood, seeking to sweep over the battlefield.

  “What’s going on here?”

  Beneath the black Arabian war banners, Ziyad’s eyes flew upon. The Arabs had more than four hundred thousand elites, and if this were an ordinary army of reinforcements, Ziyad wouldn’t have even blinked. But these soldiers were all comparable to Gao Xianzhi’s Iron Wall Army. If they were also similar in size to the Iron Wall Army, Ziyad still wouldn’t have worried, but to his consternation, he estimated that there were twenty to thirty thousand of these soldiers, perhaps even more!

  How could this be possible?!

  Even Osman grimaced at this sight. Just when he thought that he had finally understood the Great Tang, the Great Tang had once more revealed new facets of its power.

  “Everyone, follow me! Attack!”

  On the hills was a particularly prominent black warhorse with a white chestnut-shaped mark on its forehead. Wang Chong’s second brother Wang Bei sat upon this horse, his eyes red with rage and the veins all over his body bulging as he stared at the distant battlefield and charged down the hills.

  “Kill!”

  Countless enraged soldiers followed behind Wang Bei, shooting toward the Arab soldiers pouring through that distant gap in the defense line like a thunderbolt.

  The Divine Martial Army, the Dragon Stallion Army, the Roaring Tiger Army, the Xuanwu Army, the Divine Prison Army… the finest soldiers of the Great Tang charged onto the battlefield. There were only sixty thousand of them, but their momentum and energy surpassed even the vast Arab army.

  “Mo Saber Unit, attack!”

  Yet the first to enter the fray was not the Divine Martial Army, Dragon Stallion Army, or the other elite reinforcements, but the Mo Saber Unit which had been waiting in reserve.

  Boom!

  With this order, the ten thousand Mo Saber soldiers suddenly swept forward as a single cohesive unit, raising their seven-feet-long Mo Sabers simultaneously. In this weapon’s first appearance on the battlefield, the ten thousand Mo Sabers were thrust into the air to form a forest of sabers that pointed toward the sky while the ten thousand Mo Saber soldiers marched forward like a moving wall.

  Chapter 1066 - Qutaybah Retreats!

  Chapter 1066: Qutaybah Retreats!

  Translated by: Hypersheep325

  Edited by: Michyrr

  Boom boom boom! One step at a time, the ten thousand Mo Saber soldiers rapidly advanced with an unstoppable momentum. It appeared as if anything that stood in their way would be crushed into powder.

  The Mo Saber Unit advanced with such incredible speed that i
t took only a few moments for it to arrive at the most intense part of the battlefield. The Mo Saber soldiers at the very front of the formation suddenly swung their seven-foot Mo Sabers at the charging Arab cavalry.

  Neeeigh!

  The cries of warhorses filled the air, the Mo Sabers descending just as the Arab horsemen had raised their scimitars. In a flash, both horses and riders were cleaved into two. Screams instantly began to ring through the air as the thousands of Mo Saber soldiers tyrannically tore through the battlefield.

  Warhorses thumped to the ground and several thousand Arab corpses were soon added to the battlefield, yet this was only the prelude to the assault of the Mo Saber Unit.

  “Mountain!”

  Suddenly, the ten thousand Mo Saber soldiers roared as one and raised their sabers. Holding them close to their chests, they strode forward. Boom! As the second wave of Arab cavalry charged, the ten thousand Mo Saber soldiers struck once more. A single slash of their sabers instantly wreaked havoc through the Arab ranks, with nearly ten thousand Arab soldiers falling to their weapons. As churning dust billowed into the air, the Mo Saber Unit continued its advance.

  “Forest!”

  With another shout, the dense wall of Mo Saber soldiers continued their advance, a surging flood that could not be stopped. Boom! Another wave of Arab soldiers screamed as they fell to the Mo Saber Unit, their blood drenching the ground. The Mo Saber Unit was still advancing, even picking up speed.

  “Wind!”

  Yet again, the Mo Saber Unit cut down thousands of Arab soldiers, their advance never once slowing. It seemed like nothing in the world could stop them. Either the enemies would die or the Mo Saber Unit would die. There was no possibility of a third result. In this battle, the length of the Mo Sabers displayed their advantages. As if exemplifying the saying ‘one inch longer, one inch stronger’, the form of the Mo Sabers was ideal for slashing. Before the Arabs even had time to attack, the attacks of the Mo Sabers would have already landed.

  “Fire!”

  The Mo Saber soldiers continued to retract, raise, and slash their sabers. Wherever they passed, they left piles of corpses in their wake. They proceeded through the battlefield with a thunderous momentum, faster and faster, stronger and stronger, until finally…