World of Cultivation - Volume 05 - Charge Out of the Ancient Battlefield

by Fang Xiang

  How was this possible?

  When did the normal yao corps have such skill? When did a silver battle general become his equal?

  His successive countermeasures were ineffective against the other. Five breaths! Five continuous breaths! Ming Lie had sent out six orders, but the state of the two sides had not changed at all!

  Song Yuan’s expression also became serious. He was not a battle general but he could feel it more clearly. He felt as though they had landed in an enormous web and could not muster the strength to escape no matter what!

  A sword xiu that was ten zhang away from him was hit by several yao arts at the same time. With a wail, the entire person shattered into ice powder!

  Wails rose and fell. The other side’s cooperation was very high. The level of the yao arts were not high, but as they cooperated, their power was very astounding. A hint of grief flashed through Song Yuan’s eyes. Dying on the battlefield, even their souls could not escape!

  The yao arts and sword lights illuminated the sky. Some entered the bloody mist and caused it to shift.

  The collision between the two was brief but fierce!

  ———

  Liang Wei remained unaffected and coldly stared at the other. His consciousness was spread like a huge net, every detail of the battlefield happening within his grasp. The defensive light shields of a combat yao at the very front was shattered by several sword lights at the same time. He didn’t even manage to make a sound before he turned into a spray of blood.

  [Ice Heart Tundra] silently circulated, the heart like an icy tundra, unaffected by anything. Liang Wei had been very favored by the corps commander, who had secretly passed him the top yao art of the Ice Frost Corps, [Ice heart Tundra].

  Liang Wei might just be a silver battle general, but after experiencing that difficult battle of protecting the rear during the retreat, he had completely been reborn. Upon detecting this, the Council of Elders permitted him to lead a troop.

  Liang Wei knew the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides. He had no experts so he definitely could not enter a face off. The other’s experts were constantly being protected. If one wanted to use numbers to exchange for the experts deaths, the sacrifice was too high.

  Having made a successful attack, they did not linger and retreated!

  The bloody mist that covered Blood Sky Metropolis Jie was the best concealment for yaomo. Thousands of combat yao retreated in unison, their ranks organized. The combat yao that were at the end had lights flashing on their hands.

  ———

  “Stop!” Ming Lie shouted. He called back his subordinates that were planning on chasing after the enemy. The other’s formation was organized and there were no weaknesses.

  Ming Lie’s expression was black. A counter-attack would only cause them to land in the other’s trap.

  The results of the battle quickly came out. Ming Lie had lost nearly eighty people, and the other had lost just six. Such a skewed loss ratio was like a loud slap that landed on his face.

  The cold and indifferent gaze of the other as he had left was like the sharpest scorn. A silver battle general dared to be so arrogant in front of him!

  Ming Lie took a deep breath to maintain his calm.

  Song Yuan perceptively did not speak. Truthfully, he had also been stunned by that ferocious wave of attacks. He had started to gather experience on the outside world from when he was very young, and encountered many dangerous situations. But only today did he know that the dangers he experienced before was just child’s play compared to war.

  In the blink of an eye, eighty people’s lives were erased. How cruel was this!

  But what caused him to feel cold was the cool eyes of that young yao battle general that had no emotion. One successful attack without any lingering behind, so clean and crisp it was scary. Looking at Ming Lie’s black face, Song Yuan knew that just how terrible his shixiong’s mood was right now.

  He did not understand battle generals but he did know that Ming Lie Shixiong’s skill in Kun Lun was among the top. Otherwise, their sect wouldn’t have given the first battle to him.

  If the news that Ming Lie Shixiong had been tripped up on the hands on an unknown yao battle general spread back to the sect, it would definitely cause a great ruckus.

  This place was really full of danger!

  Song Yuan’s heart felt even more insecure.

  ———

  The fighting behind them did not attract Zuo Mo’s attention. His attention was completely on the three groups of mo that were rushing at them. He looked very closely. Pu Yao’s character was usually poor but he would not speak nonsense.

  Upon close study, he instantly made a new discovery. Mo battle generals were different than yao battle generals!

  Yao battle generals used their consciousness to control the troops. The troops were like limbs that advanced and retreated together. Mo battle generals did not care for troop formations at all. They were an unsightly mess and sprawl.

  But … …

  In Zuo Mo’s vision, the presences of those unorganized mo soldiers were tightly gathered together! The presences of hundreds of mo soldiers were gathered into a ball. Once it was one being, the pressure instantly was completely different!

  Zuo Mo seemed to see hundreds of muscles criss-crossing and joining together, tensing and turning into a fist!

  The three groups of mo soldiers were like three powerful fists!

  “The mo battle methods turn the complex into the simple, gather many into one, power overcoming technique, seemingly simple and extremely effective. The mo battle general is the only one of the three kinds of battle generals that requires a person to be individually brave.” Pu Yao’s tone then changed. “Your brain is stupid, you are more suited for the mo battle methods.”

  Zuo Mo was eager as he looked on. “How can I gather many into one?”

  “Oh, Wei knows,” Pu Yao said irresponsibly.

  Wei opened his eyes with slight helplessness, and looked in dissatisfaction at Pu. Ever since he encountered the strange corpse and saw an existence even more ancient than his, Wei’s desire to find a successor unconsciously faded greatly. Waking up from his obsession, he finally realized what he had guarded in the past had been lost in the river of time.

  The oath carved on the gravestone was only treasured by himself.

  Pu Yao could still encounter the descendants of his past fellows, and this maintained the connection between him and the world, he was not abandoned by time. Yet Wei was too ancient, so ancient that nothing could have been left.

  The strange corpse went to find his place of birth. Wei found with a grimace that he didn’t even have a target to search for.

  Wei’s desire to find a new successor drastically dropped. Wei, who had always wanted to show his existence, was disinterested when Pu Yao threw the problem at him.

  He said casually, “This is hard to learn.”

  “Harder than learning the mo physique?” Zuo Mo asked.

  Wei stopped breathing and finally remembered that this person was a freak that easily cultivated the Great Day mo physique that ranked second among colonel mo physiques!

  “It is not as difficult as mo physiques.” Wei decided to say the truth.

  “Then teach me!” Zuo Mo’s request burst out. He tried to widened his glistening eyes, and gave a desirous and fawning expression towards Wei.

  In terms of shamelessness, Wei was clearly not Zuo Mo’s opponent. He could only say, “Mo physique and battle general are two different things, I do not know much.”

  But when he saw Zuo Mo’s face turned towards him like a sunflower, he intelligently gave up on struggling. “Mo battle generals are truly different than other battle generals. The first thing they need to learn is to echo with the power of their comrades.”

  “Echo with the power of comrades?”

  Wei released a breath. The shameless expression on that face finally disappeared. He felt much more at ease and continued, “Yes, the power of mo
is the power of the fleshly body, of the true self. Only by echoing with the power of one’s comrades can one communicate with one’s comrades. The directions of power is much faster and accurate than sound!”

  “So it’s like this … …” Zuo Mo was thoughtful.

  Wei suddenly smiled. He spread his hands. “Don’t ask me how to echo the power of comrades. I don’t know either, I’m just a gravestone armor.”

  He hadn’t lied. For some unknown reason, when he saw Zuo Mo’s brow tightly furrowed, Wei’s mood that had just been helpless became much lighter.

  “Echo the power of comrades … …” Zuo Mo pondered. He seemed to comprehend something, but when he thought deeper, he had nothing.

  Immersed in thought, Zuo Mo directly forgot the fight that was happening now.

  A moment later, he suddenly raised his head, excitement unable to be disguised from his face. Without another word, he jumped up from the ground and ran away!

  ———

  Compared to Zuo Mo’s new discoveries, Gongsun Cha was entirely familiar with the mo battle methods. In war chess, he had faced all kinds of enemies. Even though the battle methods present were not the same as Pu Yao’s battle methods in war chess, they were of the same vein.

  To Gongsun Cha, there was no difference.

  Three section wave killing charge!

  The multi-colored sword energies that had bloomed in the air brightened up!

  Howling sounded and filled the eardrums. In a brief amount of time, the sword xiu of Vermillion Bird Camp pushed their speed to the max!

  The sword lights formed waves that charged at the three groups of mo soldiers!

  Compared to the past, the present Vermillion Bird Camp was undoubted more mature. When they performed their trademark three section wave killing charge, they were even more masterful. The waves made from sword energies were not as ferocious and sharp as before, but were more bouncy, as though there was an invisible thread that connected all the sword energies.

  The two sides collided!

  A strange scene occurred.

  Like waves, the sword energies gathered and scattered. They were like blades that danced about like butterflies, continuously slicing layers off the mo soldiers.

  The sword energies criss-crossed!

  In a blink, half of the mo soldiers were dead or wounded!

  This scene stunned the entire field.

  His chest full of fury and battle intent, Xi Ye’s body that just started to move seemed to be pulled to a complete stop by an invisible hand. He looked in disbelief at the waves of sword energies as though a basin of cold water was poured over his head, his limbs cold! Beside him, Lan Qing and the other mo soldiers were shocked!

  When the black-faced Ming Lie saw this scene, it was as though he was paralyzed.

  Inside the bloody mist, Liang Wei’s pupils suddenly shrank, his expression changed greatly, and his body entirely cold!

  Chapter 430: Black Horn Rhinoceros Mo

  Unlike Zuo Mo, Gongsun Cha noticed the combat behind them at once. He only glanced over before moving his gaze away. He couldn’t help but shake his head at the performance of this group of xiuzhe, but his eyes lit up at the performance of the yao.

  The xiuzhe’s collective strength was a level higher than the yao but they were being suppressed by the yao. Even if it was due to being ambushed, in Gongsun Cha’s eyes, the performance of this group of sword xiu was really not outstanding.

  Of course, he only glanced at them. The three factions were not very different in his eyes. If they landed in the hands of yaomo, it would naturally be hard to keep their bodies intact, but if they landed in the hands of the sword xiu, they definitely would not survive either. In such a sensitive place as the front lines, being a group of people with unclear origins, they would naturally be labeled as “dangerous.” To make it even worse was that they had too many valuable things on them that would breed envy in others and making them a target.

  If it was Gongsun Cha on the other side, he would definitely slaughter this kind of fat sheep if he ever he encountered one.

  Taking only a glance, Lil’ Miss put his attention back on the mo soldiers in front of him. Even though he had fought more than once against mo battle generals in war chess, there would always be a difference between reality and war chess. Especially a war chess design from a few thousand years ago.

  Lil’ Miss’ focus was a calamity for the mo soldiers.

  The two sides had the same general amount of manpower. Full of confidence, Lil’ Miss did not take the advantage based on numbers, but even so, the three groups of mo soldiers were falling at an alarming rate in front of Lil’ Miss’s most developed move, the three section wave killing charge.

  ———

  The one-sided battle shocked everyone, especially Liang Wei and Ming Lie. The two were exceptional battle generals and deciphering battle was their basic technique.

  Battle general was the profession that the three major factions had which was the most similar between the races and that each faction was the most familiar with. It had always been the case that the yaomo and xiuzhe thought of each other as enemies and were most sensitive to this kind of information.

  Shocked, the two simultaneously made the same choice—ask for reinforcements from the main army!

  After doing this, the two who had cold sweats could finally relax enough to closely examine the battle which was reaching its end.

  After watching for a while, the two almost exclaimed at the exact same time in disbelief.

  “Three section wave killing charge!”

  “Three section stab!”

  The disbelief on the two’s faces quickly became strange.

  “Shixiong, what is three section stab?” Song Yuan couldn’t help but ask.

  “Three section stab is three section wave killing charge.” Ming Lie stared at the battlefield with a strange expression on his handsome face. As if he was taking in his sleep, he said, “How is this possible … … how is this possible?”

  “Shixiong!” Song Yuan saw the situation was not right. Channeling ling power, he shouted like thunder.

  Ming Lie shook and his unfocused eyes became clear again. He looked gratefully at Song Yuan and explained. “I hadn’t expected that the thing this person would use would be the three section stab! Shidi may not know, but the three section stab is a very ancient yao battle tactic. This battle tactic was most popular three thousand years ago, but as it heavily favored offense over defense, the yao battle generals decreased their use of it so now almost no one uses it.”

  “Yao?” Song Yuan had a puzzled expression. “But these people are clearly sword xiu!”

  “The three section wave killing charge is what the yao call it, we usually call it the three section stab. Actually, this kind of tactic is more suited for us sword xiu. People have used it in the past, but it has a fatal flaw!”

  Song Yuan became interested. “What flaw?”

  “It cannot sustain itself!” Ming Lie became relaxed again. He said in a deep voice, “The strongest part of the three section stab is that it gathers short-term explosiveness together, and cannot be stopped. But this kind of explosiveness cannot keep going. Three section stab, it is most powerful in this charge. If the other can stop these three waves of attack, the situations of the two sides would instantly reverse.”

  Song Yuan looked at the battlefield and then said with a shake of his head, “They cannot hold against the three waves!”

  “Of course they will not hold up!” Ming Lie said firmly. “However, the defense line of the mo is not so easy to penetrate. Mo defense lines are usually thick. The distance between each defense line is not far, and it is easy to get reinforcements. Creating such a large ruckus, there’s no way the defensive lines behind will ignore it.”

  Before his words landed, a group of approximately two thousand mo soldiers appeared in everyone’s view like a black cloud.

  ———

  “Not right, this isn’t right.” Zuo M
o shook his head.

  In front of him, A Wen who was acting as his experimental subject was crying inside. But he didn’t dare to show any discontent on the outside. A Wen admired his fellows that were preparing to fight. The Guard Camp had finished preparing and were waiting to depart. Head Shu Long was personally leading. Every time he thought about the upcoming battle, he was excited.

  But … …

  Looking at the eager Boss, and then thinking about his situation, he began to wither like a tomato in frost.

  Heavens! Why did Boss suddenly want to experiment? Why did Boss have to use him as the subject?

  Boss told him to release his presence in a steady flow. He could not understand at all what the use was in doing this. But he didn’t dare to say that to Boss and docilely allowed Boss to move him around.

  Boss seemed to be trying something and would occasionally mutter.

  “No good … … this is not it!”

  “Not right, there’s a problem!”

  A Wen felt as though he was an idiot, and Boss was a madman.

  But even if Boss was a madman, he was still Boss!

  ———

  When this group of two thousand mo soldiers saw the remaining of their one hundred soldiers left, the eyes of the battle general that was leading instantly turned red. With a furious bellow, he charged like a rampaging bull!

  Many bellows sounded in unison. The sky changed color and killing energy filled the air!

  They came extremely quickly, the two thousand mo soldiers were like an enormous fist of metal that was burning as it smashed towards the battlefield!

  Vermillion Bird Camp sword xiu that were destroying the remaining soldiers couldn’t help but simultaneously pause, and their strong hearts showed a slight crack.

  “Black Horn Rhinoceros Mo!” Ming Lie’s pupils contracted.

  Song Yuan heard the great shock in Ming Lie’s tone of voice and hurriedly looked over. These mo soldiers were even more elite than the three previous groups of mo soldiers. Most of them were wrapped completely in black green armor. The surface of the armor was covered in beautiful patterns. Just from the sheen of this black green armor, Song Yuan knew the quality of the material was extraordinarily hard.