Chapter 454 - 379: Is That Position Really That Important?
Chapter 454: Chapter 379: Is That Position Really That Important?
As he spoke, the Jin Kingdom general licked his lips, his gaze on Qin Jingyuan filled with contempt and disgust.
But Qin Jingyuan didn’t even spare him a glance, murmuring to himself, "The time has come."
"What time?" the Jin Kingdom general asked, confused.
"Time for you to die."
The moment Qin Jingyuan’s words fell, a flash of sword light streaked before the Jin Kingdom general’s eyes.
His pupils gradually dilated. Finally, he felt the world spin before his head fell to the ground.
"Qin Jingyuan, what are you doing!" shouted a Vice General named Wang You. His mind went blank for a moment; it had all happened too fast!
"Kill the Jin army!"
Qin Jingyuan’s voice, carried by his Spiritual Power, spread throughout the entire army.
At first, the one hundred fifty thousand soldiers under Qin Jingyuan’s command were bewildered, but they reacted instantly when their comrades beside them began cutting down Jin Kingdom soldiers.
All the contempt and humiliation the Qin Kingdom soldiers had endured these past days erupted in that single moment. Like wolves and tigers, every soldier charged ferociously at the Jin army.
In an instant, the two armies were locked in a bloody slaughter!
"Your Highness! Yan Liuyun and his men are charging back the way they came! Their vanguard is less than ten li away!" Before long, a scout at the Dragon Gate Realm reported.
Upon hearing this, Qin Jingyuan pondered for a moment, then raised his head and used his Spiritual Power to project his voice across the army: "Those of you who aren’t afraid to die, follow me and charge into the Black Beast Forest!"
Hearing the Prince’s command, more and more soldiers fought off the Jin troops around them, battling their way backward as they retreated into the Black Beast Forest!
Although Qin Jingyuan’s one hundred fifty thousand soldiers didn’t have Detoxification Pills, they would be poisoned and die within an hour of entering the Black Beast Forest.
But they didn’t care at all.
What Qin Jingyuan wanted was to make the Black Beast Forest a graveyard for Yan Liuyun’s army, no matter the cost!
"Charge in! Kill them! Charge in!"
Before the Black Beast Forest, a Jin Kingdom general shouted relentlessly, but no one dared to charge into the forest like the Qin Kingdom army had.
They knew that without taking a Detoxification Pill, they would die!
"I told you to charge! Didn’t you hear me?"
Wang You led his troops in pursuit of Qin Jingyuan, but the army stopped before the Black Beast Forest, no one daring to advance a single step.
Meanwhile, as Yan Liuyun led his army charging back,
he saw Qin Jingyuan leading tens of thousands of armored cavalry, followed by an even larger army of tens of thousands more, all charging toward him!
"Qin Jingyuan! You bastard! Come and die!" Yan Liuyun was utterly enraged. He spurred his horse forward, great halberd in hand!
"Come and take it, if you have the guts!"
Qin Jingyuan was fearless, thrusting his Long Spear forward.
The two armies clashed.
Hundreds of thousands of Qin Kingdom soldiers caught up to the Jin Kingdom army, and blades were already clashing at the rear of the formation.
However, because they were caught in a pincer attack and escaping the Black Beast Forest was their only path to survival, the Jin Kingdom army erupted with a desperate will to live. The full pressure of their assault fell upon Qin Jingyuan.
But the army led by Qin Jingyuan was like a wall, holding back the Jin Kingdom’s forces with a resolve that treated death as a homecoming.
"Qin Jingyuan, if you retreat now, you might just save your life. If you insist on staying, then you can wait to die here with me!" Yan Liuyun said coldly after they had exchanged dozens of blows.
The corner of Qin Jingyuan’s mouth curled up. He smiled and said, "Dying here sounds pretty good too."
"You really don’t want your life anymore, do you?" A sharp glint appeared in Yan Liuyun’s eyes.
Qin Jingyuan didn’t answer, but his Long Spear responded for him.
A cold glint of light shot toward the spot between Yan Liuyun’s eyebrows. The two clashed again, fighting to the death.
Qin Jingyuan was at the Early-stage Golden Core Realm, while Yan Liuyun was at the mid-stage Golden Core Realm.
Although the quality of Qin Jingyuan’s Realm was high and he possessed numerous Magical Treasures, Yan Liuyun was no pushover either.
With a difference of one minor Realm between them, Qin Jingyuan was at a disadvantage.
Moreover, under the ferocious charge of the enemy’s tens of thousands of troops, the one hundred fifty thousand soldiers led by Qin Jingyuan were already struggling to hold their ground. It seemed their line could collapse at any moment.
"Die!"
Finding an opportunity, Yan Liuyun took out a Scroll and dripped a single drop of his Essence Blood onto it.
Yan Liuyun had summoned his Lifebound Magical Treasure—the Four-Phased Illusory Map.
The moment the Scroll opened, the Four-Phased Illusory Map peeled off the paper and enveloped Qin Jingyuan.
Yan Liuyun formed a hand seal and chanted the Techniques, and a powerful suction pulled Qin Jingyuan into the Scroll.
"Damn it! That actually cost me fifty years of my lifespan! Just turn into a puddle of blood and pus inside that Array Map!"
Yan Liuyun coughed, put away the Array Map, and continued to fight his way forward.
...
Inside the Array Map, Qin Jingyuan floated in an endless void.
His eyes were closed, and he had fallen into a deep slumber as the surrounding void slowly devoured his body.
After a moment, Qin Jingyuan’s brow furrowed, then slowly relaxed, as if he were dreaming of something...
...
"A birth! A birth! Your Majesty, the Empress has given birth! It’s a little princess!"
A Palace Maid ran out of the room, shouting joyfully.
"Good, good, good!" the Sovereign of Qin exclaimed, hurrying into the bedchamber.
"Little brother, let’s go see our new sister too." Qin Jingyuan’s wrist was grabbed by his older brother, who was three years his senior, and he was joyfully pulled into his mother’s bedchamber.
Qin Jingyuan looked at the baby wailing "WAH WAH" in her swaddling clothes. He couldn’t help but reach out and gently poke the infant’s cheek.
The baby grabbed her brother’s index finger and began to cry even louder.
"This is your little sister." Empress Shi smiled at her two sons and her newborn daughter. "From now on, you two are big brothers. You must protect your little sister, understand?"