Divine Brilliance

Why did such a person go over to Gantian instead and serve Zong Shou?

It was him, it was Kong Family…

Zhongxuan understood in his heart.

It wasn’t that Kong Yao’s destiny dragged down Great Shang but that Great Shang was the Kong Family’s burden. This caused Kong Yao to show signs of failure so early.

At this moment, she was out of the cage and naturally could surge into the heavens, roaring out a thousand miles.

He remembered that year when Kong Rui argued with him that Kong Yao would definitely become successful, the expression and confidence he had… Anger surged within him.

He had lost the bet, but both of them weren’t in Great Shang anymore.

It was already too late to regret now!

Taking in a deep breath, Zhongxuan tried his best to calm himself down.

“Men!”

He shouted out and instantly a 20-year-old Taoist hurried up the stargazing platform.

“Go inform His Majesty! No matter what, even if all the Spirit Realm experts in the palace die, Zong Shou must be killed at Seven Cloud Mountain!”

The Taoist was startled and was about to speak. However, Zhongxuan shook his head.

“No! The stage is already set and can’t be turned around! Even if the palace experts rush over, it would be too late! Tell His Majesty to send a talisman to Donglin to say that we can’t participate in Daoling Vast Habitat’s plot any more!”

If he was not badly injured and was able to walk, he would have rushed into the palace right away.

The Taoist frowned once more and finally found a chance to speak, “Did you forget that this morning, His Majesty entered Qianlong Mountain to meditate and will only come out in seven days…”

Zhongxuan was startled and then he appeared decisive.

“Even the Queen can make a trip there. This matter is really important and can’t be delayed!”

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Beneath Seven Cloud Mountain, Hu Zhongyuan’s chest rose up intensely. He panted continuously.

He had already used up all his energy and his body was covered in injuries. He had less than five percent of his True Qi left and could only barely slash out.

However, the aura he gave off was still like that of a mountain.

Like that of a pillar, standing within the huge army.

He couldn’t go on anymore…

Although his face was really sharp, still as calm as before, he couldn’t help but have such a thought deep in his heart.

Seventeen of the dozens of stone castles to his right had already been destroyed. Looking out, it was all broken stone walls and castles.

Losing these structures meant that they could only use bodies to block the charge of the Night Demon army.

Luckily Kong Yao placed thousands of Five Arm Spiritual Crossbows at the foot of the mountain. This was why they were able to barely defend and not collapse.

The 600,000 troops of the right wing suffered 40% casualties.

However, he felt proud! In front of his army laid no less than 70,000 Night Demon corpses.

However, each time he looked to the left, he couldn’t help but sigh.

One really couldn’t compare with others. After fighting an entire night, close to twelve to fourteen hours, Ren Tianxing still held off the main force of the Night Demons.

Ren Tianxing commanded the same number of men but caused heavy damage to the enemy. They even had to stop attacking to prevent even more deaths to hope for the wings to break through.

The 300,000 Cavalry led by Zong Yuan were the easiest. However, opposite them there were 600,000 Night Demons who were on alert and didn’t dare to move.

Hu Zhongyuan knew that these two people had used all their strength to contain half of their army, it was already their limit.

He only blamed himself for not having the skill of those two. That close to instinct ability which allowed them to grasp the smallest weakness and counter-attack.

His eyes dimmed as he looked toward the east. The light was bright and he had no choice but to close his eyes. It was already close to noon.

The sun hung in mid-air, shining out tens of thousands of miles. The dark clouds and vapor around the Seven Cloud Mountain were all controlled by a certain power and gathered over here.

However, each time it got 300 miles close, a heat pillar would rise up behind Seven Cloud Mountain. Then, a wind would spread it all about, charging away all the dark clouds.

As a result, the entire 800 miles of battlefield was bright.

The rays of light shot down like sharp arrows, causing the combat strength of the Night Demon warriors to be reduced by 30-40% percent.

Most of them had pained expressions, their skin was tearing apart. Even then, it wasn’t something his troops could defend against. Instead, they charged forward like they were beasts and didn’t care about their lives.

His eyes witnessed a gory scene.

His pupils constricted and looked over, only to see a healthy boar-like thing knock into the square formation to his right.

It charged swiftly, holding two crescent knives. Where it passed, blood spurted everywhere. No one could block him as numerous body parts were severed and tossed in the air.

The thin spear formation broke apart and was instantly in chaos.

“You are asking to die!”

Hu Zhongyuan roared out, not thinking at all as he rode his beast over and slashed with his knife.

The sharp knife shadow brought with it an energy glow that was so small it couldn’t be seen. The energy within was really weak and was all used up.

The person scoffed coldly and laughed viciously as he attacked. Two crescent knives formed thousands of knife shadows and covered Hu Zhongshan within.

One side was exhausted and wanted to die, the other was full of energy.

They had the same cultivation but when the Tiger Overlord Knife slashed through the sky, full of blade glows, it was like a knife through butter.

The grinding on the battlefield allowed his current knife techniques to be really precise and efficient. He went all out, really domineering but also really swift and flexible. He wouldn’t waste any strength and wouldn’t conserve any energy.

In the past, Zong Shou would often give him advice which he grasped and merged into the knife.

Although he was nearly out of energy, he could push himself!

A few consecutive strikes and there was a loud “Pu” sound as the head of the Night Demon was sliced off.

The Tiger Overlord Knife shadow retracted. Hu Zhongyuan was too lazy to even look at the corpse as he headed back to his original spot.

The surrounding soldiers cheered, their morale rose once more.

A portion of those Grade-7 experts of the Night Demons had already been slain.

Out of 20, 16 of them died under Chai Zhou and his command.

However, when Hu Zhongyuan calmly rode his mount and stood still, his heart sunk to the bottom of his chest.

He didn’t know whether or not he would be able to wave his knife or how much energy he could use…

He didn’t know when this defensive line would break.

It was not far away, it wouldn’t be longer than 30 minutes.

The outcome of this battle was already decided! There was no other possibility…

The reason why he was still here recovering energy was not because he had hope in his heart, but to deal with the fight to the death later on.

It was a true fight to the death. Even if he was going to die, he was going to die valiantly!

How would he be willing to die without cutting off thousands more Night Demon heads?

He turned around and exchanged glances with Chai Zhou, only to see that his best friend was destroyed from the knee down. He was unable to walk and could only sit on a mount.

A Grade-8 Night Demon attack had injured Chai Zhou and Hu Zhongyuan had also used up 50-60% of his strength then.

Naturally, this person didn’t have it easy. His left arm had been sliced.

A long time had passed since he appeared.

He either died or was so badly injured till he couldn’t fight.

Chai Zhou was calm and accepted his fate. There was no fear or sadness. He just frowned and looked into the sky.

“Why is Ruler still fighting Jia Mingluo? If he doesn’t retreat now when will he?”

Hu Zhongyuan’s eyebrows rose up, worry flashed in his eyes.

He looked out to see that Zong Shou was still mid-air in an intense battle with Jia Mingluo. Sword Light was sweeping about for thousands of miles. He showed no intent to retreat.

He was actually suppressing Jia Mingluo by a little.

However, at this moment he was far from being able to beat him.

In their eyes, it was mostly a standstill.

At this moment, the Spirit Realm experts of the Night Demons were being tied down and unable to help.

Once the two wings collapsed and they were freed, the outcome would be catastrophic.

However, Zong Shou had no intention to retreat. Although they were anxious, they couldn’t remind him.

If they lost, but if Zong Shou returned safely to Donglin, Gantian Mountain would still be stable.

Those few thousand Blood Cloud Cavalry’s Dragon Horn Winged Horses could fly in the air. If they wanted to leave no one could stop them.

With Unparalleled General Talent like Zong Yuan and Ren Tianxing, they would be able to ensure his safety. Then, once Gantian Mountain stabilized, they could attack Huizhou once more and wipe out the Night Demons.

Just as he was worrying and grabbing his knife, a golden light landed from the Seven Cloud Mountain peak.

It was a message talisman. Hu Zhongyuan’s brow rose as he picked it up.

It was from Kong Yao. Her talents on the battlefield might not have been as good as Ren Tianxing, but she was much better than him. Looking down from above, she could see things that they might have missed.

He obtained her reminders several times and barely kept safe.

However, when he saw the details on this talisman, he opened his tiger eyes wide in shock.

‘Defend, store up strength. We are about to win, prepare to chase…’

Win? Chase? Was this woman crazy?