Chapter 333 - The Wide Strength Gap
Chapter 333: The Wide Strength Gap
“Deng Yuanjue, Shi Bao, Qiao Daoqing, and Li Zhu… It’s truly the other three greatest rebels!”
After the silver light in his eyes dispersed, Ji Ye remarked in a soft voice.
In Water Margin, there was one great rebel in each of the four cardinal directions, namely Song Jiang in the east, Wang Qing in the west, Tian Hu in the north, and Fang La in the south!
Deng Yuanjue, the monk who almost looked identical to Lu Zhishen, and Shi Bao, who used a flail as his weapon, were both marshals under Fang La’s lead.
In Water Margin, Deng Yuanjue was very strong and fought against Lu Zhishen without being defeated, and Shi Bao, with his saber and flail, even killed Suo Chao, who ranked 19th among the Heavenly Spirits, as well as Deng Fei, Bao Xu, Ma Lin, and Yan Shun. He was known as the toughest warrior in the south!
Qiao Daoqing, the Lord of Fiends, who sensed the Monocular from far away and created an illusionary scene with his spell, was even more sophisticated.
As an advisor to Tian Hu, Emperor of Jin, he had once caught Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Liu Tang, Li Kui, and other Heavenly Spirits alive.
When he fought Gongsun Sheng on the Five Dragons Mountain, he even showed the technique to remotely rob warriors of their weapons and revive the dragon-shaped sculptures similarly to what Ji Ye did!
In some versions of Water Margin, he was even Gongsun Sheng’s junior uncle and was even stronger than him.
However, if truth be told, Qiao Daoqing was still not as impressive as Li Zhu, or Mr. Golden Sword, that Ji Ye saw last.
In Water Margin, Lu Junyi, who crushed a thousand Liao soldiers on his own, was well-acknowledged to be the best warrior in terms of physical strength, apart from the made-up Zhou Tong who was said to be master to Yue Fei, Lin Chong, Shi Wengong, and Wu Song.
However, Lu Junyi was unable to defeat Mr. Golden Sword who had weird sword techniques!
It was the only failure when he fought other people in solo battles.
That was because Li Zhu was not a simple swordsman, but a cultivator who had practiced the sword techniques taught by a grandmaster.
Essentially, he should be compared to Gongsun Sheng and Qiao Daoqing.
Besides, his golden sword and compass were apparently both high-level treasures, which allowed him to detect intruders and fight back from twenty kilometers away.
However, Ji Ye’s mental power had already reached Extraordinary Rank-8, and he also practiced the most powerful Five Thunder Heavenly Spirit Technique in Water Margin, which allowed him to suppress a lot of spells, so he needn’t worry about the counterattack.
“Well, Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La… The three greatest rebels are all here, in exactly the direction they’re supposed to be.
“Then, is it possible that the enemy in the east will be…”
Ji Ye turned the Monocular to the last direction, only to see that the soldiers on the continent in that direction looked different from others.
They were all tall and strong. Their appearances and their clothes didn’t seem to be in the style of the Central Plain.
The first warrior that the Monocular caught sight of was dressed in an even more bizarre style.
He was more than two meters tall, with a yellow beard and blue eyes. He wore an iron helmet and full armor. He held a mace in one hand and a long spear in the other. He was also riding a horse that had two wings!
[He Zhongbao]
[Level: Extraordinary Rank-8]
[Rarity: Commander]
[Description: He’s a general in Liao and the deputy commander of the Wuyan Division of Liao!]
“Another ‘invoker’ is here!”
Ji Ye’s expression was solemn.
He Zhongbao was quite famous in Water Margin too.
He once fought Guan Sheng and Lin Chong, who were the top two of the Five Tigers of Liangshan, only to be defeated by both of them.
However, he wasn’t really defeated; he was simply luring the enemy to chase him.
As the second-in-command of Liao troops, he even had the remarkable achievement of breaking through the blockade of Hua Rong, Qin Ming, Dong Ping, and Zhu Tong when he was surrounded and outnumbered.
He was undoubtedly as strong as the Five Tigers!
More importantly, he was not just good at fighting on a battlefield.
He was as good at evil spells as Qiao Daoqing and Li Zhu were. He even trapped half of the heroes from Liangshan in a valley with his brothers!
“I didn’t expect it to be the Kingdom of Liao. I thought it would be ‘Song Jiang’!”
“But it does make sense. Although Liao wasn’t one of the four greatest rebels, it was still a villain in Water Margin. It wouldn’t be reasonable if I have to fight the Song court or Song Jiang’s Liangshan.”
In Water Margin, apart from the four greatest rebels, there were another two major forces, namely the Court of North Song and the Kingdom of Liao.
In most people’s eyes, even though the court made a lot of mistakes, it was not really a villain, but only a victim who had been misled by malicious ministers.
Therefore, in the advancement test, Song Jiang, who should’ve been in the east, was replaced by the intruders of Liao!
“Well, that’s not really a bad thing!”
Ji Ye wasn’t too disappointed at the result.
It was because there were a lot of riders in the Liao troops in the east.
Also, all of the riders were armored. Some even had their horses armored too. The neighing of the horses could be heard from twenty kilometers away.
In particular, the generals who wore beast hide clothes were riding mounts that clearly had special bloodlines.
“Those are resources that are worth paying attention to!”
Ji Ye’s eyes lit up.
Half of the Commanders on the Twin Dragon Island were cavalrymen, but due to the lack of horses, everybody could only command footmen except for Yang Zhi, who led the Black Armor Wolf Riders.
If those warhorses could become spoils of war, the Twin Dragon Island would be further strengthened.
…
“So, our enemy will be the villains in Water Margin?”
After Ji Ye landed from the sky and introduced the situation, the other players were all slightly surprised.
“That must be it.
“In order to become Transcendent, a settlement has to defeat the ‘evil’ forces in the setting that it comes from so that the positive and negative powers of providence can be combined!
“It does befit the announcement that certain evil forces will appear on the Land of Inheritance…”
Elder Zhou, however, nodded, as some of his speculations had been confirmed.
“Tens of thousands of soldiers?”
“Oh my god, the advancement test is truly unbelievably challenging!”
However, for most players, they couldn’t help but feel shocked after Ji Ye told them the number of enemies.
So far, the four evil forces of Water Margin that had arrived as part of the test already showed more than twenty thousand soldiers.
Clearly, they weren’t the entirety of their army.
As time went by, palaces, camps, and cities were appearing in the rear of the well-prepared soldiers.
How many people would be hidden among them?
Taking everything into consideration, how many enemies were out there? Thirty thousand? Or maybe forty or even fifty?
The Twin Dragon Island had used all the offerings available these days. Plus the reborn players that arrived, its total population had surpassed five thousand.
However, only four thousand of them were really capable of fighting.
The rest of them were pure support.
Because some Souls of Civilization had low levels, one-tenth of the people who were summoned were too old or too young.
The number of the enemies, by reasonable estimation, could be forty thousand, and most were healthy men who could go to the battlefield!