Chapter 747 - 405: Poisonous Sore
Chapter 747: Chapter 405: Poisonous Sore
The General’s actions have two main objectives.
The first objective is to verify Chu Qing’s capabilities.
He has heard of the name of the Third Young Master more than once.
The Celestial Evil Cult’s operations have repeatedly failed at the hands of Chu Qing, from Luochun Manor in the South Ridge to the Yao Tai Sect in Lingbei.
Along the way, he has been destroying all of the Celestial Evil Cult’s plans, invincible everywhere he went.
Being invincible for a moment doesn’t mean being invincible forever, but it certainly proves that this person has real skills.
Especially at the battle in Celestial Melody City, even though the General considers himself to be on a different Realm from ordinary Jianghu people, he couldn’t underestimate someone who can single-handedly kill two Saint Kings and defeat four of his War Generals.
Especially after observing Chu Qing’s journey, he found that his Martial Arts seemed to be improving at an extraordinary rate.
To what extent it has reached today, no one dares to say, no one knows.
Therefore, verifying Chu Qing’s abilities is part of the plan.
As the General, he naturally understands that knowing oneself and the enemy is the key to winning every battle.
And the second objective is not targeting Chu Qing...
Or rather, not only targeting Chu Qing.
It targets all the experts of the Lingbei Martial World aligned with Chu Qing.
Based on the first test, that decoy could execute one of the General’s Secret Techniques.
The power is also quite extraordinary.
If Chu Qing is not that impressive and dies under this move, there’s nothing left to say.
Charge directly forward and sweep away these useless folks of the Lingbei Martial World.
With that, this battle ends, and they can turn to the South Ridge, unify the Southern Domain, and present the entire Southern Domain to the Celestial Evil Sect Leader.
But if Chu Qing doesn’t die from that move and instead shows amazing combat strength,
Then the play continues...
The most critical point of this battle’s success or failure surely lies between the General and Chu Qing.
However, the battle formation between soldiers is equally important.
Once a move doesn’t kill Chu Qing, he will inevitably counterattack, and the decoy will perish on the spot.
Such actions could instantly ignite the morale of the Lingbei Martial World, and they would charge forward fearlessly.
This is to lure the enemy deeper.
As the saying goes, a cornered enemy should not be pursued.
But with the ’General’ dead, there will surely be those whose reason is overwhelmed by hot blood; where there is one, there will be many.
These people wouldn’t care about cornered enemies; they just want extermination.
The General had already set a trap, and once things evolved to this point, victory would be assured.
Not only would it inflict heavy damage on these Jianghu people from Lingbei, but it could also intimidate Chu Qing, making him fearful.
Unfortunately, this step also failed.
The people from Celestial Sound Mansion, Liaoyuan Mansion, and Yao Tai Sect seemed too united.
They advanced and retreated appropriately, with no real strategy, but their intent was clear.
The General, hiding behind and observing coldly, even with his status, could hardly refrain from cursing.
The influence of the three factions was too great, so with the remaining two factions and a group of truly unruly free spirits, one could easily notice their movements without much observation.
They weren’t planning to make anyone their leader, but in this battle formation, such a large number of people naturally guaranteed a sense of security.
As a result, many people followed them, advancing and retreating together.
The General’s plan was good, but apparently, Liu Zhaonian and Ouyang Tianxu were acting unpredictably and simply refused to step into the trap, while the disciples of the Celestial Evil Cult were being tortured miserably.
The General’s plan at this point could only be considered a quarter successful.
He had not truly gauged Chu Qing’s depth but knew that his Martial Arts were indeed exceptionally high-level.
So the first objective was half successful.
The plan to lure the enemy deeper completely failed.
Man proposes, but heaven disposes. The General has no complaints, and there’s still a move of improvisation left to use.
So, when Chu Qing and Prince Xi were entangled, and Prince Xi deliberately proposed to tell Chu Qing the whereabouts of the Ghost Emperor...
The General made his move!
This was mainly thanks to Prince Xi’s cooperation.
He knew at first glance that it was a decoy and that the real one was certainly hidden in the shadows.
Ready to strike at the right moment.
The clue about the Ghost Emperor was enough to attract any Jianghu person’s attention, and naturally, it was also the best timing.
If this Yijian could kill Chu Qing, everything would be settled.
If it couldn’t, then it meant Chu Qing possessed Martial Arts comparable to his, and an exchange of blows would absolutely be earth-shattering.
At this point, the Celestial Evil Sect could use this to break the Lingbei Jianghu people into pieces.
And then wipe them out one by one!
Unfortunately... he still miscalculated.
He didn’t know that Chu Qing possessed the Celestial Sound Transmission; the battlefield situation that seemed like a soldier-to-soldier and king-to-king confrontation was actually being remote-controlled by Chu Qing all along.
Prince Xi and the Hundred Corpses Demon Monarch, aside from the one unexpected explosive move by the Hundred Corpses Demon Monarch at the end, couldn’t exert any pressure on Chu Qing throughout the process.
The reason for not killing Prince Xi directly actually aligned with the unspoken agreement between the General and Prince Xi.
While they were looking for the right time to strike, Chu Qing was also looking for a suitable opportunity to bring the General out.
The final result wasn’t a win-win.
At least Chu Qing was quite happy; despite the blast by the Hundred Corpses Demon Monarch causing considerable losses on both sides, overall, Chu Qing and his side still had the advantage in numbers.
Most importantly, their peak combat power remained intact.