#1068 - Only God can do this
"Form ranks! Form ranks!" roared Ashina Zan, his voice like thunder.
The fact that Yue Wuxie, a Saint King Realm cultivator, could shatter ten thousand armors with a single sword strike overturned his understanding!
Not even a half-step Overlord Saint of the Ancient Legendary level could achieve such a feat!
The armor of the Rune-Armored Army was extremely special; the rune armors had a mysterious rune connection with each other, and the more soldiers there were, the stronger the defense became.
"Focus on defense, break down his sword waves, and look for opportunities to counterattack! His defensive barrier cannot last long! Exhaust his blood energy and drain him to death!"
Ashina Zan gritted his teeth. He had never been so wary of a single person on the battlefield.
At this moment, the youth named Yue Wuxie filled him with deep apprehension, an apprehension that surpassed even that of the Blood鬃 Lion-Dog Beast King.
If such an opponent was not eliminated, and given time to grow, it would become an unimaginable nightmare and disaster.
He was already so monstrous at the Saint King Realm, what would happen when he reached the Great Saint Realm?
Rumble!
The Extreme Heavenly Great Saint had been launching fierce attacks on Jun Wuxie from behind the army, but he was unable to shake the World Domain barrier.
Under Ashina Zan's command, the Wuan cavalry and infantry quickly formed a barrier, arranging themselves into a square formation with their battle spears pointing forward, in perfect unison.
Clang!
The sound of a sword echoed again.
Jun Wuxie unleashed a sword wave. A crimson sword surge rose high, wave after wave sweeping outwards.
Boom!
Almost at the same time, the Wuan cavalry and infantry attacked, forming a square formation and thrusting their battle spears forward.
Runes lit up on the tens of thousands of spears. The power of the spears converged, causing the crimson sword waves to continuously crash against them, but they could no longer break through.
They had resisted, using the power of special war rune spears to gather the strength of the masses and block Jun Wuxie's sword wave attack, which was infused with the intent of a soldier.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
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All around, the Wuan army's square formations advanced forward, the sound of their uniform footsteps causing resonance in the canyon, creating a terrifying momentum.
They formed a cage, the Wuan army's square formations pressing in from all sides like steel city walls, rapidly shrinking the encirclement. The tips of the rune spears, flashing with rune light and filled with sharp killing power, were getting closer and closer to Jun Wuxie.
"Kill him!"
Ashina Zan saw that Yue Wuxie was surrounded in the middle, and that the sword wave attacks he unleashed were being blocked by the formation of the Rune-Armored Army. A cruel smile appeared on his face.
The Wuan army received the order and thrust their battle spears forward.
Jun Wuxie's eyes were cold. He used the 'Line' character incantation and rune dao divine ability, instantly dodging thousands of times, avoiding most of the attacks.
Although the World Domain was not afraid of any attacks, each time it defended, it consumed soul power based on the intensity of the defense. The higher the defense intensity, the greater the consumption.
After a round of forward thrusts, the armor on the Wuan soldiers emitted a uniform rubbing sound, and the spears in their hands thrust forward again.
Jun Wuxie's eyes were incomparably cold. He once again unleashed his ultimate speed, shuttling through the countless spear tips, creating countless afterimages, his true body disappearing into the encirclement.
Immediately following, a dragon's roar shook the entire valley.
He forcibly broke through the gaps in the spears and advanced into a square formation of the Wuan army.
Azure-golden light bloomed, and an azure dragon appeared, rampaging and domineering as it shuttled through the formation.
Ah!
A chorus of miserable screams erupted. Countless Wuan army rune armors shattered, spears fell from their hands, shooting in all directions. Their bodies were blasted into the sky, some shattering on the spot, a cloud of blood mist permeating the air.
Jun Wuxie, holding the Dragon Cry battle spear that flowed with azure-golden light and was engraved with dragon纹, shuttled through the Wuan formation. Each time he thrust, the two-meter-long Dragon Cry seemed to transform into a hundred-meter-long azure dragon, sweeping in all directions, invincible.
He walked among the Wuan army, Dragon Cry sweeping across, each spear thrusting out an azure dragon, causing several azure dragons to appear, wreaking havoc in the rune-armored army.
All that could be seen were countless Wuan rune-armored soldiers being blasted away, many disintegrating directly in the air, blood raining down, the sky filled with broken flesh constantly falling, like a hell on earth.
Such a scene almost caused the other Wuan soldiers to collapse!
They were seasoned veterans, and should not have been afraid, having seen too much of the cruelty and bloodshed of the battlefield.
But such a scene was unprecedented, something they had never dared to imagine, that they would personally experience such a bloody and terrifying scene.
Their people were being shattered alive like this, large swathes dying, their bodies and souls extinguished, not even a corpse to be found.
The other formations wanted to stop Jun Wuxie, but once they launched a concentrated attack, they could not accurately select a single person to attack. It would result in a large area of coverage, injuring a large number of their own people.
Jun Wuxie had naturally seen through this point, so he broke their move.
He charged into a square formation, holding Dragon Cry and rampaging through the tens of thousands of soldiers in the formation, covered in blood and berserk, until only a small portion of the formation remained, and then quickly charged towards another formation.
He deliberately left a few thousand soldiers behind. These people could just restrain the rune-armored soldiers of other formations, preventing them from launching an attack.
In this way, he could disperse the World Domain while charging through the formations, taking the opportunity to recover his soul consumption.
As long as he was not subjected to a concentrated attack, or attacked by a Great Saint Extreme Heavenly Realm expert, he did not need to use the World Domain for defense.
"Attack him at any cost!"
Ashina Zan paid close attention to the situation on the battlefield from afar, and when he saw that Yue Wuxie was frantically harvesting the Rune-Armored Army, he gnashed his teeth in anger!
Ah!
Outside the battlefield where Jun Wuxie was located, miserable screams continued to erupt.
The high-ranking generals in the Wuan army, experts above the Great Saint Extreme Heavenly Peak, were being besieged by the Blood鬃 Lion-Dog Beast King, but were instead being reaped by the Beast King.
The Blood鬃 Lion-Dog Beast King's talent growth intensity was too high for its opponents, resulting in a very large gap between them.
Despite being besieged by more than a hundred people, they were still being crushed.
This was not like a battle at all, but a one-sided massacre.
If it weren't for the Rune-Armored Cavalry frantically attacking the Blood鬃 Lion-Dog Beast King, those experts would have been slaughtered long ago.
"Army, bring the pressure!"
Ashina Zan ruthlessly issued the order. He wanted to use millions of Rune-Armored soldiers to exhaust the blood energy and true energy of Yue Wuxie and the Blood鬃 Lion-Dog Beast King.
This youth was too dangerous to Wuan. If he could not kill him today, he would feel a chill run down his spine when he thought about the future.
"Commander, if this continues, not to mention whether we can kill them or not, but our Rune-Armored Army will suffer heavy losses and casualties!"
Vice-Commander Bahru's facial muscles twitched uncontrollably. The thought of the heavy casualties of the infantry and cavalry made it difficult for him to accept.
They had already lost more than three million under the heavenly tribulation a few days ago. If they lost several million more this time, plus the losses from fighting against the Dayan border army for more than half a year, what would the total be?
"Bahru, how can you be so soft-hearted! How can we see the result without trying? You should be very clear about what Yue Wuxie means to Wuan!"
"That's true, but our casualties are too great."
Bahru still insisted on his own opinion, although he knew that he could not influence the Great Prince's decision, he still had to express his heartfelt feelings.
"Are you worried about insufficient troops, or are you feeling sorry for them?" Ashina Zan's expression was cold, and there was no emotion in his words. "Being able to dedicate their lives to the dynasty is the greatest honor of their lives! Now, Wuan has the help of an expert, a lot of resources, and the highest-level rune armor and rune spears in Qingzhou. The dynasty is now recruiting soldiers on a large scale, so why worry about not having an army?"
"What the commander said is true, but even if many people enthusiastically join the army, it still takes time to cultivate such a rune-armored army. First of all, their realm must be at least at the Saint Realm Small Heavenly position. To become an elite, they must at least be above the Saint Realm Extreme Heavenly position!"
"Bahru, you have been leading troops outside for the past six months, and you know very little about the internal affairs of the dynasty. You don't need to worry about what you said at all. As long as there are enough Saint Sect Realm experts joining the army, we can cultivate rune-armored legions that are no weaker than the elite in a very short time. As long as the war requires it, we can do it at any time!"
Ashina Zan had a confident smile on his face, but behind such a smile was hidden a cruel and ruthless truth.
"This... how is this possible?"
Bahru was doubtful and uncertain. He couldn't believe it.
Because the talents of the people who joined the army were impossible to be high, most of them were extremely ordinary, unless they were directly recruited from academies or sects.
But there were very few such people. People in the Saint Realm were simply unwilling to come to the army. Only those above the Saint King Realm were willing to come, and those above the Saint King were at least small leaders, such as the platoon leader of a hundred-man team.
These people were not the primary body that made up the Rune-Armored Army. The main body of the Rune-Armored Army was still the most ordinary cultivators.
For such cultivators, even if there were a lot of resources, how could they improve their realm at any time when the war needed it and turn them into elite legions?
"There are some things you don't need to know, or rather, the time has not yet come for you to know the reason."
Ashina Zan showed a profound smile, and then stopped talking, watching indifferently as the Rune-Armored Army continuously attacked the Blood鬃 Lion-Dog Beast King and Yue Wuxie.
Even though the youth had shown too many things that subverted his understanding, he still did not believe that one person could fight against so many of his troops.
One person's strength will eventually be exhausted!
On the battlefield, the loud and domineering dragon's roar was mixed with the screams that rose and fell one after another.
In the sky above that area, you could see the figures of the rune-armored soldiers being blasted away at all times. In the sky filled with blood mist, the rune armor shattered and the flesh disintegrated.
This was a very cruel scene.
War has never been just about passion, it is cruel, bloody, and tragic.
As it is now, the corpses and blood-soaked mud piled up in this canyon, making it a veritable hell on earth.
The Blood鬃 Lion-Hound Beast King had slaughtered all the experts who besieged it and was now rampaging through the Wu'an cavalry, like a fierce tiger entering a flock of sheep.
It didn't understand the Dao of符, lacking Jun Wu Xie's ability to破甲 with符道, but it possessed absolute brute strength, relying solely on its sharp claws to be invincible on the battlefield!
Being an ancient beast, its physical body was formidable, its blood energy abundant, and its sustained combat ability extremely terrifying.
On Jun Wu Xie's side, he wielded Dragon's Roar, his spear strikes like dragons, azure dragons soaring and darting across the battlefield.
The sharpness of Dragon's Roar easily sliced through or pierced符armor, causing those符armored soldiers to fall continuously, while some were blasted away by blood energy, disintegrating in mid-air.
Under Ashina Zan's command, the Wu'an army disregarded the lives of their own men, attempting a strong assault on him.
However, they did not succeed.
The Blood鬃 Lion-Hound Beast King, having slain the besieging experts, arrived.
Jun Wu Xie leaped onto its back, simultaneously withdrawing the World Domain.
Prolonged use of the World Domain had severely depleted his soul power, leaving him with a deep sense of fatigue in his mind.
The Wu'an army's concentrated attacks bombarded them, but the Blood鬃 Lion-Hound Beast King's body lit up with runes, and true energy surged forth, transforming into sharp claws that easily tore through the combined attack of thousands of符armored soldiers, creating offensive conditions for Jun Wu Xie without the need for defense.
It carried Jun Wu Xie, charging back and forth through the Wu'an army, Dragon's Roar sweeping across all directions, mercilessly reaping the lives of Wu'an soldiers.
One man and one beast, unstoppable.
Ashina Zan had been watching the battlefield with a gloomy face, and even as large swathes of the Wu'an army fell into the pool of blood, his heart remained as firm as iron and as cold as ice, without the slightest emotion.
Many of the Wu'an soldiers broke down, beginning to retreat, no longer daring to attack.
"Those who desert the ranks and disobey military orders will have their families exterminated!"
Ashina Zan's voice was cold and ruthless, echoing across the canyon, ringing in the ears of all the soldiers.
This immediately stopped the retreating footsteps of those Wu'an soldiers who were terrified by the collapse, and then a fierce look appeared in their eyes as they charged towards Jun Wu Xie.
For the lives of their families, they chose to die here!
Even if they knew they were simply rushing forward to their deaths!
But they had no other choice, no right to choose their own life or death, although it was very helpless and sad, but the reality was so cruel.
Because they knew that if they retreated, they would also die, and their families would be killed as well.
"Ashina Zan, you truly have no bottom line!"
Jun Wu Xie did not expect that the Wu'an Grand Prince would use such a method of punishment to threaten the Wu'an符armored soldiers.
As a prince and the commander of the army, the fact that he could say such a thing showed how strong his determination to kill him was, to the point of madness, regardless of any cost or consequences.
"This commander only wants to kill you, a必杀!"
Ashina Zan's killing intent was as firm as a磐石.
"Blood鬃, charge forward!"
Jun Wu Xie's eyes were cold as he stared at Ashina Zan, and the Blood鬃 Lion-Hound Beast King, upon receiving the order, charged straight ahead through the canyon.
After the previous slaughter, the Wu'an army behind and on both sides had been completely killed by him, and now there were only enemies directly in front of them.
Ashina Zan personally commanded the army behind, continuously charging towards Jun Wu Xie, who was riding the Blood鬃 Lion-Hound Beast King.
One formation after another advanced.
The Blood鬃 Lion-Hound Beast King roared, using the technique of音杀, the sound waves sweeping out, causing the符armored soldiers to bleed from their orifices, making it difficult to form effective combined attack methods.
At the same time, it charged into the army, and Jun Wu Xie, riding on its back, swept Dragon's Roar across all directions, mercilessly reaping the lives of Wu'an soldiers.
Wherever they passed, a large vacuum appeared, leaving behind broken符armor and corpses all over the ground.
In this way, one man and one beast continued to advance!
Even if there were millions of troops ahead, they still could not stop their advance.
Outside the canyon entrance, the war there had ended, and the Wu'an army that attacked the border army had been completely wiped out. With no reinforcements, the fighting ceased.
The border soldiers, covered in blood, stood on the battlefield full of corpses and blood, their符armor and spears dripping with blood, their faces congealed with blood浆, their chests heaving, and their mouths and noses emitting heavy breaths, looking at the scene in the canyon, their eyes were extremely hot, and their eyes were filled with an admiration they had never had in their lives.
That god-like youth was too terrifying and too powerful. One man and one beast killed the Wu'an army, leaving no armor behind, and corpses were everywhere!
Was this something that humans could do?
He was only at the Saint King Realm.
Human power could not reach it, only gods could do it!
A few days ago, when that youth used天劫to destroy millions of Wu'an troops, although the border soldiers were shocked and excited, and had respect for him, and a little admiration, they still did not regard him as a god-like existence.
After all, borrowing the power of天劫was a trick.
But this time, all the border soldiers felt that they had seen a miracle, like a peerless战神descending to earth, unstoppable, and no one could stand against him!
