Chapter 1139: National Mourning

“Winner, Chu’s Dou Zhao!”

Heavenly Saber fell, and Yu Xu’s voice rang out at the right time.

A gentle, clear light flowed, covering Gan Chang’an’s body, protecting his soul and body, nourishing his vitality.

At this moment, Dou Zhao still held the Heavenly Saber, and the Heavenly Saber was still embedded in Gan Chang’an’s forehead.

Blood flowed like a waterfall.

Red and white, blurring Gan Chang’an’s face.

But the saber could no longer advance an inch.

Instead, it was slowly being pulled out.

It wasn’t that Yu Xu couldn’t expel the saber more easily, but that he had to preserve Gan Chang’an’s life and prevent the injury from worsening, while also protecting Dou Zhao, preventing his “intervention” from causing any harm to Dou Zhao.

This was the impartiality expected of the host of the Yellow River Meet’s main competition.

Sensing the firm and irresistible force, Dou Zhao confirmed that he could no longer cleave Gan Chang’an in two. He raised his hand, pulled out the Heavenly Saber, and lightly shook it.

The red and white matter clinging to the blade flew off.

Although he failed to kill his opponent, he had ultimately won.

For the people of Chu, fighting the people of Qin was probably more important than vying for supremacy.

At this time, Gan Chang’an, the peerless prodigy famous throughout Qin, was in a daze, his body mangled and broken. His head was even split in half! Only under Yu Xu’s protection did he escape death.

And Dou Zhao stood on the martial arts stage, holding the Heavenly Saber reversed in one hand, looking at the direction where the people of Chu were gathered in the stands, his arms spread wide!

He didn’t say a word, he didn’t need to say anything.

In the stands, the people of Chu, dressed in various colorful fine clothes, sang the Chu national sacrificial song together.

“Wielding Wu spears and clad in rhino armor, chariots wheels interlocked, engaging in close combat.”

“Banners block the sun, enemies like clouds, arrows fall in dense rain, warriors vying to be first.”

From Ye Lan’er to Xiang Bei, to every person from Chu who came to witness the ceremony.

Some shed hot tears, some had hoarse voices.

Some had flushed faces, some clenched their fists.

They all sang in unison—

“When the times are adverse, and the spirits are enraged, slaughtering everyone, abandoning them in the wilderness.”

The Battle of the River Valley was too tragic, with millions of Chu people losing their loved ones.

Children lost fathers, wives lost husbands, old people lost children…

They wanted revenge…

They wanted to avenge their shame!

The people of Chu sang in unison, singing the heart-wrenching sacrificial song—

“Truly brave and martial, ultimately resolute and not to be surpassed.”

“Though the body dies, the spirit is divine, the soul is steadfast, becoming a ghost hero!”

Dou Zhao suddenly sheathed his saber, and the people of Chu in the stands also fell silent.

He whispered softly: “Though the body dies, the spirit is divine, the soul is steadfast, becoming a ghost hero!”

This peerless prodigy who had defeated Qi’s Gan Chang’an, in his brilliant eyes, at some point, two streams of hot tears had rolled down.

Who can forget the national humiliation?

Furthermore, adding personal vengeance!

Among those who mourned on the River Valley Plain, there was also the soul of his own uncle!

Now, can he rest in peace?

This is just the beginning…

This is just the beginning!

The people of Qin gnashed their teeth, and the people of Chu were naturally excited.

But joy and sorrow are not shared.

For the others present, the battle itself was more important.

The world knows that the Dou Zhan Seven Styles are exceptionally powerful and unparalleled.

But those who had truly witnessed this “foremost killing technique since the advent of the world” were few and far between.

They knew it was powerful, but it was difficult to know that it could be this powerful.

In this battle, Dou Zhao used six styles of the Dou Zhan killing techniques.

Among them, Heavenly Punishment possessed divine might, Human Calamity invoked disaster, Skin Sack Decay disintegrated flesh and blood, Divinity Extinction withered the light of divine abilities, Soul Decay suppressed the divine soul, and Cutting Nature saw oneself and pointed directly to the heart.

It can be said that each style possessed an unpredictable power that even ghosts and gods would find difficult to fathom.

It was indeed the strongest killing technique Jiang Wang had ever seen in his life.

Gan Chang’an’s Causality Saber, a peerless saber art inherited from a True Monarch expert, was also overshadowed in front of the Dou Zhan Seven Styles.

And Jiang Wang paid more attention to the fact that even as strong as Dou Zhao, and as fierce as the Dou Zhan Seven Styles, with a determination to kill, he still couldn’t kill Gan Chang’an in front of True Monarch Yu Xu.

This was enough to show how difficult it was to accomplish this when Yu Xu was prepared.

Therefore, he must not let Yu Xu know of his killing intent.

While not attracting the key attention of this True Monarch, he might not be without oversight while simultaneously managing eight battles.

At that time, if the Unrestrained Wind blew, the divine soul would shatter. Would Yu Xu pay a huge price for a single Lin Zhenren?

Jiang Wang pondered silently, his gaze shifting casually.

The battle between Dou Zhao and Gan Chang’an had ended, but the other battles were still ongoing.

Jiang Wang’s eyes swept across and found that one battle had ended even earlier than Dou Zhao’s.

That was a man with long hair tied into a single bundle, eyebrows like autumn blades, and bright eyes.

He wore a sword at his waist, simple and plain martial attire, and his figure was tall and upright, standing in the center of the C-shaped martial arts stage, quietly watching the battle on the stage to his left.

Not far in front of him, only a pool of blood remained, and his opponent must have been carried away for treatment.

Jiang Wang had known before that this was the Wei Kingdom’s wandering swordsman, Yan Shaofei.

His opponent, who he had defeated early on, was Yue Kingdom’s Ge Fei.

It is said that this Yan Shaofei came from humble beginnings, with no famous teacher and few resources, growing up step by step on his own. He was very famous in Wei, with many supporters, a figure of the heroic type.

His ability to reach this point, defeating Ge Fei from a famous Yue family, and securing a place in the top four of the Yellow River Meet, is certainly a testament to his outstanding strength. However, in the eyes of many, it was also due to luck. After all, not everyone can be so lucky as to not encounter a Hegemon Kingdom’s prodigy throughout the journey.

If the Outer Building realm prodigy of Jing Kingdom hadn’t withdrawn from the competition, he would have been designated to face him in the top sixteen…

Without time to observe him too much, following Yan Shaofei’s gaze, Jiang Wang also looked at the battle on his left.

That was the battle between Chong Xuanzun and Mu Kingdom’s prodigy, Na Liang.

On the field, Chong Xuanzun’s sun wheel hung high in the air, its light illuminating everything.

Still clad in white, he moved back and forth in flashes under the effect of Chong Xuan’s secret technique, exceptionally dazzling.

Most of the gazes in the stands were also focused on him.

And the small-figured Na Liang, wearing a pair of sharp iron claws on his hands, half-bent his body and continuously launched attacks.

On the field, he was actually suppressing Chong Xuanzun!

His movements were not graceful.

He simply bent his legs and then sprang and jumped. It was so simple it was almost laughable.

But seeing the speed at which he leaped, no one could laugh.

He had barely lifted his toes from the ground when his iron claws were already in front of Chong Xuanzun.

His claw techniques were also not beautiful.

Like a hungry wolf pouncing on prey, there was only the most primitive ferocity, without an ounce of beauty.

But he moved like lightning under the sun wheel’s illumination, his iron claws sweeping away the sun wheel time after time.

Chong Xuanzun, who used Chong Xuan’s divine abilities in conjunction with Chong Xuan’s secret technique to explore his surroundings thousands of times in an instant, Chong Xuanzun who could move freely under the combined attack of Bao Bozhao, Chao Yu, and Xie Baoshu…

Was actually finding it somewhat difficult to avoid!

1, “Wielding Wu spears and clad in rhino armor, chariots wheels interlocked, engaging in close combat…” — *Jiuge: Guoshang*, Qu Yuan

2, I hope to make every battle in the Yellow River Meet exciting and worthy of the title of a gathering of prodigies from various nations.

The design of every battle, the conception of every divine ability, every move, the characterization of every prodigy…

Being able to do this much, I have done my best.

Tomorrow’s update is subject to chance.

Genius in one second: m.173kxs