Chapter 1523: What Evening is Tonight

"Caw! Caw!"The crows' cries were strange and sharp, irritatingly persistent.Yet the light of the Five Divine Powers shone dazzlingly, the Red Heart Power keeping the mind pure.Jiang Wang's eyes began to show resolve.The surging power of his Outer Manor of the Heavenly Mansion manifested its strength in this wilderness.Anyone facing Jiang Wang ought to be prepared to confront life and death.But at this moment, Du Yehu merely said, "What do you wish to hear me say?""To recount old times with you?""To ask if you still remember the good wine I hid under the bed?""To ask if you still remember our ambitions?""To ask if you still remember, that you are a man of Zhuang?"With each word he spoke, the killing intent on his body grew thicker by a fraction.He himself seemed to be linked to the running kill formation.When the last word was spoken, within the visible range of the grave mounds, all the skeletal white bones leaped into the air, each displaying agile postures, echoing one another from afar. And at the bottom of many grave pits, one after another, fully armored fierce soldiers leaped out!In total, there were approximately three hundred of them, moving with practiced discipline.They were all like Du Yehu, using a special method to conceal themselves within the grave mounds, hidden by the skeletal white bones.Until this moment, they fiercely leaped out.Each boiling with vitality and blood, they instantly formed a military formation, their battle aura swirling, and already roaring, it surged into Du Yehu's body, making his fierce tiger aura even more savage.These were the crack soldiers of the Nine Rivers Black Armor, personally forged by the famous general Duan Li, the strongest army Zhuang Country had cultivated with its entire might!There were only three thousand soldiers in the Nine Rivers Black Armor in total, and three hundred had come this time.On this gambling table, Du Yehu's stake could not be said to be small.He grasped the power of this familiar military formation, each fraction of battle aura feeling as though it were integrated with himself. He felt a swelling power, the Sending-Off Mace held horizontally before him, now stood vertically, and in an instant, he switched from defense to offense, striking down with a furious smash!Leading a charge and engaging in single combat, sometimes there was no difference. Whoever could more thoroughly implement their will, could better seize the opportunity.In countless life-and-death confrontations, Du Yehu had long integrated killing into his instincts.The iron-black heavy mace, like a gigantic handle, boomed open the gate of life and death between heaven and earth.And the blood-colored fierce tiger aura, to the left and right, roared, forming two vicious aura spirits.To the left was a bull's head, to the right a horse's face.Rushing forward together!The Yin God clears the way, battle aura solidifies. With the mace, he sends off the departed, no mourning for the good.This mace, is named the Gate of Life and Death.It was a desperate measure Du Yehu would never easily display.And Jiang Wang's sword arrived at this moment!Like the sky collapsing, like the earth sinking.That peak which propped up the heavens fell down as a sword, the body of the Heavenly Mansion grasped it, a single sword slash horizontally, intending to clear the sky for ten thousand miles.This sword rushed forward with an all-consuming momentum.Between heaven and earth, all was sword light!Since ancient times, the art of military formations has been to overcome the few with the many, to gather the weak to become strong. Those famous generals of the world who led armies in conquest, when they held a vast army in their hands, their combat strength could by no means be calculated by cultivation, and was far incomparable to when they fought alone.Just like in the Qi Yang battlefield back then, Chong Xuan Sheng and Jiang Wang, borrowing the power of the military formation of the Autumn Killing Army, a strong army of the world, also crossed realms to kill the aging famous general Ji Cheng of Yang Country.Although Du Yehu's cultivation was only in the Inner Mansion realm now, wielding a military formation formed by nearly three hundred fierce soldiers, he already displayed an aura that was by no means inferior to Jiang Wang's.Moreover, Jiang Wang was truly severely injured.But when facing each other, Jiang Wang's sword was so decisive, so fearless, without the slightest hesitation, only the resolve to break the enemy formation, only unparalleled confidence in himself.A sword that tilted mountains, who could withstand it?Sword and mace clashed decisively, sword energy and battle aura, in an instant, engaged in millions of fine, intricate confrontations. The bull's head and horse's face formed by the fierce tiger aura, instantly dissipated on the spot! No power could be displayed.The vicious ghosts guarding the gate died.The Gate of Life and Death opened.And Du Yehu, who had aged prematurely, was sent flying, body and all.Just like the previous exchange, Jiang Wang flew backward before his Sending-Off Mace.Jiang Wang in his combat state, even with severe injuries, was not someone the current Du Yehu could withstand.The power of the military formation surrounding him was directly and forcefully cut open in this completely unreserved frontal collision. The military formation personally passed down by Duan Li was shattered in a single exchange.The armored soldiers fell in succession.Like hailstones in the dead of winter, raining down from the sky.After landing, they lay scattered, some never to rise again.Nearly three hundred fierce soldiers of the Nine Rivers Black Armor, after facing this sword strike from Jiang Wang head-on, were already more than half dead or injured!This was the current Jiang Wang.This was the power of the Outer Manor of the Heavenly Mansion.This was the genius standing at the peak of cultivators of the same realm in the present world.Terrifying combat power!Jiang Wang stepped forward, sword in hand, as if his injuries were not injuries, the pain he felt was not pain.He rushed towards the backward-flying Du Yehu."The physique of a Military Family cultivator is indeed extraordinary, anyone else would already be dead. Old Tiger Du, you—"His voice stopped here, Jiang Wang, in mid-air, suddenly turned around.This sword swept in a circle, instantly cutting a hideous evil spirit that had silently floated behind him into black smoke.His movements were utterly natural, as if this fiercely approaching evil spirit had intentionally crashed into his sword.And with a flick of his backhand, a chilling long nail had left his hand, and in the empty field of vision, it directly pierced an invisible vengeful spirit!The Life-Killing Nail transformed into Buju Wind, the frosty white wind flew rapidly within the visible range, circling around a large area, and neatly swept back into Jiang Wang's hand, sinking into his index finger.Silently, the white bones that had leaped out of the grave mounds all dissipated.The moment he re-entered combat state, Jiang Wang began to seize control of this battle situation.He was very clear about one thing—even if Du Yehu truly had turned hostile towards him, wishing nothing more than to kill him quickly, he could not have executed such a meticulous, such a continuous series of ambushes.To be able to set up a trap specifically targeting himself, to be able to lay an ambush right under his nose.Using spirits to cover spirits, using overt actions to conceal chain links, using spirit tail traces to complete the large formation that currently enveloped this place.Using skeletal white bones to conceal the existence of the elite soldiers of the Nine Rivers Black Armor, and in turn, using these soldiers of the Nine Rivers Black Armor to conceal the movements of the skeletal white bones.To be able to calculate that he would inevitably target the formation core, letting Du Yehu lie in ambush there beforehand, delivering the first heavy blow that injured him.To be able to think of exploiting the previous relationship between himself and Du Yehu...This familiar style, everything about it, quickly brought a name to Jiang Wang's mind—Lin Zhenren.Therefore, when he drew his sword to confront Du Yehu's military formation, his greatest vigilance still lay with the enemy who had not yet shown himself.He openly pursued Du Yehu, but secretly sought Lin Zhenren.So when Lin Zhenren's next move, the killer, appeared, he easily shattered it, and furthermore, directly destroyed those skeletal white bones.These invisible vengeful spirits, these hideous evil spirits, were vicious methods.But they were far from enough.Jiang Wang believed that Lin Zhenren would certainly not overlook his strength.On the Guanhe Platform, he who would rather let Zhuang Country lose face, rather risk being slapped to death by Du Ruohui, yet resolutely refused to step onto the stage to fight, could certainly not underestimate him.So there were still subsequent moves!This step with the vengeful spirits and evil spirits was still just a test...Where was the subsequent move?Those skeletons had already been blown into dust by the Buju Wind, the subsequent evolutions should have been extinguished.So what other details had been overlooked?Lin Zhenren, where was he hiding?"Caw! Caw!"The crows' cries were like mourning for someone, provoking the restless killing intent deep within people's hearts.Jiang Wang constantly smoothed his state of mind with the light of his divine powers."Jiang Wang!"Stopping dead in the air, his feet stomping the air with explosive sounds, it was Du Yehu, his eyes completely red.Three hundred crack soldiers dead or injured by more than half in the blink of an eye, he himself wounded by Jiang Wang's sword, at this moment the killing intent on his body surged like substance.His armor directly exploded, shattering into pieces that flew like dancing butterflies.His bare, heavily muscled upper body, had blood-colored patterns spreading along the muscle lines.Those blood patterns on his chest, condensed into two broken battle flags, crossed and slanted, as if fluttering on a battlefield.As these two battle flags appeared, in an instant, fierce horses neighed, and weapons clashed.The two sides confronting each other in the wilderness seemed to have crashed into a battlefield of clashing metal and horses.This was the divine power, Blood Drinking!This hatred is hard to extinguish, drinking blood and sleeping on spears!This divine power had two effects. The first was to designate the area affected by the divine power as a battlefield. On the battlefield, a portion of the power from every shattered blood energy would be absorbed by the divine power user. Simply put, one could gain strength from dead soldiers.The second effect applied to the divine power user themselves—the more severely injured they were, the more strength they could gain from this divine power.For both divine power effects, the upper limit of absorbed power depended only on the divine power user's own physique and the degree to which the divine power had been developed.At this time, over a hundred soldiers had died on the battlefield.At this moment, Du Yehu was covered in sword wounds, his internal organs injured.It was precisely the best time to utilize the Blood Drinking divine power.Look at his body, the blood patterns were鲜艳欲滴.His veins were like mountain ranges, his muscles like cast iron, his bushy beard and disheveled hair, together, floated in the chilling strong wind.A general is the courage of a hundred soldiers.He was too much like a general.He was too much a general!As Duan Li had said before, he was born to be a fierce general who charged into battle.The Sending-Off Mace in his large hand also seemed to have gained spirituality, greedily absorbing the battle aura.In an instant, he completed the activation of the Blood Drinking divine power, the strength of his entire being, swelled to a terrifying intensity. The fierce tiger aura swirling around him, like a large banner unfurled, rolled up the remaining Black Armor crack soldiers back into the military formation."How dare you!"He stomped on the air, causing it to explode, and he came towards Jiang Wang like a giant rock rolling down from a high mountain, booming and rumbling.His appearance was savage, his momentum unparalleled: "Turn your back on me!"He had not yet arrived.The strong wind had already swept over.The wind knives cut at his face, causing a faint stinging pain.It was heavenly might, human might, battle might.And Jiang Wang merely raised his left hand expressionlessly, fingers spread wide, facing Du Yehu who was like a myriad of soldiers in one person.Super-grade Dao Technique - Dragon Tiger!Within the Sky-Penetrating Sea, monstrous waves surged.The wind blowing from all directions bound his limbs.Du Yehu possessed the might of the Blood Drinking divine power, Du Yehu walked the most ferocious and vicious path of the ancient Military Family, Du Yehu was bolstered by the power of the military formation... At this moment, Du Yehu was in his strongest state.He was facing Jiang Wang."Times are different now. Old Tiger Du!"Back at the Outer Manor of the Dao Academy, no one dared to directly clash with Du Yehu in his desperate state. But what time is it now, what day is it today?Today's Jiang Wang, what kind of person is he?As his voice fell, a sword had already swept out horizontally.A line was drawn between heaven and earth.Dividing high and low, cutting life and death.Learned from Chao Yu, evolved from the scholar's sword, what this sword severed was more than just grudges!The super-grade Dao Technique Dragon Tiger, inherited from the ancient Yang Country royal family, even if it could only make Du Yehu, empowered by various enhancements, pause for half a breath... That was already enough.Just as Du Yehu's mace strike showed no mercy, Jiang Wang's sword at this moment was also sharp, cold, and held nothing back.But just as Chang Xiangsi's blade was about to touch Du Yehu's neck.Jiang Wang's wrists and ankles, simultaneously, felt a cold sensation.That feeling—It was as if a cold hand had grabbed his wrists, grabbed his ankles, and fixed him in mid-air!At the same time, the Dao Yuan within his body drained away frantically, surging outward like a flood!His sword blade was pressed against Du Yehu's neck, the sword energy had already cut a bloodstain... but it could not advance further.Instead, Du Yehu instantly broke free from the Dragon Tiger's restraints, gathered the power of the military formation, and the Sending-Off Mace smashed down without delay!And at this moment.In the vast void, there seemed to be a cry of a divine bird.Named, "Bi Fang"!The moment his limbs were bound and his Dao Yuan drained away frantically, Jiang Wang understood what he had overlooked in this battle.The irritatingly crying crows!The moment he first heard the crows' cries, a killing intent arose, wanting to kill those crows.But he also realized that the killing intent he felt towards the crows was influenced by some kind of power. So he restrained his killing intent, preventing himself from following the urge to kill, in order to avoid falling into his opponent's trap.But this "restraint" was the very outcome that the person hiding in the dark wanted to see!That person had truly calculated Jiang Wang too thoroughly.Making Jiang Wang feel the interference of killing intent, thus subconsciously rejecting this choice, which actually made him ignore the crows' cries.But in fact, these things called Ghost Crows, if they kept calling, would slowly weaken Jiang Wang's perception and disintegrate his soul defense.This led to the current situation where invisible ghosts could approach and bind Jiang Wang.Thus, perfectly cooperating with Du Yehu's Sending-Off Mace, constructing the killing formation of this moment.It could be called a terrifying battle plan, an almost perfect grasp of the battle opportunity!Jiang Wang understood this matter in the shortest time, and the reaction he made based on battle instinct was faster than his thinking!Flame.It was as if endless flames exploded from the body of this green-robed cultivator.He held the Bi Fang seal in one hand, and the world-famous sword in the other.That crimson, all-consuming fierce fire, in an instant, rained down all over the sky!A fire shower in a clear sky, a flower blooming in one lifetime.In this fire shower falling all over the sky, behind this green-robed cultivator, the divine bird Bi Fang spread its wings, lifting its head to the sky.Bi Fang! Bi Fang!The Samadhi True Fire, centered on Jiang Wang, instantly swept in all directions, almost burning everything!