Chapter 1568: A Powerful Nation Where No General Dies in Battle and Territory is Lost

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All spoke of the Slaughterer's unmatched might, yet in the Battle of Qiyang, he displayed extraordinary patience, advancing step by step, forcing Yang Jiande to sally forth and engage in a final desperate struggle.

All spoke of Cao Jie's stable generalship, yet here at Sword Peak Mountain, upon seeing Yu Liyang, he immediately placed an enormous wager!

There was no waiting, no probing, not even a single word of dialogue.

Only continuous escalation, escalation, escalation.

As if the Sword Peak Mountain before him were Guiyi City in battle!

How could an absolute main force like the Autumn Slaughter Army so readily exert its might at Sword Peak Mountain?

Gathering the power of the military formation and employing the formation's killing techniques are usually decisive means.

The soldiers' vital energy and Dao Yuan are limited.

Dao Yuan can be replenished with Dao Yuan Stones, and vital energy can be restored with Vital Energy Pills... It's merely a matter of resources. But the mental will consumed by the soldiers and the fatigue left in their bodies are not so easily resolved.

Even a world-class powerful army like the Autumn Slaughter Army cannot utilize the power of the military formation for extended periods. After this concentrated assault on Sword Peak Mountain, they must inevitably enter a period of rest and recuperation.

The territory of Xia is vast, encompassing a total of twenty-one prefectures. Is it truly worthwhile to expend the killer move of a main force like the Autumn Slaughter Army for a single strategic pass in the prefecture of Fengjie?

How will the subsequent twenty prefectures be fought?

Isn't the initial stage of war a time for mutual probing, understanding, and the establishment of a perception of the war between both sides?

In a large-scale battle of this level, to lightly unleash the decisive move is the path to defeat!

According to the norm of warfare, passes like Sword Peak Mountain should be filled with county troops or levied armies from the Eastern Region's various states.

If they couldn't capture it, and had thoroughly explored the defenders' system, only then would elite troops be deployed for a fierce assault—this is the normal choice of warfare!

The so-called "normal" signifies not making mistakes, signifying universal applicability, the path of righteous rule.

Thus, the higher echelons of the Xia Kingdom believed that stationing a True Person here would be enough to delay the Qi army for half a month.

With the personal presence of King Min, Yu Liyang, while firmly defending Sword Peak Mountain, also had sufficient space for advance and retreat. The Xia side simply wanted to delay the Qi army for the longest possible time with the smallest possible price.

But Cao Jie was too resolute!

The Qi army's understanding of the Sword Peak Mountain defense line also exceeded the imagination of the Xia defenders. It was as if they were attacking based on a deployment map.

Bearing the pressure of True Monarch Yu Liyang personally holding the fort, they unleashed their killer move from the outset, targeting the vital points of the Sword Peak Mountain defense line from the very beginning.

The Autumn Slaughter Army's formation killing technique, the Eight Decisive Blades of Mountain Severance, had now reached the seventh blade.

The battle general of military evil holding the blade at this moment was already fifty zhang tall.

He stood towering, like a giant who had walked from ancient times.

Even before the majestic Sword Peak Mountain, his existence was not one that could be ignored.

Not to mention that the blade, gathering the momentum of the army, was directed precisely at the formation node of the second segment of the mountain—even though the key nodes had been temporarily shifted three times, they were still precisely located!

How long the entire Expeditionary Army Headquarters had calculated the landing points for each of the Eight Decisive Blades of Mountain Severance need not be said.

How long the research on the so-called Five-Segment Array of Profound Virtue and Material Bearing had been ongoing, and how long the Qi Kingdom's intelligence system had been working... likewise need not be described.

That silent, perilous confrontation, all the sweat, sacrifice, and accumulation behind the scenes...

Just look at each blade of the Autumn Slaughter Army's formation, like a skilled butcher dissecting an ox!

Standing within the colossal military formation, Jiang Wang's feelings at this moment were completely different.

He felt his strength... that of Dao Yuan and vital energy, rapidly leaving his self and converging towards a collective will.

In the Victorious Camp, this gathered power was dominated by Chong Xuan Sheng. But within the entire ten-thousand-man army, these different parts of power gathered towards a grander whole, ultimately dominated by the Autumn Slaughter Army's General.

A ten-thousand-man military formation has an external concentrated will, fundamentally relying on the formation diagram. Under the guidance of the main general, it gathered military evil.

Although the individual strength of the main general of this army was not as great as his own.

Yet at this moment, the power Jiang Wang felt was vast and ferocious, far beyond his reach!

The soldiers of the entire Victorious Camp, under Chong Xuan Sheng's command, moved strictly according to their usual training, treading the formation diagram, following the inherent rhythm, unleashing Dao Yuan and vital energy, and surrendering their strength to the "collective formation will."

Jiang Wang could feel his own power surging within, rapidly transforming into homogeneous, Autumn Slaughter military evil power under the effect of the military formation, mixing with the whole. And this power, under the regulation of the formation diagram, was controlled by the main general of this army... even the power of this army's ten-thousand-man formation simultaneously obeyed a higher-level will.

In ancient times, this is how the human race gathered the strength of their weak kin, uniting all their transcendent and non-transcendent tribesmen, to overcome one opponent after another.

This continuous, surging onslaught of blade strikes, one after another, was Chong Xuan Chuliang remotely controlling the army's momentum, simultaneously accumulating power within himself while striking at the Sword Peak Mountain's mountain protection array, gazing towards Yu Liyang.

Facing the strikes of the towering military evil battle general, the defenders of the second segment of the mountain were almost in despair.

The Sword Peak Mountain's mountain protection array was far from its peak state.

With the first segment of the mountain almost destroyed by a hundred棘 boats, and the power of the earth脉 surging up, facing a powerful army like the Autumn Slaughter Army...

They were fighting desperately regardless of life or death, wave after wave of defenders rushing down to fill positions, barely maintaining the formation of the second segment of the mountain. But the earth脉 power absorbed by the great array could not move further up for a time.

Their own position was already precarious, and yet the massive military evil ghost-head blade struck again—

"Roar!"

Suddenly, a dragon roared!

A colossal azure dragon formed of military evil, with scales and claws complete, its momentum mighty. At this critical moment, it soared forth, biting down on the blade edge!

Its tail coiled around Sword Peak Mountain, cloud qi steaming. Its dragon mouth held the blade, reflecting a precious light. Its dragon eyes showed its might, and it knocked the towering military evil battle general into a stagger, causing him to fall backward.

Hua Hongzhao, Marquis Jing'an of Great Xia!

He seized the crucial moment, just as the last of the Eight Decisive Blades of Mountain Severance was about to be unleashed, he resolutely formed a ten-thousand-man military formation, and with the blessing of the Five-Segment Array of Profound Virtue and Material Bearing, the military evil transformed into a dragon, and he charged out of Sword Peak Mountain!

This was a nearly perfect strike.

Whether in the grasp of timing, the condensation of military momentum, or the mobilization of soldiers, it was all so.

Forming an array with soldiers far inferior to the Autumn Slaughter Army, resolutely interrupting the Autumn Slaughter Army's fluid formation offensive, how can one not say "perfect"?

But...

But who did he face? Not just this colossal military evil battle general, not just this one blade?

Fortunately, he displayed himself at this moment.

Unfortunately, he faced the Marquis Dingyuan of Great Qi, Chong Xuan Chuliang, known as the Slaughterer!

The military evil azure dragon held the blade and resisted, but the blade in its mouth instantly disintegrated. Right before it, the fifty-zhang tall military evil battle general instantly collapsed, like an avalanche!

Vast military evil, like a sea pouring down, collapsed between heaven and earth, and a blade swept across.

The arc of this blade was extremely high and its handle slightly curved, it emerged silently and swept horizontally without intention. As it passed, it wiped away all the surging military evil!

The Autumn Slaughter Army of one hundred thousand had completely integrated.

The will of one hundred thousand people condensed like steel, the vital energy and Dao Yuan of one hundred thousand people all mingled into Autumn Slaughter military evil.

Jiang Wang was within it, feeling like a drop of water in the ocean, converging into a raging tide with countless tiny streams. For the first time in his life, he felt the "soul" of an army.

He felt that such an army was "alive," with a definite vitality!

This feeling was very strange.

One hundred thousand people breathing together, sharing the same fate, their blood rushing in unison, their souls wandering together.

He was like his own "outer body," observing the "building outside the building" of collective power.

He felt that vastness and personally participated in it.

And Chong Xuan Chuliang, with the power of this vast army, soared into the air, stepping directly onto the head of the military evil azure dragon—crushing it alive!

He crushed the Xia soldiers who fell like rain, and crushed the Marquis Jing'an of Xia Kingdom who spat blood and flew.

And the corpses of those Xia soldiers completely became daggers and javelins, whistling as they fell, either striking the defenders on the mountain or hitting the array eyes of the formation.

Chong Xuan Chuliang himself continued to ascend, directly confronting King Min Yu Liyang at the mountain peak.

Commanding a military formation in battle is not simply a matter of stacking a large amount of soldiers' strength. It is not like Jiang Wang's arrival in the Star and Moon Plain back then, simply being swept along by immense power.

That kind of power was entirely a gift from the Polaris True Lord, while the military formation is the convergence of drops of strength.

Commanding a military formation requires concrete penetration to every charging soldier, grasping their state, constantly maintaining the formation, stabilizing the formation diagram, integrating drops into a surging tide...

The more soldiers, the harder to integrate. The stronger the formation diagram, the harder to grasp.

A formation of one hundred thousand soldiers.

None but a master of military strategy can accomplish it!

And thus possess the immense power to transcend transcendent ranks.

Of course, a military formation is a battle technique, intricately linked like the ingenious mechanisms of the Mohists, from soldiers, squad leaders, to centurions, then to generals, and finally to the commander... Every step must be tightly integrated to avoid too much waste of power. If any link has a problem, it will affect the whole.

The more powerful the military formation diagram, the higher the requirements for the soldiers.

Without daily drills, inscribing the formation positions into instinct, it is impossible to cope with truly high-intensity warfare!

The Autumn Slaughter Army is naturally a powerful army, and the military formation displayed by the Autumn Slaughter Army at this moment is naturally one of the top-tier types in the world.

With the blessing of immense power, Chong Xuan Chuliang effortlessly crushed the military evil azure dragon formed by Hua Hongzhao's array, and continued to attack upwards.

For Chong Xuan Chuliang, he was not the commander of the Expeditionary Army against Xia, he did not need to consider the overall situation, nor did he consider whether the Autumn Slaughter Army's fierce attack on Sword Peak Mountain was worthwhile. Cao Jie wanted him to put pressure on Yu Liyang, so he put pressure on Yu Liyang, that was all.

Therefore, at this moment.

Leaping high over Sword Peak Mountain.

A blade strike against King Min!

With the momentum of one hundred thousand Autumn Slaughter soldiers as one, their military evil condensed, operating the world's top-tier Autumn Slaughter formation diagram, what level of power was that?

People saw Chong Xuan Chuliang ascend into the air, his world-renowned Life-Cutting Blade, as if it had already split heaven and earth.

This person and this blade, infinitely spread out in the field of vision.

That rugged Sword Peak Mountain, more than three hundred zhang high, was like a lump of mud!

At this time.

Yu Liyang, standing on the mountaintop with a graceful appearance, looked down lowly.

In the vast and endless conscious level, he had already pursued Yan Ping for several rounds. The collision at the level of Dao principles was about to truly occur.

And in this real and un虚 world, Chong Xuan Chuliang wielded his blade with a vast military formation, its edge already perceived by him.

The Slaughterer wields the Life-Cutting Blade, also taking it as his Dao.

Because this Dao is too strong, its killing power too terrifying, making it difficult to grasp its truth between heaven and earth, he has sat in the position of the number one Divine Arrival in the Eastern Region for decades.

This person... is skilled at cutting lives!

Controlling one hundred thousand powerful troops, making the soldiers of Autumn Slaughter unite their will and life, dominating the battlefield, this blade was to cut the life of a True Monarch!!

This place, cannot be stayed.

Yu Liyang felt a sense of absurdity in his heart—

He, the dignified King Min of Great Xia, a True Monarch expert, personally guarded Sword Peak Mountain, with the minimum goal of holding firm for half a month, yet he failed to achieve it?

If word spread, what kind of humiliation would it be?

But indeed, he could not stay.

If he absolutely had to fully display his dignity as a True Monarch at this moment, King Wu Si Jiao could only rush over to participate in the battle.

That is to say, the decisive battle would happen here.

The Xia Kingdom had the advantage of terrain, the strategic depth of twenty-one prefectures, the layers of defense built over the past thirty-two years across thousands of miles of territory... Facing the powerful Qi army, how could he abandon these for the sake of his own honor and disgrace?

Not only could he not stay longer, but even leaving slowly was not an option.

Because Yan Ping was clearly attempting to lock onto him, if he delayed any longer, it would be impossible to escape without paying a certain price.

Upon seeing Yu Liyang, Cao Jie immediately pressed forward with his great army, his decisiveness and boldness truly worthy of Jiang Shu's appointment of him as commander!

This step was a grand and righteous move, purely using force to pressure, using momentum to overwhelm.

He either initiated a decisive battle or retreated, there was no third option!

So be it.

The sigh of a Manifestation expert in his heart darkened the sky for thousands of miles.

Yu Liyang stepped forward, avoiding the edge of the Life-Cutting Blade and departing, landing beside Marquis Jing'an Hua Hongzhao on the mountainside. With one hand, he pulled upwards, instantly pulling up the earth脉 power from within three hundred li, as if pulling an invisible dragon of momentum from beneath the earth! Injecting it into the mountain protection array!

Rumble, rumble, rumble!

The second segment of the mountain, the third segment, the fourth segment, the fifth segment...

The entire Sword Peak Mountain became a unified entity, and vast earth脉 power surged into the sky.

The Five-Segment Array of Profound Virtue and Material Bearing, burst forth in its entirety.

Three hundred li of earth脉 power increased layer by layer, and the clouds in the nine heavens surged.

In the midst of the deafening roar.

A colossal meteorite, dozens of zhang in circumference, seemed to emerge from a gap in the clouds. It was rough, heavy, and ferocious.

Slamming into the air, it ignited with scarlet flames, streams of fire across its body.

One, two, three...

In an instant, countless meteorites smashed down from the sky... it was a sky-obscuring rain of meteorites!

As if the divine mountains of the nine heavens had shattered, causing such chaos in the human world.

Just the splashing streams of flame burned the sky into a sea of fire.

While creating distance from the Slaughterer's blade, it also slammed towards the vast Qi army, like a sea.

And Yu Liyang reached out a hand to Hua Hongzhao, about to take him away.

Hua Hongzhao's figure suddenly evaded!

"I cannot leave!"

A dazzling light burst forth from all over the old general's body.

He charged alone towards the outside of the mountain.

"Hua Fangyu died here too easily, his death is not to be pitied, but destroying Sword Peak Mountain, his evil is unforgivable!"

"Hua Fangyu is the hundred-year shame of the Hua family. If I seek to live now, I am the hundred-generation stain of the Hua family."

His voice fell behind Hua Hongzhao, he did not turn back once. His hair bun had become disheveled at some point, his slightly frosty long hair fluttering behind him.

His golden body and jade髓 had begun to disintegrate.

"Since ancient times, there has never been a strong nation whose generals did not die while losing territory."

"King Min, please go first for the sake of the nation, allow this old man... to die first for the sake of the nation!"

Yu Liyang's raised hand ultimately did not reach forward again. In this state, forcibly pulling Hua Hongzhao away would also leave him no path to life...

He, a dignified True Monarch expert, could not even spare another glance at the scene of the Marquis Jing'an's final charge.

Before the rain of meteorites that erupted from the Sword Peak Mountain great array, his figure blurred, scattering in the chaotic elemental energy of heaven and earth—

He had been seen too much by Yan Ping! For the fastest updates without errors, please visit. For mobile, please visit: