Chapter 350 - 164: Divine Thunder Strikes Down Nan Xu, Heavenly God Lends His Aid to Shatter the Massed Forces_3

"Chen!"

"At most, you couldn’t have achieved more than minor Meridian Passage, how dare you pursue alone!"

"Prepare to die——"

"Clang——"

"Boom boom boom——"

The sound of a long spear clashing with the blade of a sword combined with the sound of thunder, scattering layers of rainwater. Afterwards, the two warhorses crossed paths, with both riders turning their mounts around.

Fan Jiuxiao felt the humming of the treasure sword in his hand and his expression became incredibly solemn.

The strength of the other’s power was almost equal to his, who had achieved Mastery of Meridian Passage!

"How could that be?!"

Fan Jiuxiao clearly couldn’t accept this fact: "You were manipulating Qi-Blood while executing your moves, which means you haven’t yet opened the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, so how can you compare to me?"

"It’s because you practice one cultivation technique, I practice a hundred!"

"Clang!"

Chen Sansi and Qian Xun had an unspoken understanding to the extreme, having begun to accumulate strength even before their first exchange. The Five Tigers Soul-breaking Spear, amidst the splashing rain, transformed utterly into a rampant Jiao Long, each time more powerful and more brutal than the last.

He too was a genius among his peers, suppressing a whole realm, and he even wielded a Mystic Iron Shield, but even so, he couldn’t last ten exchanges.

"Thump!"

Another exchange followed.

Fan Jiuxiao couldn’t hold onto his shield anymore, and his body uncontrollably drifted backward. Before he could land in the mud, a long spear thrust forward, piercing his wrist.

"Ah!"

He wailed, trying to grab the spear shaft

But the spear was retracted and thrust again so quickly that only its afterimage was visible, leaving him feeling only the chill on his body. Intense pain arrived moments later, by which time blood riddled his body, leaving him devoid of any strength to resist, until the Blood Explosion State ended and he passed out completely.

This man could be useful.

Capturing a prince, naturally, one couldn’t simply kill him.

After dealing with him, Chen Sansi noticed the green horse trying to flee.

"Hiss——"

As it turned out, this beast was fiercely aggressive and even tried to attack him.

Chen Sansi was close to just spearing it to death, but ultimately couldn’t bring himself to do it, yet the superficial attacks, even when forcefully restraining the green horse, proved futile as it struggled to break free whenever it found the chance.

Exotic Beast Horses were all like this.

Spiritual and loyal, after recognizing a master, they would hardly serve another unless commanded by their owner.

"Clatter clatter!"

Just then.

Qian Xun walked up to his side.

"You want to try?"

Chen Sansi was skeptical but ultimately stepped back and quietly observed.

"Hiss!"

The green horse first angrily neighed at the White Swan Horse, but when it actually got close, it didn’t dare to make any more noise, lowering its head and slowly backing away.

Qian Xun circled around it.

I couldn’t understand what the two horses were saying to each other.

But in the end, I saw Qian Xun knock the green horse over with a hoof. When it stood again...

It was subdued.

It obediently approached Chen Sansi’s side.

"?"

Chen Sansi patted Qian Xun’s face: "Well done."

Qian Xun nodded.

"After the battle."

Chen Sansi said, "I’ll treat you to a feast after the battle."

"Clatter clatter clatter——"

Horse hooves sounded from behind.

Xia Cong and others caught up.

The main battlefield had also come to an end.

"General!"

"In this battle, we slayed six thousand enemies!"

"Captured three thousand!"

"Our army suffered no more than twenty casualties!"

"And there are about a thousand more heading southwest. How many men should we send to chase?"

"Let them go back."

Chen Sansi answered, "Clean up the battlefield and return hastily to Hulaoguan before 5 a.m!"

Fear spreads!

The sight of divine thunder striking down from the sky, witnessed by these thousand men; their survival and return to the Nan Xu camp was not a good thing. At a critical moment, it could even become one of the elements contributing to the collapse of a great army.

"Yes!"

Xia Cong accepted the order and departed.

"General Deng!"

Chen Sansi, leading a green horse, said, "I noticed you didn’t have a suitable war horse on the battlefield, which won’t do. Take this horse as a gift from our first meeting, General. Would you like to try it out and see if it’s to your liking?"

"Many thanks for the horse, Commander Chen!"

Deng Feng was not bashful.

He strode toward the war horse.

The green horse, which had until then been calm, couldn’t help but step backwards when it saw him, yet was firmly captured in the end.

After riding the horse and feeling its response, Deng Feng was overjoyed: "This horse is excellent! With it, in the coming battles, I, Deng Feng, will assuredly present Commander Chen with a head from someone of Profound Image Realm small achievement or higher!"

"Good, just cherish it and ride gently,"

Chen Sansi instructed, "Then you and I should also get ready to leave."

[Skill: Commanding Soldiers (small achievement)]

[Progress: 1955/2000]

The skill of commanding soldiers.

He was only a hair’s breadth away from a breakthrough.

Merely using terms like "Can it be said I have no clothes," in combination with the Xuanzhu, yielded such an effect. After achieving great success, the increase in combat effectiveness was bound to be even greater.

The rain finally stopped.

The heavenly dome also slowly began to brighten with a faint light.

In the wilderness, there was no thirty-thousand-strong army; all were but straw men and straw horses.

Real and unreal, ever changing.

This was the way of deceit.

Many times, it’s not important how many men you have under your command, but how many the enemy thinks you have.

...

Nan Xu camp.

Central Army.

"What?!"

"At Silver Pine Cliff, our vanguard was utterly defeated, losing ten thousand men!"

"And my fourteenth brother has gone missing too?!"

Fan Shuzhen rose abruptly to his feet.

"A thirty-thousand-strong army?!"

"Where would Hu Lao get a thirty-thousand-strong army from?!"

Several centurions, who had rushed to the Central Army Camp and participated in the battle, nearly spoke in sobs,

"It’s absolutely true, Lord Eight!"

"We were at Silver Pine Cliff! We planned to surround them, but ended up encircled instead!"

"Dense as can be, soldiers were everywhere!"

"It was Phoenix Fang Qingyun’s strategy; he deceived all of us!"

"And the military officer!"

"It wasn’t just Sha Wenlong alone!"