324: Chapter 176: Treading Through the Gate of Life and Death_1 324: Chapter 176: Treading Through the Gate of Life and Death_1 The armies made their decisions, and the battlefield was always cleaned up early.
Even if the scouts of both sides were negligent, the creatures in the heart of the battlefield should have fled for their lives long ago.
When a person enters the forest, birds startle, and beasts flee of their own accord.
What’s more, when armies converge, the Soldier Slayer rises to the skies.
However, at the center of the battlefield in Red Tail Prefecture, a third presence strangely lingered.
Scouts from both sides intentionally or unintentionally avoided this place.
The deathly pale smoke seed like a cloud beast that had drifted from Cangfeng territory all the way here.
Any person or beast that wandered into it was heard from no more.
Of course, in fact, it was “forced” here by the Great Army of Yang Jiande.
Two hundred and ten thousand troops entered Red Tail Prefecture from Hengyang Prefecture, marching from the northwest to the southeast.
Even the Saint Lord of Bone Tao had to make way.
Both sides maintained a delicate distance from each other.
In the end, the scene at the center of the battlefield had co to this.
The deathly pale smoke billowed as the Saint Lord of Bone Tao floated within it.
Adjacent to it, two city castles stood—one occupied by Yang Jiande’s forces, the other flattened by Zhongxuan Chuliang directly.
Between the two armies, there was only a buffer zone of thirty miles.
On a battlefield dominated by Transcendent powers, this was hardly a safe distance.
Great battle could begin at any mont.
Within a hundred miles, even the clouds were dispersed by the might of Soldier Slayer.
And the deathly pale smoke at the center of the battlefield looked like a clump of clouds that had fallen to the ground—although it appeared rather more sinister.
Inside the smoke, a song was being sung, its voice full of sorrow, looping continually.
In the Qi Army, Zhongxuan Sheng frequently glanced at Jiang Wang.
Since he heard the song, Jiang Wang’s expression seed to freeze, showing no more change.
Only his sword-holding hand had turned white at the knuckles.
He had never seen Jiang Wang like this before.
This sort of resolute killing intent was almost impossible to conceal.
However, within the Great Army, it was not the ti for idle chatter.
He could only stand silently in the military formation, waiting for the commanding general’s orders.
…
Zhongxuan Chuliang listened intently to the Song of No-Birth from Bones,
The chant was being used by the Elder Lu Yan of Bone Tao to protect the Saint Lord.
The foundational scripture of Bone Tao was precisely “The Sutra of No-Birth from Bones”; just by the na, one could see the significance of this chant to Bone Tao.
Back in Fenglin City, Lu Yan had used this chant to guide the Formations of Neither Birth nor Death, and at this mont, he was wielding the unstable foundation of Yang Country as a furnace, controlling the “heat” for the Saint Lord of Bone Tao.
“If there were even a glimr of hope for Yang Country, Yang Jiande would not have been biding his ti for so many years.
I haven’t given him the chance to break the ga, nor would he willingly give the opportunity to fight one battle for a decisive victory,” Zhongxuan Chuliang seed to be lanting to himself, “This is the variable he was waiting for.”
When did Yang Jiande ever give up the advantage of terrain?
As Zhongxuan Chuliang thodically advanced, flattening all in his path, Yang Jiande simply had no advantage of terrain to speak of, and the Autumn Kill Army was not in an unstable position either.
“Little do they realize, the grand marshal is also waiting for this mont!” Tian Antai from Da Ze Tian family echoed on the side.
Zhongxuan Chuliang had only lightly tapped him once, and he had beco very compliant.
In many people’s eyes, there was no suspense in this battle; they were just following along to share in the credit.
At such a ti, being driven away would leave them with no place to even weep.
Zhongxuan Chuliang did not persist in rembering the offenses of his subordinate generals; in the military, punishnt ant the end of the matter.
“Our army is resolved to exterminate the Yang Realm, but that does not an it is the only outco we seek.
This strange plague is truly troubling; once the evil creature absorbs the epidemic gas…”
Zhongxuan Chuliang was speaking casually when, at that mont.
“Step through my gate of life and death, wear my black and white scarf.”
“Kill my old intentions, ferry the people leaving in my ti!”
“Kill my old intentions, ferry the people leaving in my ti…”
The Song of No-Birth from Bones suddenly changed slightly, repeating the last line once more, with a haunting tune.
Zhongxuan Chuliang imdiately cut off the discussion and rose to his feet.
“Form up!”
Under his command, his generals each led their troops, and in an instant, the Soldier Slayers swirled like a tornado.
Zhongxuan Sheng, because of the rit he had earned earlier by dissolving the threat from Sunshine County, also took command of an army formation of five thousand n, with Jiang Wang and fourteen protecting him on his left and right.
And Zhongxuan Chuliang himself bypassed the front lines, leading the charge on horseback, plunging into the midst of that pale white smoke.
As he charged in, the smoke suddenly dissipated!
The hare-faced figure, the Bone Tao Elder Lu Yan, and the Bone Tao Saint, were all exposed before the two armies.
Almost imdiately, the hare-face’s eyes turned red, and without the slightest hint of hesitation, he shot away laterally.
Within the Yang Army, a general had just raised his great bow, only to be restrained by an elderly general with white hair beside him, “With a formidable enemy at the front, don’t waste any bit of strength.”
As the hare-face fled, the normally expressionless Bone Tao Saint suddenly turned his head, looking at Lu Yan indifferently with that eye of his.
anwhile, Lu Yan, drifting in the other direction, responded with his eyes closed, “Great as you are, you should understand that I have already ushered in the ‘Starlight Entering Body’, and your contamination cannot affect .”
“Why.
Why?”
As the Bone Tao Saint asked in a voice unnervingly calm, he controlled his flesh body, calming the violently surging flesh masses.
In a nearly chanical movent, he turned around and extended his fist.
So slow it was almost visual poetry, yet so finely tid, he collided with the onrushing Zhongxuan Chuliang in a mighty blow!
Boom!
At the center of the two figures exchanging blows in mid-air,
A massive shockwave blasted outward in all directions, hitting Lu Yan, who was trying to flee.
The impact was so powerful that it startled him thoroughly!
Judging by the Bone Tao Saint’s deanor, he was about to succeed.
If he had been delayed even slightly, allowing him to fully assimilate his body and achieve the incarnation of plague, unleashing his Divine Descend Power, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
“There’s no need to pretend anymore, Bone!
You are clearly not Wang Changji!”
Lu Yan continued to speak while flying backward with his eyes closed, “You watched from the Underworld, bidding worship you as a deity.
You said you could help find my deceased wife, as long as I devotedly worshipped you!”
“But how many years has it been?
I have poured my heart and soul into the Bone Tao, resurrecting a decaying sect from the ashes.”
“But what about what you promised ?”
The Bone Tao Saint was in the final step of creating the plague incarnation.
He still retained so reservation towards Lu Yan and the others, informing them that there were seven breaths left to complete the process, but in reality, it would only take three.
He believed that the formation of lifelessness and annihilation, woven from the energies of plague, death, and disaster to the state, could hold off any attack for at least five breaths.
But unexpectedly, Lu Yan sent out a notice ten breaths ahead of schedule!
This notice wasn’t aid at any one party specifically; instead, it was simultaneously informing both Zhongxuan Chuliang and Yang Jiande.
Regardless of who acted, either could stop the Bone Tao Saint’s final step.
Moreover, he had tampered with the life-and-death formation from within, rendering it completely ineffective.
This allowed Zhongxuan Chuliang to get close imdiately.
As the Bone Tao Saint was dealing with Zhongxuan Chuliang’s attacks, he replied, “I said, wait for to, recover, Divine Power.”
“You have the Divine Power to craft a plague incarnation, but lack the spare Divine Power to search for a re ordinary lost soul?” Lu Yan’s anger was unmistakable, his face ferocious, “Even if you are a deity, you cannot…
mock like this!”
He said this, and suddenly his eyes snapped open!
Those eyes, devoid of anything but the whites, stared blankly at the Bone Tao Saint.
Thud!
A flesh sac on the Bone Tao Saint’s body burst open, allowing Him to exchange three more punches with Zhongxuan Chuliang unhindered.
However, with every punch received, His body “shook”.
Not the shake of unstable footing, but rather like a container filled with water, “rocking” with the “water” inside.
At the sa ti, Lu Yan let out a muffled groan as if deeply wounded.
And while “rocking”, the Bone Tao Saint still spoke to Lu Yan, “Stay and assist .
Your sins will be forgiven.”
By this ti, His speech had ‘normalized’, even carrying inflections.
“Without , you will never see her again!”
Far away, Lu Yan had already closed his eyes again, blood trailing down from the corners of his eyes.
But he turned without hesitation.
“I shall go there myself, there’s no longer need for your concern!”
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