One’s gaze could already discern the mountain shadows of Ku Qiao Ridge in the distance. Beneath the moonlight, they lay like a quiet, prostrate behemoth, as if awaiting something, or perhaps preparing to swallow.

Crossing Ku Qiao Ridge, the distance to Ci Lai Road would then be negligible.

Luo Fu’s campaign was drawing its final stroke.

Everything felt utterly normal.

Except… from the distant earth, a muffled sound suddenly transmitted!

“All units, alert!”

Jiang Wang had just raised the alarm when a colossal rumbling commenced!

A chain of seismic shocks instantly overwhelmed all other sound.

The earth was trembling!

Relying on his profound attainment in the Dao of Sound, Jiang Wang’s cry of alarm still pierced through the deafening roar, reaching every soldier. However, it was already unnecessary.

Before their eyes, upon the vast land, high mountains abruptly surged from the ground.

Their momentum was like sword edges pointed at the cerulean sky.

A mountain range, born of nothingness, encircled and stood against the Qi army.

While supporting the sky and connecting to the earth, they seemed to simultaneously shake the very hearts of men.

This most open stretch of the Min Xi Corridor, now encompassed by nine towering mountains, transformed instantly into a basin!

The Great Xia’s Tai family’s ultimate array disk had been unleashed at this moment.

This was the Nine Sons Ring Mountain Array!

In a flash, the terrain shifted; in a twinkling, flat ground became a basin. The mountains, treacherous and steep, utterly blocked the path. It was as if a celestial prison cage had been conjured, imprisoning this Qi army of thirty thousand and more!

Within this “prison cage,” mountains also materialized in the air, pressing down upon the four directions, causing every soldier within the great array’s range to feel as if bearing a colossal stone!

Jiang Wang meticulously controlled his Dao Yuan, unfurling it outside his body like ripples on water, countering the array’s force with this subtle method. Furthermore, he instantly activated the Sound Hearing Immortal State. What his ears received was a court of myriad sounds!

“The enemy army is over fifty thousand strong!” He swiftly transmitted this intelligence to Chong Xuan Sheng. “Twenty thousand to the east, ten thousand to the west, ten thousand to the northwest, and ten thousand to the south, already formed into battle arrays, and closing in!”

Chong Xuan Sheng immediately responded, his flags fluttering. The Qi army moved like flowing water. Even amidst this cataclysmic shift in heaven and earth, they exhibited a military momentum as fluid as flowing clouds!

His commands were not complex, simply adjusting several key positions, yet based on Jiang Wang’s intelligence, he effected the most perfect deployment possible under the current circumstances.

It was truly a sight to behold.

At the same time, a voice suddenly let out a light cry, brutally crashing into Jiang Wang’s consciousness, causing his ears to sting.

“Caught you!”

This voice was extremely light, yet its force was exceptionally heavy.

Had Jiang Wang not achieved success in cultivating the Contemplate Freely Ear, his ears alone would have been injured.

He had disguised himself as a flag bearer patrolling the army ranks, and when he spoke, he used voice transmission techniques to avoid exposing himself to the enemy. Yet, he had been pinpointed immediately!

The enemy army had indeed come prepared!

He saw a flash of green.

The back of the Stepping Wind Demonic Horse was already empty.

Seven consecutive green cloud marks shattered in the air. Jiang Wang instantly spun his body seven times before pressing his sword back and gazing out!

An enemy at the ordinary Outer Building level would likely not even touch the corner of his clothing.

With this gaze, he saw a refined, middle-aged man, stepping upon moonlight. This man was gentle and cultured, his momentum soft, yet one hand spread wide, covering the sky. His five fingers were like a prison, seeming to already imprison heaven and earth!

Jiang Wang did not know who Zhou Xiong was, but he clearly perceived that this was a God Arrival Realm cultivator!

“Heaven had a path you did not walk, and yet you come seeking death!”

Jiang Wang roared with angry eyes. In an instant, his face was covered in divine light, majestic and inviolable!

It was as if he intended to immediately display his demon-subduing methods and cleave this God Arrival beneath his sword.

As his voice fell on the words “seeking death,” it was already accompanied by a peal of thunder. Thunderous light flashed in the high sky, instantly transforming into countless thunder sparrows, exploding with cries and rushing towards the person.

This was the Subduing Outer Path Vajra Thunder Sound!

His hand pressed the sword, its momentum eager to erupt, sword energy already beginning to soar.

Yet, his body suddenly split in two, one going east and one west, both stepping upon green clouds.

The illusion bodies of the Red Makeup Mirror!

Within the great army, he fundamentally had no need to fear a God Arrival, provided he gave Chong Xuan Sheng time to deploy the army array.

“Trivial tricks!”

Zhou Xiong waved his large hand, actually seizing all this boundless thunderous sound and thunder sparrows, the forces both tangible and intangible, and moving them aside.

His other hand still probed forward, again presenting the five-fingered prison! One hand, two grasps!

Zhou Xiong was not of the Legalist school; he was a proper Confucian cultivator. However, this one Legalist technique indeed made light of heavy work, marvelous to the extreme.

The illusion bodies created by the Red Makeup Mirror dissipated on the spot.

His hand seized towards Jiang Wang’s true body once more.

The five fingers were like mountains, more like a prison, yet a sword light, arrogant to the heavens and shockingly agile, folded nineteen times consecutively in the air, narrowly escaping the gap in the finger prison.

Truly, those with high skill are bold.

A mere Outer Building Realm cultivator, actually displaying his movement technique before a God Arrival Realm expert!

Zhou Xiong glanced faintly, and surging spiritual sense instantly spread out like a tide, locking down this square of heaven and earth, intending to kill into the divine soul of the person within. At the same time, he tipped his foot, and his body moved forward again.

His actions were not intense, but as his clothing fluttered, he already pushed away all soldier evil, Yuan force, and air, inevitably crashing towards Jiang Wang, like a destined encounter!

Suddenly, a mass of knife light crashed into his face!

It split open his spiritual sense domain and cleaved his momentum. That was an incomparably violent, mad knife, like a forest of spears and a rain of arrows!

“I caught you too!”

A thunderous voice opened his eyes.

With an unmatched barbarian momentum, a man with tiger eyes and swallowing whiskers, majestic and imposing, forcibly crashed into Zhou Xiong’s vision. His majestic momentum was like mountains and peaks. His blood energy was fierce, like rivers and streams.

One face of the knife seemed to cleave through ten thousand armies.

It was precisely Yi Country’s foremost famous general, Yan Po!

The Qi army was also prepared beforehand!

His thoughts turned urgently, already encompassing the entire battlefield situation… Though there were accidents, the advantage still lay with them! Zhou Xiong was completely fearless, directly flinging his large sleeve:

“Assisting Zhou as a tyrant, you die!”

Two God Arrival Realm experts instantly crashed into one another. The nearby soldiers who had not yet managed to scatter received the calamity, and dozens died and were injured on the spot!

Chong Xuan Sheng fundamentally could not reach here, nor could he easily control this area. He even consciously carved out this section of the great army to allow other parts of the Qi army to quickly form soldier evil and combat power—if two God Arrivals battled amidst the soldier array, it would truly be a disaster for the leading soldier. Yan Po needed to kill Zhou Xiong, using the power of a God Arrival expert, to open up the situation for the Qi army, which was far from an opponent to the soldier force.

Zhou Xiong needed even more urgently to cleave Yan Po as soon as possible, to help settle the victory and defeat on the Min Xi battlefield, and then seize the time to go aid Tai Yin at She Mountain.

So they both held nothing back, instantly entering a life-and-death struggle! The two figures twisted and turned, soaring and falling, their spiritual sense almost crashing out sparks!

The brilliance of techniques exploded like fireworks.

Even a slight approach meant the end of shattered bodies and broken bones.

But these terrifying battle aftermaths, beyond a certain range, were divided by a jumping line of fire—that was the Three Flavors True Fire Jiang Wang used to stop the aftermaths from expanding.

Safe!

Such information transmitted within his perception.

After the battle at Zhong Yang City, the Xia army indeed still had a hidden hand. They had actually chosen to ignite the war outside the domain of Zhong Yang City, with a great army lying in wait at Min Xi! What’s more, even in a situation of heavy suppression, they had secretly adjusted God Arrival level cultivators to join the war!

Fortunately, Chong Xuan Sheng was cautious and found a way to bring in Yan Po.

At this moment, the God Arrival battle stirred up flying light and shadow, killing until Yuan force collapsed and scattered. Jiang Wang’s body was like a flying bird, circling outside the range of the two God Arrival’s battle. Suddenly, he picked up soldiers who had not yet escaped the war group and threw them outwards, one in each hand, like throwing spears.

His speed was extremely fast, but his posture was graceful, stepping through the air as if walking leisurely. Even the Long Xiang Si was drawn and ready to erupt… With Yan Po at the forefront, the God Arrival could be resisted!

At this moment, he was in an absolutely safe environment. The God Arrival battle, merely aftermaths, could no longer injure him.

Although on the entire great battlefield, the Qi army was trapped in the Nine Sons Ring Mountain Array. However, this small war group that suddenly erupted here was within the Qi army’s control.

In any sense, everything was safe now.

Jiang Wang admitted he had no ability to command an army, but saving a few more comrades was still within his power.

Perhaps it was his confidence in Chong Xuan Sheng’s ability to use soldiers, or perhaps it was his confidence in his own strength. Although in the midst of the great army’s mutual slaughter, Jiang Wang’s mood was actually very calm, without the slightest alarm.

Something was wrong!

How could there be no alarm at all?!

The instinctive perception of danger was absent, but the most direct logic informed Jiang Wang that something was amiss. His body was on the battlefield, with tens of thousands of soldiers from both sides slaughtering each other. Amidst the surging soldier evil, how could there be no danger at all?

Almost as soon as the thought arose, a point of fire light, centered on his body, instantly swelled open.

Like a dazzling fireball, it surrounded him.

The gorgeous fire boundary only opened up a three-foot radius around his body!

It looked like a fiery Bodhi.

After mastering the True Self Dao path, Jiang Wang’s control over Dao techniques became more and more refined. Only then could he control the Fire Boundary technique to such a refined degree.

His eyes did not detect it, his ears did not perceive it.

But the rapidly swelling fire boundary crashed out a figure as sharp as unmatched.

Before this person appeared, there was no sound. Within the present world, there was no trace of his body. In his senses, he did not exist.

When this person appeared, his edge was fully exposed! Hazy as heaven and earth for a sheath, moonlight sprinkled and clouds opened to reveal this edge!

It was a point of sharpness.

It was a sword of unbeatable sharpness.

It was a person with killing intent filling the sky.

From outside the senses, he killed into the senses, shattering vision, hearing, and feeling!

What kind of terrifying sword style was this?!

Jiang Wang’s fingers twitched slightly, then settled back on the sword hilt.

Although his feeling of this sword had already been killed, his memory of this person surged up in his heart—childhood friend, Yi Sheng Feng!

Once they played and laughed, once they were inseparable. Once, after seeking the Dao of Immortality, one stepped on a sword and went to the blue sky, one fell into the water!

After many years of not meeting, it was actually in this crisis-ridden Qi-Xia battlefield, amidst this myriad army!

Jiang Wang looked at this suddenly appearing young man, whose body was surrounded by sword energy, as if looking through water waves, through that river in his hometown.

This was the first time he had truly seen Yi Sheng Feng’s true appearance after growing up. It was identical to the portrait sent by the Hui Guo Gong’s Manor. But that portrait was far from describing this person’s temperament.

No matter how skilled or marvelous the painter, they could not paint such eyes—indifferent, cool, deep like an ancient well, yet hiding endless killing intent. At this moment, Jiang Wang stepped on green clouds, his hand on his long sword. Information flowed through his mind like water—Yi Sheng Feng, true disciple of the South Dou Hall.

Disciple of the Seven Kill True Person, Lu Shuang He.

Standing with the Four Kill Stars, Day Ying Huo, Day Seven Kill, Day Break Army, Day Greedy Wolf, their killing force is extremely strong!

Has already mastered the Dao path, the end of the Dao path is known.

Cultivates the absolute peak sword technique, South Dou Kill Life Sword, wields the famous weapon, Day Thin Luck Lang.

Good at water movement Dao techniques, wind movement Dao techniques.

Has already mastered the super-grade Yellow Rank Dao technique, Sea Born Bright Moon. When it responds, it must start from the Bright Moon diagram.

Suspected to possess the divine ability, Heart Blood Come Tide. This divine ability has the ability to foresee danger. Whenever there is harm, heart blood comes tide. Other divine abilities are not known.

This detailed and extreme intelligence was collected by the Hui Guo Gong’s Manor and transmitted by Zuo Guang Shu through the Tai Void Illusion Realm.

Jiang Wang had already memorized it thoroughly.

His gaze was incomparably calm.

At this moment.

The Qi army was deeply trapped in the Nine Sons Ring Mountain Array. The Kui Cow War Drum had already been sounded. Chong Xuan Sheng displayed extremely exquisite command artistry, composedly deploying each unit in such a sudden chaotic situation. Zhou Xiong confronted Yan Po.

Gu Yong, Xu Shan, Wei Guang Yao, each leading a great army, had just arrived with their army arrays.

Jiang Wang and Yi Sheng Feng met amidst the myriad army.

The only obstacle between them was a mass of fire boundary compressed to a three-foot radius around his body.

It looked like fierce fire opening a Bodhi, a person in amber.

Counting on his fingers, this pair of childhood friends had not seen each other for over a decade.

But their understanding of each other was more profound than anyone else’s.

Because they had both very seriously researched each other.

After years of not meeting, they still knew each other, and pressed their swords!

No dialogue.

Yi Sheng Feng, who had sneaked here, was suddenly exposed by the crashing fire boundary. Without a word, his sword was already unleashed!

This was certainly not the most ideal timing, but things had come to this point, and there were no words more suitable than this sword.

Amidst the great army where soldier evil began to surge, a path of cold light was like a wandering dragon passing through a gap, its head and tail unseen, within the clouds yet not within the clouds!

This sword was actually fuzzy.

Or rather, it was actually very specific. Only after it left its sheath did it escape the vision of unrelated people.

Only when you were injured by its edge could you clearly see its appearance—a horizontal hilt and a vertical edge, with naturally formed patterns on both sides of the sword body. On one side were flowers before the moon, on the other were willow tips on the moon, speaking of endless tenderness, describing unfinished gentle缠绵. Yet the sword edge was extremely sharp, as thin as a line.

Never had a weapon combined gentleness and cold cruelty so completely.

One injured by emotion is injured in emotion; one without heart injures people’s hearts!

This was the famous sword, Thin Luck Lang!

Yi Sheng Feng’s accumulated force of a long time’s sword, without a word, crashed into the fire boundary.

The brilliant vitality of the world of flames was all compressed here, thus creating terrifying high temperatures around Jiang Wang’s body within a three-foot radius, enough to burn steel and melt iron.

A cold, icy sword crashed in, emitting a long hiss like branding iron entering water, like the opposition of two worlds.

A terrifying explosion occurred!

Withered flame flowers, shattered flame sparrows.

The brilliance of fire, the vitality of fire, the enthusiasm of fire!

The fire boundary could not longer support itself, but Jiang Wang chose to use its destruction to seize the initiative.

The divine light of the Three Flavors True Fire covered his body, rendering him immune to the injuries caused by the exploding fire boundary. Amidst the withered flame flowers filling the sky, Jiang Wang took a big step forward!

In this collapsed world of fierce fire, he drew his sword.

The starlight of the sky’s edge suddenly appeared.

And then came the moon white.

As if to say the long night was already bright, a bright moon suddenly crossed the sky.

One sword opened heaven and earth, one sword shone frost and snow bright!

Ten thousand sword silks crashed out an ear-piercing sharp whistle, piercing through infinite flames. Within the fierce fire fragments whose afterpower was still raging, a thousand threads and ten thousand strands of silver light had already completely covered Yi Sheng Feng.

Up to now, the sword momentum that could embody Jiang Wang’s strongest power was still the absolute peak pouring down. The sword intent that could embody his strongest power was precisely the Person character sword.

He had imitated the sword energy turning into silk technique from Zhang Xun, using his Outer Building cultivation, borrowing surging star force, controlling it in advance, and practicing out one sword of ten thousand snow, which was precisely the extreme of his sword moves.

Today’s sword already had a unique creation. The ten thousand sword energy had already become silk, merging and penetrating the Long Xiang Si one sword achieved because of his hatred for Dong A. He transformed his sword intent into the extreme of sword moves, achieving a new sword style named Frost Snow Bright!

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