Chapter 1893: What Kind of Strategy Is This? | Red Heart Survey [Translation]
Red Heart Survey [Translation] - Updated on May 1, 2025
On the Flying Cloud Tower Ship, among the ten thousand arrows, the fiercest and most powerful undoubtedly belonged to the Martial An Marquis! He flew swiftly in front, with ten thousand arrows trailing behind him.
At first glance, it seemed as if the entire Flying Cloud Tower Ship had rebelled, with everyone trying to shoot and kill the National Marquis. But that rain of arrows, though it covered everything, didn’t touch a single edge to his body.
A green rainbow suddenly moved left and right, utterly unstoppable in the chaotic military formation stirred up by the arrow rain. War General level Sea Clan?
They were extinguished with a mere breath. Commander level Sea Clan? They couldn’t withstand a single sword!
The Flame Flower Burning City had just descended, and already a huge void had been blasted open in front.
Jiang Wang stepped out from that city of flames, already approaching the Sea Clan Duke. Nearly a hundred Duke’s personal guards, each displaying divine abilities, each using true methods.
Jiang Wang’s left palm, the dim light suddenly receded, his fingertips swirling with seven balls of light. Just like this, they abruptly leaped out, exploding into endless brilliant light, displaying terrifying surges of Yuan Qi!
There was a Commander level Sea Clan, presumably the personal guard leader of this Sea Clan Duke. His aura was vigorous, his divine ability light dazzling, and he flew horizontally in front.
Jiang Wang’s eyes turned reddish-gold, and he looked with a single glance.
The Divine Soul struggle ended in a single thought. However he had flown up, that’s how he fell back down. All of this sounds slow when spoken.
But from the moment Jiang Wang leaped from the Tower Ship until he cleared all obstacles and appeared before the leader of the Sea Clan surrounding this island, not three breaths had passed.
The new king of the Kill Heaven List, who had fought a contemporary true demon, and walked back from a near-death situation in the Demon Realm. The current Jiang Wang, on the battlefield, truly demonstrated what it meant to kill enemies like cutting grass!
Rolling heads fell, blood stained the sword’s edge red. Mirage Realm originally had no heaven and earth.
It was nothing more than the floating island being considered above and the area below the floating island being considered below. But at this moment, the green rainbow penetrated, and thus there was high heaven!
Beneath high heaven, all were ants!
There was once a saying — “No weaklings among Sea Clan Dukes.”
Because in the harsh environment of the vast sea, often only top-tier Commander level Sea Clan could reach the Duke level.
And top-tier Commander level Sea Clan, at the very least, possessed three divine abilities. Divine ability, divine ability, held the most precious secrets.
Human cultivators still had divisions like weak divine arrival, ordinary divine arrival, strong divine arrival, and top divine arrival. If measured by the strength standards of human cultivators, Sea Clan Dukes started from strong divine arrival.
But there were also gaps between strong divine arrivals, and those gaps could be huge!
Initially, Jiang Wang was flawless, seamless, and without regret. As soon as he entered the divine arrival stage, he was a strong divine arrival. He and Chong Xuan Zun together killed six divine arrivals, except for that Blood Bat, they could all be considered strong divine arrivals.
How far was the gap between that Jiang Wang and today’s Jiang Wang?
At this moment, his momentum was like a broken bamboo as he met this Sea Clan Duke. He didn’t even ask about the Duke’s strength or what preparations he had made.
Their four eyes met, and then the sword was raised horizontally!
Sight lines and sight lines entangled and killed each other, before the sword’s edge turned cold.
This powerful Sea Clan Duke, who had commanded a large army to surround and break the first floating island, hadn’t even had time to exert force with pupil techniques before his sight lines snapped like silkworm threads!
He tightly closed both eyes, forcing out bloody tears. His aura instantly became majestic like a mountain, and he actually manifested his Sea Lord true form without hesitation: “Who comes? This king —”
Boom boom boom!
Although he cut off the sight lines, he couldn’t cut off the divine soul struggle.
In the vast, boundless sky of consciousness, a supreme, noble gate appeared. As this gate opened, his body shrunk by half!
Not only did this Sea Lord true form strengthen his divine soul, but it was as if his entire sea of consciousness was suppressed by that supreme majesty!
And the Six Desires Bodhisattva stretched out a palm from the heaven gate, with five lights and ten colors, the six desires enchanting. In that state of difficulty in struggling, yet unwilling to struggle, in extreme bliss and daze… a golden mallet hollowed out the palm of his hand, opening the gate at his skull!
The divine soul war was completely suppressed. Outside his body, things weren’t much better.
But a long ‘li’ was heard. From behind Jiang Wang, an extremely magnificent single-footed divine bird rose up, flapping its wings and flying high. Its huge feathered wings brought up flowing fire, a noisy red sweeping the battlefield.
A dazzling fire domain, with a barbaric posture, enveloped this Sea Clan Duke, clearing away the Sea Clan warriors who were still bravely rushing forward. In the fire domain, the Flame Flower Burning City opened again.
This pitiful Sea Clan Duke, his divine soul was being crushed. His spirit domain was being crushed, and he had the Flame City overhead.
He relied on fighting instinct, mobilizing the power of divine abilities, manifesting a five-element shield, raising it high overhead to support the Flame City. Then his body opened wind-controlling wings, thus surrounding himself with a tornado!
A wisp of frost-white wind blew into the tornado. What wind in the world could match the heavenly wind?
This wind once blew open a gap in heaven!
That violent tornado hadn’t even gained momentum when it suddenly dissipated! And following the heavenly wind was a long, drawn out edge.
That tightly closed, bloody tear-stained head, just like that, flew high into the sky.
These fighting processes are described as complicated, but they happened almost in an instant.
The Ear Immortal sat and observed freely with his ears. All of this Sea Clan Duke’s reactions were captured, and all his struggles were preemptively broken. From beginning to end, he had not a single opportunity.
So much so that he had clearly manifested his Sea Lord true form in the first instant. And indeed, a terrifying sea beast, like a mountain or a peak, appeared in its original place. But only the body.
The head of his Dao body had already been cut down in the first step. All this happened too fast!
So that this head had already been grabbed by Jiang Wang, while his body was still instinctively manifesting the Sea Lord true form.
On the Flying Cloud Tower Ship, Wu Du Qiu had not yet recovered from the shock of “Martial An Marquis charges alone, Flying Cloud’s ten thousand arrows fire,” when he already saw the Martial An Marquis returning with the enemy’s skull.
Killing an enemy leader in the midst of a ten-thousand-strong army seemed as easy as reaching into a bag for something!
He and Champion Marquis Chong Xuan Zun were considered friends, so of course he had always understood the Martial An Marquis’s power. After all, these two were jointly called the Double Pride. But only today did he understand that perhaps he didn’t know exactly how powerful the Champion Marquis was, and he had never truly witnessed the edge of the Martial An Marquis!
At this moment, he temporarily opened his eyes, but saw that person stepping on clouds and walking, on this boiling battlefield overflowing with blood, with an unspeakable ease and composure.
The Great Qi Martial An Marquis overlooked the enemies, raised the blood-dripping head high in his hand, and shouted loudly with fully activated Dao Yuan: “You all Commanders and Great Kings!”
Halfway through the shout, he turned his head, casually catching the sight line of a Sea Clan warrior, his red eyes indifferent: “What king?”
That Sea Clan warrior stammered: “Bat Mountain King.” As soon as the words fell, his eyes flowed with bloody tears, and his corpse floated in the air.
“Bat Mountain King!” Jiang Wang continued: “Bat Mountain King is dead! Killed by Jiang Wang of Qi Country! If you desire death, you cannot get it, moreover, come forward!”
The corner of his clothes fluttered, his sword qi roared.
His voice shook the four wilds, and actually turned into thunder, bombing and killing randomly among the remaining Sea Clan army!
There was no formed and stable military formation, no core leader, no one who could contend with Jiang Wang.
In such a situation, wherever Jiang Wang walked, Sea Clan heads rolled. They had no ability to resist whatsoever. After patrolling several times, the Sea Clan army, which still held a numerical advantage, had already collapsed!
The floating island’s guarding army also initiated a full counterattack at this time.
Jiang Wang casually threw Bat Mountain King’s head onto the deck, his voice extremely indifferent: “General Wu, military books say, capture the thief, first capture the king!”
This was in response to Wu Du Qiu’s question.
Wu Du Qiu was previously the main general of the Spring Death Army, fighting under Duke Hou Cao Ji and receiving his great appreciation. He could also be considered a talent in the army, not unskilled in military strategy. Coming to the Mirage Realm to guard an island was for self-improvement, seeking an opportunity for divine arrival.
After all, the barrier between heaven and man was not easily crossed, and the barriers above the general position were also difficult to overcome. Like the deceased Chong Xuan Old Marquis, that general who used troops like a god, suffered no losses in every major war, repeatedly built military merits, and could even personally train the famous general Chong Xuan Ming Tu… After all, there was only one of him.
Without reaching divine arrival, it was very difficult to protect oneself on a large battlefield, and the position of main general was basically the peak.
Even the Chong Xuan Old Marquis, with that legendary experience, and the support of the Chong Xuan family, was always unable to grasp Autumn Kill, which he regarded as a lifelong regret.
If Wu Du Qiu could successfully reach divine arrival, when he returned to the army, Marshal Chen Ze Qing would also leave him a position, and he could even follow Duke Hou to take up a post in the Heaven Cover army.
From his perspective, the phrase “Capture the thief, first capture the king” directly pointed to the core of the problem, and of course counted as the essence of military strategy.
But to say this phrase was the most important in military strategy, there was really no reason. Perhaps looking at the situation in front of him, which was instantly reversed.
Looking at the completely collapsed, scattered Sea Clan warriors everywhere. These words were too reasonable again!
Champion Marquis often said “The Great Dao is originally true, cut the false and see nature,” perhaps military strategy was also like this? The two absolute geniuses of the world, perhaps heroes saw things slightly similarly!
Wu Du Qiu was silent for a moment, then sincerely said: “Marquis has a good strategy!”
Before the remaining sounds fell, blazing lights erupted everywhere on the Flying Cloud Tower Ship, which had already crashed into the scattered Sea Clan group. Crossbow arrows, ramming horns, long spears, military formation secret techniques… This military equipment born for war began to slaughter greatly!
In the thoroughly chaotic battlefield, a beam of electric light suddenly flew and turned, killing countless enemies, then plundering to Jiang Wang’s front. It transformed into a tall, thin middle-aged man, bowing his head: “Mo Shi Yi greets the Martial An Marquis! Such great kindness is hard to repay, my tears are flowing, I don’t know what to say!”
Wu Du Qiu was the vice island master of Xin You First Floating Island.
The island master of this island, Mo Shi Yi, was the top expert of the Mo family in Bai Zhi County of Qi Country, and also the only divine arrival cultivator in the Xin Xi area.
Because of the special nature of the Mirage Realm, he was not very well known to the general public.
The most famous person in the Bai Zhi Mo family now was the young generation’s Mo Lian Cheng. That person was also talented. Initially, before the Yellow River Meeting began, he was highly regarded among the populace, and many people expected him to represent the country in the outer building competition of the Yellow River Meeting. Of course, after that person had a conflict with Chong Xuan Zun, the story of him having to go around whenever he met Chong Xuan Zun was often discussed in alleys.
Wu Du Qiu was a friend of Chong Xuan Zun, and he and Mo Shi Yi worked together. Some people might feel it was somewhat awkward. But when Xin You Floating Island was in danger, Mo Shi Yi stayed on the island to guard, and Wu Du Qiu broke out to seek help. Neither held grudges, and they each fought for their lives… This was undoubtedly a model of comradeship, and also an embodiment of the Qi army’s heroic spirit.
There were no weaklings among Sea Clan Dukes. Those who could guard a side in the Mirage Realm and confront Sea Clan Dukes were naturally not weak either. Like Ding Jing Shan, like Mo Shi Yi, they could all squeeze into the boundary of strong divine arrival.
Even though they were both divine arrivals, they held great respect for Jiang Wang. The bow was for the emotion of saving the floating island, and the bow was also for the National Marquis’s honor. Jiang Wang held him up with one hand: “Comrades must be saved, no need for thanks.”
His gaze swept over the horizontal seven, vertical eight corpses of human cultivators on the floating island: “Better to cut more enemy heads, to console the heroic spirits.”
“Raise the flag!” He shouted so.
On the Flying Cloud Tower Ship, which was currently rushing forward wantonly, the wheels started. A large flag rose from the mast, fluttering in the wind, with purple background and red characters, emblazoned with “Martial An.”
At this time, there were two large flags fluttering above the Tower Ship. One flag was interwoven, representing Great Qi.
One flag was Martial An, representing Jiang Wang.
“Island Master Mo, you still cannot rest for now.” Jiang Wang said: “Please lead the elite troops, and bring this Marquis on the ship, to go to the second floating island and aid that place.”
Mo Shi Yi said respectfully: “Your subordinate receives orders!”
He immediately flew off to summon soldiers who could fight.
Fang Yuan You sighed in his heart. Seeing that the Marquis truly had no intention of personally leading troops, he could only command the Flying Cloud Tower Ship and follow Mo Shi Yi.
Clearly, they had strong bows, strong crossbows, large ships, heavy soldiers, well-trained armored soldiers, proficient and powerful military formations… They were considered strong reinforcements wherever they went. How was it that next to the Marquis, they always felt like a burden?
He would leave the ship at a moment’s notice!
“General Wu!” Jiang Wang said again: “Please lead the way, we will go to the third floating island to see the situation.” There should not be a second Sea Clan Duke in the Xin Xi area. If there were, they would have appeared outside the first floating island long ago. At this time, it was unknown whether Xin You’s second floating island had been lost, but the Sea Clan military force stationed there definitely could not block Mo Shi Yi and the Flying Cloud Tower Ship.
Instead, it was strange that Xin You’s third floating island was lost, and having been lost for several days, the risk was immeasurable. The continuous killing on the battlefield was still going on, but the noise was becoming increasingly silent.
Those who could run fast had already run, and those who couldn’t run fast had already been killed. The remaining scattered teams caused no ripples. And the warriors of the first floating island, who had been besieged for a long time, then experienced the breaking of the great array, and a desperate counterattack, were mostly slumped on the ground at this time, not wanting to move.
All commanders, team leaders, and some elite warriors who still had remaining strength, patrolled back and forth on the battlefield. While finishing off the undead Sea Clan, they also helped up their slumped brothers, making them lean back as much as possible, helping them adjust their breathing, and sort out their qi and blood.
Boxes of qi and blood pills, Dao Yuan stones, and various wound medicines from the basement were all dragged out and distributed by area. There were often cries of pain, often miserable calls, and also often sounds of hearty laughter.
Although war was tragic, those who could live to clean the battlefield were always luckier than those who lay to be cleaned.
Jiang Wang didn’t pay too much attention to the battlefield. He seized the time to let Wu Du Qiu lead the way and went to Xin You’s third floating island himself.
“General Wu.” Midway through the rapid flight, Duke Jiang used a tone as if testing him, casually saying: “Island Master Mo and this Marquis are taking the ship to save the second floating island. This Marquis and you are coming to the third floating island. How is this called in military strategy?”
Wu Du Qiu didn’t know why the Martial An Marquis always mentioned military strategy to him, feeling a little bewildered, but he still answered honestly: “This is called advancing together, directly attacking the Yellow Dragon?”
Duke Jiang hummed, his face expressionless, but his heart was much more relaxed.
Afterward, he would know how to write the report to Marshal Qi…
This time, setting out from Decision Bright Island to assist in defending Ding Mao Floating Island, losing the deadline was almost certain.
In Qi law, “losing the deadline” was considered a relatively dangerous crime, but it was also very flexible. The most serious could even result in “the entire army being executed,” while the lightest only required whipping the commander.
The consequences of “losing the deadline” and the reasons that led to “losing the deadline” were all factors that influenced the crime.
The shift of the Mirage Realm was an objective reason, and it was an objective reason that even a strong divine arrival like Jiang Wang could not control. It was unpredictable and irreversible. Therefore, the “losing the deadline” caused by this, no matter the consequences, was not considered too serious.
Because this was something anyone in that situation could not avoid.
In this situation, the soldiers were not guilty, only the commander bearing leadership responsibility needed to bear a certain degree of accountability.
Of course, even if the accountability was light, it would still be somewhat losing face for a dignified Martial An Marquis to be held accountable the first time he led troops on an expedition alone.
But in the process of “losing the deadline,” he still led the aid to save Xin You Floating Island, arrayed and killed a Sea Clan Duke, and broke the Sea Clan army. This was merit greater than fault.
Great merit should be rewarded, and light punishment could be eliminated.
As for Wu Du Qiu’s “called” “Comrades must be saved,” it could also slightly cover for Marshal Qi’s military order! They would wait until they had swept clean the Sea Clan in Xin You and fully returned to the human race’s floating island.
Who could say that the Martial An Marquis didn’t know military strategy?
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