The lord of Qinghe Castle, named Zhao Jian, was considered a high-ranking figure in the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce.
Standing on the city wall, he saw the dense number of soldiers outside the city, and with fear in his heart, he immediately rushed into the castle and reported the news of the incoming imperial army to Hua Ming Gong, who was recuperating from his injuries.
In the big battle at the Black Market Headquarters five days ago, Hua Ming Gong was wounded by two silver-robed elders from the Martial Market Academy Palace, and until now, his injuries had not healed.
Upon hearing the news that Qinghe Fort was surrounded, Hua Ming Gong’s face sank as if he was talking to himself, ”Hmph! They came fast, you see clearly what kind of person led the team to besiege Qinghe Fort, was it Wan Chengzhong? Or is it Zhang Tiangui?”
Zhao Jian shook his head and said, “Neither of them, it’s the seventh person in Yunwu County*, Jin Chihan.”
“What? The Yunwu County King is also underestimating old man too much! To actually let Jin Chi Khan come to besiege Qinghe Fort? Haha!” Lord Hua Ming’s heart was relieved and he laughed, “How many troops did Jin Chi Khan bring?”
“At least ten thousand, all elite.” Zhao Jian said.
Hua Ming Gong snorted coldly and said, “The goods that were hoarded in Qinghe Fort have been shifted more or less, I was planning to leave today, but since that’s the case, before I leave, I’ll send a big gift to Yunwu County King. He has to be made to know that there is no good ending for going against the black market.”
The Poison Spider Young Lord walked in from outside and laughed, “Father is right, Jin Chihan coming to Fort Qinghe is asking for death. Zhao Jian, go open the gates of Qinghe Fort and let Jin Chihan in.”
“Subordinate obeys.”
Seeing how confident Lord Hua Ming and the Poison Spider Young Lord were, the look of panic on Zhao Jian’s face disappeared and instead, he revealed a treacherous smile as he walked towards the top of the city gates.
Standing on top of the city gate, Zhao Jian caused the white flag to be raised and stared at General Red Khan in the distance, saying, “General Red Khan, we surrender, please will not launch an attack.”
“Immediately open the city gates and let General Red Khan enter the city.”
“Boom!”
Under the push of twenty-four martial artists, the city gates slowly opened.
Five miles away, General Red Khan laughed coldly, “Indeed, it’s just a bunch of rabble, only just surrounding Fort Qinghe and surrendering of their own accord. Unbeatable!”
Zhang Ruochen warned, “General, be careful of deception. In Qinghe Castle, there must be a defence formation arranged. If the General enters the castle, and the evil martial artists inside then turn on the formation, it will be quite unfavourable to the General.”
After all, General Red Khan was a veteran general and knew the power of a castle defence formation, he nodded and said, “Indeed, we have to be on guard.”
General Red Khan stared towards Zhao Jian, who was standing on the city gates, and yelled, “If you smash the four formation towers on the city walls, this General will accept your surrender. Otherwise, this General will have no choice but to forcefully attack.”
Zhao Jian glanced towards the Poison Spider Young Lord in the distance.
The corners of the Poison Spider Young Lord’s mouth revealed an evil smile as he nodded at him.
In the Poison Spider Young Lord’s opinion, even if he didn’t borrow the City Protector Formation, it would be easy to exterminate Jin Chi Khan and 10,000 troops.
Besides, it would not be possible to stay in Qinghe Fort in the future, so destroying the city guard formation would be a way to avoid leaving it to the court of the Yunwu County Kingdom. The amount of money spent on setting up a city guard formation was not a small amount.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
Accompanied by four loud bangs, the four formations on the periphery of Qinghe Fort collapsed and turned into a giant foundation.
When General Red Khan saw the array towers destroyed, he let out a loud laugh and waved his arm, saying, “Red Electricity Battalion and Red Wind Battalion, follow me into the Qinghe Fort and exterminate those evil martial artists.”
General Red Khan only took away two battalions of troops, almost 4,000 people, and rushed towards Qinghe Fort with great vigour.
Zhang Ruochen sat in the carriage, frowning slightly as he muttered to himself, “Those Evil Dao martial artists in Qinghe Fort actually did destroy the four formation towers. Could it really be that I was overly concerned?”
General Red Khan led his army and had just rushed into Qinghe Fort when the city gates closed with a loud bang.
“Haha! Jin Chi Khan you are too stupid, do you really think that we surrender back?” Zhao Jian laughed.
Hundreds of Evil Dao martial artists wearing purple robes rushed out from all sides in Qinghe Fort. All of them were first-class Evil Dao experts and surrounded General Red Khan and four thousand soldiers in the centre.
Young Lord Poison Spider and Lord Hua Ming walked out from the castle and stood on top of the stone platform, staring down at General Red Khan with a smile on their faces.
The Poison Spider Young Lord laughed, ”General Red Khan, the County King of Yunwu is sending you to Qinghe Castle to die, so why do you need to sell your life for the imperial court anymore? Why don’t you join us at the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce, and with your strength, you will definitely be able to receive quite a good treatment.”
After seeing the Poison Spider Young Lord and Lord Hua Ming, General Red Khan’s face turned ashen, knowing that he had been tricked!
Not only did he fall into the schemes of the Poison Spider Young Lord and Hua Ming Gong, but he also fell into the Seven Princes’ trickery. Just how could he not figure out why the Seventh Prince wanted to harm him?
A Heavenly Extreme Realm Martial Myth could easily kill an army of 10,000 people, not to mention that not only was Hua Ming Gong a Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artist, but the Poison Spider Young Lord also had the strength to fight with Heavenly Extreme Realm martial artists.
It seemed like today was going to be a bad day.
General Red Khan didn’t surrender, clenching his teeth and lifting his black wolf-tooth rod, he shouted, “Brothers, kill for me!”
“Obsessive!”
The Poison Spider Young Lord lost his patience and pulled out the scimitar in his arms, injecting his true qi completely into the scimitar.
The inscriptions in the scimitar, completely activated, rushed up a two feet high blade and chopped towards the army.
“Wow.”
With just one slash, dozens of soldiers were severed in two, and blood was like a pouring dipper that dyed the ground scarlet.
In front of an expert of the level of the Poison Spider Young Lord, the tactics of a sea of men were no longer useful, not to mention 10,000 armies, even 100,000 armies would not be able to stop his footwork.
As the Poison Spider Young Lord struck, Zhao Jian also jumped down from the city wall and struck out with a palm strike, sending more than a dozen soldiers flying out.
Zhao Jian was the Fort Master of Qinghe Fort, his martial arts cultivation had reached the Earth Extreme Realm Grand Circle, and no one was a match for him in a single move when he killed the army.
In a few moments, a field of corpses was left behind.
He rushed to General Red Khan and battled him.
The Poison Spider Young Lord looked at the thousands of soldiers in front of him and revealed a cruel smile, “A bunch of mole crickets also want to come to besiege Qinghe Fort, what a joke ……”
Suddenly, a loud and clear long whistle rang out from outside the city, a piercing whistle that resounded throughout Qinghe Fort.
The eyes of the Poison Spider Young Lord narrowed and looked in the direction outside the city, “Could it be that there are still experts in the army?”
“Boom!”
The city gate of Qinghe Fort was made of refined iron, half a metre thick, but it was shattered by a powerful sword qi and became torn apart.
The broken pieces of the city gate, under the control of a stream of true qi, flew rapidly towards those evil martial artists.
“Boom boom!”
The bodies of seventeen Evil Dao martial practitioners were pierced through and flew out backwards at the same time, blood splashing out from their bodies as they died tragically on the spot.
Carrying the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword, Zhang Ruochen walked in from outside the city gates and stared at the Poison Spider Young Lord from afar, saying, “Hua Qingshan, we meet again!”
The moment the city gates closed, Zhang Ruochen sensed something bad and immediately chased after him.
Outside the city, the sound of army cries and war drums resounded, and the remaining six thousand soldiers, formed into a formation, had rushed towards Qinghe Fort.
When the Poison Spider Young Lord saw Zhang Ruochen walking into the city gates, he was first slightly startled, followed by a loud laugh, “Zhang Ruochen, there is a way to heaven that you don’t go, and there is no door to hell that you barge in.”
“Is that so?”
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “That still depends on whose heaven and whose hell?”
The Poison Spider Young Lord snorted coldly, his eyes sinking as he said, “You won’t think of escaping again today!”
With a stomp of his feet, the Poison Spider Young Lord soared up to a height of more than thirty metres and descended sharply again, using the speed of his descent to slash at Zhang Ruochen’s head.
The bright blade light, trailing out more than ten metres long, was like a bright, clear moon, falling down from the sky.
“Swoosh!”
Zhang Ruochen simply moved his body and disappeared from the spot.
“What?” The Poison Spider Young Lord was slightly shocked, not expecting Zhang Ruochen’s speed to be so fast.
“Boom!”
The Poison Spider Young Lord slashed at the ground, and the ground shook violently as a long slash appeared, a hundred metres long and three metres deep.
This slash was not at all like the destructive power that a martial artist could erupt from, shocking everyone present.
“Your speed is too slow!”
Zhang Ruochen’s voice sounded behind the Poison Spider Young Lord.
The Poison Spider Young Lord’s face changed, and he was about to turn around and launch his sword to defend himself, but Zhang Ruochen had already struck his back with a palm.
“Boom!”
The powerful palm force knocked the Poison Spider Young Lord forward, like a vicious dog pouncing on a food, pouncing on the ground and rolling more than ten feet away, knocking down a wall.
The Poison Spider Young Lord rushed up from the rubble in a sorry state and landed back on the ground, tearing his tattered tunic to shreds, revealing a set of silver-coloured armour.
It was because of the protection of this armour that after enduring Zhang Ruochen’s slap, he was only slightly injured.
The armour he was wearing, called the Snake Scale Silver Armour, was a Sixth Order True Martial Treasure, all made of silver scales strung together, every single seam.
“Zhang Ruochen, I underestimated you, no wonder you dared to fight me, so your cultivation has broken through.”
The Poison Spider Young Lord stared at Zhang Ruochen as a hint of green light appeared in his pupils, eventually turning completely green, appearing incomparably demonic.
Soul Regenerating Eye.
This was a Spirit Grade mid-grade martial skill, and generally speaking, only Heavenly Extremity Realm martial artists could successfully cultivate it. Although the Poison Spider Young Lord had cultivated the Eye of Soul Regeneration, he hadn’t cultivated the Eye of Soul Regeneration to a great success.
How powerful was Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual power, how could a Soul Regenerating Eye that hadn’t reached its grand completion injure him?
Zhang Ruochen directly ignored the Poison Spider Young Lord’s Soul Regaining Eye, stepped on his feet, rushed to the front of the Poison Spider Young Lord, and slashed down with his sword.
“Heavenly Heart Full Moon.”
Although the Heavenly Heart Sword Technique was only a Spirit Grade Lower Grade Sword Technique, Zhang Ruochen had already cultivated the Heavenly Heart Sword Technique to the Realm of Transformation when he reached the Sword Mind.
The Realm of Transformation was the realm beyond the Grand Completion.
A martial skill, once it reached the Realm of Transformation, its power would stack exponentially.
Even if it was only a Spirit Grade Lower Grade Sword Technique, it could still exert the power of a Spirit Grade Middle Grade Sword Technique.
The Poison Spider Young Lord did not even think that the Eye of Soul Regeneration would lose its effect, and in his haste, he could only slash out a sword and block it towards Zhang Ruochen.
How exquisite was Zhang Ruochen’s sword technique, and how could he block it.
Only seeing the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword twisting slightly, it avoided the curved blade in the hands of the Poison Spider Young Lord and chopped at the waist of the Poison Spider Young Lord.
“Pfft!”
The Poison Spider Young Lord was chopped in two, and even the serpent-scaled silver armour on his body couldn’t stop the sharpness of the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword.
A top young Evil Dao expert fell, splattering his blood and dying under Zhang Ruochen’s sword.
