Chapter 283: Chapter 283: Slaying the Second Commander
How could a young man, one with such a bright future, possibly risk his own life to act as the lure?
So the Fox Flame Commander, without a second thought, had led her elites out in pursuit...
After all, the Fake Lu Chao was already surrounded by them. He couldn’t escape even if he grew wings.
No matter how powerful the ambush behind them was, he himself was doomed.
However, just as the Fox Flame Commander turned to shout her angry question, she was shocked to realize that the Fake Lu Chao was no longer on his warhorse.
"Where did the Fake Lu Chao go?" the Fox Flame Commander couldn’t help but ask.
In the next instant, a sudden wave of dread washed over her, as if some terrifying danger was about to descend.
Just as she feared... SHK!
A long spear suddenly thrust out from beneath her warhorse, piercing straight through the animal’s belly. Dripping with scalding horse blood, the spearpoint exited the horse’s back and continued upward, running through the Fox Flame Commander’s abdomen.
Then, it burst straight out of her back.
The Fox Flame Commander felt a sharp pain in her abdomen. Only when she looked down did she realize she had been impaled.
Her eyes widened, and she asked blankly, "Fake Lu Chao, when did you get under my horse?"
As the Fox Flame Commander spoke, a figure flashed out from under the horse’s belly and landed in front of her.
He was, of course, Lu Chao.
Lu Chao replied calmly, "It was when you were all distracted by the ambush on your rear guard, of course... Fox Flame Commander, you are far inferior to Huyan Jue back on the Hundred Countries Battlefield of Great Wu."
At Lu Chao’s words, the Fox Flame Commander’s eyes widened again as blood gushed uncontrollably from her mouth.
Huyan Jue had been the previous commander of the Fox Flame Kingdom.
She had died on the Hundred Countries Battlefield at the hands of Lu Chao of Great Wu.
The Fox Flame Commander stared fixedly at Lu Chao and asked in return, "Why would you say that? Did you know General Huyan Jue?"
Lu Chao leaned close to her ear and replied in a low voice, "I am... the True Lu Chao of Great Wu!"
Instantly, the Fox Flame Commander’s pupils constricted violently before slowly losing focus.
At that moment, the surrounding hundreds of Fox Flame elites finally reacted and charged forward to kill...
"Kill the Fake Lu Chao! Avenge our commander!"
"Commander! Oh, Commander!"
The Fox Flame elites roared, one after another.
But Lu Chao just smiled calmly. With a SHING, he drew the sword from the Fox Flame Commander’s waist and lunged into the fray.
"Slaughter Sword, Thousand Kills!"
A furious torrent of deadly sword-light lanced out toward the hundreds of surrounding Fox Flame elites.
Lu Chao himself seemed to transform into a storm of sword shadows, sweeping through the hundreds of Fox Flame elites and leaving trails of blood in his wake.
The Fox Flame Commander was not yet completely dead...
She struggled to lift her head and cried out to her hundreds of elites, "Run! He is... he is the Gr-Gr-Great Wu..."
She couldn’t finish her sentence. Her voice faded to a bare whisper.
THUD...
Her body remained draped over the warhorse. Then, the horse, having lost too much blood, collapsed with a crash, and the Fox Flame Commander naturally tumbled heavily to the ground with it. After all, Lu Chao’s spear had pierced the horse before running her through!
And so, the Fox Flame Commander lay on her side on the ground.
She watched the Lu Chao before her, a mere First Layer of Transformation practitioner, slaughtering her hundreds of elites.
’Why is he the True Lu Chao of Great Wu?’
’Why is Lu Chao of Great Wu still alive? Why does he now have the Bone of Myriad Stars?’
’Why did I ever provoke him?’
As these questions echoed in the Fox Flame Commander’s mind, her breathing gradually ceased, and she sank completely into darkness.
By the time her eyes closed for the last time, more than half of the hundreds of Fox Flame elites were already dead.
The survivors shrieked in terror, "Run! We have to run! His sword is too fast! We’re no match for him at all!"
And so, the remaining Fox Flame elites scattered, fleeing for their lives...
But Lu Chao pursued them with cold ruthlessness. "My apologies, but I can’t let you escape this time," he called out. "You elites have ways to contact the Lion Flame or Leopard Flame forces, so you can only... die!"
With that, Lu Chao resumed the slaughter, hunting down the fleeing Fox Flame elites one by one.
A quarter of an hour later, they were all annihilated.
He stood holding the Fox Flame Commander’s sword, its tip dripping with blood...
Lu Chao gazed at the corpses strewn across the ground. ’This is war. It’s kill or be killed. Your only fate was to die on this battlefield.’
Finished, Lu Chao sheathed the sword and walked away, striding toward the body of the Fox Flame Commander.
Then, dragging the Fox Flame Commander’s corpse, he headed back toward the main battlefield.
The place where Sky Cliff and Liyan were ambushing the Fox Flame troops.
As he walked, the True Qi in his body suddenly erupted, and he broke through directly from the First Layer of Transformation to the Second Layer.
Lu Chao muttered to himself as he walked...
’At the Transformation Realm, I can now devour four Star Heavenly Destiny Bones.’
’But I must hold back for now. In the distant sky of my Bone Inner World, I can still see too few Star Heavenly Destiny Bones.’
’I need to see more.’
’During the contest between the three academies, I must choose and devour the most suitable Star Heavenly Destiny Bones to deal with the siblings, Lu Hanyan and Lu Hanyang.’
That was right. After breaking through to the Transformation Realm, Lu Chao had not immediately devoured a Star Heavenly Destiny Bone.
Instead, he was waiting...
The Star Heavenly Destiny Bones in the distant sky were of the Divine Bone Level.
At first, he couldn’t see them at all. Slowly, he became able to see a few. Now, he could see more than ten.
As Lu Chao continued to break through, the number of distant Divine Bones he could see would only increase.
But it still wasn’t enough. Lu Chao wanted to make his choice count, to wait until a truly decisive battle to select and devour the bone.
And so, Lu Chao, carrying the Fox Flame Commander’s corpse, mounted a warhorse once more.
Not long after, he returned to the main battlefield...
He bellowed, "Fox Flame troops! Your commander is dead! Lay down your weapons and surrender, and you will not be killed!"
His voice, infused with True Qi, rolled across the field!
The minds of the Fox Flame soldiers reeled as if struck, unable to believe what they were hearing.
And when Lu Chao threw down the Fox Flame Commander’s corpse, the soldiers’ legs went weak. They wanted to flee, but they were completely surrounded.
Anyone showing signs of fleeing was immediately shot down on the spot, by order of Senior Sister Sky Cliff and the Liyan Commander.
In the end...
With a great CLATTER, all the Fox Flame soldiers dropped their weapons and surrendered.
Senior Sister Sky Cliff and the Liyan Commander quickly approached.
The two of them stared intently at the Fox Flame Commander’s body for a long moment. Then, Senior Sister Sky Cliff clasped her fists in a gesture of profound respect and said in a low voice, "Young Master Lu Chao... no, General Lu Chao, what are your orders?"
At this moment, Senior Sister Sky Cliff’s admiration for Lu Chao, which dated back to their time at the Beast Flame Academy, had transformed into a kind of reverent awe.
’He acted as the lure all by himself!’
When Senior Sister Sky Cliff had first heard Lu Chao’s plan, she had been certain he was insane...
Yet the reality was that he had returned after slaying the Fox Flame Commander and ended the battle with a single sentence, securing them a total victory.
After his gaze swept over the entire field, Lu Chao’s eyes returned to Senior Sister Sky Cliff.
The next moment, he pointed to the Fox Flame Commander’s corpse and said in a low voice, "Strip off her Battle Armor. You’re going to wear it."
Hearing this, Senior Sister Sky Cliff froze, utterly stunned.
