Chapter 1928: Chapter 21: Drink Up!
Li Guanyi defeated Jiang Su, bringing the battle in his position to an end.
Without any time to rest, he raced all the way to the battlefield a hundred miles away. Even before reaching the battlefield, gusts of wind carrying the scent of blood and death slapped against his face.
Li Guanyi hurried forward anxiously.
When he arrived at the flanking battlefield, what met his eyes was an extremely brutal battle, and Li Zhaowen and others also saw the shattered parts of Li Guanyi’s armor, spotting the cracks and blood on his shoulder guard.
Li Zhaowen said, "Guan Yi..."
Fan Qing supported himself with a breath, saying, "Your Majesty..."
Li Guanyi raised a hand to stop them from speaking, using the martial arts from the Imperial Pole Worldly Scripture to heal their wounds. As he healed them, he looked at the devastating battlefield, speaking in a calm tone, "Jiang Su is dead, Ying Country’s army is in decline."
Fan Qing said softly, "Our comrades suffered heavy casualties, Old Master Gongsun Huaizhi, and General Xue both..."
"Have all passed away."
Li Guanyi’s eyes darkened, but in such circumstances, he could not show any wavering, suppressing the tumult of emotions within him to maintain the composure a monarch should have, stabilizing the army’s morale, simply saying:
"Rest for now."
Qibi Li survived due to the medicine he carried, but his Primordial Qi was severely damaged.
If he hadn’t already broken through to the Seven Heavens, he might have died on this battlefield, though even with the foundation and vigorous blood of a Grandmaster, it would take seven or eight months to fully recover.
There’s even uncertainty about whether it would affect his future path in Martial Arts.
Fan Qing had lost an arm.
His expression was resolute, softly saying, "It’s just a lost arm, compared to the brothers and comrades who died in battle, I’m already too fortunate."
Li Guanyi took a deep breath, looking upwards.
After a long while, he said, "I will have the Angry Scale Dragon King General Kou Yulie come over, to take our brothers back via the waterways, Shi Dalin and the others are already preparing in the rear, to bring the brothers and prisoners back."
"We must let our brothers go home."
Li Guanyi looked at the Fierce Tiger Sky Shouting Halberd lying on the ground.
As the wind blew, Yuwen Lie closed his eyes, devoid of vitality, while the sharp edge of the Fierce Tiger Sky Shouting Halberd that could cut through armor softly howled, emitting low tiger roars.
General Xue’s Divine Charm had exhausted its power.
Li Guanyi walked forward slowly, looking at the surrounding broken machinery, and finally found what he was looking for, his eyes lighting up slightly, he hurried two steps forward, bending over to pick up the formation core lying on this bloody, brutal battlefield.
The heart he had been holding finally relaxed.
His martial arts started from this formation core, it was because of this that Li Guanyi had learned top-tier martial arts at a young age.
He also truly started learning military tactics from General Xue, laying the foundation for his strategy.
This crystal stone once had flickering radiance within it.
One could perceive the existence of Divine Charm within, but now, the radiance on the formation core crystal stone was extremely weak, Li Guanyi held this crystal stone in his hand, slightly dazed, then his pupils contracted violently.
Crack—
He unfolded his palm, revealing micro-cracks on the crystal stone in his palm; Li Guanyi nurtured the crystal stone with the pure aura of his Martial Arts Legend, channeling his Primordial Qi into it, but it seemed he couldn’t stop the crystal from shattering.
The cracks on the crystal stone quickly spread, fine and swift, completely covering the entire crystal.
This formation core, imbued with General Xue’s Divine Charm, was densely covered with cracks.
It seemed it was about to completely shatter into powder at any moment.
The desperate battle with Yuwen Lie consumed an overwhelmingly large amount.
Even if the real Zhang Ziyong stood here, he would be cut down alive by the state of the White Tiger Sect, let alone just Zhang Ziyong’s arm, which had only a third of its Divine Charm remaining.
Li Guanyi’s expression froze, feeling a sense of bewilderment and loss.
The battlefield’s cruelty, the slaughter, continuously clarified.
From the moment he took up arms and entered this chaotic world, this era and the chaos had always been teaching him about loss and the cruelty of the world.
Every forward step required an enormous price, involving loss.
Li Guanyi’s foundation in strategy and military force was taught by General Xue, yet now a sense of loss filled his heart, a moment of extreme sorrow, when he suddenly found that the cracks on the crystal seemed to form a special pattern.
The pattern transformed into a formation, and suddenly the crystal stone emitted a trace of Divine Charm; amidst his sadness and daze, Li Guanyi suddenly heard a carefree, hearty laughter in his ear, a voice left by General Xue, filled with great pride—
"Hahaha, tricked you!"
Li Guanyi stood frozen.
He was stunned, watching as the cracks on the crystal slowly smoothed out, just like the carefree laughter in his ear, as if General Xue was watching him, then turning away, carrying the battle halberd, turning his back on the now grown Emperor Qin, waving his hand.
"I’m leaving!"
Divine Charm finally disappeared, calming down, with Li Guanyi holding the utterly silent crystal stone; using the power of a Martial Arts Legend, he could feel that at the core of this formation core, there was still a sliver of Divine Charm.
Extremely weak.
Li Guanyi didn’t know whether this wisp of Divine Charm was so weak because of the exhaustive five days and nights battle with the White Tiger Sect’s Yuwen Lie, or if it was due to the same exhaustion followed by leaving one last ’joke’ for Li Guanyi.
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