Chapter 374 Borrowing Troops
This pressure was rare, but the cultivators of the Pinglu Army and the Hedong Army encountered it before. Since the battle in Hedong began, the great cultivators of Land Buddhism and the demon clan appeared in succession. In terms of cultivation and pressure, many of them were more powerful than the gray-haired man in a cyan robe.
But, neither the cultivators of the demon clan or the monks of Land Buddhism were in Taiyuan now.
In addition, the middle-aged man had a better bearing than the cultivators of the demon clan and the monks of Land Buddhism. He was elegant and looked like a scholar, but when he stood there with his hands clasped behind his back, he had heroic spirits, like a famous general who had spent his whole life in the army!
Looking up at this person would give people an illusion:
He didn’t talk about the world, but the world was in his heart.
He didn’t look down on the world, but the world was at his feet!
In the past 100 years, in the entire Tang Empire, only one person had such a bearing and was qualified to have such a bearing, apart from Emperor Xuanzong.
The previous Prince An, Li Xian!
Li Keyong frowned and his eyes narrowed. After staring at Li Xian for a while, he couldn’t help but burst out a loud shout.
After shouting, he jumped up into the air like a fish. He held his knife with both hands and chopped onto Li Xian’s head!
He didn’t know the person in front of him was Li Xian. He was not the old Prince An he remembered. All he knew was that this man got in his way.
Whoever got in his way, no matter what kind of cultivation and bearing he had, he must eliminate him!
Especially it was the critical moment for the two armies to fight for victory in the military formations. He had no reason to flinch. Even though the other side had outstanding cultivation, he was not afraid of him because he was a Spiritual Pool Spiritual Master!
When Li Keyong chopped his knife out, a several-meter Knife Qi fell from the sky like starlight, with great momentum!
Crazy fighting will was boiling in his eyes. He shouted from his throat, “No matter who you are, if you dare to block my Hedong Army, you will die!”
The big outer gate of the barracks seemed small under the Knife Qi, as if it would be destroyed in the next moment!
Li Xian stood on the flagpole of the outer gate with his hands clasped behind his back. When the Knife Qi reached his forehead, he didn’t frown.
He looked as usual, without any changes in his eyes. He was graceful, as if he was standing on the cliff alone and calmly facing the fighters coming like tides.
He stretched out his right hand to the side and grasped the air.
On the wall, in the pool of blood, in the pile of corpses, a knife in a Pinglu soldier’s hand suddenly flew off the ground! The blood-stained knife glided in a sharp arc and flashed away. When it appeared again, it was in Li Xian’s hand.
Holding the knife, Li Xian wielded it obliquely to meet Li Keyong’s Knife Qi.
The knife in his hand just shone with one-decimeter cyan light.
The light didn’t leave the blade.
When facing the several-meter Knife Qi, the one-decimeter cyan light was negligible.
The gap was so huge that the cultivators of the two armies changed their expressions. The cultivators of the Pinglu Army felt bad and hopeless, while the cultivators of the Hedong Army were so excited that they almost cry out.
Unlike the others, a few cultivators whose cultivation reached the threshold of the Spiritual Master Realm had no obvious changes in their expressions. They were keenly aware that the one-decimeter cyan light was not as simple as it looked.
As expected, the next thing that happened caused a big uproar again.
When the several-meter Knife Qi with great momentum, which seemed to be able to destroy cities, met Li Xian’s knife, it was cut off by the one-decimeter cyan light directly and flowed to both sides out of control, like water meeting rocks and sand meeting mountains!
The several-meter Knife Qi was directly cut off by the one-decimeter cyan light from the middle!
Li Keyong’s face turned pale, and his heart skipped a beat. At this moment, he felt his life was in danger. His knife was still chopping down and about to hit Li Xian’s knife. If the two knives hit together, it meant that they would confront each other hand-to-hand, without reservation.
He had a hunch that he was going to fail and that he was likely to die!
Li Keyong was frightened, but his mind was not flustered. He made a quick decision. He forced himself to mobilize his Spiritual Qi to hold back his body and somersault in the air. He retrieved his knife. He rolled back his body from jumping down. He spun in the air for a while and quickly distanced from the outer gate.
When he landed again, Li Keyong returned to the Hedong Army. He knelt on one knee. His face turned pale, and his look turned extremely bad. After a while, he spurted out a mouthful of blood.
After vomiting blood, Li Keyong looked better. He stood up slowly and stared at Li Xian who stood on the flagpole, with his eyes like swords. Li Xian was intact, and his bearing became more extraordinary in the foil of the knife.
The soldiers of the two armies, the Pinglu Army and the Hedong Army, looked at Li Xian in awe.
After all, he injured Li Keyong and made him retreat with just one strike!
Li Keyong shouted in a low voice from his throat, “Who the hell are you?”
He just said, “No matter who you are, if you get in my way, you’ll die.” But now, he wanted to know the other side’s identity.
The breeze stirred the gray hair and fluttered the clothes. Holding the knife, Li Xian faced the Pinglu Army of more than 100,000 troops with no end in sight. He said lightly, “You are not qualified to know that.”
Li Xian was telling the truth. In the entire Tang Empire, very few people knew his identity, only his closest relatives and friends. From this point of view, Li Keyong was indeed not qualified to know that Li Xian was not dead yet.
But when Li Keyong heard this, he didn’t understand it in this way.
What Li Keyong felt was Li Xian’s contempt, so he was furious.
Li Keyong was angry with bristling hair. “Do you really think that you are invincible on the battlefield and that you can turn the tide of the battle because your cultivation is one level higher than mine? I have 100,000 troops here. I wait to see how you can resist my military formation! The Pinglu Army is doomed to fail, and even immortals cannot help. I’m sure about that!”
After saying this, Li Keyong raised his knife high and screamed, “Military formation!”
Behind him, in front of the big formation, the eight thousand soldiers, who had not yet attacked the walls, hit their swords and shouted at the same time.
Like tides, their sounds overwhelmed all the screams around, straight into the sky.
In the formation composed of 8,000 soldiers, taking the cultivators as nodes, waves of Spiritual Qi spread and gathered, and eventually formed a force covering the entire military formation. Above the military formation, the misty light gradually lit up. In a moment, it condensed like a cover, protecting the entire military formation.
Like a huge beast, this military formation could advance or retreat, and attack or defend. It could flatten and cross not only the walls and the outer gate in front of it but also mountains, lakes, and the sea.
When the military formation formed, Li Keyong stared at Li Xian and sneered. “Even though you’re a Yin Spiritual Master, you can do nothing to me. Even though you can defeat me, can you hold the outer gate?”
Li Keyong was a Spiritual Pool Spiritual Master, and he had high cultivation. Now he was in the military formation. When he carried out the military formation of Militarism, Li Xian, a Yin Spiritual Master, could do nothing to him on his own.
In other words, if Li Keyong began to attack the outer gate, Li Xian couldn’t resist.
A military warrior of Militarism could gather all the soldiers’ power. With 8,000 soldiers behind him, a general of Militarism could gather 8,000 soldiers’ power, so he couldn’t be underestimated.
Seeing Li Keyong’s military formation form, almost all the Pinglu soldiers on the wall were in fear and panic. In these days’ battles, Li Keyong’s military formation made the Pinglu Army suffer heavy casualties.
Throughout the Pinglu Army, no one could resist him. Even Liu Dazheng and Shangguan Qingcheng could only hold out for a short time. Therefore, many Pinglu soldiers died before Li Keyong’s military formation.
Li Keyong’s military formation was the Pinglu soldiers’ nightmare, the gate of hell.
The Pinglu Army was going to collapse, and they were unable to guard the outer gate. Li Keyong’s arrival at the formation frightened all the soldiers a lot. Now when Li Keyong completely launched the power of the military formation, who still wanted to fight?
It was good enough for the Pinglu Army not to turn around and go immediately.
When almost all the Pinglu soldiers were in panic, when almost all the Pinglu generals were in despair, some people still had hope and high morale and were not affected by Li Keyong’s military formation.
They were Shangguan Qingcheng and Liu Dazheng.
When Li Keyong completely launched the power of the military formation, Li Xian looked as usual and didn’t fear the great terror.
He turned to say to Shangguan Qingcheng, “General Shangguan, lend me your troops!”
Shangguan Qingcheng’s troops were around the outer gate.
Hearing this, Shangguan Qingcheng was excited and answered with cupped fists, “Yes!”
When the Pinglu soldiers around heard Shangguan Qingcheng’s answer, they looked at each other and saw each other’s doubts.
They didn’t know who the gray-haired man on the flagpole was, but obviously, he was their savior and came to save their lives and tide them over.
In terms of his cultivation, he could be somebody.
There were only a few cultivators in the Spiritual Master Realm in the entire Tang Empire. The nation’s luck scattered to the folks these years because of the chaos of the world. As a result, some cultivators broke through the threshold and became Spiritual Masters. But there were still very few of them.
However, although everyone was astonished at Li Xian’s arrival, they could accept that. After all, Li Ye was infinitely resourceful. Since he wasn’t in the army, it was acceptable that he asked a great cultivator who lived in seclusion to help the Pinglu Army stabilize the situation.
Such a great cultivator was not powerful enough to save the Pinglu Army because Li Keyong was in the enemy army.
But what did the “lend me your troops” mean?
Zhao Polu muttered, “Does this man want to charge forward with the troops? But he’s just a scattered cultivator. When he confronts Li Keyong’s military formation of Militarism, it’s useless for him to charge forward with the troops. General Shangguan is more suitable than him.”
This was obvious, and Shangguan Qingcheng also knew that, but she agreed with him and said “Yes” without any hesitation.
Looking at the gray-haired man, Zhao Polu was confused. “Was he a general in the army? But what can he do even if he was a general? He wants to fight against Li Keyong’s military formation, unless...”
Thinking of this, Zhao Polu was shocked, full of disbelief in his eyes. “Is he a military warrior of Militarism? And his realm is higher than Li Keyong’s?”
As soon as he thought of this, Zhao Polu shook his head and denied it.
How many generals of Militarism in the world?
For now, they were fewer than the people in the Spiritual Master Realm. People could achieve the Spiritual Master Realm by cultivating in the mountains. They could conceal their identities and be unknown to the world. But the generals of Militarism had to go through a lot of battles on the battlefield.
How could such a general be a nobody?
But Zhao Polu didn’t know the middle-aged man in front of him.
In addition, to say the least, even if he was a military warrior of Militarism and had the same cultivation realm as Li Keyong, he couldn’t defeat Li Keyong.
The soldiers in Li Keyong’s military formation were his trusted troops, and they lived together day and night, so they had a tacit understanding. Even if he had the same realm as Li Keyong and he was a general of Militarism so that he could give play to the power of the military formation of Militarism, he was no match for Li Keyong as he led the troops he hadn’t led before.
Zhao Polu could think of this, so could Shangguan Qingcheng. He knew that.
But at present, Shangguan Qingcheng already asked 3,000 soldiers of the reserves, who gathered inside the outer gate, to be ready to charge. It seemed that she was going to have a final showdown against Li Keyong hand-to-hand.
Zhao Polu wanted to help, but he stopped. Shangguan Qingcheng’s military formation was a whole, so it was useless for him to join in.
At this moment, Li Xian flew down from the gate and landed before the military formation.
Seeing his next move, Zhao Polu opened his eyes in astonishment, full of disbelief.
Although he wasn’t a military warrior of Militarism, he had reached the threshold, so he had wide knowledge. He knew that if the gray-haired man really wanted to defeat Li Keyong with the military formation, he had to be one level higher than Li Keyong, in the realm of the military warrior of Militarism!
That was a senior general of Militarism!
Zhao Polu suddenly thought of something, so he stood stunned there.
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