Chapter 549: Formation vs. Formation
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
After treating their injuries, the five junior captains started to take their rival seriously. They deployed a formation with the other guards.
The general of the guards troops hadn’t died after taking the attack from the eight groups of beings and the sword formation, but he was heavily injured. He took a panacea as quickly as possible to get his injury under control.
More weapons from the castle were aimed at Jiang Chen.
They saw the princess, who had been caught by Jiang Chen, was in danger when they were about to kill the latter with the strongest military power they had.
The junior captains and the general panicked instantly. They hurried to put down the weapons, which they had been about to shoot.
“So this is what you aimed for, to catch me, isn’t it?” the woman said unhappily after getting over the panic of being caught by Jiang Chen.
“Don’t move. We’re both in the preliminary stage of Martial Venerable, but it’ll be easy for me to kill you,” Jiang Chen said.
“Not necessarily. I could be a genius like you, couldn’t I? Or do you think you’re the strongest person in the world?” the woman said.
“So, are you?”
“No. But there are many people like you in the Dragon Rebel Army stationed in the Realm of True Force. I suggest you don’t act recklessly.”
Jiang Chen couldn’t help but smile. He said, “So, it turns out you’re threatening me. You could have been more straightforward.”
The woman said angrily, “Don’t think I was joking. If you hurt me even a little bit, your whole family will die.”
Glancing at her, Jiang Chen made up his mind. A wind blade streaked across the woman’s hair, cutting her waist-long hair off from the neck down.
“I hate to be threatened,” said Jiang Chen.
“You!” The woman didn’t realize what had happened until her shorter hair fell on her cheeks.
She flew into a rage instantly, but when she noticed Jiang Chen’s look, she held back her tongue.
“You what? Tell me,” Jiang Chen said.
“Don’t act on impulse.”
The general of the guard troops strode over. He said, “You can go with your men. We won’t stop you.”
“Jiang Chen, don’t believe them. They study evil methods here. They won’t let us go so easily.” Qiu Yan struggled to walk out of the cages with her subordinates so they could go up to Jiang Chen.
“And this woman, she knows evil methods,” said Qiu Yan.
“I know.”
Jiang Chen didn’t seem surprised. He suddenly made a quick backward movement with his right hand and grabbed the woman’s fair-skinned hand.
“You want to take in my energy? Unfortunately, your method is full of flaws. You can’t reach my Holy Sea with it. It’ll make people as thin as a stick, but you won’t benefit from it,” said Jiang Chen.
“How do you know?”
The woman was studying the exact evil method that could be used to take in others’ energies for her own use.
She had made some progress, but there were still many problems that she couldn’t resolve.
She had thought Jiang Chen wasn’t paying attention to her, so she had tried to suck all of his energy in a surprise attack, but she had failed.
“I’ll show you the correct way.”
Jiang Chen clawed his palm and pressed his fingertips onto the woman’s belly. There was glittering energy connected to his fingers instantly that he was gradually drawing out.
The woman turned pale. She didn’t feel any pain, but she felt like she was getting weaker and weaker.
When she came back to herself, she saw an energy ball in Jiang Chen’s palm.
“You… how did you do that?” The woman was extremely shocked. That was her energy.
At the same time, she found her state had gone back to the Reaching Heaven State, and her Holy Sea had turned back into a Qihai.
“This is what you get for your trick and what you did to the Red Flame Battalion.”
Jiang Chen didn’t take in the woman’s energy. He simply crumbled it with his fingers so that it vanished from the world.
The reason was simple. This was an evil method, meaning it was forbidden.
Besides the moral reason, it would bring him a bad influence, too. Jiang Chen wasn’t that shortsighted.
“Turn on the formation. Let’s leave the castle first,” said Jiang Chen.
“Okay,” Qiu Yan said.
The soldiers of the Red Flame Battalion had all recovered after leaving the cages. They transformed into a fire cloud right away to leave the castle.
The general of the guard troops didn’t care about them at all. All of the guards were paying attention to Jiang Chen, or rather, the woman under his sword.
“Mister, once you move your sword, I’ll chase you wherever you go for as long as I live. That’s certain,” said the general.
“Another threat?” Jiang Chen asked with a smile, observing where the Red Flame Battalion had gone out of the corner of his eye.
“No. I’m negotiating with you,” the general hurried to say. He had seen how the woman had ended up after threatening Jiang Chen.
“First of all, destroy all the weapons in your castle,” Jiang Chen said.
The general hesitated.
“Don’t think you can just shoot me after I leave her here,” Jiang Chen went on.
“We can turn them off. It’s unnecessary to destroy them,” said a junior captain.
As his answer, Jiang Chen raised his sword slightly. The blade was pressed against the woman’s throat tightly. Given a good scare, the enemy hurried to do what he had told them.
Soon, with a strong energy fluctuation, all of the weapons in the castle were completely destroyed.
But Jiang Chen wasn’t completely satisfied. He said instead, “I don’t have time to play games with you. This woman’s life means nothing to me. You’re pus.h.i.+ng me to do it.”
“Mister, what is this about?” the general said.
“There are top-level weapons embedded in the structure of the castle. Combined with the effect of wards and tactical formations, they make the whole castle an extremely destructive weapon,” Jiang Chen said.
The woman, squatting on the ground, couldn’t help but look up. She said in surprise, “How do you even know that?”
Such a secret was unknown even to many of the average guards.
“I have eyes,” Jiang Chen said. “What do you say? It’s your last chance.”
“Okay!”
The general of the guard troops knew it was impossible to trick the guy in front of him. He got to his feet and threw his fist out towards the castle.
A third of the walls were immediately destroyed, causing the castle to start falling apart. Of course, the weapons inside it were destroyed, too.
“That’s the right way to go,” Jiang Chen said.
“Can you let her go now?” a junior captain said unhappily.
“Of course. Do you really want to stay with her? Why don’t you surrender?” Jiang Chen’s anger was gone. He even smiled as he spoke.
The Red Flame Battalion had come back, hovering over the castle.
“You’re too greedy. Aren’t you afraid you won’t be able to leave?” The general was surprised that Jiang Chen wanted to take over. He was both shocked and angry.
There was no way he, a Spiritual Venerable, and five Martial Venerables, along with 100 elite guards, would be defeated by the Red Flame Battalion.
“Are you suggesting you want to challenge me in tactical formations?”
Jiang Chen certainly knew that, but he was still very confident, because he had more men! That was the only reason.
The Red Flame Battalion had almost 1,000 soldiers, while the enemy only had 100.
Although there was a huge gap between them in terms of individual strength, Jiang Chen’s formation could totally turn the tide.
All of a sudden, Jiang Chen detected the woman saying something to the general through holy awareness.
Then he saw the general become resolute.