Chapter 1885: King Ape! (I)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
The most surprising performance came from w.a.n.g Zhongsi. His moves were simple yet exuded a tyrannical aura. These were moves that had sublimated the complex into the simple. Most importantly, just like w.a.n.g Chong, he had also reached the Subtle realm.
With each attack, he could open up a pa.s.sage through dimensions, draw out the energy from that different dimension, and throw it against the Ifrit, sending flames splas.h.i.+ng everywhere.
But despite all this, their situation had not changed.
Awooooo!
The Ifrit bellowed, its sea of high-temperature flames scorching the Stellar Energy on their bodies. Not only that, whenever their attacks struck the Ifrit, the flames and lava that erupted from its body would fall on the ground and transform into more fire men.
Not all of these fire men surged to the front line. Some of them turned around to attack w.a.n.g Chong and the other commanders.
Boom! The Ifrit, apparently incensed, suddenly stomped down. The earth trembled as a wave of heat more than thirty meters high rose up around the Ifrit and swept outward.
Gao Xianzhi had just dodged to the back of the Ifrit and launched an attack when an edge of this high-temperature wave of flame struck him.
Bzzz! Gao Xianzhi panicked and immediately dodged to the side. It was a rather swift reaction, but it was still too slow. Bang! Gao Xianzhi’s body shuddered, and then he was blasted back by a tongue of flame.
“Not good!”
Everyone felt like their hearts had seized up when they saw this.
Raaaa! The Ifrit’s golden eyes flashed with cold light as it roared, and then a ma.s.sive arm wrapped in destructive flames swung toward Gao Xianzhi.
Such was the power in this fist that before it had impacted with anything, it was already causing depressions in the fabric of s.p.a.ce.
With the Ifrit’s power, if Gao Xianzhi were struck by this punch, all of his Stellar Energy would instantly explode, leaving him either heavily injured or dead.
“Careful!”
Everyone instantly paled. Zhangchou Jianqiong, An Sishun, and w.a.n.g Zhongsi immediately lunged toward Gao Xianzhi. Beforehand, in order to dodge the Ifrit’s attacks, they had scattered themselves around the Ifrit and had maintained a certain distance from it.
But this had now become a fatal flaw. Even the closest one, Zhangchou Jianqiong, was several hundred feet away, and he also had flames blocking his path. There was no way he could make it in time.
The Ifrit’s punch hurtled toward Gao Xianzhi, blocking out the sun, and everyone’s hearts sank. At this moment, w.a.n.g Chong’s extremely cold voice came from overhead.
“Let me try!”
Bzzz! The sun and moon appeared, and with these two sources of powerful pull, w.a.n.g Chong pulled the Ifrit’s arm to the side while also pulling Gao Xianzhi the other way, immediately increasing the distance between the two.
Rumble!
In an explosion of flames, the Ifrit’s punch missed. Roaring in anger, it locked its eyes on w.a.n.g Chong and punched. In a flash of light, w.a.n.g Chong swiftly dodged by a hair.
But the fact that it had missed only made the Ifrit angrier. The fires on its body swelled, its attacks intensified, and terrifying heat scorched the air, creating thick black smoke.
“Not good! They can’t hold!” Li Junxian called out from the rear of the army. There was a determined look in his eyes as he gripped his sword.
“Elder, Junior Sister, I leave the rear to you!”
Before Li Junxian had finished speaking, he shot away, the n.o.ble Sage Sword gleaming in his hand.
w.a.n.g Chong and w.a.n.g Zhongsi were incredibly strong, but they were still not enough to deal with the Ifrit and its lack of a physical body. From Li Junxian’s perspective, purely through its vast sea of flames and waves of heat, the Ifrit had completely suppressed the five commanders.
w.a.n.g Chong and w.a.n.g Zhongsi were on the defensive and had no time to launch any counterattacks.
They alone were far from enough.
“Righteous River!”
Li Junxian was still several thousand feet away when he raised his divine sword and unleashed a dazzling river of milky-white Sword Qi. It seemed like the Milky Way as it cut through s.p.a.ce and sliced into the flames around the Ifrit’s body.
Although this attack could not deal lethal damage to the Ifrit, the flames around the Ifrit substantially weakened. Most importantly… the Ifrit turned its attention to Li Junxian.
At the same time, Righteous Alliance Lord Song Yuanyi glanced at the distance, his eyes in turmoil. “You go and help General Li! I’ll go and lend them a hand!”
A moment later, Song Yuanyi vanished in a shriek of air. Behind him, Xie Guangting gave one last glance before swiftly heading for the battlefield.
Roooar!
Elsewhere, a fire man more than two meters tall roared as it punched, sending a s.h.i.+eld soldier flying through the air. “Kill!” Spears thrust and sabers slashed, but it seemed like they were attacking the air for all the damage they did to the fire man.
But just when that fire man was about to attack several more Tang infantry, boom! A ma.s.sive pillar of cold water descended from the heavens. Hisss! The water pierced through the fire man, unleas.h.i.+ng a cloud of steam, and in a flash, the seemingly unkillable fire man was gone.
“Ordinary attacks have no effect on them! Try and find water to use against them! This will be more effective than any of your other attacks!”
The Lone Silence Ancestor’s voice echoed in their ears, the man himself shooting over their heads to kill another fire man with a single punch, after which he began to rush in w.a.n.g Chong’s direction.
Water countered fire!
The ‘fire men’ created by the Ifrit shared its indestructibility. On this battlefield, possibly only the Lone Silence Ancestor was capable of easily killing them with a single strike.
“No good! The northwest lacks water! This area is too arid!”
The Lone Silence Ancestor creased his brow, his calm exterior concealing his anxiety. Underneath the City of Steel was a layer of hard rock, and to the north was the Moheyan Desert. This environment had a dire shortage of water.
The amount of water the Lone Silence Ancestor could extract from the ground was too little. For the most part, he had to consume his own energy to deal with these fire men.
“Water! Where can I get water?!”
The Lone Silence Ancestor swept his gaze across the battlefield, but where could one find enough water to deal with the Ifrit in such short order? At his moment of panic, a heaven-shaking cry resounded over the battlefield.
“Kiiill!”
In the distance, Adnan waved the Blade of Mukala and led the Arab Governors and Deputy Governors in a charge. Ignoring the battle taking place between the Ifrit and w.a.n.g Chong’s group, they charged straight into the battlefield.
“Forget the Tang Great Generals! Use this chance to slaughter their officers and soldiers!”
Adnan had a smug expression, and his eyes glowed with bloodl.u.s.t.
Without the commanders present, he could crush these people like ants, like that minor general commanding the ballistae or the leader of the Mo Saber Unit. They were simply no match for him, and once he killed these higher-ranked commanders, the rest of the army would be doomed.
“They’re finally here!”
Seeing Adnan and those Arab Governors and Deputy Governors charging toward his ballistae, Su Hanshan turned grim.
w.a.n.g Chong, Zhangchou Jianqiong, and the others were fighting with the Ifrit, but none of the Arab generals went to disrupt their battle. Su Hanshan was keenly aware that the Arabs were not showing mercy, simply pursuing a different objective.
“Release!”
Boom! Boom! Boom! With a swing of his arm, the skies were filled with ballista bolts.
“It’s useless!”
Adnan coldly laughed. While the Tang ballistae were effective against ordinary soldiers, they were useless against peak Great General experts like him. Boom! With a wave of his hand, Adnan sent out a pitch-black torrent of Stellar Energy that knocked aside the ballista bolts when they were still thousands of feet away.
“Everyone, hear my order! Kill—”
Adnan had just raised the Blade of Mukala and ordered a charge when his voice came to a sudden stop. A roar came from above his head, and then a ma.s.sive shadow blotted out the sky, rapidly expanding as it hurtled toward Adnan and the Arab soldiers around him.
“Giant ape!”
That ma.s.sive silhouette was none other than the red-haired arm of a giant ape. Adnan cried out in alarm, his face paling. The Arabs no longer had many Behemoths, and almost all of them had been seized by w.a.n.g Chong to use against the Ifrit.
No one had expected this giant ape to change targets and attack the Arab soldiers, and there had been no sign of this beforehand.
“Run!”
With no time to think, Adnan erupted with Stellar Energy and slashed the Blade of Mukala at the red-haired ape, simultaneously shooting off to the side and leaving a blur in the air.
Adnan had no desire to fight this beast directly, because he clearly recalled that the Behemoth Army was led by this red-haired ‘King Ape’. The King Ape was far stronger than all the other Behemoths, and its skin and bones were as tough as steel. It possessed both impressive defense and berserk strength.
The longer the battle and the more damage it sustained, the stronger and more terrifying it would become!