Chapter 737: Fierce Battle with Dayan Mangban (II)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Buzz!
On the city wall below, the black smoke scattered, revealing the figure of Dayan Mangban with his black and red spear. As he raised his head to look at w.a.n.g Chong high in the air, a cold light gleamed in his eyes.
"Where are you going!"
Dayan Mangban stamped his foot down and took off like a furious gale. The spear in his hand even transformed into an evil dragon, sending out black coils of smoke as he pursued w.a.n.g Chong with astonis.h.i.+ng speed. In the air, there was no place to get a foothold to weave or dodge, making one far less agile. In these circ.u.mstances, Dayan Mangban couldn"t possibly let his target go.
But Dayan Mangban had deeply underestimated w.a.n.g Chong"s reflexes and speed. Buzz! His right hand s.n.a.t.c.hed out at a distant wall, and without a single handhold, w.a.n.g Chong altered his falling trajectory, quickly appearing on that wall.
"Sanyuan, s.h.i.+xuan, dispatch a group of soldiers to clear up the White Braves in the city, and strengthen the guard around the gate. In addition, Xu Keyi, Guan Yu, Chen Bin… Death"s Scythe!"
w.a.n.g Chong proudly stood on the city wall, his eyes locked on Dayan Mangban and exuding a cold light.
The Great Snow Mountain"s Devil Dragon Art, a Saint Martial cultivator of the brigadier general level, his tyrannical Stellar Energy, and his extraordinary experience and skill on the battlefield made Dayan Mangban probably the strongest and most troublesome opponent w.a.n.g Chong had encountered since his reincarnation.
His cultivation wouldn"t be enough to hold down and kill this major enemy of the Qixi Protectorate. He needed to borrow the strength of others.
"Yes, Milord!"
Shouts came from various places on the walls. In the blink of an eye, Cheng Sanyuan, Su s.h.i.+xuan, Xu Keyi, Chen Bin, Guan Yu… the officers of the City of Steel gathered and took formation behind w.a.n.g Chong.
Death"s Scythe!
This was a small-scale joint attack formation that was used to challenge solitary elite experts!
Previously, Xu s.h.i.+ping, Xu Andun and the others had used the formation with only eight people, but only in w.a.n.g Chong"s hands would Death"s Scythe show its true power. As more and more of the elite experts under w.a.n.g Chong"s command gathered, he continued to grow stronger and stronger.
Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen…
The number of experts behind w.a.n.g Chong quickly doubled, and it continued to increase, quickly reaching twenty and rising.
And when the number of experts behind w.a.n.g Chong reached thirty-two…
Buzz!
There was a flash of light and s.p.a.ce began to twist. Thirty-two people, or thirty-three including w.a.n.g Chong, formed into "Death"s Scythe", all of their gazes locked onto the distant Dayan Mangban.
The energy of these thirty-three people fused into one, their combined Stellar Energy growing even stronger.
Roooar!
A howl could be heard, br.i.m.m.i.n.g with the thick stench of death. Above w.a.n.g Chong"s group, a ma.s.sive scythe, three-some zhang long and incomparably sharp, manifested in the air.
And behind this scythe, a black and twisted figure, several times the size of an adult man, appeared.
Bang!
Dayan Mangban extended his legs and landed on the wall across from w.a.n.g Chong. As he looked at that image manifesting above w.a.n.g Chong"s forces, he couldn"t help but pale.
He had some understanding of the martial arts of the Central Plains, as Ü-Tsang had many spies in the Central Plains. But the formation being used here still took Dayan Mangban by surprise.
To put it simply, Dayan Mangban had never seen this sort of formation.
Yet Dayan Mangban could sense that this formation was incredibly fierce. At the very least, it was not one that he could treat lightly.
"Dayan Mangban, now we can have a good fight!"
Illuminated by the dim light from the furnaces outside the walls, w.a.n.g Chong stood on the wall, a thin smile finally emerging on his lips. There was still a ma.s.sive gap in strength between him and Dayan Mangban, so in the battle, he had been very constrained.
But boosted by Death"s Scythe, his strength was on a completely different level. Borrowing the power of these thirty-two officers, he had now reached the peak of Imperial Martial Tier 9. Although he was still not at the Saint Martial realm, this was enough strength for w.a.n.g Chong to challenge Dayan Mangban.
Bang!
With a stomp of his foot, w.a.n.g Chong shot into the air. For the first time, he was the one on the offensive.
"Up!"
Behind him, Cheng Sanyuan, Su s.h.i.+xuan, Xu Keyi, and the others shot into the air at the same time, closely following w.a.n.g Chong in attack. The greatest advantage of joint attack formations was that all the strength of the people in the formation fused together. Thus, it wasn"t just w.a.n.g Chong who received a boost in strength. All the other officers did as well.
"Impudent! You really think that just calling over a few more people will help you out?"
Dayan Mangban was enraged by this. An imposing Saint Martial expert was being challenged by a measly Imperial Martial expert! This was simply a disgrace!
Boom! He stomped his foot down, causing a circle of black inscriptions to explode outward and the wall to tremble and vibrate. Borrowing this strength, Dayan Mangban lunged toward w.a.n.g Chong"s group like a furious dragon, his spear shuddering.
But the result of this exchange took Dayan Mangban completely by surprise.
Bang!
An explosion of Stellar Energy threw the surrounding air into complete turmoil. Ding! In this fierce battle, no one noticed w.a.n.g Chong stretch out his left hand and touch the surface of Dayan Mangban"s heavy and tough spear. Hwoom! Like a balloon being punctured, Dayan Mangban suddenly lost control of his Stellar Energy, part of it flooding out and entering w.a.n.g Chong"s body.
"Brat, what evil art are you using?!"
Dayan Mangban was dumbfounded.
w.a.n.g Chong only sneered as he grabbed at the air with his right hand. Rumble! Another flood of Stellar Energy and blood energy was drawn into his body. Through the power of Death"s Scythe, w.a.n.g Chong"s Great Yinyang Heaven Creation Art had also been strengthened.
A Brigadier General like Dayan Mangban had extremely condensed and firm Stellar Energy, making it much more difficult to absorb.
But it was just a question of difficulty.
The Great Yinyang Heaven Creation Art was a legendary art of the evil path, the name of which would cause even many experts of the evil path to tremble in fear. Dayan Mangban at his strongest would still be cla.s.sified as "normal".
Buzz!
Stellar Energy seethed, and in a radius of several hundred zhang, the Great Yinyang Heaven Creation Art began to transform the wind into furious dragons that roared and howled as they crashed against Dayan Mangban from all sides.
These dragons of air could do little harm to an expert like Dayan Mangban, but they made him furious. These turbulent streams of wind might not have been able to hurt him, but they were a constant disturbance, affecting his ability to fight.
This was incredibly dangerous!
Although w.a.n.g Chong was still weaker than Dayan Mangban, he was not so weak that Dayan Mangban could completely disregard him. In terms of strength, w.a.n.g Chong could actually rival normal Saint Martial experts.
And his fighting experience and techniques gave even Dayan Mangban a headache.
"d.a.m.n it! d.a.m.n it!"
Dayan Mangban"s long hair and beard were in disorder and a fury was welling up in his heart. He wasn"t just angered by w.a.n.g Chong"s strange technique that could nullify forty percent of his strength, but also Cheng Sanyuan, Su s.h.i.+xuan, and the other clowns.
……
"Xu Keyi, you attack above the waist!
"Chen Bin, attack below the waist!
"s.h.i.+xian, you and I will attack his right ribs together!
"Everyone, work together and help Young Master!"
Cheng Sanyuan and Su s.h.i.+xuan were not sitting idly by while w.a.n.g Chong was attacking. While w.a.n.g Chong was holding Dayan Mangban down, the thirty-two officers showered down attacks on him from all sides.
In normal circ.u.mstances, when w.a.n.g Chong wasn"t suppressing him, he would be crus.h.i.+ng a few of these "ants" every minute. But now, these "ants" were acting wantonly, a.s.saulting him without any fear.
Not even Dayan Mangban could block thirty-two people, sixty-four hands, launching attacks from every direction. Bangbangbang! Attack after attack crashed against Dayan Mangban"s Stellar Energy barrier like a thunderous rain.
Although his defenses remained solid, Cheng Sanyuan, Su s.h.i.+xuan, and the others were forcing Dayan Mangban to exhaust his Stellar Energy. Now that w.a.n.g Chong had used Death"s Scythe, the battle had become a compet.i.tion of energy reserves.
No matter how formidable Dayan Mangban was, he was just one man, and the Tibetan Plateau wors.h.i.+ped individual strength and valor, not joint attack formations. Although the Great Tang had battle formations like the Mighty Miracle G.o.d that could combine the power of tens of thousands of soldiers, even hundreds of thousands of soldiers, such a thing was impossible in Ü-Tsang.
"Buffoonish clowns, you"re truly seeking death!"
Dayan Mangban clenched his teeth, his eyes madly twitching. Pus.h.i.+ng w.a.n.g Chong back, he immediately changed the target of his spear. Although it had been aimed at w.a.n.g Chong just moments ago, with a boom, it suddenly s.h.i.+fted toward one of the officers of the Death"s Scythe formation behind him.
As the spear struck, the air exploded with waves of energy, but the Brigadier General"s determined strike had unexpectedly missed.
"Dayan Mangban, don"t forget your objective. Your target is me!"
w.a.n.g Chong coldly laughed. His Wootz Steel sword suddenly began to ring, instantly producing thousands of sword images. w.a.n.g Chong"s aura also underwent a sudden transformation, becoming a sharp and straight sword that had descended from the heavens.
"Art of G.o.d and Demon Obliteration". After the southwestern war, after the game of chess underneath the scholar tree, Great Tang War G.o.d Su Zhengchen had taught w.a.n.g Chong this supreme sword art.
In terms of pure power, the Art of G.o.d and Demon Obliteration might not have been as strong as the Great Yinyang Heaven Creation Art, but it definitely ranked in the top three.