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Javelin spears morphed from the wooden boxes flew to the left and right side of the entrenchment discreetly along with one Guardian Knight puppet each. Meanwhile, Duan Li himself snuck closer at the monsters slowly from the front, accompanied with the third Guardian Knight puppet behind him.
His plan was to first surround the monsters from their left and right flank to attack at them simultaneously. With the element of surprise, they should be able to take out a few dozen or hundreds before the monsters could properly react.
After all, monsters has a slower thought process and reaction time when compared to humans, especially when they panicked!
Once the monsters finally collected themselves together and began to counter-attack, the two Guardian Knights would retreat slowly, pulling apart their formations to the left and right as if stretching a rubber band.
When the time is right, Duan Li would then deploy the third Guardian Knight puppet behind him to attack at the center along with the sword as if a wedge, cutting them off which would effectively isolate the monsters on the left and right side into two separate groups!
Then, the third Guardian Knight puppet along with the sword would try their best to hold onto the remaining and majority of the monsters for as long as they can, acting like the barrier of a dam.
In that instant, Duan Li would rush forward to the middle and deploy his skill arts to attack the monsters on both the left and right side at the same time!
This way, he could deploy a pincer attack on both groups of monsters from their front, which would be handled by the Guardian Knight puppets and himself, from their backs.
In other words, all the three Knight Guardian puppets along with the sword would only act as a diversion for him to be able to isolate and attack the monsters from their vulnerable position!
Although he wouldn"t be able to eliminate all the monsters here with this method, it was enough if he could reduce their numbers substantially.
After all, not to mention that defeating all 50,000 monsters here was still inherently impossible for the current him, the other subjugation squads would be able to handle the rest tomorrow, so he does not need to concern himself for too much on how many he could take out by himself.
There was an old saying that a single man could only do so much in the world.
But of course, he would only be getting stronger from this point onwards, thus maybe he would be the first to prove that the old saying was wrong!
Huehuehue!
Now that Duan Li was this close, he could see that there were indeed numerous types of monsters of Earth and Fire element here, but even in terms of both their appearance and aura, they still pale in comparison to Komodo whom was probably playing with either Dilong or Zhulong right now inside his dantian somewhere.
This would be a lot more easier than I thought!
With the sun slowly setting in from the horizon, the sky gradually turned to orange in color, and visibility were reduced.
The time was now sunset and their color was as if trying to paint the fate of these monsters here - slaughtered!
"It is time to enact the plan!" Duan Li grinned as his eyes flashed dangerously.
Inhaling the surrounding air deeply into his lungs, Duan Li circulate his spiritual Qi around his vocal cord in order to magnify his voice volume to the highest level.
"CHAARGGEEEEEE!!"
With a single loud bellow to the sky, Duan Li"s warcry had the air vibrated immensely as though a thunder from the heavens has suddenly struck down amidst a calm ocean! This voice of his echoed throughout the whole Blastwinter desert region creating the illusion that it was coming from the collective warcries from a legion of angry soldiers, which immediately startled the resting monsters into a state of panic!
ROAAARRR!!
Clang! Clang!
BOOMM!! BOOMM!!
Sounds of clashing from the left and right flank of the monsters could be heard as several dozens of them were being flung into the air by the Guardian Knight puppet"s attack!
They were not called the Guardian Knight puppets for nothing it seems!
Just their barrage of continuous attacks had the monsters flying here and there as if papers were being blown by a tornado!
It was definitely a sight to see!
ROAAARRR!!
Within three breaths from the start of their ambush, the Guardian Knight puppets had already managed to slaughter more than 20 monsters!
These Guardian Knight puppets were equivalent to Nascent Soul realm experts, thus its battle prowess was nothing short of terrifying when it went straight for the kill!
PSSHH!! PSSHH!!
As for the flying javelins, Duan Li had previously planted several advance instructions enough for them to attack autonomously without the need for his direct intervention. With each side having around 30 of these flying javelins slitting through the air at high speed akin to the claws from the weapon death scythe, more than 80 of the monsters were being slaughtered left and right, by having either their head or heart pierced directly in that short period amount of time!
It was as if the death reaper himself has appeared to claim at their life!
5 breaths of time had pa.s.sed..
10 breaths..
15 breaths..
The monsters were now gradually adjusting themselves and were able to react better to the attacks from both the Guardian Knight puppets and the flying javelins. Thus, the rate of them being successfully felled from each side began to decrease as the monsters defended themselves instead of trying to get away in a panic as they did previously.
ROAARRR!!
Clangg!! Clangg!!
"Hmm.. the element of surprise is slowly dispelling itself now.. but they had served their purpose.. time for the Guardian Knight puppets to retreat slowly.." Duan Li said as he watched the entire scene from an entrenchement.
Within the span of that 15 breaths of time, around 500 of the monsters was killed in total. This was a feat only possible during the initial stage of the ambush, but since the effect from the ambush were now becoming ineffective as time pa.s.ses, Duan Li decided to instruct the Guardian Knight puppets to move to the second phase and retreat slowly.
Looking at those monsters taking in the bait, thinking that they had pushed their a.s.saulters to the point retreat, Duan Li laughed in his heart!
"Good.. they"re slowly splitting away.. now, I just need to wait for a little bit!"
Duan Li"s aim was for each side to have at least 5,000 monsters with them before he would isolate the two groups away with his third Guardian Knight puppet and the sword.
Only then would he be able to begin his true a.s.sault!
ROAARR!!
BOOMM!! BOOMM!!
The monsters were getting ahead of themselves as they chased the two Guardian Knight puppets energetically, pulling away from the safety of their ma.s.s formation.
Seeing this opportunity, Duan Li knew straight away that the time for him to act has come!
"GO!" he shouted out as the third Guardian Knight puppet and his sword bolted to the middle of the enemy spread with a powerful momentum!
In order for their driving wedge to be as efficient as possible, Duan Li released the wooden plating on his armor and transform them into flying javelins to help reinforce the third Guardian Knight puppet and the sword at holding the enemy line.
Shiingg!!
With Duan Li"s silver armor exposed, the monsters had finally caught sight of him.
He was now floating in the middle of their formation gently, to the left and his right side was the isolated group of monsters respectively, and to his front was the main force of the monsters that were being held by the third Guardian Knight puppet, the sword as well as the other flying javelins!
"FULL POWER!!" Duan Li bellowed out as his entire spiritual Qi circled furiously in berserk!
Crack!
BOOMMMMM!!
The orange sky of the sunset in the background with Duan Li"s figure floating in the air, sparks coming out from him every so often, that golden pupil of his that seemed to look down onto the world in disdain, and that black hair of his standing up straight like mount.Tai, all of these elements combined together to paint a vivid picture that..
The War G.o.d himself has arrived!
In that instant, Duan Li had completed his transformation to his most powerful form in a single go. Right now, he was fighting with time and must finish their a.s.sault as soon as possible!
After all, the main force held by the third Guardian Knight puppet and the sword amounts to a staggering 40,000 monsters in total!
Even if they were powerful existences, they could only hold out for a certain amount of time before they need to retreat or they would risk themselves of running out of spiritual Qi and being overwhelmed!
Thankfully though, Duan Li"s sudden outburst of powerful aura had the monsters intimidated that their natural instinct to cower in fear against the powerful kicked in, causing them to be in a dazed and vulnerable state.
"They"re intimidated..? Good! Now they wouldn"t be able to put up a proper resistance for a while! I had to make full use of this opportunity!"
Raising up his right hand into the air, Duan Li summoned with a single thought of his;
Come forth, my All-Slaying Eternal Great Axe!
CRACKLE!
With Duan Li"s command to summon his most powerful weapon, webs of lightning formed from the 8 cardinal directions in the sky as they simultaneously shot forward to converge onto Duan Li"s right hand!
When they converged to mold and morph together to become the Great Axe of lightning, upon its complete whole appearance into the world, the Great Axe released a single burst of deafening shockwave that blasted out in all direction!
BOOOMMM!!
ROAAARR!!
The affected monsters that were hit by the shockwave all fell to the ground and their body convulsed rapidly - paralyzed!
Witnessing this sight, Duan Li himself was stumped silly.
Holy-h.e.l.l!
Was the Great Axe this domineering before?!
Eh no time to contemplate!
Pshaaa!!
Since Duan Li only had this single weapon in his hand right now, he threw it towards the main force so that the third Guardian Knight puppet and the sword could hold out much longer.
As if a wild and unstoppable boomerang, the Great Axe spun rapidly in mid air while decapitating the head of the monsters along its path!
BOOMM!! BOOMM!!
Seeing that weapon of his was causing great havoc and pandemonium to the enemy"s main force, Duan Li nodded in satisfaction as he rose both arms to his left and right side respectively.
Jerking it rapidly, Duan Li gritted his teeth as he deployed his skill art simultaneously on both hands that was clenched into a pair of tight fists!
Nine Fists Shattering Meteor!
BOOMM!! BOOMM!! BOOMM!!
At that moment, it was as if the ends of the world has arrived!
With Duan Li"s cultivation already reaching the Pinnacle stage of the Foundation establishment realm, this fist art of his was nothing short of deadly and terrifying!
To put this into a perspective, back when Duan Li was at the Level 9 of the Qi condensation realm, the Princ.i.p.al had once told him to display this fist art of his before entering the Eternal maze so as to gauge his battle prowess.
But who could have expected that Duan Li"s Novice mastery of it had already exceeded the might of the Princ.i.p.al"s Consummation mastery of the same fist art?
It had to be also noted that back then, Duan Li"s physical body was severely lacking, and he could only unseal his cultivation level to the Level 3 of the Qi condensation realm. In that state however, when he displayed the Adept mastery of the fist art, it had already brought a vivid image of a raging meteor!
But of course, this powerful effects was naturally only possible because Duan Li had cultivated using all of his three dantians!
Thus, he was on a whole mythical level than the Princ.i.p.al"s fist ar mastery himself.
Regardless however, its might was a hard fact and was already undisputable back then!
And now that Duan Li"s physical body and cultivation had both reached the Pinnacle stage of the Foundation establishment realm, the might he could display from this fist art of his was already at the Major mastery!
Even when he could theoretically perform the Minor mastery of this fist art back then when he was against the boss monster of the third Maze in the First region of the Eternal Maze before, he wasn"t able to use it due to the extreme limitation of the surrounding spiritual Qi over there.
But now that he was back into the Tian continent, where he could absorb spiritual Qi as if drinking water without a single care, coupled with the fact that his Qi efficiency was monstrous, this enabled him to have a near limitless supply of spiritual Qi at his disposal!
Thus, what kind of might would Duan Li be able to display using the Major mastery of this fist art against the monsters with these perfect conditions?
BOOOMM!! BOOOMM!! BOOOMM!!
The result was - devastating!
Duan Li"s Major Mastery of the fist art was terrifying such that with each fist, it displayed an almost perfect replica of a real meteor plunging down from the skies!
BOOOMM!! BOOOMM!!
When each fist landed onto the monsters down below, their entire figure was viciously crushed into a meat paste!
When that fist hits the ground, the ground shook like an earthquake as they broke apart into cobwebs while the ground zero that was impacted directly by the fist were sending tons of soil into the air!
BOOMM!! BOOMM!!
Sounds of crushed body, bones and skull, and the ground breaking apart, echoed throughout the Blastwinter desert as if the land was receiving retribution from the heavens itself!
Pant! Pant!
However right now, Duan Li was already near to his limit even when he could replenish his spiritual Qi almost instantly with a single breath due to his Qi efficiency.
This was because the fist art was taking a huge amount of his spiritual Qi in order for it to form at the Major level of mastery!
"I didn"t imagine that even with my current abilities, I could only deploy up to the Major mastery of this fist art, and its spiritual Qi demand.. was already this colossal!" Duan Li said in between his teeth as he panted and breath heavily.
In addition to this, the Great Axe was also taking a huge toll on his spiritual Qi usage, in fact more than the fist art itself!
Not only that, it seemed to consume his mental powers as well as Duan Li started to feel a slight headache striking at both temples of his forehead.
"Well.. that"s the Young Master for you.. even if he is still at such a lowly realm right now.. if he was out for blood, not even a Nascent soul realm expert would want to tangle with him.." the sword commented in awe.
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