Divine Brilliance

The bleak horn sound rang through the sky. Hu Zhongyuan instinctively woke up from his sleep, shaking his head as he walked out to the building on top of the stone castle.

After a few months, it had become a habit. Even if he heard drums by his ear in the day, he could fall asleep. Once the sun fell, he would wake back up.

Along the way, there were numerous warriors lining up and heading to the city walls in an orderly manner, under their generals.

They were all new soldiers who rushed over in the past two days. However, after the battle last night they didn’t look as lost as before.

Their eyes were still filled with terror and fear.

Hu Zhongyuan shook his head, standing at the tower with his machete drawn.

Looking out at the battlefield from here, one could see that the ninety-odd remaining stone castles were all prepared for battle.

This should be the strongest they had been since he came three months ago! Zong Gang and Ren Tianxing’s elites who swept the west had already returned. Using mounts to replace walking, they finally managed to rush back within six days. A full million more troops arrived under this Seven Cloud Mountain.

It caused the troops gathered here to climb to 2.4 million.

Just his left wing had a full fifty towns!

Even if they were all surrendered troops and might not be fully dedicated, some were still angry at Gantian Mountain.

However, he was confident to gather their strength. With the experienced soldiers as the core, it was enough to maintain that these people were useful enough.

Three months of fighting not only saw his Martial Path improve in the tough battles but he also slowly became more comfortable with leading an army!

Hu Zhongyuan looked at the Night Demon army which was drawing close. There was a loud explosion and moments later the mountain shook, making it tough for one to stand still.

The sound shook so much that it caused one’s eardrums to hurt. It spread hundreds of miles before stopping.

At this moment, not only did the soldiers under him turn around toward the source of the sound, but even the Night Demons were startled.

Hu Zhongyuan squinted and turned around. Without guessing he knew that Kong Yao had blown apart the final path toward Huizhou’s mainland tens of miles out.

From this moment, the area beneath Seven Cloud Mountain was a death land. The two million people had no place to retreat to and nowhere to flee.

He didn’t mind at all. He was already prepared to fight to the death so naturally he didn’t care about there not being a way out.

What he needed to worry about were his subjects.

When he looked around, he calmed down.

Naturally, they didn’t need to worry about the elites who came from Gantian Mountain.

The surrendered troops were holding up much better than he had expected.

Speaking of which, that woman had told this matter to the army a day ago.

Although there were many people who grumbled, since they were mentally prepared, they didn’t panic as much as when they first heard about it.

Most people subconsciously looked toward the peak of Seven Cloud Mountain.

A bright golden light entered their eyes. Only then did anger appear in their eyes.

Although the Left Army Inspector had cut off everyone’s way out, she also said that even if she died here today she wouldn’t back off.

Hu Zhongyuan laughed but in his heart felt respect for her.

This woman’s grasp of the human heart was so strong.

Although most of his men now had given up hope, they also had the intention to fight to the death.

Even the newly arrived surrendered troops were going to fight.

Huizhou was where they grew up in.

Instead, it should have had nothing to do with Gantian…

Squinting, Hu Zhongyuan casually waited until Chai Zhou stood beside him.

“The situation today doesn’t seem right, that side looks like they are going to go all out…”

Looking out, they could see more than 100 square formations, each consisting of 10,000 men, orderly lined up 20 miles away.

The aura today was indeed a little different. Their pair of eyes were red in color, their formations sternly waiting whilst also burning with fighting intent.

What made them feel weird was that the 100,000 Grade Four Elites who Jia Mingluo had cherished were now on the frontlines.

Hu Zhongyuan laughed without much care, “So what if it is different? Three months ago they couldn’t crush us, so what if they go all out now?”

He looked worryingly towards the right side.

What he wasn’t at ease about were the middle troops who took the brunt of the pressure.

Kong Yao, surprisingly, handed the control of them from Zong Yuan to Ren Tianxing.

This not only totally freed the Blood Cloud Cavalry but also allowed Zong Yuan to totally focus to commanding those 300,000 Elites.

But could that kid do it?

He felt a little jealous. He only gained such a position after many years in the army.

In just a short year, Ren Tianxing had already gained Zong Shou’s trust.

“Ren Tianxing’s ability of using troops is something that even the Right Army Inspector is impressed by. It is true to say that you aren’t as good as him! Why do you need to worry about him? Just worry about yourself…”

Chai Zhou burst out into a laugh that had a mocking tone. Shortly after, his voice turned serious.

“It is going to start!”

Hu Zhongyuan scoffed coldly, then his brow furrowed.

What he saw were thousands of large-sized crossbow chariots being pushed forward. In just a short moment, millions of arrows flew into the sky.

Close to 300,000 giant-sized cannons drawn with runes were behind, shooting hundreds of black balls.

Each time they landed, vast amounts of purple-black lightning would explode out and cover a thousand feet of land.

Everything within the range that was Grade Four and below would be torn to shreds.

The Spiritual Formations within the stone castle shook constantly like they couldn’t take those hits.

Hu Zhongyuan didn’t care and stood still.

As expected, moments later, the giant crossbows on the mountain peak started to shoot back.

A large number of the Nine Arm Spiritual Crossbows they snatched from Weihai were destroyed but there were still 70. Along with the Grade Nine Energy-Destroying Crossbows from Gantian Mountain, there were around 200 of them.

Although there weren’t that many, as they were on the mountain peak and had longer range, in just a moment, they suppressed the firing of the cannons and chariots.

However, this also caused these killing weapons to be held up. They wouldn’t be able to affect the battle.

Hu Zhongyuan was numb, such situations happened so many times within these three months.

The Night Demon Main General seemed to know that he couldn’t rely on this machinery to crush the defences. A short while later, lines of square formations started to move forward.

Hu Zhongyuan scoffed coldly, his hand holding the Tiger Overlord Knife.

At first glance he knew that the other spots were a misdirection to spread his troops’ strength.

They were focusing on the castle he was standing on.

It was the weakest one and easiest to break out of the 20 stone castles of the left wing.

His fighting spirit burned, he knew that this was the most dangerous which was why he stood here to command the fight.

Today, it would depend on whether these Night Demons had enough skill to step across his corpse!

The Spirit Masters hiding deep within the stone castle had already started casting spells using altars. Only to see numerous light dots landing down from the sky. Huge meteors covered the Night Demon formation.

However, within their square formations, close to 40 Grade Seven experts rose up and slashed all these meteors.

Only a portion of the ones that made it through caused chaos and harm to the people within the formation.

The counter-attack from their side also arrived. Hundreds and thousands of red fireballs bubbled over, exploding on the walls and caused the city wall to shake.

Hu Zhongyuan’s lip curled, he also flew up to a thousand feet in the air.

Slashing down with the knife, he seemed to have transformed into a tiger. The knife and his arm showing the shape of a white tiger.

This knife was Tiger Overlord Qianqiu!

The Iron Tiger Race was one of the direct bloodline of the White Tiger Race, the pinnacle of the knife intent was absolute sharpness!

It wasn’t his legacy but what he created from studying Zong Shou’s Platinum Dragon Sword he left in the Book Hiding Hall in Gantian Mountain.

To date, there were only three stances but they broke through everything and slashed anything.

Where the knife light passed there would be a loud roar. Two Grade Seven Night Demons fell from the sky, fresh blood spurting. There were no signs of life left.

However, their counter-attacks charged at him. Hu Zhongyuan didn’t care, avoiding as he retreated.

When he couldn’t avoid, the knife in his hand would move and break all their blade lights.

As expected, right as he was about to use up his energy, a giant axe and several energy glows slashed through the sky, allowing him to return back to the stone castle in one piece.

“Even if you want to die, don’t die now!”

The first thing Chai Zhou did was scold him. He was afraid that, if just now a Grade Nine Night Demon had attacked, this fellow wouldn’t have been able to return.

Hu Zhongyuan laughed, looking at the knife in his hand.

A few years ago he was indulging in wine and beauties, his ambitions were all gone. He didn’t expect that he would be able to step into Grade Seven!

These days there were many Elites of Gantian who advanced.

Speaking of which, this person should have stepped into the peak of Grade Eight!

“What are you afraid of? With Blood Cloud Cavalry, with Zong Yuan leading, I don’t believe that Jia Mingluo will dare to put true experts over on my side.”

When Chai Zhou heard this, he looked toward the side. Tens of miles out, there was a giant cavalry army waiting on the plains.

There was no stone castle to cover, no Spiritual Formation to protect. However, it caused the more than 10 Night Demon formations to be on alert!