Chapter 499 - 305: The Army Lord in Position: Slay

Chapter 499: Chapter 305: The Army Lord in Position: Slay

Gao Nianzhen acted swiftly, leading Yu Fei to the command hall. She concisely laid out the disposition of forces, personnel assignments, and the crucial topographical features around Celestial Sword Gorge.

"Thank you for the information. I will be sure to reward you generously once this is settled!"

Before his voice had even faded, a sonic boom erupted. In the blink of an eye, Yu Fei had vanished. When they looked again, a fiery streak was disappearing into the distant sky, leaving a faint white trail in its wake.

"Holy cow, did Yu Fei just fly off? Is he a Grandmaster now?"

Gao Nianzhen shook her head. "I don’t think so. His aura doesn’t have that ’oneness with heaven and earth’ quality of a Grandmaster. But that’s what makes it so damn terrifying. If he’s not a Grandmaster and can’t borrow the power of the world, how in the world did he fly? And that fast!"

After a brief thought, Gao Nianzhen’s expression turned to one of excitement. "Let’s go! We’re going to the front lines—to Matie Road!"

"But why? Isn’t the whole reason we’re staying back here to avoid getting mixed up in this?"

"Don’t be dense. Yu Fei is here! The Yulin Army was bullied so badly by Yuwen; he’s bound to go and settle the score. There’s definitely going to be some drama to watch. Let’s go see! It’ll be fun if someone can finally put that little punk Xiaoji in his place!"

"But the mission orders have already been given. Even Yu Fei can’t just disobey them!"

Gao Nianzhen smiled faintly. "Then we’ll just have to see if our exceptionally talented little junior can find a way out of this."

"Come on, let’s go! If we’re late, we might miss the show!"

High in the sky, thousands of meters up, Yu Fei’s figure flickered and vanished.

He was contemplating his next move. ’Yuwen’s actions are really strange. If I were in his position, I can’t see what good it does to target a lower-year Celestial Pride Class. Even if he’s strong, it’s always better to have more friends than enemies.’

’Besides, if he’s really so powerful that he has no rivals, why not pick a fight with the upperclassmen? Or is he just the type to bully the weak and fear the strong?’

’But from Gao Nianzhen’s description, Yuwen’s power is on a completely different level from Feng Hua and the others. Targeting them makes absolutely no sense.’

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind. Yu Fei knew that if he wanted to get payback for the Yulin Army and his friends, it would have to wait until after the main battle.

’For now, I need to start with Matie Road. I’ll lead my brothers to punch through this area and break into the main battlefield. Then we can finally hold our heads high. First, I’ll tactically dismantle Yuwen’s disgusting scheme and let everyone vent their frustration.’

’After that, I’ll have to defeat the Yuan Demon royal clan’s forces on the main front and surpass Yuwen’s combat achievements. Only then can I move on to the next step.’

In the martial world of the Yu Kingdom, all special privileges were reserved for Martial Saints. Everyone else, even Grandmasters, had to obediently follow the rules.

Disobeying battlefield orders was an extremely serious offense, a point repeatedly drilled into them during their general education. He even remembered Ye Shuping mentioning that he had personally executed some of his own senior brothers for breaking the rules on the battlefield and endangering their allies.

With the greater situation at hand, killing the Yuan Demons was the top priority. Yu Fei had to find a way to win within the confines of the rules Yuwen had set.

Nearing Matie Road, Yu Fei descended.

To his senses, this entire region was like a black hole, impossible to probe.

He had encountered several such forbidden zones on his journey, and each time he had chosen to detour around them.

The various border realms contained all sorts of forbidden lands, each with unique properties.

The forbidden zones in the Demon Mountain Realm, for instance, could confound a Martial Artist’s senses—even a Martial Saint would struggle to avoid their effects. No one knew how they were formed.

Once inside such a zone, a Martial Artist would lose all sense of direction. Records described it as a place where front, back, left, and right were in constant flux. The lucky might stumble their way out, but there were precedents of others being trapped inside until they died.

The entrance to Matie Road was a wide, bell-shaped clearing that tapered into an increasingly narrow passage the deeper one went.

Only by passing through this slender, pipe-like region, which stretched for a hundred li, could one reach the rear of the Celestial Sword Gorge encampment.

The location was easy to defend but difficult to assault. However, if a breakthrough could be achieved, it would pose an immense threat to the main front.

As Yu Fei ventured deeper, he could faintly sense intense energy fluctuations up ahead. His senses were severely distorted by the Evil Magnetic Forbidden Land, making it difficult to assess the situation.

Before long, he finally spotted Jiang Nianwei, Feng Hua, and the others.

He hadn’t seen them in a year and a half, and their auras were much stronger. The members of the Yulin Army, in particular, were no longer the rookies he remembered from the Abyss Battlefield.

Their coordination was tight, their attacks decisive, and their focus pure.

Each of them was capable of killing 6th-rank Spider Demons, punching above their own weight class. Feng Hua could even hold her own against several 7th-rank Yuan Demons.

In his Reversing Destiny Vision, the group of Yuan Demon royalty all showed up as identical purple gems, with no variation whatsoever.

’This is a strange phenomenon. Even among creatures of the same race, there should be variations in talent. They shouldn’t be like these 7th-rank Yuan Demons, all identical as if they were copy-pasted.’

’It reminded me of the fire spirits from the Red Sun Realm; their innate abilities were also remarkably similar.’

’This is highly abnormal. Take the living beings on my home planet, for instance—be it humans or the various animals in nature.’

’Among a single species, there’s a significant range of individual variation.’

’But for many of the creatures in the border realms, regardless of whether they’re hostile to humans, the quality and nature of their talents are almost identical.’

’It’s more like a creator optimized for a specific trait and then mass-produced them like tools.’

’Unfortunately, my ability to copy talents is currently on cooldown. It’ll take at least ten more days to recover. Otherwise, I could have checked what kind of talent these biological weapons have. How does it differ from the Spider Demon’s [Void Realm Servant] talent?’

Feng Hua’s rapier flashed. In a single breath, dozens of afterimages of her blade stacked together, riddling the shield-bearing Yuan Demon before her with holes. Yet, its life force was so immense that it still hadn’t died.

Just as she was about to press her advantage and finish it off, a male Yuan Demon with a spear and a female one with a dagger appeared abruptly behind her. Across from them, another female Yuan Demon floated in mid-air, casting out streams of golden Sound Wave Patterns that bound Feng Hua in place.

"Damn it!"

’These bizarre Sound Wave Patterns are like a variant of a Sound Wave Martial Skill, but they contain some other strange power. The faster I move within them, the tighter the restraints become. But if I stay perfectly still, they don’t affect me at all.’

Her rapier moved like lightning, parrying the attacks of both ambushing Yuan Demons. Although Feng Hua was only at the Gang Qi Realm, her innate talent and Cultivation Technique boosted her speed until it was even a fraction faster than that of a 7th-rank Yuan Demon.

Before long, she forced her way free of the sound waves’ influence. A gleaming white Sword Gang coated her blade, emitting countless dense auras of cutting Sharpness. The two 7th-rank Yuan Demons were instantly put in peril.

But then another shield-bearing Yuan Demon charged out from the rear to take their place. Feng Hua glanced over and saw that the one she had heavily wounded earlier was already recovering at a visible rate.

"Damn it! This is disgusting!"

’On an open battlefield, I’d have plenty of ways to maneuver, break through their blockade, and prioritize taking out that female Yuan Demon with the harp. Then I could pick them off one by one.’

’But here in Matie Road, this defensible, constricted terrain, I can’t maneuver. My speed advantage is severely limited, and they’re just wearing me down.’

Just as Feng Hua was once again ensnared by the sound waves, watching helplessly as the Yuan Demon currently being held back by Qingshan rushed over to swap places with its injured comrade...

Suddenly, the clear, sonorous ring of a sword echoed across the battlefield.

His fiery red coat billowed in the Gang Qi-infused wind as the sword, Zhanming, slowly materialized in his hand like a phantom. Its ink-blue blade began to glow, infused with Gang Qi, taking on an almost translucent quality.

His abrupt appearance brought the battlefield to a standstill. It wasn’t just because of the excitement surging through the crowd, but because of the sword, Zhanming, in his hand.

Immeasurable Sword Qi layered upon it, causing Zhanming to exude a heart-stopping aura.

Sharpness and pride, suppression and destruction—with all these terrifying powers layered together, no one on the narrow Matie Road could hope to escape it.

"Who’s that...?"

"Looks like... Yu Fei."

"Who’s Yu Fei?"

Time fades all memories. Some of the students from other classes had already nearly forgotten the figure who had utterly dominated the battlefield during their first year.

"FUCK! IT’S THE BOSS! THE LORD OF THE YULIN ARMY! FUCK! THE BOSS IS BACK! THAT BASTARD YU WEN BAJI, YOU’RE FUCKING DEAD!"

"What Lord of the Yulin Army? Isn’t he the Yulin Marshal?"

The crowd at the rear fell silent for a moment before erupting in unprecedented, joyous surprise.

Many still remembered the terror of Yu Fei’s reign over the battlefield back then. Now, he had appeared once more. He hadn’t even made a move, yet the sheer power of his presence was enough to overwhelm the entire field.

Yu Fei gathered his power for but a moment before unleashing his strongest attack down the narrow passage of Matie Road without the slightest hesitation. He was going to shatter the stalemate for the Yulin Army, for Feng Hua, and for all his friends!

"Slash!"