Chapter 1088: Ascending All the Way
At this moment, two people descended swiftly from the mountain, and they were Knife-Thrower Chen Kun and Divine Archer Wang Meng. The remaining twenty soldiers immediately retreated, as the Sword God and Dao Feng timely blocked in front to prevent the opponents from attacking again, damaging their forces.
"Haha, no matter where you are from, you must die here today!" Chen Kun said arrogantly, believing that his throwing knives were never missed, comparable to Little Li’s Flying Knife.
"Hmph, who will end up dead remains unknown, don’t be arrogant too early."
The Sword God smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth as he spoke. He had been walking through the martial world for a long time, seeing many such arrogant people, so he wasn’t very tense at this moment. After all, in terms of strength, he and his son were superior to these two.
At this time, Dao Feng nodded, indicating that he was ready.
The Sword God dealt with Knife-Thrower Chen Kun, while the remaining Wang Meng was to be handled by Dao Feng. The two simultaneously attacked, each drawing away one opponent, and then they began to fight.
Actually, those two relied mainly on Hidden Weapon Skills and were absolutely no match in a melee battle against the Dao Family father and son.
As the Sword God dodged Chen Kun’s flying knives, he swung his blade directly. The next moment, Chen Kun was startled, leaped up swiftly, then froze in mid-air for a few seconds, suddenly a multitude of throwing knives appeared on his body.
"Swarming Swift Saber!" Chen Kun unleashed his ultimate move; in expert duels often one move could decide the outcome. Since it was their first encounter, it’s best to use the strongest move, which left the opponent unguarded, allowing a one-hit kill.
In an instant, countless throwing knives flew towards the Sword God. The Sword God hadn’t expected the opponent to open with such a big move and thus decided not to wait. Since the opponent was attempting a one-hit kill with a big move, he couldn’t let it go unchecked.
Thus, the Sword God immediately activated his Heart Method, the Vortex Bagua Palm, his treasured sword shot skyward and with a horse stance, dust and smoke billowed around his body. Suddenly, the Sword God stomped the ground, his palm rapidly became extraordinarily large, carrying fierce Palm Wind, rushing upwards swiftly.
"Clang clang clang...."
All the way up, the throwing knives clashed against the Sword God’s palm, producing clanging sounds, yet posed no harm.
"Boom....."
A loud explosion, a figure flew backwards to ten meters away, heavily striking the stone wall, after landing, spat a few mouthfuls of blood, and then fainted dead.
This clearly illustrated the difference in strength; it seemed Chen Kun was just arrogant earlier. The Sword God was an experienced Celestial Dao master, so the earlier contest of big moves was completely one-hit-kill.
The Sword God looked at the corpse like a dead pig, and laughed bitterly; he hadn’t expected to defeat his opponent so easily.
He then turned around, seeing Dao Feng still entangled with the Divine Archer, swiftly sprinted over. The two joined hands, Wang Meng was startled, knowing two-on-one was surely not match, and turned, retreating to escape.
Dao Feng initially intended to chase, but the Sword God stopped him, as ahead lay the third checkpoint, with their distribution of numbers, the higher they went, the more people there would be, with around a hundred here, possibly two to three hundred up there.
"Xiao Feng, you head back to gather the brothers, I’ll scout ahead, don’t act rashly." The Sword God ordered.
"Yes, father." Dao Feng also understood the gravity of the situation, thus didn’t dare delay, directly running back.
The Sword God however took the remaining twenty subordinates and began to proceed slowly forward, as he needed to understand the basic situation of the third checkpoint, and then after everyone arrived, discuss the strategy in detail.
At Qishan Peak.
Chen Tianlong and Red-eyed Eagle with several individuals were lurking near the entrance of Qishan Peak, watching the enemy troops rapidly augmenting below, they all snickered, knowing the enemy had fallen into the trap.
Chen Tianlong received news from Liu Ting, saying Master Fang Yan had already led a large force heading towards the Black Alliance, barring any issues, expected to arrive by around one in the afternoon.
It’s already close to nine in the morning now, if they could hold for a few hours longer, they could complete the task perfectly.
Sure enough, Chen Tianlong and the Red-eyed Eagle were hiding aside, waiting for the enemy troops to roughly gather below before taking action. After ten minutes, there were only about a hundred people left at the entrance of the mountain peak.
"Charge and capture them." Someone suddenly shouted.
Chen Tianlong was taken aback, surveying the scene, and saw a brigade rushing towards them, led by a tall and mighty man. This man was none other than General Zhou Botong of the Celestial Martial Sect.
Chen Tianlong frowned, knowing their identity had been exposed. This wasn’t surprising, with seven or eight people, being discovered was easy. However, Chen Tianlong wasn’t very tense upon seeing only about a hundred people below, there wasn’t much threat to them.
Given the situation, Chen Tianlong and the others didn’t need to hide anymore, directly walked out. Seven people lined up horizontally, looking at the speedily encircling over a hundred people, Chen Tianlong’s mouth curled slightly, knowing the main force had already descended to battle.
Thus the plan was proceeding on track, as for these people, with two Celestial Dao masters here, would they be afraid to handle them?
"Archers ready!" At this moment, Zhou Botong ordered, twenty archers prepared at the rear, awaiting commands.
From the front, they could see ten cannon-like objects further back, those were specially designed launchers for explosive projectiles, Zhou Botong was waiting for the soldiers to return with the explosives. This time it was an emergency, the explosives weren’t fetched in time, it was a spontaneous deployment.
"Report.....General Zhou, the armory...the armory...." The soldier who ran back quickly panted out.
"What’s wrong with the armory? Damn it, where are the explosives, why haven’t they been fetched yet." Zhou Botong was feeling irate, people were waiting for the explosive firepower to deal with the enemy, yet they were late, soon the enemy might retreat.
"Reporting to the General, brothers from the foot of the mountain just informed that all backup weapons and explosive projectiles in the armory have been destroyed." The soldier said somewhat apprehensively.
"What? Who destroyed the armory!" Zhou Botong was infuriated, suddenly his eyes fell upon Chen Tianlong and others not far in front.
"Damn it, it must have been these bastards. Underestimated them." Zhou Botong cursed fiercely.
Chen Tianlong chuckled wryly, it seemed Zhao Lei remembered his instructions well.
"Chairman Hong, the enemy’s explosives have been destroyed, and now there’s nothing to fear. After we take out the front row of archers, let the other brothers rush forward, massacre them completely." Chen Tianlong adjusted the plan slightly.
Red-eyed Eagle knowingly nodded, the entire plan was orchestrated by this Dao fellow, she could only comply with his commands.
Red-eyed Eagle pulled out a dagger, while Chen Tianlong removed an object he had always carried behind him. As he unveiled it, everyone was dumbfounded.