Chapter 520: Chapter 117: Lord Long vs White Jade Camp
The White Jade Camp was filled with cries of agony.
Lord Long displayed an overwhelmingly aggressive stance, and with his very first move, he breached the Battle Formation Dharma.
Since this was a Dynamic Formation, every Cultivator was a component of the Dynamic Formation. Thus, with the Dharma Form broken, all members involved in constructing the formation suffered backlash.
Lord Long stood tall like a mountain, casting a proud glance around before bowing his head to rub his fingers together, offering a faint appraisal: “Insufficient training, the Dharma Form was all show and no substance.”
“What else have you got? Bring it all out for me to see.”
His arrogant demeanor did not suppress the morale of the White Jade Camp Cultivators; instead, it enraged them.
“Hey! This old clapper is pretty arrogant.”
“Brothers, let’s take him down together!”
“A mere Nascent Soul Level, trapped within our military array, completely oblivious to his impending doom!”
Without waiting for the command from Main General Shuangjing, his Deputy Generals swarmed out, besieging Lord Long.
There were seven Deputy Generals in total, all at the Golden Core Level.
Shuangjing was positioned a bit behind, mounting his steed and shouting loudly: “Change formation! Change formation!!”
Holding the General Seal in his hand, he transmitted his Divine Sense to quickly convey the message of the upcoming formation change to the entire army.
But the majority of the White Jade Camp soldiers were still not recovered, with many screaming and groaning in agony, and some even passed out on the spot.
Upon seeing this, Shuangjing immediately pulled out a stack of tokens from his chest.
These tokens were instruments of Military Art, with red background and golden letters, imposing and formidable. The military tokens tapered from a triangular shape on the top end to a continuously narrowing form, like a robust precious sword.
Shuangjing tossed these tokens out one after another, continuously shouting: “The military situation is urgent, quickly form up!”
“The military situation is urgent, quickly form up!”
“The military situation is urgent, quickly form up!”
The next moment, the soldiers who had been downed got lifted by an invisible force, dragged forcefully to their designated positions in the Battle Formation.
Some could barely walk, while others were dragged directly.
Those more unfortunate ones were crying out: “Don’t drag me, don’t drag me, ah, I’m going to do the splits!”
With such a forced formation, Shuangjing quickly created the second set of formation – the Seven Stars Gathering Formation.
The Battle Formation began to activate slowly, immediately radiating brilliant starlight, as if thousands of fireflies were flitting about. This starlight converged above the heads of the seven Golden Core Deputy Generals, like seven pillars of light, pouring into their bodies.
The Deputy Generals howled loudly, their stature instantly grew a couple of inches, their Qi bursting forth, Mana spraying wildly, and their combat power instantly surged by several times!
“This is the feeling, I am ridiculously strong!!” A Golden Core Deputy General howled ecstatically, charging at Lord Long first.
Lord Long sidestepped, evading his cultivation technique, then pushed out with a massive palm, hitting the Deputy General squarely in the ribs.
Howl!
The Dragon’s roar sounded again.
The Golden Core Deputy General was sent flying like a ball, not landing until he was far away.
He nearly crashed into his comrades, but fortunately, Shuangjing promptly exerted the Main General’s power, pulling that group of Cultivators straight out.
The Golden Core Deputy General coughed up a mouthful of fresh blood and immediately sat down in meditation, urgently healing his wounds.
For after his ribs were shattered, they had pierced through his lungs, such an injury forced him to temporarily withdraw from the battle.
The Dragon Roar Palm strikes continued, accompanied by roars with each palm strike, every hit resonated with the sound of a dragon’s roar.
Roar roar roar…
With dragon’s roars emerging one after another, the Golden Core Level Deputy Generals were consecutively sent flying, crashing down to the ground like sandbags.
But they quickly stood back up, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood or ejected teeth, and lunged back into the fray.
Their Battle Armor and other equipment, although standard issue and similar to that of the other soldiers, was still extremely exquisite and of high quality.
Even if their Cultivation Techniques were different, using the same equipment could better harness the power of the Battle Formation, let alone the boost from National Power and Military Power, which enabled them to stand a chance in a frontal confrontation with a terrifying Nascent Soul Combat Power like Lord Long, for a round or two.
Lord Long was experienced; in his long life, this was not the first time he had charged into a Battle Formation.
But this time, he clearly felt that the White Jade Camp’s battle formation had resilience and toughness. The seven Golden Core Deputy Generals, although none of them were a match for a single blow from him, kept flying back into the fray after being struck down, rebounding like a ball against a wall, which irked him immensely.
Lord Long’s fury erupted, and he suddenly changed his offensive approach.
Divine Gifted Technique – Rotten Wood Spring!
Martial Arts – Withered Dragon Claw!
With the Divine Skill and Martial Arts stacking atop one another, Lord Long transformed his palms into claws and suddenly seized a Golden Core Deputy General.
His fingertips were extraordinarily sharp, piercing directly through the Deputy General’s arm, embedding deep into the muscle and reaching the bone.
The Golden Core Deputy General let out a muffled grunt and launched a frenzied attack.
“Let him go!!!”
The other Deputy Generals quickly rallied around, assailing from all directions with ferocious and violent attacks.
Lord Long stood his ground, unflinching and chest out.
Divine Gifted Technique – Divine Dragon’s Precious Body!
In an instant, his entire body shone brightly, forming a translucent Dragon Scale Armor that covered him from head to toe.
The attacks of the Golden Core Deputy Generals struck the Dragon Scale Armor, merely causing the scales to clink crisply and ripple, unable to harm Lord Long’s inner body.
On the contrary, the Deputy General whose arm was caught let out a harrowing scream.
His voice was as piercing as it was desperate; he seemed to wither away, shrinking rapidly from a robust man to a sickly figure, with high cheekbones and sunken eye sockets. His life force shifted from vibrant to decrepit, and in a few breaths, his black hair turned snowy white.
“His Life Force is being absorbed!”
“What a vicious technique.”
“What should we do?”
“I’ll handle it!”
One of the Golden Core Deputy Generals made a swift decision, brandishing his treasured blade with a fierce chop.
The blade’s light was extremely sharp, severing the screaming Deputy General’s arm in one stroke.
The Golden Core Deputy General regained his freedom and retreated in a frenzy.
The other Deputy Generals cooperated tacitly, focusing their assault to cover his retreat.
Lord Long sneered, his hand’s grasp turning the arm into a mummified corpse before casually discarding it.
“What’s the rush?”
“All of your Life Forces will be my nourishment!”
The Golden Core Deputy Generals were entrenched in a bitter fight.
They possessed only Golden Core Cultivation and normally, bolstered by the battle formation, they could withstand and entangle an enemy at the Nascent Soul Level.
But Lord Long himself was at the peak of the Nascent Soul Cultivation, with the terrifying augmentation of the Dragon King’s Divine Power factored in, his overall combat power was close to breaking through the Nascent Soul Level, almost at the brink of Divinity Transformation!
“That old man is indeed formidable, only by stepping in personally can I handle him,” Shuangjing observed the battle keenly.
He was a disciple of a noble family, far from timid.
Facing a formidable enemy, fear crept into his heart, but what surged more was a spirited will to fight—the glory of defeating Lord Long would be immense!
“With this military achievement, upon returning to the Royal Capital, I would surely be ennobled.”
“If I succeed in this battle, even if I use the excuse of severe injuries to retire behind the scenes, no one would be able to criticize me.”
Excited by the thought, Shuangjing took out a vial from his bosom.
He uncorked the bottle and swallowed the Nascent Soul Level Elixir Pills.
Huff.
His aura surged by thirty percent.
He opened another vial and poured all the powdered medicine into his mouth.
Huff!
His aura increased by another thirty percent.