Chapter 113: The Little Conqueror, A Name Well-Earned

Watching the distant fire, Sun Ce rode hard all the way.

The food in the supply camp was far too important to him. Jiangdong was vast and sparsely populated, with many noble families mixed in. The grain Sun Ce could collect each year was barely enough to fight just one battle.

“Who could it be? Who is disturbing our Rear Camp at this hour?”

Since there was no answer to the question in his mind, Sun Ce could only whip his horse again. In normal times, he would never treat his warhorse so roughly.

Ten li.

Five li.

Three li.

The distance grew closer, and the flames became more obvious.

However, the closer he got, the stranger Sun Ce felt in his heart.

There was only the fire. Where was the movement?

Why not a single shout of battle?

Once Sun Ce thought of this, an unacceptable fact instantly flashed through his mind.

The camp had already been breached. The fire was only there to lure him in.

A sudden thought flashed through his mind. Sun Ce didn’t have time to pull his reins. When the horse’s front hooves stomped down hard, they seemed to step into thin air, and the horse tipped forward and fell.

Sun Ce slapped the horse’s back with his right hand and flipped over his head, leaping high into the air behind him.

His guess was right. There was an ambush here!

“Whoosh~”

At that moment, a sharp arrow flew straight at Sun Ce’s forehead. Its speed was so fast that Sun Ce, who was in mid-air, could not dodge it at all.

Luckily, his left hand had always held a Reclaimed Iron Spear. He swung the spear horizontally and deflected the arrow just before it reached within half a step of him. It skimmed past his ear, brushing his hair bun.

“Who dares to ambush me, Sun Ce?” Sun Ce finally landed after waving his spear. As soon as his feet touched the ground, he stepped back a few paces and joined his Personal Guards.

But Sun Ce’s angry shout received no answer. Instead, from the woods on both sides of the mountain paths, thousands of Cao Army soldiers poured out.

Leading the charge down the slope was none other than Li Guang, holding his cleaver.

That last arrow was fired at the perfect moment. Li Guang had used eight parts of his strength, but Sun Ce still knocked it aside with his spear. Li Guang knew deep down that the handsome general before him would be a very tough opponent.

“So it really is Sun Ce,” Mo Xiaobai said, nodding knowingly from a hill further away from the ambush spot.

Next to him, Li Ji nodded as well: “The Little Conqueror’s courage is likely no match for the Flying General.”

This time, Li Ji did not join Li Guang to fight Sun Ce together. He knew his own skills. Even though his Martial Arts had secretly improved rapidly, he was still not at the top level. Going into the fight would just be a burden for Li Guang.

And Mo Xiaobai would never let Li Ji join this chaotic battle. If Li Guang’s full-power attack exceeded one hundred now, the reverse-pumped Sun Ce, even if not yet at a hundred, could easily reach a score of 98 or 99.

This kind of fight was no place for Li Ji.

Watching Sun Ce fight fiercely with Li Guang, Mo Xiaobai had once thought about capturing Sun Ce alive and persuading him to come to Daming Village. But this was just a thought in his mind. The chance of success might be less than one in ten thousand.

Besides, in this peak battle right now, if Mo Xiaobai ordered Li Guang to capture Sun Ce alive, Li Guang would be tied up and unable to fight freely. He might even end up defeated by Sun Ce.

The risk was too high, and the reward was too slim.

Mo Xiaobai could only give up and set his goal on Sun Ce’s head.

Unlike Mo Xiaobai, who was watching Li Guang and Sun Ce, Li Ji’s attention was mostly on the battle between the soldiers: “My Lord, the Jiangdong Elite are indeed brave and good fighters. Even with just a few hundred men, they can keep their formation tight and not scatter.”

“How do they compare to Rattan Armor Soldiers?”

“If fighting in the mountains, the Rattan Armor Soldiers would surely win. But if fighting on open ground, victory or defeat might only be a fifty-fifty chance,” Li Ji pondered for a moment before giving his judgment.

Hearing Li Ji say this, Mo Xiaobai couldn’t help but be surprised.

The Rattan Armor Soldiers were Tier 3 soldiers. Were the Jiangdong Elite also Tier 3?

This was the highest level among the Tier 1 to Tier 3 basic units.

“If Sun Ce’s elite infantry are all Tier 3, then isn’t his Navy surpassing the basic stage and reaching mid-level power?” Mo Xiaobai suddenly thought of many things, and then a flash of regret appeared in his eyes.

If he had chosen the Yuan Shao Camp when he first entered the Instance and helped Sun Ce instead, he might have been able to gather a batch of powerful mid-level Navy soldiers to bring back to the Plane.

At the beginning, when everyone was commanding Village Soldiers or Tier 1 units, having Tier 3 soldiers in Daming Village would mean a terrifying military advantage.

Unfortunately, once missed, it was gone for good.

Mo Xiaobai hadn’t remembered this before, and now it was useless to regret.

Before Mo Xiaobai could sigh a few more times, the fighting in the battle zone had already turned hot. Even though Sun Ce’s Personal Guards fought bravely, the fact that they were outnumbered could not be changed.

The Personal Guard Battle Formation finally began to loosen, and Sun Ce himself was forced to step back step by step by Li Guang.

Li Guang always considered himself a Battle Formation Maniac. His favorite thing was to lead troops and fight in the front. The stronger the opponent, the more it ignited his fighting spirit.

Since following Mo Xiaobai, Li Guang had met some tough Beast Kings, but those were just beasts. Unlike Sun Ce in front of him, who was a real top-tier War General.

The fighting style of both of them was quite open and bold. No soldiers dared to get within ten steps of them.

“Great! Haha, great!”

A rough voice rang out at this moment. Li Guang swung his blade, striking one after another. Each blow was faster than the last, each one more intense.

On the other side, Sun Ce used his long spear like a club and could actually keep up with Li Guang’s swinging rhythm.

When Li Guang suddenly struck for his fifteenth time, a flash of light disappeared from the blade in an instant.

And this blow was so fast that Sun Ce couldn’t even see it clearly.

“Boom!”

The blade struck Sun Ce’s chest hard. Li Guang, holding the blade in his right hand, felt that his war blade had pierced straight through Sun Ce’s armor and cut a line of blood.

“Not enough! Not fast enough! Not ruthless enough!”

Even after breaking Sun Ce’s armor, Li Guang screamed as if possessed and continued to increase the speed of his right arm swinging the blade.

Sixteenth blow.

Seventeenth blow.

Eighteenth blow.

After three cuts in a row, Sun Ce only managed to block half the blows with his spear horizontally. Now, deep blood marks, an inch deep, were carved into both of his arms.

Sun Ce stared in total disbelief. Since he started fighting, he had faced countless tough battles, but he had never met an opponent like Li Guang.

This wasn’t about courage. It was that he simply could not keep up with Li Guang’s movements.

His eyes couldn’t follow, and his limbs were even worse.

“One last blow! Sun Ce, die!”

Like the brilliant sun, a radiance attached itself to the blade. Sun Ce saw a blade technique he had never seen in his life.

Swift as the wind, aggressive as fire.

“This… this blade technique, I… I cannot match!”

He didn’t finish the last sentence. A crack had already formed on Sun Ce’s neck.

As the crack became more obvious, Sun Ce crashed to the ground with a loud “Bang”.

His eyes stared straight out. It seemed he was trying to see Li Guang’s blade technique until the very end.

As soon as Sun Ce fell, the surrounding Personal Guards all shouted in shock.

The Jiangdong Little Conqueror, who was all-powerful in their eyes, and their Lord, who was incredibly brave, had actually died in battle?

While the Personal Guards were full of surprise, their first reaction was to try and recover their Lord’s body. But Li Guang stood straight in front of Sun Ce’s body. They did not dare to move forward at all.

After killing Sun Ce in one go, Li Guang’s eyes gradually returned to clarity. He looked at Sun Ce’s dead body, and his expression flashed with excitement and a hint of gratitude.

Long ago, after killing a few Beast Kings, he had felt that he was about to break through. But he had never had a good chance, so Li Guang could only endure silently.

Until this battle with Sun Ce, Li Guang had almost brought his battlefield Martial Arts to perfection. Borrowing the pressure brought by Sun Ce, he finally understood his first-ever War Art, named for himself.

“This battle tonight has taught Li Guang much.”

“This War Art was realized by the fight between you and me. Today, we shall call it ‘Domination War’.”

“The Little Conqueror of Jiangdong is indeed worthy of his name!”