Volume 1, Chapter 148 – The Battlefield

Shi Lan’s heart sank. Whatever could shake such a colossal warship, its power could only be described as terrifying.

As she was thinking this, the Demon-Suppressing Command in her arms grew warm, transmitting Bai Weiyang’s order.

Shi Lan swung onto a flood-dragon horse and, according to the order, had the Body Tempering Realm martial artists share mounts with the Demon-Suppressing Army. Then she led her nearly thousand subordinates up onto the deck, where more than five thousand Demon-Suppressing Army soldiers and nearly ten thousand martial artists were already assembled.

At the center of the deck, a shallow pit nearly ten zhang across had appeared. Beside it lay the massive corpse of a giant avian demon beast, over a hundred zhang long and shaped like an eagle, with fiery red wings.

Its head and body were separated. The severed neck clearly bore a sword mark, and the blood flowing from its cavity was like molten lava, blazing hot and bright scarlet.

In the distance, demonic qi roiled in the air, rising and condensing into a pitch-black demon cloud. A violently savage baleful aura swallowed a large swath of the sky.

Among those ten thousand martial artists, nearly half were cowed by this aura. A nameless panic welled up in their hearts, their limbs went weak, and their strength dropped by almost thirty percent for no reason.

Looking at the demon cloud hanging in the distant sky, Shi Lan summoned the Purple Star Seven-Section Halberd and gripped it in her hand, finally feeling a bit steadier.

This kind of demon cloud, she had only seen once before, when she had run into that transformed demon king. The pressure from that demon cloud was clearly a level weaker than the one before her now.

Sweeping her gaze around the deck, Shi Lan frowned in doubt. There were no demon-slaying crossbows, nor any heavy bed crossbows or cloud-piercing bolts. What were they going to use to whittle down the beast tide’s strength?

Ten li away from the warship, ripples suddenly spread through the air, and a burly figure stepped out of them.

He was a man in his thirties with an extraordinarily sturdy build, nearly a zhang tall, with a tiger’s back and a bear’s waist and a face full of viciousness.

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Bai Weiyang stood on the command platform, with Lei Wuji and Lin Yusheng at his side.

For a Myriad Phenomena Realm expert, ten li was nothing more than a single step. This burly man had, without a doubt, come to stand directly before the three of them, his arrogance pushed to the extreme.

Seeing the man who had suddenly appeared, Bai Weiyang’s expression did not change. Behind him, sword qi tore through the air, clanging as it resonated.

As Bai Weiyang’s sword qi rose, Lei Wuji took a step forward and said,

“General Bai, you must command the battle and oversee the overall situation, it is inconvenient for you to act. This old man will be the one to kill this cur.”

The moment his words fell, the clear sky for ten thousand li changed color. A thundercloud quietly took form, thunder rumbling within it as it dispersed the demon cloud’s oppressive aura over the martial artists.

Lei Wuji’s figure vanished from the command platform at the same time.

Countless bolts of lightning, each as thick as an adult’s waist, suddenly erupted from the thundercloud, carrying a heavy aura of destruction as they crashed down toward the burly man.

The man’s expression hardened. He stepped back and withdrew several li.

Lei Wuji’s figure appeared at the spot where the man had just stood. His hair and beard billowed as countless bolts of lightning locked onto the burly man and chased him relentlessly.

Thunder surged like a sea, gigantic waves splitting the sky. Ten thousand bolts of lightning rolled like a raging ocean without end.

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This terrifyingly powerful, thunderous opening move sent morale soaring, especially among the people of Sky Thunder Hall, who all felt their faces shine with pride.

Bai Weiyang withdrew his gaze from the sky. In front of him, a road of golden light several hundred zhang wide coalesced with a roar, pointing straight toward the demon cloud.

“Advance.”

Bai Weiyang raised his hand and gave the order.

A chorus of high-pitched neighs rose as several thousand flood-dragon horses shot out along the golden road like arrows loosed from their strings, diving toward the ground.

The moment Shi Lan set hoof on the golden light, her Demon-Suppressing Command transmitted a set of coordinates and the order to charge at full speed.

Roars and screeches mixed together.

The flood-dragon horses moved at incredible speed. In the time it took to drink a cup of tea, they collided with the vanguard of the beast tide.

The fastest beasts to charge forward were cut down by streaks of astral force, then trampled to paste beneath the hooves of the frenzied flood-dragon horses.

The roar of killing shook the sky. Waves of blood exploded upward, flesh and shattered limbs flying in all directions.

Bai Weiyang’s hand rested on the command panel as he sent out one order after another.

On the battlefield below, the more than ten thousand fighters immediately spread out according to his commands, expanding the area of engagement severalfold.

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The Demon-Suppressing Army formed the blade, the martial artists the hilt, turning into more than a dozen sharp swords that cut the beast tide into pieces.

The battlefield became a giant meat grinder, blood and baleful qi shooting up. The beasts’ bodies were torn limb from limb, and those who fell to demonic maws did not even leave a whole corpse behind. Everywhere one looked was blood.

In the sky, the thundercloud and demon cloud nearly merged, covering the heavens. The world dimmed, thunder boomed without end, and from time to time blinding flashes lit the battlefield below, clearly marking a shocking battle raging above as well.

The halberd in Shi Lan’s hand did not pause for even a moment. Her hair whipped wildly, her gaze was as sharp as a blade, and the depths of her eyes were filled with terrifying killing intent.

She did not understand why Bai Weiyang had ordered a direct charge on the beast tide, but military orders were as weighty as a mountain. If Bai Weiyang did this, he naturally had his reasons.

Behind Shi Lan, ten flags snapped in the wind, not stained with a single drop of blood.

Eight Earth Fiend Realm martial artists moved around the flanks of the formation, sending out blasts of astral qi to kill swathes of demon beasts while also keeping alert for high-level demon beasts hidden in the tide.

With a muffled hiss, a basin-sized glob of pus shot out from the horde and flew straight at Shi Lan’s face.

Shi Lan slashed out a halberd aura, but to her surprise, the aura was pierced through by the glob and failed to stop it.

She raised her halberd and smashed the pus apart, but a few drops splattered onto her. Her battle armor immediately began to smoke with a greenish vapor, a hole half a palm wide eating into it.

A wisp of white smoke drifted up. Shi Lan’s eyes narrowed. Even the White Crane Skirt beneath the armor failed to resist the corrosive pus.

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Where it touched her skin, she felt a sharp sting, but she had no time to look at it. Right on the heels of that first glob, several more came flying.

She knocked the pus aside, the chill in her gaze deepening. Seeing the several enormous toads two li away, she was just thinking of how to deal with them when several streaks of arrow qi suddenly shot past her from behind.

In the blink of an eye, the arrows crossed the two-li gap and accurately nailed into the eyes of the giant toads, blasting out two bloody craters in their heads.

The toads thrashed and leapt about madly. Pus sprayed from their mouths in all directions, corroding and severely injuring a large number of demon beasts.

Liu Ziming’s eyes were sharp. Without hesitation, he drew again and took aim at the remaining toads.

Shi Lan turned her attention back to the front and, following the marked positions in Bai Weiyang’s orders, kept charging toward the next designated point.

In front of the command panel, Bai Weiyang frowned and suddenly lifted his head. At some unknown point, two figures had appeared in the air on either side of the warship.

A man and a woman. The man was eight chi tall, with green hair, a well-proportioned figure, wearing plain green cloth and a handsome face.

The woman had a fiery figure and wore tight black leather armor. Her features were strikingly beautiful, and every gesture carried an indescribable allure.

“This one is really quite good-looking. I want to peel off his skin later, turn him into a ghost slave, and take him back to my cave.” The woman smiled sweetly, licking the corner of her lips, her eyes full of delight.