Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 757 - 628: Hao Qi Golden Dragon_1

Chapter 757: Chapter 628: Hao Qi Golden Dragon_1

At the front of Niujia Slope, as the morning sun shone, two heavily armed armies collided like beasts.

Their battle line, with Niujia Slope as the center, extended fifty miles left and right. Over a million people gathered around more than fifty hills, their combat furious, with three rivers capable of obstructing the battlefield set as the divide for the deadly contest and struggle for control.

However, the most pivotal battlefield was still at the location of Niujia Slope.

Intense cannon fire roared here, rows of bird guns fired producing a great deal of blue smoke, and countless rockets and crossbow arrows soared up and fell a few miles away.

Opposing them was the Iron Cavalry, forming a massive rotating disk. The part of this disk closest to the Jin Army continually fired volleys of arrows to the south.

They maintained a slow but steady pace, but once the Jin Army attempted to take the high slope, the Iron Cavalry would suddenly accelerate, overrunning and defeating the Jin Army!

This was a gathering of the 150,000 ’Qiexue Army’, the most elite cavalry of the Vala and Datan people, specializing in horse archery.

And the 140,000 Forbidden Army of Jin, along with 90,000 garrison soldiers from Henan and Shanxi, were also amassed here by Yu Jie.

The so-called ’garrison soldiers’ were the soldiers directly under the control of the Jin military governor, patrol inspector, and Zongbing.

This was also one of Yu Jie’s reforms. In the early years of Jingtai, because the Weisuo Army was not useful, Yu Jie gave a certain quota of ’garrison soldiers’ to the governors, patrol inspectors, and military commanders in each area. They were the ’recruited soldiers’ of the region and could also be considered stationed Forbidden Army from Jingying.

These 230,000 men were the most elite forces in Yu Jie’s hand, all capable of directly challenging the Qiexue Army.

Under continually sustained barrages from the Mongwu people, their battle line stayed steady.

However, the strategy Yu Jie implemented today was primarily to hold the center while the two wings swept around, which was also the most suitable strategy for utilizing his numerical advantage.

Although all of his Forbidden Army and garrison soldiers were congregated here, there were still a large number of elite border forces in Taiyuan, Datong, and Guyuan that could hold their own against the Forbidden Army.

And these elite soldiers were spread out on two wings, circumventing and counter-attacking toward the rear of Mongwu people with an overwhelming force, expanding the battle line increasingly wider and thinning the formation of Mongwu people more and more.

In the air, the heavenly rank of the Jin people was furiously engaging with the powerhouses of the Mongwu people.

Yu Jie alone was valiantly fighting against the Mongolian Shaman Abas and Tuotuobuhua, the Mongwu Khan, but was calm and unhurried.

This pair were no match for him years ago. Now that Yu Jie had mastered the technique of ’Zhenya’, his fighting strength surpassed the past. The only trouble was that Tuotuobuhua Khan of the Mongwu people was incessantly raising his Dragon Qi, and the Mongolian Shaman Abas summoned a Celestial Wolf from Yin Mountain, leaving him with no choice but to resist.

The day’s Marquis of Dingxiang, Taiyuan military commander Guo Tai, was battling Alachien, the Vala chief, in the south of Niujia slope, amidst flying sand and rocks.

But the most striking were the Jingtai Emperor and Khan Yexian of Vala.

Both of them had not truly locked onto each other as opponents, but to vent their grand blade lights and sword Qis into each other’s ranks.

The two had fought several times, knowing that the other was tricky and not an opponent they could defeat in a day or two.

So today, they both unanimously adopted the strategy of first destroying the other’s ’force of ten thousand armies’.

But neither of them succeeded. While trying their best to bombard the opposing ranks, they were also doing their utmost to resolve the opponent’s blade and sword Qi.

With the passage of time, the figures of Jingtai Emperor and Yexian were still intertwined. They rolled and flipped in the clouds, with the ferocity of mad tigers, fighting valiantly, locked in a life-and-death struggle.

The intense battle lasted until noon when, after a final full-powered clash, they retreated a thousand feet from each other simultaneously.

At this moment, Khan Yexian of Vala immediately took deep breaths to recover his near-depleted Yuan Qi.

For a heavenly rank like him, this was simply incredible. But the two hours of fighting had indeed exhausted almost all his Zhenyuan.

Both sides exerted all their strength, continuously pouring their Zhenyuan and Dragon Qi into the fight.

When Khan Yexian of Vala looked at his opponent again, he felt not only surprise but also a murderous intent.

He felt that this emperor of Jin, his Wuyi cultivation had surpassed last year’s, clearly probing the God Realm, and possibly only one step away from the ’Rule of Extreme Heaven’. His rapid progress only came second to Yu Jie, equally shocking and astounding.

The Jingtai Emperor was the same, his face was solemn. His opponent’s strength also hadn’t stagnated.

Seven years ago, Yexian, Khan of Vala’s Wuyi, was already at the threshold of the ’Rule of Extreme Heaven’. Now, this man clearly had one foot over this threshold.

If it wasn’t for the strength of Jin’s Dragon Qi far surpassing that of the Mongwu people, the Jingtai Emperor estimated that he would have lost after a moment’s battle.

But the Jingtai Emperor was firmly convinced that he would win this fight.

At this moment, the Jin Army on the ground, which was about to complete the encircling on both wings, gave him boundless confidence.

At this moment, the face of the Jingtai Emperor suddenly turned grave. He felt a sharp pain in his heart, then a feeling of numbness spread from his chest.

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At the same time, on the 26th of July at noon, Li Xuan, who was in the Qianhu Office in Chengde, formed a golden Dragon Qi in front of Lv Qiluo, aggregating to form a total of twelve ’Hao Qi Golden Dragons’.

"I didn’t expect, Li Xuan, you to have such a technique."

In Lv Qiluo’s eyes, a tinge of surprise appeared: "The Sacred Secret of Jiulong Wulian, created by Liu Jinuu, is the top one among many offshoot cultivation techniques I’ve seen from the Gold Bell Cover and Tiebushan.

Regardless of its defensive ability or potential, it ranks among the top three. Unfortunately, this cultivation technique requires Dragon Qi to be initiated, and almost no one from the royal bloodline has practiced the Henglian Golden Body."

Li Xuan knew that the ’Liu Jinuu’ Lv Qiluo spoke of was an Emperor from the Southern and Northern Dynasties period of this world.

In the world he came from, there was also a person whose life trajectory was similar - Liu Yu, the first Emperor of the Southern Dynasty.

Among imperial descendants, this Southern Dynasty king’s Combat Power could definitely rank in the top three.

Historical records claim that Liu Yu once single-handedly dispersed a battalion of a thousand, deploying the "Retreating Moon Formation" to conquer the three-thousand Iron Cavalry of the Northern Wei with two-thousand chariots.

He pacified Huan Xuan, reunited Huai Bei, settled Lu Xun, and crusaded against Liu Yi, annihilating Nan Yan, extinguishing Qiao Shu of the West, razing Later Qin, single-handedly killing four emperors and extinguishing three kingdoms.

Regrettably, he was born in an untamable era, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, much like the worlds of the Three Kingdoms and Late Tang periods. The world was full of nations, with the Five Barbarians wreaking havoc and producing a multitude of renowned generals. This was the most martially prosperous era.

With his extraordinary talent and strategy, he could have aspired to unify the world, had his circumstances been different.

Liu Jinuu of this time period was no pushover either. The ’Jiulong Wulian Overlord Tripod Formula’ was a cultivation method he initiated to quicken the cultivation of the Henglian Golden Body.

Just like Li Xuan was practicing the ’Liuhe Zhuxian Sword Diagram’, the defensive ability of the ’Jiulong Wulian Overlord Tripod Formula’ was not to be overlooked, after all, it was the most time and effort saving.

Once the nine dragons were incorporated into the body, they naturally recirculated. The person only needed to endure the bodily cultivation pain at the two hours of Zi and Wu every day, and the Henglian Golden Body would gradually strengthen and enhance, without the need to painstakingly cultivate it.

However, Lv Qiluo did not let him cultivate according to this direction, because Li Xuan was not of imperial physique, thus unable to cultivate the subsequent content of the ’Jiulong Wulian Overlord Tripod Formula’.

She simply let Li Xuan initiate by using the Dragon Qi beneath Chengde, unifying his Golden Bell Cover and Tiebushan into one, and subsequently altered the course of his cultivation.

Even though the principle of the cultivation technique was the same, she used Li Xuan’s Liuli Haoqi as the core, integrating with his willpower to cultivate the ’HaoYi Golden Dragon’.

The quantity changed to twelve since the numbers nine and five symbolize an emperor, aligning with the Emperor’s destiny.

Li Xuan is not the Emperor, nor does he have intentions to usurp. There’s no need for him to commit such taboo.

Moreover, the HaoYi Golden Dragon is different from the real Dragon Qi.

According to Lv Qiluo’s calculations, twelve HaoYi Golden Dragons can maximize the body refinement and strengthen the defense.

This cultivation technique was then renamed by her as the ’Vast Intent Overlord Tripod Formula’.

Subsequently, Li Xuan inhaled again and all twelve golden dragons were fully absorbed into his body.

Following Li Xuan’s mental command, these dragons start to materialize on his body’s surface, just like twelve golden chains winding around him.

And in the next instant, Li Xuan suddenly bellowed. His Primordial Spirit, his flesh and blood, all undergo an extraordinary transformation and sublimation.

Cultivating the ’Vast Intent Overlord Tripod Formula’ signifies that his Golden Body has arrived at perfection.

Naturally, Li Xuan did not hesitate and took this step, finally reaping the rewards after eight months of cultivation and polishing.

The entire process of upgrading to the Fourth Gate took approximately two hours.

During this period, the tiny cells within Li Xuan’s body continuously ruptured and regenerated.

Inside his Primordial Spirit, a cosmic explosion seemed to occur. The entire text and sutras inscribed by Li Xuan inside spontaneously rearranged under the influence of the Heavenly Dao after the explosion.

The ’Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart’ inside Li Xuan’s chest was beating vigorously, swallowing the massive Hao Qi and gradually undergoing transformation.

After the transformation process was completed, Li Xuan opened his eyes in confusion, a look of amazement flashed across them.

He sensed the ’Force of the Heavenly Level’, also known in Taoism as the ’Immortal Yuan’.

This pure and mighty power was slowly flowing within his Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart.

"There’s no mistake!" Lv Qiluo also looked at Li Xuan with joy in her eyes: "This is the state of the ’Unleaked Body’ as referred to in Taoism - "

In Taoism, the Unleaked Body generally refers to the body of a virgin who has perfected their essence before adulthood.

In Buddhism, it refers to the practice of Nirvana, Bodhi, and cutting off all root causes of suffering.

Lv Qiluo’s words encompass both meanings.

Naturally, Li Xuan is not a virgin, but his physical state is not much different from a virgin body.

Furthermore, having no leakage means having ultimate clarity, purity, and impeccability.

Li Xuan found that the benefits of upgrading to the tenth house level were much more than just these.

However, just as he was preparing to dive deep into exploration, Li Xuan felt the newly appointed Jianjun, Shang Hong, and all the other generals led by Wang Yuan had gathered outside his military tent.

Li Xuan raised his eyebrows slightly, dashed out, and promptly glanced towards the North with a sense of something.

Wang Yuan, the deputy commander of the left Shenji battalion, saluted him, "Marquis, the Pishi Zombie Army are on the move."