Chapter 1093: The Final Strike

He didn't know what method he used to hide and sneak, but he had already slipped out more than ten zhang before being exposed by He Lingchuan.

The golden-armored copper general and the violent ape had no primordial power and couldn't see through his stealth technique. Wu Lu had made good use of this advantage.

But he didn't know that He Lingchuan could! Even without releasing it, He Lingchuan still possessed the primordial power of Panlong City.

Most stealth techniques didn't support fast movement, and they were broken as soon as they were attacked, just like Wu Lu right now.

Knowing his whereabouts were exposed, he simply sprinted without looking back, waving his hand at the same time.

The puppet giant bear immediately abandoned the golden-armored copper general and turned to pounce on He Lingchuan, buying time for its master.

The Ya Kingdom guard team also rushed to the bottom of the slope, moving very fast.

Just as Wu Lu was about to return to the protection of the guard team, a large figure suddenly emerged from behind a boulder by the roadside.

With a light *whoosh* through the air, a red ribbon shot out and coiled toward Wu Lu.

It took one-tenth of a blink of an eye.

Especially since it was hiding in a particularly sneaky position, shrinking in the shadow behind the stone wall—who running for their life would notice it?

Yet Wu Lu did.

His peripheral vision caught a glimpse of this shadow, and his body braked violently, sliding forward diagonally, his waist, hips, legs, and ankles all exerting force, forcing a forward charge into a backward turn; his left boot even sank an inch into the ground.

The red ribbon swept past in front of him, missing its target.

He Lingchuan, watching Wu Lu's reaction from below, couldn't help but want to applaud.

Even if it were him dodging the Snail Toad's sudden tongue attack, he could probably only do as well as Wu Lu. Moreover, how could Wu Lu compare to his understanding of the Snail Toad? This reaction speed in a hurry was truly remarkable, worthy of being one of the Ya Kingdom's top generals.

He Lingchuan immediately thought of Hong Chenglue. None of these martial generals who climbed to high positions through military merit were easy to deal with.

In a flash, the red ribbon retracted.

It was an eerie dark red and somewhat wet and sticky, as if it were... a tongue? Wu Lu instinctively followed it to look at the shadow behind the stone wall.

Tall and round, covered in soft mud, but half a long leg stretched out of the shadow of the stone wall, very long and sturdy, with spots.

What kind of ghost thing would look like this? This momentary distraction was the big mistake he made.

Before he could see it clearly, a handful of spider webs suddenly shot out from the other side of the mountain road, sparse and light gray, similar to the color of the ground, making them even less noticeable in the night.

The speed at which the spider web shot out was similar to the Snail Toad's tongue, and it retracted as soon as it touched the prey.

Wu Lu felt a chill on his neck and immediately knew something was wrong, propping his hand-fork against the ground, refusing to let the opponent pull him.

Only then did it show that his strength was also immense; the opponent's pull this time didn't move him.

A cold light flashed in Wu Lu's hand, and he pulled out a dagger to shave toward the back of his head, wanting to cut the restraint.

However, there was a *rustle* by the roadside, and another shadow shot over. Although it was large, its movements were surprisingly light.

Wu Lu wanted to raise his other hand-fork to meet the enemy, but the opponent flicked the spider silk a few times, and somehow brought him down to the ground.

The new enemy had eight long legs, and with a speed invisible to the naked eye, it pressed him to the ground and rubbed him back and forth.

He Lingchuan, who had rushed over, let out a long sigh of relief.

"Truly worthy of Auntie, her first move is extraordinary."

The Snail Toad and Zhu Xiuer lurked on both sides of the mountain road, one left and one right. Dong Rui saw Wu Lu rushing over and couldn't help but strike first, only to miss.

Fortunately, Zhu Xiuer supplemented the web in time.

She specifically chose the moment Wu Lu turned his head to look at the Snail Toad to strike, choosing the perfect timing.

A great monster that had been fighting for thousands of years was indeed not to be trifled with.

"Hmmph." Zhu Xiuer didn't stop her movements. The Ya Kingdom guards rushed down the slope and happened to see her unhurriedly wrapping Wu Lu into a wriggling, struggling white cocoon.

Wrapped in layer after layer of spider webs, so what if Wu Lu had primordial power? Unless he had another divine ability to escape, he was basically unable to break free.

"General!" The Ya Kingdom guard team was anxious and rushed forward.

Zhu Xiuer used only one sentence to make them stop in their tracks: "Any further, and he'll be dead."

The sharp thorn on her claw was pressed against Wu Lu's temple.

He Lingchuan took a few steps forward and clapped his hands to attract the attention of the opposite side: "Someone go and tell your army to stop."

The Ya Kingdom guard team looked at each other and then at Wu Lu.

"Don't understand?" Zhu Xiuer's thorn poked down, not piercing the captive's temple, but leaving a long wound on his forehead.

Blood immediately flowed down Wu Lu's cheek.

He Lingchuan said to him, "General Wu, since the situation is gone, those who know the times are heroes."

Blood flowed into his eyes, and Wu Lu shook his head hard: "You are the Yangshan Archipelago?"

Eh? He Lingchuan was slightly surprised: "You know?"

This General Wu's information updated very quickly.

"Call your Island Master He!" Wu Lu said coldly. "I only talk to him."

He Lingchuan gave a long "oh," stood up straight, and pointed to himself lightly: "That's me, genuine and authentic."

This is the Master of Yangshan? A trace of surprise flashed in Wu Lu's eyes; he seemed to be less than twenty? He Lingchuan smiled: "General Wu, let's handle the business first, and we can chat properly later. Don't worry, we have no precedent for killing captives."

Since he became the Master of Yangshan, he had experienced mutinies and battles, and as long as the opponent surrendered, he had never raised a butcher's knife.

The more he smiled, the more Wu Lu remembered the backstab this young man had just given him.

The feeling of the blade piercing through the heart was exceptionally cold and painful. Even though he was a veteran general, he hadn't had many such experiences.

The person in front of him only looked young, but was actually ruthless. He could kill Wu Lu once, so of course, he wouldn't mind raising his blade again.

He Lingchuan continued: "If you don't stop and withdraw your troops, those thousand-plus soldiers who fell into the water will also lose their lives. For every moment you hesitate here, one more will drown there."

Wu Lu's temple twitched. He had ordered those thousand-plus soldiers to pursue the fleeing ships, only for them to fall into an ambush halfway and be shaken into the water by Yin Serpents. Although he sent people to rescue them later, with water monsters obstructing them, how many could he save? If he didn't stop the war, not only would he lose his life, but those thousand-plus people would also drown.

Thinking this through, the choice wasn't so hard to make. Wu Lu let out a breath and turned to his personal guards: "Pass the order to withdraw."

If it were any other fierce Ya Kingdom general, they might have thrown away the command authority on the spot and ordered their successor to continue fighting; but in his view, defeat was defeat, and there was no need to fight to the death.

This Island Master of Yangshan had no reason to kill him or his army.

He said to He Lingchuan: "Release my people immediately!"

He Lingchuan was also very straightforward, immediately notifying the Yin Serpents to salvage the Ya Kingdom soldiers in Storm Bay and bring them ashore; Zhu Xiuer also released the Wu Lu guards she had captured.

Sure enough, once those thousand-plus lives were brought up, Wu Lu softened—he could persuade himself that surrendering wasn't because he was afraid of death, but to save his subordinates.

Dong Rui also walked out from the shadow of the stone wall.

How did a person come out? Wu Lu took a special look, and the monster in the shadow was gone.

Of course, the Snail Toad had been put back into Dong Rui's backpack.

Zhu Xiuer looked at him triumphantly: "You lost, I'm going to drink twenty jars of peach blossom wine when I get back!"

"Fine, fine." Dong Rui looked disdainful: "You're lucky."

The two of them had a bet: whoever caught Wu Lu would get to drink the peach blossom wine the other treated them to.

Zhu Xiuer added a condition: "It has to be twenty-year-old vintage!"

She specifically picked the expensive one to extort him! Dong Rui looked disdainful: "You're an ancient great monster, why didn't you jump out earlier and dry-kill Wu Lu? Why did you hold back until the last moment?"

"To hit the target in one strike." Zhu Xiuer wiped her eyes with her claws, looking calm and composed. "For the last bit, could you have done it alone?"

Actually, it was because primordial power hurt too much!

Fighting an army was the least cost-effective.

Look at the violent ape's injuries; *tsk*, still too young.

The violent ape also came over, limping.

Although it wore bronze armor, the Ya Kingdom army wasn't to be trifled with, specifically targeting the weak points of the armor, such as joints, ankles, and the mouth and eyes. A deep gunshot wound on the violent ape's brow bone was only a hair's breadth away from destroying its eye.

There was an arrow in its knee, and no one knew what divine ability was attached to the arrowhead, staining the blood from the wound black, like a living earthworm trying to crawl back into the wound.

Dong Rui checked it: "Not poison."

The violent ape shrank into a small monkey, and its movements to climb onto the large rock were exceptionally slow.

Dong Rui took out a small tube of red medicine, containing at most three or four drops. The violent ape took it and drank it dry in two gulps, still feeling unsatisfied, tilting it a few times.

In just over a dozen breaths, the wounds on the violent ape's body healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and even the black water on its knee was squeezed out.

Dong Rui took some powder and sprinkled it on, and the thing turned into flying smoke and vanished in a blink.

He gave an "oh": "So it's a curse!"

He Lingchuan felt familiar with the red medicine bottle, and upon reflection, he realized.

When Dong Rui ambushed He Chunhua and his son, the violent ape was seriously injured, and Dong Rui fed it this red medicine prepared from divine bones.

Later, He Lingchuan got hold of this medicine, and when Lingguang experimented with it, something went wrong, causing a riot in Zhao Pan's army camp.

Hmm, so when Dong Rui said "it's gone, not a drop left" last time, he actually still had divine bones.

He Lingchuan stroked the little monkey's head: "Well done."

Dong Rui's monster puppets weren't like ordinary monsters, and not even as afraid of primordial power as Zhu Xiuer, which was why he let the violent ape lead the charge. Even so, in the short close-quarters combat of just a quarter of an hour, the violent ape was still covered in wounds, showing that the combat power of Wu Lu's elite personal guards was indeed not to be underestimated.

If the violent ape hadn't attracted the firepower, it would have been difficult for He Lingchuan to capture Wu Lu among two hundred elite enemies.

A general with primordial power is truly hard to fight. He Lingchuan's trio configuration was luxurious, enough to deal with the Wood-Abode True Lord, but they almost let Wu Lu escape while ambushing him—fortunately, Zhu Xiuer took a shortcut at the end.

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