Chapter 2711: The Pursuit Amidst Ten Thousand Troops

The Tiger Wing General had vanished from his original position, all three attacks missed, only his mount kept crashing into the yaksha's leg.

The arrows immediately turned around, shooting toward Gao Huaiyuan.

Once it locks onto a target, it gains tracking ability. The Tiger Wing General dodged the fatal blow with his combat technique while continuing to advance toward Gao Huaiyuan, so the arrows would follow closely.

The yaksha also hurriedly turned back, trying to see He Lingchuan's position clearly.

But at this moment, a cold light flashed before his eyes, icy and dazzling, almost occupying his entire field of vision.

That was the gleam of the treasure blade.

Even the Beijia soldiers know that this Golden Yaksha specializes in external defense, his muscles are as hard as refined gold all over, a solid gold lump—no iron can leave even a dent on him, and divine weapons must be hacked for a long time before they can scratch his outer skin.

But the light attached to the opponent's blade made it tremble from the depths of its heart, then came a chill on its neck—

This time, in its hasty turn of the head, it became a headless yaksha.

Although Fus. heng still achieved success in one move, He Lingchuan's feeling when beheading this time was also not good, the recoil made his wrist ache.

This big fellow's body is truly absurdly hard; if not for his immense Yuanli, he could not cut into it at all.

At this moment, the Illusory Spirit Arrows he had lured away were about to turn back to find him, but He Lingchuan noticed that although the yaksha had lost its head, the cross-section of its neck was pale gold, and there was absolutely no blood spurting!

This bastard is not a living thing?

But this feel is not like metal either; He Lingchuan glanced hastily and saw some fine patterns on the break of the neck.

Then he slapped the incoming tracking arrow away with his palm.

The sphere changed direction again, coming at him from behind his head, this time chua—it burst out with spikes all over, whoever gets stabbed gets a body full of blood holes.

He Lingchuan grabbed his cloak with his backhand and threw it at the sphere.

After he infused it with true power, the cloak unfurled like a curtain, about to wrap the sphere.

But it changed direction again.

At this time, the Panlong Imperial Guards also shook off their sluggish state, restored their mobility, and rushed forward one after another. Only then did the people see clearly that this thing was not some sphere at all, but clearly a curled-up dwarf, resembling a person but with a flat-round body; as long as it tucked in its head and feet, it could curl into a ball.

And the beheaded yaksha staggered back a few steps, seeming about to fall, but when He Lingchuan turned around, it suddenly snatched up the dark gold staff and smashed it over, its movement as agile as before!

Able to move freely even after beheading, and without bleeding—what kind of monster is this?

"General, be careful!" a Panlong Imperial Guard rushed forward, blocking in front of the yaksha, only to be struck flying by his staff, falling heavily to the ground. The Beijia army surged forward, the Panlong soldiers rushed past He Lingchuan to meet the enemy.

He Lingchuan's eyes flashed with black light, and the battlefield completely changed in his vision.

The surrounding background blurred completely, all soldiers and weapons turned black, but their surfaces faintly glowed with pale white light. In his eyes, the world became purely black and white, yet each person had one or several faint red lines on them, some connected to weapons, some to others—comrades or enemies.

They fought as usual, no one noticed these red lines, only He Lingchuan saw them clearly at a glance.

In his peripheral vision, he saw a red line on a Panlong soldier on the right, the other end of the red line on a Beijia soldier five zhang away, the latter drawing his bow and nocking an arrow, about to shoot the Panlong soldier. He Lingchuan did not turn his head, raised his right arm, and a sleeve-arrow shot first, piercing the Beijia soldier's fingers.

This man cried out in pain, covered his wound, and the red line between him and the Panlong soldier broke, vanished.

This line is called "Karmic Link." When two things have causality and connection, this red line will be drawn.

As the holder of the Destiny Divinity and the embodiment of endless karma, He Lingchuan only recently comprehended this divine art.

Destiny is nothing but the entanglement of countless causes and effects.

When he switched to this perspective, he even discovered that the person with the most connections on the field was himself, with over a hundred karmic lines on his body.

The Tiger Wing General led from the front, so of course the enemy's firepower would focus on him.

Looking at the headless yaksha before him, one would find it also has a red line, its other end stuck in the crowd.

And that dwarf, ball-like in form, also bears a red line, but its head is not connected to the headless yaksha; instead, it similarly probes into the Beijia army.

The two red lines converge toward one direction, and they will likely intersect at some point.

He Lingchuan followed the red line and happened to lock eyes with someone in the Beijia army.

This person stood beside a big man, staring intently at the Tiger Wing General without blinking.

He Lingchuan's gaze was like a hawk's; the moment they locked eyes, this person lowered his head, shrank his body, retreated behind the big man to block He Lingchuan's view, then turned and ran.

This person's appearance was utterly ordinary; if thrown into a crowd, he would be hard to find, and now it's wartime chaos, everyone here is moving, he didn't believe He Lingchuan would specifically stare at him.

But the Tiger Wing General's gaze was that of locking onto prey, and he felt uneasy instinctively.

Impossible, his connection with the headless yaksha is extremely concealed, even those possessing Yuanli could not possibly detect it.

The Tiger Wing General merely glanced at him.

But the next instant, the soldier who had blocked He Lingchuan's view for him suddenly had a blood tear split open on his back shoulder, accompanied by a wisp of gloomy light.

This was blade light, arriving at his neck in the blink of an eye.

The Tiger Wing General not only locked onto him, but also teleported one step to his side, directly drew his sword, and beheaded both the soldier and him together.

With a soft xiu sound, the blade light brushed past his neck.

The feel was wrong.

This person's form turned into a phantom of light, then vanished instantly.

This is also some kind of Golden Cicada Shell technique, specially used to escape enemies and save life.

Yet before this "empty shell" vanished, He Lingchuan's gaze had already captured the direction of the red line on it.

No one in the world can escape the entanglement of karma!

The surrounding Beijia soldiers were startled, reacted, and blades, spears, swords, and halberds all rushed to attend to him.

Seven zhang away, the person who had just disappeared reappeared in the army.

Having escaped death, he said nothing and rushed straight toward Gao Huaiyuan.

How could he have been seen through! He and his creation had only met the Tiger Wing General once, and that was already in this extremely chaotic front line of the two armies' battle!

Where exactly had the flaw shown?

As this thought arose, a flash of lightning streaked past beside him.

At least in his eyes it was like lightning, still carrying an unparalleled mighty pressure.

Without hesitation, he threw out a Mangshan Seal.

This treasure initially resembled an ordinary seal; upon leaving his hand it spun and expanded, in an instant becoming a rectangular block the size of a door panel, its surface flashing with pale golden runes.

Since it was called the Mang Mountain Seal, by rights it should have been able to transform into a small hill, but the subsequent process was brutally interrupted — because a blade flash swift as Lei Ting streaked past, and the runes on the Mang Mountain Seal's surface dimmed.