Chapter 60: Failure

"Temujin, today you must die."

Seeing Temujin directing the retreat in the distance, Nie Huaishang let out a thunderous shout and loosed several arrows at Temujin in succession.

"Protect the Great Khan."

The soldiers beside Temujin raised wooden shields to block these arrows for him. Seeing his arrows blocked, Nie Huaishang helplessly shook his head. It couldn't be helped; although his spear technique was quite good,

his archery technique could only be described as hard to explain. He couldn't compare with Guo Jing. If Guo Jing had loosed those few arrows just now, Temujin would have undoubtedly died.

But it didn't matter. Since the bow and arrows couldn't kill Temujin, he would use the long spear in his hand and the horse knife at his waist to kill Temujin.

"Tuo'erbu, you first command the troops to bite down hard on Temujin's forces. The rest of you follow me to kill this traitor of the Mongols, Temujin."

After loudly instructing the adjutant beside him, Nie Huaishang led his several hundred personal guards, galloping toward Temujin's direction. Wherever they passed, they were unstoppable, and not a single person could block them.

"Loose arrows."

Temujin ordered the personal guards beside him. This young man's strength was unfathomable; if anyone engaged him in close combat, it would be no different from suicide. At this moment, Temujin didn't care if the arrows would accidentally hurt his own men.

Moreover, the Mongols practiced mounted archery from childhood; every Mongol was a master of mounted archery, and Temujin's personal guards were even first-class expert marksmen.

In an instant, the arrows from hundreds of people came down like a sky-covering net, shooting toward Nie Huaishang and his personal guards.

However, facing this sky-covering rain of arrows, Nie Huaishang remained very calm. This rain of arrows could not do anything to him. He was seen murmuring softly:

"Heaven and Earth, the Mystic Pole; all Qi originates from the Root."

"Cultivate widely through ten thousand kalpas; prove my divine powers."

"Inside and outside the Three Realms, only the Dao is supreme."

"My body possesses Jin Guang, covering and reflecting upon my person."

As soon as the words fell, Nie Huaishang's body was enveloped in a brilliant surge of Jin Guang. The rain of arrows loosed by the hundreds of personal guards could not harm Nie Huaishang in the slightest; all arrows were completely repelled by the Jin Guang.

Seeing this, Temujin was greatly shocked internally and sighed silently: "In the past, only the most valiant warriors in the army could withstand dozens of people. Bolchu, Hubilai, and Muqali in my own army could barely achieve this."

"But facing the rain of arrows loosed by my hundreds of personal guards, they would surely have perished on the spot, yet it has not the slightest effect on the young man before me. This young man is likely not inferior at all to the person who just chased me."

"These two people are probably what the Han people call 'enemies of ten thousand men'."

"Don't shoot this young man; shoot his horse. This Jin Guang can cover his entire body, but his horse probably cannot be protected."

While retreating, Temujin loudly instructed the personal guards around him upon seeing this. The surrounding personal guards drew their bows and loosed arrows at Nie Huaishang's horse.

Nie Huaishang's horse was immediately shot like a hedgehog. Regarding Temujin's act of shooting his horse, Nie Huaishang was also helpless; after all, he had only been cultivating the Jin Guang Incantation for a single year.

Being able to cover his entire body with Jin Guang was already good enough; he couldn't protect his horse. However, even though his horse was shot dead, it did not affect his speed in the slightest.

He was seen leaping into the air, stepping on the shoulders of countless Mongol soldiers to move forward quickly. Leaping up once more, Nie Huaishang threw the long spear in his hand with all his might toward Temujin's horse.

Temujin immediately fell from his horse. At this moment, Temujin's great army had already been scattered and fled by Nie Huaishang's several thousand cavalry; only several hundred personal guards remained beside Temujin.

Watching the cavalry about to surround him, Temujin fell into despair once again. Just then, on the grassland behind Temujin, he felt the earth shake and mountains tremble; earth-shattering cries of battle echoed through heaven and earth.

"Great Khan, do not panic; Muqali has arrived."

"Borhu is here; do not harm the Great Khan."

The arrivals were indeed Muqali and Borhu. The two had led their troops for a long time without seeing Temujin and others, so they suspected something must have gone wrong. The two borrowed five thousand cavalry from Wang Han and then led the fifteen thousand cavalry of Temujin's division to set out.

"Muqali, Borhu."

Temujin was overjoyed at this moment and shouted loudly to the two. The two quickly brought people to protect Temujin within the army, forming a formation to confront Nie Huaishang.

Nie Huaishang looked at Temujin with a grim expression. Even today, this certain-death situation allowed Temujin to escape alive; in the future, if he wanted to kill Temujin, it would be fraught with ten thousand difficulties and dangers.

At this moment, Guo Jing arrived before the formation, carrying the Golden Wheel Dharma King, whose life and death were uncertain. The Golden Wheel Dharma King's Elephant Prajna Art ultimately could not withstand Guo Jing's Five Thunder Orthodoxy; at this moment, his life and death were uncertain.

"Since you insist on saving Temujin's life, then leave your own life behind."

After Guo Jing finished speaking, he was about to cut off the Golden Wheel Dharma King's head, but someone loudly stopped him:

"Stay the blade!"

Guo Jing looked up at Temujin, wanting to see what he wanted to say. He saw Temujin speak politely:

"This friend, we have had no grudges in the past. Everything that happened today must be some misunderstanding. Why not spare this master's life? I will treat today's events as if they never happened. Shall we turn our weapons into jade and make peace between our two families?"

Did Temujin not hate Guo Jing and Nie Huaishang? That was impossible. Guo Jing and Nie Huaishang had just forced him into a death trap multiple times and slaughtered nearly twenty thousand of his soldiers.

This wiped out most of his family's assets. Moreover, Guo Jing had killed his three great generals: Bolchu, Hubilai, and Subutai.

Bolchu was a close friend of Temujin from his youth; back then, they had together snatched eight horses from the hands of bandits.

These three had been his right and left arms for these years, yet today they died in Guo Jing's hands.

To be honest, Temujin now wished he could tear this group of people before him apart with five horses, but he couldn't.

Because as a warlord, one must endure what ordinary people cannot endure. The seven thousand cavalry before him were elite, not comparable to Jamukha's ragtag mob.

Plus, with the existence of these two 'enemies of ten thousand men' before him, he might not be able to swallow them. Even if he won, he would have to pay a heavy price.

At the very least, he would have to pay the price of ten thousand cavalry. Moreover, his deadly enemy, the Tatar tribe, was still there. After fighting them to the death, would he still avenge his father's death?

Temujin had to suppress the surging rage in his heart. He swore that sooner or later, he would make this group of people before him pay a blood price.

After hearing Temujin's words, Nie Huaishang casually waved his hand toward the rear. The cavalry behind immediately understood. Within a short while, they brought up Temujin's four sons, who were beaten by Guo Jing's palm strike to the point of uncertain life and death, and the three great generals Chilowen, Jilemei, and one other, totaling six people.

Looking at the six people brought up, Temujin let out a cry of shock. The wound on his chest flared up, causing pain so severe he almost fainted.

After enduring this intense pain, Temujin threatened the two: "Quickly release them. If anything unexpected happens to them, I, Temujin, will surely kill you."