Chapter 455: Lord Xiang vs. Bai Yu Camp

The Bai Yu Camp was filled with wails.

Lord Xiang had displayed an overwhelmingly powerful offensive stance; the moment he struck, he directly shattered their battle formation.

Because this was a dynamic formation, every cultivator was a component of it. Therefore, when the formation was broken, all participants suffered a backlash.

Lord Xiang stood tall like a mountain, looking around proudly before lowering his head to rub his fingers, commenting indifferently: "Insufficient training; the formation is all show and no substance."

"Whatever else you have, bring it out and let me see."

This arrogant posture did not suppress the spirit of the Bai Yu Camp cultivators; instead, it infuriated them.

"Heh! This old geezer, he's quite arrogant."

"Brothers, let's take him together!"

"A mere Nascent Soul level, falling into our army formation—he doesn't know whether he's living or dying!"

Without waiting for their commander, Shuang Jing, to give the order, his deputy commanders swarmed out, launching a siege on Lord Xiang.

There were seven deputy commanders in total, all at the Jin Dan level.

Shuang Jing remained further back, riding his mount, and shouted: "Change formation! Change formation!"

He held the commander's seal in his hand, using his spiritual sense to transmit the message of the next formation change to the entire army.

However, most of the Bai Yu Camp soldiers had not yet caught their breath; many were screaming and groaning in agony, and some had even fainted on the spot.

Seeing this, Shuang Jing immediately pulled a stack of tokens from his robes.

These tokens were military artifacts, red with gold lettering, looking majestic. The military tokens were triangular at the top and tapered downward, resembling a thick, precious sword.

Shuang Jing threw these tokens out one after another, shouting: "Military intelligence is like fire, form up quickly!"

"Military intelligence is like fire, form up quickly!"

"Military intelligence is like fire, form up quickly!"

The next moment, the soldiers who had just been lying on the ground were lifted by an invisible force and forcibly dragged toward their respective positions in the battle formation.

Some could barely walk, while others were dragged along.

Others, even more unfortunate, cried out: "Don't drag me, don't drag me! Ah, I'm going to split my legs!"

Through such forced formation, Shuang Jing quickly created a second battle formation—the Seven-Star Gathering Force Formation.

This battle formation started slowly, immediately becoming brilliant with starlight, like thousands of fireflies dancing. These starlights converged above the seven Jin Dan deputy commanders, pouring into their bodies like seven pillars of light.

The deputy commanders roared, their stature directly increasing by two or three inches, their auras surging, their magic power erupting, and their combat effectiveness instantly skyrocketing several times over!

"This is the feeling! I'm ridiculously strong!" One Jin Dan deputy commander roared, charging at Lord Xiang first.

Lord Xiang sidestepped to avoid his attack, then pushed with his giant palm, striking the Jin Dan deputy commander squarely in the ribs.

Roar!

The sound of a dragon's roar rose again.

The Jin Dan deputy commander was like a ball, sent flying a long distance before landing on the ground.

He nearly crashed into his comrades, but fortunately, Shuang Jing used his commander's power in time to pull those cultivators away.

The Jin Dan deputy commander spat out a mouthful of blood and sat down cross-legged to treat his injuries urgently.

Because after his ribs broke, they directly pierced his lungs; such injuries forced him to temporarily stop fighting.

The Dragon Roar Palm struck repeatedly; with every swing of his palm, there was the sound of a dragon's roar.

Roar, roar, roar...

The dragon roars rose and fell, and the Jin Dan deputy commanders were sent flying one after another, crashing into the ground like sandbags.

But soon, they all stood up, spat out blood or knocked-out teeth, and pounced again.

Their battle armor and other equipment, although standard issue and part of a set with everyone else's, were still very exquisite and of high quality.

Even if their cultivation techniques were different, the identical equipment allowed them to better exert the power of the battle formation. Don't forget the added bonuses of national power and military strength, allowing them to face a terrifying Nascent Soul combatant like Lord Xiang head-on for a round or two.

Lord Xiang was experienced; in his long life, this was not his first time charging a battle formation.

But this time, he clearly felt that the Bai Yu Camp's battle formation had great stamina and resilience. Although the seven Jin Dan deputy commanders were not his match in a single exchange, they kept running back after being knocked away, like a ball bouncing off a wall, which annoyed him greatly.

Lord Xiang's anger erupted, and he suddenly changed his offensive.

Divine Gift—Dead Wood Meets Spring!

Martial Art—Withered Dragon Claw!

With the divine art and martial art superimposed, Lord Xiang changed his palm into a claw, grabbing a Jin Dan deputy commander in one go.

His five fingertips were exceptionally sharp, directly piercing the Jin Dan deputy commander's arm, embedding deep into the muscle and reaching the bone.

The Jin Dan deputy commander groaned and attacked frantically.

"Let him go!!!"

The other deputy commanders rushed over, launching fierce attacks from all directions.

Lord Xiang did not dodge or evade, holding his head high and chest out.

Divine Gift—Divine Dragon Precious Body!

In an instant, his whole body shone, forming a translucent dragon-scale armor that covered him from head to toe.

The attacks of the Jin Dan deputy commanders struck the dragon-scale armor, only causing the scales to ripple and emit crisp clanging sounds, unable to harm Lord Xiang's inner body.

Conversely, the Jin Dan deputy commander whose arm was gripped began to wail.

His voice was incomparably shrill, and his whole body seemed to shrink, rapidly fading from a strong man into a sickly wretch; his cheekbones protruded, his eye sockets sank, his life force turned from flourishing to decaying, and his black hair turned snow-white in just a few breaths.

"His life force is being sucked away!"

"What a vicious method."

"What should we do?"

"I'll handle it!"

A Jin Dan deputy commander made a split-second decision, wielding his precious saber and slashing down fiercely.

The saber light was incomparably sharp, directly severing the arm of the wailing Jin Dan deputy commander.

The Jin Dan deputy commander regained himself and retreated frantically.

The remaining deputy generals coordinated perfectly, launching successive attacks to cover his retreat.

Lord Xiang sneered; the arm in his hand was instantly sucked into a dried corpse and discarded casually.

"What's the rush?"

"Your life force is all my nourishment!"

The Jin Dan deputy commanders fell into a bitter battle.

They only had Jin Dan cultivation; according to common sense, with the support of the battle formation, they should be able to resist head-on and entangle a Nascent Soul level enemy.

But Lord Xiang himself was at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, and with the terrifying boost of the Long Wang's divine power, his entire combat strength was about to transcend the Nascent Soul level—it wouldn't be wrong to call him a quasi-Soul Transformation!

"This old man is truly formidable; only if I go out myself can I deal with him." Shuang Jing observed the battle situation keenly.

He was a disciple of a high-ranking family and was not cowardly.

At this moment, facing a strong enemy, there was fear in his heart, but more so, a fierce fighting spirit—if he could take down Lord Xiang, how much military merit would that be!

"With this military merit, returning to the royal capital, I will surely be ennobled."

"If this battle succeeds, even if I retire to the second line on the grounds of severe injuries, no one will be able to criticize me."

Shuang Jing became more excited as he thought about it, pulling a medicine bottle from his robes.

He opened the stopper and swallowed a Nascent Soul level elixir.

Whoosh.

His aura surged by thirty percent.

He opened another medicine bottle and tilted his head back, pouring all the medicinal powder inside into his mouth.

Whoosh!

His aura surged by another thirty percent. ===== CHAPTER 456 =====