Chapter 280: Stealing a Chicken Only to Lose the Rice

"E Lai! Leave this person to me."

"Lv Bu, the victory or defeat we didn't decide in Chenliu, today we can decide it once and for all."

Huang Zhong rode a yellow-dappled horse and arrived, his whole body exuding a sharp momentum. He raised his long blade, and a phantom behind him also appeared accordingly.

Martial arts will erupted, and the terrifying momentum seemed to roll up like a tornado, sweeping toward Yuan Shao and the others.

Bang!

After colliding with Dian Wei again, Lv Bu rode the Red Hare and retreated two steps, then stared fixedly at Huang Zhong. After the two locked eyes for a breath,

they moved instantly.

In the blink of an eye, the two were already fighting. Their explosion was like the collapse of the heavens; wherever the Gang Qi reached, it was like the destruction of the world.

The terrifying aura caused both sides to retreat repeatedly.

"My Lord, leave these people to us."

Taishi Ci and the others had also arrived by now.

One by one, they looked at Yuan Shao and his group with killing intent. If the Lord and the strategists hadn't discovered it in time, they feared Yuan Shao and the others would have truly succeeded.

If the Lord had really been ambushed, the consequences would have been unimaginable. They couldn't even imagine what the forces left behind by the Lord would become.

Especially since the Lord had no offspring.

They also made up their minds that after this great battle ended, no matter what, they would persuade the Lord to marry.

To speak of their Lord, he was also a strange one; he was already over thirty, yet there was no mistress in the backyard.

A monarch not being close to women and not being confused by women was a good thing, at least it wouldn't lead to the situation of King You of Zhou.

But for their Lord to be so distant from women, and even in these ten-plus years, they hadn't seen the Lord favor any woman.

If they hadn't known the Lord didn't have any "Long Yang" preferences, they would have been afraid to die remonstrating.

"Array, rise!"

Su Fan nodded and looked at the group of Mohist craftsmen in ink-colored clothing behind him.

Following Su Fan's words, suddenly, centered on him, within a radius of several miles, rays of rune light suddenly burst out from the ground.

The mysterious light enveloped the surroundings, covering Yuan Shao and his group completely.

"Four Symbols Sealing Origin Array."

This array was created by a great elder of the Daoist sect who had insights into the heavens and earth, and later, a Mohist expert deduced it with runes, evolving it into the current rune array.

This array was a sealing array. Once activated, it could lock down a radius of ten miles, turning it into a cage.

Those whose cultivation was insufficient would be sealed to death within the array.

"Not good!"

Seeing this situation, Yuan Shao's face also turned pale instantly. Originally, Huang Zhong and the others' arrival had already made him cold; he knew his plan would likely fail.

After all, the fierce generals of Xuzhou were all extremely powerful.

They were no weaker than the people he had brought.

Just now, his heart was filled with anger. If it hadn't been for the delay of those people from the Imperial Court, he could have arrived at Xuzhou faster, and perhaps Huang Zhong and the others wouldn't have been able to return in time.

But at this moment, he couldn't care about resenting those people; at present, he had to think about how to escape.

He knew that not only had his plan failed, but he had also fallen into the other party's ambush.

This array had been arranged by the other party in advance; the other party leaving the city was just to lure them out.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shao looked at Su Fan, his face revealing a bit of gray defeat. He had been defeated again.

However, he quickly recovered. Now, thinking of anything else was of no help; he had to think about how to escape this great array.

"Kill!"

Taishi Ci and the others had already killed their way up, especially Sun Ce, who was the first to kill toward Yuan Shao.

His Sun family had been annihilated, leaving only a few brothers; this was all Yuan Shu's doing. Yuan Shu was dead, but it still didn't resolve the hatred in his heart. Yuan Shao was Yuan Shu's brother, and the Yuan clan had not yet been annihilated; only by annihilating the Yuan clan could he avenge the genocide of his family.

Before the great battle of Yuzhang, his father had secretly sent him and his younger brothers away, sending them to Xuzhou.

Over these years, in order to take revenge, he had also defected to Xuzhou, fighting south and north.

Because of hatred, he was full of motivation, and his cultivation was getting higher and higher.

Among the Xuzhou generals, there were two handfuls of experts at the Divine Treasury stage, but those at the late Divine Treasury stage, the ninth level of Gang Refining, were only four people, and he was one of them.

The other three were Huang Zhong, who was at the half-step Dharma Image stage, Zhao Yun, and Xu Chu, and he was the fourth, at the ninth level of Gang Refining.

Others like Dian Wei, Taishi Ci, and Chen Dao were only at the eighth level of Gang Refining.

The Little Bawang of Jiangdong unleashed his divine might; with one strike, he forced Yan Liang and Wen Chou to join forces to block his might.

"Get out of the way!"

With a long roar, Sun Ce's blood and Qi exploded, his essence and energy rising into the sky like wolf smoke, and the Bawang Spear in his hand turned into a man-eating fierce tiger.

Seeing Yan Liang and Wen Chou blocking his path, Sun Ce was furious, his eyes blood-red, as if he were a demon from hell.

Watching Yan Liang and Wen Chou block his path, Sun Ce was consumed by rage, his eyes blood-red, as if he were a demon from hell.

A Dharma Image phantom—this was about to break through to the half-step Dharma Image realm.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou looked at each other, both trembling in their hearts.

The two of them had strength at the eighth level of Gang Refining; joining forces, they could confront a peerless fierce general at the ninth level of Gang Refining.

But a half-step Dharma Image was another realm entirely.

"Eh! I didn't expect that among these people, Sun Ce would be the first to break through."

Sun Ce's change was clearly seen by everyone in the array. They understood that Sun Ce was about to make a breakthrough.

Once he really broke through, he would be another Huang Zhong, and Sun Ce's age was much younger than Huang Zhong's; in terms of potential, he was likely even stronger.

In the future, breaking through to the Dharma Image stage might be even easier.

"Damn it! Why is this little brat of the Gao clan so lucky?"

Yuan Shao also saw it, his hands clenched tightly; he didn't even feel his flesh being cut by his nails.

He didn't understand why he, a dignified disciple of the Yuan clan, had only a few cats and kittens under his command, while this little brat of the Gao clan frequently had peerless fierce generals appearing.

Sun Ce was originally a member of the Sun family, but he became an enemy of the Yuan family, viewing the Yuan clan as a mortal enemy.

"Haha! I didn't expect Bofu to be the first among us to break through."

Taishi Ci didn't know if he had a fated entanglement with Sun Ce. After Sun Ce arrived in Xuzhou, he was the first to make friends with him, and then the relationship between the two warmed up rapidly.

In Xuzhou, Sun Ce's best friend was him.

So at this moment, seeing Sun Ce's change, a smile also appeared on his face.

Su Fan's side had generals smiling, while Yuan Shao's side had faces that looked increasingly ugly.

Lv Bu was blocked by Huang Zhong, and the two fought fiercely. However, there was a great array here, plus the blessing of the military Qi evolved from the ten thousand-strong army behind him.

Huang Zhong's aura was getting stronger and stronger, vaguely having broken through the limit of the Dharma Image.

Gradually, Lv Bu had fallen into a disadvantage.

With the blessing of military Qi, a general's personal strength would be enhanced; this was also the reason why some generals, even if their personal cultivation was not high, could still block peerless fierce generals. ===== CHAPTER 281 =====

With the blessing of military Qi, a general's personal strength is enhanced; this is why some generals, even if their personal cultivation is not high, can still hold their own against peerless, fierce warriors.