Chapter 646

Supervisor... hah, a eunuch, acting as a supervisor!

Wu Tie stood on the deck of the Four Spirits warship, which hovered in the extreme heights of the void, with thick clouds below. The cold wind swirled the dense clouds, making them look like rolling sea waves at first glance, an awe‑inspiring sight.

Wu Tie sneered; he never imagined he would get involved in such a situation.

The eunuch who was about to slap Wu Tie on first meeting turned out to be the supervisor sent by Linghu Qingqing… and the reason for sending a supervisor was that Wu Tie's counter‑attack speed was too slow.

Linghu Qingqing sternly rebuked Wu Tie in the imperial edict, accusing him of fighting half‑heartedly and refusing to devote himself to the country.

Therefore, the eunuch named Yin Jiu was appointed by Linghu Qingqing as supervisor, tasked specifically with overseeing Wu Tie's subsequent combat operations.

After Yin Jiu took a kick from Wu Tie, Wu Tie didn't know whether he harbored any malicious thoughts, but on the surface he certainly displayed a respectful and obedient demeanor.

Yin Jiu furthermore kindly informed Wu Tie that something had happened in the imperial capital a few days earlier.

Linghu Qingqing suddenly ordered the execution of thousands of personal guards, eunuchs, and palace maids; among those serving on the scene, only the noble consort Yin Yu'er survived.

Yin Jiu nervously told Wu Tie that Linghu Qingqing had suddenly resorted to slaughter, which was definitely related to Wu Tie's lackluster combat performance. Therefore, Yin Jiu warned Wu Tie that if he didn't want to keep provoking Linghu Qingqing, he should quickly mobilize his forces and launch a counter‑offensive on the Three Kingdoms battlefield.

In a roundabout way, Yin Jiu revealed the true reason for Linghu Qingqing's anger.

"Not enough killing…" Wu Tie said with his hands behind his back, the wild wind tossing his long hair, his blood‑red great cloak stretched straight behind him, fluttering in the gust and making a continual "hualala" sound.

"Killing… is far too little…" Wu Tie lifted his head, his forehead's spiritual eye suddenly opened, a streak of seven‑colored spiritual light shot up to the heavens. Straining his sight, the seven‑colored divine light pierced layer after layer of thick clouds, broke through successive aurora gales, shattered the floating ice‑crystal barriers in the void, and revealed several disc‑shaped devices above.

Each could be hundreds of miles in diameter, suspended high beneath the utmost heavens; the wholly black disc‑shaped magical artifact flickered with a chilling, gloomy light, rotating extremely slowly.

In Wu Tie's field of view there were nine such black cauldrons, hovering in the air and slowly turning. On the jet‑black surface of the artifact, countless fine streams of yin light flowed, and faintly one could see rings of tiny vortex‑like profound runes rapidly spinning, constantly appearing and disappearing across the surface.

Wu Tie stared fixedly at those few disc‑shaped artifacts, silent for a moment, then his forehead eye snapped shut.

"Killing… is still too little…" Wu Tie lowered his gaze toward the earth below.

Even the thick black clouds could not block his sight; he needed no almighty forehead eye—just a pair of ordinary eyes. At this moment Wu Tie's cultivation was formidable and his Dao profound; a single glance could pierce mountains and peer into the Nine Underworlds.

Clouds several li thick seemed nonexistent to him as his gaze swept across the Three Kingdoms battlefield ahead.

Snow flew everywhere, swirling down. To the west of Bai Lang Chuan, in the Three Kingdoms battlefield, military cities glowed with lights. Some cities were still under the control of the Qing Qiu divine nation's great army, while large numbers of the allied forces of the two nations were besieging them.

Meanwhile, some military cities had already been breached by the allied forces; all their defensive facilities were utterly destroyed, and detachments of troops from the states of Dai Wei and Dai Wu were patrolling the surroundings.

"Sometimes there are things that clearly shouldn't be done… yet sometimes, even knowing they will bring bad results, one must still do them. You all said I wasn't killing enough—so, do you want quantity or quality?"

Wu Tie gave a grim, crooked grin.

He stepped off the Four Spirits warship, transforming into a piercing rainbow that tore through the clouds, like a meteor falling from the sky, and rushed at high speed into the Three Kingdoms battlefield.

His entire body radiated an intense, blinding flame that no one could stare at directly, bringing terrifying heat; snowflakes within a radius of several dozen li vaporized instantly in his wake, leaving behind a massive white scar several dozen li wide.

Wu Tie's awe‑inspiring sweep past city after city startled countless soldiers of Dai Wei and Dai Wu within.

Cries of "Enemy attack!" echoed from all directions, as scarlet signal flares shot skyward and exploded in bursts of huge firelight in the heavens.

On beacon towers, the stationed troops of the two nations lit bonfires and raised wolf smoke; moreover, countless urgent military talismans flew wildly across the sky, while innumerable officers of the two nations who witnessed Wu Tie's rapid flight relayed what they saw and heard as quickly as possible.

"One person!"

"Single!"

"Extremely fast!"

"Lone warrior charging into battle!"

Wu Tie had already become a demi‑god; the innate and acquired patterns of the Five Elements Great Dao had fully merged into his body. He used Five‑Element power to drive his evasion light, and also employed the supreme "Vertical Earth Golden Light Method" within that evasion light, making his speed indescribably swift.

In the snap of a finger he could traverse hundreds of miles; Wu Tie raced westward from Bai Lang Chuan, flying at full speed for a full quarter hour before a fleet of over a hundred warships appeared ahead, lined up in a single row across the sky, blocking his path.

"Who goes there? Who gave you the gall to defy heaven?" a great general of Dai Wei roared loudly from a flagship seven hundred zhang long.

Wu Tie didn't pause for a moment; he opened his forehead eye again, and over a hundred fist‑sized Five‑Element divine thunderbolts, accompanied by deafening roars, burst forth from his eye.

Just that one strike nearly drained Wu Tie's mana, as the hundred‑plus Five‑Element divine thunderbolts consumed almost all of his power.

You should know that Wu Tie cultivates the "Primordial Scripture"; whether it's the life‑pool he opened earlier or the divine fetus he later condensed, both are thousands to tens of thousands of times larger than an ordinary person's, and his mana—both quantity and quality—is likewise thousands to tens of thousands of times greater.

Those hundred‑plus Five‑Element divine thunderbolts almost exhausted his mana; one can imagine the tremendous power of that strike.

Each Five‑Element divine thunderbolt dragged a tail of intense light several dozen li long, like arrows loosed by an enraged heaven, and heavily struck each warship in turn.

These warships had activated their defensive formations; each was equivalent to a small fortress, capable of withstanding the frantic bombardment of dozens of Tai‑cang realm commanders, and able to endure such attack intensity for at least half an hour.

Each warship was enveloped in a glow several zhang thick; the formation barrier was crystal‑clear, like a delicately carved crystal eggshell, tightly enclosing the warship.

However, when faced with Wu Tie's all‑out Five‑Element divine thunderbolts, the formation barriers of over a hundred warships shattered in a single blow.

It was as if an angry heaven thrust a steel spear hard into a thin eggshell; the warships' formation barriers offered no protection, were instantly pierced, and the Five‑Element divine thunderbolts struck the warships' hulls directly.

Again, a single strike broke them.

These giant warships, several hundred zhang long, had hull plating over a zhang thick and countless runic seals inside, giving them astonishing defensive power.

Against Wu Tie's Five‑Element divine thunderbolts, the thick hull plating was instantly pierced; the thunderbolts tore through layer after layer of heavy bulkheads inside the hull, ultimately punching clean through the entire bodies of these large warships.

Without exploding, the Five‑Element divine thunderbolts simply punched through over a hundred warships, emerging from each stern as a head‑sized hole, then pierced the still‑collapsing formation barrier once more before flying far away.

The Five‑Element divine light's speed exceeded Wu Tie's evasion light by more than tenfold; in an instant it reached several thousand li per second, causing the hundred‑plus Five‑Element divine thunderbolts to vanish from sight in a flash.

After a single breath, on the far‑distant horizon, over a hundred thin pillars of fire shot up into the sky, and clusters of black‑red murky mushroom clouds bloomed aloft. Dozens of mountains tens of thousands of zhang high were reduced to ash and smoke, leaving on the ground only a perfect arc of over a hundred circular pits, each hundreds of li in diameter and tens of li deep.

One military city that had been conquered by the Great Wu divine nation's army was unfortunately struck by Wu Tie's Five‑Element divine thunderbolt; the entire city was instantly erased from the ground, and everything inside—including the tens of thousands of Great Wu troops stationed there to rest—was reduced to ash and smoke in that instant.

In the high skies, powerful soul fluctuations roared with extreme excitement.

"Exactly, this is how it should be… this mortal named Huo Xiong has finally opened his apertures. So, slaughter, slaughter— the more killing the better…"

"Yes, that's right; he has gained the special privilege to cultivate the forbidden art 'Nine Turns Mysterious Skill,' making him the blade we will use for harvesting… I disliked his former tactics, but I love his current violent, crude self!"

Over a hundred large warships shuddered violently in the air; the Five‑Element divine thunderbolts pierced their hulls and also tore through their vital power furnaces, destroying countless major and minor formation hubs.

The warships began to spew flames and thick smoke outward, while dull explosions sounded from within their hulls.

Then large crowds of soldiers stumbled out of the ship's cabins, discarding weapons and armor, fleeing at top speed from the warships that were about to explode.

Wu Tie kicked up a gale, his whole body radiating an intense, blinding flame, and in an instant he flashed past those exploding warships.

Several dozen heavily armored generals attempted to stop him with divine secret arts, but Wu Tie merely flicked his right‑hand divine whip, shattering the armor of dozens into pieces; each suffered broken bones and torn tendons, spitting blood as they crashed down from the sky.

"Anyone who stands in my way will die!" Wu Tie screamed, a long, piercing wail like a dragon's roar that shook the void, sending thick snow rumbling down the mountains for hundreds of miles around and triggering hundreds of massive avalanches.

"Impudent brat!" Wu Tie tore through the intercepting tiny fleet, having just flown forward over a thousand li, when a massive hand wreathed in blood-energy swung a hammer thousands of zhang wide, smashing down upon Wu Tie's head.

In midair, one could see a huge blood-red hand and such a huge heavy hammer.

The feeling was like a burly man hefting a large stone and heavily striking an ant on the ground.

Wu Tie abruptly halted his steps, his brow's law eye opening as a seven-colored divine light burst forth, heavily striking the pitch-black massive hammer.

The Five Elements Divine Thunder instantly drained all of Wu Tie's mana, yet in the short time he had flown forward over a thousand li, behind his Divine Fetus towering ten thousand zhang away, within the projection of the huge jade disc, three thousand large lotus leaves and eighty-four thousand small lotus leaves stirred simultaneously without wind.

In the void, immeasurable surging primal energy instantly poured into Wu Tie's Divine Fetus; his Divine Fetus, over ten thousand zhang away, merely took a deep breath and converted all that energy into his own mana.

In just a breath, Wu Tie's mana recovered to thirty percent.

The brow's law eye burned mana, shooting forth a straight beam of yin-yang five-elements divine light; with a hiss, that hammer, mighty as Mount Tai pressing down, was instantly burned through, leaving a hole several zhang across.

The heavy hammer fell, only a muffled tearing-of-air sound heard as it crashed into the ground.

The ground within a radius of several hundred li violently undulated, solid strata rippling like water waves, mountains collapsing, rock layers shattering, the earth being forcibly gouged out a depression over two hundred li in diameter.

Yet Wu Tie remained suspended in midair, utterly still.

Upon close inspection, the huge hammer had been pierced by a large transparent hole burned by Wu Tie's brow's law eye emitting yin-yang five-elements divine light, his body passing cleanly through it, utterly unharmed by the hammer's attack.

A cold light flickered, the great hammer swayed on the ground and turned into a wisp of cold light that dissipated.

"You came too late." Wu Tie hovered in midair, coldly eyeing the burly old man gradually appearing ahead.

The old man's hair hung loose, he wore a set of black dragon-scale heavy armor, a long black cape draped behind him, his whole body wreathed in bloody aura, like a demon escaped from a flaming hell.

In his left hand he gripped a great hammer, its shape exactly the hammer that had just slammed down from the void.

Indeed, his hammer now bore a transparent hole… while blood steadily dripped from the old man's nostrils.

This hammer should be the old man's personally forged heavenly dao divine weapon, distilled from his own comprehended great dao laws, forged with countless rare resources into a divine armament. Such heavenly dao weapons are wielded at will, endlessly variable, suiting the tastes of some mighty experts more than ordinary innate spirit weapons that require countless essence blood and painstaking cultivation to nurture.

However, once such a heavenly dao weapon is damaged, its maker suffers grave injury as well.

Blood steadily dripped from the old man's nostrils as he glared at Wu Tie, gritting his teeth and asking: "You came too late? Hah, you mean you ambushed and captured that waste Wu Nu Lei? Humph, even if I were a few days late, what could you dare do to him?"

The old man roughly wiped his nose, baring his teeth in a grim smile: "Little thief, you have some skill—no wonder Wu Nu Lei also suffered at your hands… Hey, I had said I'd come tomorrow morning to discuss ransom terms with you, but I didn't expect you to come running to me now."

Shaking his head, the old man said in a low voice: "Having come, you need not leave—you seized Wu Nu Lei, I will capture you alive, heh heh, an exchange, perfect."

With a whoosh, two more figures materialized behind Wu Tie, equally burly, equally fierce and overbearing, just like the old man before him—both mighty beings of the Divine Manifestation Realm.

Wu Nu Lei, captured alive by Wu Tie, the Great Martial God State immediately dispatched three Divine Manifestation Realm mighty beings to rush over.

Wu Tie smirked, a flicker of Five Elements Divine Light behind him, and Xiahou Miao appeared in his hand.

Gripping the God-Beating Whip in his right hand and holding Xiahou Miao in his left, Wu Tie gestured the whip at Xiahou Miao's head, asking: "You say, how much is a Xiahou Miao worth?"

"How much is a deity of the Xiahou clan royal family worth?"