Chapter 652

The Qin clan's primordial ancestor fell.

The three Great Wei Divine Realm primordial ancestors howled hysterically and rushed over at full speed.

A primordial ancestor of the Jiang clan, from the Great Wei's top aristocracy, waved his right hand, and a vajra bracelet over a foot in diameter, pure white and gleaming, flew up into the air and instantly appeared above Wu Tie and the others.

The vajra bracelet sprayed out a bone‑chilling light, covering the void within a hundred‑li radius.

Wu Tie immediately felt his body weigh down immensely, as if dozens of great mountains pressed upon him, making every movement extremely difficult, even breathing became exceedingly hard.

Moreover, not far from the battlefield where Wu Tie, Zhao Xiang, Xiang Feiyu, and Xiang Feixie had just slain the Qin clan's primordial ancestor—only twenty li away—when the chilling light fell, a flash of light appeared at the mountainside twenty li out, revealing a stalwart old man clad in light armor and wielding a great bow.

This old man came from the Li clan, the top military gate of the Qingqiu Divine Kingdom.

The Li clan's military gate is famed for archery; their ancestral Stone Ridge Manual is the supreme archery way. Moreover, the Li clan's military gate has a tradition: throughout the generations, whoever is strongest in archery, not necessarily the highest cultivator, automatically inherits the name 'Li Guang'.

The Li clan primordial ancestor before us is already who‑knows‑how‑many generations of Li Guang.

"Old fogey Shangguan, your broken bracelet is still as annoying as ever." Li Guang clung to his great bow, trudging step by step, each step leaving a clear, semi‑transparent footprint in the void, inching closer to Wu Tie and the others.

"One day I will shoot three hundred sixty transparent holes through you and shatter your broken bracelet." Li Guang snarled through gritted teeth.

The Li clan's archery is extremely strong, but archery also splits into several kinds.

Due to differences in temperament and insight, the Li clan's successive Li Guang have cultivated archery that is overbearing and brutal—an arrow shot flies like a meteor striking the ground, instantly causing a thousand li to fall.

Others cultivate an archery that is unpredictable and inscrutable; when they shoot an arrow, you often do not know who the target is or where the arrow is, and only after you are struck do you realize that the target was you all along.

This generation's Li Guang practices the assassin's arrow; his evasion technique is marvelous—swift beyond compare and extraordinarily adept at hiding his tracks, and his arrows fly as fast as lightning, malicious and sneaky. Before he attained Divine Realm status, this Li Guang's covert arrows had slain no fewer than a hundred thousand enemy commanders on the battlefield.

Only this Shangguan primordial ancestor of the Great Wei Divine Kingdom, whose refined Grand Void Bracelet is Li Guang's nemesis.

The Grand Void Bracelet can stabilize earth, water, fire, and wind; it can seal heavenly and earthly primordial energy; moreover, it can break nearly all concealment and evasion techniques.

After Li Guang attained the Divine Realm, he eagerly rushed to the Three Kingdoms battlefield, hoping to hunt down a few strong opponents to test his archery… The result was that, in his first battle after reaching the Divine Realm, Shangguan primordial ancestor's Grand Void Bracelet saw through his movements, fixed his form, and the three Great Wei Divine Realm primordial ancestors unleashed a barrage of blows that nearly beat Li Guang to death.

Thus, whenever he saw the Grand Void Bracelet or Shangguan primordial ancestor, Li Guang would subconsciously feel uneasy and subconsciously move closer to Wu Tie and the others.

"Shameless!" the Shangguan primordial ancestor opposite them shouted hoarsely, pointing at Li Guang: "You Great Jin… no, you Qingqiu Divine Kingdom youngsters, how can you be increasingly shameless? Joining forces to besiege old Qin is bad enough, but Li Guang… you actually, you actually…"

Li Guang flung his head back violently and loudly cursed: "Shangguan old thief, do you have the nerve to speak of me? Back then, I was besieged by the three of you, old fogeys whose combined age exceeds mine by more than a hundred thousand years… If I hadn't run fast…"

The Shangguan primordial ancestor's roar cut off Li Guang's cursing: "Alas, alas, back then, why couldn't I slap you to death, you little bastard?"

Indeed, infuriated to the extreme, the Shangguan primordial ancestor also spat out insults without restraint, launching directly into a tirade.

At present, the situation is that Wu Tie's side has four Divine Realm beings, plus Wu Tie himself, a half-step Divine Realm freak possessing Divine Realm–level combat power. However, in the Three Kingdoms' division of the Divine Realm, Zhao Xiang, Xiang Feiyu, Xiang Feixie, and Li Guang—these four—belong to the junior generation of the Divine Realm.

The oldest is Zhao Xiang, who attained the Divine Realm only forty‑three thousand years ago.

Meanwhile, the three Divine Realm primordial ancestors charging from ahead—Shangguan and the others—are fewer in number, but each of them attained the Divine Realm at least sixty thousand years ago, making them veteran elders.

Upon reaching the Divine Realm, it is all painstaking effort—arduously refining the divine body and accumulating divine power. Setting aside resources and aptitude, in the Three Kingdoms, anyone who can enter the Divine Realm finds that resources and aptitude are absolutely not an issue.

Thus, what determines the strength of a Divine Realm being is the length of their cultivation.

Basically, a Divine Realm cultivator with twenty thousand years of practice is definitely stronger than one with ten thousand years; a veteran with thirty thousand years will surely defeat a twenty‑thousand‑year junior; and a Divine Realm cultivator with sixty thousand years of practice, when facing Xiang Feiyu and the other three, has the strength to take on two or even three of them single‑handedly.

All things considered, the overall combat power of Shangguan primordial ancestor's side still holds a certain advantage.

Besides the already fallen Cao and Qin clan primordial ancestors, apart from the three Shangguan primordial ancestors present here, the Great Wei also has seven Divine Realm primordial ancestors such as Xiahóu Zheng rushing over at high speed.

As long as the Shangguan primordial ancestors merely restrain Wu Tie and company for a short while, preventing them from fleeing too quickly, then when Xiahóu Zheng and the others arrive to encircle, they have full confidence that they can at least keep two or three of Zhao Xiang, Xiang Feiyu, and the like.

Thus, everyone's losses will be roughly comparable.

The reaction of Wu Tie and company also gave the Shangguan primordial ancestors sufficient confidence.

Wu Tie and the others turned around, and, under the Grand Void Bracelet's seal, they moved bit by bit, slowly fleeing in the direction opposite the Shangguan primordial ancestors.

But the Grand Void Bracelet is truly a marvelous supreme treasure; it is said that when Shangguan primordial ancestor refined the Grand Void Bracelet, he melted into it an innate spiritual treasure he had obtained, the Grand Void Vine. Thus, although the Grand Void Bracelet is a heavenly divine weapon refined by Shangguan primordial ancestor, it is actually a precious treasure of innate spiritual treasure–level.

If it weren't for the Grand Void Bracelet's limited direct killing power, it would actually qualify to be listed among the Great Wei's state‑protecting divine artifacts.

This shows how mighty the Grand Void Bracelet's power is.

Wu Tie and the other four, under the Grand Void Bracelet's shroud, truly exerted even the strength to suckle; even so, Wu Tie and Li Guang, whose evasion techniques are the finest, managed only a speed slightly greater than that of an ordinary warship.

Meanwhile, the three Shangguan primordial ancestors moved as fast as lightning, catching up behind Wu Tie and company in the span of a few sentences.

A white‑bearded old man wearing a crane‑feather robe and holding a horsetail whisk rose into the air, bringing the whisk down heavily.

The white horsetail whisk coiled upward, transforming into a giant dragon ten thousand zhang long that slammed fiercely into the back of Xiang Feiyu, the slowest to flee.

Poor these warmongering brutes of the Xiang clan—they have no talent for evasion techniques whatsoever; the Xiang Feiyu and Xiang Feixie brothers ran the slowest, falling to the rear. When the whisk struck, a tremendous boom rang out, and Xiang Feiyu's rear‑heart armor instantly burst with ten thousand points of firelight, shattering from a single blow.

Xiang Feiyu grunted; the muscles behind him, several times thicker than an ordinary person's, strangely caved in, and then, instinctively, they writhed violently like a vortex, dissipating most of the immense force stored in the whisk.

He let out a mighty roar, his body swelling to a height of thousands of zhang, and with a backhanded axe he swung at the white‑bearded old man: "Old fogey Xu, are you also here to take advantage?"

The mighty ones of Great Wei cultivate many methods.

After all, scholars are charming, scholars are charming—don't expect those suave, debonair scholars to wield a pig‑killing knife and fight you in close quarters.

Hearing Xiang Feiyu's angry curses, the Xu clan primordial ancestor smiled faintly, letting his horsetail whisk fly free, transforming into a white dragon that wildly struck and slashed at Xiang Feiyu from head to toe. He himself formed seals, and suddenly a thousand‑li‑long expanse of azure waves appeared in the void.

Water threads shot up into the sky, swiftly coiling and winding into beads the size of a human head, and then faint azure‑blue lightning flickered faintly from within those water beads.

"Gui Water Divine Thunder." Xiang Feixie halted his steps and shouted: "Old fogey Xu, you're formidable… but stop, give it your all—at the very least we must seriously injure one of these three old fogeys, or how can we escape?"

Xiang Feixie stood beside Xiang Feiyu, the two brothers shoulder to shoulder.

After all, they are brothers of the same lineage; Xiang Feixie could not stand by and watch his own brother be ganged up on by the enemy.

The Grand Void Bracelet hovered in the void; Wu Tie let out a long sigh, turned, stepped on a wisp of floating cloud, and stood behind the Xiang brothers: "General Xiang is right—we must seriously injure or take down one of them… Let the two Xiang generals each hold off two opponents, while we three gang up on one."

Wu Tie's assignment was spot on; Xiang Feiyu and Xiang Feixie both roared loudly, transforming into two Blood Lights that surged toward Shangguan primordial ancestor and Xu clan primordial ancestor.

Shangguan primordial ancestor gave a cold snort; his body flickered unpredictably in the air, and with the aid of the Grand Void Bracelet his speed exceeded Xiang Feiyu's by more than a hundred times—he merely swayed left and right lightly, making it impossible for Xiang Feiyu to lay a hand on him.

From Shangguan primordial ancestor's sleeve flew a jade sword over two feet long, uttering a faint dragon's roar as it repeatedly chopped down at the slow‑moving Xiang Feiyu; each strike caused an illusory great river stretching ten thousand li to burst forth within the sword, capable of sending Xiang Feiyu tumbling head over heels.

This jade sword wasn't particularly sharp, but its force was heavy and yin‑soft, penetrating straight to the viscera; even with Xiang Feiyu's formidable divine body, just a couple of hits left blood at the corner of his mouth.

The Grand Void Bracelet also sealed Xiang Feixie; Xiang Feiyu roared loudly as he charged at Xu clan primordial ancestor, but his speed was likewise slow.

Xu clan primordial ancestor drifted leisurely, just like Shangguan primordial ancestor, stepping on floating clouds and swaying left and right in the air; Gui Water Divine Thunder struck Xiang Feixie's body silently and silently, its yin‑soft force heavy as a mountain, incessantly bombarding Xiang Feiyu's limbs and bones.

After dozens of thunderclaps, even though Xiang Feixie's divine body was immensely tough, he still had a dozen or so bones broken, and his movements grew ever slower.

Wu Tie, Zhao Xiang, and Li Guang rushed toward the last Divine Ancestor.

He was the ancestor of the Mohist clan, a top-tier aristocratic family of the Great Wei, and within the Great Wei the Mohists were renowned as the foremost in engineering.

The so-called engineering, Wu Tie and the others quickly got a taste of it. His burly frame, palms several times larger than an ordinary person's, arms and thighs unusually thick like a veteran craftsman, yet the Mohist Ancestor, dressed similarly as a scholar, flipped his sleeves and countless ancient copper-colored bricks flew out.

"Ding-ding, clang-clang, thud-thud," these bricks whistled and swirled, rapidly forming a small city spanning several li beneath the Mohist Ancestor.

The Mohist Ancestor stood calmly atop the highest command platform in the city, and countless strange parts—gears, chains, plates, and the like—kept flying from his sleeves, instantly assembling a thousand genuine bronze-armored war puppets around him.

The bronze-armored war puppets all possessed peak Embryonic Storage cultivation; they formed a battle array, their bodies crackling with electricity, and the strength of the thousand bronze-armored war puppets became one through a strange battle formation.

Wu Tie couldn't help but sigh in awe.

As far as he knew, before the Great Iron stationed in the Qingqiu Divine Kingdom's Ancient Arms Bureau, the colossal divine soldiers forged by the Three Kingdoms could not form battle arrays; all such soldiers made by the Ancient Arms Bureau could only fight alone, unable to array against the enemy.

Yet the Mohist Ancestor somehow managed to make these puppets form an array.

Such methods could be called heavenly.

After the thousand bronze-armored war puppets appeared, the Mohist Ancestor quickly assembled thirty-six silver-armored war puppets.

The aura of these silver-armored war puppets gave one a headache; they were actually at the half-step Divine Realm level, their aura extremely sharp.

At that moment, Wu Tie and the others were still dozens of li from the Mohist Ancestor; the Mohist Ancestor sneered contemptuously, golden light flashing from his sleeve as countless strange parts snapped together, forming three gold-armored war puppets whose aura rivaled that of a Divine Realm being.

Wu Tie, Zhao Xiang, and Li Guang halted their steps simultaneously.

The aura of the thousand peak Embryonic Storage bronze-armored war puppets, after forming their array, was enough to contend with a Divine being.

After the thirty-six silver-armored war puppets formed their array, their aura faintly surpassed even the weakest of the four Qingqiu Divine Kingdom Divinities present, Xiang Feixie.

Although those three gold-armored war puppets had limited means and could not employ any divine abilities, judging from their aura, in close combat any one of them could withstand an attack from Xiang Feiyu.

The Mohist Ancestor alone, with the power he currently displayed, was comparable to six Divine beings!

Zhao Xiang quickly glanced at Wu Tie.

Wu Tie understood his meaning: should we summon those hidden Divine Ancestors we've been keeping and first wipe out the people before us?

Wu Tie blinked hard and firmly told Zhao Xiang—it's not yet the best moment; hold on, hold on, hold on a little longer.

Gritting his teeth, Wu Tie shouted hoarsely: "General Zhao, General Li… if we don't go all out, we won't make it… I, the king, will block these broken copper and iron; you just go all out, whether killing or wounding, you must make this old ghost lose his combat ability."

Wu Tie both shouted that and acted accordingly.

He shouted hoarsely, swung his right-hand Divine Whip forward, and a shower of purple-gold light fell from the sky, quickly locking onto the thousand bronze-armored war puppets, causing their movements to suddenly slow.

Behind Wu Tie, the Five Elements Divine Light surged forth, tens of thousands of zhang in length filling heaven and earth; as he swept it downward, the thirty-six silver-armored war puppets instantly stiffened and could no longer move.

Wu Tie himself, however, curled his body and charged toward the three gold-armored war puppets.

Zhao Xiang and Li Guang suddenly widened their eyes, glanced at each other, let out a simultaneous roar, and charged toward the Mohist Ancestor.

The Mohist Ancestor stared in shock at Wu Tie, then cracked a grin: "Old man, today I finally understand what it means to be a desperate dog jumping over a wall."