Chapter 245: Choice

"Step aside, and I can spare your life!"

Standing before these hundreds of cavalrymen, that person seemed unwilling to waste much time on them; they were merely a group of ants, not even qualified to die by his hand.

"How truly pathetic. They only let a lowly military officer like you stand here; this is sending you to your death!"

"They thought I would be provoked, but they guessed wrong. I, He Mujin, will not waste energy on ants!"

He prepared to leave in a leisurely manner from the side, his words carrying a hint of mockery.

The cavalrymen before him were merely cannon fodder pushed out by others, used to restrain and consume a portion of his energy, and incidentally, to test his bottom line.

Later, he still had a tough battle to fight; there was no need to waste energy on these people.

Those people were only of this level—a group of cowards who feared death, only capable of sending others to die.

He had seen plenty of this: inciting others to charge to their deaths with impassioned words, while hiding in the back, singing and dancing, leisurely and carefree.

At the thought that his opponents were actually such a group of hypocrites, it was laughable that he had appeared so solemn; he had truly overestimated them.

But when He Mujin turned to leave, these hundreds of cavalrymen moved in unison, blocking the direction he intended to leave in.

Looking at the cavalry blocking his path, a hint of killing intent grew in He Mujin's originally playful eyes. He was just too lazy to act, not truly incapable of killing.

"Do you know, you have made me somewhat angry! I will say it one last time: step aside!"

"The Xiaoyun Guard has no tradition of retreating without a fight, and I, Mo Yu, also never retreat!"

The leading general rode his horse forward, sitting on the horse with a calm and resolute gaze, unmoving like a mountain, as if nothing could shake him in the slightest.

He was Mo Yu, the Main General of the Xiaoyun Guard, and the Left Guard General of the imperial court. Behind him were the people of the Northern Frontier, and before him were the enemies who had slaughtered countless people.

He would not retreat, and even more so, he could not retreat!

"A bit of courage, but do you know you will die?"

"I know, but I only seek death; what is there to fear!"

Silently drawing his sword, Mo Yu slashed forward fiercely, and at the same time, he spurred his horse into a gallop, charging at the very front.

"Xiaoyun Guard, kill!"

"Kill!" Hundreds of cavalrymen roared in unison, their horses' hooves rising and stomping heavily onto the grass. The earth trembled, and a thick aura of blood surged into the clouds, as if the entire sky had been inexplicably dyed red.

Hundreds of cavalrymen charged together, yet they seemed to unleash the momentum of ten thousand horses galloping, swarming forward like an unparalleled sharp sword with Mo Yu as the arrowhead.

"Heh, ants!" He blew a light breath at the cavalry whistling toward him from the opposite side. It was just a single breath, yet within ten miles, the vegetation was covered in a layer of frost, and the originally mild weather instantly entered the depths of winter.

Wherever the icy aura passed, everything that could move was frozen into ice sculptures, as if all life within ten miles had been severed by that light breath.

Yet the opposing cavalry continued their charge. Hundreds of cavalrymen were basically frozen stiff, but they continued to charge without even a groan.

Accompanied by the sound of hooves, their blood energy connected into one, barely resisting the instantly arriving chill. More of it was used to protect the horses beneath them, while they themselves used their physical bodies to endure it head-on.

Finally, they approached He Mujin, but there was not a trace of panic in the opponent's eyes, not even a hint of tension.

"Boom!" In the blink of an eye, the two collided. The hundreds of cavalrymen seemed to crash into an indestructible city wall in an instant.

Before He Mujin, there seemed to be an invisible but rock-solid barrier blocking the way, and no matter how many cavalrymen threw themselves forward one after another, it was to no avail.

The leading cavalrymen were crushed into pulp under the full-speed charge, yet those behind continued to charge forward bravely, completely unaware of what fear or panic was.

They had no sorrow, nor did they stop, continuing to charge forward without pause, as if they were a group of true killing machines.

The people in front died, and those behind felt increasingly stronger.

He Mujin realized it: this was integrating an Array into a Military Formation. When the people in front died, their blood energy could be added to those behind, which was why those behind became stronger and stronger.

And the people in front acted as if they were mad; knowing they would surely die, not one retreated, but instead seemed as if they were impatient to crash into him.

They were not seeking battle; they were seeking death.

Only when the people in front died could the people behind become stronger and have a possibility of surviving.

What a fine army of tigers and wolves, but unfortunately, mortal bodies are mortal bodies after all; human strength always has its limits!

"Kill!" The leading Mo Yu held a spear in one hand and a sword in the other, leading the dwindling number of cavalrymen to continue charging back and forth frantically.

Once, twice; there were fewer and fewer people around him, but they were also becoming stronger and stronger.

Finally, only a dozen riders remained by his side, and the thick blood energy almost coalesced into form, crashing fiercely toward the opponent like an indestructible blood-colored spear.

In He Mujin's surprised eyes, the blood-colored spear actually pierced through his outermost layer of seemingly indestructible defense.

In this final collision, the entire cavalry troop was reduced to only Mo Yu himself, who also fell from his horse; all the others died in that final charge.

"You were actually able to break my defense. Interesting, truly interesting!" A flash of killing intent crossed his eyes; he had not been this angry in a long time.

A terrifying aura of pressure descended like a ten-thousand-foot-high mountain; he wanted to crush the person before him who dared to provoke his majesty into meat paste.

But at this moment, Mo Yu struggled to crawl up from the ground. At this time, he was slightly bloated; the essence of hundreds of cavalrymen had all returned to his own body, and with the body of a Grandmaster Realm, he seemed to have melted infinite realms into one.

Facing that terrifying pressure, even though blood began to flow from his seven orifices, Mo Yu remained expressionless. Struggling, he walked toward this side step by step.

One step taken, the original Grandmaster Realm aura directly changed and transformed into Transcendence; two more steps taken, and he had already entered True Soul.

Three steps, four steps; by the end, even He Mujin could not help but change his expression slightly. This was definitely not just the power of a Military Formation!

The person opposite was clearly flesh and blood, with bones shattered under his own aura pressure, yet he was still walking forward. Was this person a madman!

Just like that, he walked step by step to his front. With the two of them only inches apart, Mo Yu suddenly bared his teeth and smiled at him.

"You just said that they left a lowly military officer like me here to send me to my death. Actually, that's not true; the reason I am here is because I requested it myself."

"Even they thought that my volunteering to stop you was a pipe dream, but I wanted to try!"

"Because for this battle, I do not seek to live, I only seek to die!" With He Mujin only inches away, Mo Yu's hair was disheveled, his face was covered in blood and filth, and of his armor, only a few iron plates remained hanging on his body.

He inserted his spearhead into his own flesh, wedging it between his bones, to force himself not to fall.

"The Xiaoyun Guard was actually cultivated with Secret Medicine. Their lives had already reached their twilight; they should have been brilliant, yet they withered in their prime. It is my Mo Family that has failed them!"

"It is their lives that dyed my, Mo Yu's, official rank red!"

Raising his head, Mo Yu revealed a smile that was not quite a smile. "At the final moment of their lives, I hope the Xiaoyun Guard can die on the path of the charge. This is their pride, and also their glory!"

"The Xiaoyun Guard lives and dies together. Since my brothers have already died, how could I live alone!"

"Main General of the Xiaoyun Guard, Left Guard General Mo Yu, specifically comes to seek death!"

Mad laughter rang out across the wilderness, and with Mo Yu as the center, a terrifying power suddenly erupted. Wherever it passed, vegetation withered and turned yellow, and beyond the nine heavens, dark clouds gathered, with bolts of lightning seemingly plunging the surrounding World into the end of days in an instant.

This suddenly erupted, terrifying power made even him feel waves of heart palpitations.

So it turns out that a mortal body can also shake the heavens and move the earth; it is truly inconceivable!