Chapter 371: Su Cheng's Seven Strongholds: A Well-Matched Fight

Patter!

A frost flower descended from the sky, landing beside the feet of a passerby.

He gasped, and the airflow exiting his mouth instantly froze into a large mass of white mist, which fell to the ground with a crackle.

Looking around the street, the roof tiles, wall bricks, and the ground were all stark white; how had it suddenly become the dead of winter?

The solar terms were all wrong!

"Monsters!"

The shadow of the Zang, which had slaughtered the residents so wantonly, had descended once again.

The residents within Gongliang City, all survivors of the recent catastrophe, erupted in panic at the sight and fled for their lives.

In the blink of an eye, the pedestrians on the road had scattered, leaving behind shoes, overturned stalls, and the like strewn all over the ground.

Kunpengzi did not blink, his gaze fixed on the tips of Zhou You's fingers, "Fist techniques with elemental attributes."

He then shook his head in disdain, "Flashy nonsense, useless."

He clenched his fist and said to Zhou You, "Let me tell you what true power is—it is the strength of absolute crushing force!"

"You, a schemer hiding in the dark, afraid to show your face—do you even understand what power is?"

Zhou You mocked.

"Listen closely as I explain."

Kunpengzi held up a finger, listing them one by one.

"Outside the city, Captain Chen Lie has gathered troops to reclaim Gongliang City, with five thousand elite soldiers under his command, aided by the Fucheng GateGuard and Wanxiu Mountain."

"He has his adopted son Chen Yang and the Gongliang remnant Zheng Qing lead the main army to attack the city; these two are the standouts among the young generation of martial masters."

"Hmm, if he could find that young martial master Zhou You who broke through during the battle, his chances would be even greater."

Hearing his own name mentioned, Zhou You was slightly startled; could it be that he had actually become so significant?

Chen Yang was the successor cultivated by Commander Chen, and Zheng Qing was the backbone of the Gongliang City GateGuard, second only to the Captain.

He was then somewhat surprised that Zheng Qing had not died; it was truly a stroke of luck that he had survived when the entire City Gate Guard had been wiped out.

"The Captains under Chen Lie, all at the martial master level, are participating in the siege."

"As for him, he will join forces with Yu Jiuzhang of the Fucheng GateGuard and the Xishan Lone Peak of Wanxiu Mountain to push into Gongliang City and behead the rebel leadership—that is to say, me."

Kunpengzi pointed at himself and chuckled, "When two armies clash, the stronger side wins."

As his voice fell, the sounds of killing erupted outside Gongliang City—the siege had begun! The city, having just experienced a catastrophe, was once again plunged into war as countless rebel soldiers scrambled up the city walls and rushed out the gates to engage the sudden enemy.

Unlike last time, the identities of the attackers and defenders had shifted dramatically; the attackers had become the defenders.

Thud! A corpse was thrown from the direction of the city wall, its face unrecognizable and its body a blurred mass upon hitting the ground.

Blood and mud splattered onto Kunpengzi's shoes, but he didn't even blink, "It has begun!"

Outside the city...

Chen Yang swung his Nine Ox Saber, severing the head of a rebel martial master; the spraying blood droplets pierced the bodies of the surrounding rebels, who fell one after another with wails.

His expression was cold, showing not a hint of emotional fluctuation, "RushToFightTheBullAndHitTheHeavenlyPillar."

Amidst his loud shout, a powerful gale swept up over a hundred rebels, transforming into an invisible wind pillar that slammed into the nearby city gate.

After a succession of countless blood blossoms, the wooden gate finally could not hold, loosening to reveal a gap.

"It's broken, the city gate is broken."

The elite soldiers under his command swarmed in, using blades and spears to pry the gap open, pouring into the city like a flood.

On the other side...

Zheng Qing stood atop the city wall, and any rebel who approached was slain by the blood-energy divine weapon in his hand.

Suddenly, a gust of wind rolled by, and a martial master vaulted up onto the wall, "State your name."

"City GateGuard Zheng Qing."

As Zheng Qing announced his name, his arms vibrated, and a large mass of blinding black light erupted from his body, "General Unloading Armor Great Cloak."

Killing intent condensed and rapidly compressed into blocks, instantly transforming into a majestic set of general's armor. As his arms vibrated, this armor exploded into countless pieces, bombarding this section of the wall like rain hitting banana leaves, and in an instant, hundreds of rebels fell dead, splattered in blood.

He looked at the empty battlefield, the hatred in his eyes undiminished, "Kill!"

Zhou You withdrew his gaze from the battlefield; he had seen even more brutal battlefields, so he remained unmoved.

He looked at Kunpengzi, "What is your contingency plan?"

The enemy's siege was urgent, and it looked like they were about to break into the city; if he didn't act now, it would be over.

"Don't be impatient, let's watch a bit longer."

Kunpengzi said softly, "Can schemes and tricks without the support of strength still be effective?"

On the battlefield, over a dozen powerful blood-energy signatures suddenly emerged, all of them without exception at the martial master level.

"The SuchengSevenStrongholdsAlliance is here to learn the strength of Commander Chen's army."

One by one, the fierce bandit leaders, wielding bizarre weapons, sought out the Captains at the martial master level.

Boom, boom, boom! The shockwaves of blood-energy from the martial masters clashing were like a gale sweeping across the battlefield, causing soldiers to stagger and even vomit blood and die.

Near Gongliang City was the Cloud-Touching Stronghold, and around Su Cheng there were also seven large and small strongholds, all occupied by bandits at the martial master level.

After Su Cheng was destroyed, no one paid attention to these people; who could have imagined they had all merged into the rebel army?

Among the seven strongholds, even the weakest had one or two martial masters holding the fort, so this influx of fresh troops added double-digit numbers of martial masters.

For a time, the pressure on the five thousand elite soldiers led by Chen Yang increased sharply.

The greater crisis was yet to come...

"You are..."

Zheng Qing, who had been advancing like a hot knife through butter, was suddenly struck in the chest by a blade, the pain piercing to the bone.

He looked up at the suddenly emerged powerful enemy, astonished, "The Su Cheng garrison has actually joined the rebel camp?"

The Martial Master who launched the sneak attack on him was unexpectedly a Captain of the former Su Cheng garrison, part of the same system as Commander Chen's troops.

"How do you think this label of 'rebel army' came about?"

The attacking Captain sneered and swung his blade, "The City Gate Guard's Hard Qigong is remarkable, only my military blade technique can break it."

"The Gongliang City Gate Guard has long since been wiped out; you remnants should go down with them!"

Swish, swish—the blade light grew increasingly rapid, hacking at Zheng Qing until the baleful aura around his body rolled and fluctuated, unable to condense into form for a short time.

A bandit Martial Master and a garrison Captain—these two enemies, who were as incompatible as fire and water, had actually joined forces.

The besieging side, witnessing this scene, was astonished; they had simply encountered the most fantastical scene of their lives.

Only Zhou You knew that under the bewitching influence of Kunpengzi, nothing was impossible, and even more fantastical things were yet to come.

Commander Chen, Yu Jiuzhang, and the Lone Peak of Xishan had already appeared within Gongliang City; the so-called city walls were as good as non-existent to them.

They had penetrated deep into the enemy's heartland precisely to ferret out the mastermind and settle the outcome in one battle.

Boom! Footsteps rang out, and a person appeared before them.

"It's you?"

The Advanced Martial Master who suddenly appeared was also a familiar face, a renowned veteran of the martial arts world from another city that had long since been destroyed.

Behind him, one after another, an Intermediate Martial Master, an Intermediate Martial Master, an Advanced Martial Master, an Intermediate Martial Master, and so on, appeared.

Many pugilistic experts who had nothing to do with one another had actually converged in one place to block the three who had entered the city.

The situation was more serious than imagined.

Commander Chen concluded on the spot that to organize personnel of such scale, there must be an unimaginably massive organization Zang behind it.

"Who exactly is behind you all?"

The wind blew, but no one responded to his question.

(End of this chapter)