Chapter 798: Extermination!

Witnessing Li Fei behead Nuomuhan with his own eyes was a massive boost to the morale of the Barbarian-Slaying Army!

The negative impact caused by the death of Bai Yan was, for the most part, erased by Li Fei.

In the air, Bo'erhu's full-force strike still failed to crush the blood-colored giant, and Mi Han's flying sword arrived first.

Hundreds of sword beams erupted from the flying sword, bombarding Bo'erhu in continuous succession!

Bo'erhu let these sword beams strike him, then suddenly turned to face the incoming purple blade aura and threw a punch.

The black baleful light collided with the purple flames, causing them to annihilate, after all of which the power of the Martial Dao Domain intruded within.

This purple blade aura was manifested from Qiu Zi'an's Martial Dao Domain, different from the 【Cloud Heart Carefree Heaven】 Bo'erhu had attacked when facing Ji Yifan earlier.

His exchange with Qiu Zi'an was like two armies clashing, both sides charging with heavy cavalry, attack against attack, with no fancy tricks!

Qiu Zi'an's Martial Dao Domain naturally could not compete and was quickly crushed, the purple blade aura being severed once again!

Qiu Zi'an, who was flying rapidly toward this side, spat out a mouthful of blood, her face devoid of color.

This female Grandmaster's Martial Dao Domain had been broken head-on by Bo'erhu twice in a row, making her the most heavily injured among the Grandmasters present.

By comparison, Qi Zhou and Mi Han had not suffered even a single injury, protecting themselves very well.

Although Mi Han used his natal flying sword, he used sword beams to attack Bo'erhu, not the flying sword itself.

Otherwise, Bo'erhu might have chosen to attack his natal flying sword directly.

Mi Han glanced at the blood-spitting Qiu Zi'an and shook his head inwardly:

"To have such a cultivation base, why risk your life? If the battle turns against us, you won't even have a chance to escape later."

"To be a Grandmaster and still be so reckless with your life, you really have no brains."

Just as Mi Han was slandering her inwardly, the blood-colored giant seized the opportunity to attack Bo'erhu, landing a punch that sent Black Dragon baleful energy pouring into Bo'erhu's body like a river in reverse!

It was precisely because Qiu Zi'an was fighting recklessly without regard for her life that she could truly and effectively pin down Bo'erhu, thereby creating an opening for Li Fei to strike.

After such a long period of analysis, the Heaven-Mixing Compass in the air had grasped a portion of Bo'erhu's weaknesses, allowing Li Fei's strikes to hit his vital points directly!

Bo'erhu was smashed down from the air by the blood-colored giant's punch, creating a large crater in the ground as dust flew everywhere.

"Barbarian-Slaying Army, retreat—"

Having successfully wounded Bo'erhu with one strike, Li Fei ordered a retreat.

Although killing Nuomuhan was a good thing, it also completely liberated Bo'erhu, leaving him with no further concerns.

Now, in terms of top-tier combat power, it appeared to be six against one, but Li Fei had already sensed the conservative fighting styles of Mi Han and Qi Zhou; counting on these two to go all out and risk their lives was impossible.

The already injured Ji Yifan also appeared to have thoughts of retreating.

The higher one's status and power, the more one treasures their life; expecting all experts to be like the soldiers of the Imperial Guard and fight recklessly without regard for anything was simply impossible.

As for military law being like a mountain or military orders being heartless, such things had little binding force on experts at the level of Martial Dao Masters, let alone Grandmasters.

Someone like Qiu Zi'an was, instead, an anomaly.

Then there was Zhang Chengbi, whose true soul resided in his natal magic treasure; without a physical body, his endurance in battle was far inferior to other experts of the same realm, and he could not directly consume elixirs to recover.

Through the Heaven-Mixing Compass, Li Fei could clearly feel the opponent's power constantly declining; when he first appeared, he barely maintained the Heaven-Tier, but now he had fallen to the Earth-Tier.

Finally, there was Li Fei himself; to kill Nuomuhan, he had taken several heavy blows from Bo'erhu in succession. Having just leveled up, the fully restored Ten Thousand Blood Bead was left with only 327 blood souls.

There were still 1483 blood souls in the blood spring, totaling less than 2000 blood souls.

The Ten Thousand Blood Bead's energy value was currently only at 52%; it was impossible to level up again on the fly.

Moreover, the Imperial Guard soldiers in the military formation had also consumed a great deal and could not hold on for much longer.

So, while it looked like six against one, in reality, it was four crippled Grandmasters plus two top-tier combatants who might retreat at any moment, fighting one Bo'erhu who was still in a beast-like state and possessed Prince-level combat power.

Under these circumstances, Li Fei could only order a retreat.

By this point in the battle, the Barbarian-Slaying Army had lost one Bai Yan and two Martial Dao Masters, three Martial Dao Masters were cursed and would also die, and over two thousand Imperial Guard soldiers had been killed in action.

The Northern Barbarians had lost two Great Elders and nine Hegemon-level experts.

This included the Great Elder of the Fire Qilin tribe!

Given this comparison of battle results, if one also counted Qiming, who was being tracked by Xiang Yunshu, the Great Lan Dynasty had actually profited.

Although the decapitation mission had failed, this operation was definitely of great significance!

Now it just depended on how many of the Barbarian-Slaying Army could make it back alive.

"Mi Han, use your technique to take the rest of the people and leave!"

Li Fei ordered Mi Han once again.

At this moment, the martial artists of the Lan Patrol Pavilion were entangled with the Northern Barbarian King's personal guards, making it difficult to retreat directly.

Therefore, Li Fei came down to have Mi Han take these people away together.

He knew that if he did not give the order, Mi Han would definitely fly away on his sword alone.

Upon hearing this, Mi Han's expression turned somewhat gloomy.

If he had to take these Lan Patrol Pavilion martial artists with him to escape, the speed would not be fast.

"I will cover the retreat!"

Li Fei's next sentence dispelled Mi Han's concerns.

"Good!"

Mi Han decisively retracted his flying sword, then split it into hundreds of sword beams, precisely hitting the Northern Barbarian warriors who were entangled with the Lan Patrol Pavilion martial artists.

When a top-tier True Person lets go and slaughters low-level martial artists, the efficiency is terrifying!

With a flash of sword light, one Northern Barbarian warrior was pierced through the body, then a second, then a third...

Hundreds of sword beams shuttled rapidly through the crowd, turning into hundreds of streams of light, quickly killing hundreds of Northern Barbarian warriors and scaring off the rest.

Mi Han had all the Lan Patrol Pavilion martial artists gather together, as this would make it easier for him to perform the Wind-Riding Technique and take everyone away together.

Just as he was slaughtering freely, Bo'erhu, who had been knocked out of the sky by Li Fei, had ascended again and was killing his way toward the blood-colored giant!

Li Fei then controlled the blood-colored giant to land and sprinted off in another direction.

He had volunteered to cover the retreat not because he was truly unafraid of death, but because he knew clearly that among all the targets present, his value was the highest, and Bo'erhu would definitely keep his eyes on him to kill him!

Rather than dragging everyone to their deaths, it was better to take the initiative to lure Bo'erhu away.

With the Heaven-Mixing Compass for assistance and the 【No Distance】 divine ability, it was not a guaranteed death sentence.

The blood-colored giant had only run a short distance when Bo'erhu arrived to kill him.

Whether flying in the sky or running on the ground, the opponent's speed was faster than the blood-colored giant!

The blood-colored giant turned around and threw a punch at the incoming Bo'erhu.

BANG!!!

The surrounding air was blasted apart, once again becoming a vacuum zone; the blood-colored giant's feet plowed through the ground, retreating over a hundred meters and crushing trees, rocks, and small hills along the way.

For this strike, Li Fei gritted his teeth and transferred all the damage to those Dao Foundation-stage soldiers who were under the curse.

Even if these people did not take the damage, they would not last long before dying anyway.

After the strike, the more than one hundred Dao Foundation-stage soldiers who were already near death—all perished!

However, these people left with satisfied hearts, because the Marquis of Jing'an had just led them to behead Nuomuhan together.

"Go in peace."

Li Fei whispered in his heart, while using the force to retreat backward.

He controlled the blood-colored giant to use its strength to move on the ground, which was not only faster but also less strenuous.

First ordering everyone to retreat, then leading Bo'erhu to run in another direction—Li Fei's intentions were already very obvious.

In the air, the ancient bronze mirror inhabited by Zhang Chengbi turned into a stream of light, chasing after the blood-colored giant.

The heavily injured Qiu Zi'an also did not hesitate and chased after the blood-colored giant!

The remaining Qi Zhou looked at Ji Yifan and said:

"Brother Ji, you are injured; take the remaining people and retreat with Master Mi."

After speaking, he also chased after the blood-colored giant.

Ji Yifan looked at Qi Zhou's retreating back with astonishment, never expecting that Qi Zhou would choose not to retreat.

The other party had been fighting even more conservatively than himself earlier.

Ji Yifan hesitated for a moment, but ultimately chose to fly toward Mi Han's side.

He was indeed seriously injured, and recalling the scene of being chased and killed by Bo'erhu just now, he still felt lingering fear!

If Bo'erhu had chased and killed him for another ten seconds, he might have really been beaten to death!

Such a near-death experience made him abandon the idea of continuing to participate in the battle.

"So be it, I have already done my best in this battle..."

Lanling City.

In the Imperial Palace, inside the Imperial Study.

The Emperor, holding the Imperial Jade Seal, suddenly said in a loud voice:

"Strike with full force and annihilate the Dream Lion tribe!"

This order traveled thousands of miles in an instant, reaching the Northern Border Army that was currently attacking the headquarters of the Dream Lion tribe!

This kind of long-distance real-time communication required the consumption of national fortune.

However, for the sake of what was to come, the Emperor did not care about this bit of national fortune consumption.

In the Northern Border Army, two people received this order from the Emperor at the same time.

One was Prince Cheng, Qin Shixian.

The other was the commander of the Frost Army, Xing Sinan.

Both were Grandmasters and Level 18 military officials!

"Your subject, receives the decree!"

Qin Shixian and Xing Sinan looked up at the sky almost simultaneously and raised their hands in salute.

"Pass on my order: all forces, attack—"

Qin Shixian was the first to issue the order.

For the past few days, he had intentionally waited for Bo'erhu to bring people to the rescue, so he had not launched a full-scale attack on the Dream Lion Tribe.

Even so, the great army had already pushed forward thirty miles, reaching the very doorstep of the Dream Lion Tribe.

To this Northern Border army, the Dream Lion Tribe was like a piece of meat right by their mouths.

If they wanted to eat it, they could do so at any time!

Following the order from the Prince of Cheng, hundreds of portable mortars fired first, and several hundred shells flew toward the main camp of the Dream Lion Tribe.

Thousands of arrows were shot from the ground, intercepting these shells in mid-air.

In the end, half of the shells were successfully intercepted and exploded in the air, while the other half landed on the ground, with artillery fire constantly erupting within the Dream Lion Tribe's main camp.

After several rounds of bombardment, the Prince of Cheng ordered the entire army to charge!

At the same time, a cyan giant a thousand meters tall rose from the ground!

This cyan giant was clad in battle armor, held a great blade, and possessed the might of a celestial god, looking down upon the Dream Lion Tribe's main camp below.

This giant was the "Gathered Momentum" formed after the Cyan Frost Army activated their military formation, controlled personally by Xing Sinan.

The cyan giant raised its blade and slashed downward; before the blade arrived, the blade wind had already whipped up a storm on the ground!

Before the great blade fell, a massive cyan lion several hundred meters tall appeared out of thin air.

This cyan lion was surrounded by heavenly winds, flickering with thunder, stepping on flames, and had a third eye on its forehead; it was the totem of the Dream Lion Tribe!

As one of the seventeen Northern Barbarian tribes, the Dream Lion Tribe naturally had its own foundation.

Although they lacked baleful artifacts and military formations, they still possessed a grand formation to guard their main camp.

The cyan lion roared at the sky and collided head-on with the descending blade aura.

Rumble—

The earth shook, as if an eight-magnitude earthquake had occurred.

From north to south, a crack a thousand meters long appeared in the Dream Lion Tribe's main camp!

The awe-inspiring cyan lion dharma image was also split by this blade, leaving a crack!

The cyan giant did not pause in the slightest and raised its blade to slash again.

In an instant, it slashed dozens of times!

Compared to a military formation, this type of permanent, fixed grand formation lacked flexibility and was essentially a stationary target.

Moreover, the power ceiling of this grand formation was only close to the peak level and still could not compare to the military formation composed by the Cyan Frost Army.

After dozens of slashes, the cyan lion dharma image fell apart.

The Dream Lion Tribe chieftain responsible for presiding over the grand formation, who possessed the cultivation base of a Grandmaster, Narisuqi, also turned into dust!

This chieftain actually had a chance to escape, and even if the Cyan Frost Army wanted to pursue him, it would have required some effort.

But Narisuqi did not flee and ultimately chose to die in battle within his tribe.

Dying along with him were over a thousand warriors who were maintaining the grand formation!

Subsequently, the cyan giant slashed a few more times, leaving deep gullies upon the earth.

Within the Dream Lion Tribe, all Hegemon-level powerhouses were wiped out!

Seeing this scene, the warriors of the other two tribes allied with the Dream Lion Tribe began to flee frantically.

At this point, the fate of the Dream Lion Tribe was sealed.

The chieftain and all the Hegemon-level powerhouses within the tribe were dead, and the main camp had been breached.

This Northern Barbarian tribe was essentially wiped out!

The body of the cyan giant decomposed into streams of cyan light and fell to the ground.

Xing Sinan deactivated the military formation.

The previous exhaustion from the Cyan Frost Army clearing the way was significant, and they had not fully recovered yet, so he saved energy wherever he could.

He was not clear about the situation with the Northern Barbarian King, and if there were to be a major battle afterward, the Cyan Frost Army might suffer casualties!

"Why did His Majesty suddenly order an all-out attack?"

Xing Sinan did not understand why the established strategy had to be changed so suddenly.

Being unable to kill the Northern Barbarian King, merely wiping out one Dream Lion Tribe could not change the overall situation.

Unfortunately, the Son of Heaven did not explain it to him, nor were there any new orders transmitted.

Soon, the Northern Border army charged into the Dream Lion Tribe's main camp, with the sound of gunfire ringing out constantly, along with the sound of grenade explosions.

After the Cyan Frost Army made their move, the morale of the Dream Lion Tribe warriors had completely collapsed; except for a very small number, the rest had no will to fight and only wanted to save their lives.

What followed was a massacre...

Following the death of the Dream Lion Tribe chieftain, the Northern Border army slaughtered their way into the Dream Lion Tribe's main camp.

Thousands of miles away in the Imperial Study, the Imperial Jade Seal in the Emperor's hand suddenly became very bright.

At the same time, inside the great hall where Xiang Yunshu was in seclusion, the national fortune within the nine bronze tripods began to increase!

The Emperor had once told Li Fei that the most direct way to increase national fortune was to expand territory and engage in war.

Now that Li Fei had slain the Great Elder of the Fire Qilin Tribe and the Northern Border army had wiped out the Dream Lion Tribe, the fortune of the Northern Barbarians was diminished.

As one waned and the other waxed, the national fortune of the Great Lan Dynasty increased by a significant margin!

In the Imperial Study, the Emperor held the shining Imperial Jade Seal, his aura grand and majestic, like a god:

"By the mandate of Heaven, I act as if I am personally present!"

The grand voice resounded throughout the entire imperial palace.

Inside the great hall, a surge of fortune rose from each of the nine bronze tripods, eventually converging into the natal magic treasure above Xiang Yunshu's head.

"Go—"

Xiang Yunshu pointed one hand upward and said in a resonant voice.

Thousands of miles away, deep in the wilderness.

Above the head of the blood-colored giant who was fleeing for his life, the Heaven-Mixing Compass suddenly shone brilliantly:

"By the mandate of Heaven, I act as if I am personally present!"

The Emperor's grand voice rolled in from the sky.

Within the military formation, Li Fei suddenly felt his chest burning hot; it was the "As if I am personally present" gold medallion undergoing a change.

A continuous stream of national fortune surged out from it!

Li Fei immediately understood what was happening from the information provided by the Heaven-Mixing Compass.

The Emperor had given him this gold medallion not only to grant him immense power but also to grant him authorization.

Relying on this gold medallion, combined with the power of laws left behind by Xiang Yunshu above his head, Li Fei could temporarily receive national fortune from a distance, just as Xiang Yunshu had done before!

After Bai Yan died, the Heaven-Mixing Compass defaulted to Li Fei as the second auxiliary object.

The highest-level safety medallion.

The "As if I am personally present" gold medallion.

These measures were all to ensure that Li Fei could return alive from the Northern Barbarians!

Li Fei looked up at the sky, his heart as burning hot as the gold medallion in his chest!

While blocking another punch from Bo'erhu, he absorbed the national fortune surging from the gold medallion into his body and then channeled it into the divine ability seed hidden within his acupoints.

He wanted to use the national fortune right now to refine this divine ability seed, thereby obtaining his second martial arts divine ability with a hundred percent success rate—

Refining Objects!

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