Chapter 891: Worldly Affairs, Settled by a Single Sword

Yuanxing Year 1, January 1st.

Before the enthronement ceremony in Lanling City had even begun, Li Fei walked out from within Moyuncheng.

Outside the city, an army of eighty thousand Northern Barbarians had already formed their ranks, as if they knew Li Fei would come to break the formation alone today!

"Might!"

"Might!"

"Might!"

Atop the city walls, the soldiers shouted in unison.

Several thousand meters away, rays of light flickered within the military formation.

Under the reinforcement of sorcery, the wildness in the hearts of the Northern Barbarian warriors was ignited; their breathing grew heavy, their body temperatures rose, and their blood surged.

Possessing physiques naturally superior to ordinary people and having fought against fierce beasts in harsh lands since childhood, the Northern Barbarian tribes were almost a nation of soldiers—everyone was a natural warrior!

If they were facing the Northern Border defense troops, even without the aid of sorcery, the Northern Barbarian warriors would have the courage to fight to the death.

But the sense of despair brought by top-tier powerhouses to ordinary soldiers was too overwhelming!

And the person currently charging toward the military formation brought an even stronger sense of oppression!

After two consecutive great battles, Li Fei's fearsome reputation had been thoroughly carved out through slaughter.

So much so that now, before the battle even began, the Northern Barbarians had to use sorcery first just to stabilize their morale.

Li Fei began to accelerate, his golden robe like a dragon, causing the wind and snow filling the sky to give way.

At a distance of three hundred meters, countless arrows transformed into a black canopy and descended.

But all the arrows were left behind by Li Fei.

A flash of blade aura ignited before the military formation, slicing fifty-seven barbarian soldiers in the front row into two halves with a single strike!

The slaughter had begun—

Inside Moyuncheng.

Prince Cheng Qin Shixian, He Yuxi, Xuan Chen, Zhou Xuanwo, Bai Meng, and Han Mu—a total of six top-tier powerhouses gathered in one hall!

Li Fei had already repelled two Northern Barbarian armies in succession, lifting the sieges of two cities.

Therefore, in all likelihood, the Northern Barbarians would not let him succeed a third time.

In this third great battle, it was highly probable that Li Fei would encounter an encirclement by top-tier powerhouses!

The previous series of probes where Northern Barbarian powerhouses attacked two large cities was all in preparation for this third great battle.

Thus, today Li Fei left the city to break the army alone.

A group of top-tier powerhouses remained in the city to hold the line for him.

"Report—"

Suddenly, urgent military intelligence arrived.

"Speak."

Qin Shixian said.

"Reporting to the Provincial Military Commander, Polu City is under attack! Four Northern Barbarian top-tier powerhouses are leading seventeen Badu powerhouses in an assault on Polu City!"

Hearing this intelligence, the powerhouses present had their expressions shift slightly.

After the Imperial Guard Commander Han Mu led five thousand Imperial Camp troops to arrive, there were a total of over eight thousand Imperial Camp troops on the northern defense line.

Aside from Moyuncheng, the other four cities were each garrisoned by two thousand-man Imperial Camp units, allowing all the top-tier powerhouses to concentrate together.

But the Imperial Camp troops were not top-tier True Persons after all; using military formations to drive the city-defense arrays could not achieve the strongest effect.

Therefore, two thousand-man Imperial Camp units could not guarantee they would definitely hold a city.

Now that Polu City was facing a joint attack from four Northern Barbarian top-tier powerhouses and over a dozen Badu powerhouses, it was feared that the city-defense array would be breached in three or four hours at most.

And the battle on Li Fei's side certainly could not be ended in a short time.

At least one top-tier powerhouse needed to be sent to provide support to ensure Polu City was not lost.

Everyone looked at Qin Shixian.

In Li Fei's absence, this Prince Cheng held the highest authority.

Qin Shixian did not immediately send anyone to support:

"Scout further and report again."

"Yes!"

A moment later, the second piece of urgent military intelligence arrived:

"Baisong City is under attack! Four Northern Barbarian top-tier powerhouses are leading nineteen Badu powerhouses in a joint assault!"

Now, all the Northern Barbarian top-tier powerhouses, except for that Northern Barbarian King, had revealed themselves.

Moyuncheng was located in the center of the northern defense line, with Polu City on the far left and Baisong City on the far right.

The Northern Barbarians chose to split their forces and attack these two cities precisely to draw out the Great Lan Dynasty's powerhouses to the greatest extent.

With eight Northern Barbarian top-tier powerhouses and all the Badu powerhouses gone to attack the cities, what confidence did they have to kill Li Fei with just one Bo'erhu?

This question actually did not require much thought; everyone present could guess what the Northern Barbarians were relying on.

"True Person He."

Qin Shixian looked at a woman wearing a white robe, "Please make a trip to Polu City."

Sending a True Person to control the city-defense array was certainly more secure than sending a Grandmaster.

He Yuxi stepped out and bowed to Qin Shixian: "Understood!"

"Attendant Zhou."

Qin Shixian looked at Zhou Xuanwo again, "I must trouble you to make a trip to Baisong City."

Of the two imperial attendants, Zhou Xuanwo's cultivation was higher than Bai Meng's; in fact, sending Bai Meng to support Baisong City would have been secure enough, but Qin Shixian chose to send Zhou Xuanwo.

Regarding this, no one present was surprised.

Zhou Xuanwo nodded: "Very well."

He turned to look out the window, his expression somewhat relaxed, yet also somewhat regretful.

A world-shaking battle was bound to erupt here today; he did not need to participate, so he did not need to worry about his own safety.

It was just that missing such a great battle made him inevitably feel a bit of regret.

After the two top-tier True Persons left, no new military intelligence arrived.

Everyone was waiting for the outcome of the battle outside the city.

The sounds of killing shook the heavens, and blood flowed like a river.

The Northern Barbarian army's formation had been completely thrown into chaos.

A martial artist covered in hair, with sharp fangs and claws, lunged at Li Fei with a crazed expression.

Before he could get close, a flash of blade aura swept by, and he, along with a dozen barbarian soldiers around him, were dismembered.

This was a martial artist who had voluntarily chosen to undergo beast-transformation; he hadn't even managed to touch Li Fei once before dying, failing to even get within ten meters of Li Fei.

Not just him; in this battle, many barbarian martial artists voluntarily chose beast-transformation and then crazily charged at Li Fei!

They did not seek to injure Li Fei; they only sought to make Li Fei expend one more sliver of strength.

This was the most spirited and determined Northern Barbarian army Li Fei had encountered so far!

He guessed that many of the commanders among them were likely people of the Wuri tribe, or Bo'erhu's personal guards.

And this further proved one point—the Northern Barbarians would no longer let Li Fei continue to break their army alone.

Today's battle was destined to have a result!

Time passed bit by bit.

Whether they were ordinary barbarian soldiers influenced by sorcery or martial artists who had voluntarily beast-transformed.

Everyone's emotions were frantic.

Their eyes were fanatical, their faces twisted, baring fangs and brandishing claws, like wild beasts, throwing themselves forward one after another, wanting to tear the enemy before them to shreds!

An army of eighty thousand converged into a mad beast tide.

Flesh, viscera, bones, weapons, exotic beasts—all sorts of mangled things mixed together, like a bloody hell!

Li Fei, in his golden robe, was the demon king in that hell, constantly creating slaughter and spreading fear.

In a forest a thousand meters away from this battlefield.

Three old monks wearing red kasayas sat cross-legged on the ground, forming a circle.

Aside from Wuche, who had been captured, three of the five Great Arhats of Pudu Temple had come!

The three Great Arhats pressed their palms together and chanted scriptures in low voices:

"Killing is a sin, slaughter accumulates karma. Karmic obstacles entangle the body, cause and effect revolve..."

Waves of profound true energy erupted from their bodies, entering the earth beneath their feet, and then transmitting to the distant battlefield.

The battlefield, which resembled hell, was quietly undergoing a change.

As Li Fei killed more and more people, he gradually gained an insight.

He could not help but look up at the sky.

Even though it was just the rising morning sun, unknowingly, a dark cloud had shrouded the sky above the entire battlefield.

A powerful pressure that made even top-tier powerhouses feel suffocated faintly emanated from above the firmament.

This was the feeling of a heavenly tribulation about to descend!

Li Fei, who had once withstood a heavenly tribulation, sensed it immediately.

In the cultivation world, there had always been a saying—

Aside from martial artists who follow the path of the soldier, the more powerful a cultivator is, the less they should wantonly slaughter ordinary people.

Because the more people one kills, the more karmic fate becomes entangled, and one's personal fortune will be affected.

At its most severe, it could even trigger a heavenly tribulation!

Li Fei had seen a classic example of this—

The Ancestor of the River of Blood, one of the three great demons.

However, Ning Qingman gave Li Fei another explanation: the so-called heavenly tribulation is merely a "positive charge" attracted by a large amount of "negative charge."

The reason the Ancestor of the River of Blood triggered a heavenly tribulation was mainly because the cultivation technique he practiced and the Dao principles he condensed were quite special.

If other powerhouses were to slaughter ordinary people on such a large scale like him, it would be unlikely to trigger a heavenly tribulation.

But it is unavoidable that one's personal fortune and fate would be affected.

However, Li Fei did not care about this.

He was campaigning for the country, killing for the country.

Although he did not cultivate the Dao of War, he carried a majestic momentum, so the impact on his personal fortune and fate would not be too great.

Yet at this moment, this impact was being continuously magnified, to the point of attracting a heavenly tribulation!

Li Fei knew without thinking that it was the people of the Buddhist sect playing tricks.

In this world, when it comes to the understanding and control of karmic fate, if the Buddhist sect claims second place, no one dares to claim first!

Even Wen Xuexian, the Pavilion Master of the Red Dust Pavilion whose personal Dao principles are related to karmic fate, focuses her control of karma mainly on severing her own karma, rather than influencing the karma of others.

Facing the continuously accumulating heavenly tribulation, Li Fei felt secretly pleased and continued to kill without restraint.

Another twenty days passed; after battling seven dukes and adding the energy naturally absorbed every day, the Ten Thousand Blood Bead leveled up twice more, from level 63 to level 65!

The number of blood souls in the Ten Thousand Blood Bead became 8, 68.

Not only that, the energy value of the Ten Thousand Blood Bead had accumulated to 43%.

Leveling up on the spot during battle was a trump card Li Fei had prepared for today's great battle.

Now that the Buddhist sect had conjured a heavenly tribulation, they were only helping him complete his upgrade faster!

Another thirty-plus minutes passed, and there were over three thousand more corpses under Li Fei's blade.

Of the eighty thousand Northern Barbarian army, he had already killed over seventeen thousand!

To maintain his peak state at all times, the blood souls within the Ten Thousand Blood Bead had dropped below 50%, and 【Blood Breath】 was activated.

Dark clouds gathered over the battlefield, thunder flashed, and the magnificent heavenly might was soul-stirring!

Inside Moyuncheng, a group of powerhouses all wore solemn expressions.

"It's a heavenly tribulation!"

"Should we intervene to help Li Fei disperse the heavenly tribulation?"

"Do not act rashly."

Qin Shixian pacified everyone, "Li Fei has weathered heavenly tribulations before and knows the gravity of the situation; if he needs help, he will send us a signal."

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Han Mu, the Commander of the Imperial Guard, looked at the distant dark clouds with worry: "I only fear that the Marquis of Jing'an is being too stubborn. If he is heavily injured prematurely, there will be no need to fight today's battle."

Rumble—

As soon as his voice fell, thunder exploded between heaven and earth!

The first heavenly tribulation descended, a purple bolt of lightning as thick as a mountain peak striking toward the top of Li Fei's head.

Before the lightning fell, Li Fei had already donned a golden suit of armor.

He finally activated the 【Mixed Origin Sword Realm】.

However, this time, the two characters for "Jing'an" on the back of the armor appeared dim and lusterless.

Because this place no longer belonged to the territory of the Great Lan Dynasty, Li Fei could not obtain the blessing of national power, and his combat strength was somewhat weakened.

When the heavenly tribulation fell, Li Fei stomped down hard; the frozen earth was as fragile as tofu, cracking and collapsing to form a large pit.

Li Fei soared into the air and swung his blade to slash at the descending purple lightning.

The blade edge slashed from bottom to top, cutting through the lightning!

When he first charged into the army formation, Li Fei had activated 【Blood Rage】, consuming the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to push it to the limit.

Afterward, he activated the 【Dragon Elephant】 divine ability, having long reached the realm of "Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants"!

This meant that for these past few hours, he had been maintaining this peak posture, bearing a tremendous load!

If anyone else fought like this, they would have burned themselves out long ago.

But Li Fei used blood souls as "fuel," continuously driving the 【Refining Matter】 divine ability to maintain his peak state.

This allowed him to face any attack with the strongest posture!

The blade edge slashed upward, completely splitting the descending lightning.

Then the second heavenly tribulation fell; Li Fei stood in mid-air and took this tribulation head-on.

Then came the third tribulation.

Between heaven and earth, purple lightning struck the golden armor, the sound splitting the firmament!

After the triple tribulation, the karmic fate triggered by Li Fei's slaughter of tens of thousands was completely exhausted, and the tribulation clouds in the sky began to disperse.

He stood in mid-air, the Ghost-Slaying Blade in his hand already covered in cracks.

The energy value of the Ten Thousand Blood Bead rose from 43% to 84%!

"Since you want to kill me, do you still not dare to make a move now?"

Li Fei suddenly shouted aloud.

Heaven and earth were silent; no one responded.

"Fine, then this Marquis will send you one more sword!"

Li Fei voluntarily crushed the Ghost-Slaying Blade in his hand.

The long blade shattered, and the sword was unsheathed!

Through three great battles and the slaughter of tens of thousands, Li Fei had been nurturing his intent through combat.

Now, before the great battle had even begun, he struck with his sword first!

A terrifying sword intent that could pierce the heavens and slaughter the earth erupted from his body; he extended his right hand, his five fingers grasping at the void:

"Come—"

Inside Moyuncheng, the weapons in the hands of tens of thousands of soldiers vibrated in succession!

An intense fighting spirit surged from the depths of their hearts; even without any magical techniques to inspire them, they longed to charge out of the city for a battle at this moment.

The several thousand soldiers standing on the city walls watching the battle were the first to have a reaction because they had watched Li Fei's battle from beginning to end.

This was an invitation—

They raised their weapons high and shouted aloud.

Invisible power was drawn from their bodies and quickly gathered toward Li Fei!

Immediately after, the tens of thousands of soldiers in Moyuncheng also accepted this "invitation," their "essence, energy, and spirit" converging into invisible spiritual energy—

Like a mountain, like a sea, like a dragon!

"This is..."

The top powerhouses felt the sensation even more intensely.

"Creation Realm."

Qin Shixian muttered.

Li Fei had used another Dao force technique that reached the Creation Realm!

Dao force of the Creation Realm possesses effects similar to divine abilities, and this technique of Li Fei's had the effect of being able to gather the spiritual energy of others!

In the air, a golden longsword appeared in Li Fei's void-grasping hand.

After 【Not Knowing the Height of Heaven】, he had created his second personal ultimate move of the Creation Realm!

This was the realization brought to him that day by Lan Yu and the other frontier soldiers.

Relying on 【Ten Thousand Phenomena】 to contain various spirits and intentions, through three consecutive great battles, the shouts and cheers of the soldiers behind him, and the ever-rising morale in the army, Li Fei had polished his inner sword intent to perfection, erupting at this moment!

This was a sword technique, named—

【Sharing the Same Robe with You】!

"Everyone, follow this Marquis to kill the enemy—"

Between heaven and earth, that figure in golden robes held the longsword and thrust it toward the enemy army below.

"Might!"

"Might!"

"Might!"

The roars of tens of thousands of people converged into the sound of a sword.

The sword light fell to the ground like an overturned galaxy, and countless sword auras erupted within the enemy formation!

The sword auras tore through the bodies of the barbarian soldiers, spreading outward like a tide of death.

Looking down from the sky, the large black patch formed by the tens of thousands of Northern Barbarian troops instantly cleared a large area, replaced by a glaring blood-red color!

The Northern Barbarians and the Buddhist sect wanted to use the Northern Barbarian army to continue wearing Li Fei down, and even though Li Fei had withstood the triple heavenly tribulation, they still did not intend to make a move.

But Li Fei shattered their illusions with just one sword—

One sword, slaying six thousand six hundred enemies!

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(End of chapter)