Chapter 11: The Decisive Battle in the State of Wei - Section 20: Unrivaled Might (Part 2)

Section 20: Unmatched Prestige (Part 2)

Bu Jingxian brandished his spear and sword, charging forward with unstoppable momentum. Ignoring Wu Fei, Zha Xiaogai, and several internal martial arts masters of the Wei State who were entangled and fighting with Ling Luo in mid-air, he headed straight toward July, who was under heavy siege.

Just as he reached them, a sword formation was pressing July so hard that she was struggling to parry. Wei State experts were attacking from all directions, and July, besieged for too long, had lost sufficient maneuvering room, about to be crippled in one of her spiritual faculties by the sword formation. Bu Jingxian flicked his wrist and hurled his long spear. Imbued with immense power, the spear flew like a shooting star trailing wind, piercing straight through the bodies of seven masters in one sword formation consecutively, and its remaining force still pierced the arms of three martial cultivators who failed to dodge in time.

Bu Jingxian had some understanding of these formations. Although their lethality was astonishing, the durability of the individuals forming the formations was not enhanced, making it impossible for them to withstand the power of his thrown spear.

With one surrounding sword formation eliminated, July instantly overcame her crisis.

When the long spear impaled a martial cultivator and nailed him to the ground, Bu Jingxian sprinted over, killed a martial cultivator with a sword from the side, and forced the sword formation to scatter. The remaining two sword formations exerted internal sword force. July calmly circulated her internal cultivation method to neutralize all the internal energy, and leveraging the exponential boost of her Spirit Flash, she shattered and injured the remaining fourteen internal martial cultivators forming the sword formations with a single palm strike per person.

With an extra person suddenly joining the fray, the surrounding experts momentarily adjusted their tactics and ceased their attacks.

Bu Jingxian calmly picked up the long spear that had pinned a man to the ground, turned his back to July, surveyed the surrounding enemies, and said, "Martial Sovereign, feel free to unleash your full strength. This Monarch has no other special talents, except for being exceptionally durable!"

July had no time to look back, but she had known since the Divine Martial Arena that the Northern Monarch’s cultivation method was unique and his physical endurance astonishing. For a moment, she felt reassured by the added support and no longer feared the Wei State martial cultivators' combined internal and external sword formation tactics. Knowing that the Northern Monarch possessed incredible physical stamina, she tacitly adjusted her combat capability to internal energy, took the initiative to launch an attack against the surrounding enemies, and pushed forward with a palm strike resembling surging waves.

Golden internal energy suddenly surged around July and Bu Jingxian, spreading across a circular area ten zhang in diameter. Several sword formations gathered their internal energy, concentrating it entirely on a single person's sword to deploy ultimate techniques and resist the aura blast. For a moment, dust and sand flew wildly within a vast area, and the sound of colliding internal energy echoed like continuous thunder, momentarily deafening those nearby.

The two opposing forces of energy had just collided and dissipated when Bu Jingxian lunged forward, piercing through four internal martial arts masters of a sword formation with a single spear thrust, kicking two to death, and injuring three.

The sword formation behind the routed one was just about to make a move when July, executing her Spirit Flash technique, flashed past Bu Jingxian and arrived right between the two sword formations. As she spun while airborne, she combined punches, kicks, elbows, and knees, transforming her long hair into a weapon to attack simultaneously. How could those martial cultivators possibly withstand the exaggerated level of internal energy July unleashed after using Spirit Flash? Without exception, they were killed by her in a single blow, and a dozen or so died in the blink of an eye!

Whenever the surrounding sword formations attempted to close in, the external-style sword formations were forcefully blocked by Bu Jingxian, who would simultaneously kick three or four masters of the formation to death. Without the assistance of the external sword formations, the purely internal sword formations posed absolutely no threat to July. Fighting side by side, the two of them shattered the surrounding sword formations into pieces in moments, rendering them incapable of forming formations again.

Seeing Wei Wanquan, Wu Fei, Zha Xiaogai, and seven or eight other experts of the Jianyue Sect locked in a fierce battle with Ling Luo in mid-air, and observing that the Martial Sovereign and the Northern Monarch were growing stronger the longer they fought despite the heavy encirclement, the Wei army commanders inevitably dispatched a large contingent of troops.

Those Wei soldiers marched out of the camp to form formations, entirely replacing their gear with fine steel bows and arrows. The arrowheads gleamed with a deep, dark blue light in the sunlight, clearly soaked in virulent poison. The front five rows of heavy armored infantry paved the way, followed uniformly by archers, approaching the pass city under the encouragement of rumbling battle drums.

Seeing these soldiers approach, Bu Jingxian knew their potency. Although those arrows were insufficient to harm him and July, the virulent poison was harmful upon contact. The more they were struck by arrows, the more poison they would absorb.

According to Northern Spiritual Elder's theory, the essence of poison was a substance that destroyed human bodily functions. Martial cultivators with higher cultivation levels had a higher resistance to poison, entirely because those with superior cultivation possessed stronger recovery capabilities for their bodily functions. The deadliness of poison lay in its continuous destructiveness. Even with physical recovery as fast as Bu Jingxian's, if he were tainted with excessive virulent poison, the physical damage caused to his body instantly would result in greater stamina loss, which equated to a disguised weakening of his body's recovery ability.

With the sword formations in ruins, Bu Jingxian deduced that July's physical and internal capabilities, enhanced by Spirit Flash, were sufficient to handle the surrounding Wei experts. He decisively broke out of the encirclement, heading straight toward the large army forming ranks in the camp area.

Seeing him charge like a Vajra, the surrounding Wei martial cultivators found no one dared to block him head-on as he slashed his way through. They all retreated to both sides while simultaneously unleashing sword qi. When it struck Bu Jingxian's body, it was completely neutralized outside his body by his breathing techniques, causing a reddish light mist to constantly hover around him. The crimson energy flame driven by the Soul Mantra covered a radius of ten zhang, resembling a roaring fire leaping several zhang high. It remained completely unaffected and undisturbed by the energy field of the Wei experts, making him instead the most eye-catching target for a time.

Ignoring the attacks unleashed by the retreating Wei experts, Bu Jingxian charged straight at the infantry and archer units. As he closed in, the Wei infantry formed ranks and raised their shields, while the archers behind him raised their bows and notched arrows, launching volleys of poisoned arrows that rained down upon him like a storm.

Bu Jingxian twirled his long spear like a spiritual snake, deflecting and swatting away all the arrows, kicking up dust ten zhang high along his path.

In the time it took for three volleys of arrow rain, Bu Jingxian had already charged before the Wei army, sweeping his spear to knock down seventeen or eighty rows of soldiers, and hacking his way through the formation with wild sword swings. Amidst the slaughter, he drove his Soul Mantra to its absolute limit, letting out a roar akin to the one at the Divine Martial Arena. The Wei soldiers within a radius of ten zhang were all blasted into the air or sent bleeding from their seven orifices as they crashed into others, causing widespread casualties in an instant.

Bu Jingxian felt the energy within his body was exceptionally abundant—so overflowing that it felt as though his body would burst if it wasn't released. Seeing that he had penetrated deep into enemy lines with Wei troops in all directions, he immediately lifted his leg past his forehead and stomped heavily onto the ground to his right!

The immense impact shock caused the earth to instantly split apart, fracturing a hundred zhang long and half a zhang wide all the way to his right. In an instant, the shaking ground caused a large crowd of Wei soldiers to tumble into the widened fissure. Before the Wei soldiers could be struck with terror, Bu Jingxian stomped heavily to his left, followed swiftly by a revolving forward kick and a backward kick.

Four hundred-zhang-long chasms abruptly appeared within the Lower Mountain Pass following his four heavy foot stomps. Not to mention how many Wei soldiers fell into the earth's fissures at that moment, the reaction of those Wei soldiers who escaped disaster was one of sheer terror—they forgot how to fight, forgot to rescue their companions who were losing their balance and falling, and stood foolishly dazed, staring at the split earth.

Everyone knew that Zheng Feixian, the founding master of the Flying Immortal Sect, held the prestigious title of shattering the heavens with every palm strike, yet everyone also believed that was an exaggerated description. At this moment, however, the Wei army witnessed with their own eyes the incredible, imagination-defying, and incomprehensible magical power of splitting the earth with every step, making their stunned reactions hardly surprising at all.