The Human Emperor c1-2382

by Huangfu Qi (皇甫奇)

  “Congratulations to user! 30 points of Destiny Energy have been rewarded!”

  “Congratulations to user! 30 points of Destiny Energy have been rewarded!”

  “Congratulations to user! 30 points of Destiny Energy have been rewarded!”

  A string of messages immediately began to pour through Wang Chong’s mind. 600, 800, 1000, 2000… in a few short moments, Wang Chong had obtained a tremendous sum of Destiny Energy, and the number was still rising. In this clash of elite cavalry, Wang Chong would receive 30 Destiny Energy for each Celestial Wolf Cavalry killed.

  After a stalemate, the time for harvest had finally begun, the Skanda Halo and the Cutting Formation now proving their worth. Shamask had been heavily injured, and the Celestial Wolf Cavalry’s formation had been broken. Without the power of their formation, the Celestial Wolf Cavalry suffered a drop in all their attributes: speed, strength, and even dexterity.

  At this level of strength, the Celestial Wolf Cavalry were simply no match for the Wushang Cavalry and were immediately routed, suffering a large number of losses.

  Swooshswooshswoosh! The Wushang Cavalry fully utilized their efficiency and teamwork, bolstered in their pursuit by the Halo of Dusk Stallion. Their peerlessly sharp Wootz Steel swords slashed every which way, and blood glimmered in the sunlight as one Celestial Wolf cavalryman after another fell to them.

  At the very front of the Celestial Wolf Cavalry, a figure had his body pressed against his horse, his arms drooping down as he fled like a panicked wolf: Shamask. His face was pale, his eyes suffused with a deep fear. If one looked carefully, one would discover that under the attacks of the Skanda-strengthened Li Siye and the collective charge of the Wushang Cavalry, Shamask had dropped down from the Brigadier General level all the way to the Imperial Martial realm, down to Tier 7, even beneath Li Siye.

  It was easy to see how badly Shamask had been wounded.

  Never in Shamask’s life had he suffered such a devastating defeat!

  He had not been defeated by just Li Siye, or Kong Zi-an, Hong Youqi, or any of the others. He had been defeated by five thousand people, something he would have never dared to think possible in the past.

  He did not dare to look back. That he had been able to escape with his life was only because his reaction had been fast. Taking the backlash, he had decided to end the Celestial Wolf Ghost Dragon Art early. In his current situation, if Li Siye and the others caught up and gave him another wave of blows, Shamask would be doomed.

  “Impossible, impossible! How could such a formation exist in this world…”

  Shamask was panicked and nervous. That flurry of blows had utterly shattered his confidence!

  The strange tactic of those five thousand cavalry made Shamask feel like he was living a nightmare.

  But Shamask’s shock and dismay at the grievous defeat of the Celestial Wolf Cavalry were far outmatched by another person. Although he had not taken part in this battle, his honor and reputation had been on the line, as had that of the entire Western Turkic Khaganate!

  “Bastard!”

  On the high hill, Duwu Sili was dumbstruck, his entire body quivering in rage. The Celestial Wolf Cavalry was one of the three strongest forces of cavalry in the Western Turkic Khaganate. It had never been defeated before, and Duwu Sili had never believed that his troops could lose to the Great Tang.

  “Shamask! You useless thing, you couldn’t even kill a trifling Imperial Martial warrior!”

  Duwu Sili clenched his fists, his eyes blazing with rage.

  “Chekun Benba! Go and tell Shamask that if he can’t defeat the Wushang Cavalry, he shouldn’t come back,” Duwu Sili coldly ordered.

  “Yes, General!”

  With Duwu Sili’s words, a Turkic general at Tier 6 of the Saint Martial realm mounted his horse and took off in a cloud of dust toward the battlefield.

  Huoshu Huicang and Dusong Mangpoje couldn’t help but shoot Duwu Sili a glance, a tinge of astonishment in their eyes. The Celestial Wolf Cavalry had suffered a major defeat and Shamask was seriously wounded. The two had believed that Duwu Sili would either personally enter the battlefield or would at least call the Celestial Wolf Cavalry back. They hadn’t expected Duwu Sili to instead order the Celestial Wolf Cavalry to fight to the death.

  The pair finally felt the tough and stubborn side of the Western Turkic Celestial Wolf Great General. They also understood how he had been able to dominate the steppe, rarely suffering defeat in his battles.

  Only Dalun Ruozan was unperturbed. Long before they had begun working together, Dalun Ruozan had engaged in a thorough investigation of Duwu Sili, and he knew that only this Duwu Sili was the authentic one.

  “Great Minister! Should we order Huoba Sangye…”

  “There’s no need. He’s already moved out!”

  Dalun Ruozan looked forward, a faint smile on his face.

  Rumble! On the other end of Dalun Ruozan’s gaze, the unmoving Mutri Great Cavalry that had been watching from the sidelines had begun to charge the moment the Celestial Wolf Cavalry had been defeated. In Huoba Sangye’s view, the moment the Celestial Wolf Cavalry lost, they had also lost the right to challenge the Wushang Cavalry.

  “All soldiers, kiiiiill!”

  Huoba Sangye rode upon his divine steed, the wind rushing past him, his body leaning slightly forward as his eyes glowed with an intense desire to fight. Behind him, a searing wave of heat rose from the seven thousand Mutri Great Cavalry following behind him.

  Ü-Tsang versus the Great Tang!

  Mutri Great Cavalry versus Wushang Cavalry!

  This was a decisive battle foreordained by fate!

  Rumble! As the seven thousand Mutri Great Cavalry charged, they exerted an aura that was even more grandiose than that of the eight thousand Celestial Wolf Cavalry. All their eyes exploded with the fires of loathing and a desire to fight.

  “Ready!”

  Meanwhile, Li Siye, Huang Botian, Kong Zi-an, and the rest of the Wushang Cavalry officers had noticed the Mutri Great Cavalry approaching. Without the slightest hesitation, Li Siye recalled his men.

  “The Mutri Great Cavalry!!”

  Li Siye’s pupils constricted at the sight of this cavalry force that set even the air itself ablaze, as he immediately recognized who they were.

  The strongest cavalry force of the Ü-Tsang Empire, the only cavalry force titled as ‘Great Cavalry’.

  The ‘Great’ symbolized their unquestioned superiority!

  Although Li Siye had never interacted with the Mutri Great Cavalry, he had fought with the White Braves of Ü-Tsang before. All the Wushang Cavalry had experienced the power of Dayan Mangban’s White Braves. In that battle, the two had been on par with each other, and the ritual tools of the Bon religion had almost led to the destruction of the entire army.

  The Mutri Great Cavalry were ranked even higher than the White Braves, so one could easily imagine how powerful they were.

  “Everyone, get ready! Arrow Formation!”

  Li Siye’s voice resounded over the battlefield, and the Wushang Cavalry gathered behind him once more, the strength of the Ten Charges Ten Victories Formation once more beginning to coalesce. One spear, two, three, four… forty-nine golden spears formed once more above the Wushang Cavalry, and a grim aura of slaughter began to swirl into the air.

  The Skanda Halo could only last for an hour. Once this hour was up, Li Siye’s cultivation level would fall back down to the Imperial Martial realm. Li Siye had to seize this opportunity to defeat both the Mutri Great Cavalry and the Celestial Wolf Cavalry. Only this way could he prevent the Qixi cavalry behind him from being routed.

  Rumble! Under the light of the morning sun, the seven thousand Mutri Great Cavalry grew faster and faster: the Great Scarlet Sun Formation!

  Huoba Sangye had immediately used the strongest formation of the Mutri Great Cavalry. An invisible energy began to flow through the air, enveloping his men, and the blazing energy of the morning sun was drawn away, condensing over their hea
ds.

  These flames turned from incorporeal to real, transforming into an enormous ball of fire that engulfed all the Mutri Great Cavalry. From a distance, it seemed like a moving sun had appeared on the earth.

  “Ah!”

  Gasps of alarm came from all sides of the battlefield at this astonishing sight. Even the Celestial Wolf Great General Duwu Sili couldn’t hide his shock.

  Very few people had not heard of the Mutri Great Cavalry, but because this cavalry force had always remained around the royal capital of the Ü-Tsang Empire, almost no one had ever experienced its true power.

  The Great Scarlet Sun Formation had enveloped all the Mutri Great Cavalry within a ball of fire so dazzling that everyone had to squint when looking at it. This formation had a different strength from the Celestial Wolf Illusory Formation, a blazing and tyrannical power!

  “Damn it! We can’t even fully open our eyes. Li Siye, what do we do?” Huang Botian hollered. Even though he was at the Imperial Martial realm, he was still affected, unable to fully open his eyes or clearly make out the Mutri Great Cavalry, so one could easily imagine what state the rest of the Wushang Cavalry were in. The situation was extremely disadvantageous.

  “That’s right! The light around them is too intense. If we can’t even see our opponents, we won’t be able to attack them.” Kong Zi-an’s worried voice came from nearby.

  Neither the Celestial Wolf Cavalry nor the Mutri Great Cavalry were ordinary opponents, and none of them had ever fought opponents like this. More importantly, the Mutri Great Cavalry seemed even more powerful than the Celestial Wolf Cavalry. The Great Scarlet Sun Formation had boosted their speed, strength, and dexterity, and their power continued to increase, almost on the verge of equaling the Wushang Cavalry.

  Chapter 917 - Wushang Versus Mutri!

  Chapter 917: Wushang Versus Mutri!

  Translated by: Hypersheep325

  Edited by: Michyrr

  “Get ready! Everyone, listen to my orders. The Tibetan formation is similar to the Western Turkic formation in that it only affects our eyes and has no effect on our strength. In a little while, everyone listen for my whistles. No matter how many people are in front of us, just charge forward. If we can’t use our eyes, just close them and listen with our ears!”

  Li Siye’s eyes shone with a determined light as he hardened his resolve.

  When warriors met on the road, only the brave would emerge victorious. The Great Tang had nowhere to retreat. If not even the Wushang Cavalry could stop the Tibetan Mutri Great Cavalry, if nothing stopped the Mutri Great Cavalry, only disaster awaited the Tang army.

  Li Siye had no choice except to fight!

  Rumble!

  The two cavalry forces charged closer and closer to each other.

  “Milord, what should we do? Should we also go in? Work with the Mutri Great Cavalry to deal with the Great Tang?”

  The Celestial Wolf Cavalry stopped in the distance and turned to their captain. The Mutri Great Cavalry had given the Celestial Wolf Cavalry a chance to catch their breath, and even reassemble to attack again. If the Celestial Wolf Cavalry now turned around and worked with the Mutri Great Cavalry, they could definitely defeat the Tang.

  “No!”

  The eyes of the vice commander of the Celestial Wolf Cavalry twinkled with desire, but he quickly shook his head and rejected the idea.

  “The radiance of the Tibetan formation doesn’t just affect the Tang, but us as well. After all, we’re different from the Tibetans and use a different formation. If we force our way in, we might not only be of no help, but might even end up mistakenly attacking the Tibetans. It’s not worth it!”

  At the start, he had found it strange that the Tibetans had stopped and watched from the sidelines, but he suddenly understood that it wasn’t because they weren’t willing to help. Their formation was just too unique, its energy too tyrannical. It was a complete mismatch for the Celestial Wolf Illusory Formation.

  Rooooar!

  Putting aside the Celestial Wolf Cavalry and their hesitation, on the battlefield, a dragon gave a mighty roar in the heavens, causing everyone to look over to see what was happening. Li Siye was leading the Wushang Cavalry, commanding them by whistle, in a charge against the blazing sun of the Mutri Great Cavalry.

  At present, the only person in the Wushang Cavalry who could remain unaffected by the light of the Great Scarlet Sun Formation was Li Siye, who was relying on the Skanda Halo to reach the Saint Martial realm.

  Ten meters, eight meters, five meters…

  Time seemed to suddenly slow to a crawl.

  Boom!

  The Tibetan Great Scarlet Sun Formation was far too dazzling for anyone to see what was going on in the battlefield. They could only see a force of several thousand cavalry crash into an enormous blazing ball of fire. Shockwaves of energy swept in every direction as they crashed against each other with such force that even the distant second defense line trembled.

  Countless horses whinnied and neighed in panic.

  The waves of heat rolling off the clash of these two cavalry forces spread for several thousand zhang, causing all the grass in this area to wither. Even the Tibetan and Turkic warhorses began to neigh, their eyes shrinking in fear as they began to flee.

  Bangbangbangbang!

  After a brief moment of silence, the sounds of innumerable collisions could be heard, as thick as the rain. Countless warhorses crashed into each other in the blinding sunlight and then galloped past each other.

  “Everyone, keep up! Don’t fall out of formation!”

  “Close your eyes! Follow General’s whistles!”

  “Maintain the formation! Kill!”

  The battlefield was a scene of complete chaos. The Mutri Great Cavalry’s Great Scarlet Sun Formation that borrowed the power of the sunlight was clearly showing its advantages at this moment. Although the formation rendered more than half the battlefield blind, the Mutri Great Cavalry were completely unaffected.

  Boomboomboom!

  Their large and lengthy scimitars constantly swung through the air, dragging behind them the dark shadow of death as they accurately struck the Wushang Cavalry. These weapons were completely different from ordinary Tibetan weapons. Though they were still scimitars, they were on a whole different level in terms of size, sharpness, and weight.

  These scarlet scimitars struck with the weight of ten thousand jun, and each one was suffused with a searing energy that traveled through the scimitar into the body of the enemy.

  Even the White Braves would find it impossible to endure this scorching power.

  This was one of the reasons the Mutri Great Cavalry was able to become the strongest cavalry force in the Ü-Tsang Empire!

  Boomboomboom!

  One rain of collisions came after another. The entire battlefield reverberated with the sounds of the impacts.

  “Careful—their scimitars are strange! …Ah!”

  “What sturdy armor! General, our Wootz Steel swords can’t cut through their armor!”

  “Ah!!”

  The Mutri Great Cavalry were not merely hard to deal with because of the blazing energy in their scimitars. Their golden-red armor was also brimming with this scorching power.

  The Wootz Steel swords wielded by the Wushang Cavalry were extremely sharp, capable of cutting through steel several feet thick. The Celestial Wolf Cavalry had armor made from the best steel and strengthened through many toughening inscriptions, yet the Wootz Steel swords could still cut halfway through this armor. But the situation with the Mutri Great Cavalry was completely different. The sharp Wootz Steel swords could only leave shallow indents on their armor, around half an inch thick.

  The armor of the Mutri Great Cavalry was much tougher than they had imagined.

  “I did not think, Great Minister, that the Tibetan Plateau could also produce such powerful equipment!” Duwu Sili suddenly said, squinting.

  Although the Tibetan Great Scarlet Sun Formation was dazzling and brilliant, it had little
effect on a supreme Great General like Duwu Sili. What surprised Duwu Sili most of all was this Tibetan armor.

  Duwu Sili’s Celestial Wolf Cavalry had just clashed with the Tang, so he understood just how sharp those swords were.

  “General’s praise is too much. It’s just some suits of armor. They are hardly worth mentioning.”

  Dalun Ruozan faintly smiled and explained no more.

  Dalun Ruozan had prepared much more for this battle than many people could imagine. He knew the Wootz Steel swords were forged from the Hyderabad ore obtained in the distant Sindhu, and they were so sharp that they could cut through iron like it was mud. Their terrifying power had been displayed long ago in the war of the southwest, and since Dalun Ruozan was preparing to deal with Wang Chong, he could not possibly leave the Wootz Steel swords out of his plans.

  Ü-Tsang resided on the plateau, a barren land that lacked resources, a far poorer land than the Great Tang. Even so, Ü-Tsang had an advantage that no one else had. Over countless years, many meteorites had fallen from the skies and landed upon various places in the vast lands of the plateau.

  These meteorites had been of very little interest to anyone, and most of them were left where they were, until Dalun Ruozan gave the order to have all these meteorites and their metals gathered.

  The amount of Meteoric Metal on the Tibetan Plateau was probably far smaller than the meteorites that Wang Liang had transported from overseas, but it was more than enough to equip seven thousand Mutri Great Cavalry.

  Dalun Ruozan had consumed a great deal of energy to mix the Meteoric Metal with the armor of the Mutri Great Cavalry and reforge them into the current suits of armor.

  The current scene might have been a surprise to Duwu Sili and the Celestial Wolf Cavalry, but it was completely within Dalun Ruozan’s expectations.

  Rumble!

  In the distance, the two cavalry units had finally charged past each other, having reached the conclusion of their clash. The Great Tang’s Ten Charges Ten Victories Formation had received a savage blow, losing half of the golden spears, and the dark clouds in the sky had also completely dispersed. But the Mutri Great Cavalry had not fared too much better, and the scarlet light was now half as dazzling. It was still radiant, but it was much less blinding.