These people felt their breathing stop, and fear appeared on their faces. But they quickly came forward and began to pour their Stellar Energy into the formations at their feet.
As they poured in more Stellar Energy, the formations began to swell in power.
Boom!
With a series of booms, the earth trembled. The formation at the very center exploded with energy and swiftly began to turn. A storm of energy stirred up around it.
The formations began to activate in quick succession, ten-some formations lighting up and beginning to turn.
As these formations activated, the temperature began to drop. Behind the formation, the snowstorms across Youzhou began to gather, quickly combining into a giant blizzard that filled the world.
In the blink of an eye, the snowstorm drawn out from Youzhou combined with the snow produced by the formations and howled toward the battlefield.
Snow instantly engulfed the world.
An icy mist stirred once more.
“It’s finally begun!”
Within the steel fortress, Wang Chong narrowed his eyes, slowly looking up as he muttered to himself.
When things were abnormal, evil was afoot!
There was no doubt that Youzhou had begun to move.
Bang!
As these thoughts ran through his mind, cries of alarm rang out, but rather than from outside, these cries came from the inside of the fortress.
“Reporting!”
A few moments later, a messenger frantically rode over.
“Your Highness, it’s bad! There’s chaos in the fortress. The soldiers of the seventh unit went crazy for some reason and started attacking our own men. They’re also charging at the gates. The generals can’t deal with it and are asking Your Highness for help.”
“What? Absurd! How many people do they have? Yet they can’t deal with this?”
Abusi was enraged by this report.
Orders were as weighty as mountains, and those who defied them were executed!
This was the most important military law in the Great Tang, and this sort of mutiny had never happened in the army before.
“General, there aren’t many of them, only two-hundred-some, but they are extremely strong. Our soldiers are incapable of stopping them, even the commandants.”
The messenger lowered his head, cold sweat on his forehead.
“Bastard!”
Abusi’s face turned ashen as he clenched his fists.
“King of Foreign Lands, stay here while I deal with this!”
Mutiny in the army was an immense humiliation. Wang Chong was the commander of the army, so he could not leave, and he needed to preside over the rest of the battle. Abusi was the only person available.
Moreover, when the Tongluo joined the Great Tang, Emperor Taizong had granted the post of Tongluo Great General the authority of a military judge, tasking them with dealing with mutiny in the army.
After saying this, Abusi strode away, swiftly making his way toward the turmoil.
Chapter 2183 - Insurrection at the Gate! (I)
Chapter 2183: Insurrection at the Gate! (I)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Abusi could only walk a few steps before someone called him back.
“There’s no need!”
“King of Foreign Lands?”
Abusi turned in surprise toward Wang Chong, who was still standing beneath the massive dragon banner.
Mutiny among the troops would have an enormous effect on the army’s morale, and it would have to be taken care of quickly to limit its effects on the overall army.
“Heh, Great General, the Great Tang’s military law is the strictest on the continent, and you and I have always been harsh disciplinarians. Do you really think a mutiny could take place in the army?
“Would several hundred mutinous soldiers really be able to cause so much chaos, even break through so many checkpoints and make for the gate?”
Wang Chong was relaxed and confident, his young eyes shining with a profound light.
“！！！”
“!!!”
Abusi trembled in shock.
He was one of the supreme Great Generals of the world, and though he spent most of his time guarding the Imperial City, he had his own extraordinary traits that let him stand out from the rest of the crowd.
As a Great General facing a sudden mutiny, he immediately thought about pacifying the rebellion and calming the rest of the army, giving the matter no deeper thought. It was only Wang Chong’s comment that made him realize how suspicious this was.
This was the forward base, with a garrison of seven hundred thousand soldiers. Let alone two hundred, two thousand or even twenty thousand mutinous soldiers would barely be able to stir a wave.
Pacifying this rebellion should have taken an instant. Such a force never would have been able to threaten the gate.
Ordinary soldiers didn’t have this kind of strength!
After saying these words, Wang Chong put aside Abusi.
“Thank you for your trouble!”
Wang Chong smiled at the messenger soldier and then suddenly grabbed at him.
This sudden action shocked Guo Ziyi and his other subordinates.
But even more astonishing was the messenger’s reaction.
Whoooah!
The messenger grimaced upon seeing Wang Chong snatch at him, and he hastily retreated. He moved with incredible speed, and his body suddenly swelled with energy, far more than he had before.
But in front of Wang Chong, it didn’t matter how strong he was. The moment Wang Chong took action, it was foreordained that he would not escape.
Boom! A powerful pull came from Wang Chong’s hand, causing the messenger to fly from the ground and toward Wang Chong.
Roooar!
The messenger paled and let out an inhuman roar. His bones clacked and groaned as he grew larger. In a flash, the armor he wore exploded off his body, revealing rock-hard muscle.
Even his face began to change, his skin cracking open and falling off like pieces of paper.
Beneath the face was a completely different one.
Seeing that he couldn’t escape, the man let out a howl, black energy seething around him as his fingers took the form of a hook and lunged at Wang Chong.
“Impudent!”
Even Great General Abusi was shaken by this sight.
Clang! He shot forward, his saber leaving its sheath and unleashing a wave of saber energy at that ‘messenger’.
By now, he understood that this messenger was not one of their own.
“Such audacity!”
Abusi’s face was ashen. He had never imagined that someone would be so bold as to disguise themselves as one of their soldiers and try to deceive Wang Chong.
But Wang Chong was even faster than Abusi.
“Hmph!”
With a cold snort, Wang Chong closed his fingers, seizing the messenger by a neck. With another clench and a sharp snap, that man in black who had transformed into a half–Lu Wu had his neck snapped and fell limply to the ground.
The battle had lasted less than a second.
The man in black had used all his Stellar Energy in one attack against Wang Chong, but it had been completely blocked by Wang Chong’s Stellar Energy barrier, not even creating a tiny ripple. The destructive Fire of Lu Wu was also useless, in fact even being absorbed by Wang Chong.
All of his resistance had been futile!
Clang!
At this moment, Abusi walked out from behind Wang Chong and used his saber to shift aside the remnants of armor on that ‘messenger’, revealing the black robe beneath. There was a look of understanding in Abusi’s eyes, and then a complicated mixture of emotions.
“This man… was one of those people you spoke of?” Abusi said.
“Mm.”
Wang Chong gave a slight nod.
While the men in black might have been a secret in the past, they were certainly not
one now.
“What do we do now?” Abusi said, his brows creased in worry.
Ordinary rebellions were easy to deal with, but the mysterious men in black made the situation much more complicated.
“There’s no need to worry. I’ve already made arrangements. Let them be!”
Surprisingly, Wang Chong waved his hand and softly chuckled.
Plans were made, then action was taken. The men in black were extremely skilled in disguise, and he naturally knew that they would try to infiltrate his army, so how could he not make preparations?
In the end, it was just a matter of who was the better schemer.
“There’s no need to worry about the men in black. Pay more attention to the front line. Since Youzhou has activated these men, they probably have another trick up their sleeve.”
Wang Chong smiled, his expression remaining relaxed.
Abusi had been rather concerned, but Wang Chong’s assured manner, after some initial shock, caused him to smile.
This truly was the case!
The one next to him was the number one War Saint whose stratagems reigned supreme. With him here, what did he have to worry about?
The mutiny in the fortress seemed sudden, but it had probably all been in his calculations!
“I’ll go to the front to oversee the army and guard against any mishaps. In addition, when you need it, my twenty thousand Tongluo Cavalry are ready to move out!” Abusi sternly said.
Wang Chong nodded. He looked toward the northeast, where the skies were gloomy and cold winds howled.
Though others had yet to sense anything, Wang Chong could smell the salty scent of the ocean in the wind.
Wang Chong’s eyes flashed, but he continued to act like nothing had happened, and turned to look back at the alliance army.
……
Meanwhile, near the fortress gates…
Roooar!
An inhuman roar resounded. As the alliance army attacked the fortress from the outside, within the fortress, several hundred half–Lu Wus and Black Flame Asuras charged toward the gates, moving through the army with incredible speed.
These men in black were incredibly strong, tearing down all opposition in their way. None of the Tang soldiers seemed capable of stopping them.
“Ah!”
The Tang soldiers screamed as their armor was shattered, the men in black sending them flying into the distance with just one thrust from their palms.
“Don’t fight!”
One of the men in black at the front, who appeared to be their leader, glanced at the subordinates behind him and called out, “Push them aside and open the gate to let An Lushan’s army in!”
As he spoke, he once more thrust out his palm. Stellar Energy and the Fire of Mara howled out, sending several dozen Tang soldiers flying.
These Tang soldiers were all elites, able to defeat any of the alliance soldiers one-on-one, but they were only good for battles with fellow mortals.
In front of the servants of the gods, these so-called elites might as well have been clay dogs, not even able to take one strike.
Boomboomboom!
Thousands of Tang soldiers were knocked aside, the men in black completely scattering the defensive formations in front of the gate.
These men in black ran along the ground like beasts, and the weapons hacking at their bodies bounced off as if they were trying to cut at stone.
“Turn the wheel! Pull the levers!”
“Raise the gate and open the path!”
Another one of the leaders of this group of men in black pointed at the gate, the veins on his neck bulging as he roared.
Roooar!
Seven or eight bestial men in black immediately broke away from the group and toward the levers on the two sides of the gate.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
It took only a few seconds for one of the men in black to get past the Tang army and reach the gate. A burly arm grabbed one of the long levers.
“Success!”
“Nothing but ants! And they wanted to oppose us!”
The man in black inwardly rejoiced as he began to focus his strength to pull down the lever and raise the gate.
But at this moment, the sound of a slicing sword entered his ear.
“Seeking death!”
The man in black roared, and without even turning his head, he punched out behind him.
Bang!
Stellar Energy clashed, creating an explosion, but the results were not what was expected.
An immense energy burst out and sent the man in black flying.
Chapter 2184: - Insurrection at the Gate! (II)
Chapter 2184: Insurrection at the Gate! (II)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
“What?!”
The man in black grimaced and turned around in the air. He barely managed to land and yelled out as he looked behind him.
At some point, a stalwart figure had appeared behind him. This man was covered entirely in armor, only his two eyes showing.
Unlike all the other soldiers, this man wielded a heavy, black sword and wore dark golden armor. His entire body seemed to be blazing with energy that put him on an entirely different level from other elites.
“Those of the evil path will be punished by the heavens!” the mysterious soldier in dark golden armor said, his eyes cold as muffled sounds came from under his armor.
As he spoke, secret tunnels on both sides of the gate opened with a metallic rumble, upon which hundreds of soldiers wearing the same dark golden armor emerged.
“On the orders of the King of Foreign Lands, the Shadow Dragon Division has been waiting here. Devils, we’ve been waiting!”
An officer wearing dark golden armor raised his heavy sword, his aura cold and icy.
Behind him, the hundreds of Shadow Dragon soldiers fanned out, becoming a human wall that stood in front of the fortress gate.
All of the men in black grimaced, but a moment later, their leaders turned cold, savagely laughing as their eyes flashed with sinister light.
“Ants that don’t know their own strength! Everyone, listen up! Kill them!”
Ants were ants, and even if they were stronger, they were just ants that were a little larger. Although these soldiers appeared extremely strong, they were no match for them. In the end, it would just make the men in black exert themselves a little more.
Bang!
The men in black roared and lunged at the Shadow Dragon Division like beasts.
At the same time, the hundreds of Shadow Dragon soldiers bellowed, their bodies seething with killing intent as they charged at the men in black.
Boom!
One of the black-robed leaders waved his hand, sending black Stellar Energy and the Fire of Mara at one of the Shadow Dragon soldiers. The powerful impact immediately sent this Shadow Dragon soldier flying. The black flames seemed to have a life of their own, seeping through the chinks in the armor.
Thump! The Shadow Dragon soldier dropped to the ground, his body already burned down to the bone.
“As expected, an ant. With this little strength, you wanted to oppose us?”
The black-clothed leader grimly laughed, his expression savage. But his smile wasn’t able to last for long, as he soon heard a scream from next to him.
The leader’s face tightened as he turned and saw that three Shadow Dragon soldiers had formed into some kind of joint attack formation, their three heavy swords striking at a single man in black from different directions.
The sharp swords deeply embedded themselves into the man’s flesh.
But what was even more striking was what those Shadow Dragon soldiers did next.
As they restrained this man in black’s vital points, their bodies erupted with Stellar Energy and a powerful pull. The energy of the Fire of Lu Wu within this man’s body immediately began flowing into the three Shadow Dragon soldiers.
Boosted by this boundless energy, the Shadow Dragon soldie
rs swelled in power. A dazzling radiance erupted from their bodies and transformed into three pairs of suns and moons.
The Great Yinyang Heaven Creation Art!
The black-robed leader trembled, the blood draining out of his face.
The Great Yinyang Heaven Creation Art had another name in the Celestial God Organization, but because of Wang Chong’s status as the Child of Destruction, its secular name had surpassed its original name.
“How could this be? They’ve all learned this evil art!”
The black-robed leader’s eyes widened in disbelief.
But there were even more shocking developments awaiting him. He quickly scanned the battlefield and saw similar events taking place elsewhere. It was not just those three who had learned the Great Yinyang Heaven Creation Art.
In terms of individual strength, the Shadow Dragon soldiers could not match the men in black, but three of them were able to firmly hold down a single man in black, and with the Great Yinyang Heaven Creation Art, all of them presented a massive threat to the men in black.
Thudthudthud!
On this battlefield, Shadow Dragon soldiers were being blasted away, but men in black were also being killed.
Both sides had their individual victories and losses, and it was difficult to say which one was the better.
“Damn it!”
That black-robed leader’s expression chilled. He shot forward like a bolt of lightning, summoning his Stellar Energy as he thrust out his palm. Fire of Mara instantly howled out and struck those three Shadow Dragon soldiers.
The destructive power of the Fire of Mara instantly blasted back those three Shadow Dragon soldiers, the flames even penetrating through their armor.
A moment later, the black-robed leader witnessed something shocking and terrifying.
In the distance, the three Shadow Dragon soldiers struck by the Fire of Mara swiftly rolled and stood back up. With a light pat, the horrifying Fire of Mara that could melt metal was extinguished.
Other than the Stellar Energy that had been consumed by the Fire of Mara and some jolting of the internal organs, the three Shadow Dragon soldiers were fine.
“Impossible! Utterly impossible!”
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