It widened its huge jaws, revealing its razor sharp fangs right before the Chief Commander’s eyes!
“Arrrrgh!”
The sunlight had shifted, lighting up the countenance of the figure upon the warhorse.
Just one glance, and it put the Chief Commander’s heart into great shock!
Seated atop the warhorse, was actually a clear faced youth that looked to be about only fifteen years of age. The youth was wearing a suit of silver armour, his eyes filled with chilling murder, the stiffened corners of his mouth, revealing the rage burning within.
Jun Wu Xie sat high above, looking down at the Chief Commander helplessly pinned down by the massive black beast, those frosty eyes, seemingly looking at a man already dead.
He was obviously just a young youth, but the Chief Commander saw upon the head of the youth, the symbol of the Fire Country’s ruler, the Emperor’s crown!
[This youth….. is the Fire Country’s Emperor! !]
The Chief Commander could not believe his own eyes. It hadn’t been too long ago, when they had heard a shocking piece of news. The Fire Country’s previous Emperor had suddenly announced his abdication of the ruler’s throne in favour to the possessor of the Fire of Imperial Fire. However, the very day that the news was leaked out, the person who had just became the Fire Country’s Emperor had suddenly disappeared from the Fire Country’s Capital. No one knew who that person was, and no one knew where that person had gone!
The Chief Commander would never even in his dreams have thought, that his first time seeing the new ruler of the Fire Country, would be on the soils of the Qi Kingdom like this!
“The armies of the Condor Country and the other two countries. Where are they?” Jun Wu Xie asked, her eyes narrowing slightly.
[Not enough…..]
[Still not enough…..]
[Just one army of the Prosper Country was not enough to extinguish the raging inferno within her heart!]
She would never be able to forget. The scene her eyes saw the dead bodies of the fallen Rui Lin Army soldiers scattered upon the lands of the Qi Kingdom. Never will she forget when she saw the hordes of vultures circling above the corpses, and the nightmarish sight of those scavengers eating their flesh!
The stalwart and honourable men of the Rui Lin Army, blood spilled across the battlefields, defending their home country, an army her grandfather had painstakingly trained and groomed with his life’s blood and tears, which had been so mercilessly killed and trampled upon, by the combined strength of these four countries!
The vengeance due to the Rui Lin Army, would be exacted through her hand!
The countless debts of blood owed to the Qi Kingdom, she would claim it all back one by one, from the four countries’ allied forces!
“They….. They have already reached….. reached the Imperial City…..” The Chief Commander stuttered out in terror, unable to fathom why he would be so fearful of such a young youth.
All temperature immediately drained out from Jun Wu Xie’s face and she snapped her head up to look in the direction of the Qi Kingdom’s Imperial City!
[Grandfather! Uncle!]
“Kill him.” Jun Wu Xie said through her tightly clenched jaws.
The black beast opened its jaws and tore out the Prosper Country’s Chief Commander’s throat!
Bright red blood spewed forth like a spring, spraying across the area!
Splattering over Jun Wu Xie, staining her silver armour in a shade of red!
“Big Brother!” Jun Wu Xie called out loudly all of a sudden!
The figure of Jun Wu Yao flashed from among the enemy soldiers numbering in tens of thousands to appear before Jun Wu Xie. He was all covered in blood, but not a single drop was from his body.
“Hmm?”
“Bring me to the Imperial City! Immediately!” Jun Wu Xie’s heart had fallen into an icy lake. Along the way here, she had already seen an innumerable number of corpses of the Rui Lin Army, and she did not know how many in the Rui Lin Army had lost their lives in this war. But one thing she knew for certain. With the armies of the other three countries pressing towards the Imperial City, the Qi Kingdom had already fallen into a truly desperate state!
There wasn’t another single minute to lose!
She must, and immediately rush to the Imperial City!
Volume 12
Chapter 1156: “Imperial City In Crisis (1)”
As the Prosper Country’s army had still not been completely eradicated, and Jun Wu Xie needed to rush to the Imperial City immediately, she could only have Jun Wu Yao bring her by flying there.
The Qi Kingdom’s Imperial City was shrouded in the thick smoke of war.
Arrows were flying through the air like rain and soldiers fell from the city walls, but the gaps would be quickly filled up with more soldiers running up to the positions to pull back their bows to shoot at the enemy!
The Imperial City’s walls were tightly shut as the armies of the three countries charged at it, trying to break through it.
Within the city, countless soldiers were pushing against the city’s closed gates with all their might, as thick logs were carried to the gates to prop it up to resist the incessant battering upon it.
“Hurry! Archers keep up!” Jun Qing stood within the city, directing the defence of the city, as the concentrated barrages of arrows from outside were already sailing over the city’s walls to fly within the city itself. Many of the arrows were lit with fire and all the soldiers around the perimeter of the walls had raised their shields to stop the falling arrows, with the clear clanking sounds suddenly reverberating inside the city, the fire arrows bursting in a shower of flames and sparks when they landed!
“Quickly put out all the fire!” Jun Qing shouted, wishing that he could split himself up. With the enemy at the gates, the only choice left for them was to defend the city till the end!
Once the city’s gates were breached, the soldiers of the three countries would spill in like the unstoppable tide and the soldiers they had within the city would not be able to resist the lions outside which numbered more than a million!
The common citizens within the city were hiding within their own homes to hide from the assault from rain of arrows, while all the able bodied men had already given up on hiding. As the country’s citizens, they had chosen to step up at that moment. They did not possess high spirit powers, nor did they have powerful ring spirits, but they still have their pair of able hands! With the city on fire, they carried water to help put them out, and when the soldiers got injured, they carried them away to have them get treatment!
Within the city at that moment, only the frail elderly and womenfolk with their children were hiding quietly, the rest of them, all able bodied adults had involved themselves with this battle to defend their homeland!
The soldiers from the three countries then prepared to scale the walls!
The Qi Kingdom’s soldiers poured flammable oil onto the scaling ladders and set them on fire to prevent the enemy soldiers’ infiltration!
The shattering explosions and shrieking howls pierced the Heavens!
Mo Qian Yuan stood in the city, looking at the chaotic scene before him as his heart winced. He had ignored all his officers’ protest and had personally come to join the battle dressed in armour.
[He is the ruler of the Qi Kingdom, so how could he continue to hide within the Palace and allow the men in his army and his citizen’s blood to continue to be spilled!]
The city’s gates were taking a huge battering, the reinforced gates had shown a crack under the incessant ramming, the endless quivering of the wood saw chips flying with each impact, just like the final struggle put up by the Qi Kingdom, tottering and shaking.
Everyone was stubbornly resisting, but in the hearts of them all, they knew clearly that their resistance would finally still result in futility.
Outside the city, were three armies from three countries surging against their gates.
Breaching the city, was a matte
r of time.
But…..
Not a single one among them was willing to give up at that moment!
This was their country! The soil their homes sat upon!
Even if they fought till their last drop of blood, they would never want to become a slave from a fallen country!
Mo Qian Yuan stood upon the street, looking at the medley of his citizens, watching them put their common and mediocre ring spirits to use, in support against the Imperial City from being breached. Seeing them hold farming and work tools tightly in their hands, as they charge shouting towards the city’s gates, their brawny muscles bunched up tightly as they pushed against the gates together with the soldiers, the rims of his eyes suddenly felt hot.
In this life, he had experienced quite a bit. Patricide, usurpation, scheming against siblings….. before being installed into this rulership of the Qi Kingdom!
He had never known, with the Dragon Robe on him, what he gained was not just status and authority, but his shoulders were also burdened with whether the Qi Kingdom lived or perished. He had never known that the citizens of the Qi Kingdom, would step forward in a situation like this!
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Chapter 1157: “Imperial City In Crisis (2)”
He had never known, with the Dragon Robe on him, what he gained was not just status and authority, but his shoulders were also burdened with whether the Qi Kingdom lived or perished. He had never known that the citizens of the Qi Kingdom, would step forward in a situation like this!
At that moment, Mo Qian Yuan felt an immense pride. He was proud of himself to be born into this country!
The most glorious thing that had happened to him in his life was to have become the ruler of the Qi Kingdom!
Proud of the people of the Qi Kingdom, proud of the men of the Qi Kingdom’s army!
Although the Qi Kingdom was small, but everyone within the Qi Kingdom, the soldiers with the people, came together to protect their country!
To defend the pride of the Qi Kingdom!
With such an army, with such people in the country, how rare and precious was that?
Even if the Qi Kingdom was to fall, the backs of the people in the Qi Kingdom would not bend!
Rather a broken jade piece than a tile whole! [Translator’s Note from Cloud: (Chinese idiom) In this instance, sensible replacement would be: Rather choose death than to suffer dishonour!]
“Duke Lin! The city’s gates are not going to hold!” A soldier pushing against the city’s gates shouted out in terror towards Jun Xian who held command of the forces within the city. His eyes were filled with fear, a fear not borne from the fact that he was about to face the enemy and meet impending death, but a fearful despair that the country was about to fall!
[From the time when the Qi Kingdom was founded, how many battles big and small have they seen? How many invasions from stronger forces have they pushed back? Although they were not considered to be a powerful country, they nevertheless held their own belief. They defended their lands and protected their homes, all because their belief had never wavered, that their country must not fall!]
[After having struggled through the tumultuous wars at the founding of the country, to finally enjoy a period of peace. But now….. everything is about to end?]
They would not accept it!
Unacceptable!
Jun Xian’s brows knotted tightly together. Once the city’s gates were breached, how long would the soldiers within the city be able to hold out for?
The number of Rui Lin Army soldiers he had left were not much and the Qi Kingdom’s army’s numbers were dwindling continuously.
Would they be able to last past this day?
Jun Xian could not be certain. He had fought through many wars and had a soldier’s spirit that had climbed out under blood. But at that moment, faced with the desperate straits that the Qi Kingdom was in, he could not devise a solution to get them all out of it.
“All Rui Lin Army soldiers heed my command!” Jun Xian suddenly took a step forward!
All the Rui Lin Army soldiers in the city who had miraculously managed to survive all turned their gazes towards Jun Xian.
“From the day that the Rui Lin Army was established, I and the other old Generals knew then that this army will forever protect the Qi Kingdom’s soil. In the face of the kingdom’s current crisis, this battle, will become the final battle of the Rui Lin Army! I, Jun Xian, throughout my entire life, my greatest pride is to be able to lead all of you here, a group of loyal and iron blooded men such as you! Today, even till the last breath, till the last drop of blood! Do not besmirch the name of the Rui Lin Army! Even knowing that the name Rui Lin Army will no longer exist under the Heavens after today, we must make everyone throughout the lands remember it! That the Qi Kingdom once had a most ferocious force that struck fear into the hearts of their enemies! An army that never admitted defeat! At this final juncture, fight showing off the guts of the Rui Lin Army!” Jun Xian lifted his head, his gaze determined and unwavering. Under the strong wind blowing, he seemed to have gone back into the past, in his twenties at his prime, valiant and formidable, leading the newly formed Rui Lin Army, charging into the battlefield!
“Kill! Kill! Kill!” The earth shattering roars tore out from the throats of the Rui Lin Army soldiers!
They did not fear death, and welcomed the battlefield!
They were born with soldier’s spirit, fated to tangle with blood battles!
Born for the battlefield, die by the battlefield, would be their final moment of glory!
The Rui Lin Army’s vigor shot towards the skies, the ear splitting roars bringing hot blood to pump into the chests of the people around, roaring in defiance that epitomized the Rui Lin Army’s unyielding spine!
Jun Xian drew a deep breath, and exchanged a glance with Jun Qing standing atop the city’s wall. Jun Qing nodded and gave his father smile that belonged to a son.
Jun Xian then retracted his gaze and unsheathed the sword at his hip, facing the city’s gates, sinking into his emotions in the final moments.
Volume 12
Chapter 1158: “Imperial City In Crisis (3)”
On the outside of the Qi Kingdom’s Imperial City, at the back of the three countries’ armies, the Commander in Chief of the Condor Country sat overseeing the entire siege, with his eyes narrowed as he watched the city engulfed by the flames of battle. At his side, a good looking young youth dressed in white clothes sat leisurely upon a horse, as he looked at the turmoil being inflicted upon the Imperial City, with a lazy smile on his lips.
“Such a small country and it had taken all of you so much effort. Is this the extent of the Condor Country’s might?” The good looking youth remarked, as he glanced at the Condor Country’s Commander in Chief, his eyes filled with disdain, without the slightest sign of respect in them.
Towards the youth’s sneering question, the Condor Country’s Commander in Chief however did not dare to utter a word in rebuttal but only said: “Although the Qi Kingdom is small, but it is the bone that is the hardest to gnaw upon among all the countries. The size of its lands in their entirety, is less than one fifth of the Condor Country, however, they possess the strongest and most powerful force within their armies. If they did not have that army, under the tussle for power of the various countries, the Qi Kingdom would have long lost their ability to defend themselves.”
Although the Qi Kingdom was going to be defeated, but the Commander in Chief of the Condor Country deeply respected this most ferocious strike force. Even if the Qi Kingdom fell this day, the Rui Lin Army was still held in honour and esteem.
The country’s fall, was no fault of theirs, but was due to the foolishness of the previous Emperor of the kingdom.
“Ha, that is merely just an excuse and I am not going to believe it. In a place like this, could it really be possible that a thing such as an undefeatable soldier’s spirit would exist? I’m sure it’s just that you are all too weak that you would need the combined might of four co
untries just to attack a small country like this, and even needed half a month to do it. You all must truly be useless.” The youth said sneeringly.
The Condor Country’s Commander in Chief’s brows creased together, and he fought to suppress the rage filling up in his heart.
“What I have promised you, will definitely be done.”
The youth threw a sidelong glance at the Commander in Chief and said: “Is there a need to get so displeased? This deal, was one that your very own Emperor pleaded with us to agree to. If not for all his begging, there are many people who would be willing to work for us. Without you guys of the Condor Country, we can still seek out the Fire Country. Moreover in this deal, the Condor Country has nothing to lose. To annihilate a tiny Qi Kingdom, we will be able to get what we seek, while your country will be able to gain more power, so why not?”
“What is it that you people are looking for?” The Commander in Chief asked uneasily as he looked at the youth. The youth’s age looked only to be about slightly over twenty but his possessed extremely strong powers. Even the most powerful fighter in their entire country had when faced with this youth, been unable to even survive a single strike from him. They had gone to seek the Condor Country’s Emperor and agreed on a secret deal between themselves, which he was not privy to, but only knew that their mission was to destroy the Qi Kingdom, and after the Qi Kingdom’s Imperial City fell, they were to assist the youth in searching for something.
The youth then replied: “That is not something you should ask about.”
The Condor Country’s Commander in Chief clenched his jaw and lowered his head.
However, at that very same moment, a roar of chaos suddenly broke out from the back of their armies that reached them!
The Condor Country’s Commander in Chief turned his head back to look and saw that an army was suddenly charging towards the three countries’ armies from the back!
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