books44 Chapter 967 - 822: Cowardly Like Mice
Chapter 967 - 822: Cowardly Like Mice
Seeing San like this, Shi Chun didn't hold back either. He quickly moved to sit behind San, conveniently saving himself the effort of using magic to float, allowing him to focus on absorbing the killing aura and circulating Demonic Qi.
This comparison, this gap, made Wu Jinliang twitch his mouth. He truly wanted to be good friends and brothers with San, having just fought against enemies side by side, yet when he turned around, San treated him as an outsider, leaving him feeling a bit bitter...
At the Beiju Command Center, after exchanging details with a group of people, Xiao Ruomei left the group and quickly walked up to Lan She, reporting, "Sir, the Tokens inside the Extreme Abyss have already all been moved together. It can be basically confirmed that the Tokens in Chang Shifei's possession and those with Shi Chun's group have already converged."
Lan She said in a deep voice, "What I need to confirm is whether the Token is in Chang Shifei's hands."
Xiao Ruomei hesitated slightly and gave a not very favorable answer, "Normally, after acquiring the Token, Chang Shifei would send someone to contact us from the surface of the Extreme Abyss. The Tokens have been together for some time now, and with the route being familiar, there should have been enough time for someone to contact us from the surface, unless some situation has made it inconvenient. The biggest issue is, the Tokens' movement direction doesn't match the safe route we know, otherwise, there's no way Chang Shifei would be running around chaotically within the Extreme Abyss..."
Lan She's face darkened, "Are you saying the Tokens in Chang Shifei's hands have fallen into the other party's hands? How is this possible? All the competent members of the Mingshan Sect have already left the Extreme Abyss. How could the remaining rabble be a match for Chang Shifei?"
Xiao Ruomei glanced at his colleagues and said, "They just discussed that Li Hongjiu should be with Shi Chun and his group, and they suspect whether Li Hongjiu might have intervened."
Lan She sneered, "Absurd, Li Hongjiu is clearly still seriously injured. If he had already recovered, how could he not return to the Nanshan Team to assist his senior brother? Besides, the Chang family in the Cultivation World is no joke. Without the support of top Great Sect Divine Skills, none of the top card generals from the various teams are likely to be a match for Chang Shifei. I spent significant effort to enlist the support and manpower from the Chang family. Put simply, even if Li Hongjiu wasn't injured, he might not be a match for Chang Shifei."
Xiao Ruomei did not argue with him, and obediently nodded, "Then it might be that Chang Shifei has managed to extract other safe routes from them, and he may contact us once things are stable. We might as well wait and see."
Lan She nodded slightly but remained somewhat uneasy.
There is no choice. Words are one thing, but before the facts are clear, convincing oneself to take one's logic as fact is inappropriate. After a bit of thought, he calmly asked, "Is Shi Chun still alive?"
The image was crowded with people; it wasn't flat on the ground but gathered in a domain of empty space, with people blocking people everywhere, and with the same view obscured, Shi Chun's location couldn't be seen clearly.
Xiao Ruomei said, "He should still be alive. According to prior reports from informants, Shi Chun was barely holding on, probably having vomited half his body weight in blood. If Wu Jinliang and others hadn't arrived in time to aid him, he likely would have fallen into Feng Yin's hands. I'll confirm it again immediately."
Lan She stood up and said, "Although it was thanks to the armor's defense, that rascal managed to kill Su Jikuan, and Luo Que was also slain by his remaining strength. This shows that rascal is valued by the Xuanji Token Master for a reason. Now that he's severely injured and unable to hold out, it's the right time to deal with him. Once he recovers, he will be a major threat. It's time for us to intervene. Order our forces to assemble and attack the battle formation. Whoever takes down Shi Chun, I'll give them the first merit!"
Xiao Ruomei did not hurry to accept the order and asked in confusion, "In such a large-scale battlefield, forcibly attacking would result in significant losses. The Token is already in our hands, isn't such a cost unnecessary?"
Lan She admitted honestly, "What you said earlier isn't without reason. Those Tokens in the Extreme Abyss might also not be in our possession, so we need to prepare for both scenarios. It's not just us — other teams also won't let Shi Chun recover. Tong Mingshan's group risked charging into the battlefield to save Shi Chun, and all the teams have noticed, how could they let such a vulnerability slip through their fingers?
In other words, seizing Shi Chun is equivalent to tying the hands and feet of Tong Mingshan's people.
Smashing Feng Yin and making him flee heavily injured shows Wu Jinliang and his group's capabilities. Although it's unclear why they were previously chased down so badly, there must be something to it. Capturing Shi Chun will naturally reveal the answers. Also, the Battle Armor they're wearing, the Sky Splitting Sword is a major threat, and these Battle Armors could counter the Sky Splitting Sword. It concerns the final victory, so a contest is inevitable."
Xiao Ruomei suddenly understood and immediately nodded, "Alright, I'll dispatch troops to take action right away."
Once said, it is indeed done.
Soon, three units of about 30,000 Beijiu People each launched an attack from three different directions onto the battlefield.
The scale of the entire battlefield became ever more grand, with the aftermath ravaging the ground like a crushing tide, even pushing and filling a large section of the Extreme Abyss Rift Valley with collapsed banks.
After the two Tokens in the Extreme Abyss moved as one, several other major teams were likewise alarmed, as that involved about four thousand Tokens.
After consulting at the Heavenly Court Command Center, based on the movement trajectory, they also thought it likely that the Tokens had fallen into Shi Chun's group.
However, now that Shi Chun is said to be in a critical situation, it's not easy to verify. Manxi forced himself to Mulan Jin, explaining the union of the Tokens' movement before mentioning the main issue, "On the surface, Shi Chun's group seems to have no capable fighters left within the Extreme Abyss to oppose Chang Shifei. Of course, the Commander can summon Shi Chun's group, and must know more about their members..."
The placid Mulan Jin suddenly interjected, "Don't announce that Shi Chun can quickly heal Dongguo Shou."
Manxi was stunned, then suddenly realized, and tried to ask, "Li Hongjiu?"
The logic is clear, if there's Healing Holy Medicine on Shi Chun's side, and if they can quickly restore Dongguo Shou, naturally they can also quickly heal Li Hongjiu.
Mulan Jin said indifferently, "Who knows what's going on."
Implying that, I'm guessing too.
Things displayed by Shi Chun repeatedly defy expectations and surpass common sense, making him dare not easily judge by common sense anymore.
While Manxi silently nodded, he sighed, "Such Holy Medicine being available to Li Hongjiu, and their efforts to save him reveal an extraordinary relationship between them. No wonder Li Hongjiu hasn't shown himself even after healing..."
He stopped there, as that was where the Xuanji Token Master advised against public announcements.
At this moment, he took out the Mother-child Talisman, checked the newly arrived messages, and breathed a sigh of relief, "Dongguo Shou has already arrived. This 'Inch and Mile' Divine Skill is indeed extraordinary."
While sending replies, he withdrew from Mulan Jin's side to his subordinates to make arrangements. The battlefield was too vast, and even though Dongguo Shou had arrived, he couldn't blindly rush in and start killing; it wouldn't help in an emergency. Assistance from this side was needed...
The one-armed floating Dongguo Shou, holding the Mother-child Talisman, looked out at the grand battlefield floating like a massive cloud wave between heaven and earth. Even from such a distance, he could sense the chaotic strong Mana fluctuations.
Despite facing such a large-scale battlefield, his face at the moment only showed bewilderment.
Just now, Commander Manxi informed him of another piece of good news: Feng Yin had died, reportedly hacked to death in the chaos.
This rhythm of celebration truly matches the Commander's name.
Of the headlining warriors of the Five Great Teams, only he remains, yet he doesn't feel joy, only confusion. The revenge he'd suppressed all this time for his lost arm has no target.
With his arm broken by someone, he hid until his enemies were gone before coming out to reign supreme, then seized victory over others?
The taste of lying in wait to win is maddeningly frustrating, something only he understands best.
He repeatedly questions himself, why did he wait until now to come out?
Swish swish, a group of East Victory Team people rapidly flew over, seeing Dongguo Shou suspended in the air, they stopped nearby. The leader pointed and questioned, "Who are you? Which team are you with?"
Dongguo Shou had no distinguished battle armor arm guard, and not everyone recognized him.
However, he could see that these hundreds weren't from the Heavenly Court Team, and with a belly full of frustration, he suddenly vanished from his original spot.
When he reappeared, he was right in front of the person gesturing and talking.
That person was utterly unprepared, his throat was grasped by Dongguo Shou, and with a snap, it was directly twisted.
"Ah..."
"Who is this?"
The group exclaimed in shock, hastily striking out, yet they couldn't even touch Dongguo Shou's clothes. As they blinked, they saw him appear at a distance, facing away from them and looking toward the battlefield, clearly disregarding them.
This ghostly ability scared the group enough, knowing they had encountered a master, no one dared to act recklessly anymore.
They began to retreat slowly and in formation, some reported urgently.
The message quickly reached the East Victory Command Center. With such a powerful master appearing, naturally, the Command Center wanted to investigate, and after determining the exact location, the Heavenly Mirror rapidly switched over to view.
Soon, a single-armed figure appeared in the mirror image.
"Dongguo Shou..."
An exclamation rose, drawing Wei Mo, who was in conversation and arranging matters with several others, to look up and spotted the figure being magnified and confirmed in the mirror image—indeed, Dongguo Shou with a broken arm.
Seeing this person reemerge, Wei Mo's cheek muscles twitched violently, his face looked very unsightly.
To him, though Shi Chun had killed Su Jikuan and Wu Jinliang had severely injured Feng Yin, Shi Chun and the others, in the eyes of the teams, couldn't be compared to Dongguo Shou's level of threat. Moreover, Shi Chun was now on the brink of collapse and easily manipulated.
Dongguo Shou's abilities to unleash large-scale devastation with Word and Law Follow, Luo Que and Fan Sleeve sweeping vast areas, and Su Jikuan's indestructible Star-shattering Finger breaking formations, these are skills capable of immediate and rapid strategic-scale destruction.
The appearance of Dongguo Shou even affects his last advantage in East Victory, the Sky Splitting Sword!
Using the Sky Splitting Sword in groups against Dongguo Shou's Divine Skills might truly be ineffective.
The word 'fear' was directly written on this Commander's face, and he couldn't help but curse through gritted teeth, "Hiding until your opponents die to pick the spoils, what kind of Great Sect disciple, I see nothing but a cowardly rat, it's simply a colossal joke!"
This was also a significant reason why they previously judged Dongguo Shou unlikely to resurface.
After cursing, he suddenly shouted, "Where is Blue Child, where is Blue Child positioned?"
With Dongguo Shou appearing in the East Victory Mirror Image, the spies of each command center were naturally not mere decorations.
In the West Niu Central, Niu Qian was organizing preparations for a decisive attack. As the chatter about "Dongguo Shou" began, Niu Qian looked up to check, and upon clearly seeing the person in the mirror image, his expression suddenly darkened.
The gloom shifted across his face for a while, then he asked in a deep voice, "How many Demon Riders are in position?"
Huang Xiu reported, "Over nine hundred riders are already in place."
Niu Qian decisively said, "Don't wait, launch the attack directly as planned, and be sure to capture Shi Chun!"
The battlefield is too vast; wanting to snatch someone alive proves challenging, thus this side planned a strategy involving a thousand Demon Riders forming a war formation group attack, preparing to powerfully pierce the battlefield, seizing control to capture Shi Chun.
If Su Jikuan were still alive, they wouldn't dare execute this move.
Dongguo Shou's appearance also forced this side to advance the plan, fearing they would be too late otherwise.
Huang Xiu hesitated, "But... Lord, many of our forces are still engaged in the skirmish. Launching the attack now means we won't have time to retreat, likely causing severe casualties among our own."
Niu Qian sternly responded, "Coordinate as much as possible, but don't delay, execute immediately!"