Daqin Zhentiansi

The smoke of battle swirled like a monstrous dragon coiling at the bottom of the valley.

The lava dragon's hundred-foot-long body writhed, carving deep red fiery trenches into the scorched rocks.

The sulfurous fumes made the warhorses of the heavily armored cavalry restless and neigh.

Zhang Yuanyuan descended from the prison chains, which suddenly became as taut as a fully drawn bow.

The chain's body is covered in dark gold patterns, radiating dazzling sparks.

The Blood-Eyed Demon Saint's single eye exploded, and the Myriad Evils Devouring Heart Lightning was wrestling with the chains!
The shrieking of the vengeful spirits surging within the evil thunder collided with the reincarnation Dao patterns formed by the "Nine Revolutions Primordial Qi Nourishing and True Return Holy Chapter," actually igniting a crimson gold furnace within Zhang Yuan's bloodline!

"On the left high ground, the Corpse Dragon Swarm is regrouping!" Xue Dingyue's thunderous roar pierced the battlefield.

Three thousand Eagle Guards raised their crossbows in unison, and thunderbolt arrows transformed into a blue starry river, swirling up demonic clouds and shattering the swooping dragon horde in mid-air!

At that very moment, Zhang Yuan suddenly reached back and grabbed at the source of the evil energy of Riftwind Valley—

"Tsk!"

A bone-corroding Yin energy, wrapped in dark green runes, was torn out of the void by his bare hands!
The Ministry of Works' talisman master was terrified: "This evil spirit corrodes the soul and rots the bones, even a Golden Immortal..."

Before the warning had even faded, the golden-red dragon scales beneath Zhang Yuan's arm armor surged like lava.

The malevolent energy surged through his meridians, creating a deafening clang. To everyone's horror, they saw the tendons of a dragon emerging from the back of his bare hand. The chaotic true energy of the "Dragon Elephant Suppressing Prison Technique" had actually forcibly forged the malevolent energy into his arm bone!
The chain on his wrist hummed like a dragon awakening, and the black gold links clanged as they unfurled golden patterns.

This is an anti-evil body forged by using the foul air of the demon realm as fuel!
"Mountains and rivers remain unmoved, dragons and elephants hold up the sky!"

Yuchi Changshan stood on the shattered giant shield, and the Nine Netherworld Demon-Suppressing Iron Chains twisted and rattled the throat bones of the Lava Demon Dragon.

The massive shields of the Thirty Thousand Rock Camp were joined together with a thunderous roar. The mountain and river reliefs on the shields rose with an earthy yellow spiritual light, and the power of the earth flowed into the soldiers' iron boots along the array patterns.

This is because Jin Yuelin used the "Mountain and River Formation" to draw upon the earth's veins as a foundation, forging the entire army into an unbreakable rock!

Suddenly, an elderly man from Xuzhou, whose hair and beard were covered in blood scabs, rushed out from the formation.

His withered fingers, sharp as halberds, pierced the ten-zhang-long crack in the demonic dragon's reverse scale: "The old wound inflicted by King Ying Wuji three hundred years ago when he slew the demon is here!"

Amidst the roar, the old man's spine straightened like a lone pine tree.

"boom--!"

The crimson golden dragon-elephant phantom lashed down from the sky with its long trunk!

The colossal beast, formed from the blood and qi of the soldiers, trampled the earth, while the hundred-foot-long lava dragon crashed into the valley wall like a meteor.

Amidst the rain of flying charred rocks, two hundred survivors, barefoot and treading on the flames, launched a surprise attack!

The leading youth, wielding a spear made from animal bone, roared as he plunged it into the gaps in the scales: "Blood for blood!"

The demonic dragon's filthy blood splattered, instantly corroding half of his flesh, but the boy tore off the scorching scales and fiercely embedded them into his own chest!

Amidst the rising blood, a howl pierced the heavens: "Zhao Shiqi, a surviving citizen of Xuzhou, today I will use my life as a wedge!"

Jin Yuelin's tiger-like eyes were filled with tears.

The point where these remnant bone spears pointed was precisely the gap in the demon array that he had torn open by personally leading the Rock Battalion in a bloody battle.

The phantom of the dragon and elephant roared to the sky, melting the blood and courage of the remnants of the people and the fighting spirit of the Qin ironclad into a blazing demonic flame!
"Heavily armored cavalry, pierce through the right flank!"

Yu Wanjun's roar was like a giant axe being quenched, fiercely cleaving through the stagnant demonic mist in Riftwind Valley, which was mixed with ice shards and blood.

His heavy spear trailed a dark golden path of destruction, and the ice cones and rock pillars blocking his path shattered and flew apart like rotten wood.

Behind him, five thousand heavily armored cavalrymen moved in perfect unison, their iron-hoofed beasts spewing scorching white vapor from their nostrils, and the heavy armor covered with intricate runes resonated with a deep, thunderous sound during their high-speed charge.

Their formation did not launch a dispersed attack, but suddenly contracted inward, using Yu Wanjun as the tip, transforming into a perfectly formed "Black Mountain-Breaking Cone".

The "Azure Sea Electric Turtle Eye Core" deeply embedded in the mount's shoulder was instantly activated to its limit, no longer as fine arcs of electricity, but condensed into azure plasma as thick as an arm, emitting deep-sea thunder.

The "Spirit Shattering" runes flashing on the tip of the ten-foot-long Demon-Slaying Heavy Cavalry Spear, which was frantically wrapped around it, illuminated the several frost giant elephants that were pressing down like mountains in front of them!
“Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom—!”

A series of terrifying impacts, shattering internal organs, erupted in quick succession!

The heavy cavalry surged forward, crashing into the weakest point at the tail of the giant elephant herd without any fancy maneuvers.

The heavy lance, wrapped in plasma and imbued with the power to pierce through the void, was like a red-hot fork piercing frozen oil.

The Frost Giant's prized thick hide, harder than black iron, and its frost protective layer were rendered useless by the combined destruction of the "Spirit Shattering" rune and the "Azure Lightning".

The spear tip, accompanied by a piercing sound of bones cracking, pierced through the elephant's leg joint and thick, tough tendons!

The stabbed elephant let out a deafening wail of pain, collapsing like a mountain. The collapse of its massive body instantly disrupted the herd's formation, knocking over and trampling more of its kind.

Blood, flesh, and ice shards flew everywhere as the giant elephant's body collapsed. The right wing, which was originally as solid as a moving iceberg, was instantly torn open with a huge gash that flowed with demonic blood!
Just as the last giant elephant collapsed with a mournful cry, and the dust and icy mist it raised had not yet settled, another strange event occurred at the narrow entrance to Riftwind Valley!

The violent shaking of the ground foreshadowed something, and then the smoke and dust were violently torn apart!

Thirty dark blue-green pack wagons, pulled by "Wind-Swed Iron-Bone Beasts," resembled desperate boats emerging from a storm. The wagons were covered in potholes and scorch marks, and the Iron-Bone Beasts pulling them were spitting blood from their mouths and noses, clearly exhausted from their arduous journey.

In the lead vehicle, a captain guarding the carriage had three jet-black, oozing, and venomous "bone-rotting thorns" sticking out of his left chest, his eyes wide with rage!
Half of his body was soaked in splattered blood, yet he still used his mangled body to cling tightly to a cracked "Cold Jade Marrow Medicine Box" beside him. The bone-healing pill bottles inside jingled as they collided, radiating spiritual energy.

"The Wall in the North! Fourth supply shipment! Armor-piercing arrows—120,000! Bone-regenerating pills—800 bottles!"

The captain's roar, filled with the blood and foam of shattered internal organs, drowned out the roar of the battlefield and clearly reached the ears of every Xuanjia soldier.

Before the words were even finished, the dozen or so "Shadow Serpent Demons" lurking in the shadows of the cliff seized the precious moment when supplies appeared and suddenly lunged forward. A dozen or so venomous bone spikes, gleaming coldly like the spitting tongues of venomous snakes, silently shot once more towards the core of the wagon formation and the exhausted captain!

A close call!
On the bridge of the Zhenyu warship, Zhang Yuanxuan's black robe sleeves fluttered slightly.

The glint in his eyes was like a sliver of light breaking through the deepest abyss in the North, reflecting the fleeting killing intent of the battlefield.

He didn't even draw his sword; he simply held his index and middle fingers together and made a cursory gesture along the trajectory of the poisonous irritant.

"Zheng——!"

An invisible string sound, plunging the space into absolute silence, suddenly exploded out of nowhere!

Everyone's hair stood on end at that moment!
Immediately afterwards, a sword shadow spanning a thousand feet, purely formed from endless sharpness and a chilling, freezing will, suddenly appeared!
There are no superfluous colors, only a gray-white that is even deeper than the eternal night!

The air seemed to freeze and cleave instantly. The dozens of highly poisonous bone-corroding thorns were like dewdrops hitting ancient ice before this sword intent that seemed to freeze time itself. They silently and suddenly shattered into the finest gray powder and vanished without a trace!

The blade's momentum hadn't subsided when it swept past the top of the chariot formation, silently slicing off a corner of a jagged boulder on the cliff face, leaving a smooth, mirror-like cut.

Almost at the same time that the blade annihilated the poisonous thorns, Zheng Kanglin, who had just killed several demonic vines on the right flank, opened his tiger eyes wide!
"That demonic insect is courting death!"

He roared, and the dark red "Cangming Dian'ao" crystal core, the size of a pigeon's egg, on his shoulder armor instantly became dazzlingly bright!
Instead of thin chains of electricity, with a loud "crack!", hundreds of miniature, solidified phantoms of deep-sea electric trolls roared out!

They carried violent thunderous energy, dancing like dragons and snakes, precisely biting, entangling, and detonating the cores of the demonic vines that were taking advantage of the chaos to grow wildly again!

Amidst the crackling of blue-purple lightning, the sap of the demonic vine evaporated into a highly poisonous mist.

At the edge of the fog and miasma raging with lightning, the carriage where the captain was located was violently shaken by the huge shock wave, and it looked like the precious cold jade medicine box was about to slip off the crack and fall!
At the critical moment of life and death, more than ten of Zheng Kanglin's personal guards did not hesitate. They formed a human wall with their flesh and blood, roaring and desperately holding back the shaking and overturning vehicle frame, letting the violent impact shake them until blood flowed from their mouths and noses and their bones felt like they were about to break!
"Farewell, Captain! The Qin supply lines are here; not a single arrow will be missing!!"

The leading guard's mouth was spurting blood, but his voice was as firm as steel!

Inside the open medicine chest, hundreds of "Jade Rejuvenating Pills," made from a secret formula from the Imperial Medical Academy, were radiating a warm yet powerful green light of life. Beside them, layers upon layers of armor-piercing arrowheads flowed with a cold, murderous aura.

The light and rays reflected off each other, illuminating the bloodshot eyes of the weary soldiers.

These precious supplies, delivered across mountains and rivers and braving devastating attacks to reach the front lines, were the result of the immense efforts and sacrifices of the hundreds of millions of people in the rear of the empire, especially the bloodline members of the "Yu Yuan Trading Company" under Zhao Yu, who are spread throughout the nine provinces, to ensure the supply of the Qin's sharp blade!

On the edge of the left flank battlefield, beside a cold spring pool polluted by several days of fierce fighting, its color turning reddish-black and emitting a pungent stench, six heavily armored craftsmen, adorned with the insignia of "Rock," stood solemnly like statues.

Their bare arms were bulging with muscles and veins, and their bodies were surrounded by a heavy earth elemental force that could control mountains.

The three people in the middle joined forces to hug a ten-thousand-year-old "mysterious gold pillar" engraved with compound runes of "exorcising evil", "stabilizing the pulse" and "suppressing the universe", with the mithril runes on the top of the pillar shining brightly.

"The earth's veins possess a spirit! All evil spirits are gone! Suppress—!"

The leading master's hair and beard bristled, and a resonance from the depths of the earth erupted from his throat.

The three exerted their strength simultaneously, twisting their waists and hips. The ten-thousand-pound Xuanjin pillar, like the giant axe of Pangu splitting the heavens and earth, accompanied by the sound of wind and thunder, drew a heavy arc and pierced into the turbulent vortex of filth at the core of the cold spring with great force and precision!
"Boom——!!!"

A deep, mournful cry, like the roar of a dragon, echoed from the depths of the earth.

The murky spring churned violently, like an enraged monster spewing out black smoke carrying a thick, putrid stench, attempting to pollute and corrode this foreign object embedded in the lifeblood.

The runes densely covering the Xuanjin Pillar flickered wildly, as if being devoured by billions of corrosive ghosts!
The three masters on both sides had already slammed their palms hard onto the frozen soil on both sides, guiding the power of the earth veins and transforming it into a pale yellow earth spirit light shield, firmly choking off the spread of filth at the edge of the spring.

"Heaven's will is glorious! The law is clear! Purity—!"

The master's hand seal in the center changed again, triggering a crystal stone of the Earth and Soil embedded in the core of the Xuanjin Pillar, which was taken from the altar of the Yongtian Imperial City.

Golden light burst forth from the top of the Xuanjin pillar, like the blazing sun plunging into the deep sea!
Countless fine golden Dao patterns, imbued with the majestic will of the Qin Dynasty's laws, spread rapidly, extended, and permeated along every ripple of the spring water, centered on the Xuanjin Pillar!
"Zizzizi..."

The intense, teeth-grinding purification sounds were incessant!
The thick, foul-smelling black smoke on the water surface evaporated and dissipated quickly, like grease that had come into contact with fire.

The stench was replaced by a fresh and crisp scent, carrying the unique chill of the northern tundra yet brimming with life.

Several children from Xuzhou, who had been sheltered and brought here by the previous survivors, timidly crawled to the edge of the spring under the watchful eyes of the Qingnang Guards, tentatively scooping up a handful of spring water that had just begun to reveal its clear color with their small, cracked hands.

"Ah!" a little girl cried out, not in fear, but in unbelievable joy, "Sweet! It's sweet! Grandma! The water is sweet!"

Not far away, an old woman, withered and rotten like a piece of wood, was being helped by the Qingnang Guards.

Hearing the children's cries, her cloudy eyes stared intently at the rapidly clearing, icy pool. Her withered body suddenly broke free from the support, like a moth drawn to a flame, and knelt on the edge of the cold mud!

She plunged her hands deep into the cold, clean soil, and murky tears gushed forth like a spring, washing away the deep furrows formed by a thousand years of accumulated grime on her face. She let out heart-wrenching sobs and roars, as if she were crying out all the humiliation of the past three hundred years: "Living water...it's the living water of Xuzhou...three hundred years...finally...finally I can taste it again..."

Against the backdrop of the massive battlefield smoke, more than two thousand rescued Xuzhou survivors remained silent like rocks, yet worked efficiently under the command of the "Rock Battalion" soldiers, painstakingly transporting the massive tusks from the carcasses of the frost-covered giant elephants, which resembled hills, to designated locations in the rear.

Ivory as white as snow, corpses as high as mountains, forming a tragic and grand scene.

Suddenly, a gaunt man on the outskirts of the crowd, who had lost his left arm, raised his head sharply. His bloodshot eyes were fixed on the center of the position, on the tattered yet still imposing embroidered Qin banner that fluttered in the wind at the highest point of the position.
This flag is the symbol that the previous refugee squad brought back at great cost and was personally raised by Jin Yuelin.

A surge of pent-up passion from three hundred years ago and resentment that has lasted for ten thousand years suddenly broke through the man's numb defenses!

He let out a low roar, unleashing extraordinary power, and shoved his companion aside. He rushed forward and picked up a broken, bloodstained, and serrated demon soldier's arm blade from the pile of dismembered demon soldiers being moved!

"Roar--!"

Like a wounded lone wolf, he fiercely swung his blade, using all his strength to carve into the hard Qin-character battle flagpole!
The blade rubbed against the black iron, emitting a piercing scream and sparks flying! A clear, deep, crooked mark, imbued with all the effort, was left on the flagpole—

"Li San Gou, a surviving descendant of Xu Zhou! For the rest of my life, I will only follow the Marquis to slay demons!!!"

The knife marks penetrated deep into the wood, carrying the hottest blood and vows of the surviving people!

That strike was like igniting a volcano! (End of Chapter)