Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 295 Nobody Gains an Advantage
A commoner's anger can be terrifying, especially a commoner like He Junnian.

With no way to avoid it, he took a heavy blow. His free left hand transformed into a claw, and three jade-white fingers tore open the throat of the Climbing Star Tower assassin, ripping out a section of his trachea. His body was suspended in mid-air, using his right hand to brace against Liu Changsheng's fire chain, while his left leg kicked another assassin with a knife in the neck. The force was so great that he actually kicked the assassin's head off his neck.

As soon as his feet touched the ground, he tore at Liu Changsheng's fire chains and wandered around. Liu Changsheng was also furious. He clasped his hands together and merged the two fire chains into one. At the same time, the ancestral fire in the Dragon God Palace rose again, like a giant hand spewing out from the palace, engulfing Liu Changsheng's body in flames.

"He Junnian, prepare to die!"

As Liu Changsheng shouted, the flame, which had more than doubled in size, suddenly changed from orange to blue. The fire chain instantly wrapped around He Junnian's wrist and climbed up his arm.

He Junnian chuckled, and a bright yellow flame suddenly rose from his chest, then enveloped him like a bright yellow feather robe. When the bright yellow flame collided with the ancestral fire, it made a soft 'pop' sound, and his arm was suddenly severed at the point where the two flames collided.

Wu Tong transformed into a ball of blades once more, spinning as it hurtled towards He Junnian. The other assassins followed suit, and Yun Ce seized the opportunity to pull out a new meteor hammer from the Dragon Ball. The hammerhead followed behind Wu Tong's ball of blades, waiting for Wu Tong to be knocked back so he could take advantage of the situation.

Having broken free from the control of the fire chains, He Junnian, despite losing half an arm, became even more ferocious in his attacks. His remaining right hand seemed truly invincible. The Star Tower assassins, who possessed strength of over a thousand generals, were like infants before him. They could dodge He Junnian's hand, but they couldn't escape his legs. Even if they could escape his legs, they couldn't escape his elbows, knees, or shoulders. He even smashed an assassin's head to pieces with his head.

In just one breath, the assassins who had rushed towards He Junnian retreated even faster. However, many of the retreating assassins had already turned from living people into corpses.

Wu Tong's ball of knives shattered after He Junnian inserted his right hand. Wu Tong hurriedly retreated, but it was too late. The shattered blades caught up with him and burrowed into his body, with some even protruding from his back.

Yun Ce did not choose to save Wu Tong. The meteor hammer grazed Wu Tong's ear and smashed into He Junnian, who was chasing after him, with the force of ten thousand jin. He Junnian opened his right hand and chose to collide with Yun Ce's meteor hammer once again. With a 'bang', a clear palm print was imprinted on the meteor hammer again. It was no longer able to hurt anyone and collapsed to the ground.

However, this deadly move also successfully repelled He Junnian's pursuit, allowing Wu Tong to stagger and fall to the ground. In the instant he fell, Wu Tong threw a bomb at He Junnian.

The bomb exploded just as it reached He Junnian. Having anticipated this move, He Junnian raised his intact right arm and his missing left arm in a cross shape to protect his eyes. The shockwave from the explosion rose again, and countless fragments scattered in all directions. Yun Ce let out a strange cry, pulled Wu Tong's body, and rolled over to hide behind a boulder.

After the explosion, before He Junnian could lower his arm, the meteor hammer that had landed at his feet exploded again. The fragments of the meteor hammer forced He Junnian, who had just blocked the bomb fragments, to retreat rapidly. Unfortunately, no matter how fast he retreated, he could not keep up with the speed of the flying fragments. More than a dozen fragments finally broke through his aura and entered his body.

In the distance, Liu Changsheng waved his sleeve to brush away the shrapnel, and as his hand left the dark sleeve of his robe, another chain of fire appeared and flew toward He Junnian, who was still being bombarded by the explosion.

Hiding behind the boulder, Yun Ce saw He Junnian still retreating. He flicked his finger, and a black pebble the size of a peanut landed on a wine jug that He Junnian had previously dropped. The wine jug was rolling outward with the blast wave. After being hit by the black pebble, a new explosion occurred before the blast wave could spread.

After the wine pot exploded, there were no fragments, but a white flame appeared. The flame landed on He Junnian's left leg, and immediately a burst of fire rose up, engulfing He Junnian firmly in the white flame.

"Boom boom..."

Two loud bangs arrived as expected, and He Junnian, who was at the center of the explosion, was thrown high into the air by the blast wave, like a rag doll.

Liu Changsheng's fire chains wrapped around He Junnian's left leg again, and before He Junnian could land, he swiftly pulled him back. At the same time, his right hand, which had been gathering strength for a long time, stretched out from the dark sleeve of his robe. Once He Junnian was pulled over, this palm would fall.

Just as a smile appeared on Yun Ce's lips, He Junnian's left leg suddenly detached from his body, and his body fell down with lightning speed. In the blink of an eye, his right hand, like a hook, instantly killed the remaining four Climbing Star Tower assassins. Just as he hopped to the side of the fallen Wu Tong and raised his right palm to kill Wu Tong, Yun Ce reached out from behind Wu Tong and exchanged a solid palm strike with He Junnian.

In that instant, Yun Ce realized that He Junnian was in a terrible state. He had lost half of his left arm and his right leg. His once slender and ancient face was now covered with fragments of the meteor hammer, and his right eye had become a bloody black hole.

With a "bang," the two palms touched. Yun Ce used almost all his strength, but the palm did not land solidly. It felt weak and unsteady. He thought to himself that something was wrong. He Junnian's body had already crossed the steps and flipped into the ravine next to him.

"Liu Changsheng, since you have started this war, then I will repay you with war."

Hearing He Junnian's voice fading into the distance, Yun Ce, who had originally intended to pursue him, stopped and turned to Liu Changsheng, asking, "High Priest, will He Junnian die?"

Liu Changsheng did not answer, and turned back to the Dragon God Palace with a blank expression.

While coughing up blood, Wu Tong asked Yun Ce intermittently.

"Is He...Jun Nian...dead?"

Yun Ce shook his head and said, "Judging from the commotion, this guy's got some work to do."

Wu Tong spat out a mouthful of blood and screamed at Yun Ce with heart-wrenching agony, "Kill him—!"

Yun Ce then spat out a mouthful of blood and said, "Do you think I can still kill him now?"

After speaking, he turned and descended from the Dragon God Temple, step by step, down the imperial palace mountain known as Dragon Mountain. Once again, flames raged throughout Chang'an City, and cavalrymen were everywhere, indulging in rampant burning, killing, and looting.

With each step Yun Ce took, blood trickled from the corner of his mouth. After examining his internal organs, he discovered that they were no longer in their original positions. His lungs were filled with blood, his liver was ruptured, two blood vessels in his body were severed, four ribs were broken, and almost none of the bones in his feet were intact.

At this moment, he missed his dog terribly...

The strange phenomenon that occurred at the Dragon God Temple was witnessed by everyone in the city, and the cavalry deliberately avoided the area around the imperial city.

When Yun Ce staggered down from the imperial city, he saw a little girl leading a Thunder Smoke Beast.

The Thunder Smoke Beast looked familiar; it should be a chestnut horse. The little girl's clothes were strange; her outer robe was made of bear skin, and her inner clothes looked like someone had altered boxer shorts.

"You're back?"

Yun Ce shook his sluggish head and said, "I'm back."

The chestnut horse lay down on the ground, and once Yun Ce was on its back, it carried him slowly back.

Yun Ce barely opened his eyes and said, "I need to find a safe corner to rest, to rest."

Huo Wudi, leading his chestnut horse, looked up at Yun Ce and said, "We can't go to the original two-story building anymore. It was burned down by a group of cavalry just now."

However, I have another hiding place, which I'll be there soon.

The chestnut horse carried Yun Ce through a deserted garden, and under Huo Wudi's command, it carried the two of them over a high wall. Then, watching Huo Wudi move a stone from a rockery, a dark hole appeared before the chestnut horse. The hole was not large, and the chestnut horse was too tall to enter. Yun Ce dismounted and walked into the hole step by step.

Huo Wudi whispered something in the chestnut horse's ear, and the horse immediately lost its majestic appearance, slinking away into a patch of withered grapevines.

The air inside the cave was fairly fresh, but there was a faint smell of rotting corpses when passing some of the fenced rooms. This was unavoidable, after all, structurally speaking, this place was originally a dungeon.

After Huo Wudi closed the cave door, the cave was pitch black, so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. After she lit an oil lamp hanging on the wall, a line of fire stretched along a rope into the depths of the cave, illuminating the entire cave as if it were daytime.

"Where is this place?" While Huo Wudi was lighting the fire, Yun Ce took out a new tent from the Dragon Ball and threw it on the ground, asking.

"my home."

"Your home? Oh, right, it's Hengji's home."

"Don't worry, Heng Ji won't come."

"Oh? What did she go to do?"

She said she went to see my father.

Huo Qubing is still alive. Although Yun Ce didn't quite believe the legend, the existence of those maps forced him to take the news seriously. After all, he was the one who learned that Huo Qubing was still alive.

At this moment, he couldn't care less about these things. The folk performance had already burned into a ball of fire in the Dragon Ball, and was continuously pouring heat into his weak body.

Although this heat cannot quickly restore his body, it can consistently provide him with energy, stimulating his internal energy to expel impurities from his body again and again.

He really wanted to ask Liu Changsheng for help, but Liu Changsheng turned away with extreme ruthlessness, so he gave up the idea of ​​entering the Dragon God Palace.

What good would it do to go in now? Eji and the others wouldn't be able to help, and if I went, I might even bring them danger.

As Yun Ce pondered, he lay down on the mat inside the tent.

Huo Wudi seemed terrified because Yun Ce was spitting out black blood, and his body was curled up in the tent, like an infant, as if he was about to die.

(End of this chapter)