Chapter 1028: Chapter 1028: The Dragon Rises to the Nine Heavens (End)

“This is impossible!”

At the central altar of the Yan Army’s rear array, an old cultivator with a tall crown and white hair spoke out in shock.

He was none other than Zhang Jiushan, the current head of the Kunlun Taoist Palace, who had been promoted to Great Heavenly Master thirty years ago, with inscrutable Taoist skills.

This time, Zhang Jiushan broke the convention and personally led over a thousand cultivators from the Taoist Palace to serve the Yan Army, mainly because the Emperor of Great Yan offered him an offer he couldn’t refuse.

To counter the cannons and firearms of the West Liang Army, this head of the Taoist Palace spared no expense in setting up a great array, hoping to use the celestial weather to diminish the enemy’s strength.

To his utter surprise, the spell jointly cast by this contemporary Great Heavenly Master and thousands of Kunlun cultivators was easily solved and rendered fruitless.

Although this solution was not a direct confrontation but rather a clever bypass, Zhang Jiushan was very aware that he could never accomplish such a feat.

In fact, he couldn’t imagine what kind of person would be capable of such a feat!

“State Preceptor Wang Chen!”

Relying on the array’s induction, intuition told Zhang Jiushan that he had only one opponent.

“How is this possible?”

The Great Heavenly Master murmured to himself, his complexion turning considerably ashen.

Though no personnel were lost and the array still stood, this contemporary head of the Kunlun Taoist Palace had lost all confidence.

“Bad news!”

In the next moment, Zhang Jiushan’s eyes widened in anger, and he shouted loudly: “Retreat quickly!”

However, his warning came too late. Before the surrounding cultivators could react, streaks of lightning suddenly fell, striking the heads of all the cultivators seated in the array.

“Ah!”

Shrill screams of agony rose abruptly, as hundreds of cultivators were struck by the lightning, collapsing to the ground with smoke billowing from their bodies.

Zhang Jiushan, because he presided over the core, also endured the most lightning strikes.

His Taoist crown, the horsetail whisk in his hand, the Jade Decree tied around his waist, and the magical talismans hidden in his robe all shattered at once.

These precious magic artifacts shielded Zhang Jiushan from the first wave of lightning strikes, allowing him to roll and crawl out of the array in an extremely disheveled manner, but he ultimately saved his life, though barely.

“Wang Chen!”

Having just rushed out of the array, Zhang Jiushan suddenly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.

His opponent not only resolved his array attack but also counterattacked along the qi signature. Such methods completely surpassed the knowledge of the Great Heavenly Master, instilling in him an unprecedented fear.

The current head of the Kunlun Taoist Palace closed his eyes with a wry smile.

This time it was a truly disastrous loss, staking his lifetime’s reputation, and also damaging his Taoist foundation and cultivation level.

His disciples and cultivators had suffered heavy casualties!

Twenty miles away at the central army of West Liang, Wang Chen released his grasp of the sword hilt.

The magic sword he had forged himself had just completed its mission, breaking into pieces and now completely scrapped.

The construction of the Mountain River Great Array would have been valuable under such an assault from the Kunlun Taoist Palace. Even though Wang Chen could resolve it, counterattacking would have been beyond his capacity.

However, the current him had already touched the essence of this world through the Mountain River Great Array, and could now harness the power of heaven and earth to cast even more potent spells.

Zhang Jiushan’s encounter with Wang Chen was not just a matter of bad luck.

After resolving the “little trouble” brought by his opponent, Wang Chen’s gaze swept across the entire battlefield and immediately ordered, “Full army bombardment, iron cavalry on both flanks standby!”

His command was transmitted to the front line at the highest speed.

Under the cover of numerous firearm shooters, the gunners of the Firearm Machine Army raised their cannon mounts, aiming the muzzles at a more distant enemy.

They skillfully loaded a precise amount of refined gunpowder into the cannon, and then rammed in the specially made shrapnel shells!

“Stand by–”

“Fire!”

Accompanied by a screamed roar, the cannons once again let out an earth-shattering bellow.

But unlike before, this time the cannons were not only fully loaded, but they were also loaded with more powerful shells.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

One by one, the shrapnel shells flew across nearly ten miles and burst open amongst the ranks of the Yan Army, immediately whipping up a bloody carnage.

The Yan Army could never have dreamed that the Great Liang cannons could fire so far; caught completely unprepared, they immediately fell into chaos.

Every single shrapnel shell that exploded in the midst of the crowd caused terrifying casualties. The splintering shrapnel was something ordinary armor simply could not block, and once it penetrated the flesh, it inflicted severe damage.

Only a few Yan Army generals, powerful and clad in heavy armor, might survive such an assault.

But how could the ordinary soldiers endure it!

Just after the first round fired by the hundreds of Great Liang’s field cannons was complete, the main force of the Yan Army had already collapsed by half.

After three rounds of artillery fire, their entire army was completely disordered.

It was at this moment that two elite Iron Cavalry units from the West Liang Army plunged into the battlefield from the left and right flanks, like two sharp spears stabbing fiercely into the Yan Army’s vitals.

This became the last straw that broke the Yan Army!

The sounds of fierce combat, screams, wails, cries…

The total collapse of the several hundred thousand strong Yan Army resembled a landslide, an earthquake–such that even the most astute and powerful commanders were helpless to stop it.

Countless soldiers of the Yan became the playthings under the hooves of the West Liang Iron Cavalry; they even trampled over each other, swinging their swords at their own comrades in a desperation to stay alive.

Most ridiculous was the artillery belonging to the Yan Army, which had not even been brought out for use before becoming nothing more than piles of scrap iron on the ground.

These weapons, fashioned after the West Liang’s Firearm Machine Army, also became the key targets of the West Liang Iron Cavalry’s strikes.

“All forces, charge!”

Wang Chen leapt from the watchtower, shooting up into the firmament in an instant.

He spread his invisible wings and swept over the battlefield, like a deity looking down at the collapsing great army of Yan State, then started picking off those Yan Army experts who fought desperately.

With the full assault of the West Liang Army and Wang Chen’s personal participation in the battle, the collapse of the several hundred thousand strong Yan State army greatly accelerated, with many despairing Yan soldiers throwing down their weapons and kneeling on the ground, crumbling for miles from front to rear.

The West Liang Army’s pursuit carried on northward, continuing until the fight ended at sunset.

In this battle, the West Liang Army suffered less than three thousand casualties, virtually annihilating nearly four hundred thousand of the Yan Army. The brilliance of this victory was almost unparalleled throughout history.

And the outcome of this battle, without a doubt, spread at the fastest speed throughout the world, striking terror into the countries of the Cangqing Domain.

Especially the many forces within the Great Liang territory were shaking with fear and trepidation.

Because they suddenly realized that a ferocious primeval beast was squatting right beside them!

And now, this beast had revealed its exceedingly sharp fangs!

[Fate +5000]

Wang Chen looked back to the east and vaguely saw a Cangqing dragon soaring up from the direction of Hanhai City.

Ready to charge into the Clouds!

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