The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 300 I’ll Help Him to Achieve His Aim

The Hedong Army maintained a powerful offensive, which had already charged into the middle-troop formation of the Zhaoyi Army. If the middle troops couldn’t steady itself, it would be bound to cause chaos in the whole army. Decisively, Kang Chengqian ordered his personal guards to go out to fight. Meanwhile, he gave out a loud cry. Carrying the long spear at his side, he leaped to the front of the enemies’ formation, fighting hand to hand with them.

Kang Chengqian had over one hundred personal guards, most of whom were Qi-refining warlocks with extraordinary military power. However, after they joined the battle, more than half of them were soon wounded or dead in the face of the attacks from Land Buddhism’s monks in their enemy troops. Even Kang Chengqian himself was severely injured.

“Military Commander! Let’s go before it is too late to withdraw!” The bloody Leader of Kang Chengqian’s personal guards rushed to support him.

Looking around, Kang Chengqian had the whole unfavorable situation in his sight and became very angry about the situation. Also, he felt very painful upon seeing the casualties of his soldiers because they were the capital that he lived on. Clenching his teeth, Kang Chengqian said, “I cannot withdraw! If I pull out at this time, the enemy army will pounce on our army, and it will certainly be defeated!”

The Leader of his personal guards said eagerly, “Even if you don’t retreat, you can’t hold out. You’d better go earlier!”

But Kang Chengqian broke away from the many people around who were supporting him with their hands. With a fierce look, he said determinedly as if he was going to risk his life to fight. “Prince An will not leave us in the lurch! The Zhaoyi Army can be defeated after fighting with all their might, but we can never take the initiative to flee in disorder! Go to fight with me!”

Seeing that Kang Chengqian once again came out to fight, the Leader of his personal guards became extremely anxious, but he couldn’t stop Kang Chengqian. At this time, two monks from Land Buddhism jumped out of the Hedong Army and pounced directly on him. The Leader of his personal guards cried in desperate. “Military Commander!”

Kang Chengqian noticed that the two monks were attacking, but he had no time to react now. He was only a Qi-refining warlock, and he had to charge in cooperation with the Military Formation. Thus, he had no way to deal with the two monks in the Spiritual Master Realm who charged at him.

The monks were as fast as ghosts. In an instant, they came up to Kang Chengqian and tried to grab him. It seemed that they wanted to capture instead of killing him. At this moment, Kang Chengqian was getting cold feet and hands because everything would be over if they caught him alive.

Kang Chengqian was nervous, but he had no fear.

Because he knew that he would never get caught, and the reason was simple: Prince An hadn’t yet made his move. As long as Prince An was there, he could simply send a few masters under his command to assure his safety. Kang Chengqian was very sure about that.

The fact did not disappoint him. Someone intercepted the two monks from Land Buddhism halfway before they could even touch his armor. The person waving his Invincible Painted Halberd was the Son of God. Then, a surge of black aura engulfed the two monks. Before they could see who was attacking them, they were pushed back into the air while vomiting blood!

Kang Chengqian suddenly looked refreshed. “Prince An, he finally comes at my aid!”

After the Son of God injured the two monks from Land Buddhism and rescued him, Kang Chengqian couldn’t wait to hold his long spear high and ordered the Zhaoyi Army in excitement. “Spread my order to the whole army: it’s our chance to counterattack; let’s charge our enemy’s formation!”

Since Prince An chose to attack, the Hedong Army was bound to retreat. Therefore, this was the best chance for his Zhaoyi Army to fight back.

Kang Chengqian was extremely sure about this. Not only because Prince An had a high cultivation level, but because of his past military exploits — Prince An wouldn’t easily launch his attack before the opportunity for combat was coming, but once Prince An attacked, it meant that it was the time to win the battle.

Just then, Li Ye landed from the air. By one move, he knocked the Crouching-tiger Arhat off the Hedong Army’s military formation by his sword and directly drove him out of the battlefield.

When those generals and cultivators of the Zhaoyi Army saw such a scene, their eyes suddenly brightened, and their spirits were refreshed. After Kang Chengqian shouted his order out loud, a blast of horns and battle drums sounded together. Then, there came the sound of surging battle-cries from those soldiers and generals who began to launch their counteroffensive.

The Son of God and Nangong Diyi rushed to the front line to clear the way for the army.

Crouching-tiger Arhat stared at Li Ye, but he did not act rashly. His feeling of contempt had long since dissipated. Just after the two short rounds that he fought with Li Ye, Crouching-tiger Arhat clearly realized that Li Ye’s cultivation level was not lower than him. He could never win Li Ye with ease. It was destined to be a hard battle.

Li Ye saw that Crouching-tiger Arhat stayed unmoved. With a sneering look, Li Ye teased him with interest. “The great Venerable Maitreya, why don’t you raise your hand to strike me? Do you want to besiege me with your coming companions?”

Crouching-tiger Arhat was slightly stunned. “Li Ye actually recognized my status. Since then, besieging him is indeed the best way. But if I do that, I will lose my cool as an Immortal.” Thus, Crouching-tiger said, “Go back, you guys. I am going to capture this evildoer by myself without your help!”

Half of those monks from Land Buddhism had arrived here. There were seven to eight of them, most of whom were Yang Spiritual Masters. Initially, all of them intended to begin the siege to Li Ye because they witnessed that Li Ye defeated Crouching-tiger Arhat by one move. They were afraid that Crouching-tiger was no match for him and feared Li Ye’s strength.

When Crouching-tiger spotted the looks of those monks, he immediately knew what they were thinking. And he was absolutely outraged. He was one of the eighteen arhats, but now even people on his side looked down upon him. They felt that he might not be able to defeat this mortal Li Ye. Such a reaction was his shame!

One of the monks did not agree with Crouching-tiger Arhat’s words. He tried to persuade him, “Venerable Maitreya, this person has killed dozens of Buddhism Sect’s masters who were in the Kong Kim Realm. Just now, he repelled your attack. Thus, you shouldn’t underestimate his strength. I hope that you can give top priority to the overall situation and stop acting on the strength of an impulse.”

“Shut up!” Crouching-tiger Arhat was furious. He lifted the Demon-vanquished Truncheon and slashed at Li Ye while shouting harshly to the monks around. “I will never forgive anyone who dares to help!” Crouching-tiger Arhat thought in his heart, “Give top priority to the overall situation? What a high-sounding reason! He said that only because he didn’t think that I could defeat Li Ye. Outrageous!”

Crouching-tiger Arhat came at Li Ye in a violent rage. Thus, he wouldn’t hide or keep any of his strength. So Li Ye carefully wielded his swords several times to dealt with his attacks and slightly pulled away from him.

Crouching-tiger Arhat certainly would go into a rage. For strong ones, being questioned about his strength by their comrades was far more unacceptable than being mocked by their opponents.

“Li Ye! I respect that you are a real tough man. Dare you end the fighting by one move with me?!”

Li Ye dodged and transferred with flexible movement techniques. It was so difficult to capture him. It was also hard to besiege and defeat him in a short time. Thus, Crouching-tiger turned from anxious to angry. His companions were watching alongside, so he must quickly defeat Li Ye to prove himself. He wanted to shut them up and remove their doubts.

Now Crouching-tiger Arhat became red to the ears like a giant fiery bear that was walking fast. Seeing that, Li Ye was amused and couldn’t help laughing upon hearing his words. “Are you going to compete for the cultivation power with me?”

The so-called ending the fighting by one move meant that the two sides should abandon their combat skills and techniques and directly compete with each other for the cultivation power. Whoever more powerful would win the battle.

Crouching-tiger Arhat yelled to challenge him. “Li Ye, dare you?! Are you a true man?!”

Li Ye had quite flexible movement techniques and excellent combat skills. Thus, Crouching-tiger Arhat couldn’t gain any ascendancy over him, which greatly shocked Crouching-tiger Arhat. At the same time, Crouching-tiger Arhat also recognized that Li Ye was not someone ordinary.

It seemed that Crouching-tiger Arhat was irritated by his companions and lost his head. Therefore, he decided to put up a desperate fight with Li Ye. But actually, he only followed the trend after considering the changes. He knew that at present, it was difficult for him to conquer Li Ye. Only by competing for the cultivation power could he have a sure grasp of the outcome.

Li Ye kept the distance with him and sheathed his Luke Sword. Shaking his head and sighing gently, he watched Crouching-tiger Arhat with a complicated, compassionate look. “Some people want peace, and I give them the peace; some want wars, then I have a battle against them; someone wants to destroy himself, so I’ll certainly help him to achieve this aim.”

Hearing these words, Crouching-tiger Arhat was stunned for a moment. He instantly became furious when he understood that Li Ye teased to say that he was going to bring about his own destruction.

“You are looking for death!” Crouching-tiger Arhat roared and rushed out like a bolt of lightning. Instantly, he was in front of Li Ye. He poured all his cultivation power into his right arm, and suddenly punched at Li Ye’s face!

Li Ye also launched a blow and met Crouching-tiger Arhat’s fist.

Since it was a pure competition of cultivation power, no change was needed here. After the two fists smashed into each other, the waves of Spiritual Qi spread suddenly with the center of the circles located at their fists. Their power waves reached as far as hundreds of meters. Within the scope, there was flying sand and rolling pebbles as in a storm. The grass and trees were cut into halves. Moreover, the power turned over the people and horses around them. Only cultivators above the Spiritual Master Realm could stand still.

Crouching-tiger Arhat’s eyes froze because he didn’t expect that the power that Li Ye’s fist delivered was about the same with him! No matter how crazily he tried to output his Spiritual Qi, Li Ye’s fist didn’t move an inch.

Gradually, Crouching-tiger Arhat realized that he couldn’t win this battle easily. In previous, it was a little rush for him to order all the other monks to watch the fight. One must know that Li Ye was only a Yang Spiritual Master, but he was in the Ground Immortal Realm! Now it made sense for him that Li Ye could hurt Feihong Bodhisattva. Crouching-tiger thought that he was too conceited and made the same mistake that Feihong Bodhisattva had made.

“What happened? It seems that you are exhausted.”

Just when Crouching-tiger Arhat was thinking about these things, Li Ye suddenly gave him a smile.

Seeing Li Ye’s curved mouth corners in the smile, Crouching-tiger Arhat instinctively felt something terrible was going to happen. So, he left the competition and was about to withdraw.

But it was too late.

An unusual high-pitched dragon’s scream sounded in Li Ye’s body. The sound abruptly burst out in Crouching-tiger Arhat’s ears like a sudden clap of thunder. Being stimulated, he was nearly deafened because of the loud and buzzing sounds reverberating in his ears!

At the same time, Li Ye’s fist emitted dazzling green and white light. Suddenly, a huge dragon rushed out from his arm and directly hit at Crouching-tiger Arhat’s fist!

In the horrified eyes of Crouching-tiger Arhat, a series of crisp sounds came from his right arm. His arm started to become twisted from his knuckles. Then the twisted flesh and bones appeared along his arm like waves. Before he could react, his entire right arm that was twisted like a noodle suddenly burst open. The bones and flesh of his arm turned to the size of gravel and exploded in all directions!

Crouching-tiger Arhat was greatly horrified. Hurriedly, he wanted to pull back and retreat.

But before he could leave, Li Ye’s indifferent face appeared before him. Li Ye lifted his mouth corners a little, showing a faint smile. “The person doomed to die always likes to say that his opponent is looking for death, for example, you. Someone who has confidence in killing others usually doesn’t like to express their determination. He only wants to defeat his opponent. After that, this person will tell his enemy how stupid he was, just like what I am going to do now.”

Before he finished speaking, he wielded the Luke Sword.

Suddenly, blood spilled like springs.