Without a Heroic Spirit, I Can Only Hand-Craft a Mythical Version of Myself – Chapter 53

Ch 53: Zu DaShou: What happened?

The Qin army, following Sun Chuanting and stationed in Jinzhou, and the Guan Ning cavalry under Zu DaShou quickly took action.

After a short while, a series of sharp piercing sounds rang out, accompanied by the roar of terrifying energy, slamming into the city walls.

One by one, the warriors stood solemnly, some even re-fastening their unfastened armor, standing behind Sun Chuanting and Zu DaShou with a stern military appearance.

Sun Chuanting did not look at these soldiers who had always made him feel proud. He stared into the distance, feeling an unprecedented dryness in his throat.

“In the past, what you fought against were all like this…”

Sun Chuanting couldn’t continue. At this moment, he only felt incredible…

No, this kind of aura, this kind of terrifying power, not only proves that the other side has mastered the art of battle formations, but also that the strength of the demon soldiers forming the basis of their war must be outrageously high.

Undoubtedly, even if the current Great Ming went all out and did not consider the issue of financial resources and cultivation resources… it would not be possible to create such an army in just one or two decades.

How did Zu DaShou hold out in the Northeast for decades?! Sun Chuanting was not surprised that Zu DaShou was utterly defeated, and he could even fully understand Hong Chengchou’s capture ten years ago… What surprised him was that he could actually hold on for so long…

“…I don’t know?!” Zu DaShou also looked blank.

No, what he fought against in the past were not armies of this level!

The demon cavalry roared, their battle qi soaring to the sky.

A slender figure suddenly soared into the air, standing in the high sky.

He was wearing a yellow robe, and the character “King” was faintly outlined on his forehead. Naturally, he had the demeanor of an overlord. Although he was alone, he seemed to overlook the entire city of Jinzhou.

“I am Huang Taiji, Emperor of the Qing. Surrender quickly, and you will still be granted the title of Marquis!” Huang Taiji’s voice was deep, his face arrogant, and his aura at the peak of the Heaven and Earth Realm was undisguised, raging in all directions.

“…The emperor of the pseudo-dynasty?” Sun Chuanting’s eyes suddenly narrowed, and then he exchanged a glance with Zu DaShou. Zu DaShou nodded slightly, confirming that the other party was indeed the demon emperor.

Sun Chuanting thought for a moment and whispered a few words in his ear. Zu DaShou’s expression changed drastically, but his lips moved, and he glanced at the terrifying demon army with difficulty. In the end, he nodded with difficulty, and both of them conveyed orders to the signal soldiers behind them.

Then…

Sun Chuanting and Zu DaShou attacked at the same time, soaring into the air and erupting with the aura of the peak of the Heaven and Earth Realm. They charged towards Huang Taiji…

The demon army was powerful. If they really attacked head-on, this city under their feet might not last more than three days. Or rather, not only Jinzhou, but the entire Northeast could not stop the power of this terrifying demon army…

At this moment, the only chance of salvation was to capture Huang Taiji. Although the difficulty was beyond doubt, it was worth a try!

Huang Taiji’s eyes flickered for a moment. He looked at the two top generals who were charging towards him, and at the gate of Jinzhou City that suddenly opened. The Guan Ning iron cavalry and the Qin army iron cavalry swept out from the gate at the same time, obviously to collide with the demon army and carry out containment, so that the strong of the demon army could not rescue Huang Taiji.

“The game is set!” Huang Taiji smiled as he looked at the two who rushed in front of him. His five fingers turned into claws, and black flames flowed like demons between the claws. His dark red eyes narrowed slightly, and his smile carried a ferocious killing intent.

“What?!”

“This is…”

The moment Sun Chuanting and Zu DaShou saw the black fire, an inexplicable unease surged in their hearts. But even if they realized that something was wrong, it was too late to retreat. They could only roar at the same time, pushing the battle qi in their bodies.

A series of terrifying battle qi waterfalls condensed in the void, intertwined with the forbidden techniques that the two had worked so hard to cultivate, and simultaneously intertwined towards Huang Taiji.

One attacked the head, the other attacked the lower body.

“The insidious trick developed by Qi Jiguang!” Huang Taiji’s eyebrows jumped as he looked at the attack coming from the lower three paths, and he gently blew at his claws.

The black flames directly soared, blooming with terrifying baleful aura. The qi of the Heaven and Earth Realm seemed to turn into fuel. Once the black flames touched it, the fire became more and more intense, directly burning away the two’s killing moves, and even spreading towards Sun Chuanting and Zu DaShou in the opposite direction…

The expressions of the two changed drastically, and it was too late to retreat.

“I haven’t seen you in two years, your strength has increased!” A smiling voice sounded, and a rusty kitchen knife appeared lightly, gently sliding across the void in front of him, as if cutting tofu—

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Cutting off qi, cutting off everything that could be cut off, cutting out a vacuum zone in the void.

The black fire extinguished out of thin air!

Sun Chuanting somersaulted in the air, his battle qi wrapped around his body, landing thirty meters away, his body tensed.

Zu DaShou was even more embarrassed. He fell to the ground with a swoosh in the void, constantly rolling until he was a hundred meters away before turning over and sitting on the ground with a thud, panting heavily, his face dazed and blank, with a sense of surviving a disaster.

Zu DaShou suddenly remembered something and raised his head in horror. Sure enough, he saw a young man in a Confucian robe smiling and blocking Huang Taiji. A name flashed in his mind…

Huang Taiji’s posture was no longer as calm as before, and a haze appeared in his eyes, “Butcher.”

“That’s me!” Chu Mo raised the rusty kitchen knife high.

A series of piercing sounds rang out.

The demon army, which had already collided with the Guan Ning iron cavalry and the Qin army, no longer had the calmness and depth of the past. The commotion was mixed with a bit of uproar…

One by one, princes wearing yellow armor soared into the air.

“Imperial Brother, I’m here to help you!” A burly man at the front roared.

“Stop them!” Even after this great change, Sun Chuanting’s heart was surging, but after all, he was a veteran of the battlefield. Before he could even say a few words to the butcher, he directly did what he should do most at the moment.

He raised the demon-slaying sword high, his qi erupted, and from above, he slashed at the burly man at the head of the demon army’s reinforcements.

After Zu DaShou reacted, he didn’t have time to pat the dust off his body, so he quickly soared into the air and met a demon prince.

Huang Taiji did not care that the demon princes could not support him immediately. He stared at Chu Mo with a bit of gloom, and suddenly took a deep breath and laughed heartily.

“Brother Zhang! Are you going to help the decadent Southern Dynasty?”

Without waiting for Chu Mo to answer, Huang Taiji said to himself, “Zhang Tongle, is that the name? I already know the reason why you are against me! The demon army eats people, and this is also a measure that I have been trying my best to change and suppress.”

Huang Taiji naturally changed his self-proclaimed from the domineering “I” to the more intimate “me.” His temperament also became gentle, and there was an unspeakable personal charm in his words.

He spoke eloquently, “I will not shirk responsibility, but the biggest culprit in the death of your parents is precisely the Ming! Your collateral ancestors are Zhang Juzheng, who continued the life of the Great Ming! What a hero? What an amazing talent? A prime minister for the ages, well deserved!”

“But, what did Ming give your Zhang family… If they hadn’t driven your Zhang family to this small city in the Northeast, how could you and your family be separated?”

Huang Taiji looked sincerely into Chu Mo’s eyes, “You have killed many of my demon soldiers, and even if the hatred has not been fully avenged, it has been avenged for the most part! But… what about Ming?”

There was a dead silence.

The two armies fighting on the battlefield naturally did not have time to think about this kind of problem.

However, Sun Chuanting, Zu DaShou, Dorgon and others fighting in mid-air, as well as the soldiers guarding the city in the distance, all set off a huge wave in their hearts.

Zu DaShou, who collided with Hooge and knocked him away, didn’t have time to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and his face turned pale, “Butcher… is a member of Zhang Juzheng’s clan?!”

The next chapter will be before five o’clock in the evening… Adjust your biological clock.