Chapter 503: Killing in Three Moves! (1/2)
Chapter 503: Killing in Three Moves!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Boom!
The black-skinned and furious Ksitigarbha Vajra Guardian took a step forward with its right foot and immediately sent one of its vajras swinging. There was a heaven-shaking boom as a flood of Stellar Energy swept across the world to smash Li Siye. This massive power was enough to pummel a hill into dust.
Rumble! In the face of this heaven-shaking vajra, Li Siye raised the massive Wootz Steel sword over his back, stirring up roaring waves of energy. Bringing the sword over his head, he slammed it down.
A blazing lightning bolt streaked out of the air. Dust plumed as these two Profound Martial realm experts clashed.
”This…!”
When the dust settled and Wang Chong saw the result, his eyebrows flew up in disbelief.
Ü-Tsang had many formidable martial arts, and though Wang Chong didn't know many of them, this black-skinned and furious-faced Ksitigarbha Vajra Guardian was unquestionably one of them. But this was not the reason for Wang Chong's surprise. What shocked him was that Li Siye's sword, personally forged by Wang Chong and inscribed with many toughening and sharpening inscriptions, had actually been blocked by those golden gauntlets worn by that Ksitigarbha Vajra Guardian.
How could there be an armament like that? Wang Chong asked himself in consternation.
A Wootz Steel weapon could cleave through metal and cut through jade, and was so sharp that a falling hair would be severed on its unmoving blade. And this weapon was even more impressive in Li Siye's hands. As a future Great General of the empire, Li Siye could display an unfathomable power with this weapon in hand. Back then, he had relied on his own power and this sword to exterminate the hundreds of Black Dragon Bandits.
Wootz Steel weapons counted as one of the sharpest weapons in the world, a fact that could not be questioned. Wang Chong had never imagined that any other weapon or armament would be capable of blocking Li Siye's full-force blow.
At this moment, Wang Chong heard a very soft but crisp sound. This sound was almost inaudible, but Wang Chong had managed to catch it.
No, he didn't block it! His gauntlets are cracked!
It was obvious that the material those gauntlets were made of was slightly inferior to Wootz Steel.
It's Meteoric Metal!
With this flash of insight, Wang Chong immediately understood.
A material that could still block Wootz Steel but was slightly inferior could only be Meteoric Metal. The Tibetan Plateau didn't have much iron ore, so most of their iron ore was imported from elsewhere. However, the Tibetan Plateau did have one thing: Meteoric Metal.
Over the ages, meteorites would often fall into the pastures of the Tibetan Plateau.
The Ü-Tsang Empire would often dispatch people to gather those fallen meteorites and forge weapons from them to equip their subordinates. What Wang Chong had not expected was that this Tibetan commander not only knew the Ksitigarbha Secret Art, he also had a weapon forged from Meteoric Metal.
Rumble!
Dust roiled as that giant six-armed Ksitigarbha Vajra Guardian wielded vajra, spear, cudgel, and gauntlets against Li Siye, joining its attacks with the other Tibetan cavalry. The power of the Ksitigarbha Vajra Guardian was already pressuring Li Siye, and now with the attacks from the others, Li Siye quickly descended into a bitter struggle.
”Old Eagle, lead some people in a charge to scatter them!” Wang Chong unhesitantly ordered, his eyes glimmering with an icy light.
This Tibetan commander was far too strong. Given the incredible power in each of his attacks, if Li Siye were not blocking them, Wang Chong's army would immediately suffer terrible casualties. When a person's strength reached a certain level, numbers and tactics became irrelevant. Wang Chong only had one thousand people at his side, and he couldn't lose them here before the true war had even begun.
”Yes, Young Master!”
Old Eagle complied and began to holler orders, leading several hundred people charging over.
”Hmph, you want to help him? You're seeking death!”
The Ksitigarbha Vajra Guardian's voice thundered in their ears. Before the troops could react, a bronze spear flew through the air like a bolt of lightning. This single spear immediately struck a clan expert from his horse, smashing a giant hole in the ground. As the dust settled, it was possible to see from the deformation of the armor and the pooling blood that this expert was dead.
”Careful!”
Old Eagle paled and quickly pulled the reins on his horse.
These were all experts recruited from the great clans, possessing extraordinary strength, and they also had Meteoric Metal armor. This armor had powerful defensive capabilities, as Old Eagle had personally experienced. Not even the Tibetan cavalry at full charge had been able to leave a mark on this armor, but this one spear from that Tibetan commander had slain one of these armored experts. This strength was simply absurd.
”Don't come over! I can still deal with it!” Li Siye's anxious voice came from the distance.
Wang Chong and the rest weren't in this fight, so they didn't know just how formidable this commander was. In terms of strength, he had already reached Profound Martial realm Tier 9, and the secret incarnation techniques of the Great Snow Mountain Holy Land were not as simple as outsiders imagined. Li Siye currently had a very strong feeling that this Tibetan commander was no obscure soldier or mediocre commander.
”Old Eagle, go over and help Li Siye. The rest of you, use the Mobile Circle to eliminate the rest of the Tibetan soldiers!”
”But Young Master, what of Li Siye?” Old Eagle anxiously asked. If Li Siye couldn't block that commander's attacks, the rest of them would be fish in a barrel, waiting to be slaughtered.
”Old Eagle, listen to my orders!” Wang Chong declared, his eyes icily gazing into the distance.
'You have Zhang Liang's plans, and I have my wall-scaling ladders1.' Since you've ordered the majority of your forces to deal with Li Siye, don't blame me for gathering my troops to deal with the rest of the Tibetans. This is a competition of strength and will to see which one of us can kill their opponent faster and free up troops.