Chapter 746 (1/2)

“Boss, you’re back,” Kou Rui was ecstatic and ran over to give Zhou Weiqing a bear hug. However, before even a second had passed, he remembered something. He loosened the grip and turned around, yelling into the air, “don’t attack, he’s one of our own.”

The truth is, even if the Peerless Battalion’s Air Force wanted to do anything, they could not. Every one of them was frozen in the air, unable to even move, not to mention fight back.

Zhou Weiqing waved his arm in a wide gesture, loosening their bind, and these Air Force landed one by one.

Kou Rui did not approach for another hug. He took a few steps back, genuflected, and said respectfully, “Kou Rui wishes the Admiral good health.”

Zhou Weiqing waved his hand as a gentle gust lifted Kou Rui to an upright position, “We’re all brothers, no need for such etiquette. Besides, I’m just someone with too much time on my hands.”

Right about now, most of the Air Force had already landed. Normal scouts did not know who Zhou Weiqing is, but how could the other fighters in Peerless Battalion not recognize him? A majority of them were brought over from Zhongtian Empire by Zhou Weiqing!

“It’s the boss, the boss came back,” the people surrounded him in no time. They were all from the Ruffian Battalion, and Zhou Weiqing did not usually carry himself with much authority. At the sight of him, these people had forgotten their manners, swarming in to surround Zhou Weiqing.

However, they only managed a few steps before showing signs of terror and stopped to say in earnest respect, “Praise be, chief instructor.”

Zhou Weiqing suppressed his urge to laugh and said, “What did your chief instructor do to you? Every single one of you looks so scared.”

Kou Rui giggled, “It was nothing. It’s just that we have spot checks occasionally, to ‘compare notes.’ ”

Zhou Weiqing felt a little speechless. Without a doubt, the person who wanted to ‘compare notes’ must be Shangguan Fei’er, Shangguan Xue’er would not do something like that.

“Okay, let’s all go back to the camp. Tell me, during this period while I was away, what had happened here.”

“Yes, sir.”

Kou Rui led the whole squad of the Peerless Battalion’s Air Force to cluster around Zhou Weiqing as they walked toward the camp.

It was not after a quarter of an hour that the four scouts from before reacted. The four scouts exchanged glances with each other, not knowing what to say. They, however, remembered clearly the Air Force that they respected so much calling the man ‘boss’, and Scout Leader Kou Rui called him Commander. Who is he?

“Could he be the Marshal Zhou who’s like the dragon god; we might see its head, but we’ll never see its tail?”

When Zhou Weiqing had left, he had passed on the title of Commander to Ming Yu, while taking on a sleeping role as a Military Department Chief. However, in the eyes of the Elders in the Heavenly Bow Empire, his reputation was especially unshakeable. That was why everyone still called him their Commander. Because of that, two commander titles were given throughout the Empire, Commander Ming Yu, and Commander Zhou.

On their way to the camp, Kou Rui gave him a simple verbal report on the development of the Heavenly Bow Army in the past year.

In the one year, after the Heavenly Bow Army laid low for about half a year, they started reclaiming the lands in Heavenly Bow Empire and was successful in their mission within a short time, there was barely any resistance.

Ming Yu’s timing to launch the reclamation was excellent, it was when the Dandun Empire made a move on the Geritimo Empire. Because of that, the Kalise Army and the Bai Da Empire only settled in Heavenly Bow City, they and did not execute any military actions against Heavenly Bow Empire.

At the moment, the army of Heavenly Bow Empire already had compiled 100 thousand soldiers in its First Field Army Group, and 70 thousand soldiers uncompiled in Second Field Army Group for a total of 170 thousand soldiers. They didn’t have to take into consideration the issue of being on defense, so among the whole 170 thousand soldiers, 150 thousand were mobilized and stationed where they are.

The original Peerless Regiment were all included in the First Field Army Group and were reshuffled. Within the ten regiments of the First Field Army Group, each regiment had two hundred Peerless Air Force and a hundred Peerless Heavy Cavalry added to them. The ones left behind would serve directly under Ming Yu’s command as the most elite fighting force within the whole field army group. In total, there were four thousand Peerless Air Force and three thousand Peerless Heavy Cavalry. With Ming Yu’s coordination, the reserve armies of Berserker and Gold Crow Tribes had become active duty army as well. For that reason, the Peerless Heavy Cavalry was bumped up to four thousand soldiers, and both Air Force and Heavy Cavalry armies were fully equipped. The Snow Deer Cavalry had also been absorbed into the Peerless Heavy Cavalry with all five hundred of them getting the same treatment with the other Peerless Heavy Cavalry members, with suitable armors and weapons being custom made for them.

According to Ming Yu’s plan, the attack should be launched as soon as a month ago. However, due to some unforeseen circumstances, the attack was delayed. The ‘unforeseen circumstance’ was actually from the Blood Red Hell.

The Blood Red Hell appointed a Heavenly King tier Heavenly Jewel Master with Darkness Attribute who was stationed inside the Heavenly Bow City. He would not participate in the battle, but the Kalesi Empire had already warned them, if the Heavenly Bow Empire dared to launch an attack, they would not hesitate to unleash the Fate Denying Seal by Admiral Zhou and kill off all the royalty within the Heavenly Bow Empire.

Even though doing this would be a huge sacrifice on the Darkness Attribute Heavenly Jewel Master’s side, it was still not something the Heavenly Bow Empire could endure.

After all, although a part of the Heavenly Bow Army was brought over by Zhou Weiqing from the Zhongtian Empire, most of them were formed by the Heavenly Bow Imperial Army as well as conscription from within the Heavenly Bow Empire. If the royal family of the Heavenly Bow Empire was killed, it would be a massive blow to the morale of the army. So even if Ming Yu usually makes decisive choices, he dared to not order an attack easily. Especially when it concerns the lives of Zhou Weiqing’s parent. Even if he did, it would be difficult to get the attack executed.

Therefore, both the armies were at a stalemate here.

Ming Yu understood very clearly the intention of Bai Da Empire and Dandun Empire. They wanted to stall for time until the Dandun Empire could unify the South. When they had done that and had made necessary arrangements, they would naturally have enough manpower to deal with the Heavenly Bow Empire. The Dandun Empire had not been paying much attention to the Heavenly Bow Empire, because the Heavenly Bow Empire was just a small fry, there was no need to worry about them so much.

After listening to Kou Rui’s report, Zhou Weiqing frowned. The Dandun Empire was really cunning, they had only sent one person here, and that was enough to keep more than 100 thousand soldiers in check.

“Boss, don’t you worry. The old geezer is back, so even if you’re not here, we’ll still proceed with our plan in the next few days.”

Zhou Weiqing’s heart jumped. Of course, he would know which ‘old geezer’ Kou Rui was referring to, it was his teacher, Six Ultimate Heavenly Emperor Long Shiya! He asked excitedly, “Teacher is back?”

Kou Rui nodded and smiled, “The old geezer had just arrived a few days ago, you two practically read each other’s mind.”

As soon as he knew his teacher was back, Zhou Weiqing could not wait any longer. He had not seen Long Shiya for a long time, he missed him dearly. No matter Mu En or Hua Feng, or if it was Long Shiya, every one of them was his most-respected, most important people in his life. He had already viewed them as his family.

“Good, then we’ll hasten our pace, I want to see my teacher.”

As Zhou Weiqing was talking, a deep, booming voice echoed, “You rascal, do you even remember where your home is! Doing pretty well for a slacker!”

A light of six colors zoomed in and out of their sights, and the next moment, a person stood in front of them, who else was that other than Long Shiya?

Long Shiya was still plump, his facial complexion was a healthy pink, his words were one of reprimand, but his face was smiling the whole time.

“Old geezer,” Kou Rui greeted him immediately. The Peerless warriors started to laugh, they were really close with Long Shiya. After all, before Long Shiya had left, his biggest hobby was to join the Peerless warriors and to have a drinking contest with them. Long Shiya did not project an air of importance about him, so the Peerless warriors liked hanging out with him a lot.

“Teacher,” Zhou Weiqing stepped forward excitedly and immediately kneeled without prompt, preparing to kowtow at Long Shiya. Shangguan Bing’er who was by his side also kneeled.

Long Shiya lifted his arm and caught Zhou Weiqing’s shoulder, “What are you kneeling for, did I even follow this many customs? It’s only been a year, how did you become such a kowtow worm?”

Zhou Weiqing stood up and smiled. He rubbed his nose and said, “I needed to do something.”

Long Shiya slapped him across his shoulder with a playful smirk, “You insolent child, you’re still the same kid who needs a good beating. Hey…” Long Shiya was happy to see Zhou Weiqing, but suddenly, his face changed, contorting into a despicable-looking face.

An intense green light almost immediately burst out of his body, as a strong Fetters of Wind landed upon Zhou Weiqing, at which point Long Shiya also raised his hand, grappling at Zhou Weiqing’s face.

The sudden change caught Zhou Weiqing and other people by surprise. No one would imagine Long Shiya to attack Zhou Weiqing. Right before that, they were still joking around.

Zhou Weiqing was the most surprised. If it was before, he wouldn’t have been able to evade Long Shiya’s grapple, but his cultivation base was no longer like before. As soon as the Fetters of Wind hit him, the Starcrux Saint Nucleus Core in his body reacted by unleashing a surge of pale golden light. The green Fetters of Wind melted away almost immediately and with a silver flash, Zhou Weiqing had moved about three meters away with his Blink ability.

Long Shiya did not say anything. His grapple missed, making his face even sterner. He stepped forward with his right foot, causing the whole area to emit a low grumbling sound. He did not retract his right arm, but turning into a fist and punched at Zhou Weiqing’s chest from afar.

The six-colored light formed a huge ball of light and charged at Zhou Weiqing.

Since he had already fallen into a defensive position, when he was faced with Long Shiya’s immense pressure, Zhou Weiqing could only assume a passive defense position. Both Shangguan Tianyue and Long Shiya were Heavenly Emperor tier powerhouses, but Long Shiya’s pressure was much stronger. He was praised as number one after the Heavenly God tier after all.

Left without a choice, Zhou Weiqing shielded himself by putting both his arms in front of his chest. In a split second, both his palms turned gray as a whirlpool formed in front of him. As soon as Long Shiya’s six-colored light ball touched the gray whirlpool, a third of it melted before hitting Zhou Weiqing’s palms.

This was Long Shiya’s attack. If it were another person without Consolidated Equipments and Jewel Stored Skill, even a Heavenly Emperor tier powerhouse’s attack would have been dissolved by the Zhou Weiqing’s external Devour Skill. However, Long Shiya was not like everyone else. His Heavenly Energy was a mix of six attributes. Even though it could still be dissolved, it was significantly harder to completely devour it.

With a dull boom, the golden light enveloping Zhou Weiqing evidently flickered brighter as he was pushed a dozen steps backward before he stopped.

“Teacher, what are you doing?” Zhou Weiqing finally said after having managed to regain his balance.

Long Shiya stared at the grey whirlpool between Zhou Weiqing’s palms, a little startled. He did not follow up with another attack, but his face was still burning in rage. He said, “Who are you? How dare you pose as my disciple?”

Zhou Weiqing was perplexed, and he said, “I’m your dearest disciple Little Fatty Zhou! What could I even pose as?”

Long Shiya growled, “Bullsh*t, even if Weiqing, that rascal, had advanced his cultivation base level, it would be impossible for him to reach the Heavenly King tier in a little more than a year, who are you kidding? Let me tear away this human skin mask from your face.” He felt a presence of a Heavenly King tier powerhouse, which was the reason he had come outside. He was afraid the Peerless warriors couldn’t handle it, but it was Zhou Weiqing who showed up. In his joy, he had forgotten his initial objective.

However, when he patted Zhou Weiqing’s shoulder, he felt something wrong. Zhou Weiqing’s body naturally produced a wave of countershock, the Atmospheric Energy in the air was also trying to stop him, this was something only a Heavenly King tier powerhouse could have! How old is Zhou Weiqing? No matter how he looked at it, he refused to believe the kid could rise to that stage in such a short time. Furthermore, the energy around Zhou Weiqing was something he could not see through! That was the reason for his sudden change in attitude, he wanted to catch the impostor before anything else.

However, Zhou Weiqing’s Evil Attribute and the Devour Skill confused Long Shiya even more, even though the strength of the Devour Skill was much stronger than before, the source would not change. Long Shiya had never seen anyone else other than his dearest disciple who could use the Devour Skill. That was why he stopped.

Zhou Weiqing stared at Long Shiya, unsure if he should laugh or cry, “Teacher, be sensible, will you! Everyone hopes for their disciples to be strong, why would you hope for your disciple to be weak! Everything else could be faked, but not this. I, your disciple, am unique.”

As he spoke, Zhou Weiqing made a circle with his hands in front of him, and two triangles immediately overlaid each other, forming the Six Ultimate Godly Light Formation.

Looking at the colorful lights that appeared below Zhou Weiqing’s feet, Long Shiya’s face was immediately stuck in its pale, green color. Zhou Weiqing was right, everything else could be faked, but the Six Ultimate Godly Light Formation could definitely not be imitated!

Zhou Weiqing’s Six Ultimate Godly Light Formation was an extension of Long Shiya’s Six Ultimate Heavenly Path Formation. The unique skill could only be learned when one has six attributes, and the cultivation method was only known to Long Shiya and Zhou Weiqing.

Even if someone could pretend to be Zhou Weiqing, the attributes would not lie. Zhou Weiqing’s six-attribute combination was so unique, and including the Six Ultimate Heavenly Path Formation, it would definitely be enough to prove his identity.

“You’re really Little Fatty?” Long Shiya asked in confusion.

Zhou Weiqing’s face twitched, “Teacher Fatty, how am I not your Little Fatty? My strength had increased a lot, that’s true, but you need to give me time to report!”

Long Shiya’s gaze quivered and said, “Wait a minute, tell me this then. When you fused with the dragon and tiger bloodlines, who became your sacrifice at the final moment?”