The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 202 The First Battle (3)

Chapter 202 The First Battle (3)

High-level cultivators were already hard to come by, let alone those who could reach level 9 of Qi-refining. However, as war raged throughout the world, there were still quite a few top-notch cultivators on the battlefield of the borders. Still, at the battlefield, few of them would directly charge toward the enemy’s formation, like what Li Ye just did. That was to prevent such circumstance from happening.

Since there was a master on our side, there must be another master on the opposite side.

Whether the cultivators or ordinary people, when they attacked, they were vulnerable. If a master directly attacked the military formation, he was definitely giving the opposite master a chance. If the opposite master was hidden, then even one minor mistake could lead to serious injury or death.

Thus, the toll your attack took would be evened by the opposite master. On top of that, after the master at our side retreated or died, without protection, our army would be fully exposed to the opposite master.

Thus, on the battlefield, there was an unwritten rule that masters only fought masters. They couldn’t attack ordinary soldiers or generals.

Li Ye was unable to finish his attack when he was attacked out of the blue. He was forced to retreat for hundreds of steps. When he was able to stand steadily, blood trickled down from his mouth. He raised his head and looked forward. A Taoist priest in a black robe was levitating with grace and poise. He exuded supremacy as if he were an Immortal.

“Spiritual Master Realm!” Li Ye gritted his teeth. The Taoist priest who just attacked him was in Spiritual Master Realm. With the cultivation he now possessed, when stricken by surprise by Taoist priest at level 9 of Qi-refining, he would just be interrupted for a spell. There was no way he could get hurt within only one attack.

Only a cultivator who had achieved the Spiritual Master Realm or higher could hurt him.

The one who attacked him was Wujizi from the Taoist sect of Zhongnan Mountain. He stood in the air and looked down at the enemy’s formation solemnly. But when he noticed Li Ye merely had some blood in his mouth and stood up soon after retreating for hundreds of steps, his eyes expressed his astonishment.

The attack just now was no casual attack. Wujizi exerted himself in it. In his expectation, any Taoist priest at level 9 of Qi-refining who took this attack would either die or severely injured. But given Li Ye’s status, it seemed it was no more than a scratch. He could not help but frown.

Wujizi, who had planned to attack the Wolf-tooth Troop to help Zhu Zhen get the upper hand, had to confront Li Ye, who was staring at him.

At the same time, the Senior and Junior Priestesses were not sitting idle. They took the vantage points from both left and right. Together with Li Ye, they were secretly surrounding Wujizi.

Yet, facing a cultivator in the Spiritual Master Realm who was powerful enough to hurt Li Ye, they didn’t launch the attack imprudently. They both clearly knew that there were not many chances for them. Should their attack fail, this person in the Spiritual Master Realm’s attacks would come their way.

Although the Senior and Junior Priestesses were not ordinary cultivators at level 9 of Qi-refining, they couldn’t say for sure they could sustain a true attack for a person in the Spiritual Master Realm. The gap between realms was far greater than the gap between level 8 and level 9 of Qi-refining.

Li Ye, as well as the Senior and Junior Priestesses, left the battlefield successively and Shangguan Qingcheng took back the command. Zhu Zhen’s troops had been seriously hurt by the three sword strikes of Li Ye. Now their morale was down and there were a lot of openings. Under the command of Shangguan Qingcheng, the three thousand cavalries in the Wolf-tooth Troop marched forward. They were unstoppable. Those enemy cavalries fell off their horses one by one. It was hard for them to organize effective counterattack or defense at short notice.

Wujizi noticed that too, and that was why he was in such a rush. He promised Zhu Wen to win this battle with Zhu Zhen. If Zhu Zhen was really defeated by Wolf-tooth Troop, it would be a shame for Wujizi.

Wujizi didn’t pay attention to the Senior and Junior Priestesses on both flanks. In his eyes, although the Senior and Junior Priestesses were quite good, they were no threat to him. Only the Li Ye in front of him was able to fight against him.

Wujizi looked down at Li Ye and spoke indifferently, “Taking one of my hit as a level 9 of Qi-refining. Impressive. Who are you?”

After the question, Wujizi frowned and nodded before Li Ye could answer. “It seems that you are the Li Ye who hurt Wuyazi. In the whole world, only you can take one of my hit.”

After that, Wujizi got straight to the point, “I looked for you so hard, only to see you show up so easily. After I kill you today, the Tang Army will be bound to lose and Dengzhou will keep its dominance! Instead of hiding among the troops, you are putting yourself at risk. How hilarious! Now that you are offering your head, I’ll gladly take it!”

Before he finished saying the words, Wujizi vanished from right where he stood. Powerful as the Senior and Junior Priestesses were, they couldn’t see how he disappeared. The moment they looked at Li Ye, Wujizi had been already in front of Li Ye. He pushed toward Li Ye’s forehead. “Farewell, Prince An!”

Wujizi came in such a sudden that Li Ye could not totally evade it. He raised his sword horizontally to fend off the push. A blast ensued and the air was heated as hot as boiled water. The clothes and hair of Li Ye and Wujizi were blown backward.

The moment they touched each other, they were separated. Li Ye slid backward for dozens of meters, his feet carving two grooves in the ground and he was barely on his feet.

Before Li Ye could stand steadily, Wujizi followed up and showed up in front of Li Ye like a ghost again. He made another push. “Let’s see how many pushes you can take!”

Wujizi mustered all his power by making use of his cultivation as a person in the Spiritual Master Realm. As he moved his palm, the palm was giving out cracks of thunder, as if space was torn by him.

This push might seem normal, but it was full of Spiritual Master’s power. In Li Ye’s eyes, other than being quick, the push was as ambiguous and imperceptible as the reflection in the water. He couldn’t anticipate where the push would land.

Facing this push, Li Ye was like being in a mire. It was hard for him to move his body and his movements were stiff as if a myriad of cobwebs came out of thin air and shackled his limps, restraining his movements. Besides, the Spiritual Qi inside him was not running smoothly. It was fading and seemed too unreal to perceive, let alone to use it.

Under such circumstance, Li Ye’s perception of his surroundings was downgraded so that he could not capture Wujizi’s movements. He knew his power was constrained.

As a person who had the cultivation of level 9 Qi-refining, Li Ye needed only one move to take Wuyazi’s life. So however mighty the true god phase Wujizi was, Li Ye shouldn’t have been suppressed this badly.

Had it been other Taoist cultivators, in a case like this, they would have been at a loss. They might deem that the power of a person in the Spiritual Master Realm was too tricky for a level 9 Qi-refining person to defeat.

However, as Li Ye had reached Spiritual Master Realm before the transmigration and now he was at the third level of Spiritual Master Realm, ordinary Taoist priest in the Spiritual Master Realm could hold a candle to him in terms of the understanding about power, let alone those at Qi-refining Stage. Li Ye was clear that, as Wujizi had just reached Spiritual Master Realm, his power should not have suppressed him like that.

This push seemed normal, but compared to the former one, it was way more powerful. If they were really both done with all his might, there should not have been such a significant difference.

Just as Li Ye was suppressed, the Senior and Junior Priestesses attacked at the same time. Several chains of leaves burst out of the soil and attacked Wujizi’s weaknesses from different directions.

Enshrouding light covered the verdant chains of leaves. On the chains, Spiritual Qi was fierce and sharp, clearly no ordinary attack. Even he had the cultivation in the Spiritual Master Realm, Wujizi couldn’t ignore them.

“Get lost!”

Wujizi didn’t withdraw his push towards Li Ye. He slightly waved his free hand as if wiping off dust and the leaf chains disintegrated in an instant. The leaves disappeared into powders. They failed to form into flying knives and stab the enemy like they usually did.

As soon as the leaf chains disappeared, a piece of white cloth covered the sky in the form of a giant cone and fell towards Wujizi. The white cloth might seem normal, but it is actually made from a special material. Surely it is hard. Added with Spiritual Qi, it could freely change its size. Now it flew over, stirred its surrounding Spiritual Qi to form a surge and stabbed toward Wujizi’s skull.

“You are asking for death!” Wujizi was riled up. He suddenly reached out his hand, grasped the white cloth and threw it away. Senior Priestess, who was manipulating the white cloth in the air felt a pain in his chest and spat out blood. His body was thrown away for hundreds of steps, just like a kite without a string.

After dealing with the attack of the Senior and Junior Priestesses, Wujizi turned around and was going to suppress Li Ye. As he turned his head, astonishment crawled onto his face and his pupil shrunk to the minimum.

Li Ye, who should have been suppressed by his field, was able to move again. The verdant Luke Sword curved elegantly towards him like a fire. In an instant, the sword was before him!

Never in Wujizi’s wildest dreams had him expected this to happen. He sensed danger incoming, so grave that he had to retreat.

Even so, the Sword Qi still tore his shirt. After a rip stretching for 16cm appeared, a line of blood ensued. The cut was not deep but the pain was clear, which riled Wujizi up.

“Fighting with me so carelessly. Are you looking down upon me?” Li Ye stepped toward Wujizi with the sword in his hand. He was neither fast nor slow. But in Wujizi’s eyes, his steps were astounding and unbelievable.

“Why can you still move? Why can you still move?” The muscles on Wujizi’s face shuddered. He kept his eyes on Li Ye, attempting to see through him.

Li Ye walked toward Wujizi with steady and strong paces. “Your field is special. It can suppress people’s cultivation, slow down people’s limps and inhibit the application of Spiritual Qi. It is activated with no shape and no substance so it’s hard to prepare for it. To be honest, this is my first time to see such a field. But as long as it is a field, it is nothing to me.”