NOVPUB"Can you make the Cloud Qi I unleash more berserk?" Gan Ning asked as he rapidly manipulated the Cloud Qi, glancing sideways.
"As long as you can control it!" Chen Xi said with a smile, then her spiritual power split in two, and then divided into four, multiplying further. Each strand of spiritual power intertwined and spiraled around with the Cloud Qi.
"That’s enough!" Gan Ning called out urgently. He hadn’t expected Chen Xi to achieve this level of control in an instant. This speed was simply inhuman.
"I’m stabilizing the flow structure of the Cloud Qi. It seems I’ve developed a new formation, an extreme variation of the Xuanxiang Formation!" Chen Xi laughed loudly.
Chen Xi hadn’t expected such an astonishing effect when she fully unleashed her spiritual power. The originally extremely complex circulation of Cloud Qi became even more intricate under her manipulation, yet at the peak of complexity, it was streamlined directly into Gan Ning’s control, retaining only its sheer ferocity.
"Forget the Military Formation, I’m almost at my limit!" Gan Ning’s eyes flickered with madness. He was losing control, and Chen Xi’s speed was beyond his imagination.
"I’ll help you stabilize it first!" It was then that Chen Xi realized the dangerous nature of the thing above Gan Ning’s head, resembling a whale. Now fully aware of the abundance of her spiritual power, Chen Xi didn’t hesitate; she poured a large amount of spiritual power into the maneuver, stabilizing Gan Ning’s technique.
"It’s too late!" Sunx Ce, who had just rushed through the rain, could already see the man charging at the forefront and noticed the massive Cloud Qi construct above Gan Ning’s head. Seeing Zhou Yu strenuously manipulating the Cloud Qi, Sunx Ce knew that taking this strike head-on would utterly rout his army!
"Gongjin, direct all the Cloud Qi immediately!" Sunx Ce, ever decisive, bellowed at Zhou Yu.
"Alright!" Zhou Yu also realized the urgency of the situation. Liu Bei’s Army had arrived at just the right time, while they were packing up the camp. A little earlier or later would not have left them so beleaguered.
The available Cloud Qi of Sunx Ce’s Army was promptly drawn by Zhou Yu and injected into Sunx Ce’s body. Clad in golden armor, Sunx Ce frantically absorbed the Cloud Qi. Amidst the torrential downpour, a golden sun rose directly upwards.
"How can I let you succeed!" Gan Ning roared, unleashing the azure blue Cloud Qi whale. In an instant, the torrential rain was dispelled by the raging Qi force, pocking the ground outside Lujiang City with pits and craters.
"Break for me!" Sunx Ce thrust with his spear, his Essence, Qi, and Spirit carrying the army’s accumulated Cloud Qi, transforming into a massive golden Long Spear and fiercely stabbing towards the Cloud Qi whale.
"Boom!" A loud noise followed, and then Sunx Ce’s side was hit with a wave of chaotic spiritual fluctuations, along with a twelfth-level storm surge.
Normally, if it were just a storm surge, relying on the remaining Cloud Qi barrier, Sunx Ce’s Army wouldn’t have too much trouble; at most, some scattered soldiers who had not entered the formation would be blown away.
Unfortunately, the wave of chaotic spiritual fluctuations that swept over first had almost completely destroyed the Cloud Qi protective shield, causing most of the front-line soldiers to collapse without a fight. If not for Zhou Yu’s direct intervention, blocking the majority of the spiritual shock, these men would have been incapacitated for a short time even if they hadn’t died.
The mud that had been blasted into the air finally stopped falling. The torrential rain continued to pour over the location hundreds of steps ahead of Gan Ning, where very few enemies could be seen standing in the rain.
"Huff!" Gan Ning gasped for breath, pulled the reins, and looked at the huge crater over a hundred meters across, "Although it didn’t hit them head-on causing a total collapse, after this strike, they won’t be able to regroup again. What I like the most is to catch them off guard, break through, and kill them! To surround and aid a point without properly arranging defensive reinforcements, there must be something wrong with their brains."
Zhou Yu hadn’t heard what Gan Ning had said, but if he had, he would have been furious enough to spit blood. Gan Ning’s arrival was just too opportune, coming earlier would have caught Zhou Yu’s rear army before they could retreat into camp, and coming later would have meant Zhou Yu was already secured within Lujiang City. Either way, he wouldn’t have been caught in such disarray. 𝑛𝘰𝘷𝑝𝘶𝑏.𝑐𝘰𝘮
"Bofu, Youping, hold off Gan Ning first! Neither of us have Cloud Qi anymore. Although we suffered greater losses, the enemy can no longer suppress masters at the Inner Qi Manifestation Rank," Zhou Yu said with his hands on his temples, a look of agony on his face. Despite having blocked the chaotic wave of spiritual shock, Zhou Yu was still left dizzy and disoriented from doing so hastily.
Upon hearing this, Sunx Ce and Zhou Tai immediately rushed towards Gan Ning. Their horses had been wiped out by the spiritual shock in the previous moment, and both had also taken considerable spiritual shock for being on the front line. Moreover, with Sunx Ce hastily countering Gan Ning’s accumulated power in one strike, followed by a spiritual shock, he looked quite listless and dejected.
Zhou Tai charged at Gan Ning with a grim face, while Sunx Ce knew it wasn’t the time to worry about status, struggling to mobilize his Inner Qi and heading straight for Gan Ning.
"Spread out and first go after killing the opposing soldiers!" Gan Ning commanded the soldiers behind him, having realized that the ones charging over from the opposite side were all experts. Without Cloud Qi, even if they were severely injured, killing ordinary soldiers would be no different from mowing grass.
"Gan Xingba, it is indeed you!" Zhou Tai roared, swinging his Great Sword toward Gan Ning.
"Zhou Youping! Get out of my way!" Gan Ning grabbed his Horizontal River Iron Chain with his left hand and flicked it through the air, aiming it directly at Zhou Tai’s forehead, while his right hand swung the Great Broadsword in a large arc towards Sunx Ce.
"Clang!" Zhou Tai’s Horizontal Sword deflected Gan Ning’s Horizontal River Iron Chain, then countered with a slash of dark Qi Force towards Gan Ning. Gan Ning, well-prepared, pulled the Iron Chain to block Zhou Tai’s strike in midair, while the deflected Iron Chain, as if guided by sight, headed straight for the back of Sunx Ce’s head as he fended off Gan Ning’s Great Broadsword.
"Swoosh!" Sunx Ce dodged, charging out from the attack of Gan Ning’s Biqing Sword Qi and the Horizontal River Iron Chain coming from behind, his hands wielding the Long Spear, he plunged toward Gan Ning frantically. Five consecutive thrusts, each faster than the last, pierced through the air, aiming directly at Gan Ning.
"Get out of my way!" Gan Ning bellowed, as the luster of blue light suddenly surged around him. The tip of Sunx Ce’s spear involuntarily slid to one side as it approached, while the massive Light Blade that Zhou Tai forcefully hacked out also slid off Gan Ning. The blade tore through the air, raging for hundreds of meters before smashing into the ground, carving a slash over a dozen meters long.
"Zhou Tai, is this all the strength you have left?" Gan Ning laughed loudly. When he first arrived in the Lower Yangtze area, he had developed a feud with Zhou Tai after a fierce fight. Back then, he had just broken through and could barely maintain a stalemate, but now he realized that even at his peak, Zhou Tai was no more than his equal!
Zhou Tai desperately tried to activate his Inner Qi, but each attack was involuntarily deflected by the ring of blue Qi surrounding Gan Ning. Even if he managed to breach it, he found it hard to strike Gan Ning. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, welcome to qidian.com to vote for recommendation tickets, monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
