Chapter 345: The King of Thorns (Part )
On the city wall, Xiang Liang took a deep breath as if he had a toothache: "What kind of sworn brother did Yu'er find?"
Xing Tianli looked at the first generation Yaksha King coldly with a dim gaze.
The leader of the Black Sun Cult and others also showed up and looked at the first generation Yaksha King carefully from top to bottom.
They still transformed into the shape of sacrificial monks. Facing the first generation Yaksha King who came to ask for forgiveness, no one could break the illusion and they still appeared in the form of 'sacrificial monks'.
The first Yaksha King raised his head and said in a deep voice, "It's my brother from Kyushu. Are you back?"
No one answered him.
The first Yaksha King took a deep breath and coughed slightly. He said in a deep voice: "Why don't you answer me? Forget it, forget it. I know very well that the misunderstanding is deep. I am afraid that there is no room for explanation... In this case, if you want to deal with me, just tell me clearly."
Still no one paid any attention to him.
The first Yaksha King looked up at the sky. At this moment, the sky was bright and cloudless. It was a very clear day.
All around, there were mountains of broken bodies, and the blood plasma of the dead Yaksha warriors had soaked the soil near the city wall to a depth of several feet. Tiny mosquitoes were flying everywhere, enjoying the high-end delicacies that they would never touch on ordinary days.
Occasionally, the pile of corpses would stir.
The soldiers and evil spirits underground were still busy, performing earth escape techniques to take away intact bodies from the pile of corpses and continuously sending them into Chujing.
There were subtle "chi chi" sounds echoing around, which were the ghost slaves performing ghost magic to collect the blood essence of the corpses on the battlefield. Along with the "chi chi" sound, the bodies of the Yaksha people in the pile of corpses were quickly turning pale, and the blood essence in their bodies was completely squeezed out, without a trace left.
Of course, these abnormalities could not be hidden from the first Yaksha King.
Such cruel and brutal means, even the corpses were not spared - well, the first generation Yaksha King felt a slight pang in his heart. Well, the same goes for their own family members. The corpses of these people will not be squeezed clean by the people of Kyushu, but will be eaten up by their own family members.
However, this strange method of draining the essence and blood silently is definitely not something that the Yaksha people can do.
The tone of the First Yaksha King became heavy and sad: "You can't blame me. After my eldest brother left, the descendants of the Xiang family who were left behind became weaker and weaker with each generation. Moreover, in the Jiuzhou Legion, geniuses from other surnames, other sects, and other forces have risen up and fought for power. The various forces have been in turmoil and the situation has become chaotic."
"Party strife, court strife, three generations of Western Chu emperors died inexplicably, and the ministers in the court were killed one after another like leeks. It hurts my heart to see it!" The first generation of Yaksha King roared: "In the end, those ministers of the Nine Provinces even brought out an emperor who was still in his infancy, and disturbed the Western Chu court into a mess. It was simply outrageous."
"what can I do?"
"I am the sworn brother of Big Brother... I can only stand up for the Xiang royal family!" The First Yaksha King beat his chest with more than a hundred arms, showing the face of a passionate brother with great heroic spirit and righteousness: "I can only raise an army, forcibly pacify the court, and assist the young emperor in governing the country."
"I have no intention of replacing Xichu. I was only the Yaksha King for a thousand years before I voluntarily retired." The first Yaksha King shouted, "If I really did this for power, would I only be the Yaksha King for a thousand years?"
"Moreover, I have issued a decree to give preferential treatment to the Miao people of Kyushu..."
Xing Tianli patted Xiang Liang on the shoulder.
Xiang Liang took a deep breath, and his body flashed, transforming into his original form. He jumped onto the battlement of the city wall, holding a single-edged crescent halberd forged from the branches of the World Mother Tree, pointed at the First Yaksha King and shouted, "What you call preferential treatment is that my nine clansmen are being treated as snacks by you, the Yaksha nobles?"
"Even your Tiger Guards, Iron Wall Army, and the hundreds of millions of soldiers, can each of them be allocated a few pieces of 'ham' made from the Miao people of Kyushu to enjoy every year during festivals?"
The first Yaksha King was silent for a while, then nodded slowly: "I didn't do well enough, but it is the nature of a tiger to eat people... My Yaksha clan even devoured the corpses of our own family members bit by bit, let alone the people of Kyushu who have no blood relationship with us?"
With a sneer, the First Yaksha King said sternly: "Furthermore, putting aside the fact that my people devoured the descendants of Kyushu, aren't the powerful ministers of Kyushu treating the lower-class people like pigs and dogs?"
"The number of Kyushu Miao people devoured by my clan is fixed every year."
"You are the dignitaries of Jiuzhou. With one decree, the number of people of Jiuzhou Miao people killed is simply incalculable!"
Xing Tianli was about to refute the first generation of Yaksha King's twisted logic, but Xiang Liang was already furious and scolded him: "This is simply nonsense. Tigers fight in the forest. Even if there are casualties, it is just an internal affair of the tribe... I am the Miao people of Jiuzhou, the king of all beasts. How can I allow you to keep you in captivity and eat you like pigs and sheep?"
Xiang Liang was too excited and jumped down. His hand trembled and the long spear emitted a dark green light and pierced the head of the first Yaksha King.
The first generation Yaksha King's mouth corners suddenly curled up.
He raised more than a dozen palms, stacked them into a thick shield, and protected the most important head in the middle. Then he let Xiang Liang's long halberd pierce one of his heads... Then, another one...
Xiang Liang's long spear was as fast as the wind, and with twenty-seven consecutive "crackling" sounds, he pierced the twenty-seven heads of the first generation of Yaksha Kings.
This halberd was made from the branches of the mother tree of the world. When Xing Tianli was refining the halberd, he incorporated a ray of the essence of a certain innate spiritual treasure from the ancient times. Then, he tried his best to stimulate the innate power of Jiamu in it and transformed it into many acquired laws such as thunder, earthquake, lightning, wind, and even poison.
Therefore, the heads that were hit by the halberd were all blown to pieces by the shock force of wind and thunder, and a terrible poison was generated, which followed the blood vessels of the first generation Yaksha King and corroded his body.
"Is... that... enough?" Xiang Liang shook his halberd and was about to stab at the main head of the First Generation Yaksha King. The First Generation Yaksha King suddenly raised one hand and casually pinched the head of Xiang Liang's halberd with two fingers.
Xiang Liang, who had recovered a lot of strength and had just re-entered the Taiyi realm, was suddenly shocked. He used all his strength to stab the halberd in his hand forward, but the halberd did not move at all. He urged the halberd, and the whole halberd turned into a green dragon, spewing out countless wind and thunder, countless lightning, and a large area of poisonous fog, but it did not move at all?
"This weapon is good. It's mine." The first generation Yaksha King muttered in a muffled voice and blasted out with one hand.
Holding the halberd tightly in both hands, Xiang Liang, who was stabbing with all his strength, saw the actions of the first generation of Yaksha King, but he could not dodge at all. Such a simple palm slap came, rough and barbaric, just like a fight between rural villagers. It was a punch without any aesthetic feeling, but it had a hint of the charm of simplicity.
Almost to the extreme.
It's extremely fierce.
With a dull 'bang', Xiang Liang's entire body almost caved in. He was almost beaten into a piece of thin paper. With a dull groan, his body shot backwards like lightning, and with a 'slap' he hit the city wall of Chujing flatly.
The city wall was protected by the Xingtian Carp Witch Formation, and Xiang Liang's body was unable to break even a single brick.
Xing Tianli and the Black Sun Sect leader hurriedly lowered their heads to look at Xiang Liang.
Xing Tianli's lips curled up and he almost laughed - although they were all comrades-in-arms and although it was not right, but seeing Xiang Liang stuck to the wall, he really looked like some unlucky cat in the cartoons he watched as a child in his previous life... Really, he wanted to laugh!
Liu Jing gulped down a mouthful of old wine, and two little snakes emerged from her hair, shaking their bodies, staring at Xiang Liang who was clinging to the city wall with wide eyes. Liu Jing murmured, "He's been chopped up like a meat pie, is he still breathing?"
Xiang Liang took a deep, deep, deep breath.
His body swelled up little by little, accompanied by a series of crackling sounds, and the shattered bones in his body quickly connected, and he returned to his original state in an instant.
In a sense, when facing the Yaksha people, a physical cultivator like Xiang Liang, as long as he still has magic power and his soul is not crushed by violence, his vitality is also endless.
After all, no matter how talented the Yaksha people are, their punches are filled with only pure and overbearing physical force, without even a trace of special power mixed in. And for a physical cultivator like Taiyi, pure physical force can never cause truly fatal damage to them, no matter how many times they are destroyed physically, as long as they still have magic power!The first Yaksha King slowly stood up and grabbed Xiang Liang's halberd with one hand.
Even though the halberd was jumping and vibrating in his hand and countless lightning bolts were splashing out from between his fingers, the First Yaksha King felt nothing at all. He just held the halberd tightly and shook it. An extremely domineering violence surged, and the halberd made a cracking sound under the heavy weight, and was almost shattered by his shaking.
This halberd, which had not yet had time to generate a weapon spirit and only had a trace of chaotic spirituality, became obedient and submissive, just like a young woman in her bridal chamber. It lay very obediently in the palm of the first Yaksha King, allowing him to manipulate it.
The first generation of Yaksha King held a long spear and sighed heavily: "It is true. Back then, my brother refused to take me into the Primal Chaos and fight in the vast heavens. As expected, I, Xiang Man, am a useless person."
'Xiang Man'?Xing Tianli narrowed his eyes. Haha, Xiang Yu even gave him a name.
Xiang Liang was so angry that he spat on the ground: "Bah, you are not worthy of the surname Xiang!"
Xiang Man said with emotion: "As expected, I am useless. Pure physical strength cannot cause any real harm to you high-ranking cultivators. If I had the power of the Golden Crow, if I had the power of the Moon, if I had the power of Samsara, if I had the power of the Demon Annihilation... even if it was the most inferior magic power obtained by the most complicated and unorthodox methods among you cultivators..." "Even if I only have this little bit of insignificant 'magic power', 'Buddha power', 'magic power', 'demon power', or any other special power in my fist... Brother Xiang Yu would not hesitate to take my people away from this barren and boring place."
"What did he say to me?"
"The Yaksha world is a world without spirits. Other races that come to this world, unless they are saints, will eventually exhaust all their magic power, torture all their cultivation, and eventually become ordinary people, even if they have heaven-defying means and infinite magical powers."
"In this world, my Yasha clan is an invincible clan."
"So, Brother Xiang Yu, you have entrusted me with guarding their most important logistical supply transfer point, the most important place for the tribe members to recuperate..." Xiang Man pointed at his nose, and the energy of his blood and essence surged, accompanied by a terrible roar of his blood and essence. On his exploded head, wisps of wind and thunder energy were violently dispersed, and the poison that rushed into his body also disappeared.
"Is he very good to me? Does he think highly of me? Does he trust me?"
Xiang Man's head recovered quickly, and even more heads grew. His body expanded little by little, lumps of flesh continued to grow on his body, and new arms grew out little by little.
In just a few breaths, Xiang Man's heads increased to one hundred and eight, and his body expanded to about a mile high. A huge mound of flesh swelled up behind him, with a total of one thousand two hundred slender arms growing on it.
"Xiang Yu, of course I believe in you and trust you, so I will give you my way out." Xing Tianli flicked his sleeves, and a cloud of smoke dissipated. He also turned into his original form and looked at Xiang Man seriously - since Xiang Man has come here and even made an attitude of asking for forgiveness, there is no point in continuing to act.
All the designs were just for Xiang Man.
"No, he thinks I'm stupid." Xiang Man roared angrily: "So, he gave me a little insignificant benefit, and wanted me, and my descendants, to be his 'watchdog' forever!"
Xing Tianli pursed his lips and said nothing.
Xiang Man had been thinking this way for more than 10,000 years. He did not have the magical power of the Buddha to make a stubborn stone nod, so it was impossible for him to convince this guy with words. By the way, how many years had Xing Tianli lived? In terms of speaking skills, he might not be as good as this weirdo from the Yaksha clan.
"I was unwilling, I didn't want to, so I took action." Xiang Man said in a deep voice: "But, to be honest, I issued a ban on preferential treatment for the Miao people in Jiuzhou... According to the agreement between me and Brother Xiang Yu, he gave me an imperial edict. After he left, no matter how big a mistake I made, he could pardon my crime once!"
Xiang Liang said coldly: "Is there such a saying?"
Xiang Man grinned and said, "Yes, Brother Xiang Yu issued an edict to pardon my sins. No matter what I did, he would forgive me once... So, I was actually innocent just now, but I asked for forgiveness, and you, you tried to kill me!"
Gently waving his 1,200 huge hands, Xiang Man shouted, "I am innocent, and I have even apologized for my crime, but you are executing me without any guilt... You, are executing me without any guilt!"
"This time, it's you who made the mistake!" Xiang Man's face flushed red, and he shouted excitedly: "No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, this time, it's you who made the big mistake!"
Xing Tianli's face turned black.
This guy.
This guy who knelt down as soon as he met her, apologized so fearfully, and kowtowed to make amends, actually ended up with such twists and turns?Bastard!Xing Tianli felt humiliated as if his IQ was crushed by a pig.
Xiang Man moved.
As soon as he moved, he suddenly crossed ten miles and arrived in front of Xiang Liang. He thrust the long spear in his hand and stabbed directly into Xiang Liang's body.
'Puff Chi'.
Xiang Liang and Xing Tianli didn't have time to react at all - Xiang Liang didn't say anything, he had just recovered to the Taiyi Realm, but it was only the weakest level of cultivation in the Taiyi Realm; Xing Tianli had reached the extreme state of tolerance of the Taiyi Realm, but this was still the Taiyi Realm...
As for Xiang Man, there is no doubt that his physical strength far exceeds that of Taiyi.
No one, whether Xing Tianli, Xiang Liang, or the leader of the Black Sun Sect, could see his movements clearly.
Xiang Liang's chest was pierced.
The magic weapon that Xing Tianli forged for Xiang Liang easily pierced through his Taiyi body. Xiang Man laughed wildly: "What a good weapon! It is indeed a good weapon. Although it is a little light, it has the power of the Great Dao that I most expect!"
Amidst the wild laughter, Xiang Man yelled, "You bastard, why aren't you going to attack me yet?"
With a loud 'crack' sound, the long spear cleverly burst out with boundless wind and thunder and deadly poison, and Xiang Liang's body suddenly exploded.
Countless blood spots shot up into the sky, green lightning flashed in the water, and the strong wind swept with poison and strangled. The blood spots rushed to the city wall, and Xiang Liang's urgent voice burst out: "Save me!"
Xing Tianli waved his hand, and the Tongtian Miaozhu turned into six pure bamboos. Strands of clear Buddha light rolled up, and the wind, thunder and poison were all annihilated. The blood light returned to its pure blood color. Billions of blood lights gathered inward, and Xiang Liang immediately returned to his original state. Except for the loss of a small amount of essence and blood, and the depletion of almost all magic power, he was not even hurt at all!The magic power of the devil's blood god!
Xiang Liang actually also studied this great magical power as a secondary skill. This is one of the most powerful life-saving skills in the demon world!Xiang Man stamped his feet in frustration. He looked up to the sky and roared madly, "It's like this, it's like this, and it's like this again... Bastard, bastard, bastard... Back then, I was clearly stronger than 90% of the generals under Brother Xiang Yu, but I couldn't even kill an ordinary celestial general!"
"I can't kill them!"
"I'm useless!"
“I’m incompetent!”
"I am not qualified to lead my people to follow Brother Xiang Yu in conquering the heavens, to solve the desperate situation of my people who cannot practice, and to solve the lifespan limit that my people cannot break through!"
“I’m incompetent!”
"I'm a waste!"
"Why are you so favored by the heaven and earth? But the heaven and earth that gave birth to us and raised us are so...harsh to us?"
Xiang Man burst into tears, and his eyeballs, each as big as a bowl, fell down like cannonballs, making a rumbling sound on the ground.
After crying for a while, Xiang Man suddenly stopped crying.
He smiled at Xing Tianli and said, "Okay, what I said just now was not wrong, was it? I am innocent, but you are extremely malicious and want to kill me, and want to kill the Yaksha Guard Marshal appointed by Brother Xiang Yu!"
"So, you are guilty."
"Do you have the death penalty?"
"It is reasonable for me to kill you and eat your flesh and blood. Even if Brother Xiang Yu returns with the Kyushu army, I am still right, right?"
Xing Tianli suddenly realized: "Are you still afraid of Xiang Yu?"
Xiang Man laughed and said, "Who isn't afraid of him? Even his trusted generals revere him like a god, but how much respect can they have? It's mostly fear, right?"
Xiang Man laughed wildly, then raised his green wooden halberd and chopped it down heavily at Chu Jing.
Xing Tianli didn't spoil him either.
All the Ghost Emperors, Ghost Kings, and Ghost Generals swarmed out of the Tongtian Yuling Banner, and countless armored warriors, evil ghosts, and ghost slaves rode out in the flesh and blood of countless undead wanderers, quickly forming a "mountain and sea" witch formation, which directly included Xiang Man and all the Yaksha troops outside the city.
The next moment, the sky was dark.
From the four directions of east, south, west, and north, four sword lights that covered the entire sky shot up into the sky.
(End of this chapter)