A Chaotic World

Chapter 184: Strongest Weapon

Having heard General Mingli Yongsheng's warning, Mingquan Ting and the rest had no choice but to straighten their faces no matter how confident they were feeling at the moment.

"All right, let us get this over and done with!" Mingquan Ting drew his spear as he tried to suppress the gleeful smile on his face.

The loser of each fight would die, while the winner had the option to choose if he wanted to continue.

After beating this sacrificial lamb, Mingquan Ting would then be given the option to stop, effectively a card to ensure that he lived through this brutal contest.

Even so, he had no interest in stopping.

As a loyal soldier serving under General Mingli Yongsheng, Mingquan Ting was intending to take down at least two or three more of the opponents if possible!

That way, he would also be able to gain glory and recognition, rising far above his peers!

"Here I come!" Mingquan Ting thrust his spear forward, straight towards the heart of his enemy who seemed to have been scared stiff.

After all, why else would he be standing there motionless when the fight had already begun?

What a joke!

The other party wanted to gain information on him by sending out a sacrificial lamb?

Then he shall claim victory with a single domineering strike!

He would love to see just how much the other party could learn about him then!

The cold tip of Mingquan Ting's spearhead emanated a dull light, and the earth beneath their feet seemed to shift slightly, lending additional momentum to his attack.

This attack was supported by the Law of Earth, making it heavy beyond compare!

Even so, Lu Tianzi did not panic.

Simply because there was no reason for him to.

He looked coldly at the incoming spear strike while calmly drawing out the Sword of Ivory Rock.

Having faced opponents like the Four Stars of Scarlet Moon City, Lu Tianzi realised with a single glance that Mingquan Ting still had a long way to go before he could even approach the very peak of the Essence Condensation realm.

No, perhaps even that would be regarding him a little too highly.

Poor footwork and stance.

Inefficient control of strength.

Low comprehension of laws.

In his eyes, this attack was laughable at best!

Lu Tianzi's right hand flickered.

The Sword of Ivory Rock weaved through the air, dancing around the incoming spear. It gently guided the trajectory of the powerful spear thrust into a deviated path, while the blade drew nearer and nearer towards its target.

Pierce-!

Fresh blood spilt onto the ground, silencing the side of Drakesin Town.

Mingquan Ting blinked blankly, still unable to understand what exactly happened even after feeling the warm and damp feeling around his neck.

This is blood?

His blood?

Questions filled his mind, but he no longer had the chance to verbalise them.

Lu Tianzi pulled his sword out from Mingquan Ting's neck, causing him to collapse to the ground, motionless.

In the blink of an eye, the first fight was over!

General Nanbai Zhaoyu smiled in satisfaction.

On the other hand, General Mingli Yongsheng frowned as a deep sense of unease washed over him.

Now, he could finally start to fathom the reason why General Nanbai Zhaoyu had come up with this battle that seemed to be completely favouring Drakesin Town!

But then again, this victory could just be a fluke that had resulted from Mingquan Ting's underestimation of his opponent.

Now that the next nine opponents would be on their guard, things would no longer be as simple for the other party!

Just as he expected, the remaining nine Essence Condensation realm martial artists might have stiffened for a moment when they saw Mingquan Ting fall to the ground, but the shock within them quickly turned into rage.

They were soldiers, and it was part of their job to deal with the deaths of their comrades.

Even though the opponent was shockingly strong for his cultivation level, he was after all not at the Origin Core realm.

This means that they who were all at the Peak Essence Condensation realm still had quite a good chance at obtaining victory!

And right now, apart from their initial reasons, they also had to win in order to avenge their comrade Mingquan Ting!

"I am Mingjie Luo, the second participant from Drakesin Town," another Peak Essence Condensation realm martial artist stepped forward. "Will you continue fighting?"

"Please show me your guidance," Lu Tianzi stood ready with his sword in his hand, still dripping with fresh blood at its tip.

Seeing the red droplets slowly drip onto the ground, Mingjie Luo felt his veins twitching under his skin.

Even so, he dared not get careless.

The opponent might be an Advanced Essence Condensation realm martial artist, but he was still someone who had managed to kill Mingquan Ting in a single strike!

If he was not careful enough, that could end up being his fate as well!

Mingjie Luo drew his weapon.

Just like Mingquan Ting before him, Mingjie Luo was a spear user.

He readied this spear by his side, pointing the spearhead towards his opponent. Mingjie Luo was being extremely cautious, unwilling to make the first move.

But that did nothing to change the result of the fight.

When Lu Tianzi saw that his opponent was not going to make the first move, he decisively shot forward, his right hand guiding his sword forward with deadly precision.

Back then when he faced the Four Stars of Scarlet Moon City, Lu Tianzi had only been at the Intermediate Essence Condensation realm.

Now that he was at the Advanced Essence Condensation realm, as well as having improved his swordsmanship by leaps and bounds, Lu Tianzi no longer needed to execute the Eternal Wraith Sword Art in order to take down these opponents!

It was like taking candy from a baby.

Except that this time, Lu Tianzi was directly robbing away the lives of his opponents, absorbing their primordial Slaughter Essence to strengthen his own cultivation!

Pierce-!

The Sword of Ivory Rock impaled Mingjie Luo right through the heart, ending his life in an instant.

Still, he fared slightly better than Mingquan Ting before him.

At least this Mingjie Luo managed to sweep forward with his spear, forcing Lu Tianzi to dodge the attack before proceeding to kill Mingjie Luo with his own sword strike.

Two down.

At this moment, General Nanbai Zhaoyu and the rest of the Shadowfront Regiment suddenly burst out in laughter!

"Hahaha! General Mingli Yongsheng! Is this all that Drakesin Town is capable of?" General Nanbai Zhaoyu shouted out. "This is such an embarrassment! Losing to someone of a lower cultivation level like that, could it be that General Mingli Yongsheng is actually sending cannon fodder out to waste our time? How I pity your subordinates!"

"Tch!" General Mingli Yongsheng clicked his tongue in displeasure. "The battle is not over yet!"

"That's true! There are eight more participants left from your Drakesin Town facing our ten remaining," General Nanbai Zhaoyu agreed readily. "Surely one of them would be able to achieve victory and start facing our Peak Essence Condensation realm martial artists?"

General Mingli Yongsheng turned around to look at his subordinates, all of whom had extremely dark expressions on their faces.

That was not all.

General Nanbai Zhaoyu's voice had reverberated through the entire Drakesin Town, effectively giving them a live update on the situation.

Most of the inhabitants in Drakesin Town were traders, not soldiers.

They did not know the full situation. But after hearing that the town's defence force was at a disadvantage, they could not help but start to feel nervous.

Thus, most of them started gathering information on just what was going on. With their intelligence networks, such a matter was no problem for them at all.

From atop the town walls, General Mingli Yongsheng not only had a good view of the Scarlet Moon Army in front, but also of the inhabitants behind.

Sensing that more and more people were paying attention to this battle, he could not help but curse in his heart.

"The rest of you better show me some results!" General Mingli Yongsheng shouted impatiently.

Even though the result of this battle had no implications on the actual defence of the town, his reputation was now at stake!

If it was known that all of his subordinates lost to a single person who was not even at the Peak Essence Condensation realm, he would become a laughing stock for decades, or even centuries to come!

But his mood only got worse as time went by.

One by one, his subordinates fell.

The cheers from the Shadowfront Regiment only got louder with each kill, while an ice cold atmosphere befell his side, especially over those who were still out there participating in the battle.

"Are you the only one left?" Lu Tianzi asked nonchalantly, causing his opponent to feel an unprecedented sense of danger.

By now, Lu Tianzi's attire was already in a mess.

Still, it was not messed up by the actions of his opponents, but by the blood of his opponents.

From the beginning, Lu Tianzi had taken but a single move for each of his opponents, ending each fight cleanly and without suspense.

He seemed to be a completely untouchable existence, and not a single one of his opponents had gotten anywhere near connecting their attacks with Lu Tianzi.

It was almost as though Lu Tianzi was the one with the higher cultivation level, effortlessly suppressing his opponents by exhibiting the absolute disparity between their levels of strength!

After the last of his opponents fell, Lu Tianzi casually stepped forward to retrieve the spatial ring from the corpse, just like what he had done the previous nine times.

His look of indifference not only caused a feeling of despair to well up within the twenty Essence Buildling realm martial artists standing not far away from him, but also sent a chill down the spines of the soldiers who were still positioned safely behind the town walls.

Just what kind of monster was this?

Perhaps even the strongest martial artists in Dragon Cauldron Kingdom, those who were of royal blood, would be unable to match up to him!

And this was just someone at the Advanced Essence Condensation realm, not even at the Peak Essence Condensation realm!

Was this the difference in quality between the two armies?

If the difference between their Essence Condensation realm martial artists was this huge, then what about their Origin Core realm martial artists?

They had felt protected by the town walls, but were they truly safe?

Doubt surfaced in their minds. Not just in those of the soldiers, but even that of the various other inhabitants.

Seeing this change occurring in a matter of moments after the conclusion of the battle, General Mingli Yongsheng gritted his teeth in both frustration and regret.

He finally understood that he had completely fallen for the other party's trap.

Right from the beginning, this had never been about killing the ten Essence Condensation realm subordinates of his.

It was about completely crushing the morale of his army and the inhabitants of Drakesin Town!

And to accomplish this, the other party had sent out the perfect tool in this monster of an Advanced Essence Condensation realm martial artist!