I Can See Your Combat Power

Chapter 598: Chapter Five Hundred Ninety-Four

The golden Sky-picking Hand tore through the hovering clouds in the northwest sky, carrying an unmatched domineering air as it struck down towards the three men of Mi Tiger.

The golden light seemed to unfold the sky, the Breaking Waves unleashed through the Sky-picking Hand possessed unpredictable power. The Luan bird beneath the three men of Mi Tiger felt this intense fluctuation of spiritual power and stirred its wings ceaselessly in unease.

The Combined Attack Technique required the integration of similar techniques at the same frequency. With their Luan bird swaying beneath them, the combined attack of the three men of Mi Tiger was affected, and their chance of success dropped to less than thirty percent.

“Stop the combined attack, retreat quickly!” Mi Tiger wanted to cast a Blue Lotus Fury using the cloud cover, but facing the ferocious double golden palms, he decisively commanded.

The attack on North Mountain was merely to expand the battle results, not a compulsory battle to decide the victory. Since they couldn’t complete the attack, preserving themselves was of utmost importance.

“Mi Tiger is running! Shoot their birds down!!”

Almost at the same time as Mi Tiger declared to retreat, Tang Luo’s warning echoed throughout the sky, startling the Luan birds into flapping their wings again.

And Mi Tiger, whose words had just fallen, dramatically changed his expression while the other two martial artists were constantly looking around.

They wanted to know if Tang Luo was surreptitiously observing them from some secluded place. Otherwise, how could he issue a warning just when Mi Tiger had barely issued the command to retreat? After all, sound has speed, both of them were trying to locate Tang Luo’s figure nearby.

At this moment, Tang Luo stood at the top of Zhuyun Peak in the midst of North Mountain, placing his hands on his hips and reminding Tang Siyuan, who was dozens of miles away, “Great Elder, Great Elder! Go around and shoot their birds!”

As the first person to master the Extreme Sharp Finger Force in the Wind Media Department, Tang Siyuan was often seen in numerous battle reports severely injuring Martial Ancestors armored in spirit armors with just one finger. If it weren’t for the fact that the Extreme Sharp Finger Force consumes a vast amount of spiritual power, Tang Luo had no doubt that the battle results caused solely by the Great Elder Tang Siyuan could crush several squads of Martial Ancestors.

This was Tang Siyuan’s intimidation towards the Mi Clan, which was also the most important reason for him being able to hold the positon of the Great Elder for several decades. Furthermore, after acquiring the Restoration Secret Technique in the Minor Spiritual Realm, his destructive power had increased further. His Extreme Sharp Finger Force deployed in full strength had a shorter interval time, it was practically indefensible.

Hence, upon hearing Tang Luo’s command to Tang Siyuan, the gloomy Mi Tiger and the other two men didn’t hesitate to throw away the half-formed Combined Attack Technique. Then, they all flew away immediately on the Luan birds they were controlling, without even looking back.

Three Divine Wood strikes and two Sky-picking Hands clad in radiant golden light violently collided in mid-air, generating a golden and green flow, shattering the cumulus clouds in the sky and revealing the cerulean dome.

The attack on North Mountain was thus easily defended. The two Tang Clan Martial Ancestors who stood their ground gazed at each other, barely believing their eyes.

The Great Elder and the Chief of Defense had not even made a move, yet they managed to defend against the attack, including the one by Mi Tiger, just by themselves, and no one in North Mountain suffered any injury.

This miracle of launching a counterattack even before the enemy could act swiftly dispelled their apprehension towards the team led by Mi Tiger. Even in the battles at the Fierce Realm level, seizing the initiative was mostly the key to getting ahead.

But the concept of who acts first and who acts last is relative. If Mi Tiger believed that the rapid continuous attacks launched by the Luan bird meant he had the upper hand, then he was gravely mistaken. After all, if their movements were constantly exposed to the enemy, then speed would not be much of an advantage. This is because a long-distance rush attack required time to gather forces which couldn’t compare with the advantage of waiting for an opportunity after adjusting the defense position.

And it was Tang Luo, who was alerting them from an unknown location, that allowed them to recreate this miracle again and again. The battle-savvy Tang Zhen was overjoyed and loudly stated, “Where is Minister Luo? I have something important to discuss!”

As the Chief of Defense of North Mountain, Tang Zhen thought of how to defend against the attacks initiated by Mi Tiger’s team with the help of Tang Luo almost instantly. The group that was on the verge of desperation just now suddenly found a way to handle the situation. It was not surprising that the composed Tang Zhen was ecstatic.

The two Martial Ancestors and Tang Siyuan, who had returned fruitlessly from the pursuit, also looked around after hearing Tang Zhen’s shout, wanting to know where exactly Tang Luo issued the warning from.

A thunderous voice echoed once again, but what was shocking was the awe-struck reaction of all the Tang Clan members.

“I am at the top of Zhuyun Peak; please, Great Elder, the General, come and meet me.”

Tang Siyuan and Tang Zhen turned around in surprise, looking at the Zhuyun Peak inside the North Mountain settlement, gaping in disbelief.

……

On the first day of December, during the heavy snow.

After the attack on the Three Mountains, the whole Tang Clan of North Mountain was shaken again by two incidents.

The first thing was that the original Chief of Defense of North Mountain, Tang Zhen, was demoted to Deputy Chief due to the attack on the Three Mountains, and the one who took over his position was the Chief of the Marshal Star Pavilion, Tang Luo, who had just completed his rite of passage.

This was the first time in the history of the Tang Clan that such a powerful position as the Chief of Defense was given to a non-Fierce Realm level powerhouse, which immediately caused a stir among the clan members. However, after Mi Tiger’s defeat at North Mountain, no one had any objections about Tang Luo taking the position and most were observing the situation.

The second thing was that the clan leader, Tang Zhi, ordered the Construction Department to stop all work at hand and build a Four-pillar Sky-reaching Platform as tall as Zhuyun Peak in the heart of North Mountain beside the Marshal Star Pavilion at the fastest speed.

This order caused another huge uproar in the clan. The so-called Sky-reaching Platform was a high platform used for sacrifices. At the critical time when the Tang Clan and Mi Clan were battling, not only was North Mountain short of soldiers, but it was also lacking craftsmen to repair the defensive fortifications. And yet they wanted to construct a completely useless Sky-reaching Platform, which was ridiculous!

Could it be that if they placed offerings for gods and Buddha on the Sky-reaching Platform, Heavenly soldiers and generals would descend to help the Tang Clan defeat the Mi Clan?

The order from Tang Zhi to construct the Sky-reaching Platform immediately faced discontent from the clan members. Although Tang Cunfu, the head of the Construction Department, was full of doubts, seeing the seals of the Great Elder and Minister on the assignment document, he had no choice but to go all out.

How long would it take to build a useless Sky-reaching Platform?

With the Construction Department of the Tang Clan going all out, within only three days, a Sky-reaching Platform as high as a hundred meters appeared in the heart of the Tang Clan. Four White Dragon stone pillars that required six people to embrace held up the round sacrificial platform extending into the sky, standing out among the North Mountain ranges.

The Sky-reaching Platform was completed in three days. During this time, the joint team led by Mi Tiger launched several attacks on the outer areas of North Mountain, but all were easily defended by the Martial Ancestors on guard duty.

The newly appointed Defense Chief Tang Luo completely won the trust of the clan members. Whenever the thunderous alert sounded over North Mountain, the Tang Clan members knew that the attack of Mi Tiger’s team had come again.

However, they just couldn’t bring up any hint of nervousness, as the thunderous instructions in the sky always went like this:

“What do you want to do?”

“If you dare, don’t run!”

“Shoot their birds, shoot their birds!”