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The leader of the thirty-six Thunder Generals, and the Grand General of the Eight Directions of Cloud Thunder of the Righteous Heart Thunder Palace.

But at the same time, the sky wasn't just filled with a vortex above Yun Tianbiao's head! A terrifying, chilling death vortex also appeared above Liu Hong's head.

The wind vanished, replaced by a piercing hiss of air itself, produced by extreme compression! Every pore felt clenched by an invisible force, and every heartbeat felt like a hammer blow to the chest!

Beneath the vortex's center, Liu Hong stood like a rock, the raging power within him threatening to break free of his flesh and blood! His body arched violently backward, emitting a teeth-grinding, tearing sound as if his bones were being ripped apart! His entire body, like a lit fuse, began to disintegrate inch by inch from the inside out! No, it wasn't disintegration, but rather the process of a mortal body being forcibly torn apart and reassembled by extreme energy! Skin, armor, bones—every visible entity vaporized instantly, transforming into churning, twisting, invisible shadows.

Within the thick, inky smoke, countless lightning streaks, so violent they were invisible and intangible, distorting light with sheer presence, flashed and darted about wildly, forming a massive, ever-stretching, expanding phantom outline, like a shadowy dragon egg that stretched from the sky to the earth.

Suddenly, a pair of eyes opened abruptly from the shadows that devoured the heavens and the sun. These were no ordinary eyes. A pair of golden, vertical pupils, like two bolts of lightning descending from the sky, ready to destroy all things.

"Roar!!!"

Amidst a terrifying and awe-inspiring dragon roar, a shadow dragon resembling the Dragon King of Jidu was born from a jet-black egg, its entire body shrouded in a deep, almost illusory shadow! It was like a living creature condensed from the abyss! Its form, coiled in the void, was so enormous that it was terrifying. Its thick, winding dragon body, merely hovering in mid-air, cast a shadow that already covered a small portion of the scorched battlefield.

What makes up its enormous body is not solid dragon scales, but a terrifying shadow that is illusory, viscous, constantly changing, and seems to devour light!

Countless deeper, more violent, and wildly twisting and leaping golden lightning patterns flickered and roamed within the flowing, illusory dragon body. Each flash of dark golden light caused the surrounding void to twist and explode as if scorched by high temperatures.

A true dragon that combines shadow and thunder!

After defeating and devouring Zhang Shuye, Liu Hong's strength was now on par with Luan Tingyu's. With the blessing of the Dragon King of Jidu, he could transform into a true dragon, or even become more terrifying.

However, what truly chills the soul is its wings!

Those were actually a pair of golden roc wings, as wide as clouds hanging from the sky, as if forged from the embers of an eternal sunset! Every feather flowed with a thick and scorching golden luster, pure and hard, as if containing the most primordial gold and flames! Every extremely slight flap of the roc wings brought forth two viscous energy storms, like liquid gold.

At the edge of the storm, the spatial cracks, as fine as hair yet powerful enough to cleave through steel, burst open and healed instantly. The magnificent and heavy roc wings, as if controlled by a deity, intertwined with the illusory and violent dragon body below, composed of inky lightning, exuding an extremely divisive yet supremely powerful terrifying divine might. It perfectly and violently unified the fierce and agile, the destructive and immortal, the chaotic and the orderly, into a single existence!

Liu Hong lowered his head, his two vertical pupils, formed by golden lightning, locked onto Yun Tianbiao, who was standing stiffly on the ground—or more precisely, onto the Great General of the Eight Directions of the Righteous Heart Thunder Palace, who was summoned by Yun Tianbiao and covered him like a small mountain!

Chapter 359: Annihilation of the Celestial Dragon Breath

Liu Hong took a deep breath, and the shadow dragon's mouth, wrapped in golden lightning, grew to its maximum size. The shadow within its lips and teeth was like the void of the universe. The dragon breath it spewed out was neither shadow nor lightning, but the Heavenly Gang Slash! It was the fall of stars!

Can he combine the Heavenly Gang Slash and Dragon Breath into one?

Yun Tianbiao looked up in astonishment, only to see Liu Hong, after gathering his strength, spew out a viscous, liquid mercury-like torrent, vast as the Milky Way in the heavens, terrifying as a galaxy of destruction annihilating the void! Within that multicolored torrent, sixty or seventy celestial stars, each representing one of the Liangshan generals, danced wildly like demons, falling one after another! They had no fixed trajectory, purely driven by the will to annihilate, forming a chaotic stellar extinction!

As this annihilating galaxy passed by, space violently fluctuated and collapsed, like glass being melted and eroded by boiling magma, revealing a void background flashing with chaotic lightning.

Yun Tianbiao's blood froze completely in that instant. He even abandoned the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade that he had just forged with lightning. At the last moment, he used lightning to conjure two shields to withstand Liu Hong's Starry Breath, but it was too late.

The thunder shield, as large as a city gate, was as fragile as a boiled eggshell before this stellar will! The point of impact instantly collapsed, disintegrated, and vaporized! A hole appeared, running through the entire structure with boiling dark gold molten iron flowing along its edges. The second, the third... demonic meteors of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends, like a swarm of falling stars, pierced through the void with chilling shrieks and crashed down!

The Thunder General's divine body that Yun Tianbiao had just summoned was now like a piece of pottery thrown into the center of a planetary destruction storm. Under the crushing force of pure cosmic power, it was breaking, collapsing, and disintegrating at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Lei completely decomposed, incinerated, and sublimated every inch of muscle, every bone, and even every drop of flowing blood under the terrifying torrent carrying fragments of stars and solidified starlight! After piercing through Yun Tianbiao's body, the stars crashed heavily onto the earth, causing the entire ground to collapse and explode like ice blocks thrown into a boiling oil pot. Huge circular ground waves, carrying countless molten glass fragments and burning energy flows, swept and roared wildly in all directions.

In an instant, the entire battlefield trembled and collapsed into a raging inferno of shattered earth and raging fire amidst the falling stars!

Above the heavens, the colossal dragon that had spewed forth a world-destroying sea of ​​stars slowly closed its abyss-like jaws. The last few drops of starlight-like saliva, like liquid diamonds, dripped from its狰狞 (zhengning - ferocious/hideous) mouth, falling into the boiling energy purgatory below, instantly melting through the scorched earth and leaving behind bottomless holes.

The dark, shadowy dragon body, illuminated by the dissipating torrent of starlight, exuded a transcendent, awe-inspiring, and indifferent divinity. In the center of its pupils, the tattered and broken afterimage of Yun Tianbiao, the Thunder General, was reflected.

After unleashing a burst of starlight dragon breath, the shadow dragon flapped its sky-covering, gilded wings and suddenly swooped down. Strands of shadow, wrapped with raging heavenly lightning, condensed on its claws into a towering dragon staff, which it wielded with fierce force to confront Yun Tianbiao!

Yun Tianbiao's face, dark red with age, was extremely solemn. He forcibly summoned more heavenly lightning to repair the body of the divine general. Then, the towering thunder giant wielded the equally enormous Azure Dragon Crescent Blade and engaged in a fierce battle with the shadow dragon wielding the Coiling Dragon Staff! The two giant beasts, wielding their divine weapons, roared and fought fiercely!

"clang!!!"

For a moment, the world seemed to be filled only with the terrifying sound of the collision. The Coiling Dragon Staff stirred up shadows and tribulation lightning, stirring up a black storm powerful enough to devour light; the Azure Dragon Crescent Blade drew upon the might of heaven, unleashing a burst of azure-gold light that could blind people. The staff and the blade came at each other, shadows obscuring the sun, and the blade and the staff came at each other, thunder roaring and blotting out the sky.

In an instant, the shadows of staffs fell like mountains, and the flashes of blades surged like tsunamis! Two colossal elemental beasts, their forms obscuring the sun, each wielding a divine weapon that seemed to reach the heavens and the earth, began their most primal and ferocious life-or-death struggle in a space utterly turbulent by the energy storm, where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was in disarray and boiling over. Every clash of weapons was like a mournful cry from the heavens; space was compressed and torn apart, bursting forth with lightning and sparks capable of annihilating everything. The entire world seemed to tremble and groan amidst their frenzied battle, a battle so intense it could eclipse the stars!

After thirty rounds of fighting, Liu Hong began to show signs of weakness and was suppressed by Yun Tianbiao.

Yun Tianbiao frowned slightly. Liu Hong's breath just now was truly terrifying. He had never seen such a horrific injury before.

However, his close-combat skills are strong, but not enough.

At least in terms of strength, agility, and skill, he could outmaneuver Liu Hong. The only thing that made him wary was the power of the dragon's breath, or rather, the terrifying power unleashed by Liu Hong's super-high Heavenly Gang Slash! That was the truly deadly thing!

After thirty-three rounds of fierce fighting, Liu Hong feigned an opening, flapping his wings and soaring into the air, quickly distancing himself from Yun Tianbiao. The Shadow Dragon's Kiss once again gathered astonishing energy in its Star Breath, and the Shadow Dragon's dragon breath, combined perfectly with Ren Xia's Heavenly Gang Slash, within that world-destroying maw.

This time, however, Yun Tianbiao was smarter. The Star Breath was indeed extremely fierce, but the wind-up was too long. He directly withdrew his lightning avatar and detonated a terrifying thunderous explosion, leaving the surroundings blank. He then hid among the soldiers and disappeared without a trace.

Liu Hong's eyes were blinded by the lightning, and he couldn't find Yun Tianbiao in the dense crowd for a while. He could only randomly spew out his world-destroying star dragon breath in one direction. With the falling of stars, the sky collapsed, the clouds shattered, the mountains shook, and the magnificent annihilation star river even destroyed and shattered a small part of the battlefield.

Just then, Yun Tianbiao, filled with murderous intent, attacked from the flank, summoning once again a Thunder General Dharma Image that was twenty or thirty meters tall. He roared and brandished the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, dragging a lightning arc hundreds of meters long, and attacked Liu Hong from the side!

Chapter 360: The Eight-Armed Demonic Dragon Under the Tribulation of Lightning

But just as Yun Tianbiao was about to succeed, Liu Hong suddenly disappeared. The equally enormous shadow dragon instantly collapsed into a pool of viscous, asphalt-like black liquid, disappearing completely into its own shadow, thus dodging Yun Tianbiao's sure-fire thunderous sweep. This powerful strike tore through the sky, but landed empty-handed.

Moreover, the melting, collapsing shadows suddenly appeared in Yun Tianbiao's shadows, and countless viscous, asphalt-like dark liquids reconstructed into the Shadow Dragon the moment they emerged from the shadows.

No, that's more than just a dragon! A normal dragon only has four claws, but this dragon has two hind claws and a total of eight front claws! It even has a pair of gilded wings that blot out the sky! Liu Hong's power, which is dominated by the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends, is now eroding and changing his dragon form!

At the ends of the eight thick, gnarled dragon arms, covered with jet-black scales and dark gold patterns, each gripped a towering dragon staff, wreathed in terrifying shadows and violent lightning. The mere existence of these eight colossal pillars caused the surrounding space to groan in a terrifying way, as if it could not bear the weight of their existence.

Ji Du's ability: Shadow Travel.

The next second, this ferocious dragon, like a nightmare come true and with eight arms reaching to the sky, moved!

No longer a single trajectory, no longer a linear attack. The eight arms, like the core of a destructive storm unleashed from its shackles, unleashed eight different movements within the same millisecond! Upward slash! Downward smash! Left sweep! Right swing! Diagonal chop! Straight thrust! Intertwined and entangled! Spiral strangulation.

Eight dragon-coiled staffs, carrying an aura of destruction powerful enough to shift mountains and dim stars, stirred up the vital energy within a hundred miles, forming an absolute death domain entirely constructed of staff shadows, dark shadows, and meteor-like lightning! While using the Flying Dragon in the Sky Staff Technique, the eight pillars simultaneously unleashed the Heavenly Gang Slash! The eight rifts in the sky, torn apart by the giant staffs, revealed terrifying, molten gold-colored wounds, simultaneously spewing out a storm of stars.

But this was not the end! Those gilded wings, which blotted out the sky and whose edges shimmered with a cold, metallic luster, suddenly folded inward and contracted. The wing bones protruded like divine weapons, and the wing membranes stretched taut like millions of intersecting blades that cleaved the sky. Like two giant city gates, they suddenly closed in from the left and right, determined to shatter Yun Tianbiao in the middle, and also resembled the falling of stars.

The ferocious dragon head let out a roar powerful enough to shatter one's soul. Its jaws, filled with serrated teeth and burning with dark purple demonic flames, opened wide like a star-filled abyss that devours everything. It was unbiased and ignored all the shadows of staffs and claws. With speed surpassing lightning and a biting force capable of crushing stars, it viciously devoured Yun Tianbiao's head and upper body! Each of its shadowy fangs was also wrapped in the terrifying radiance of the celestial stars!

Eleven strikes!

Eleven attacks in total! Simultaneously, at the same moment, in the same instant! And all of them used the Sevenfold Heavenly Divine Slash at the same time!

To launch this attack, Liu Hong had completely exhausted all his spiritual energy. While his combat skills were indeed inferior to those of a diligent genius like Yun Tianbiao, who had practiced martial arts since childhood, the power of his Heavenly Gang Slash was even greater than that of Lu Zhisheng! Moreover, he could unleash eleven Heavenly Gang Slashes simultaneously, multiplying its terrifying power by eleven.

This is no ordinary martial arts technique; it is the true fall of stars!

Yun Tianbiao was indeed formidable. Faced with such an unreasonable attack, he wielded the Green Dragon Crescent Blade and blocked five blows in a row, forcibly disrupting five Heavenly Gang Slashes. But that was already his limit.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!!!"

The sixth, seventh, and eighth giant dragon-shaped staffs, entwined with countless stars, struck the giant's massive, mountain-like lightning body like divine pillars connecting heaven and earth. The lightning armor covering the giant's body was as fragile as paper and shattered instantly, the dazzling golden lightning dissipating wildly like an exploding galaxy.

Following closely behind the staff's shadow came a pair of golden roc wings that shattered space! Huge fragments of lightning, like shattered mountains, shot backward with crackling aftershocks, only to be completely crushed into particles by the aftershocks of the subsequent attack before they even hit the ground! The sky-covering thunder giant, under the flapping of those wings, instantly lost its balance, its massive body emitting a deafening crash as it toppled!

Five blows shattered the sword's momentum, three blows smashed the armor, and the wings destroyed the body. Finally, the soul-devouring dragon's mouth bit directly into Lei Jiang's body. The dark dragon's kiss that blotted out the sky was like a closed gate to the end of the world, swallowing the giant's upper body, including the head where Yun Tianbiao's main body was located, in one gulp!

Amidst the chilling sounds of chewing, the longest fangs pierced vital organs, the flat incisors sliced ​​through flesh, and the thick molars ground up blood and flesh. Under the stunned gazes of everyone, the Shadow Dragon first dodged one of Yun Tianbiao's slashes, then transformed into a shadow, moving among the shadows and teleporting behind Yun Tianbiao.

Finally, the eleventh Heavenly Gang Slash burst forth instantly, shattering all of Yun Tianbiao's defenses, and then completely devouring him in one gulp!

The shattered giant is gradually dissipating, signifying the sudden passing of yet another Thunder General.

At this moment, having absorbed such terrifying divine power, Liu Hong's power as the Dragon King of Jidu was also rapidly increasing. The shadow dragon became increasingly scorched and blinding, its entire body's pitch-black shadow dragon scales transforming into golden lightning scales. The entire dragon underwent a metamorphosis from the shadows, transforming into a complete lightning dragon! Only its eyes remained murky, like two pools of shadowy ocean.

But what's even more terrifying is that when the sunlight spills onto his golden body, it also casts a terrifying shadow of a giant dragon on the ground. The shadow ripples like the surface of a turbulent sea, as illusory as a mirage, as if it possesses its own life, and its eyes are like two pools of thunder, radiating a captivating aura of lightning—that's not a shadow at all, it's clearly a shadow dragon!

With light and darkness as one and yin and yang as one, Liu Hong and Ji Du have become the Shadow Thunder Twin Dragons, sharing one soul and two bodies, after successively devouring Zhang Shuye, the chief disciple of Lei Zu, and Yun Tianbiao, the leader of the Thirty-Six Thunder Generals.

Chapter 361: The Five Tigers of the Zeng Family All Perish

However, although he had completed his ascension to demonhood, Liu Hong had reached his limit. He was originally a hybrid of sorcerer and knight-errant, with limited spiritual energy. Simultaneously unleashing eleven Heavenly Slashes had completely depleted his spiritual energy. The resulting mental exhaustion and mental fog almost caused him to faint on the battlefield, requiring assistance to recover.

Without spiritual energy, he could only unleash the Double Heavenly Strike, which consumed no energy. But that level of destructive power was meaningless to Lu Junyi. Even Zhang Qing's terrifyingly powerful Golden Whirlwind could only barely tear open her Qilin Scales!

However, even so, this battle that brought together Guan Sheng and all the elites of Liangshan has been reversed with the deaths of Zhang Shuye and Yun Tianbiao!

Despite his extreme exhaustion, Liu Hong quickly shifted the battlefield to the area where the Zeng family's five tigers were fighting the Liangshan Five Tigers!

Amidst the lingering turbulence of energy and the mournful cries of shattered space, a vortex, darker than the void and more intense than a star, suddenly began to brew deep within the maw of the eight-armed demonic dragon! The dragon's head was raised high, pointing directly at Xu Ning, the golden spearman, who was fighting a bloody battle below, and Zeng Kui, who was fighting Xu Ning for fifty or sixty rounds without a clear victor!

"Roar!!!"

A sound of spatial compression, so heavy it could freeze the soul, rang out beyond the limits of hearing, only to be instantly swallowed up! The vortex of light-devouring energy deep within the dragon's throat suddenly erupted! But it was no longer just dragon breath—it was a highly compressed, rotating mass of celestial stars!

The Heavenly Dragon's Breath Causes Stars to Fall!

Countless, indistinct stars—like hundreds of cannonballs—roared from the mouth of the demonic dragon that Liu Hong had transformed into, in a destructive fan-shaped pulse! Their speed surpassed the dynamic vision of ordinary people, and their range covered and locked down the two of them and all the space around them where they could move. Wherever they passed, the sky was mercilessly torn apart, the air was scorched, light was swallowed and distorted, and the area where the two fought instantly transformed into a desolate graveyard of extinct stars!

Zeng Kui's attention was entirely focused on Xu Ning's hook-and-sickle spear. He had never encountered such a formidable enemy on the battlefield before. Although Xu Ning's combat strength was not as good as Shi Wengong's, Shi Wengong was, after all, the teacher of the five men and had not used his full strength. However, Xu Ning really wanted to kill him, forcing Zeng Kui to focus 300% of his attention on fighting Xu Ning. He couldn't spare any energy and was completely unable to react to Liu Hong's sudden sneak attack!

He hadn't even consciously formed a complete expression of terror before his dazzling armor, powerful enough to withstand ordinary supernatural powers, was completely engulfed by Liu Hong's Starfall. Before the torrent of stellar debris, the steel armor was as fragile as frost under the blazing sun, instantly torn apart, melted, and evaporated.

The flesh and blood on his body surface, like a shattered and collapsing sand sculpture, crumbled into flowing sand, silently beginning to disintegrate. Skin, muscles, bones... all the material particles that constituted his existence were burned alive and pulverized by the stars. This process was breathtakingly fast, yet it also carried a cruel beauty of slow dissipation.

When the "core stellar remnant," burning with pitch-black celestial demonic flames at the heart of the torrent, truly struck the spot where he had just stood—only a blurry, dissipating humanoid spatial depression remained! Before he could even utter a mournful cry, this iron-blooded warrior, Zeng Kui, along with all his will, power, and traces of existence, was utterly and cleanly erased from the physical and spiritual levels by the dragon's breath, symbolizing "starfall destiny," leaving not a single remnant!

However, right in the middle of this all-consuming torrent of stars, just inches away from where Zeng Kui had just vanished, a figure stood like an anchor nailed to the wall of nothingness—it was none other than Xu Ning, the Golden Spearman!

She remained unharmed amidst Liu Hong's wide-ranging, indiscriminate star dragon breath. She merely reached out and patted the Zeng Kui ashes that clung to her armor; the star dragon breath still failed to breach Xu Ning's exaggeratedly high 95% special protection.

"Hurry up and come!"

Liu Hong gave a shout. At this moment, he was in such poor condition that he could no longer maintain the terrifying form of the Thunder and Shadow Twin Dragons. He reverted to his eight-armed human form, wielded four coiled dragon staffs, and set off together with Xu Ning!

At this moment, with the death of Zeng Kui, the battlefield balance between the Five Tigers of the Zeng Family and the Five Generals of Liangshan was completely broken!

Zeng Tu was currently engaged in a fierce battle with Shi Jin. Although Shi Jin was young, he was a prodigy, and his progress surprised even Lin Chong. Just a year ago, he was an unknown junior, but after only one year of training by Wang Jin, his fighting strength was already at the level of the Eight Tiger Generals, and he could be ranked alongside Suo Chao, Yang Zhi, Xu Ning and others.

And now, her skills are still improving at an astonishing rate. Her three-pointed double-edged sword whistles through the air, forcing Zeng Tu to fight with all his might and not daring to relax at all. Only then did he manage to fight Shi Jin to a draw.

Just then, a golden figure suddenly appeared from the side, Xu Ning wielding his hook-and-sickle spear, attacking from the flank. He joined forces with Shi Jin to attack. Zeng Tu, fighting two against one, was instantly at a disadvantage. His spear technique became increasingly chaotic. He could block Xu Ning, but not Shi Jin. He could stop Shi Jin, but not Xu Ning.

In less than ten rounds, Shi Jin thrust his spear into Zeng Tu's neck. With a twist of his wrist, the tip of the three-pointed double-edged spear spun wildly inside Zeng Tu's neck, gouging out a wound the size of a bowl. Blood gushed out like a fountain, and Shi Jin beheaded one of Zeng Tou City's generals!

Shi Jin rested for a while, then rode alongside Xu Ning to kill Zeng Suo. Zeng Suo was only at the level of a cavalry commander, and he had already reached his limit after fighting Yang Zhi for more than thirty rounds. He was about to be defeated by Yang Zhi, and now Xu Ning rushed out. Shi Jin was so frightened that he turned around and ran away, but it was too late. Yang Zhi pierced his heart with a spear, and with a forceful thrust, sent him flying into the air!

The Zeng family general, whose body was pierced by the steel spear, was like a banner of flesh and blood, hanging from the tip of Yang Zhi's spear, struggling and screaming, his face covered in blood, fluttering in the wind!

The three of them caught their breath and followed suit, taking to the field together. Zeng Sheng and Suo Chao were locked in fierce combat when they saw the three Liangshan riders charging towards them. Their faces turned pale with fear. In that moment of carelessness, Suo Chao suddenly leaped three meters into the air, swung his giant axe in a wide arc, and with a downward slash, split Zeng Sheng vertically in two!

Finally, Zeng Mi faced an attack from five men: Sun Li, Yang Zhi, Xu Ning, Suo Chao, and Shi Jin! He couldn't withstand the attack for even two rounds and was torn apart on the spot by the five Liangshan generals!

After resolving the battle at the Zeng family's site, Liu Hong led his five exhausted men to quickly besiege the last three: Guan Sheng, Lu Junyi, and Shi Wengong!

Chapter 362: Eight Hundred Cavalrymen Annihilated

At this moment, Guan Sheng was truly driven to the brink of despair. She was indeed formidable; in her extreme state, she could even fight two Five Tiger Generals at the same time without being at a disadvantage. Her Green Dragon Crescent Blade was powerful and heavy, and when she swung it, it was like a whirlwind. She could kill one if one came, and kill two if two came!

However, Lin Chong, after ascending to demonic power, is equally formidable, moving with the speed of a storm and the swiftness of lightning. His superb martial arts skills allow him to dodge, block, and deflect every seemingly inevitable attack from Guan Sheng.

Although Lu Junyi and Shi Wengong were powerful, they were no match for the combined strength of the five generals. The arrival of Liu Hong and the other five generals plunged them into even deeper despair. Even so, Lu Junyi stepped forward and, with his Qilin incarnation providing defense comparable to Xu Ning, martial arts skills far surpassing Lin Chong's, and the amplification of his dragon blood ability comparable to Yue Fei's, he broke through the encirclement of Lu Zhisheng, Wu Song, and Huyan Zhuo. He single-handedly fought against Xu Ning, Yang Zhi, Sun Li, Suo Chao, and Shi Jin without being defeated.

Lu Junyi was indeed formidable, but her eight hundred cavalrymen were not so outrageous. After fighting for so long, not only Liu Hong's main force in the East Camp, but also the elite troops from the North and South Camps came to support them. One team sealed off the East Gate, and the other team participated in the encirclement and annihilation.

Three thousand terrifyingly armored infantrymen, wielding three thousand spears, sickles, and giant axes gleaming with a cold light, formed a dense, layered mass of death, creating a horrifying jungle. The spear tips pointed menacingly forward, reflecting the blood-red setting sun, and also the desperate reflection in the eyes of the knights trapped at the heart of the massacre, their men and horses trembling with fear.

No matter which direction Guan Sheng's eight hundred knights looked, all they could see was a dense forest of spear tips, trembling slightly and poised to strike. The warhorses neighed with terrified tremors, pawing the muddy ground beneath their hooves—this was already an extremely risky decapitation strike, and after failing to quickly defeat Liu Hong, they were now heavily surrounded.

It is unknown which formation issued the order to attack first, but that order was like a spark thrown into boiling oil, instantly igniting the entire encirclement and attack!

Advance! Thrust! Withdraw! Thrust again!

Just look at the front row of thousands of spears, thrusting out in unison without any mercy. The sounds of flesh tearing, steel scraping, horses' mournful cries, and cavalrymen's screams echoed across the plains, instantly weaving together into a tragic song of blood and flesh!

The Kansai warriors charging at the forefront felt as if they had crashed into an iron wall studded with spikes. Their magnificent warhorses were pierced through the chest, abdomen, and neck by dozens of spears at the same time, and they fell to the side with a mournful cry.

Many of the knights on horseback were stabbed off their horses by dozens of spears before they could even raise their swords to parry. They were then disemboweled by the axemen mixed in with them, their spurting blood redder than the sunset.

Just as the cavalry formation was thrown into chaos by the countless spears covering the hillsides, resulting in heavy casualties, an even more devastating blow struck!

With the officer's sharp whistle and the waving of the command flag, the Liangshan musketeers, who were hidden behind or on slightly higher ground on both sides of the spearmen's line, finally revealed their ferocious fangs!

"Fire!!!"

With the commander's order, a deafening explosion, like continuous muffled thunder, erupted instantly! A thick cloud of smoke billowed into a gray-white curtain! Thousands of muskets simultaneously unleashed a deadly torrent of lead bullets, a dense rain of iron covering the entire compressed cavalry area!

Whether it was the horses struggling under the spears, the knights trying to deflect the spear shafts and fight back, or the cavalry trying to turn around and find an opportunity to break through in the chaos... under this rain of lead, the beaten and bloodied were like fireworks, with broken armor pieces and splattered flesh blooming and exploding.

Lead bullets struck the fine lamellar armor, their immense kinetic energy piercing through the armor and tearing flesh and bone! They pierced the warhorse's skull and shattered the knight's visor.

One by one, Guanzhong cavalrymen fell from their horses in an instant, and Longyou steeds crashed to the ground like puppets with broken strings, convulsing and spitting blood from their mouths and noses. The cavalry formation, already compressed and disrupted by the spears, fell in droves like cut ears of wheat under the merciless metal storm. The bright red, hot blood mixed with the gray smoke of gunpowder, forming a pungent, rusty, and fishy wind that permeated the desperate battlefield.

The roars of men and horses, the clash of steel, the roar of guns and cannons, mingled with the dying cries, together formed the final chapter of hell. Eight hundred blood-stained, crimson-armored, iron-boned bodies, along with their loyal steeds, were being devoured and crushed by this inferno of steel and gunpowder!

Some launched a desperate charge, trying to break through a bloody path, but were pierced and sent flying by a dozen spears.